The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-03-22
Some of Those Who Were
 Pioneers on the Bike.
AUTOMOBILE THE NEXT
Two Frenohmon Coming to Give tho Horseless Carriages a Trial 0ver tho Ioe-AIl the Way to Nome on n Wheel.

w. C. Granger, a mining engineer. and E. D. Berg, owners of klOndlke mining properties, who arrived last evening on the Al-Kl. will make the trip to Dawson on bicycles. D. Fox, jr, civil engineer who Is In the eltv, will also leave this week for Dawson on a wheel. These men, however, are by no means the first to un- dsrtake the trip over this great frozen highway on the silent rolling steed. The utility of the bike in the Yukon winter travel has been fully demonstrated the last three months, and It Is considered that without question the wheel will here after hold a place of honor and usefulness in the far north. little review of the subject of bicycle travel on the Yukon rlv. CT reveals the fact that many persons, perhaps a hundred went from here 10 Dawson on wheels this winter, and that a couespOndlngly large number rode from Dawson to the coast on the silent steed.
 The bicycle has been taken into even a more remarkable track of northern travel this winter, and Is now receiving its test of endurance on the trail of frozen ice that forms the Icy road down the Yukon from Dawson 10 Nome.
 A Mr. Lew not long ago set out from Dawson for Nome on a wheel. and felt that he would get to his destination on it.
 It Is notable that some of the wheels which have been used in the journey from Dawson to Skagwav have arrived here in apparently as good condition as when they started on the journey, and that after having given almost constant service.
 The men who have come out on wheels have stood the rigorS of the low tempera- ture as well, it seems, as those who have walked. The pedestrian gained freedom of circulation of blood from the action of JentS, ISepr-nii -4t ir1rrh~s!.'. can. constant vibration of the wheel in it's devlations on the path and the little jars incidental to wheel riding in general The slight vibration of the handle bars, said Mr. MeLennan, who came out several weeks ago, keeps the hands warm, and the movement Jf the legs gives action to the flow of blood in the lower part of the body and the limbs.
 The wheel was used on the trail between Skagway and Dawson to some small ex- tent during The winter Of 1898 20. but it was not until this winter that 1t became common. The rarity of the vehicle on the trail was such until last fall as to cause remarks of the successful progress Cf a bker. but now the wheelman, the Inst few weeks, has come and gone with little more glory for his accomplishment than the man who has walked from Dawson to to the sea.
 Following close upon the attainment of popularity of the wheel as winter vehi' cle in the Yukon ba'ln, comes the an- nouncement that the automobile, or auto car, now So popular throughout the states and other parts of the world, Is to be given a trial shortly on a trip from S<a.wav tO Dawson. Another agitation as regards the nbber-footed steed was before the Yukon commissioners some time ago, in regard to a fire engine. lt was proposed to get an automobile fire engine. lt was be- lieved that such vehicle would run ovei the streets of Dawson satisfactorily and quickly, and that lt would not only give the service of rapid travel and good pump> ing, but would be far less costly in main' tenanee than team of horses in that land where hay and oats are imported from countries thousands of miles distant and at big expense.
 The greatest number of wheelmen to start over the Skagway-Dawson trail on wheels have been those going In, but sew. eral have come out. T,n to fourteen day s is the average time between Dawson and Bennett on a s.,hssl. rh-. heat part of ihe road for wheelingis Is that part leading i'm medla,elv out of Dawson. Leroy Pelletler, mining man and representative of the New York Times in the north for a long time, recently came out on a wheel, mak> ing the run half way from Dawson in two and half days. After that the road was