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Show a series of hardships his companions, Walter Ryan, Theodore -Wlntergren and Alberto Laniman, had succumbed to diseases contracted during their trip from Argentina to Bolivia. Smith himself had been seriously ill several times but said that he intended to push on alone and complete the Journey, to New York, even If it took him a dozen years. 1 THREE AMERICANS DIE IN WILDS OF BOLIVIA New York, March 25. According to Clarence L. Hay, secretary of the United States delegation to the recent Pan-American scientific congress, who arrived hero yesterday on the Prlnz August Wilhelm, three American pedestrians, pe-destrians, members of a party of four which started to walk overland from Buenos Ayeres to New York City, two years ago. died recently In the wilds of Bolivia. The fourth member, a man named Emlllo Smith, is now in Chin-eros, Chin-eros, Peru, where he was seen by Mr. Hav. Smith told Mr. ILiy that after |