Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1899-08-21 | Page 2 | He Bought a Bike

lIE BOUGhT A BIKE A heavy man with a square jaw walked Into a bicycle exchange on Fourteenth street the other afternoon The proprietor advanced to walt on him Glmme a bike said the square jawed man To buy Yep What make Any old make Heres our spsclal good machine All right Is I Good as any mad How much Fifty Dab a little graphite on the chain and pump her up The proprietor dabbed a little graphIte graph-Ite on the chan and pumped her up The squarejawed man pulled out a wad of the size or his wrIst skinned off a fifty and handed i to the proprietor Then he ran the machine out to the curb got on It and rode off When the proprietor got over being stunned he went to three or four friends on the block to get their opinion as to whether the fifty was counterfeit or the real thing The bill was genuIne genu-Ine and the proprietor has been more or less dazed ever since I cant understand such swift acton as that In the bike business he says with a puzzled alrWashlngton Post