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Show isroNis RESTLESS Is Taken to Task for Walking 72 Miles in One Day New York, May 4. These days are restless" ones for Edward Payson Wepton, For the first time in thre? months or more ho has nothing to do, and It takes a great deal of scheming to make the doing of It fill the day. Some of. his leisure time le being spent in renewing old acquaintances here. One of his first calls was upon General Thomas H. Hubbard, tho lawyer law-yer and patron of adventurers, and another . favored friend, Joseph H., Choate, former ambassador to Great Britain. Mr. Choate had tried to get to the city hall on Monday to seo the end of Weston's 3.500-mlle stroll, but the crowd was too dense and he had to turn back. . He took Weston to task for walking 72 miles in one day. "When he read about It In the newspapers," news-papers," said Mr. Weston later, "he wrote mo a letter, in which he wanted to know whether I was ever going to. get over being a fool." The pedestrian's ankle, which was Injured In an automobile, collision a few days before he reached the end of his Journey, Is still bothering him a little, but he expresses no fear that the injury, will have any permanent, effect |