The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-14
INCIDENTS OF CYCLEDOM.
STORY or THREE MEN HHO NAVE
RIDDEN AROUND M WORLD.

$50
coming more and more popular" This is
The estimate Of a mar who has n right 10
opeak, because no has wheeled around the
globe. He is an Engllshman. John Foster
Eraser hy name. who reached New York on
Friday night with 5. L. Lumm and Francis
ii. Lowe. The announcement OF their arrival
was published yesterday in Thu Sun. The
"trip OF the trio has not been made much OF
In the papers during the two years since they
started. They were simply on pleasure bent.
They were not advertising any particular make
Of bicycle or tires. nor we're they anxious to SEQ
themselves and their doings exploited in print.
II was not any scheme Of around the world in
eighty days" They took more than two years
10 get from London to New York. They left
the capital of England in July. 1896. 1t
was late on Friday night when they ar
rived In New York and went to the Everett
House. Each of the party rode n thirty-6ve-
pound English wheel and carried thirty pounds
of luggage, including changes OF underclothing,
Photographic and writing supplies. medicines.
mending material and small articles Of per-
sonal convenience. In China. at Hong Kong,
they received their only replenishment from
home. Other needed articles they purchased
as best they could en- route. They all agree
lifelong memory.
Obilll AOSNNl . ~ W Iibii - lNlplNN Vi
TIT Sun talked shortly after the arrival Of the
party in this city, is n member of the Authors
Club of London. He Is an observant rider, and
"a a commentator is graphic and ~colorful. al
though a bit obliquc. and consequently caustic.
He thinks he will write something about the
trip upon his return TO England. The other
two members OF the PARTY will neither write
nor talk about their trip. They would rather
have a lunch at night. without shop talk. than
TO dine with any man who belongs to COM
merce, notwithstandin tine fact that they could
take pot luck across India and China as cheer
fully as Tommy Atkins.
According to Fraser. riding around the
world is nothing. if 1t was not for the accidents
one encounters. We expected to arrive here
this morning very early. but you see it is now
long after dark" In answer to questions
Fraser said that they had learned a great deal
about the kind of tools for a bicycle that a
man leaves at home, and had discovered the
need of several inventions. The trip the party
made was not one for weak stomachs. accord
Ing to his telling. for they went twelve and
fourteen hours without food. and during one
whole week lived upon rice. The only white
man and only wheelman who attempted to
travel over the route taken by this trio was
LEM. and he persisted in a way unknown. pre-
sumably at tho hands of brigands in Armenia.
The party started with the composite ability to
understand and speak French. German. Ital-
ian, and Russian. En- route they had to help
each other. and all were obliged to acquire a
little Of the Persian. Hindoostanee. Chinese.
and japanese languages. The hardest OF these
was Chinese, they agree. the Indian and Japan
ese talk being easy for any one OF linguistic
talent.
Fraser recounted the travels OF the three sub
as follows:
We left London on July II, 1895. We went
by way Of Harwich. across to Antwerp and
Brussels. King Leopold invited us to spend a
day at his palace with him., and we did 80. The
King rides a tricycle.. We suggested that he
should Join us on our trip. but he seemed to
that the country could not get along
very well without hin. have not many kings
in my acquaintance. but l like Leopold. Usu-
ally, you know. you think of a king as a piece
OF s~tatuary wearing robes and a crown. with a
cannon ball in one hand and a poker in the
other, or something Of that sort. Leopold we
tound to be lust a nice old fellow in a straw hat.
we Went at q good pace across Germany. by
Sne rnine, ana we found the people all good
FELLOWS. whose chief nutrition Is beer. the Bible
and horseradiSh.
",Nextcame Austria. 1 had an nterestingt time
Vienna. The people there. and In Europe
generally. are much more demonstrative than
they are here. Well. what l mean is that when
We reached America and our trip was all over
and We felt as il we had done something any
how. you know. al! that was said TO us as We
FEaf aI9nE was; Where YTs you chaps irom7
riages and pairs and all kinds of attention. We
teIegraphed ahead for our Observation-Disclosures and
when we arrived 12r rooms outside were deco
rated lavlshly with IT, Austrian flag on one side,
the hungarian ths 9nthe other and the British
flag in the middle. Our bicycles were decorated
town; We found them in the morning with
punches Of flowers and the Hungarian colors
II until after, we had asked a hundred ques-
lions. Will always keep those colors as
t fReHs"i and did F3 p6t tax Il Chem nua oY Until TI Me
reached Roumania.
In Russia we had troubles. We found the
~ before the local police. and after getting re-
leased the police escorted us out OF town to
mon people, to whom a foreigner Is an enemy.
we experienced IA, hard time all across Russia,
Stopping at novels, and living chiefly on eggs.
days, you will have an antipathy for hens as
pueh as We had and then you win understand.
prosecuted Jews and common people OF Russia
under tyrant rule until l met them in the flesh.
Before we got across the real estate owned
py the Gar we. were attacked by CoSSackS or
threatened with attack. Five Of them on horses
rode across a hill in front of us and motioned
began to let them ping away. shooting at the
sun: you know. SO that they could hear and
carry firearms. evidently. for they foregathered
and rode away. We thought that they were
going either after guns and ammunition or re-
mforcements. 80 We rode as hard as we could.
The road was bad and we could not 90 fast. but
we saw no more OF the Cossacks.
In spite OF our experience with eggs In Rus
sia. when we first reached China not one OF us
knew, the word for eggs, and several times
We told what we wanted by crouching with our
launches near the floor. Tapping our arms like
wings and jumping up, saying "cock-a-doodle-
900" A hen does not say " cock-a-doodle-doo,"
but we found the rooster crow was more ex-
pressive and made them understand quicker
than any "cut-cut-ca- dark lat" that we could
render. We went over the Caucasus Noun
tains, which Is a dreadful thing to do, and
through Armenia. We did not 20 to see the
ark on top of Ararat. The traditional Garden
of Eden, at the foot OF Ararat. | saw, and
thought 1t was as desolate "A hole as any we had
struck.
" In Persia we were stoned for being Chris
tians; l never before realized so forclbly the
fact that was a Christian. in central Persia,
though the bicycle is known and used. we met
the late Shah OF Persia, Nasr-i-Din. at Teheran,
the capital, and. after seeing us ride. he ordered
Q number of bicycles for his Ministers of state,
We rode for one OF the Ministers around and
around different paths OF a garden until we
to a big step high as your waist almost.
What he wanted was to see us 20 over II or
fRll. They have u peculiar sense of humor
there. The Ministers could not ride nor could
the Shah, and ! think the Shah wanted them 10
pave bicycles simply for the fun Of seeing them
tum BILE on the way the guard officers did whom