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ACROSS THE CONTINENT.The Lons Joomry Undertaken by a Man Who Wheels a Barrow.William H. C. Brotherton, a shoemaker by trade, is trundling a wheelbarrow from Ban Francisco to New York. If he performs the journey in six months he is to teceive $2,000. To accomplish the feat he must average twenty-two miles a day. The •wheelbarrow and contents weigh ninety pounds. Four thousand people assembled to see him start on his journey, and Brotherton, who is a small wiry man of about thirty-six years, is attracting considerable attention at every stage.His daily programme, weather permitting, is as follows: He rises about three in the morning and •eats breakfast, then he walks until 11, which is his •dinner hour, and rests until 4 •o’clock, wheu he resumes his marchuntil 8 o'clock in the evening. At ' that hour he has supper and goes to bed. On tine days be considers him-aelf good for thirty miles or more. He keeps to the railroad tracks, the wheel of the bar-tow being flanged 'to fit the rails.Brotherton is ac-Sm. which w‘ H- c‘ bbotherton.baa been his partner on previous long distance journeys. The wheelbarrow man, urn he has been dubbed, wears a coarse cor-«dnroy suit, a sombrero, canton flannel and knit underclothing and coarse shoes. He expects to wear out four pairs of shoes on the trip.
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Logansport Chronicle
Logansport, Indiana, US
Sat, May 02, 1891
Page 6
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