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Show 8,000 vm CLUBS IH G3EATERNEW YORK They Swing Along Highways and Through Woods in Groups of Varying Size. Vow York-One must walk nowa-di; nowa-di; ,o l.e in the slm. Statistic E,,,,,l fm.n the ut ,l,.or departments ut the m,.,vrn. ?rm the Hoy Sc-.ut ;,n, f-Minplire (ilrM1 ornlutlons fr,,,n t!- M- A" hr"'"'h"3 "nl1 I.:,,,!,-,,! fn.in .coreM of amateur ,.,,,,, lind from the leading ;i,.,,,.s sportlNK KOxK Indicate that u . "Best Walkers Make Best Citizens," Says Mayor of New York. tudny there are no less than 8,000 (.i,,,s In Creator New York, will, a total membership of more than ., iter of a million men and women, wom-en, who are keeping themselves in the pink of condition and experiencing the joy of living by getting regularly out into the open country with no other oth-er means of locomotion than their God- given legs. The city of New York has taken official offi-cial notice of the movement. On three crasions recently Mayor llylan lias ewagratuhiteil the boys and girls of the jjubllc schools upon their enthusiasm In taking up the new sport of hiking. In his dedication of the great new public pub-lic playground in Hie Bronx the other 6a; Mayor llylan extolled the athletic tendencies .of the boys and girls and Impressed upon them that there was no better or more profitable way in which they could pass their vacations and utilize their holidays than by the excursions into field and forest of; their walking clubs. He gave the same message to the Amateur Athletic Union Un-ion of Brooklyn a few days later, and when a club of Kast Side boys and girls visited him at city hull preparatory to a hike to the tomb of lioosevelt at Ojster l'.ay lie assured them that the best walkers among them would make the best citizens. Walk and Be Well No less enthusiastic a champion of the walking game is Dr. Royal S. t'opelaml, city health commissioner. "The benefit to health and the safeguard safe-guard to morals to be found in long walks." said lr. Copeland in an interview, in-terview, "are too apparent to speak of them. U one takes long walks alone ; .,-. i r,.,- n. w.ill.-s flip ronyi of health, but it lie takes long walks in company it is better for- he adds the tonic of companionship to his exercise. Walking is the one form of exercise in which there is the minrmum risk of overdoing it. In short, I consider walking the most 'beneficial of all exercises exer-cises and it is never out of season." "Never in my life-time," said- Edward Ed-ward 11. Wilbur, manager of a nationally nation-ally known sporting goods store, "have 1 known such a demand as now for outdoor out-door garments and shoes and stockings stock-ings and appliances for the tourist's luncheon box. The rapid spread and tremendous popularity of the walking-club walking-club idea has no parallel in our experience. ex-perience. "The hiker can make his requisite Just what he feels like spending. Really, Real-ly, there are only two or three articles imlispei, sable to hiking thick walking shoes that allow lots of room, thick ,.i.. .mil olofhincr that will give freedom of limb. He should have a canvas or leather musette bag, such as the soldiers used in France. The Cow in the Knapsack 'To get the real benefit and joy out of hiking lum-hoon should be carried and prepared and eaten In the open, r.rcad and cheese, a few sMcee of bacon, some coffee, a can of. condensed tniik. and a cake of chocolate furnish fur-nish high-powered fuel for the hiker and are readily and happily assimilated assimi-lated even by those who in their pre-bikir.g pre-bikir.g days were afflicted with digestive di-gestive apparatus so feeble as to balk at crackers and milk. Fortunately for the hiker, he can replenish his simple larder at any cross-roads store and provide himself with the most nutritious nutri-tious and appetizing food in a form that can he conveniently carried. No single development in the problem prob-lem of food transportation for the hunter, fisherman, hiker and ill lovers of the out-of-doors can compare with the gift bestowed by the man who first found the way to make condensed con-densed milk, thereby putting a dairy in ewry r.:: i;'vi;-sack. i'.efore long t'.i'.v will be a national association of hikers, and Ceil l.'-ciden will be its patron pa-tron saint. Such an association could do much to em oarage the spread of the most beneficial and universal of all (Mild " r pasfmos. map out interesting routes, secure the establishment of chrpors rest stations, and camp sites ut suitable locations. and insure the rights of pedestrians oa country reads." |
