Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-06
ANOTHER WOMAN WALKER.
Miss Bartel Begins Her Task of Walking
Three Thousand Quarter Miles
In Three Thousand Quar-
ter Hours.
New York Herald, January 2s.l

New York Herald, January 2Sl
An attempt to accomplish a feat OF
pedestrianism even more remarkable
than Nine. Anderoon's was begun at
Brewster building, Fifth avenue and
Fourteenth street, last evening, the
attempt being the effort of Miss An
ME Bartel to walk 1900 quarter miles
in 5000 quarter hours. Tho success
ful completion of this will require
thirty-one days and six hours, and the
physical endurance required to com
plete it without sleep, except that
which car be snatched in the inter-
walls Of a task so exacting, is little
short OF the marvellous. Precisely at
3 o'clock, the hour announced for the
beginning of Miss Bartel's walk, the
pedestrienne appeared upon the track.
About n hundred people, among
them a number of theatrical celebri-
ties, had gathered to see the start. As
she emerged from the little room in
the corner Of the building allotted to
her as her home during the next
month-ifher endurance lasts so long
she was greeted with applause.
Most of the spectators who were pres
ent at the time were connOiseurs of a
pedestrians points, and on her first
lap she was watched closely and critic
ally. She started well. Her step wss
easy and natural, her stride was firm
and graceful, her pace was rapid and
determined. The quarter was accom-.
plished in three minutes and thirty
tive seconds, and when she retired to
her room applause followed her. Ii
was an auspicious beginning of a task
which will be watched with great in
terest because Of Nine. Anderson
success.
In appearance Miss Bartell is rather
prepossessing. She is not beautiful in
the mere wOmanly sense, but she has
a bright eye, a pleasing lace aud an al
most perfect contour of form for a
female athlete. Her step shows
that she is accustomed to walking.
but her style. is suggestive Of country
roads rather than city sidewalks, and
1t is said most of her experience was
acquired in carrying milk cans from
door to door over the toughest parts
OF w estcheAter county. She is young.
being scarcely more than twenty years
Of age, and while she was making her
last lap there was a flush in her face
which revealed the excitement burn
ing like a fever in her veins. The
novelty Of her surroundings and the
curious eyes which we're bent upon
her seemed to affect her to her disad.
vantage while giving a sort Of dra-
matte interest to her start. The track
is in the second story Of the build
ing, and is made Of loan and sawdust.
II was made by Hughes, one of0'Lea.
y s unsuccessful competitors, and Mis-.
Bartels trainer. Thore are soyen
laps 70 The quarter milo, each lap be-
ing 1857 feet, as measured BY Major
Fulton of rife-team fame. Within
the circle are chairs, placed for the
accommodation Of visitors, and most
OF them vero occupied when the task
began. In one Of the front rows sal
Miss Lilly Eldridge an interested
spectator in tho othor was Miss Lot.
tic Murray, Mira. Tony Pastor and Miss
Annie Ward Tiffany. Other ladies
we're present, and a number Of gentle
men made themselves prominent on
the inside and the outside Of the track
Crosstown Carey and Judge Hilton
! among them. The interest felt in tho