Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — EVANGELISTS ON BICYCLES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EVANGELISTS ON BICYCLES.

The Rev. Morrill Twins Use the Wheel in Their Business. “The Rev. Morrill Twins,” the evangelists, probably attract more attention when they go forth on their wheels than any other of Chicago’s great army of bicycle riders. Wherever they go on their "bikes” people line the streets to watch them pass by; wherever they stop is a crowd. It is rather unusual to see two men in silk hats, long Prince Albert coats, and looking as much alike as two peas in the pod, riding bicycles, but that is the way the Rev. Morrill

twins go out, except on hot days, when they shift the Piince Alberts for long black alpaca coats and the silk hats for high, sober, clerical-looking straw bonnets. That is partly the reason why they attract so much attention, some of it commendation and some of it ridicule. The Rev. Morrill twins use bicycles in their business. r rtiey are traveling evangelists, and their bicycles help them to get around. The wheels they ride are not of the lightest make, but big and heavy and weighed down with brakes, lanterns large enough almost for railroad locomotives, mud guards, tool bags and carrying apparatus. When the Rev. Morrill twins are mounted it is a hard matter to tell which from t'other, which one is ahead and which behind. It is sometimes puzzling even to themselves, so they usually ride abreast to avoid confusion.

REV. MORRILL TWINS, EVANGELISTS.