The morning times., 1896-09-11

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1t REQUIRES considerable skill to lead two
bicycles and at the SANE time maintain
| one IS equilibrium on another. Henry Thorn
| ton, a colored youth, residing at 1921
| Fifth street northwest, demonstra ted this
| yesterday morning on Connecticut avenue,
near NJ street. In turning a corner Henry
momentaril relinquished his adeptness and
| was disentangled from his charge with a
badly cut head and sprained ankle
| Mr.. W. NJ wooten, a telegraph operator
| employed by one OF the press associations,
| while pedallng at a rapid pace downPenn-
| sylvania avenue, collided with a horse and
carriage at the corner OF Fourteenth street
and received q severe shaking up. The
| bicycle was badly damaged. Spectators
| say that Mr.. Wooten was considerably sur
| prised to find that it was u real live horse
| that he came in contact with, believing
that that species Of quadruped had become
| extinct.
! Two bicyclists, whose names could not
| be learned, had collision yesterday on
| New Jersey avenue between E and +
| streets. Both were thrown and one suf-
Tered from sprained wrist The other
was uninjured.
George c. Click, jr, while wheeling yes
| terda ycoliided with another rider at Twelfth
| and H streets northwest Gleck's wheel
| was badly injured, but he received only a
| few bruises. The other man mounted
quickly and rode Off
John Armstrong. a cook, No. 2O31 Four
teenth street northwest, was treated at
| Emergency Hospital for a serious contu sion
| of the right leg, caused by curious
collision with bicycle. The wheel was
standing III the dark in an alley which
Armstrong was walking through. There
| was blight Oh the machine aud he stumbled
/ against 1t, striking his shin against one
of the pedals. Yesterday lie went to
| Emergency Hospital where the injury was
said to be quite serious.
John Il. Cole, District messenger,
seventeen years old, living at No. 1907 E
front OF the city postoffice last night and
| fractured his right arm. Six months ago
| Cole met with similar accident The
| second fracture was at the same point al
| the first Sc was taken to Emergency
Hospital, where the fracture was reduced
by Surgeon West.
A hat pin was extracted from the head
! of Mrs. NJ A. jerks, No. 171S Thirteenth
/ street. yesterday, by Surgeon Lawrence at
crossing street, at Thirteenth street, when
q bicyclist scorched down upon her and
knocked her to the concrete.
She fell in such wa that the pin which
| held her hat in position was driven under
the scalp for space Of two inches, and
| tUeu uTOheu OIL. biOou liOWe0 Freely IrOnl
the wound. and 1T was thought that the
| woman had sustained serious injury. At
the hospital Surgeon Lawrence found a
| punctured wound of the scalp He ex-
plored it, and his instrument grated
against foreign body. he extracted
it, and the strange object proved to be
two inches of hat pin Examination of the
pin in the won,an's hat showed 1t to ha We
been broken. Mrs. jerks was not other
| wise burt.
Walter Dewey, colored youth, living
| in Auacostia, last evening had bis sweet
heart essay the role of Daisy Bell. They
| were speeding along Pennsylvania avenue,
In the vicinity OF Washington Circle, on a
bicycle built for two. when the girl, who
was steering, became confused at the ap-
proacb Of q devy of riders from an op-
posite direction, completely overlooking
the near proximity Of an Italian fruit
yender aud his cart There was the usual
crash, and Walters wheel became wreck.