Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-27
Young Women Hikers Win
Bet from Dad by Walking
to PeekskiIl and Return

Elated at having won their lalner >
"mollycoddle' bet, Mrs. Richard G..
Tunison, of 251 Meeker avenue, and
her sister, Miss Helen Ordway, are
resting today after the weeks hike
from New York city to Peeksl1ill and
back.
Six days they had travelled afoot-
these pretty girls-and six days they
were wearied. One day they were
stopped by drenching rain and an
other day was one of rest. They were
accompanied by Miss Ordway's dog,
30. They had told their father, DIR.
Aaron " Ordway, they could walk
from New York city to Peekszill and
back with ease in a week, and they
did it. 1t was emphatically stated by
both walkers that this was a family
matter. However. this is the cable
message they prepared to send to
their father and DR.. Tunison, Mrs.
emma, Austria:
Dear Dad-Be a sport and come
across with that two hundred. We're
home'
OF course they had been tainted
and tased, told they could not walk
any distance because they were girls
brought up in comfort and luxury,
and they decided they would show
Dr. Ordway and DR.. Tunison that
they could walk. Perhaps it was
The rain which made them facetious
when they were on the last stretch,
or perhaps it was because they knew
that once theyNhad7 accomplished their
task they would be farfamed pedes-
TRANS Anyhow, both sisters declared
with emphasis they were not lsuf-
fragists or suffragettes. If theyi had
been they would have been left alone
and not pestered asserted Mrs. Tuni-
son.
They had been maneuvering in their
nike For instance, on Saturday
night they found they had reached
Hastings and decided to send for
dads" automobile and take it to
their home. But to make good on
their wager they we're driven out to
Hastings early yesterday morning
and then started just as if they had
slept over night in the village on the
Hudson shore. Then they trudged
70 New York city.
ITS done" said Mrs. Tunison.
That's about all they ought to
know. We won our wager. Here We
are, and 1 do believe I've torn my
skirt with so much walking"
And, speaking of skirts, Mrs. Tuni-
son wore a blue serge skirt, purple
felt hat. very heavy shoes on her
tired little feet and a raincoat, COW
ering q white sweater. Her sister,
Miss Ordway, wore a black hat, the
same sort of heavy shoes and blue
serge skirt. 1t was their idea they
would be able to pop into New York
city; hence the strategic movement
of one sister walking on one side of
the street and the other-never so
much as six inches ahead-on the
other side,
"One of the papers said that Miss
Ordway was skipping along beauti-
fully, while Mrs. Tunison was lag
cling behind" said Mrs, Tunison
We're just the same when it comes
to walking. There's not the least bit
of difference, and I want to say that
Mrs. Tunison can walk just as well
as her sister,
Here there was puddle, and just
TO show how spry she was MIS-.
Tunison skipped over it. But she
was not beating Miss Ordway, who
tried to look as if she had just
walked half block, and she was
skipping over every puddle.
Seventeen miles was the longest
days trudge. 1t was from Tarrytown
to within a short distance of Peek
skill. The sisters said they could
keep up three-mile-an-hour gait
any time they pleased, and although
they had won the wager they would
not care to walk more than ten miles
in any one day.
Its quite enough for q woman"
said Mrs. Tunison. "Of course a
man"
what do you consider a good diet
for walking?" asked a reporter.
"Prunes and milk said Mrs. Tuni-
son. We've walked about one hum
dred and sixty miles in the six days
we have been on the jaunt. No
crowds have bothered us, only few
persons. who have said, Hope you
make it all right. girls We had
luncheon at a restaurant in Getty
square. On the first two days of the
trip we felt fine The second two
days there was q reaction and we
felt tired, but afterward 1t was easy.
There isn't going to, be any brass
band and all that to meet us. But
here's 1880 street. Cross over"
Sure enough 1t was 183d street, three
blocks away from the automobile
which was waiting to take the sisters
home to their mother and away from
the Fostering scribes.
"Tll walk the rest of the distance
without stubbing my toe" said Mrs.
Tunison. She did. There was no
throng to see them get into their
automobile and they were whizzed
away home.
Say we made it in six days" said
Mrs. Tunison just as the automobile
sped around the corner.
Tho first friend to greet the sisters,
EXCEPT, of course, the unidentified
man, was Miss Augusta Patten.
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