The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-08
BICYCLE Or TRICYCLE..
SALrL4KE CITY, Jan. z, 1879.

SALTL4KE CITY, Jan. z, 1879.
Editors Herald:
What DO you think Of those bicycle
arrangements ? They are no novelty,
bat they appear to be taking fresh
start. The coroner's stately stsed is
solitary no longer. It has it, fellows
about town, blooded and pedigreed
stock no doubt, and of rare meItle,
courage, and endurance, all perfect
in their way. Very nice things for
professionals, l allow, but the nicely
is altogether too nice for ordinary
humanity. l presume excellent on a
perfect roadway, but our roadWays are
not sll perfect. How about our nu-
merOus unabridged water bitches and |
our terrible country roads in all
westhers ? Does not the bicycle rear
up behind suddenly when it runs at
good speed into a chuck hole? How
does the rider keep bis seat? Or
must be invariably dismount and
wade or jump t1e ditch, leading his
nag across carefully aud gently {?
| can hardly tay that the bicycle
commends Itself very strongly to
ne i0F this part of the county. :
The two wheels, one large and
then little one behind, seem hardly
enough for rough 10 Ids and common
people II you look at hicy clist as 7
he goes, yuu sill discover that his
mind Is ss concentrated as a mathe-
perfectly distracted from !
III sxtranecus mundane things and a
igidly centred on tlat big wheel and
40 road Immediately before and P
nder it. Moreover he looks as
l9mu SO if he vas going to be hung
nd coulin't help it No jokes are 7
leaTd, no guips, no crEnks, no word -
Or any one. He is In a desperate
iurry, be cannot SOP 10 greet friend p
Tor look aside to say good morning to
ny fellow in RAISING, or mind any
oily else's business but his own. As or
} revealing in lsndscapeau glories aE 81
9 tears along. be might as well be NJ NJ
nut up in a London underground ~
.i!Tay carriage His horse ia not to NJ NJ
} trihed with, even to the extent of ~ ~
momentary glance Gskanoe. If ',
u have biting horse, you must M
.ep your eye on its head. The
cycle may not BE- a bitter, but it
eds watching more than ii it was,
I'd the iuces,ant watching with the c.
ually necessary inCesssnt going =:
ust be a great bore. M
If common people are TO use
Gle animal at all. l think it must be
tricycle.. The children have found
at out already. One large and two ms
lall wheels behind, or two large and ~.
10 small wheel before, must be the '"'
7le. if ordinary people are to ride me
tn comfort of body and ease of goi
ind. The soothing idea OF reLose in'
utterly absen. from a bicycle, but 70
may be compatible with a tricycle.. wa
0unted Oh the latter, you could 90 sgt
iitly or very le'sarely; could talk to spf
riend, or say how do you do to any "o
y you met or overlook; could take sol
ur eyes of your steed at your option no
see what goa we're passing; could Ter
me to a full halt any time to view on
g landscape Ger without danger of Wo
ing endorsed; could cross a ditch iis,
lhout apprehension of accident or VII
mage; and certainly could enjoy JUS
ur ride and the surroundings far ant
1re than if you bestrode the more !
acting bicycle. The tricycle., then. Mr.
all ronfeeding riding animals, is his
3 one to become popular with the I'm
asses o. the people, while the BIZ tina
Gle may satisfy gifted experts on cor
RECT reads. BEN LoMoND, bee