Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-06-07
Copyright. 1896. by Ryman Interview
Synd!cGte)

Copyright. 1896. by Ryman Interview
Synd!cGte)
One 90 the foremost OF the National
Whcelman's League SAT- in his ONCE
with charts spread out before him. Up
on his face there was a delightful ex-
preston and az his RICH, hand we're
letters and manuscript.
81 am working" said he to the in
trudcr. upon the greatest bicycle
scheme that ever agitated the sporting
fraternity. Little by little We conceive
ereat ideas and devslop them. Each
sounds more preposterous than the last,
lut when We bring it around all who
came 20 scon remain 10 admire This
wheeling scheme is the finest thing ever
thought out by wheeling man. 1t
clme up at one Of our meetings by
cnaacs. And l have looked into it and
found it feasible.
ONE GRAND TOUR.
THE scheme" continued ne, reaching
towards d map upon his desk. lis this.
To establish bicycle track from coast
TO coast so that wheelmen can journey
from New York TO San Francisco as
easily f not as rapidly as they now DO
by train. Such tours have been under
taken and partly Carried out. One man
would whsel from Salt Lake City to
Buffalo Anotasr at some time, would
start ut Chicago and wheel to the Paci-
fc Coast But they seldom wanted TO
take the "trip twice IL was too tiresome
Roads were too bad. Too many noun
tain paths had to be climbed, too many
prair.es tortured through. But | am
looking into the matter so as to do away
with al this
My plan for a route runs like this:
[ would start, say. at the Pacific Coast,
and going north from San Francisco
would strike across for Sacramento.
Once IN Nevada / would keep pretty
close 20 the railroads 20 steer clear Of
the santa Rosa Mountains. The rail-
roads have mapped out things pretty
well along there, and | should hug the
track taking only excursions by the
hour all through Nevada and Utah until
7 reached Great Salt Lake. Here there
is q very pretty chance for run south
70 salt Lake CITY ard another one north
70 C1n1dl. Nowhere IS the country moe
d''cltiul than right here. It is well
va-crcl. uagn icently drained by ma
-ure. end # boasts the fruits Of the Pa
c,fc Coast as well as the shade of the
interior. There might be quite a stay
here.
..-t--r-t,~, 4Lo roi1~ood acain q CoIt
Lake. / should continue east, keeping
the locomotive constantly in eye. /
should hit Wyoming in its southwest
corner ard steer through the lower part
0s it. Now you have mountains indeed,
To- avoid. for north of YOU are the Big
Horn and the Swee,water chains, and
south lie the Rockies in their most
formidable peaks. Pixies Peak is not
so far away from YOU now, specially
when YOU strike south at Laramie and
head for a few days directly south to-
wards Denver.
INTERESTING POINTS.
eff YOU want an interesting trip you
can strike Denver and branch aside to
CriDDle Creek. Here you will find it
hard wheeling. hut so varied that you
are willing TO put the wheel in train and
ride part Of the way yourself. This is
aside from the quick cross-country trip,
and little ATTITUDES are allowed.
Now. YOU leave Denver and 80 north
again. striking the main railroad near
Cheyenne Then on You so towards
Nebraska. making almost a bee line
through the southern section OF that
safe. The North Platte River accom-
panies Won part Of the way, and you
find yourself in a denseiy populated
country where wheelmen abound. When
YOU reach Omaha. towards which you
are headed. you find very centre OF
wheeling circles. as &C. is The centre
ceorraphically. OF the United States.
at Omaha YOU leave the railroad and
wheel across Iowa from Council Bluns
to Davenport without deviation. Here
tro scenery is particularly beautiful.
The verdu~e is soft. the air Is mild-for
90 course your trip Is taken in summer
sind tae people seem heartily 70 cheer
YOU on YOUR way. The ruggedness Of
The mountains seems TO have faded as
though ntO the sOftness OF valley.
After YOU leave Iowa and strike into
Illinois YOU still hear people speaking
OF Iowa as though it were a garden