The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-28
WHEELS AND WHEELMEN.

WHEELS AND WHEELMEN.
a Columbia safety was sold to Mr..
Brooke last week.
There are orders for no less than six
safeties for this city now in the hands OF
the makers.
The Star bicycle received the first prize
in the Melbourne, Australia, exhibition
L. 4. W. Bulletin.
Gushing received two childrens' drop
frame safeties last week, and now two
small boys are happy.
Mr.. A. G. Matthews is the happy
possessor Of a new drOp-frame rambler
bicycle, purchased last week.
The Bicycling World has engaged Helen
Grey to conduct a ladies' department in
their journal. Ii promises to be an interest
ing feature.
There win be a club run of the Salt Lake
Cycling club Tuesday morning at 10
O'Clock sharp. Meet at Johnson & Pratt's
drug store. All wheelmen are invited.
Mrs. DE-. Eldridge takes great pleasure in
riding her bicycle She is very enthusiastic
in its praise. 1t it only those who ride the
bicycle who can possibly appreciate the
pleasure and eXhileration wheeling gives
one.
their Boston house on March 30th at which
over $50 people were present. There was
feast Of music, fun and food. AS mat
ter of statistical information writer says
lover sixteen boxes Of cigars were con-
sumed.n
There has been quite trade in safeties
during the past week. Pembroke has re
ceiyed and sold one, and telegraphed for
two more. Gushing has sold one and tel
IL
Johnson, Pratt & Company have sold the
drop-frame to Oscar Groshall, the real es-
tate man.
Two thousand cycling photographs will
be on exhibition at the Chicago tournament
They will include the champions of Amer
lea, England ireland, Scotland, France,
Germany and Australia, besides celebrated
newspaper men, manufacturers and officers
Of various institutions.
There was jolly party assembled in
Newton last week, met for the purpose of
trying the ladies' bicycle Mr.. Elliott fur
nished the machines and there were pres
ent, Mr.. and Mrs. Hopkins, DR.. and Mrs
Southwell, Mrs. Elicit and several others
The ladies easily learned to master the
wheel and those who were persistent be
came good riders before the evening was
over.
Helen Grey in the Bicycling World says
of the ladies bicycle: Il saw two very
pretty girls on bicycles at the Reservoir
last week. 1t was indeed beautiful sight.
They rode well, they were dressed in eX-
quisite taste, and their faces glOwed with
the eXhileIatiOn induced by the ride. II
you have gained the idea that | have & pref
udice against the bycicle let nc say that l
cannot believe that so pretty q pictUrec could
be unfOlded TO my gaze had these young
ladies been on tricycles."
Is there a cycle editor living who has not
been approached in a confidential way Oy
some callOw youth or foxy veteran, and
perhaps also by those with the most honest
and guileless intentions, with the question
which heads this article, What shall
rider asks the L. A. w. Bulletin. On such
occasions the editor has chance
to put in lis best ticks and establish a repu-
tation of dealing in vast quantity Of gilt
tering generalities." What shall he ride
forsoothr' Now when a physician visits
patient and comes to some conclusion as to
what his sick man needs. he prescribes and
doses, and in case the diagnosis is not cor
rect and the physic not the proper remedy.
the patient is none the wiser as to the rea |
cause of the medicine not proving ef1ica-
cious, but rather he lays it to the stubborn
ness of the disease, and he has another ego ,
at it. Now how different the case of a
y
will cure him but dose of 1.-THE best
mount" He looks to We editor, as an eX-
pert who can diagnose his case and admins
ter the proper cycle. Ye ''foolish editor
prescribes, and the individual in search of
a cure takes the scribe's advice, buys and
takes the prescription. So far the doctor
and the editor are even-on a par, so to
speak-but alas, while the patient cannot
prove that the physician has made a bull |
the cyclist will pretty soon discover that he
is not cured if the cycle does not suit, and
then how he does ''bless'' 90 the sapient
scribbler! You cannot choose for another
man what a satisfactory mount would be-
We have an idea of what we want, but the
machine we choose may not cover the re-
1uirements of our friend Jumbo, Skinney,
Jones, or even Smith. For general guild
ance we can lay down few rules which
may aid the cropping ones. If your roads
are sandy and very deep ruts, then stick TO
the ordinary, the Star or the Eagle, as
there is no doubt but that these machines
still lead in utility over roads heavy with
sand or SCARED with ruts. If the roads are
hard surfaced, no matter how rough, then !
the dwarf can be used But what kind!'
All, there's another point Are you
and road racer: then get machine
with stiff forks; OF II you are an ordinary
potterer. and one who likes an eight to ten !
miles an hour gait, and further, love COM
fort. then take spring fork machine. I'm |
less you weigh less than 100 pounds, don't |
think OF getting a machine that weighs less
than thirty to forty pounds If the ordir-
any or the safety do not fit the idea, then |
we can show you the Star and the Eagle |
both of which machines, in the hands of |
sl6illful riders, are practically unicycles, as
the little pilot skins the ground more
than it ''rolls over it. We have seen skill |
full men on these two machines riding along |
with the little wheel touching just enough |
to give steering Now just make up your
own mind as to what you must ride. Take |
into consideration the roads you are to ride |
over, the weight of your own person, the
ease or roughness with which you use
machine, and the question as to whether
vibration upsets your nerve centres, and
YOU will be able to make much more sat
sfactory selection for yourself than even
we could make for you, with all our fathom-
less knowledge and cycling lore. To those
who may not know, we would say, the
Eagle is a machine with the little wheel in
front, but, unlike the Star, is driven by a
simple crank motion.
Screen doors and windows. Every
variety of style and size, cheaper than ever
before offered in this CITY.