Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — A Woman’s Annual Tramp. [ARTICLE]

A Woman’s Annual Tramp.

The American papers have been giving an account of an aged woman who has regularly walked once a year from Bangor. Me., to New York, 450 miles, for the enjoyment of the thing, [ since 1824, when she was 16 years old. Marquis de La Fayette was then visiting. America,Mnd the girl,’Mary Harley, being too poor to ride, walked to New York to see him, paying her way by selling pencils on the road. Shw enjoyed her trip so much that she has since then repeated it annually. She is now turned 90, yet does not look io old, and seems to be a person of natural refinement. On her trip this year her sales of pencils proved inadequate for the first time to meet her frugal expenses, and on reaching New York she was obliged to apply to charity for aid, when her curious feat became public.