The morning call., 1894-10-08
ON GOLDEN GATE PARK DRIVES.
The Park Museum Already Popular
Feature Though Hardly Well
Started.

All the wheelmen in town. it seemed.
knew that they could ride On any avenue
of Golden Gate Park yesterday. for there
were thousands of fleet riders over the
main drives. The park policemen rested
in consequence. without ever thought OF
collisions or other evil consequences liable
to result from too much familiarity among
wheels and pedestrians and carriages.
But, on the other hand, there were many
tImid riders behind nervous teams, and it
became quite evident from their worried
appearance that driving In Golden Gate
Park Of beautiful Sunday afternoon is
not all the real pleasure it used to be.
s"rhe trouble is" said one of these gen.
tlemen, with one eye on his spirited steed
and another wandering ftfully around
him for flying streaks on wheels; "the
trouble is. when you give these bicyclists
an inch they take an ell. I'll admit they
have a perfect right to travel over the
driveways-quite as much as we have
but when they are on these winding ave-
nues. overcrowded with vehicles as to-day,
they certainly should use a reasonable
amount of caution.
"But they won't. Sometimes when you
are coming t, a bend in the road one or
may be dozen wheelmen will come skat-
luR iOWRTU yOuf iUTSc at tU6 Spccu VI dU
express train. 1t is all very we'll if you
can hold your horse down under the start
this gives him, and even if you do there is
danger of collision and then runaway.
Very fortunately, no accident has hap
pened so far in his manner. One can
understand that there is excitement and
sport for an expert wheelman in flying
around curves or down grades and dodg-
ing in and out at fearful speed among
carriages. They naturally delight in being
able to master the wheel thoroughly, Just
as much as trick rider likes to display
himself. Pve seen them whirring along
with their heads down, racing along the
driveways. while buggleS were stretched
all over the pla e.
''There is law which limits the speed
of horses and carriages in Golden Gate
Park. Bicyclists seldom 60 at speed of
less than twenty-five miles an hour when
they have good bit of road such as you
have all over the park. Now, il carriages
are prob bited from moving faster than
ten miles an hour why should there not
be an ordinance limiting The speed Of BIZ
cycles to the same rate? l think it would
be only fair to all to have such an ar
raugement."
How tue bicycles and vehicles managed
to get along yesterday without being
tangled up was marvellous, because there
was an unusually large number in the
park. Bat there was nc need for the po-
lceman's lasso during the afternoon.
Pedestrians also kept out of trouble, de-
spite the well-known penchant of wheel
men for running down the unsuspecting
stroller.
So large crowd rested around the music
pavilion while the concert filled the air
that visitor wandering into speculative
vein remarked that it is now possible TO
give the people musical treat IN the park
every Sunday afternoon. Said he: Sup
pose the street railway companies en-
gagged Scheel to lead the park orchestra on
Sundays and gave him authority TO en-
large ne band and conduct it similar 10
The Vienna Prater orchestra, this park
would be packed with people. Then San
Francisco would have public concerts In
the park the like of which are heard in
very few American cities. AS an expert
ment it would pay, believe. and it might
be worth while giving il test"
The new museum was visited by thou
sands yesterday. Most of those who en-
joyed the array of curins and strange birds
and animals were children, who uncon-
sciously received an object lesson in what
they saw. The Fine Arts building inside
the fair fence is last filing up with all
sorts of curious things that are to form
the nucleus for a museum for Golden Gate
Park. Besides objects picked up in the
fair booths, whole wagon load of things
was bought in a downtown curio store last
week and are now safely housed In the
fireprOOf building.