Around The World On A Bicycle

Frank G.Lenz,the plucky bicyclist who left New York city hall, on the afternoon of June 4 for a tour around the world on a pneumatic safety bicycle, left Detroit Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock anc reached Ann Arbor the same evening, stopping at the Germania. Yesterday morning about ten o'clock he left for Jackson en route to Chicago. Mr. Lenz is a native of Pittsburg, Pa., twenty-five years old, five feet seven inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds. He is a man of indomitable pluck, energy and endurance and places entire confidence in his ability to wheel a Víctor pneumatic bicycle successfully around the world. Mr. Lenz holds the western Pennsylvania road championship for twenty-four hours, having covered 162 miles in that time on Western Pennsylvania roads which are conceded to be the most hilly and rough in the state. His route leads to Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Bismark, Boise City, Seattle, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco. He is accompanied to San Francisco by Mr. Robert Bruce of the regular staff of Outing under whose auspices the trip is made. From San Francisco he continúes his journey alone through foreign lands, and will tour successively through Japan, China, India, Afghanistan, Asiatic Russia, Persia, Turkey, Servia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, France, England, Scotland and Ireland, and thence by steamer to NewYork. Heexpectstoreachhome by June 4, 1895, an w' cover in the meantime from 20 to 22,000 miles. Mr: Lenz carries a camera on his shoulder and writes the story of his trip as he goes along. His write as far as will appear in the August number of Outing. Some years. ago Thomas Stevens wheeled around the world on what is now called an old fashioned ordinary. He made the trip eastward, doing Europe and Asia first and finished his great work by comiug over the Rockies on the plains, while Lenz makes the whole journey westward to take advantage of climatic changes, to cover a different territory from that traversed by Stevens. Wheelmen will do well to keep track of this lonely and hardy wheelman traveller of many lands