Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-03-29
A AFEMALE WALKlST.
An Extraordinary Feat of Pedestrian
ism-Over One Hundred Miles Inside
Of fTWenty.EIEht Hours.
from the Boston Globe

Miss Won Hillern did it. And she had 13
minutes ahd 81 seconds to spare at the finish.
She was on her feet and moving % hours 3
minutes and 54 seconds, and rested hours
81 minutes and 6 seconds Of the 20 hours of
time allotted her. To accomplish the 100
miles in the time she did. Miss Won Hillern
averaged IL minutes and 81 seconds per mile.
Her fastest mile Was the seventh, in 1866,
and her SlOWest mile was the twenty fifth,
made in 1920. Her rests We're taken as fol-
lows: TWenty-one miles on Il stretch, then
rest of minutes and 80 seconds; Then II
miles continuously to the 56th, when breakfast
consumed 20 minutes and 80 seconds; off
again, she walked - miles, then retiring for
9 minutes and 81 seconds, making the total
rest from D. m. Friday to 10 m. Saturday,
II hours of time, but AZ minutes and II sec-
onds. She had up to that time accomplished
II miles of her journey. The little lady did
not stop for dinner until she had left 76 miles
behind her, and Was absent at her MONDAY
meal l hour minutes and 81 seconds. Re-
turning to her work, she covered miles and
rested minutes and AZ seconds on the track,
at the close of the 81st mile. Five miles more
without stop and 66 miles covered. A rest
of 10 minutes and AZ seconds was here taken.
Another mile walked and long rest of 2
hours, 9 minutes and AZ seconds taken in her
retiring ROOM Returning to the track 10
miles were covered at a stretch, making 81
miles put in, and over an hour to finish A
rest OF II minutes and 7 seconds taken on
the track and off she went again, increasing
her speed with every lay, so that her last
mile was made very quickly, the second be-
ing 1882. At the finish OF her Tooth mile
she made one extra ''lap,' which was an
ovation, and retired to her room, from
whence after some SO minutes rest, she was
taken to her hotel, and one more triumph is
added to her record in Boston. The walk of
the pluckY little lady was success in every
way, and she bids Boston goodbye once
more with neat sum of money as the result
of her wonderful pluck and endurance. A
highly respectable assembly, composed most
ly of ladies and gentlemen from Beacon
Hill and the Back Bay, with light
sprinkling of suburbans, witnessed Miss.
Won Hillern's walk. From an audience of
200 at the start on Friday evening, the crowd
begun to swell, until, during the last ten
miles of her walk, fully 1000 people were
present. They were enthusiastic, too, much
more so than the average Boston audience,
and the ladies clapped their gloved hands
most vigorously, while their male compan-
ions tossed their hats in the air at the close
of the walk, and in many other ways during
the evening manifested their interest in the
plucky little German lady. During the last
two hours of her walk she was, to all appear
ances. in as good condition as when she
started, but after she had retired to the ante
room she appeared more exhausted than at
the close of the previous matches. The
young lady is to be congratulated upon the
successful accomplishment of so arduous
task, and upon the number as well as the
quality of her audiences.