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Show WESTON t1 MI TF TO Veferan Leaves N. Y. for Four Thousand Three Hundred Mile Walk. . Now York. March 15. Edward Pay-son Pay-son Weston, veteran walker, started start-ed from New York jiototflcu at 4:f'' o'clock this afternoon on a 4,300 mil1 walk to San Francisco. Weston W3i 71 years oil today. Postmaster Morgan Mor-gan started him o(T and entrusted him with a greeting to the San Francisco postmaster. A crowd of several thousand thous-and persons gathered In City l,a" park and cheered Weston as he start- cd briskly away and escorted by a detachment de-tachment of 20 men from Company U of the Seventh regiment, headed by a band. The soldiers had a hard time keeping up with the fast gait the grte-zly grte-zly old walker set. but they stuck K out from the postoffice to Seventy second street. Relays of mounted police po-lice picked Weston up at various points alcmg the route up town escorted him to the city limits, whero tho Yonkers police performed similar service. . The schedule Weston has roart out will take him through Troy. Ha-falo Ha-falo and Pittsburg. He Is due In Chicago Chi-cago April 17. He expects to reacQ the Pacific coast July S. |