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Show MOTDRCYGLE CLUB IS WELLOIIZED Motor Riders Take Up Necessary Neces-sary Reforms and Work for Good Roads. Salt Lake has a. new motorcycle club. Tt: Is lhv ilrst organisation of this kind ever brought Into existence In this oec-i oec-i tlon of tho country. That Salt Lake was ripe for such a club 1b plainly evident from the response received to th call for a meeting shown by tho owners of motorcycles In this city. On Friday night th organization sprang into xlstcnco with about seventy members, and it ia bollcv this number will bo swelled to tho 200 mark within a few days. A strong organization com-mitioe. com-mitioe. clearly representative of the motorcycle mo-torcycle Interests In the city, Is now at work complotlng pla-na of organization, and this committee -will rnaK Itu tlriaJ report at a special meeting of the club to bo held a.t the Commercial club next Friday night. This committee consists of E. L. Tllte-man Tllte-man chairman: R. A. Van Alen, secretary, secre-tary, and A. Clasaplll. R. L. Irvine. J. L Andorson, C. W. Brewer and Lon Claf-ln. Claf-ln. A general Idea of the nceda of tho organisation- and Its -purposes can bo gained from an Interview with Chairman k. L. Hit eman, who yesterday gavn out the following: "There seems to be a general Idea abroad that tho motorcyclist in a sort of a brigand or outlaw who has no place In modern civilization- Jt la the intention inten-tion of tho new club to show tho public In general that a man may ride a motorcycle motor-cycle and still bo a valuable member of society. Tho club will work for safe and sane speed laws. It will help tho officers In their work of putting the speedster out of commission, and at the name time protect Its members from unjust persecu tion ;ust tiecnuae tney uappen u ruie it motorcycle. Vic bellevo In laws that will protect iill and -will holp enforce them, but wo resent the Insinuation that a. man Ib a. criminal juat because he ridos a motorcycle. Clubs like oura ha.v worked wonders In other cities, and we expect to accomplish tlie same hero In Utah. At the ircncnt time thorn are more than f)00 machines ridden In Salt ILnke alone, and with tho riders, of these lined up for tho good of tho cause wo believe that part of the public which condemns all motorcycle rldora will soon have a better bet-ter opinion of the man who rides astride the motor." . At the meeting held Friday night tho cominitteo mentioned was also empowered empow-ered to act in conjunction with the Automobilo Auto-mobilo club on all things In which thoro Ik a mutual Interest. One of the first acts of the committee will be to get In touch with tho Automobilo club on tho plank recentlv adopted by ono of the political po-litical parties pledging Its candidates to enact a law to Bend all speed violators to Jail regardless of any or all conditions. |