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Show ELDERLY MAN GOOD WALKER . Brooklyn Citizen, Fond of Pedestrian- ism, Haa a Record That Few Are Likely to Equal. Garret Brower of this city walked 2,000 miles when he was ninety years old. He Is now ninety-seven years old and for the past three years he hns : given up walking as a regular occupation. occu-pation. But for about 12 years before that he walked persistently, in bad weather and good, on week clays and holidays. And this at a time when he had long passed beyond the three score and ten years supposed to be man's allotted span of life. He used to walk with a pedometer at his belt as his only companion. From his former home on Willough-by Willough-by avenue, he would walk out to the Williamsburg bridge and across to Manhattan. This not appearing long enough for a grownup man, he often would walk back to the Brooklyn end of the bridge and then cross and re-cross re-cross the bridge two or three times before starting home. In his diary he kept a record of the distances covered cov-ered on these expeditions. They varied va-ried from month to month ; but seven years ago, when he had reached the age of ninety, his walks still averaged six miles a day. Being now close to the century mark, he has discontinued walking out of doors. "A friend borrowed bor-rowed by pedometer," he explained with a laugh. Brooklyn Eagle. |