The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-10
ASTRIDE THE WHEEL
Stevens, the Intrepid, and His
Waterbury Watches.
LADIES AND THE SILENT sTEED.
The Bicycle Club to be Reorganized---A Plea for
the Wheelman---The Season Fairly
Opened---Notes.

AN order for another lady's bicycle has
Just been sent in.
THERE is talk of recognizing the bicycle
club and making things lively this summer.
G. w. CUSHING has placed orders for two
more Columbia light roadster safeties,
(ROver type.)
THE Orange Wanderers is the first club
to put lady member on the executive COM
mittee of the club.
Mrs. ELDREDGE, who purchased the
lady's bicycle, now rides freely and easily
anywhere her masculine competitors do.
A VERY pleasant ride to Becks hot
springs was enjoyed by Pembroke,
Schroeder and the johnson boys last Sun
day.
WHEELMEN are anxiously awaiting the
Columbia people to put out their lady's
bicycle, as the fact of the Pope people
turning their attention to this wheel means
that they will do their best.
J. R. SLATER says his new Columbia
rover safety is a poem, The ease with
which it is propelled is wonderful and the
pleasure of riding on the new wheel is de-
lightful. He predicts this wheel will have
a great sale.
Oh. sweet are the sounds of waters, and sweet
Inc distant ecnOeS OF welcome IeeL.
The wild birds singing, the hum of bees,
The night winds rustic in summer trees;
But none, to my ear, in sweetness excel
The wee tink-tink OF the bicycle bell!
As showing the tendency to the Rover
type safety, and especially the drop-frame,
or lady's bicycle, Walter Jennings will dis
pose of his big wheel upon the first occa-
sion, and take to the Psyche. Mr.. P. P.
Pratt, Jr., will follow suit
THE exercise of cycling reminds one of
the glow and spring that coasting on the
snow-crust of New England gave him in his
bOyhood. To a sedentary person like the
clergyman, lawyer and student, this eXhil-
arating exercise can scarcely be over
rated.
THE statistical fiend gets in his fine work
regarding the Stanley show at the Crystal
Palace, thus: There were 79, 1865 visitors.
Over 1000 machines were exhibited.
Three thousand square feet were occupied,
and it took three miles of red cloth to cover
the stands.
''THoMAs STEVENS has arrived at Zanzi-
bar, Africa. He expects TO start for the
interior by March 9Th. He claims that
there is no authentic information as to the
whereabouts or fate of Stanley or Emin
Bey. If pluck and experience count for
anything, Stevens will accomplish that for
A FAIR wheelman can make the distance
from home to place of business, if residing
anywhere within the radius of ten miles
from the centre, in almost the time occupied
in going to the depot, the ride in, and the
walk from the depot to the office. And then
one saves car-fare and stabling, to say moth
ing of the glorious exercise and eXhilara-
ton of a ride in the open air.
THE following is given as the mileage
record of the Illinois bicycle club for 1888:
Miles ridden by thirty-seven members,
$1,000. John l{ason heads the list with
1902 miles. Thirty-three ''hundred-miles-
in-a-day' runs were made. Mason also
made neutrality-suspicious. record of 277
miles, and Frank Riggs one of 240. Tom
Roe, of the Chicagos, holds the mileage
record, his cyclometer showing 5000 miles
from April 1st to November 1st.
The introduction of the vices of ''civiliza-
tom among the savages has always been
source of regret to the humanitarian, but
the very acme of refined cruelty is reached,
if the following item is true. Thomas
Stevens the bicyclist, who has gone to
Central Africa, takes two dozen Waterbury
watches with him to present to the chiefs"
Mr.. Stevens was always prolific in eXpedi-
ents, and we can imagine the michiavelan-
ism which suggested the scheme of giving
a Waterbury to a troublesome and war-like
chief, and allowing him to eXpend his
energy and exhaust his physique by wind
ing this modern instrument of torture.-L.
A. ". Bulletin.
GRACE E. S. writes to the L. a. " Bulle-
tin regarding the lady's bicycle as follows
'sBeing member of the L. A. w, natur-
ally see the World every week. and have
beside me copy of your newsy paper, in
which l notice an article on why Woman
Should Ride L agree with the writer in
that the ladies should ride, and from my
own experience 1 have found it improves
my health and complexion very much.
1 have only been riding since last June, but
/ am stronger now, and enjoy living much
better than I ever did before that time.
The pains and the doctors have both gone,
where l don't know and care less, so long as
they have gone and so long as l still have
my bicycle and can take my ride every day.
1t seems to give me life, aud l feel the life
giving exhilaration born of this splendid
exercise, after take five-mile run around
the city, or, perchance, the country. II is
such sport to leave far behind men and
women who are obliged to take the street
car every place they go. l sometimes get
just trifle angry when 1 hear some old
feminine fuss and feathers say, oh, isn't
that disgraceful to see woman riding
mans bicycler They, L suppose, never
read the papers, as they would scarcely
ever have time after working, worrying and
scolding all day. If they could, just for an
hour, have the pleasure of riding as do,
think the cross, fretful and worrying fits
would be few and far between. | could not
do without my bicycle now. Even after
riding ten miles 1 do not feel tired, but come
home feeling better than when [ started.
My husband is very much pleased that 1
ride, and here 1 will mention that the ad-
vantage in having lady's safety is that
either can ride. 1 actually think sometimes
that my bicycle is keeping me too young in
actions, and that l am not growing old
gracefully as ought to-"