The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-02
{ AGDEN BUREAU.
W
Business and Editorial Office SO
Utah Loan & Trust Building.
Telephone 135.
Ogden Senteul1er g
Ogden. September 2.
THAT RELAY RACE.

The wheelmen of Ogden and the peo-
pie of this community generally had
another good laugh yesterday over the
squirming of the Salt Lakers who were
outwitted by the Ogden men in the
matter of the famous relay race.
The charges made in the communl-
cations of Messrs. Grant, Rishel and
Senior, published in The Herald of
yesterday, did not seem 10 affect Mr..
Schramm or any of the others against
whom the structures were directed. be-
yond exciting their risibilities TO
marked degree.
MIR. Schramm was laughing heartily
when The Herald man called TO chat
over the affair, and in fact few people
in Ogden or elsewhere thought OF TAX
ing the matter other than as GOOD
joke. Mr.. Schramm, who is a gentle
man of high standing in the commun-
ity. when asked if he cared to make
any statement in reply to the COM
municationS of the youths who were
Outgeneraled, said that he had moth
ing to say about the charges against
himself, as he did not consider 1t
necessary. However, he was sorry that
Mr. Mullet had gone to such expense
in decorating his building, and then
efficiency of the two young men,
Rishell and Senior. 1t would, however,
teach him to be more careful IN the
management Of his business in future.
Mr.. Schramm called attention to the
expose Of the plan Of the Salt Lakers
to bunco the Ogden riders. appearing
in the Examiner of Saturday. That
such a. plan was arranged cannot be
doubted in the light of the direct state
ment of Mr. Chambers, who is the au-
thorized correspondent of the Examiner
detailed to write up the race. Regard
ing this scheme, Mr.. Chambers said:
THE PLOT EXPOSED.
1t was this way: Before news came
of the desert rains, the Salt Lakers
cu6,gled their brains to devise means
whereby they could circumvent the men
of Ogden in the starting Of their indie
pendent relay can write with conVic-
ton about this. because T. w. MacDon-
aid of Salt Lake. who has charge OF
that part of Rishel's division running
from Wells to Green River, has just
confessed the whole plot to me. The
scheming was nothing less brilliant
and audacious than the kidnapping of
the packet.
The two couriers who were assigned
to bring the packet from Tecoma to
Terrace distance Of thirty-three
miles. were Cross and Dull. both OF
Salt Lake. 1t was arranged that when
they arrived at 4 point sixteen miles
west of Terrace, Cross should strike
off with the packet in a southeasterly
direction across the desert, with view
to Joining the original route at New
foundland, the first relay station. Dull
was TO play his part by falling into
ditch, puncturing his tire or in some
way killing time between the point of
ina
he should have arrived at Terrace, the
Salt Lake contingent would have no
BILE start on their rivals in the much
discussed race within a race"
If anything were wanting to COM
pletely establish that such a plot ex-
listed. Mr.. Schramm said it could be
supplied from the numerous and open
threats made by Salt Lake riders 10
the effect that they proposed to carry
that packet.
In regard to the statements that he
had deliberately broken faith with
them, Mr.. Schramm, in the course of
a conversation with a number Of
friends, remarked that the Salt Lake
novices were mistaken completely. He
never promised to deliver the packet
at Pennington. He knew when he was
talking with them which way the
packet would CO. and he made no state
ment inconsistent with that fact
They said the packet would go to
Pennington, and they would take 1t
from there, but I did not" he said. II
knew it would not go that way but I
did not feel Obliged TO correct them,
especially when 1 knew they were or
had been playing a double game with
us. feel sorry for those boys that
they take defeat so i'll naturedly. Why
don't they acknowledge that they were
worsted. or why don't their parents
send them TO a. kindergarten to receive
lessons in self-control?"
Mr.. Schramm further said that he
was sorry he was not in business in
Salt Lake, as he believed the free adj
vertising would be of even greater
benefit to him there than here.
MEsSRS. BEARDSLEY AND JONES.
The reporter did not happen to find
Mr.. Reardsley. but to another party
that gentleman stated that those long
distance fre-eaters of the desert have
been running this relay on paper all
along Tell them that Ogden delivered
the goods at Echo Saturday, 11:04'
AS Mr.. Jones was attending to his
business in Salt Lake, The Herald man
did not meet him.
THE GREAT RANQIf[T