San Francisco To New York
SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK
NELSON RIVER, MAKING A TRIP FOR A PRIZE
Unique Way a Manufacturer Has of Advertising His Make of Shoes
Another cross-country pedestrian; who is walking for a wager; dropped into the city Wednesday and is stopping at the American house. He gives his name as Nelson River, and is walking from San Francisco. Cal., to New York City, for which he is to receive $1000 offered by a New York shoe firm to anyone performing the feat providing he wore a pair of the Eagle brand shoes during the trip.
Mr. Rivers left San Francisco Jan. 1st last, and expects to reach New York in six or eight weeks. He says he is having a very pleasant trip and as the shoe firm pay his expenses, finds it rather an easy way in which to see the country and be paid for it. He claims to have been a student at Hamilton college, preparing for Yale, when he accepted the offer to make the transcontinental trip and had gained quite an enviable reputation as an athlete.
He seems to be quite a student of human nature and says he never asks a man a question as to directions or locations if he can help it but always applies to women for the reason that the man will invariably want to know who he is, what he is doing and where he came from, while the woman will answer his question direct and go about her business. He will remain in the city today.
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Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat