Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1894 — WHEELING ’ROUND THE WORLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHEELING ’ROUND THE WORLD.

Mlle. Londonderry Must Earn WB.OOO Before Boston Sees Her Again. Mlle. Londonderry, as she calls herself. the young woman who says she is going around the world on a bicycle, has started on her journey. Mlle. Londonderry’s circumo.b tai journey, she declares, is being made on a wager of ¥IO,OOO a side, by the termsof which she started penniless from Boston and

must return there in fifteen months’ time with $5,000 earned en after paying her expenses. Mlle Londonderry set out from Boston last Monday. Before leaving the Hub she made $230.01, the one cent being g ven her by the Woman s Chris tian Temperance Un'on, who-e ribbon she wears, and the rest of the money for carrying advertisements of different firms on her wheel. Although she had taken but three lessons on the bicycle, Mlle. Londonderry covered twenty-one miles at the start in four hours and fifteen minutes, and made the run from Boston to Providence—-iorty-two miles—in nine hours. She says she has met the most polite and kindest treatment on the way. Male and female bicyclers escorted her along stretches of her journey, and eyen the tramps she encountered treated her with the most distinguished ooeuld*catfea.

MLLE. LONDONDEBRY.