The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-09
1EES AND BIKERS.
k.attle Will Soon Have Cinder
Paths in Plenty.
~ FIRST ONE READY SEPT. Is.
[~unrss and ''Ihe Terrible svede,,
"A story of the Labor Day Meet
The Gun Club shoot.

eArre il no doubt that Seattle "a becoo-
=. ooe OF the strongest wheel centerx In
4. s,ate OF Washington. and as soon as
- b,cycIe paths are built. such as Il .fs
- proposed 20 establish. IL wilI Increase
- Number Of machines used here SO thar
~ can be counted by the thousands.
u ~s.saf OF by the hundreds. Il will only
4roxs the iadonitabae spirit displayed BIZ
4. SEATTLE people whenever anything a
4. - obtained In the way OF improve
A-.ats and II cannot be said that the
N.s.elraen as a body are q. bit behind the
4siance when u comes 70 enterprise and
.rxa The seattle spirit Is abroad, and
"A r.. not be far IN the future when Sc
~. can point with pride 20 tho pleasant
~. that can be had over innamersbIe
..tas. stretching for miles and miles
throughout fhe country. where Dut a few
H-.,s before II would have been thought
III, 10 Impossible 10 have accomplished
Neseh astonishing results.
.g,ryone knows tina; this city Is SER
.rsly Handicapped IN not having good
.ssds. In fact Il would be hard 10 fad a
a.y tha, is worse or IN that respect, but
~, roads can Ice built and will be Quilt.
: uroyen by The start already made In
4. putting in OF the cycle path now under
4 ,oss,rucston around Lake Union About
~ w~sks ago half & dozen representative
J .ss.,rneu assembled IN Or. churehiiFs
sFee for the purpose OF planning ways
80 means OF getting q path. Tine outlook
/ su aim, but they declared their iuten-
ian 10 make or break. Overwhelming
usesss attended their efforts. and the
,.cexssrv funds we're soon raised with
shIch 10 go ahead with the work: race
ne. WAS planned for Labor day and car
"a on, with unparalleled success, and
naon the 18th OF this month the new path
III be opened for use to the riding public.
n a hoped that al efforts In the future
nay be az successful
Speaking ~ the Labor day race meet
brings up a good Joke on one OF the rid
o.. BIZ the name % Brown. more common
n known among his wheeling friends as
rs5,ser." While riding one of the fastest
,ares OF the day he was followed closely
ty that whiriwind Johnson, or THE terrible
sxsae" as he had been dubbed BY the
savs Johnson soon shot past Spider"
and took the pace himself. holding II the
balance Of the race, much against tho
usual mode OF racing. During the latter
part Of the evening some OF the riders
j asked Johnson why he took the pace
song, and he almost sent them into CON
WILSON'S ny his innocent explanation that
"A. fe!ler y1Ist ahead was trowin' dust
and DO spider webs KEEP gcttln' in me face
% had 10 get somewhere; so got ahed."
There arc a few riders In this city who
e.s getting up quite a reputation as cent
rrv runners \ week ago last Sunday
| four OF these iong-dlsfance people rode
from Seattle 20 Olympia, and from there
back 10 Tacoma claiming that they could
hst as easily have ridden clear back 10
esattle II II had not been getting dark.
Next Sunday they together with one or
Two others intend 20 make the ride again
!. AMI lengthen T. out notch or two II
possible II the road from here 20 Tacoma
ms only hair IA good rs from Tacoma
| u Olympia. there is 10 doubt that the
stuai trip could be made without trouble.
which - distance OF f37 miles. Perhaps
sne OF these long-Ninded scorchers VIII
yst make the trip. and II successful he
Vii then be- IN condition 10 Issue a chal-
bn-e 20 some OF his Tacoma friends 20
esre out AMI take little ride end get
killed on the road.
| A couple or Seattie wheelmen. who were
VGs.nr friends In Spokane some time ago.
ssre invited 70 20 ont for little spin.
hang assured that the pace would be
SOW. ~ that they might keep up I'll right.
q course these two innoceuts failed 80
wreli a mice" and started out with
eeir low gears that they used upon these
Seattle hills. enjoyed the riie immensely
o. the way our. and admired the bsau'i-
hi roads that tina Spokane friends led
ttem over. when they had reached n
paint about iwenty~fve miles from the
Civ and Il FAD begun 20 grow late. their
tfenis suggested that they SO hack by
enother road Nothing 10Th. they readily
esser'ei 70 The plan ana made tho start
Sos more than a quarter Of a mile had
hen covered WHEN they discovered that
Ner friends" we're quito distance
osrsd and s4l gaining Away they went
esFr them. but II was no us~. those big
rsa-s soon told tina story. and the Seattle
hass made the discovery that they vera
o. clone in tho eioamrK IN = strange
eoualry and hs' lost their road entirely.
=. next morning couple % Disguised
yfsr. -neakef into town ~ th- back
Gfee's an undertook 20 go 20 their stop
1ag place Without being ss-fs. but IN
us they We're nor 50 ~lcccssrsil end met
sher friends face % face, who iuroC~nilv
man'rea about their health ana As 20
Ncw Trey liked living IN the country. But
ne Seattle bows got heir revenge Upon
special invitation 20 pay visit. tho
s7oksae riders came over a short tifno
aso snA brought their wheels. and ny
ecne hook or crook ma home bows rot
Nsm out quite 3 distance 81 the country.
70 use The slang pNfase. they "aldn't 30
taloS 20 EN- As cnv or the Spokane
eess sftsrvarf descri'>e, li. the last ~
uw 81 anything faaf iookcd Ike a friend
y sts was ~heu ~ personally went over
- handle har~ $50 a. The same instant
euEhi sfshi ~ the rear ena ~ wheel
eong over no top ~ ne next hin ahesa
o ne rs,e 81 an express train. They
aew ssnit that y hoes make differ
80 80 whether one i accustomed 70 riding
Ms or not