How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    never waiting for the elevator i£ it was not ready, but always walking up the nine flights from the street to his office ! And the writer has often seen him going up the top flight, and, instead of his step being faltering and feeble, it was uniformly a trot! See what two other old men did—in some ways even a more remarkable thing than Mr. Bryant^s great activity. The following despatch is from the New York Herald of February 23rd, 1879 :— THE OLD men’s WALK. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 22, 1879. The walk between Thomas Carey, of the New York Cotton. Exchange, and Joseph Y. Marsh, of this city, terminated to- night at a quarter of an hour before the appointed time. Marsh withdrawing-. Carey had walkoa 211 miles and a fraction to 209 miles and a corresponding fraction for Marsh. After the walk Marsh said that he was convinced that he had been beaten, and Carey made a speech expressing satisfaction with the manner in which he had been treated-. The walk began on Wednesday of the present week, at eleven o’clock, and terminated at forty-five minutes past ten to-night. Carey is a great-grandfather, and is sixty-four years old, and Marsh sixty-three. Both had trained for the walk. It is understood that they will walk again in Now York. Sixty miles a day for three days and a half, and by a great-grandfather at that! Any man, or any horse, might well hold that a good day’s work. This activity among men so far on in years seems surprising. And why ? Because, as people
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