Show f TEAMSTERS AND WHEELMEN I Editor Tribune A day or two since you stated In your paper that the police po-lice had been sent out over tho city to gather up all who were caught violating vio-lating the late bicycle ordinance It occurred to me then that the police might be playing quite as important a I role in expending a portion of that I energy in seeing that the bicycle paths t provided for in that ordinance had received re-ceived attention if all the details oC this ordinance were being looked after af-ter the vIndIctiveness exhibited by our municipal government In this matter would not be so apparent I am not a scorcher but ride as very many do where my business calls me and as yetI yet-I have failed to see the expenditure of one dollar in preparing the path provided pro-vided for In the ordinance The ordinary teamster seems to feel it a duty to occupy the space provided for wheels and when exhorted to keep oft they seem never to grow weary of hurling Imprecations at the one who dares to question their right to drive wheresoever they please Had that wise or otherwise tonsorial nrtlst whose travail brought forth this most remarkable ordinance so full of justice to everybody but those who ride wheels thought to attach a penalty penal-ty for the violation of this ordinance by teams and by the supervisors of streets we might havo some show of riding a portion of the time on the track allotted to us by the ordinance as It Is we have no rights but perhaps to vole There are seven or eight hundred hun-dred full grown men and women voters who ride wheels that feel outraged by the treatment they have icccived by the passage of this very remarkable ordinance and its partial enforcement and this does not include scorchers and reckless riders hut men and women who have a proper regard for the rights of others Had the Council been as energetic in enforcing the law thatwo already had regulating the speed bicycles there would have been no call for the present one In the words of the inimitable Grover If the City Council doesnt want to pass into Innocuous desuetude desue-tude they had better be fair with the I wheelmen A WHEELMAN Salt LakeCity July 2S 1000 |