The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-25
WHEELS AND WHEELMEN.

Henry Nichols is riding Singer safety,
and has already made himself famous as II
| fancy trick rider
The bicycle repairer started work last
week at M r. Evans store. Now keep
your wheels in order.
Master Herman Scnettler rides boys
Dandy safety, and like all other boys,
thinks there is nothing like bicycle.
Eleven miles in 4S minutes is good travel
ing, but that is what Pop DeGraaf accom-
plished recently in run from Tarrytown
to YonkerS.
Europe just now is over-run by touring
cyclists from the United States. There is
scarcely city of any prominence but what
has representation ''doing" the old world
a-wheel.
C. G. Cornell, while training on the
Hartford track the other day, took violent
header and was unconscious for four hours.
At last accounts, however, he seems to be
all right again.
Boys safeties are still in demand. Sales
during the week are as follows: Pembroke
Two to T. c. Griggs; Gushing, one; Heber
Sharp, and one to Harold Eldredge; Evans
One TO David Williams.
A worlds bicycle tournament is among
the projects spoken of il connection with
the proposed international exhibition to be
| Delu III VIEW L OFh uuIlug 1919. Lie A1ttu-
haitian club have been agitating the scheme.
The regular run of the Cycling club takes
place tomorrow evening. Start from
! Pembroke's at p. m. There has been very
| little interest taken in recent runs, but a
good turnout is expected this time. Don't
fail to get there.
The English papers are thoroughly
aroused over the report that appeared in d
Providence paper to the effect that d ladies'
race would be held at Cottage city this
week. Our English contemporaries can
still their fears. There will be no ladies'
race. The statement to the effect there
would be, was bold, bad canard.-Bi- World.
Van Wagner, an eastern wheelman,
who wagered that he could ride Safety
with his hands tied behind him, one mile
in less than three minutes, actually sue
ceeded in doing so in two inmates and
forty eight seconds. This is clincher to
the objection so frequently urged against
the Safety on account of sensitive steering.
In week or two more we will have de-
lightful moonlight nights, and if wheelmen
want really pleasurable runs they will
avail themselves of the opportunity as
often as possible. There is an attraction
about being out on moonlight evenings
ordinarily, but to crowd of wheelmen it
is simply perfection. Don't fail to try it.
New York is indulging in cycling mys-
terry. A lady, neatly dressed, graceful and
no doubt young and handsome, is frequent
ly seen spinning along on a bicycle at a
good eight miles. an hour gait, which she
apparently has no trouble in maintaining,
and defies recognition by wearing heavy
green vail. No one seems to know who
she is, and the wheelmen generally are
wild with curiosity, but the green vail tells
no secrets, and time alone will solve the
mystery.
A German, on machine manufactured
in the Fatherland, has lowered England's
colors on the racing path. Lehr, the Ger
man, will figure as mile champion of Eng
land for 1889. We are pleased at this vic
tory because it is the result of upsetting
the plans of riders who have hitherto re-
sorted to the pernicious and sport killing
habit of ''loafing." 1t is not sport to
dawdle through three-quarters of mile
and then sprint in at the finish. This is
the first time, we believe, in the history of
cycling that foreigner on a foreign made
wheel has invaded Albion and plucked the
prize at the Cycling Derby.-Bicycle WOrId.
As asphalt is one of the many natural
resources of Utah, the following from the
L. Il. W. Bulletin regarding its advantages
for pavements will be of interest: The
street improvement craze has struck New
York hard, and it is no longer question
whether they shall be improved, but as tie
what is the best surface to lay upon them.
To discover what constituted the best
pavement, the city sent Mr.. Stevenson
Towle abroad to look into the practical
workings Of modern road surfaces through |
out Europe. Mr.. Towle has just returned
from six months study of the question,
both from a practical and scientific stand
point, and as result of his observations,
declares himself to be firm adherent of
Ill Ill 4Hr,A
points and more strong ones than any other
form of surface he has investigated. 1t
stands the hardest traffic of London, meets
every condition in Paris, and is accepted
as the perfect pavement in Berlin, where
the climate is as hard on streets as it is
here. Certain then it is, that if the opin-
ion of the cities expert go for anything,
that we are now in for an extended asphalt
boom.
A curious and what afterwards proved a
very painful incident occurred recently in
the east. The Bicycling World of August 2
contains fac simile of a telegram received
by the White Cycle company of Westboro,
Massachusetts, from Minneapolis, Mime
sofa, dated July 80, saying that j.
Purvis Bruce's death was reported, and
asking for an immediate reply as to its
truth. Mr.. Bruce was manager of the
White Cycle company and used this mes
sage as an advertisement in the World,
saying that their unaccountable message
had been received, that Bruce was busy in
his accustomed place and laughing in his
sleeve at his narrow escape, whatever it
might have been. The World of the fol
lowing week, August 9, contains Mr..
Bruce's obituary, his death having been
caused by drowning August 4, just one
week after the date of the Minneapolis
message, while bathing in Chauncey Pond,
near Westboro. Mr.. Bruce, or "Jack'' as
heis Familiarity known to the readers of
the World had taken boat out into the
pond, where he undressed and went in
bathing. A gentleman on the beach heard
a cry of agony and saw Jack sink and come
to the surface three times, but he had dis
appeared before help could reach him. Two
expert divers were sent from Boston, and
the body was recovered the following
morning. Jack was one of the few cores
pondents for whom even strangers ac-
quired high personal regard, and readers
of the World will miss him as though they
had known him for year. Dear, old Jack
F'irst-class bicycle, gun and general re-
pairing at M. r. Evarn's.
The Columbia bicycles are the favorites.
Safeties and tricycles perfection. Buy only
the best. G. w. Gushing, agent.
Victor cycles, the king of safeties. Victor
junior is the best boys wheel made S. j.
Jensen, agent, 40 Main street.
Warwick drop-frame safety perfection
bicycle Look at this wheel before buying.
Boys Dandy Safeties. Nj. r. Evans, %
and24 Second South street.