The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-03-15
Bertha Won Hillern's Great
Feat.

The Boston Globe says: Miss Won
Hillern did it. And she had IS min
utes and 80 seconds to spare at the fin
ish. She was on her feet and moving
% hours minutes and 81 seconds, and
rested 4 hours, 46 minutes and 6 seconds
of the 2S hours of time allotted her. To
accomplish the 100 miles in the time she
did, Miss Won Hillern averaged Is min
utes and 81 seconds per mile. Her fast
est mile was the seventh, in 11.55, and
her slowest mile was the twenty-fft b
made in 1920. Her rests were taken
as follows: Twenty-one miles on a
stretch, then a rest of minutes and 81
seconds; then II miles continuously to
the 56th, when breakfast consumed 29
minutes and so seconds; off again, she
walked II miles, then retiring for 8
minutes and 81 seconds, making the to-
tai rest from p. m. Friday to II m.
Saturday, II hours of time, but 4S min
utes and IA seconds. 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 hour minutes and
81 seconds. Returning to her work
she covered 5 miles and rested
5 minutes and AZ seconds on the
track, at the close of the S1st
mile. Five miles more without stop
and Sc miles covered. A rest of 10
minutes and AZ seconds was here taken.
Another mile walked and long rest of
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 I seconds taken on the track and
off she went again, increasing her speed
with every lap, so that her last mile was
made very quickly, the second being
1882. At the finish of her 100th mile
she made an extra slap" which was
an ovation, and retired to her room,
from whence, after some 80 minutes
rest, she was taken to her hotel, and
one more triumph is added to her rec
ord in Boston. The walk of the plucky
little lady was success in every way,
and she bids Boston good-hy once more
with neat sum of money as the result
of her wonderful pluck and'endurance.
A highly respectable assembly, COM
posed mainly of ladies and gentlemen
from Beacon Hill and the Back Bay,
with a light sprinkling of suburbans,
witnessed Miss Won Hillern's walk
From an audience of 200 at the start
on Friday evening, the crowd begun tc
swell, until, during the last ten mile:
of her walk, at least 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 companions 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 al
appearances, in as good condition as
when she started, but after she had re.
tired 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 audience.