Sick Man Tramps Home To Die

1916

Recovers Good Health and Is Now Hiking Back.

MIDLAND, Texas — Alonzo Meredith, who hails from Savannah, Ga., passed thru Midland en route to California, pulling a small two wheeled cart containing his bedding and cooking utensils and tells the following story:

"Doctors in Frisco told me to go home last April; that I would be dead of the T. B. (tuberculosis) in another sixty days. I had spent all my money and to go home was out of the question. However, I was obsessed of the idea to try and walk the distance. I started and before I had made the first hundred miles I began to gather strength. I had money to eat on, but slept out nights. After making the distance to Indio, California, I was able to work. I gained strength and continued my journey. I walked to New Orleans and was examined there in the charity hospital for 'bugs' and was pronounced cured. I am now on my way back and upon reaching there will double back again, as I want to make sure of the cure."

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 11.