The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-10
TALL WALKING.
sCHMEHL WALKS A37 MILES IN I'll
HOURS.
ne Has O. Miles % Travel and ~ Hours
tn Make II In. +, -=.

About the tallest walking that hns over been
Witnessed In this country or in Europe may
be- Witnessed to-day ut st. Patrick's Hall,
whore Scbmehl, the living wonder In the way
81 endurance, may be seen completing, or
trying to complete, his 900 miles In one hun
dred ind forty-three hours
Yesterday was the fifth consecutive day
he has walked about the sawdust ring In the
hill. he having UP to 10 O'Clock lust night
finished his 437th mile, the actual time COLI
sumed In walking being. 12l hours. This
and one-half miles per hour for the whole
time consumed, and with sixty-three miles 10
go to make the 800 inside VI the specified time,
fie had Inst night twenty-five hours to walk
that dstanc Ind would huve IN average to
| make Of just Three miles an hour.
His slowest time yesterday WAS on the 419th
mile which he made In IA minutes, while the
! 435th was made In 10 minutes. the 431st In
and especially during the evening, he 9 m
| planned of soreness In tho lower part OF his
| limbs moro especially between the knees md
the ankles; but notwithstanding the soreness
| he was cheerful, and after coming from hIs
played by the band, and after having made
| The circuit once bis muscles seemed to show
full play
His appetite is good, he having taken at
| different lunches three beefsteaks yesterday,
the physicians to the fact that In walking he
| exercises every muscle IN his body.
In his walk there IL O strange and yet grace
full motion OF the arms and shoulders, the
manner III which iie exercises them being re-
mailsably peculiar, even to professional pedes
trims, and TINT feature has probably been
noticed by every one Of the hundreds who
have visited him. In walking II 10 nat
but In addition to this Schmehl not only gives
his arrns II full swing, but gives his shoulders
full exercise by lifting one or the other vt
| least three inches every time an arm swings
with tho step he mikes. This peculiar motion
IL hard to initiate perfectly, md to that, par-
| tally 10 duo his great, endurance according
| TO The physicians, as without i his chest and
| the muscles in his body above the waist
! would not get an equal share Of the terrible
work that IL performed by his lower limbs.
| During yesterday and lust evening quito n
| number Of gentlemen attempted to walk with
| him, but could not make the long and rapid
| stride taken by Schmell, and ,nftnr making
| the circle d few times by his side they would
| drop out. An amateur also started In during
| the Hay for q fifty mile tramp on o bot Of $50,
| got over the sawdust alone for o twenty mile
stretch, making the first ten miles in exactly
| two hours.
# Schmehl held out during the night, his
| friends anticipate the most severe trial for
| him between che hours Of 2 and o'clock this
| evening; md should he succeed In walking
\ until the hour last named he will have accom-
| plished u feat unparalleled In the pedestrian
| history Of this country or Of Europe, and he
| the world. II he holds out md makes the
| lust milo he will have made the circuit Of st.
| patrick's Hall Just eight thousand times In
| the one hundred and forty-three hours.