A wonderful increase of popularity has lately attended the art of walking. The steady
improvement made in speed and endurance by professional and amateur walkers and the
introduction of international contests have brought this about within a few years.
When the firm of Beadle and Adams published their first Dime book of Pedestrianism, the only
American walker of reputation was Edward Payson Weston. The record of professionals and
amateurs had then developed nothing great ...