The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-08
WlNDER'S LONG RIDE AWHEEL
HE HAS TRAVELLED 1884 MILES IN
23s DAYS.

Arrived in savannah Yesterday
Morning After Spending the Night
at MOnteith-Has Had Many Inter-
esting Adventures and Scary SItu-
atfOns-WiIl Leave Here for Jack
sOnviIIe, Lake Worth and Tampa,
and From There VIII Go to New
Orleans Via Pensacola and Mobile.
Says He Is Tired of IL and VIII be
Glad to Get Home Again.
Tom w. Winder. who is making a tour
around the United States on a bicycle,
arrived in Savannah yesterday morning
and is stopping at the De Soto. An ac-
count of Mr.. Winder's long journey on
the wheel was given in the Morning News
of Tuesday. He arrived at Montieth, on
the Charleston and Savannah railroad,
night before last, and started for the
city early in the morning.
Winder is a newspaper man of Warsaw,
Ind, but is now travelling as special
correspondent for the Illustrated Buffalo
Express, to which he sends interesting
letters every week descriptive OF his
travels and adventures. He left New
Orleans March IA, and rode out through
Texas. along the border line into South
ern California, up the coast to Seattle,
Wash, and from there he stuck as close
as possible to the border line between
the United States and Canada until he
reached Bangor, Me, from where he
started south, following the coast and
stopping at the coast cities.
He used several cyclometers on the trip,
but afterward found that he could get his
distances just as well without them, and
up to the time of his arrival in Savannah
he had ridden and pushed his wheel just
l. ga H. a.
Jan. s. it being specified that he was to
make the trip In 300 consecutive days. In
consideration of which he will receive
$1,000 from the manufacturers of the
Eclipse bicycle, one of whose machines
he is riding. The journey was estimated
TO be 2l,6OJ miles. but Will doubtless be
somewhat shorter than that as it will
hardly be $500 miles between Savannah
and New Orleans, even though the rider
is going a roundabout way. He will leave
savannah this morning, and follow the
line of one of the railroads probably the
Florida Central and Peninsular to Jack
sonville, from where he will go to Lake
Worth and then across to Tampa. From
Tampa he will go up the coast to Pensa-
cola. then to Mobile and New Orleans. He
expects to complete his journey within
about six weeks or two weeks ahead of
his scheduled time.
Mr.. Winder spent yesterday talking with
several cyclists, all of whom were inter
ested in his experiences. He has had
some interesting adventures, and has been
in some rather frightening situations at
times, but has fortunately escaped any
accident to himself. suffering only from
those TO his wheel, which have caused
him to take many a long walk. He has
met tramps, footpads and characters OF
all sorts, including a black bear out in
the mountain country, but always man
aged to explain the situation and pass by
unmolested. Under the terms of his agree
ment the only transportation he is allowed
other than that of his wheel is ferriage
across rivers. He says he has suffered
at times from hunger. being compelled
at one time to go without food for thirty
six hours.
His ride is a new idea in bicycle tours,
but he says he is heartily tired of it, and
wishes he were at home again. When he
gets there again, he says he will never
so off on another such Grand