| Show WHEELS AND WHEELMEN There will be a run to Sandy this morn ing leaving at 10 oclock Following are high grade wheels sold last week Columbias three Victor four Rambler three D M and Walter Rogers of Woonsocket R L are talking Tip a bicycle trip to Cal fornia They expect to start May 1 from Plymouth and make the trip from ocean to ocean The Louisiana Cycling club had a hare and hound chase last week some fifteen riders participating The chase was a success suc-cess only the hares got away from the hounds and never were caught Jensen says he has shipped in several Victors lately and has orders for several more which the factory has been unable to fill up to the present All the wheels are expected to arrive in a short time The Salt Lake Cycling club holds its first regular meeting of the season tomorrow evening at the office of Cummings Jennings Jen-nings No 15 East First South street It is expected that arrangements will be I for the regular club runs of the season and likely other business of importance will be considered I When cycling the the less fluid the better and runs of many hours are prac ticable even in the hottest weather without with-out indulging in any fluids This I know from repeated experiments The muscles speedily acquire a firmness and tone impossible im-possible when fluids are taken while exertion exer-tion becomes a positive delightEx A knock down argument was advanced I by an enthusiastic cycler who was pictur ing the many benefits and pleasures to be gained from riding a wheel and said Thero is nothing like it for health I increases mans physical force and pro longs his life But our ancestors did not ride the bicycle observed his friend True they did not and they have all died Last Saturday evening the Pope Manu facturing company gave to the cyclists of Boston and vicinity a rousing reception recepton In answer to some two thousand invita tions sent out from twelve hundred to fif teen hundred responded in person and notwithstanding the size of the salesrooms and offices on the three floors of the build ing occupied by this company the ability to contain all the jolly cyclers was strained to the utmost A liveryman of Binghampton N Y writes to a local paper and says The bicycles bi-cycles have knocked off a largo slice from the livery business Now the young men who used to hire rigs to go to the neigh boring villages go on their wheels the cost is little or nothing to them and we are out on every trip Then again a great many young men who used to spend money for rigs to ride around town have bought bicycles and get their pleasure that way It is quite a common occurrence for a novice seeing a bicycle standing against a building to voluntarily take possession of it and try his luck at riding Such was the case last week which resulted in Mr Novice coming to grief like many others who thought all that was necessary was to hop into the saddle and all would be well However he was no sooner in the saddle when the sidewalk was not big enough and the road was taken when he came in con tact with a horse and buggy resulted in a badly shaken up amateur and a wrecked wheel The Victor still leads the world Go to J S Jensen agent 22 E First South st Salt Lake City Utah st The Columbia bicycles are the favorites favorics Safeties and tricycles perfection Buy only street the best G W Cushing agent 201 Main |
