Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-03-02

ward the west He became an enthusias tic bicyclist and made excursions to St. Louis and Now Orleans before he began in 1899 the first westward wheeling tour of the world.
 In the spring of that year he trundled his bicycle from Pittsburg tD New York, and on June '7le started from the city hall on his long journey. He made tho trip across this country successfully and wrote letters to0uting, for which he was travelling He reached China before Christ mas and is said to be tho first cyclist to go into the northern part of the Flowery Kingdom. He went leisurely through Burmah, uild across India, and through Persia, and sent his last contribution to his magazine on April 8, 1894, from Ta- brig, when he was about to start for Er- Zeroum, in Turkey.
 Lost In the Nurd Country.
 He has been traced from Tabriz past Bayazad and Mount Ararat and as far as the Kurd country, which. it is supposed, he reached in about five days. This is in Armenia on the way to Erzeroum, in Asiatic Turkey, and is Tn the country which has lately been the scene of the so called Armenian outrages. which are now under investigation by an international commission. Tho KurdS are the most feroclous of the wild tribes that possess the mountainous regions thereabout and they have never been Subjugated by the Turks although they arr nominally under the sultan < government. Turkeys efforts to keep them subducd. it is said, have been largely in the way of opposing quar- relsolnc tribes one against another, and so sparing tho regular Turkish soldiery, which, moreover. We're wanted In more important regions.
 The dangerous character of the country has always been well known, and travel CTS have usually been careful to provide themselves with escorts in passing through it. But LenZ was of an adventurous spir- it, and it iS thought probable that he es- sayed the passage of the mountains alone
 Some of his friends believe that he was killed in the Delibaba pass or drowned in fording stream. Others think the Kurds may have made him a prisoner and that they are holding him for a ransom. May Be Held For Ransom. If he iS prisoner, he may be recovered either by payment of a ransom or by the intervention of tho Turkish authorities, who may be forced to act by this country,
 or by this country and England, whose | diplomatic offices have already been ap- pcaled to by Secretary Gresham owing to
 the weakness of the United States repre-  sentatives there.
 Mir. Sachtleben has travelled through the Kurd country on his wheel, and has some familiarity with their customs and language and he thinks he should be able | to find Lenz. if he be alive. if any one can. | Mir. Sachtleben is courageous, but has not been called daring. and when he went | through the Delibaba pass he took with | him an escort of four men provided by the authorities. He is 2S years old, a year | older than Lenz. He was born in Alton
 and educated at St. Louis. He is enthu-
 siastic in undertaking the search for Lenz. Besides Sachtleben the Outing search I party includes two missionaries from the
 American (CongregationaD board of for.
 eign missions and the Presbyterian board | of foreign missions. Thomas Cook & Sons | are also aiding in the search. Sachtleben will endeavor to interest the international | commission, which is looking into the Armenian outrages, in his quest, and will no doubt succeed in doing so, and if Lena
 is found living in durance Sachtleben will appeal if necessary to the governmental agencies of America, England and Russia to effect his liberation.
 The editor of Outing is not hopeful oi | immediate results from MT. Saohtleben'G journey. but believes that before summer is past it will be known what has become
 of Lenz. La Champagne sailed at o'clock l this morning.