Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-01-10
PEDESTRIAN METHODS.
O'Leary's Walk and that Of Other
Walkers.
New York Sun.

There is one peculiar feature about
pedestrianism. A person OF even ordi-
naiy powers Of observation, after watch
ing walker on weary march, wheth-
er the pedestrian be woman or n man,
is certain to have vivid and lasting pic.
ture Of the form and manner Of walking
Of the athlete impressed on the mem
DRY. Who that has seen them Will ever
forget Wesions nervous and som ewhat
painful manner Of propulsion, Hughes
clumsy and spasmodic jerks, or Cam
panais bent-over lopo when on trot,
after the manner Of Harvey Birch, in
Cooper's "Spy?'
A remarkable contrast in styles OF
walking can now be seen in this city and
Brooklyn by comparing Nine. Ander-
son with Daniel 0'Leary. Mr.. OLeary
carries his head perfectly erect, eyes
looking right ahead, chest well forward,
back straight, arms working like the
angles of square, and legs moving di-
rectly forward with fair heel and toe
movement. Mr.. William Paley, the
gentlemanly husband Of Nine. Ander-
son, who has held the position Of teach
er in first-cass English school of art,
IN Boston, England, and has studied
nearly all the leading pedestrians, re-
marked in Mozart Garden yesterday
afternoon that O'Leary was the most
perfect walker he ever saw.
Nine. Anderson's manner Of walk
ing last evening, while entering upon
the ninth night Of her tremendous task,
varied little from her style throughout
the previous week. She started Off with
slow and measured steps, head well
poised, turning occasionally to the right
or left, and then up to the gallery. Her
arms keep time to the movement of her
limbs, her toes are well turned out, and
she comes down firmly on her heels
with swinging motion, somewhat like
practiced skater when planting the
foot for the first movement in the grace
full German roll. As she continues her
walk she switches n little whip, her roll
becomes liyeler and her swinging
movement seems TO carry her forward
with ease, with slight rocking motion
from one foot TO tho other. She walks
erect, and her massive shoulders and
limbs make her a picture Of tireless
strength.
AT $3.50 Inst evening, while walking
her 77lst quarter-mle, she was in ap-
parently better condition than when
she had finished 500 quarter-miles in as
many consecutive quarter-hours.
A prominent Brooklyn physician,
who has studied her case, said that she
is the finest specimen Of physical wo-
manhood he ever saw. Although she
has been walking through mn atmos-
phere filled with tobacco smoke, the
doctor found her pulse beating steadily
ut rs, and her temperature only ono do
gree above her normal condition. Her
husband remarked ton reporter Tor tho
Sun that it was now n hundred to one
that she would accomplish her task,
barring accidents.
While O'Leary and Weston could
walk few miles further in twenty-four
hours than Mntlam, she would probab-
ly run them down in u little jog Of "
month.
Her theory il that her body sleeps,
while her brain il sufficiently awake To
guide her automatic movements around
tho track. Her drowsest spells come
over her inst hafnro nishtf.H and altol
| O'clock in tho morning. Agcntlemnn
who saw her in one Of these spells laid
quite n heavy wager that she would
break down inside of six hours. After
waiting and Watching through the night
into the seventh hour, and finding the
woman freshening, he gave up the
money.