The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-15

Reed Smooth, both of Provo. Jensen-One
Gypsy drop frame safety to Miss Amussen.
Fryer-One Rambler drop frame safety to
T. o. Angel. Besides the above Henry
Nichols disposed of his diamond frame
Singer to a Mr.. Eberly, and still the good
work progresses.
The cool weather of the last week has
revived an interest in bicycling which is
surprising in comparison with the in
difference during the warm weather OF the
preceding weeks. A good turn out was
made by the cycling club Monday last and
most delightful moonlight ride INDUCED
in. This is the first run for several weeks
and was hailed as an indication of COM
plete revival OF this most excellent sport.
The party included Mr.. Harry r. Brown,
recently from Cincinnati, who has located
in Salt Lake, and will become an active
member of the cycling club.
A member Of the Elweu party thus sums
up few interesting facts of the great tour {:
''Since leaving Cork we have slept in forty
two different places and stopped at seventy
one hotels, twenty nine of these being for
dinner only. The distance ridden was
about fifteen hundred miles some did more,
others OF so much only one man rode Il e
entire distance. w. H. Kirk, of Philadt i
next Photographs and pipes have be- n
the articles most purchased, though quite
sum was put into watches, music box es,
wood carving and dogs"
Two of Salt Lake city's we'll known
wheelmen, Messrs. Frank Rumel and
James c. Jensen, astrlde respectively the
Warwick Safety and the Pony Star, started
at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning, Septem-
Der Z, bound for Provo. After riding as
far as South Cottonwood on empty stom-
achs they partook of breakfast Tor two
Though ordinarily what they consumed
would have been enough for half a dozen).
Their appetite satisfied, they proceeded on
their way over excellent roads until Sandy
was reached After leaving Sandy they
succeeded, by making squirt, in passing
Denver & Rio Grande freight train, which
was coming this way. At Draper they
went to house and asked to buy quart
of milk, but although several large pals
filled with the desired fluid were in sight
the landlady b ankly refused to sell them
drop, but said sne would give them all they
wanted. The boys, of course, drank to
their hearts content, until they thought
their bicycles had rested enough and were
ready to carry them on towards their des-
tinatiOn, and after safely securing their
coats to their machines they again mounted
and seon left Draper far behind. When
within-what looked to them-a short dis
lance from the Point" they concluded
before the horse and in that order travelled
in sand about six inches deep a couple of
miles, when again the riders mounted and
went down the other side at a rate of speed
in comparison with which an electric car
on its last trip at night is slow; in fact, so
fast did they go that one of Mr.. Rumel's
tires came of near the foot of the hill, up
setting him in a substantial manner. After
he had picked himself up and readjusted
haa hnt cd m T oh rr-hD hot
purchased about fifteen feet of buckskin,
with which they dashed the tire securely
to the wheel, and then proceeded to Ameri-
can Fork. As they were riding through
the town they saw a most attractive board
ing house sign in the person of the corpu-
lent Mr.. G. ID. Amos, in front of Rob Kip
pernick's. Their inner man Immediately
ordered stop, and as the outer man was
also only too willing to rest our friends
disembarked and enjoyed most excellent
dinner. When it came to the paying part
they were asked how many meals they had
ca en-, but fortunately they were let off Dy
paying for one "big'' meal apiece. From
American Fork they proceeded on a fine
hard road to Pleasant Grove without any
serious accident, except that Mr.. Rumel
"fell'' once or twice from his ''moole'' in
most charming manner. The road from
Pleasant Grove to the foot of Provo bench
encountered another difficulty, they having
to put their shoulders to the wheel again,
pushing their machines through the Geep
sand for about mile. On the top of Provo
bench Mr.. Rumel tried to perform the diff
cult feat of jumping ditch, but his War
wick Safety, not being trained to such an
exploit, capsized with him, leaving the
rider on the ground long enough for him to
find out that the ground was rather hard.
About four miles this side of Provo the
wheelers saw young lady ahead of them
with buggy-most evidently Miss Van
derbilt driving Maud S. Mr.. Jensen
thought that his horse was of better breed
than the one the lady was driving and at
once entered into race, which would have
terminated fortunately for Mr. Jensen had
not the tire of the. front wheel of his ma
chine come off, sending the rider to the
ground in fashion which may be better
imagined than described. Finally at about
5 o'clock in the afternoon the wheelmen
rode into Provo, just in time to go to the de-
pot and take the homeward bound train,
which, thanks to the regular irregularity
of the Denver & Rio Grande trains, was
nearly an 1t UT late.