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NEW YORK FIREMAN I WALKING IQ ’FRISCO■ JOHN H. MOONEY REACHES ANDERSON ON TRANSCONTINENTAL HIKEA LITTLE GIANTThough * Tiny Irishman He is Muscled Like a Hercules. Is No FakerExhibiting letters from Mayor J. Purroy Mlt?liel of New Yoik city and the chief of the fire department of Gotham that attest the genuineness of his undertaking. John H...Mooney, a member of the New York fire department. who is walking froin that city to Sun Francisco, arrived In Anderson late yesterday afternoon, tired hut In oxcellent spirits, and confident that he will carry out his plan.Mooney, who is a Jolly Irishman. Is not one o? the fellows who is out tramping across th0 continent for a wager, us an advertising agent for the Police Gazette or other publication. He appears to be more of a sport, or rather a man who is out walking for the sport of the thing he has undertaken. He has been given a year'B vacation by the New York fire department, and during this time he is to walk to San Francisco and return.Mooney l«rt New York on his long . hike on January 28. He stated yester- day that he did not know when he would reach San Frunclsco. He is under no contract to make the Journey there in a specified time. He will go from here to Atlanta und New Orleans. und from the latter city will follow the route of the Southern Pacific railroad to Son Francisco. Arter spending two months at the Panama-Pacific exposition, he will roturu to New York by the nenheru route.In making his trip across the continent .Mooney is stopping with the fire departments of the cities where he pausest He travels In the uniform of the New York flre department. This traveler Is one of the most muscular fellows that has ever been seen about hero, with the possible exception -of the /‘strong men of the circuses. Mooney Is small of statue, In met. he is below the n- rmal in height. The muscles of his legs, from the hip to the too are as hard as steel. His arms are also well muscled, but nothing like his legs.He will be in Anderson Monday, when he will set out on the next lap of his Journey.
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The Anderson Daily Intelligencer
Anderson, South Carolina, US
Sun, Mar 07, 1915
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