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WAIKERS PASSTHROUGH CITYARE “HIKING” FROM PHILADEl _J*PH IA TO SEATTLE ON A♦*1,000 WAGERCharles Hahn, of Richmond, Va.,and Walter Chaffee, of Buffalo, N. Y„ two young men who are walking from Philadelphia to Seattle, Wash., on a 5? 1 ,(1hj wager, arrived iu this city at 9:45 o'clock Saturday night They lodged here over night and resumedtheir 4,OoO-mile -hike'’ at 8 o’clock Sunday morning.Hahn and Chaffee started on theirFStstclt;inU!long journey from the city hall plaza in Philadelphia at 1 o’clock in tb» afternoon of May 18, and they expect to arrive in Seattle on October 1, thus completing their journey in 137 daya, the time in which they must make it or lose the $1,000 wager. On their journey they are required, under theterms of the wager, to subsist from tunas they acquire from the sale of picture post cards. They had no money with them when they left Philadelphia. ^ :%islRoth of the pedestrians are dressed in regulation khaki uniforms and hei-|((, mets, and carry heavy knapsacks on ! their shoulders. Between them they ( carry a small tent in which they cancamp for the night whenever it is necessary. They must walk * twenty-seven miles a day to win their wager.Hahn and Chaffee carry with them a paper containing the terms of their wager, which they are required to have either the mayor or chief of police of every town of any importance through which they pass attach his signature. Chief of Police Remington signed this paper while Hahn and Chaffee were eating supper at the Home restaurant after they reachedthis city Saturday night. The twopedestrians left Elyria for Norwalk at ^ o’clock Saturday morning, covering the thirty-flve miles In twelve |hours and forty-five minutes.tlibttotoorccrereinaiPiJinretamfola
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Norwalk Daily Reflector
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Mon, Jun 14, 1909
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