The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-30

which Mrs. A. Nj. Palner IS the pre-
siding genius; of the Good Roads as
ISOLATION of the United States and a
hereditary life member of the National
Mary Washington Memorial associa-
ton and other societies kindred to the
social and Semi-political advancement
of womals rights. In the face of the
abstract attention demanded by duties
in connection with her various club
life Mrs. Bolton found opportunity last
year to compete for and win the
award offered by the L. A w. to. any
member who might secure the largest
number of recruits TO its ranks in the
interest of influencing the New York
legislature for the Armstrong bicycle
baggage bill, by the ballots of wheel
men. The contest was so general that
the membership of the league was in
creased almost twofold. enabling a
powerful lobby to succeed in having
the bill passed, thereby allowing wheel
men to carry their bicycles as baggage
over all lines of railway in that state
Mrs. Bolton was also of great service
in the lobby. and in recognition the
Office of consul was conferred.
THE TOUR.
Her tour has taken this professional
woman awheel through nearly every
southern state, the winter months hav-
ing been spent in California, where
UeI VIEWS On SUBJECTS AKIN 10 the Wneel
were given free expression. ObSerVa-
ton and record have occupied all of
her spare time and the material gar
nered will be contributed 20 Outing by
installments, beginning in June. These
will represent the work of Mrs. Boil
tons niece, Mrs. Cynthia WeStover AL
den, conducting the woman's depart
ment of the New York Tribune The
Illustrations for these articles will be
selected from over 500 unmounted
views taken by Mrs. Bolton. She will
snap her cosmopolitan camera at Salt
Lake today.
The prize won by Mrs. Bolton in the
New York contest bears the title of
Swell Special Cleveland Wheel" and
on that machine she has accomplished
nearly all of her travel. 1t is a joy
forever, so far as bicycles go, a fas-
tidiouS conception in which every fig
ment Of the frame was tested until it
is probably one of the most perfect ar
ticles of the kind ever turned out of a
mandatory. 1t is transported, when
en- route by rail, in a trunk that has
attracted great curiosity. This last
conveyance is covered with lettering
announcing its source.
RECEIVED WITH HONORs.
Everywhere the intrepid consul has
appeared she has been received with
distinction, and especially was this the
case in California, where the newSpa-
perS devoted columns to her presence
and personal views upon matters per-
tanning 10 the wheel. a storm of an
CRY protest was aroused in that sunny
coastland by her attack upon the vogue
prevailing there regarding the wearing
of boomers.
ON BICYCLING COSTUMES.
In an incisive communication to one
of the San Francisco papers the consul
attacked the unchaste display of her
own sex while awheel. She condemned
the costume on the assumption of i'm
mOdesty, ridicule and discomfort The
use of a mans wheel by women was
objected to on the strength of the loss
of grace sustained by the women in
mounting and riding. Mrs. Bolton does
not beiive it was intended that woman
hood should become ungainly on the
wheel. She has given infinite study to
costume and has decided, after much
experiment, that the short skirt and
full length riding boots are the proper
accoutrement for the woman. Not only |
on this topic but many others has Mrs. !
Bottoms sense of taste been consulted. !
a well-known journal conducted in the |
interests of the league recently put to |
the consul the enigma of what should |
form the proper salutation between /
hailing one another from the saddle, |
While both are in motion.
A NICE QUESTION.
The question has proven ticklish
problem to devotees of the wheel since
il came into fashion. 1t has always
been out of reason for a flying wheel
man to doff his little cap and much
more absurd for a beginner who must
give the closest attention to his mount.
Frequently a gentlemanly instinct has
it's slave into a roadside
ditch and often resulted even more Sc
riously.
Mrs. Bolton offered the very sensible
suggestion that there might be incul-
Gated Snong the unwritlen courtesies
Of the wheel a simple understanding
by which a mere inclination of the head
would suffice. Hereafter wheelmen
will do well to remember that the
censor of wheeldom has brushed ali
away.
Mrs. Bolton is an interesting person,
her conversation and tact indicating q
ady of culture and Of liberal observa-
ion She was arch when asked for
some salient stories derived from her
while en- tour
A CALIFORNIA INCIDENT.
"I could not disclose my stock of
lever Incidents she retorted evasive-
Y, those must be preserved for my
lieee. She is a young, ambitious news
)aper woman and these sketches for