Show CYCLIST A ANT AND ATIlE TIlE THE SIDE SIDEWALK LI It seems to be the hardest thing In the tho world to convince a man with witha a bicycle that he has no right to the sidewalk As a matter of ot fact tact the courts have held that a bicycle Is a D. vehicle entitled to all aU tho the rights of ot vehicles and subject to all the re restrictions re- re upon vehicles A man on ona ona ona a bicycle can make malee a man with a team or a man with an aut automobile turn out and give him half hale the road rondo Just the same as If It f It were another wagon or auto But the man on the wheel loving smooth ways was takes to the tho sidewalk because It Is better going He has no nomore moro more right there thero than has tho the butcher wagon or tho the six-cylinder six car Provo Is Just now In tho the throes of Impressing these plain and necessary truths upon the owners of ot wheels A number of ot good citizens have havo seen been een fined an and the city authorities have hav extended tho the restricted district in which sidewalks are arc sacred to toot foot passengers There is too much of ot tho the bicycle on sidewalk hero In Salt Lake Tho peo- peo I plo lo have recognized tho the fact that a D. wheel In certain outlying streets has bad going and so havo have suspended the rule of ot law In those places But Dut It Is only by sufferance of ot the people I Ifa JC If a cyclist should Injure a child or a grown rown person on the tho sidewalk ho hJ would Rould bo be hold halll liable In dama damages es pro pre elsel ns as If IC ho had run over a a. victim with a wagon and team of ot hor horses e es The difficulty lies in tho selfishness of oC the tho wheelman Even Een in 10 the streets street t that aro dry dO and fairly smooth misguided misguided mis ml- guided men astride the bicycle take taketo to the sidewalk and assume dictatorial dictatorial dicta dicta- airs there thero A little of ot Provos Provo's stern justice would restore tho the footpaths footpaths foot foot- paths to safety and tho the wheelmen to reason |