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Show A FEMALE WALKIST. AS EX TILAQEDIN'AKY 1aT Of EEteTBI-ANIoil EEteTBI-ANIoil OVKK ON E H L'NDBEL) XlUtS ISHIDK Of TVVEM'V-EI'JHT il'JLiUJ. Midd Von Hilleru did it. An 1 ahe had VS iniiiuU and 32 second to ipare at tiie tiiuaii. tine was on her ftt and Luovitie; bouri 3 minutes and .02 eecoiidfl, and reeted 4 hour 5o oiinuttrs uud J secoudd of tho 26 bours of Lime aiiotlod tier. To accomplish accom-plish the 100 uiilea in the time b:i did. Mim Von ilillern averaged l'-l minuteB and oi seconds per mile, lier fiuitest mile was tho oeventLi, in 11. 05, and bar slowest mile was the tweiHy-tifth, made in 17.20. Her rusLa were taken aa follows: Twenty-one Twenty-one mile on a stretch, then s rest, of 8 mmutei and '63 seconds; then 17 miles continuously to the oOtb, when break fwil con a u mod 2"J minutea and 50 seconds; oif aain, Bbe walked 12 Qiilefl, then retiring lor 9 minutes and 51 second, making the total roat from 7 p. m. Friday to 1 in. 8atur-J day 17 bours ot time, but 48 minutes' and 14 seconds, bbe had up to that time accomplished 71 milei of her journey. Xbe little lady did not slop (or dinner until she had left 76 miles behind ber, and was absent at ber uoou-day meal 1 hour 9 minutes and 57 Beconds. Returning to her work, she covered 5 miles and rested 5 minutfti and 47 seconds on the track, at the close of the Slut mile. Five miles more without a stop and 80 miles covered. A rest of 10 minulea and 47 second was tuken. Another mile walked and a long reat of 2 hours, 9 minutes and 47 seconds taken in her retiring room. Returning to the track 10 miles were covered ut a stretch, making 97 miiCB put in and over an hour to finish. A rest of 17 minutes and 7 secondu taken on the track and oil' she went again, increasing increa-sing her speed with very lap, bo that her lost mile ird made very quickly, the second being 12.32. At tho finish, ol herlOOlh mil she made one extra "lap," which was an ovation, after Borne 50 minutes' rest, she was taken to ber hotel, and one more triumph is added to her record in Boston. Tho walk of tho plucky little lady was a Hucceaa in every way, and she bids Boalon good-bye onco more with a neat sum of money aa the result of her wonderful pluck and endurance. A highly ' respectable assembly, composed mainly of ladies and gentlemen from Beacon Hill and the Black bay, with a light sprinkling ol suburbans, witnessed Miss Von ilillern's walk. From an audience of 200 at the start on Friday evening, the crowd begun to swell, until, during the but ten miles ot her walk, fully 4,000 people were present. They were enthusiastic, too, much more so than the average Boston audience, and tho ladies clapped their gloved hands most vigorously, while their male companions tossed their bats in the air at the close of the walk, and in many other ways during tho evening even-ing manifested their interest in the plucky little German lady. During tho last two hours of her walk she waB, to all appearances, n as good condition as when eh started, but after she had retired to tho anteroom ante-room she appeared nioro exhausted than at tho close of tho previous matches. The young lady is to be congratulated upon the successful accomplishment of so arduous ft task, and upon tho number us well as the quality of her audiences. Bjstou (ilobe. |