Show v TH01TAS STEVENS t The Darin Cyclist Whose heals are Wonderful = r To those who read Outing or asp oft the cycling publications the move name will te familiar To those whbll do not a few words may be of interest Thomas Stevens started from Oakland Cal just a lear ago to make a trip around the world on a bicycle He arrived ar-rived safely in New York having traversed the Rocky Mountains and the plains entirely on his wheel t walking and pushing the niiie where the roads were un ridable Arriving New York the money which had itxrn promised him for expenses wx not fortiu outing and after some calculating the publish 1 ers of Outing determined to send Mr Stevens as their special correspondent i on a journey never before attempted by tl man Ho far the venture gives evidence i of being a success Hii littttlettr Outing gives an account of hIS journey from Isniidt through Asia and is very irftereaUug MrStevetmsapleasautam chatty writer and bi > pencil skeictie from which engravings are made issut very much iu giving one au idea of th curions country through whiff f be is passing He rides a 54ine Columbia Expert btcidc wbiin wilt T jxeMt cunositv when once IILIIiu1U i again 1111 native land P 1 Ve have been permitted to nuke t I few extracts from letter receded i this city bring in answer to on written near y four months ago Tbr i t envelope bean postmarks of Teheran Fabreez Constantmoplt New York am Salt Late the first bring Febrniirr I the last April Oth i TniwiAv Ptrsn February 20ti VearSir Your favor received 1 am always glad to get word of friendly 4 erecting from a brother wheelman ant being pretty much a western man my self I was not so surprised as you might perhaps imagine at receiving A i letter from Salt Lake City lu I I pleased to hear you say that von traj i the narrative of my Journey fn Osfi + with interest of course you ruoognm Ogden Willard Coy Tacoma ana th different places along niv roou i through Northern Utah f am a few miles from Utah now at an r tale but parts of Persia remiiui rue one of the country between Bear River Valle and Um Nevada frouiar I Lake OoroomIab near Tnbet isa Sal > Lake veryatmtlarto your lakes tvta + suit eraud the surro surrounding country W i similar In messy respects I i am pending the winter very comfortably comfort-ably here audhope to find mycf buck in the States nest winter with every thing accomplished I set out to tu Gif e my iC rdsto tOeSaltLake Uicycli I Cluo uudsay that 1 1wbh them pro I pain Possibly I may cows tbrouQ salt Lake City en route from Kriio < I I Boston if so shall try and drop ut > sure of yon and m a tnnU of vsle j ± I tan with roe I i Sincerely I THOJ 5T1D w Mr Steven has still the most da I serous part of his journey to pert VIZ tee route turoagh China a t l IJapen 1 i Japan This nCcoaipliatitil the Gt I I lilt Oakland will be comparatively ea I Three cheers from every wheeltua i the intreptid advocate of the vrcse I |