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Show ton will leavo on his long Journey from the postofflco. He will wolk up Broadway Broad-way to Klngsbrldge, through Yonkers and Tarrytown. where he will put up during the nl&nt. This courso measure meas-ure thirty miles. On the second day of the walk he has scheduled to walK forty-eight miles, which will bring him to Poughkeopsie. He will then go to Buffalo and begin his round-about journey. From the Bi6on City he will pass through Oloan and Jamestown. N. Y., to Youngstown, Ohio, to Pittsburg, thence to Canton, Akron and Bellevue, Ohio, In the order named. He will then walk over the roads covered two years ago when he walked from Portland Port-land to Chicago. When he reaches Chicago he will have covered 1,286 miles. As yet Weston has not prepared a schedule to follow after he reaches the wnidy city. He will then learn tho condition of the various post roads. The officers of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad havo notified Weston that they havo instructed all of their section foreman to report the general condition of the roads about April 10. OH Man Starts on a Walk of 4,300 Miles New York, March 15. Edward Fay-1 von Weston, the veteran pedestrian, Marled on a 4,300 mile walk across the continent this afternoon, at 4:.M6 o'clock, from the general postomco. He will thus celebrate his 21 Bt blrih-dy, blrih-dy, nnd will attempt to cover the dlsiance within one hundred days, Sundays excluded. The route will be 1 from New York to San Francisco. Western has mapped out a circuitous route to Chicago after he reaches But-1 But-1 fnlo. He will bo accompanied by an attendant, two judges, who will follow him the entire distance, and a newspaper news-paper representative. Through the courtesy of Postmaster Morgan, who will act as starter, Wen- |