The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20
WHEELS AND WHEELMEN.

There will be run to Fort Douglas this
morning leaving about 10 o'clock
Roads between Hanauer and Salt Lake
are in excellent condition for wheeling. A
wheelman made the run in torty-five min
utes yesterday.
Now that Nellie Bly, is credited as being
an expert cyclist why does she not try to
beat Tom Stevers' record and ride around
the world on safety? We believe the lit
tie lady is equal to any test of pluck, and
were it not for the impossibility of an I'M
protected woman to perform the feat, we
should say that Nellie BLY, was just the
girl to do i'll. 4. w. Bulletin.
Fast day was great cycling day in New
England The air was balmy in most sec
tions and the roads from good to fair The
roads round Boston and vicinity just
swarmed with riders, and if anybody who
think ''cycling is on the decline,'' had
been on the boulevard on fast day they
would have changed their minds The
safeties were vastly in the maiority.-L.A.
W. Bulletin.
Following are names of parties who have
purchased 1890 Safeties: Columbias-
Mrs Pembroke, James E. Jennings, e.
II. Eldredge, z. H. Jacobs, T. w. Sloan,
Charles Walker, Chris r. Delhi, George
Odell, jr., Salt Lake; Joel b. Grover,
Nephi. Victors-J. w. Eardley, Harry R.
Browne, Harry Jennings, Mr.. Alder, G. A
Maynes. Warwick-C. N. Kendall. White
Flyer-Dr. j. N. Christensen, Provo.
The Exeter, n. H, Gazette says: Twelve
eminent engineers and railroad presidents
and experts from Europe, San Francisco
Oregon, Colorado, New York and Canad a.
tested Boynton's bicycle road Friday. The
opinion was unanimously expressed that
all railroads would have to adopt the sys-
%]x1, &c, fxN&, Il
admitted to be possible from 100 to $50
miles per hour. Severe tests of curves.
grades and distractions were successfully
made"
The following startling item is taken
from Baltimore paper and the truthful
ness OF the statement is vouched for by the
secretary of the Centaur club: GA mem
Der of the Crescent cycle club of Baltimore
met with Il peculiar accident on Sunday
While riding on Falls hill, above Reisters-
town, his cycle, one Of the safety pattern,
struck some object which caused the ma
chine to jump, and both rider and cycle
went over fve-ra fence The rider es
capped serious injury. Members Of the Bal
timore Centaur and of the Westminster
cycle clubs saw the accident.n-L. A. W.
bulletin.
The St Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press pro
duces the following soui-stirring, muse
inspiring opinion of cycling and cycles. by
local lady: ooh, yes, shall be glad to
welcome the cyclers with the robins this
spring. exclaimed beautiful ST. Paullady
with an eye for the poetry of motion as
well as sentiment. '.Thcy look so weird
and ghostly in the cleaning, when the
dusk hangs its heavy curtain abroad on the
earth, and the spirituelle form of a young
bank clerk or stenographer goes gliding
through space high above the Swallowed
ground, his wheel invisible, and only him
self cleaving the dusk heavy with ambro-
sial dews. l think they ire real cute"
Her single auditor turned away to con-
ceal his emotions, and when she again
spoke he had fortified himself for further
disclosures. She continued:
''And when the red lantern is seen NOV
ing mysteriously adown the hill on Third
street, or bowling along Summit avenue
like an unearthly meteor in the dead hour
of q dark night, that, too, is real weird and
and funny do really. think that the
procession of bicyclers, with Chinese Ian