Roth's First Bicycle Ride

New York, 1895

A large number of bicyclists from Brooklyn stopped at Roth's hotel at Hempstead for dinner on Sunday. After dinner the cyclers proposed that the proprietor, S. N. R. Roth, who had never been on a wheel, should be given a lesson. Roth consented and mounting a wheel rode about a block. While attempting to turn round he fell heavily to the ground, breaking his left arm above the wrist.


Hand Crushed in Machinery

Frank Burkhelder, an engineer in the Garden City water works, had his right hand crushed while oiling the machinery Sunday morning.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 1.