The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-21

to put an end to the trials and tribuia-
tions they have been compelled TO stand /
Tor the past dozen years. AS the sit /
uation now stands there are about 5000 |
cycle riders IN the city Of salt Lake 4
who are practically forbidden to ride /
their wheels at least SIX months OF the I
year. IT this army Of wheeImen rode |
merely Tor pleasure the question might /
be lightly dealt with, but they DO not. |
A vast majority of them ride as a mat
ter of economy and are entitled TO as
much consideration as any other cit
izen.
The city ordinance, as it now stands.
practically prohibits. riding IN a GER
tain season of the year. because the
city, and not the wheeialan, fails TO live
up to It. A clause is enacted which
states that the city shall keep a. strip
or the streats in condition for the
Nheefmen IL ride and this IS not done,
1t also states that teams shall be kept
from this strip and vet there IS not a
policeman on the force who viii enforce
the clause. Let some wheelmah, who
perhaps has but a short half hour for
his noon day lunch, attempt to make
the trip home and on account. of the
travel few blocks on the sidewalks
and his finish is generally. a s., line.
Call any officers attention TO the fact
that hundreds of teamsters are Nio-
/
the cycle paths and the only answer
You viii get is that he has no instruc-
lions 10 arrest teamsIerS. but to pull
all cycle riders caught upon the side
walk The cycle riders Of this city pay
taxes just the same as others and are
entitled to some consideration
With these facts staring them in the
face a. meeting was called the early
part of the week with a view of find
ing some remedy for the existing evils
About fifty of the representative cy-
clists of the city were present and dis
cuSSed the situation from a thoroughly
| impartial standpoint. 1t was unan-
! inl,f-1sly decided to form an association
/ of the cycle riders of The city and carry
/ their grievances II necessary. to the
polls for remedy
Every person present signed an
I agreement TO stand by the new organ.
/ izatfon until the city cosznvu did some
] thing to better the conditions of the
I streets, or do all iTI their power to put
\ men IN Office who would help them out
The question of paths was thoroughly
| taken Up and it viii probably he along
these lines that the Sight for a better
ment win be made. 1t is expected by
the promoters OF the new organiga ton
that there will be little trouble In Sc
curing q memL ship of over 900 .vot-
ers who Will stick by each other for
! what they consider their rights
For the first time this spring the cy-
Gle riders have mad a few good days OF
/ riding the past week The interest in
cycling this summer promises to be as
great as any OF the preceding years
The interest IN road riding is again
4 reviving and the boys are rapidly ind
ing out the need of a hrst-class cycle
club to take charge OF these affafrS-
4 Several of the prominent local road
riders have been talking over the mat
ter of organizing club of this kind the
past week and all that IS needed Is a
little announcement TO start the thing.
Twenty or thirty active wheelmen in
a club of this kind can do more tor
II wheeling than any other institution
u that could be named. The old-time
club runs were a source of constant en-
joyment for al that participated and
. | promoted a goOd-felIowship among the
riders that has lasted for years. The
/ pleasures Of q ride in the country OF
, / a bright summer day cannot be de-
scribed, and many of the old-tiners
I still look back upon those days as the
happiest of their life. The roads lead
ing from this city are far above the
|, ordinary run of country roads, and g
! comparatively short ride in any direc-
ficD- brings the rider to a sheltered
! place where a pleasant afternoon car
: be spent The modern cycle ridel
seems to hover around the paNec
! ! streets now and then Venturing as
far south as Liberty park and theI
on an extended run. The great beaut,
of a bicycle is that it allows a man o.
, woman who spends the week in tn
! hot, stuffy city to go out in the 1ounJr,
) once a week. 1t gives the city person
a chance to get acquainted with IA
: ture, to go far out beyond the confines
? of the busy streets and learn for them
selves that the world was created 70
: some other purpose than a contlnuou
= struggle after the elusive dollar behin'
! some store counter or at the bench Il
= some factory. af
a noted mechanical inventor beinl
asked at u dinner given IN MS honor
: what after the picycle2'- replied
Gentlemen, there VIII never. be an
! successor TO the bicycle. And whe
: asked 90 give his reason Tor so posltlV
a statement, explained;
:, Because there car never De les
: amount sof material put together wit
y greater skill, that VIII answer the pm
ri pose of human locomotion with greate
q Measure and, ease, or at less origins
:. cost and current EXPENSE TO the roe
= To consider its lightness, its delcat
= beauty of appearances. strength and ef
= DURANGO. the price at which It Is solt
= the uses it serves and the pleasure an
= health it gives the rider, IT must uI
le hes.tatingly be pronounced the col
! summate achievement OF our mechat
le ical development and the most oenet
AZ cent contribution that invention hs
;, made to civilization It is so unlqt
= and superIatively perfect that II Ne
% no rival and can have no successor