Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — PEDESTRIAN COMPLETES GREATEST WALKING FEAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEDESTRIAN COMPLETES GREATEST WALKING FEAT.

Edward Payson, 69 Years Old, Tramps from Portland, Me. , to Chicago. Edward Payson Weston ended 4 " his long tramp of 1,234 miles from Portland, Me., to Chicago, covering tlie distance in 24 days, 19 hours ’and' 15 minutes. ” : v ,„ Remarkable indeed is the endurance shown by Weston, the aged athlete who at G 9 has repeated his feat of forty years ago in walking from Portland, Me., to Chicago, and has broken his former record by twenty-four hours.. Deducting the four Sundays on which he did not walk, the actual time required In covering the distance was twentyfive days. His longest day’s walk on

Shis trip was 95 3-10 miles, while on the former journey the best day was only eighty-two miles. Weston’s stride is almost a shuffle. He takes two or three steps of ordinary length and then falls into a dog trot. But It is not a dog trot It Is a little trick to relieve the strain upon the leg muscles. And it gets him over the ground amazingly fast. He walks with as little effort as possible, leaning slightly forward and frequently zigzagging. At times he Is apparently forced onward by his weight, falling from one foot to the other without visible effort.

EDWARD P. WESTON.