Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1893 — Mr. Berri’s Sailing Bicycle. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Berri’s Sailing Bicycle.

Sioux City Journal. A solitary bicyclist who passed through the city yesterday attracted some attent on. It was T. J. Berri, of Baraboo, Wis. The town is about forty miles north of Madison. Berri has made the trip from that town to Sioux City since the first of the month. He is on the way to Silver City, Idaho, making the tour for his health. From Sioux City he will follow the line of the Union Pacific to Cheyenne. He carries with him a contrivance of his own invention which equips his wheel with a sail, when the wind is favorable, and under the pressure of which he travels with remarkable speed. In talking of his trip he stated that there was one incident worthy of remembrance to him, at least. It was near Spirit Lake when he had bis sail spread. (He was making at least ten miles an hour on a smooth road, when he was compelled to cross a bridge over a gulch. Just as he reached the bridge, one rail of which was gone, his sail |w" twisted by a whirl of the wind, ind he rarrowlv escaped being d^_ u ed to pieces in the ravine.