THE PRAM-RUSHER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 129, 24 February 1908, Page 9

THE PRAM-RUSHER.

- " ,y... iiuiiiuß iO'ilijliSOji' ij •i Ac quaint figure; of-' i"SianrK*iaKng"r3& s iron mask and an' 1 air : oP !: started out from: TrafalpV l iSqdsK' ; tH'o' l is|h.6r ; day to push a perambulator rouM/.tfefrorld' —with the .ultimate.-: object;- :: -^erh'aps/ ; '' ; of' pushing' somo • other. .T-mor'S? wleablb; rco'm-' inodity; but, according',"t-b; him," liis 'tr'alk ' was tli'e' outcome of a wager- of;''£2Q;ooo'"tfith ! aii American iriilliouairejfri-end l ' of' h|«V • ' . "Tho wager ;is liedgocl about with i'mul-f titudc, of curious ho?rcroarkcd ; in. aii 'interview;''- • Among., them: ho-is t-o'i—. Conceal his identity."• , Find, a'wife 011 tho road. ••'"••'•• • Mako his living as, Iby : selling photographs., andpamJiKlets;;hi? initial stock of which.-mnst -uo'ticost nibro :] than £1. : ; v w'ro;:.- -r; 1•: ■; Forward an account 'of- : '!]iis progress? . signed by_.tho _Mayor :; o? ' som6' ; ,otlicr- 'rcsponsiblo inhabitant .. of • every,, town'. Ho* ■ passes''through, and- 'also: patronise/ the-' 1 post office of ; each, town ho.''traverses''bv' . -buying'a-postage statotf. wr.vn "Tho wager was laid; by a friend of -mme I ,'' a well-known American -riiillionaire; as.'.'ithe outcome of '"nn argument 'which'"took' 'place' at a club in Pall Mall.L'.:tho world-walker said. "Ho declared that no Englishman would walk around the world: masked and pushing a .perambulator.'' ■'■ .,■- v ■ Tho' honour of his .conjitry was.'at-S stalteand the "man in thefroh 'mask'.!,, took'up tho haughty challenge. ■ The initial route takeii- liy tliis 'iieriinbu-' lator-pushing sportsman" for' ltis '.world-t-oiir was via Fliv-t Strent. London Bridgo! and t-lio Old Kent Road.