The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-21

CHICAGO, April 2O.-Last week the
rev rev Jenkln Lloyd Jones announced
tnat all bicyclists who attended
the Sunday morning services an
oakland Music hall would have their
bicycles taken care Of and as a result
Oh this announcement a number Of
people VINO ride the wheel were pres
ent. 1t was the first trial in Chicago
OF the experiment of checking, the hi
cycles OF church goers at the door of
the mouse OF worship, and the result
was all that could have been expected.
The day opened cool and cloudy. and
about the time when the minds Of the
devout turn to thoughts of pulpit ora
tory 1t looked as if rain might descend
at any moment. In consequence fewer
deVoteeS OF the rubber footed steed
were out In the morning than would
nave been awheel had the weather
conditions been more favorable
enough came rolling up to the church
door, however, 10 give Janitor Living
ston an idea of what was in store for
MN the hrst perfect Sunday morning
to follow.
When seen after service Rev. Mr..
Jones said: Yes, 1 regard the expert
ment as success. OF course, 1 did
not spend my time looking around to
see whether any bicyclists were pres
ent or not, but so far as my observa-
ton went, a number of men were there
whose trousers stopped at the knee,
and also caught a glimpse of a few
women in the regular bicycling cos
tune. After the services [ talked with
Janitor Livingstone, and he told me
he had checked quite number of
wheels. l know of no reason why men
and women should not come to church
arrayed in their bicycling suits if thew
like that sort of thing.
Many depend on their wheels for
transportation in place of cable lines
or steam railways, and in no small
number of cases bicycles have been
bought with an accumulation of small
savings in order to cut down the ex-
pense of going TO and from their places
Of business or other destination.
Preachers can hardly expect such per-
sons to give up their means of econo-
MIXING, as well as of securing much
needed exercise, that they may sit in
church on a beautiful spring or sum-
mer morning. Nothing sensational is
hidden in this new move of mine-it
was only intended to benefit a class
which is increasing from year to year.
The growth of bicycle industries is
amazing, and it is a marvellous in
vention, fit to rank with the telegraph,
telephone or sewing machine, and more
than this, it is no passing whim of
capricious multitudes, but has come to
stay"
ALBANY, N. Y, April Ex-Governor
Morton tonight signed the bill OF Mr..
Armstrong compelling railroad COM
panies to carry bicycles as baggage
free of charge.
NEW YORK, April IA special
dispatch to the World from Boston
says:
The bicycle makers here who are
said to be in the $4,000, 900 syndicate
are not saving much. Thomas w.
Lawson of Lawson, Woedenfeld & Co.,
the active representative of the trust,
said the corporation was assured, that
the capital had been paid in and
banked and that within a week a
would be issued. The COM
pany will organize under the laws of
New York He says the trust will cut
the price of high grade wheels from
800 to about $65, eliminating jobbers'
profits and advertising expenses, and
will make money at that.