The fact which we recently published, that two young American students had succeeded in travelling from Constantinople to Peking on bicycles, has excited not a little into heir personality and the events of their journey, so that the request for an intervi he part of " representa tive of the W.-C. Daily News needed little excuse on their arrival here on Monday. to fy the travellers, when it was Neither was it x matter of much difficulty known that they had established themselves at the, Astor House, for they still wore the comfortable and smart-looking costumes which the riders of the nviseless wheel affect. Mr. Thomas G. Allen and Mr. W. U, Sachtleben, the cyclists in question, reached here on Monday in the eiching from Tientsin, looking in the very best of health, and apparently little concerned at the accomplishment of a task, at which others have failed,—the crossing of Central Asia_on bicycles. Conceived in the nature of a holiday trip, it has been carried through entirely in that spirit, for they have represented nobody but themselves, and had no journal in whose interests they felt compelled to hazard any particular task. Having successfully passed their examinations at the Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, the ides entered their heads: to travel round the world on bicycles, and were it not for such trifling inconveniences as seas and oceans, they would have been able to do all their wandering in independence of steamers.
has always been held to be the correct thing in a young man's education that, having gone through the allotted career at college, he should travel, but what would our forefathers, with their grand tour," think of the itinerary of euch a journey as
Sachtleben? It has undoubtedly enlarged that accomplished by Messrs, Alien and their ideas of humanity, which upon good authority we are told is the proper study and the journey is also another proof, that human nature after all is such that Of the language, can -travel some 3,116- tiles through " comparatively unfrequented part. of Chitia without recourse to any thing stronger than fistic argument.to-repress. an occasional bully anxious to create a disturbance. From the officials everywhere, it la gratifying to hear, the eycliscs received the most: courteous trest-meu, and this no doubt was to somieextent due to the excellence of their credentials, 'THE START, In June 1890 the travellers left New York, and reaching Liverpool with the orthodox celerity, had a pleasant excussion of sume 1,500 miles in' the British Isles, and at London decided to attempt the circuit of the world on-bicycles. A trip, per machine, to London-by-the-Sea," Brighton, brought them. close to Newhaven, from whence they crossed the Channel toDieppe. Resuming thouse of their steeds they reamed through pleasant Normandy to Paris, and then thought of seeing something ut Spain. They had reached Bordeaux, when the presence of cholera influenced' them to chatige the route, 20 they went to Marseilles, followed the Riviera route, toured in Italy, and crossing over from Brindisi visited Greece. At Athens they received the now machines they kad ordered, which for the benefit of those interested in matters wheeling were of the safety" pattern, fitted with cushion tyres, as to the comfurc and reliability of which both riders are enthusiastic, From. Athens they went to Constantinople by steamer, and crossing the Bosphorus, rode through Turkey, passing through Erzeroumy to Bayusid, on the Persian border. Dis: carding the wheel, for obvious reason they ascended Mount Ararat, Travelling. across Persia, g Teheran, and Meshed, (the holy city of Persin) they crossed the mount o Russian Purkestan ently in November last yenr. In Teheran they stayed waiting six weeks for Russian passes, but eventually found they could not get hem, and that they would have to run the riskuf being stopped or being passed on from one Governor to another. So they journeyed tw Tashkend, where by means of telegrams to the U. 8. Minister at St. Petersburg, they were farnished with passes which would. take them through Russinn territory to Vindivostock.
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