| Show RODE A WHEEL MILES Dr A M Blanchard tho Bard of tho the Wasatch Returns ON IllS HIS WAY TO IO MEXICO He UI It is n ne Ilio tito Mile hilles Without One of ot time the most unique characters that over oer pushed a pedal wheeled Into Sail Sahi Lake Thursday and completed a n of ot miles without changing Ho lie Is known by b the tho titles lilies of ot The Hard ot of the he Wasatch Time The Pil Ill Pilgrim PilGrim grim gnat Poet Io t etc His Ills name namo la in Dr Jr A M 1 a 11 dentist of oC Olden Ogden Since May Ia 1896 1196 he ha has hns wheeled exact exactly ly l 1200 miles and will continue continuo his journey Journe Monday morning when ho lie will wilt start for tor Mexico Tho rho object of hIs hla travels Is to collect material for tor poems and SOURS sona he will wll compose upon lila his return and publish under time the title of Ballads of ot our Dr was seas born In Michigan hout M l years yearn ago aso but waa Willi raised In InU Utah U talc When ho lie loft left Utah In 96 he ho wont went east cast to lo Springfield III Ill Unit thence south to Florida l He lie wheeled along ulong tho the thooL eastern oL torn coast coant of ot Florida by ii way of ot Jacksonville and amid on ome to New York From there ho he wont went to lo and to Canada Call by way sway of time the falls fails He Ito came back to the United States to Detroit front from Detroit to Chicago On this trip he visited all the historic spots of The Church and alt all the principal battle battlefields battlefields fields of the Civil Writ War On his return to Utah ho Ice spent five months In Iowa lie arrived In Utah In lie 1103 Dr Ir Blanchards next trip was to Cal He lIe traveled that anti back to Utah without acci ned dent to his wheel until last Thursday when It was punctured He Ito pre the wheel to thee the Deseret Museum and amid the record of lila his travels will be on on a card and attached to tho ho s The doctor IH Ic not wheeling around the world on a water wager of steen billion thaI dol lars hare He lie Is doing It for pleasure He lie carries about 40 pounds ot of baggage and has hns been riding a Victor wheel of the 1890 1800 He lie lens has written a poem entitled From Cumorah to Carthage |
