Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-12
LONG WALK IN OFFICE
Average Business Man Covers Vast
Territory in a Year.

| From the Brooklyn Eagle
II had a cent for every mile walk
during office hours every day I'd soon be
| able to retire." is remark frequently
| heard from men and women who are kept
on their feet while at business. The gen.
eral impression Is that the distance tray-
| eled daily Is very great. And so 1t may be.
| But the simple experiment of carrying a
pedometer for a few weeks will probably
show that ones income at cent a mile
| would not be worth collecting until the end
| Of year.
A downtown Office man has just finished
an experiment Of this nature. He carried
| a pedometer si1 weeks, registering its total
each night. At the end Of that time # was
| found that the distance Travelled, though
varying greatly from day to day, came to
| a fairly even average at the end of each
week.
How many miles do you suppose he
walked on the day Of his highest record?
IWentyf Thirty? Fifty? No. only nine
miles. The lowest record came the very
next Gay, and was a mile and a half But
ene average for each geek was 8S1s miles,
Gay. The six weeks showed totals as fol-
lows: 1914 27h, 81. "a, 321a, 80, or an aggre-
gate of 200 miles and a half mile over. At
the eno OF six weeks. therefore. he would
In the course of a year this office travel
ing represents an impressive walking tour,
with Its total Of L733 miles. If made as
= conStinuous trip across country 1t would
take him from New York to Bismarck. N.
~ or TO Galveston, Tex. He might want
70 take jaunt that would bring him back
nome nome Tor New Years, though. In that
Tor either Atlanta, Ga, or CHATTANOOGA.
Tenn. reaching there about July 4 and
turning back. few extra miles tackled
On mere and there would make it possible
TO reach Chicago and return In a year.
II he wished to divide his trip between
two cities there would be time to walk to
Bunalo. walk back to New York then set
out for P1ttsburg and return. Washington
D. G., and Columbus, Ohio, could be visited
In the same way in one year, OF he might
walk to Boston, come back to New York
ana then walk to Hot Springs. Ark. The
latter point would be reached at the end
OF the year, and would be a delightful place
to sit down and rest.
In two years this office walking would
bring him to either San Francisco, Port
land. Ore. or Seattle and If he could
walk in water the same journey would have
Its end in Liverpool or Glasgow, London.
Amsterdam or the City Of Mexico could be
reached in two years and few weeks
over. Three years office travel would set
him down in either Madrid, Rome Vienna,
Stockholm or st. Petersburg without re-
turn ticket; four years would be more than
enough to bring him to Alexandria or Rio
De Jane1ro, and almost enough for a trip
to Yokohama; five years would take him
some distance beyond Buenos Ayres and
Just little this side Of either Bombay or
Shanghai, the latter by way of San Fran
cisco Fifteen years would take him round
the world.
Coming back to the distances of little old
New York, this daily office travel would
be equivalent to a walk every morning
from Goth street to the Battery, or from the
latter to l4th street and back daily. Be
side the larger figures such stroll does
seem impressive
man who walks this far indoors daily could
take his walking in the open air It would
undoubtedly have a perceptible beneficial
effect on the citys health and death rate