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Show WALK 2450 MILES " DICOEBT WEST TO EAST WALK EVtTh" ACCOMPLISHED. Win Fifteen Hundred Dollars. Over mount alnt and through now, throiiKh wet. dish and mud, freetlng al times nnd oppressed by heal nt others, William Jackson nnd It. T Hay, two altirdy Scotchmen, walked every mitt- of th" way from Seattle to Chicago, Chi-cago, J lift arriving within a few bourn of the tlmo limit, thereby winning n purse of fifteen Hundred ikdlars given by thn Seattle Athletic Club, for no. compllshliig this feat within the pio-1 pio-1 scribed time. Jackson nnd Hny left Sealtlo with i but live Dollara In money, wero obliged to earn their way na they went and leave no unpaid bills, and complete the Journey In ninety days. An Interesting Incident In connec tion with the walk, waa that each of tho contestant woro n pair of thn well known Mayer shoes, that neither ripped nor lost n atltcli during the en- tiro trip of 2 150 mile tho tinniest tost nny shoo could bo put to speaking; volume for tho ottrnordlnnry wearing qualities of Ihe shone manufactured by tho P. Mnyer Hoot & Shoo Co, MIL . waukee. |