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Show WESTON" NOW IN Pedestrian Has Covered 2,479 MHes in Sixty-three Sixty-three Days Denver. Ma7 27. Sixty-three days out of New York, Edward Pay son Weston,.-the veteran pedestrian, arrived in Denver about 9:15 this inornins. having covered 2.479 miles of I1I3 Journey from coast to coast. . Weston stayed last night at Aurora, eight miles from Denver. All the" way down the fashionable, residence street. Colfax avenue, and down Sixteenth Six-teenth Bt reel, through the buslnes-3 district, Weston was accompanied, by SCOrCS Of nedesfrlitTia ami nhonro.r hi- the "crowds that lined the curbing. Weston smiled and bowed occasionally, occasional-ly, but kept up his stead grind, until un-til he had reached a downtown newspaper news-paper office, from the balcony of which he made a brief address. He said he. was now two and a half days ahead cf hie schedule. Weston expects to spend tonight, at Brighton, -twenty miles north of Denver, Den-ver, and tomorrow" he w;;l resume his Journey to the coast, going via Cheyenne Chey-enne and following the Union Pacific railroad tracks across Wyoming. |