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Show work our passage on the ocean laps J of our Journey." I GERMANS 10 TOUR WORLD OH STiLTS NU WVORK, Nov. 2.".. For a wager of $.".(Mio, two German nciobti will attempt to circle the world on stilts. They have a promise of police protection protec-tion from Commissioner Cropsy on the first lc-f? of their journey from the city hall to the Jersey City ferry. There they will make -their way tu Philadelphia. The hour of tho start has not been decided. The young men are Albert Marder and Hans HoeleJnmp, until recently employed as stewards rm a irans-At-lantlc liner. The purse they hope to win was raised bv the S'eamshlji Stewards' Stew-ards' Vereln ot'MIamburg. "We are export stilt walkers." they said today. "We expect to walk 11 hours a day and we can travel five and a half miles an hour. We are not allowed lo take any money w'.th us and wc count on making a living by selling picture pusl cards. Wc will |