The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-07
WHEELS AND WHEELMEN.

Ollie Roberts now owns a Columbia
safety, secured through G. w. Gushing.
A bicycle club composed entirely of news
paper men is one of the newest things in
Boston.
Pembroke received Star safety last
week. i was in his possession Just three
quarters Of an hour. 1t is now owned by
a Mr.. Jensen.
The utility Of the bicycle as a means of
rapid transit has become an axiom; and its
position as a healthy, eXhilarating exercise
an established fact.
We are, as a nation, progressing towards
refinement A Wheelbarrow is now called
the unicycle; still it is Just as hard to run
as under the old name.
a correspondent of one of the wheel
| journals writes: Quite number of ladies
| in Salt Lake have the bicycle fever. Some
| seven or eight have been ordered already.
and the number will, no doubt, be largely
increased before the season is over.n
Over one hundred members of Parlia-
ment ride the wheel" and ladies of rank
all over England can be seen any pleasant
summer day rushing over the smooth roads
on their tricycles, getting life and health,
good digestion and immense appetites.
From one of our French exchanges we
learn that cycling played a prominent part
in the recent election in Paris. no less than
thirty bicyclers having been engaged fy
one newspaper to collect the results of the
count from the different sectiOns.-WheeI-
mans Gazette.
Lord Wolsey, of the English army. pro
noances the bicycle a military instrument
Of great promise. The only objection we
have to the bicycle is that it doesn't kill a
man outright, but leaves him to crawl
around on the surface of the earth with a
crooked back, a skinned face and so many
arnica plasters on his joints that he can't
sit down to his meals.
The most delightful run this season was
made to Jennings farm, in Centerville, last
Sunday. The roads were in excellent con-
dition. The trip was made in one hour and
a half. On arrival at the farm, the cyclers
were greeted with the refreshing product
of the dairy, which for a thirsty lot of
wheelmeu there could be nothing more APP
preciated. The party consisted of James
E. Jennings, A. w. Game and G. w. Cush
ing.
One prime reason for bad roads is the
system by which farmers and country resi-
dents are allowed to work out their road
taxes. But where the sys-
TEN Of requiring road taxes to be paid in
cash prevails, the ShreWd farmers insist
upon getting the worth of their money in
good roads. The invention of
the bicycle is likely to produce changes in
our highway laws Bicycle
riders are personally much interested in
the subject of good roads and pavements.-
President Bates, in the WhesImsn.
a bill has been presented to the New
York assembly with one special feature Of
interest to every one. One section read;
THE sheriffs of the several counties Of the
state are hereby authorized and empowered
to cause all prisoners who may be sentenced
by the Judgment of any of the courts of this
state to confinement to the county jail at
hard labor, to be put at work in cultivating
and improving the county and town lands,
highways, roads and bridges, breaking
and at such time and at such locality within
their several counties as a board OF super
visors thereof may direct" Here is a
pointer for some Of our legislators.