Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-19 | Page 4 | Newspaper Men on Long Walk

NEWSPAPER MEN ON LONG WALK New York Pencil Wielders to Walk Entire Length of Catskill Aqueduct. New York, N. Y Jan. 19. A party of New York newspapermen will make today what is probably the most remarkable re-markable walk that any group of men has undertaken. Their walk will begin at Ashokan, N. Y., in the Catskills, and will end in Brooklyn. Although they anticipated antici-pated a rough pathway they don't expect ex-pect to suffer from exposure to the weather, for the entire trip will be made under ground. They are going to walk throughout the entire length of the newly opened Catskill water supply aqueduct from the Ashokan dam under the Hudson river, down tho whole length of the tube, passing under the Harlem river. Manhattan island and East river. The first day's march will take the party twelve miles to High Falls, which they hope to reach tonight. There are one or two syphons In the way which may be too full of wai:r for anything but divers but the explorers ex-plorers hope to be able to investigate the entire distance without coming up for air.