The evening times., 1896-07-23
ALL ABOUT A CH|NAMAN
How He Rode a Wheel and
What Happened.
WAS ONLY HURT A LITTLE BIT
but the Bike Was Found in Many
Places-A CelestiaPs Dream Real
lied, But Rude Awakening Came.
The Almond Ey ed Little Man Insist
ed on Riding Into a Coal Cart

Moy Lung, young Celestial, who recently
came to this city and engaged in the cut
| rate laundry business on Four-and- a half
| street, near Pennsylvania avenue, had a
| rather costly experience this morning which
| thoroughly convinced him that opium and
| a bicycle are decidedly a poor combina-
| ton.
Moy now lies in lis apartment with q
baDdage around his head and a badly
| bruised body, and his customers, who were
| promised their laundry either tonight or
tomorrow will, in all probability, be sadly
disappointed.
When Moy came to Washington a month
or SO ago, he became a victim OF thu bicycle
fever. He did not care to play fan-tan,
policy, or drink Chinese whisky with his
| fellow countrymen, and lie could not even
be induced to go to Sunday-school and
listen To the words of the fair teachers.
He IoDged for wheel, but his financial
circumstances would not permit him to
buy one. When he went into business he
saved his daily ngs and put them away
| as wheel fund.
HE BOUGHT THE BIKE.
Day after day his little pile grew larger,
and yesterday his dream was realized. He
had saved enough money to buy bicycle.
As it is custom with the Chinese to
place the cart before the horse, Moy, OF
course, purchased the wheel before he
learned to ride.
When he took the wheel out on Four-a and a.
| half street Moy was the happiest man in
town. Several Of his brother Iaundr ymen
gathered around, and couple OF them vol
unteered to teach him To ride.
Moy proudly mounted the silent steed,
and with Chinaman on each side of him
peddlled down the street.
1t was not to be expected that Moy would
ride away without assistance the first time
that he was on the saddle, but he did re-
markably well for beginner. After half
an hours practice Moy thought that he
was perfectly competent to ride aloDe, and
dismissed his instructors.
Moy did not sleep last night. He was SO
happy that he sat up and ''hit the pipe
until early dawn. He did not realize that
In this he was making grave mistake.
When be started off wheeling alone this
morning the wheels in his head did nos
work altogether right. His feet did nos
stick to the pedals, and his grip on the
handle bars was not altogether steady.
DANGER AHEAD OF HIM.
He started off, however, and was going
at rapid gait down the street, when
he spied coal cart coming in the opposite
direction. He was going rather rapidly
for beginner AMI realized the danger ap-
preaching, but the harder he tried to guide
away from the cart the nearer he actually
came to it. In an instant, with crash,
Moy smashed into the cart and went
spra wiling beneath its wheels. number
Of his countrymen, who had been watch
ing. rushed to pick him up, and when they
agged him from beneath the wheels
thought he was dead.
1t was not as bad as that, but Moy was
near 1t. His head was badly cut and his
body bruised in many places. A search
was made for the bicycle, and after some
little difficulty portions of it were found
"a many places. Moy, who was injured
more at the loss ofhis wheelthan otherwise,
was removed to his abode.