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Charles Bain, a popular member of the Reliance Club Wheelmen of Oakland, leaves for Yokohama on June 5. His intention is to learn the ins and outs of the tea business before returning. Incidentally he will do a little trading in bicycles, and might possibly be induced to enter a race or two. If he does, look out for him, you Japs.
I apologize for the use of a racial slur. - MF
Charles Bain 01 Jun 1895, Sat
The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California)
Newspapers.com
RODE UP TO THE CRATER
Feat of Three California Wheelmen in the Sandwich Islands.
A Bay City Rider and Two Men From the Reliance Now on a Tour of the World.
Word has just been received in this City of the adventures of three well-known young wheelmen of this City and Oakland who recently started on a tour of the world with their wheels and plenty of money to carry them through should their bikes not bring them funds to defray expenses.
They are Harry R. Bostwick of the Bay City Wheelmen and Charles Bain and Harry Arthur of the Reliance Club. Their primary object was pleasure, but it was intended when they started to give exhibitions whenever the opportunity offered.
The first two landed at Honolulu, where they astonished the natives by their rapid riding, and then they journeyed to the
main island of Hawaii and performed the unprecedented feat of climbing io the crater of Kilauea on their steel steeds.
Yokohama was the next port, and the letters brought from there by the last steamer tell of the good times they are having riding through the thickly populated districts of Nippon, where the inhabitants gaze at them in wild-eyed amazement as they scorch past.
They had their pictures taken "tandem” in the big Japanese port and sent several copies of the picture to their friends in this City.
From Japan the wheelmen will go through the coast districts of China, and thence to India and Persia on their way to Europe. When they left here they had not decided whether to go to Australia, but a journey to the colonies is within the range of possibility.
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