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Show 'm mm m m youay John Ennl3, the veteran walk.-r v ho has been parsing a lev; days 1u Ogdo ie updating alter his ardu ju , firugxli.- over the Wasatch ihiisc. con-lhr.n-1 his reeord-hioaklng trip frma ,w York to Can Francisco. Although thoroughly restored to hi vc( u -tome d vigor yesterday mornlir-.. I Mv Funis did not tsynii. id? task on in" count, of hi; life-long pro tic of keeping the Sabbat li. Whether ahead I or behind in !!.-. schedule. Mr. Hunts rover continues his Journey on Sunday Sun-day Frank .1. Funis, son of the rteran. Is assisting his lather on the trip by Trancing hotel ace orntnodaMons in ndanc and attending to his wauls vhll vestlnz. Young Fnnls is a champion athlete himself, as are also his brothers in (h Fast, lie hrdds lh llVmile skat- !ng chanipionshia of Connecticut, oiip hour and :t1 minute, a;ilj ,as ronj. )ete,i successfully in many Important cotitests. In speaking of his father-s remarkable remark-able porlorinance i.f swimming tho .Vk-sUsippi ilver a few weeks a so, j onng Knnir; said: "It has been father's ambition t j swim the big rler once more in hi forcer and as his schedule for this trip would bring him to its banks on exactly the fiftieth anniversary of h's tlrst swim across it, h determined to make the attempt. "Fifty years ago he was unfamiliar wiih the river and on reaching mid stream he encountered a current which swept him three miles south of the point opposite his starling place This lime a river man gave him accurate ac-curate directions for the swim and ho was able to take advantage of th current so that he landed at the exact point determined upon in advance. "He said that he found the water tar different from what it was the first time he crossed Then It was a clear limpid stream of fine water, but fifty years has introduced so many sources of filth tnM It that today it Is little better than a huge sower. He said it was the nasliept swim he had ever had and nothing could Induce In-duce him to try it again. He swam across this last time in about half an hour and was in fine condition rui landing." Tho veteran pedestrian Is making tHs, the crowning feat of a strenuous strenu-ous career, entirely at his own expense, ex-pense, the Idea being, if ho succeeds In breaking the record, to return over his route In a more leisurely manner and lecture on health topics, tho benefits bene-fits of right living and how humanity can prolong life by following nature's rules. Weston made the trip in lor. days and admitted that ho had made an utter failure of his attempt If Fn-r.is Fn-r.is continues his schedule without accident he will finish In $0 days. He cirrles a message from the mayor of N'ew York to the mayor f San Francisco Fran-cisco and is now flays ahead ( Weston's time as far as Ogden. ' |