The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-30

suit. or else he will have to be possessed
cf a wheel and be able to pedal a little
faster than. the fleetest man of the po-
lice force.
But there is another aspect of the
matter where il seems to me that the
twentieth century policeman is going to
be at disadvantage. What is he to
do with his man when he catches him.
suppose, for instance, a mounted OIL
Ger arrests a hilarious gentleman OF
leisure in the suburbs and wants to
get him to the station to book charge
of drunkenness against him. The gen.
! tleman sits down and wants to argue
the matter and does so by telling the
officer that his sweetheart is the man
in the moon, that he is enamored of
young lady known as the sunshine of
Paradise Alley, that he is a thousand
dollars from home and without mile
in his pocket. that he will not go home
till morning or shows a general disDo-
sition to talk on similar subjects.
The officer will be obliged to igno-
miniously dismount. He cannot hold
man up by the coat collar and ride a
wheel at the same time, and if the hobo
gets obstreporous and shows a consid-
cradle degree of proficiency in the fistic
art the officer must abandon his wheel,
leaving it to fail ingloriously TO. the
dust while he alone and unaided sus-
tains the dignity of the force.
That is one of the big disadvantages
about bicycle. 1t has no self reliance
You must keep it moving or get off of
it, and if you get off it is an awkward
thing to lead, requiring pretty much
all the attention of one hand. You
cannot hang it's bride rein on your arm
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somebody about the weather or your
favorite color of eyes and hair.
No, as sure as you get absorbed in
such conversation your wheel will very
likely forge round in front of you and
cause you to become tangled up in the
gearing and disturb your mental as
we'll as your physical equilibrium.
The only feasible way in such cases
is to put the wheel between you and
each take hold of the handle bar, but
this method is not entirely satisfactory.
Will the bicycle ever figure as promi-
nently in poetry and romance as the
horse has done. I think not. It's very
name is against it, You can't make a
heroic. high-sounding line of poetry
containing the word bicycle, nor can
/ - l.
Isicle will not do for various reasons,
one of which is that it does not -four
ish during the bicycle season.
| OF course by figures of speech and
! flights of poetic fancy it may be refer
red TO as a wheel, winged steed or
something of that sort, but still it
lacks many essential features of a ro-
mantle steed.
II does not lend itself readily to dra-
matte situations. AS is often pointed
out you cannot pose on bicycle If it
were possible to do heroic deed on
one you cannot keep in the saddle and
pat is neck nor even stand on the
ground and throw your arm affection
ately over it's withers while the crowd
applauds your bravery and shouts and
hurrahs for wheel and man. No, you
thing still or else let it fl / to the
ground the personification of undigni-
fed helplessness.
Great, mighty and useful is the bicy-
Gle. 1t has come to stay, but there
are some scenes and situations where
! it puts it's rider at a disadvantage.
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