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Show GLOBE-TROTTERS b REACH OGDEN Desk Sergeant Cooney entertained two globe-trotters last night, listening listen-ing to a relation of their travels until a late hour and then quartered them In the municipal court room, where they found tho hard benches and. teraporate atmosphere a welcome change from the conditions encountered encoun-tered on the two previous nights which were passed in Weber and Echo canons. The young men are Lee S. Arthurs, a decorator, and Walker W. Sample a railroad clerk, and they arc walking from Pittsburg to San Francisco as an advertising scheme for the Fort Pitt Hunting and Fishing club of Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. They started on the trip March 1st with the Intention of reaching their destination by July 4th, in time for the Jeffries-Johnson fight. Being delayed repeatedly' in the ; middle west "by washouts and bad weather, they are about thirty days behind their schedule and anticipate only reaching San Francisco by July 3lst, in order to claim a reward of $1,000 which is offered by the club mentioned. men-tioned. Tho journey must be mado entirely on foot and their expenses are Maid by the sale of photo-postcards. In each city en route they are obliged to secure . the stamp of tho postmaster as a proof of their visit. They also furnish a weekly letter to the club, . Leaving Pittsburg, they journeyed in. the direction of St. Louis with the Intention of following the Santa Fe route to the coast. Owing to accounts ac-counts of" the hot weather through that section they changed their route to Denver over the Rio Grande and thence to Ogden via Cheyenne, The young men state that they have been accorded good treatment inoet of the time, but h'T-ve occasionally occasion-ally been refused the glad hand. At Laramie, Womlng' the chief of police po-lice gave them twenty minutes to leave town. At Cheyenne and Rawlins Raw-lins their shipment of post cards did nt reach them' and they have experienced ex-perienced "hard times" since then. They are devoutly hoping that a supply sup-ply is how awaiting them at the Ogden Og-den express office. The recent performances of Weston are something of a conundrum to the travelers and they', cannot understand w hat "manner of ''man" the aged pedestrian pe-destrian can be to accomplish in 77 days so much greater a walk than has already occupied them 120 days with 700 miles yet to go. Jack Eldridge's latest stunt is also a stunner for them to comtemplate. They are hopeful, howevei, of finishing their journey In time for the reward and then 'never again." |