The Pedestrian Mania

From The New York Times , December 1, 1867.

A kind of pedestrian mania seems to afflict this country just now. We hear of erratic pedestrians rushing across this continent in every direction, just as the recent meteors traversed the heavens. Side by side with telegrams announcing the progress of events in Italy we find, day after day, telegrams an nouncing that of a pedestrian walking so manymiles a day for so many thousand dollars.

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Tags: Pedestrianism, USA

Tags: Pedestrianism, USA