Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-01-23
Miss Bertha Won HflIern.

WHAT SHE HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
In view Of the general interest in this re-
markabe little German, and of the fact that
she attempts second and more difficult feat
on Monday and Tuesday next the following
record will afford timely reading In Decem.
Der. 1876, she succeeded in walking three hun
dred and fifty miles in six days and nights at
me Boston S n,a Music ls Hall In January ISL at
In tWenty-slN hours. A month later, at the
same hall, she made her first attempt to walk
one hundred miles in twenty eight hours and
succeeded with thirteen minutes and twenty
three seconds to spare. The next feat was
March 26th at the Providence Music Hall.
when she made her first walk of fifty miles in
twelve consecutive hours. This was the closest
contest against time the little lady had ever
engaged in. as she completed the fifty miles
but one minute and thirteen seconds ahead of
time. She returned to Boston in April, and
walked the same distance in the same time at
Music Hall. Returning to Providence, she
walked one hundred and fOrty-tive miles in
minutes for sleep. From thence to Worcester
where she succeeded in walking one hundred
miles in twenty-eight hours. 1.-THE same place
suffered her first defeat, being Beaten by time
thirty-fve minutes in walk of ffty miles
The same month (June) she walked twenty
nXe miles ME IN SIX hours without stop, in Low
renee, followed in a few days by twenty-five
and one half miles in the same time and place.
July 4th Miss Won Hillern walked twenty five
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at Smyth's Hall. Manchester, N. H. July 10Th
she returned TO Huntington Hall, Lowell and
walked forty-One miles in nine hours and
fOrty-One minutes. From Lowell to Portland.
July 3lst, where she walked fifty miles in
eleven hours and fifty one minutes, and after
wards, in August, eighty eight miles in TWEEN
ty,sM hours gdr At the City Hall, Springfield,
she was beaten by time fifteen minutes and
eight seconds in trial of fifty miles. At the
same place, September 10Th and 2lst she
ltTht mill
with eleven minutes TO spare. She repeated
this eighty-nine mile trial at the Providence
Music Hall October Sth and 9th, and finished
twelve minutes before the expiration of the
twenty six hours. At Huntington Hall low
ell October 22d and sd. she repeated what SHIT
considers the greatest Of all her feats, viz:
walking one hundred miles in twenty-eight
consecutive hours without sleep. When near
the finish she was delayed by the crowd being
forced upon the track, and proved victorious
only by few seconds; AT horticultural Hall,
again completed one hundred milesi in twenty
eight hours. in the presence of one of the lar
geSt and most faS hiOnable audiences ever as
semnled in that city; At the same place, No
vember 10Th. 2lSt and cd, she walked one hun
dTed and fOrty-tive miles in fifty consecutive
hours, with but two hours and thirty minutes
sleep. To show to what perfect physical CON
ditiOn the practice OF her theory had brought
her, Miss Won Hillern added five miles to the
former undertaking. and walked the one hun
dred and nifty miles in the same time, with but
TWO hours sleep. At the Masonic Temple, De-
cember 10Th and 9th, Baltimore, she walked
eighty nine miles in twenty-siX hours. with five
minutes to spare. At the same hall. January
hh and sth, 1878, she walked one hundred
miles in twenty-eight hours. Upon this occa-
sion she astoniShed judges. spectators and at
PENDANTS by walking the first ,ffty-0re miles
rth0nt q rest, in twelve hours, fifteen minutes
and eight seconds. At Odd Fellows Hall.
Washington, January 18th and 18th. she ac-
co mplished what she considers the most diff
cult feat of her experience, viz: walking
eighty-nine miles upon track requiring TWEEN
ty-fOur circuits to the mile.