Ten Months Eating, Sleeping, and Bathing With Machine The saddest man in America today is Tony Pizzo, of Los Angeles.
Tony, who is a performer of dare-devil stunts, took a bet of £1,000 that he could not ride the 10,623 miles from New York to Los Angeles and back in less than ten months with his hands chained to He did the trip in seven months and came back filled with delight at the thought of getting rid of the bicycle after eating, sleeping, bathing, and living with it during the whole of that time.
Foots Every werp, Alas! he found that by the terms of the wager he must wear "this Piece of jewellery," as he calls the bicycle, for three months longer, or lose the £1,000.
When Tony left New York he wore handcuffs, which were secured by a chain to the bicycle and which were sealed by Mayor Hylan, and he carried a letter from Secretary Daniels, of the-Navy, to the Mayor of Los Angeles.
The hardest part of the trip was answering "fool questions," Tony says. There are, according to him, 40 fools in every village, and every one of them asks questions, which you have to answer in order to get rid of them.
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