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Show ' AcToaa the Continent. Laramie Boomerang. . Messrs. E. C. Rowe and A. W. Barr, the transcontinental bicycle, tourists, arrived ar-rived in this city . Sunday evening at 7:80, having come over from Cheyenne during the day'. Mr. Rowe is riding from New York to San Francisco and Mr. Barr from Boston to the. same place.' The former left New York the Hth of August and the latter started from Boston on the 17th. They met in Chicago and on the 11th of September left that city together. They shared tbe pleasures and vicissitudes vicissi-tudes of the trip from Chicago to Omaha Oma-ha together. From Omaha Rowe made a deflection to Denver, start lg the 26th of September. Barr followed the next day and reached Cheyenne nine days thereafter. Rowe returning from Denver Den-ver they again renewed their companionship. compan-ionship. 1'reHidnnt Rodpath and the Cheyenne bicycle club proved such hospitable entertainers that in the face of the disagreeable weather the cyclers remained in that city a number of days. In appreciation of the courtesies extended ex-tended them the travelers gave a dinner din-ner Saturday night to the Cheyenno wheelmen. These wheelmen are undertaking what was never attempted before, and that is to cross the continent on safeties. When they started out they did not calculate to make more than forty or fifty miles a day, but their average has been over sixty so far.. ' They have not ridden consecutively, however. Since starting thoy have rode thirty-five days, and their odometer registers 2162 miles. . |