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Show TRAVELING ON A MOTORCYCLE. Wm. Streiff, a young man on a motorcycle, arrived in Ogden yesterday evening on a test trip across the continent. He expects to break the record of 31 1-2 days from San Francisco to New York, made four years ago. He reached Ogden after eight days riding, having crossed the Nevada deserts during the hottest season, sea-son, yet failing to experience any distressing heat. Nearing this city, he went north by the Old Central Pacific line and crossed the Promontory range, making the 140 miles from Lucin in a day. Had Mr. Streiff been possessed of a machine, such as ho is riding, rid-ing, when the pony express carried mail from the Missouri River through Utah to the Pacific Coast, he would have startled the world by equaling the performance he now has set out to accomplish. Thirty days from San Francisco to New York, running only in daylight hours, is a motorcycle record which compares favorably with the first trains that crossed the continent. Fifteen miles an hour from here to San Francisco was the schedule of the mixed trains which, in the early travel over the Central Pacific, carried passengers and freight. Nearly three days of day and night travel is not much faster than the eight days made by the motorcyclist, on the move only during the hours of daylight. The advancement we are making is impressively disclosed when we look back a few years and note the changes since then. What will forty years more bring? |