The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-28

of the little track in Mozart Hall and 1000 out of the
2.700 quarter miles she has SO gamely
essayed to do. Fond of applause. she fully
appreciated the little storm of it which welcomed
arrival at this. almost the turning point of her
journey. and, Frightening UP. she sped round. lap
after lap. with fne spirit and vigor No matter at
what hour you happen in on her you have to wait
but few minutes. then comes the cautionary
signal from the little jingle bell; and three
minutes later at the second jingle. she is out of the
narrow door at the end OF the stage and step
ping freely of around the hall, her companion.
Michael Henry stout jolly looking fellow, walking
al her side carrying her little whip and bracing her
up with joke and laugh and many manly word
HER STYLE or WALKING.
O'Learys shoulders back OF tho vertical. his
arms are bent to right angle and his fists sway
sharply back and forward on horizontal line as
thew clutch the trusty corncobs absorbents Of spare
persyiraton but her hands are let loose and down,
and swing back and forth at arms length and sew
eral inches from her body. But the most marked
difference is III the step itself Learys lar tilt back
OF the body and forward of the hips sets his broad
bootheel down with thud which digs clear mark
in the sawdus every step, while his toes and fore
angle sharply up in the air seven eight inches
above the ground Anderson. on the contrary, puts
her foot down more gingerly. the toes seldom
being over three inches above the track, while the
heel touching and the heel itself not rising high ut
all as her foot leaves the ground. Hence the fine,
springy step which O'Leary always takes, pick him
up where you will. whether on the first mile the
four hundredth, is always absent here hers being
rather toddle than the step usually seen on the
racing path, and the wide apart way of setting her
feet down adding to this rolypoy effect, while her
head instead OF being set firmly her spine,
sways side to side at step and looks il
she trying to make it keep time with the music.
which indeed is occasionally the fact. Her head is
broad between the and round Modoc Captain
Jacks. If it is noticeably low and dat in the whole
region called be out OF Difference to the
mistakabe knob. high above the ears. which most
people call frmness. Many have thought that while
her tough and chunky body, broad and deep like
Normandy horses, would stand this tremendous self
imposed strain she would yet lack the requisite
strength OF head get through with her hazardous
work But one need study her logged look
very long to see that hers is . mans resolution.
Whoever saw Tom Sayers or James Renforth. two OF
the most resolute men who ever trod British soil,
will see that this thickset middleaged woman is out
OF the sort OF stockthe kind that is equal to
the severest strain the physical can pos
sibly stand
Wonderfully she bears this strain. AL the after
noon long yesterday she did not look tired scarcely
more so than several of the quiet well bred ladies'
who viewed her efforts with plain admiration. Her
eyelids not red ut the edges, her eyes
especially heavy quite lacking the dark bagy look
below common among those who have lost
much sleep Her face is not the fresh,
girlish affair pleasantly portrayed on the life
sized cuts numerous on the bill boards. These
represent young girl She is in every way the mid
dle-aged woman. firm, serious faced and with notice.
able lines in her especially At the sides OF her
mouth.
SLEEPING MOMENTS.
But while in the daytime she does not look as il
the work wearing her. in the evening. little
before eight, comes her drowsy time. Then, do what
she will. her eyes will go shut. On the track III her
ROOM on her couch matter where, they will not
stay open. Henry. the hveliest Of companions. may
do his best tine band may clatter the piano squeak
till old Mozarts bones rattle in their cofit is all
of no avail. However right she may be the
theory that her body sleeps while her mind is awake.
certain that every and then she falls asleep
on the track. Twice last evening she mistook the
number of her rounds. and instead of doing the
at the end OF the sixth and again just
after the fifth. 1t was all the festive
Henry could do to keep her on the track while the
tast thickening crowd with difficulty kept
protruding heads and feet across her track and
tripping her up. Now the band begins. and
s'Grandfather's Clock" licked, licked at such
merry-golively pace that rising to the spirit of the
moment, she beat time with her hand she walked
and quickened till the slow $40 and $3.50 OF the
the day time actually shrunk TO scarcely over three
minutes to the quarter-mile during the thick OF the
evening work. Hundreds of solid Brooklyn people
hand to clap and cheer-General Tracy, who
proved almost good slayer in another sort of
great trial in a hall two blocks away solid Mime.
people from the Heights and many more who never
before had supposed Mozart Hall Just the place to
But the order is excellent. and lady may well
satisfy her curiosity 70 one of her own at
tempting such marvellous physical feat by sitting
while and watching the brave little plodder at
her work.
A STARTLING RuxoR
It whispered here and there last night that
everything was not right here; that the Mime. An
derson who walked all day and during the evening
rush not she who in the dim carly
morning hours wcarily sped round and round
like her, of the size and shape aud age. a
sturdy walker, too-in short, a twin sister who
could scarce detect the difference. She it was who
enabling this now well known woman TO seem
to keep up what appeared greater physical
feat than woman ever undertook before. Not
few things. too. about Nine. Anderson
lent force the theory. II there such sister
she could readily don her sisters costume, or one
lust like it, while no one OF course was allowed in
their Little dressing room to learn the secret The
few lockers on after midnight would naturally be
Hat
selves difficult 20 detect at any time. and Mime. Ad-
dersons apparent freshness during the served
10 strengthen the suspicion Bat careful inquiry
dispelled these ruInors. Not only the men
who walked with her found eager to vindcate her
good name and to vonch that all was fair and above
board, but there were relays OF secret watchers,
impelled by hope OF catching her, at some
unguarded moment letting the fatal three
making start and so securing the 800 abe had
promised to whoever should catch her; others
who had private bets on the result others who had
divers interests. different sets of reporters. among
them one from the HERALD, one from the Times and
another from the Brooklyn Eae dividing the entire
every quarter MILE and the minutes and seconds It
took, and these all with one accord denied the story
enIphaticaliy The little womans own bearing, too,
helped TO dispe the shallow. Frank. hearty. brave.
attending as faithfully TO her hard work OLeary
does TO his; backed also by her splen-
did reputation in England for having done
900 miles in many hourr, $50 miles in 900
hours and i 500 miles in 1000 hours and all within
two years back. she showed there nothing i'm
possibldor improbable in the task she had set
herself. But at ten o'clock last night occurred an
incident which, whatever doubt might be still
naming helped much 20 dissipate H.
suddenly. without leaving the TRACK, she stepped
on the platform and addressed the assembled hun
dreds.
SHE MAKES A SPEECH.
She thanked them sincerely for their patronage
and cordial support, As she made thus bold 70 90,
from having been actress. singer and pedestrian She
did not wish to appear bold She felt truly thankful
20 the Giver OF all good gifts for giving her the
strength to enable her TO go through with
her task She had not undertaken ft
NJ any one4 else request, but solely at her op-
ton. She continued ~ am not going TO Kill my
self II find that 10 IL likely 10 tell on my constitu-
promise yon most faithfully that shall stop it
ut 1 always get living. whether 1t walk.
ing. acting or singing, while in this world
for his fidelity meeting her every want.
and supplying every comfort. She said she had
always found that social feeling would spring up
among those who sat the whole night through watch
ing her and she would like to reward them with what