Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-08-29
SALT LAKE SCOOPED.
Junction City Whsslmsn Clio The
Capital an Early Morning go By
LEFT OUT OF THE RELAY RACE.
Message 10 Mayor Gliud,unlug 10 Pu'
On Ills skates aud Catch ihe had
BOYS from Ugl,u.

a clouiburst and impossible roads
over tie desert, smart SGT Of practical
iose.piaylug whuolmun al Ogden and
woiully unsuspecting aggregation Of
fiduft 81 home, resulted In Salt Like
tcing given forty mile "go.by" this
morning Ia the great ttanscontinenlai
bicycle relay RAGS under the aua
picos o. tho New York Journal
aud san Ffnnciieo Examiner. That
the "scoof" was much appreciated 10
Ogden was evident from tho tele.
graphic aud telephone messages that
found their way Ia 10 Salt Lake. IL
oven took possession Of staii aud stosdy
goirg municipal officials Of the Jupe.
lion city NJ witness the following to
Mayor ulondinning Of Salt Lake from
lie "aetins mAyor,D whoever he may
be,
n You want to sign tho relay package,
yuu viii have 10 put on your skates
ava catch thom somewhere between
/ Ogden and Evanston, They snuakod
/ through ogden, tho junction city, aud
gavu your poor old sleepy village tho
"go by"
There Il Just the slightest suspicion
that the above mefsagu may have been
sent by somo wag instead Of byOgdonh
facing mayor" However, the Joke IA
n very good one and much more con.
tucivo Of fitibility 10 Weber county
Than IA Halt Like. A. recently out.
lined To the NEWS the route from Ne.
Nada through the western part Of Utah
ives along the old stage line, through
roOelo county, 10 TO Salt Lake county,
a course that would have given Ogden
the ego by" But the element
favored tue latter burg to
nm extent that made its loko a huge
success. The winds blew, tine rains do.
socnded aud the ioods came with
the result that the roads became 90 had
tbs ofiginni route had 90 be- abandoned
foT the one that ran via Terraces aud
Ogden. From the latter town Il was
to have come 10 salt Lake where la
tho absonCu OF Governor WellI,
Mayor Glondlnning was to have
nignUd the package anu per.
mitted II 20 have gone on III
way with fresh riders through tns
mountains TO the east Of this city. But
tue Mohet county wheolmon villed
uthetwiHs ana the bAit LAX,
cyciiets who desired 70 tcruTs fAml
~ sssisiiDg In the rapid transi
OF war department message accrosl
the continent were called In and ne they
came In singles and pairs they pre-
scented perfect pictures OF disappoint
ment, nnger ami Precipitation. Thell
opponents, considered friendly. had
simply seized tbs package AMI sped
through the gap In tho mountains easl
OF their own town. At noon the fol
lowing message reached Mullett q
Cumpany's place OF business iu this
city where the package was TO have
teen signed by Mayor Glendinniop
from Morgan: "walter Webb OF
Ogden just arrived hero with relay
packagt-time SAB"
The little morocco packet which or
III way across the continent IL creating
90 much Interest means a ceaselesl
turn Of the pedals until the last wheel
man In the relay places the message
before the eommandant Al Governori
Island, In New YORK hATbOr. Til,
pouch which passed through Utah To-
day contained an engraved gold plat
addressed to the commanding genera
OF the department OF tho east, aud !
! letter from Postmaster MeCoppin o
, san francisco, to Postmaster Dayton
! OF New York. Tho pouch also contaiul
, u parchment prepared for the sigma
lures OF the yarious governors through
whose states the oouriefs will pass
These officials will DO In waiting a
convenient points along the routes
The pouch has been carefully designed
with the view OF causing no decteas'
. 10 the speed OF the riders.
. This Undertaking Ia under the pat
Ionage OF the Uuitsd States authoTi
I tie'. aud the cguriers enjoy their pro
, tootlon. Tho relay IL an official even
In "a double sense, as both tho army
and the postofiice authorities hav
bestowed upon u the seal OF their ap
ptoval. Although strictly privat
entetpTlse independent Of government
aid, lie effects are as faT-feaching AM
4 the possibilities that It suggests tina
. watohinl eyes at Washington have de
ttoied in II an experiment OF vital In
terest 10 those who may ho called upoi
j, to lead the way out Of executive emer
= geuciet,
The war department IL especial!
interested In the experiment. Gen
) eTai Miles may be said 10 have a bicy
Gle fnu, as HE recent tosts with tn
a wheel would indicate. The poslntiic
department has Instructed Its officer
10 assist the o0utiors Ia every wa,
: pYssiblr and carefully note the dis
= iancea covered aud the time occupied
As the packet 10 carried further eas
tho big men VI the sport will assist Il
its transportation. Out of Chicago n
n. Van Siuklen, editor Of "BearingP,
: win rJe, TAXI 8 the same portion Q
the road he covered no successfully u
the two former relaya between Chicag
i, and New York, From Chicago tn
racket VIII DO hurried 10 beat the 6es
/, previous time over the route into New
|, York, and II eastern professionals no'
4 following the grand circuit, can al
, range 20 take their places IN the race
I, inc time will surely ha broken,
nnM WAS spIuITGD AWAY.