Arizona weekly citizen., 1893-02-11
WORLD GRADERS.
Young American Bicyclists Ban
 quoted by the Tucson Club.

The Tucson Bicycle Club did iteeli
 and the city credit last evening in fit tingly entertaining by banquet at the Mason Doree, Messrs. Allen and Sacht-
 leben, the two plucky young Americans
 who have almost completed the tour of
 the Vor'd cn bicycles. Both tue young
 adventurers ara highly preposssssing in
 appearance. They are of about medium
 height and distinctIvely American in
 manner and expression. Tn firm, elas
 tic step, clear eye and ruddy, healthful
 couutenance of each betokened that the
 trip had been beneficial physically
 while their ready -witted, vivacious and
 tartful conversation, and evidently
 broadened ard intelligent ideas argued
 for its value mentally.
 Besides the two guests, around the
 table were seated Mayor Perry. Messrs
 Wheeler, ..VsnCuren, Groesetta. Miiner
 Allen Hsberly. George Kilt, WorLhen. Sheldon, w. R. Kilt and Dr. WhomeS
 During the repast and after, each one
 of these participated in & volley of ques-
 ti0ns of all sorts which was fred at the
 visitors end which elicited replies io every instance highly interesting.
 The Chinese Empire, it appeart d, they had found the most difficult aad daug-r- ous of passage. They are the first bi- cyclists to have entered it's broad area r the west and emerged at the Pacific Coast. Thomas Stevens, an English rider, undertook the same hardy feat some years since. but was errested iu
 Afghanstan and compelled to continue the voyage to Calcutta by water. T. Central China their lives had been sev- eral times in danger and they had es- Caped only on account ot tn supersii- ti0n and curiosity ofthe Ohinamep, the latter preferring, as Mir. Allen remarked to See them ride rather than to see them dead. Tn two or three places they ii the natives with the initiative p-Oci vi tle5 for which they are renowned, had taken sketches, patterns and measure ments of the machines with view to re- producing them. As they know nothing of ball bearings and dropped steel forg iogs, the result, they believed, viii 1 dou btless be a very inferior article 1 They spoke very interestingly of the 1 great Chinese wal. the excellent irrica -- l ing systems of the ChInamen. Of tae 1 Egglish mlssionaTiss and Catholic | priests and the hospitable treatment, in | good Havana cigars and excel | lart coffee, furnished by the latter. They l had visited some intensely picturesque | and romantic spots, but in mary in~ | stances had been unable to appreciate | their beauty on account of hunger, MT 1 | lien remarking as he alluded to thIs. that he had reached .he conclusion that 1 the way to man's heart Is through his stomach. Part Cf the conversation at q | most entertaining interview with Li | Hung Chang the Chinese prime minis ter whom Gen. Grant has pronounced as a stat sman of the same order of attain ments as Gladstone and Bismarck, was related. The minister. who is the great est man in the nation, after the En- psrOr, asked them, through an interpre- ter, forty questions in forty-five min utee. Each of the tourists is on the four h wheel, the ones used previously being of English manufacture. while they are now riding pneumatic Victors. They have taken copious notes of all their experiences and 2600 photographs. They will undoubtedly put some of their adventures in shape for public perusal After the banquet the young gentle men were entertained at the house Of Mr. B M Jacobs. After leaving here today they will go to New York by way of New Orleans. thereby completing the trip.