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Bicycle Race
Dr F. C. Pierce prominent dentist practicing since 1871. Dr. Pierce
also had a Rambler Bicycle franchise. Dr. Pierce supported bicycles
and was an avid bike rider. He was an
official bicycle race official for Smethport as seen in the picture below.
Dr. Pierce helped organize and run bicycle races in Smethport.
photo credit: Smethport
Illustrated, an Illustrated Souvenir of Smethport, Pennsylvania.
By John W. Sanborn and Charles Latham ©1895
| Smethport has quite a sensation on Saturday afternoon last and the matter has formed a subject for discussion ever since, and the end of such discussion is not yet. This is what produced it. Towards evening of the day mentioned, Mrs. Helen Burdick was driving a spirited horse, attached to a phaeton belonging to Dr. Freeman, down Main street. Near by was Dr. Pierce, a surgeon dentist, riding on his famous two wheel vehicle ycleped a bicycle. By some means the doctor came so near the horse driven by Mrs. B., that it, the horse became frightened and its driver remonstrated against being thus desturbed. At the story goes the doctor returned to the charge, and again attempted to frighten the horse. This though, Mrs. B., was adding insult to injery, and reaching for her driving whip, which, by the way, was no cilds weapon, she brought it down upon the head and shoulders of the doctor with the force and determinatin of a woman who believed herelf deely wronged. The two actor in the drama then went their way. Public opinion seems to censure Dr. Pierce, who although he may with the bicycle be entitled to half of the road, yet he has no right to purpisely frighten any animal traveling the other half. |
