Show I THE BICYCLE r To the Mayor and Council of Salt Lako City Gentlemen Much has been said and written on the bicyclesidewalk question most of which has been like blank cartridges maximum noise with minimum mini-mum hitting or Ice tho man who talked long and loud against dancing but his hearers did not senso any great logic In his reasoning until tho discovery that ho had n cork leer My experience through twentysix years of constant nractlcal use of the silent steed has proved Us great utility and today I to-day Its converts compose such n largo portion o our citizens It would not bo advisable for anyone especially o political tical ambition to take nctlon except from tho broadest and most comprehensive standpoint Verbosity seems to be necessary where Ideas are scarce and my aim shall bo briefly to tho point First Tho bicycle has como to slay as an Instrument of utility to thoso wishing to add facility to lifes labors Second Iti pathway must bo provided It having n perfect right to existence Third Our bldewalks are extremely wide and comparatively easy to repair while the streets are wide and difficult to keep In passable condition FourthIn other cities walks and streets an narrow reversing our conditions throughout Fifth Exclude thc walks from April to October and allow their use from October to April and as fast as suitable cycle paths are established exclude altogether the walks on streets whero and when paths are finished Sixth Place wheelmen under very heavy restrictions with police specially detailed for tho rigid carrying out of Iho < law I lawTho Tho abovo reasons aro to mo simple and obvious and farther do not exclude wheelmen entirely with the promise of pathways for It will work mischief the pathway question under prospectus after exclusion appears to mo like objects when looking through a field glass from tho large end Respectfully T OSBORN ANGELL Tho foregoing is not good reasoning For Instance wheelman should be put under heavy restrictions Wheelmen include all classes the irresponsible as well as the responsible and when a careless halfgrown boy runs over a little child knocks It down and then rushes away where do the restrictions como in I bicycles have come lo slay then they should be regulated There are hundreds of them but they count as only one to a hundred of the people I and no one person has a right to discommode dis-commode ninetynine other They are vehicles The place for vehicles is In I the street As to paths If one will notice I no-tice where the side wale is obstructed by building material In three days there Is a perfect wheel path mound the obstruction With a narrow space rolled down close to the cartracks for the wheels the change would be satisfactory satis-factory lo wheelmen In a single week Some want the path next to the sidewalk side-walk The trouble there Is that teams are stopped continually In front of the houses At present In this city the wheels arc I a terror to pedestrians and accidents I happen dally That condition ought to bb i stopped |