17. THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. 11 CYCLING. . HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE. Siam cycles now. A balled spot the bearing. New Haven hu a colored men's cycle dab. One touoh of scorcher makes the whole ran & tVln. The French irreverently call the wheel St. Velo. 1 A punctured tire is a bunion on the toe of oy- I cling. Not amiss the pretty widow who rides a bicycle. Much club news reaches u: too late each week to be used. A wheel rack riding aa old solid over a rutty road. i "Resolutions" of condemnation won't stop cycling whyoism. Tacking against the wind When the tank tackles the pneumatic. To be English refer to your early morning ride as a "pipe opener." ~ The London Telegraph refers to tires "filled with inflated air." Neit! Some people ride a bobby as they would a bi- cyele simply for eieroise. Send two cents in stamps 'for THB SPORTIHQ Lirs's new advertising cards. The man with a punctured pneumatic is ex- pected to patch up his trouble. Next to cycling, amateur photography is the most popular craze of the day. Sloth is the murder of speed and the lather of amateurism in consequence. Even arrests do not seem to deter the mad rush of the New York scorcher. The Danish Cycle Tidende has established an insurance against theft of cycles. A scorching wheelman ran into and killed a woman at Lynn on Thursday evening. Five dollar shares in the original pneumatic tire company are now held at $25 each. Cyclers in Cork have been regulated to the six mile an hour gait. Scorching did it. Springfield is to have a grotesque and fancy dress parade of wheelmen on the Fourth. Joe Dean's a judge now. He will go down into history as Joseph, the just, we know. Nearly all the men who have invented mi le- ft-minute bicycles are residing in cemeteries. Men in business and pneumatics (re much alike. Keep both "cool," and they won't "bust." One of the drawbacks of an extremely light machine ia its unpleasant running over rough ground. Luck may be defined as that which enables «nr neighbors' tire not to puncture as frequently as our own. Has anyone ever seen anyone else riding with that much advertised "cycling canopy" over their heads? M. Zola has swapped some of 1'argent for a bi- cycle, and will soon make a better acquaintance with la terre. It is all right for a rider to Insist on having his own way in cycling if he would only take it and get a move on. You never hear the heirs of a rich uncle ad- Tising the old gentleman to try a bicycle as a cure for his ailments. Don't make any mistakes, please; you no longer dismount from your machine, you simply "moult" your saddle. The man who inspects the chains of all the machines before they leave the factory must, of course, be links-eyed. The man who never made a mistake in his cycling career breaks his record when he begins telling anyone about it. How the term "devil" sticks to cycling. In Colorado the mountaineers call a wheel a "go- devil" even to this day. The men in an insane asylum look, somehow, like the men you meet with a mile-a-minute bicycle patent on their hands. A set of THE Sponimo LITE'S new illustrated advertising cards oan be obtained for a two- cent stamp to defray postage. The Governor of Moscow comocls wheelmen in that district to wear long trousers. The Governor of Moscow is a mug. When a man writes a particularly selfish and unreasonable letter to the papers about cyclists he always signs it "Fair Play." Caustic, it is said, will cure warts. This does not refer to the warts which have a habit of ap- pearing on pneumatics, though. Steer clear of disused car tracks. The irtin splinters which ornament the rails of old tracks would rip a oast steel tire to bits. General observations drawn from particu- lars are the jewels of cycling knowledge, com- prehending great 3 tor* in a little room. Low gears is quite as muoh of a cry nowa- days in cycling as low-bridge is in canal loco- motion. Hoth are timely warnings, too. Most American cities are not much like the lower regions since there are no pretenses of good intentions in their paving contracts. Jt New York is going to stop fast bicycling. The elevated roads there may run over people, but they're not going to let the bicycles do it. English courts have decided that a policeman can pull or knock off his wheel any rider who does not stop when ordered to by the officer. "I wish my bean was a pneumatic," said one girl to another. "Why?" "Well, if he was, he might pop some time or another; that's why." An employee of the city water department in Chicago ran dawn a wheelman. The L. A. W. Tan down the employee; cost to employee $25. New Brunswick, ?T. J., has a city ordinance providing a $20 tine for bicyclists who ride on the sidewalks or travel at night without lamps. Those who seem to lead the public taste in cycling are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursu- ing. Do not notice the remarks of the blackguard you meet when riding. He's not worthy of it, and you cannot reach his proficiency in billings- gate. The wheelmen of St. Louis are happy because the authorities have agreed that certain streets ahull not be sprinkled before 9 A. M. or after 6 p. x. "Do wheelmen get cut rates at Springfield hotels?" "Seems to me they do at the Warwick judging from what I've read in the wheel papers recently." A most valuable feature of club life genuine club life, by the way is to be found in the fra- ternity of a cordial sort that exists between the members. This before-breakfast riding is very much like a veast cake. It is a conspicuous example of early rising, but it is invariably followed by a big loaf. "I had an awful dream last night. I dreamed J was riding along a lonely road " "What on?" "A nightmare. What did you think; a racing wheel?" "Tbcy love darkness rather than light be- cause their deeds are evil" would be a very ap- propriate quotation to use in referring to the lampless scorcher. Tom Roe's first accident was at Union Corners, nn<l yet there are those who say there is nothing in a name. Tom's beginning to be "dated" early in the game. The cross-the-continent tourists are the most industrious wheelmen, since their business com- pels them to be constantly scouring plains and sealing mountains. It is proposed to keep the streets clean by a system of fines. These fines are to bo collected from every wheelman who swears at the filthy condition they are in. The Buffalo Press Cycle Club prints the nnuies of expelled members, and then collects their debts to the club by law. That's business, acd good business, too! Another example of tie inscrutable wisdom of law-makers may be found in the Florida Legis- lature's action in taxing bicycles $5 and reduc- ing the tax on cigarettes. J. E. B. Thanks, for compliment. We think If you choose some name like Valkyrio for a woman's wheel that you would get novelty and appropriateness combined. Cyclers of Elmira, N. Y., who procure a metal number from the police officials and obey some few simple rules, are allowed the privilege of riding on the sidewalks. If the wheelmen want their sport to be pop- ular they will use every precaution to the end that the people will not demand severe meas- ures of municipal regulation. It is thought to be a feat of riding worthy of commenting on in the wheel papers abroad when a man is seen riding one wheel and wheeling another along beside him. The press cannot do better service to the cause of cycling than by continually warning riders against making the pastime obnoxious to the public by indiscriminate pace in the streets. "Ah!" said the trims-continental rider as he pushed his wheel up a dried-np river bed which served as an apology for a Nebraska road, "this is carrying this touring game to an ex-stream." Some extra long-legged American has given an English maker an order to build a special safety with an ISin. ball bead, and with the saddle end of the top tube 12in. above the back wheel tire. An impression is fast gaining ground that in these, the days of safety riding, there are no Euch things as dangerous hills. But this theory, no matter how great its popularity, is none the less a fallacy. They have begun arresting the wheel whyos who scorch through New York streets endanger- ing their own and others' lives. Let the good work go on until not *a one of this brand re- mains unpunished. A Fort Wayne nabob is said to ride a gold- plated wheel. If it is true, his friends ought to get a guardian appointed for hiux A man crazy enough to ride such a machine isn't safe to be left outride an asylum. This riding from back-country district* to Chicago for "wagers" of large amounts, on paper, is growing tiresome by its prevalence; every village wobbler is taking a hand, orrathw a foot, at the game, it seems. When the true story is told of the real cause of the recent cut in the price of wheels it will be found that the thing started from a disagree- ment between partners, each of whom wanted all there was in a good thing. Success always calls forth aspirants to share it. An American inventor, possibly inspired by the performances of the hydrocyole in England, has applied for a patent for a "twin float, single paddle, lever-steering cycle boat." "Votyou rid in' dot baby bysickle for?" queried one German to his countryman as he met the latter struggling with his first ride on a safety. "Votyou links I ride it vor? I don't have very high to fall from it alreatty, don't it?" No, Willie, when a cyclist goes out for a spin it does not necessarily follow that he uses a spinning wheel, though of course his wheel is responsible for the spinning, neither does it de- mand a pair of spin-die legs on the rider's part. An idea seems prevalent in all lines of busi- ness especially among small traders that to sell bicycles is a sure, safe and speedy way to get rich. The persuasive drummers tor the makers are rapidly curing the aforesaid small ones of this idea. Here is a report in an out-of-town dally of an accident to a wheelman: "Bicyclist Thomas Halligan, Jr., and a big Dutchman in a wagon succeeded in doing about $25 worth of damage to a $160 bioyole at the corner of Bull and York streets." "Do you mind all of them rheumatic wind tire companies comin' toould Oirland to organ- ize their stock oompaniei?" "Indade I do; and why be they after comin' here?" "Shure, and that's aisy to see. They be after Dublin their capital, sure!" In England the rider who does not wear a cycling costume when on the wheel is regarded as a member of the "crock brigade;" in Amer- ica the long and the short of it, so far as leg covering is concerned, is always in evidence at all wheel gatherings. It is a common thing for road riders to have a watch fixed on the handle-bars for convenience, enclosed in a leather case. It has been proved, however, that the vibration causes the watch to lose time, and the latest idea is to wear a bracelet watch on the wrist. "McKenna's Flirtation," an American farce comedy now "starring" through the English provinces, is advertised by the leading lady rid- ing the streets of each town the company is to play in mounted on a safety with a placard on her back telling of Mac's mash. It is said a thousand words suffice all the ordinary needs of a man in any language. But five times that number fail him when be at- tempts to express bis feelings when he runs a brand-new pneumatic over a broken bottle on the first time out with the wheel. The fat lady, after she had taken her tenth lesson, remarked to the perspiring teacher, who was trying to hold her on: "I don't think I ever will learn to ride, do you?" "I hope so," gasped the teacher, as he let his bulky burden run plump into a convenient post. "If every rider had a brake on bis wheel, and rang his belf or blew his whistle with regularity and kept his lamp burning at night, and main- tained a speed of five miles an hour below One Hundred and Tenth street, the bicycle nuisance, as such, would not exist." New York World. "How many stops would I have to make be- fore I reaob Bungtown?" said Mo Lush to a farmer he met on the road. "Well," said the bucolic, viewing McLush's ruby nose, "there are six road-houses between here and there', and I guess you will have to stop about a half a dozen times, sir." A clever soda water and ice cream dealer, who has a place on an asphalted street muoh fre- quented by wheelmen, has a sign displayed say- ing be will inflate the tires of any customer while they are enjoying the imbibing of the illusive and pneumatic soda or encompassing the chilly cream. A wheelman of Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., has received the following notice: "CoLD SI-RIHS HARBOR. Hf. Hawkint White The White Caps are on your track. Get your bi- cycle off the streets before 11 o'clock at night or you'll be ducked in the harbor. Beware. WnirE CAPS." On Sunday a cab proceedlqg out the Fort Lee road in New York ran over a dynamite cart- ridge and was almost demolished. Two wheel- men who were passing were blown from their wheels, but were not seriously injured. Here's a new danger added to cycling for the uroakers to lament about. Bicycle riding is a legitimate method of loco- motion on the streets and highways; but, like every other kind, it must be pursued with care for the public safety. Most riders, we believe, are intelligent and careful enough to observe the rules necessary to prevent them from be- coming a public danger. "There are probably more bicycle riders In Washington than in any other American city. None of the women bicyclists appears gra:eful. But did any one ever see a woman who rode a safety bicycle gracefully?" JVeto York Herald. We have seen some that did, but not many, not many, we grant you. It is now quite a common sight to see, in smaller cities where street illumination is still done by gas, the lighter make his rounds on wheel to attend to his duties. In performing these he does not dismount, but rides up to a lamp post, rests against it, light! the light and goes on his way rejoicing. Here it is again the evils and horrors of cycling. A new medical discovery is that a wheelman is in great danger from open-mouth breathing because of its effect on the hygiene of the mouth as a prophylactic means of increas- ing microbian affections of the buccal cavity. Isn't that an awful thing? "I want to get an advertisement from you for oar next issue of your celebrated spring frame, little-wheel-in front bicycle. From its very name you could find no more suitable paper than ours to advertise such a machine as yours in." "Yes! By the way, what is the name of your paper?" "Hard H'orfc." An ordinance regulating the speed of bicyclei at not exceeding 10 miles an hour has been passed by the committee on ordinances of the Wukham board of alderman Monday evening. The committee has also recommended that the ordinance requiring that lanterns be carried on bicycles after dark be repealed. 0. D. Scott, the Australian rider, who rode from Adelaide to Melbourne, a distance of 589 miles in four days and twenty hours, has been presented with a gold medal for his plucky per- formance, which, considering the almost track- less country he in many places traversed, was an exceedingly fast and meritorious one. A California paper remarks: "This bicycle business is getting worse all the time. Boys and girls, young men and young women and old men and old women are toiling and spin- ning over macadamized roadways in such in- creasing numbers that it looks as though the entire population would soon be on wheels." One thing about which opinion is greatly di- vided is the question of pedals. Whilst many riders would swear by rat-traps, others strongly advocate nothing but rubber for the roads. Then toe-clips or no toe-clips is another oft-disputed point, not a few of the most experienced men saying. "Don't have anything to do with them." How seldom we hear the term "butterfly" nowadays! At one time it was in great demand indeed so much so that a dozen years ago one could hardly open a wheel journal without find- ing at least every other page decorated with it. Why this thusness we know not, except it be that the genus has disappeared under the ad- vance of the scorcher. A cycle camp for the dog days, July and August, is being talked of by Canadian riders. It is the intention to select some point sufficiently near the city to permit of riders going to and from business. Bioyclists wishing to go into such a form of Dating can obtain further particulars upon application to the secretary of the Toronto Bicycle Club. We would suggest to some enterprising maker that instead of the usual cross-bars on corru- gated tyres an advertisement in the form of raised letters should be used. A cyclist riding along and seeing imprinted in the mud or dust for miles and miles, some such information as "Crooklct's cycles are the best," could hardly fail to accept it as Gospel; English wheel papers are constantly referring to the personalities indulged in by editors on this side. Here is an example of how one English cycling editor refers to another of the same ilk recently: "So, the ohoggy ohortlings of the Mancunian fossicker apart, it is a good thing to have exchanged curiosity for real in- terest and^understanding, etc." The Maryland Bicycle Club is -pushing the work of the rebuilding of its Baltimore club house rapidly, and one of the members told the Neu» re- porter that in three or four weeks ground would be broken. The contracts for the construction of the building and the annex will be awarded this week, and a meeting will be held to-mor- row night to decide on the contractor. The Maryland Bicycle Club, which was the first organization of its kind in the United States to own a club house, has completed all arrangements for a large addition to its hand- some quarters. The plans and specifications were drawn by Thomas C. Kennedy, and the work will cost $15,000. The improvements will more than double the size of the present club house. An English rim maker who weighs 2261bs. baa had bis photograph taken standing upon the centre of a wheel weighing but 26m., and which was unsupported save by the resting of the felloes upon two chairs. He thinks that is proof enough of the excellence of workmanship and strength, too, of bis wheel, a thought which will be borne by anyone else who is capable of thinking at all. The great body of wheelmen, we are glad to say, need no warning to induce them to care- fully respect the rights of others on the high- ways. But those who consider themselves en- titled to ride recklessly and to run their wheels where they are forbidden by ordinance, should take notice that they are pursuing a course which will justly result in arrcits and fines until it is stopped. The recalender Ananias has made two import- ant discoveries. The entire reputable press of the country have combined to down the gift- enterprise sheet, the To-order, by backing up the N. C. A. in its efforts to elevate professional cycling, and W. B. Troy has assumed the con- trol of the L. A. W. Racing Board. True? Why, of course! Did the calendar lifter ever tell any- thing but the truth? Zola is ambitious to become an expert bi- cycler, and he has purchased a wheel. He hopes to cure his nervousness by the exercise. Zola believes "that the bioyole is destined to fill a most important role in our social conditions and that after a certain number of years it will be- come a necessary institution. Every house- hold fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and children will take to U." A Frenchman has invented a cyclometer, which he terms the "Mascotte," and which is fitted to the steering socket just above the frame and connected by a rod with the axle of the front wheel. Being specially prepared for the French market it is marked to register kilo- metres. The dial is clearly marked, and its position enables the distance ridden to be seen at a glance whilst riding. Why don't those who are so prone to preach about cycler's profaning the Sabbath get up and howl now against the paper, the maker and the rider who are responsible for starting "a race" to California on Sunday? Why don't they? Well, just because in this ease some of the most prominent howlers "against profane advertising" are doing it themselves. The shoe is on the other foot, that's all. "American cyclists seem to be utterly unable to underatand wbat we want with gear-cases. They also fail the realize what side-slipping of the pneumatic tyre means. From these things we deduce the theory that American riders are chiefly of the 'butterfly' order." Brilith Sport. And as usual, allow us to remark, Mr. Edge, your deduction regarding things American is illogical, and very stupid, besides. Since the municipal authorities of Asbury Park have refused to allow bicycle riding on the sidewalks of the town, because of the dan- ger to pedestrians, Founder Bradley has inter- ested himself in the matter. He is having a continuous walk laid along the ocean from Deal Lake to Avon to be used exclusively for bicyclists. The next thing Asbury Parkers ex- pect to sea is the founder riding on a two- wheeler. This Prince this and Princess that has ordered a bicycle form of advertisement is about worked out,evon if it ever did have any real value. Who cares whether they ride or not or what wheel they ride if they do? Their opinions are of no especial value in the matter, especially since they usually have some one else to think for them in such matters, and these underlings "think" aa they are paid by those whose goods they buy. There don't seem seem to be any rush to fill "wheelmen's hotels" in Chicago. Anyone is welcomed, and gladly welcomed, too, at these hotels, whether they ever saw a bicycle or sent $5 advance money or not. It is as we have always predicted it would be plenty of room for any and everybody who wants to visit Chi- cago, all the fire-alarm statements of interested and anxious "hotel committees" to the contrary notwithstanding. A contemporary says: "It is a fallacy to suppose that a high gear is advantageous down hill." How can such an assertion be justified? A high gear is clearly bad up hill, and if it is also, as our contemporary states, not an advan- tage down hill, then surely it must be bad all the way round, and if such were the case a highly geared machine would be nowhere, and there could be no dispute as to whether a high gear should be used. For a sprint of 200 or 300 yards a relatively low gear is often better than a higher one. In just the same way in the old racing days men on Min. and 55in. bicycles could sprint 300 yards as fast as the 60 inchers. But there is a great difference between a spurt, which calls for a great muscular effort, and where the best results are perhaps obtainable by rapid action combined with light pedaling, and ordinary slogging speed or touring pace on the road. It would be a pity should many of the other places follow the lead of New York in enacting that cyclists must not in future ride harder than seven miles an hour through the streets of that city. Yet some such rule must become general unless fools can be induced by moral suasion to put some curb on their folly in street scorching, and the cycling brand of fool is open to no moral suasion less energetic than a club- bing well and vigorously administered. Complaining of sidewalk riding by cyclists, a writer In a daily says. "There is no excuse for such conduct, as the roadways are in capital condition, and the forsaking of them tor the pro- hibited paths seems to be done in a mere spirit of bravado. Among the chief offenders are a few obeeky-looking young females I won't call them ladies, though from their style of dress they presumably aspire to that position." Rather caustic remarks, even if correct, which we doubt. After a period of three years' inactivity, the St. Petersburg Cycling Club is again in exist- ence. The members are now trying to get per- mission from the authorities to ride in the streets, and they fully expect to receive this sanction. Already the police have relaxed many of their former restrictions upon riding, with the result that the number of cyclists in the Russian capital it rapidly increasing. A very nice country this must be for a wheelman to live in! "A curious case happened near Forfar recently, where a man became the instrument of his own punishment in a startlingly sudden way. James Laing was out shooting when he met a police- man mounted on a bicycle. Apparently object- ing to any form of sport other than his own, he struck the bicycle with his gun. The machine was smashed, but the gun went off and the shot lodged in Laing's side, and he is now in the In- firmary reflecting on the cruelty of fate." Scottith Cycliit. A skit appeared in THB SPORTIHQ LIFE three months ago telling of the woes of a rider and his betrothed, where the former went out for five minutes to repair a pneumatic and how he was an old man before he completed the job. The skit wasn't good enough to quote when it was a home product, but now it has been lifted into English papers and credited to "Ex,"itis being reproduced in the wheel papers here. It is imnorted now, you see, and that makes It better, of course. A New York newspaper discusses the project of hunting down reckless bicycle riders with horses ana hounds, the riders to be provided with lassos. The proposition is hardly more than the hyperbole natural to the public indig- nation over a death there caused by reckless riding. It will probably not be necessary to re- sort to such extreme measure;; but it is evident that there is a class of bicycle riders who need instruction that they must pursue their exercise with due regard for the rights of others. The Irish Cyclist says: ''Lady cyclists may find the following idea for keeping down the dross useful. It is the invention of one of the most experienced lady riders in Ireland. In- stead of the usual elastic loop under the foot use a single piece of elastic, safety-pinned inside the hem with a gentleman's necktie clip (to bo bought at any draper's) stitched on to the free end. The clip can be fastened to the tongue of the shoe when required and clipped up on the elastic when the wearer wishes to walk without it." "We're flying light these days," said a wheelman to a Buffalo Commercial reporter the other day. "What do you mean by that?" he was asked. "Ob, we don't carry brakes or any- thing else to obstruct speed. Everybody wants to be a racer now." It is certain that he didn't speak for all the wheelmen of the city, thous- of whom are careful riders and good citizens, but he did speak for a great many hare- brained speeders, who act as if they owned the streets and pedestrians had no rights what- ever. The Western Traffic Association, governing the lines south and west of Chicago, lately made an order excluding bicycles from baggage cars, and charging for their transportation, even when accompanied by owners. Through the efforts of the committee this order has been re- scinded, and all the roads that formerly carried wheels free are now doing so again. For this happy condition of things the thanks of wheelmen are largely due to J. 0. Blake, the Chicago member of the L. A. W. transportation committee. Something ought to be done for the benefit of pedestrians. The bicyclers are bad enough, but they are not » circumstance to the drivers of carriages and wagons. The Parasian idea is rapidly developing here, and the individual who is so poor and lowly that he or she must appear upon the highways other than in a carriage has no rights that drivers or courts are bound to re- spect. We have come within an ace of being run over half a dozen times within the last three months, and we are no novices in crossing a street, either. The Asbury Park Wheelmen have decided to erect a handsome club bouse to cost about $5000. The ground has already been secured, is located in the centre of the city and is an exceedingly desirable site. The bouse will contain parlors, wheel room, billiard room, gymnasium, bowling alley, bath, kitchen, large dance and concert ball, etc. The building will be rapidly pushed to completion. Representative business men compose the building committee, with H. B. Ayres as chairman. This will give the wheel- men headquarters among the finest in the country. The Kansas City wheelmen are very enthusi- asticover the outlook for them at Fairruount Park. The decision to establish a special field for amateur athletics on the east side of the lake, including a club house and grand stand of 2000 capacity, and a fine one-third of a r»" bicycle track, is regarded as the opening of wider fields to conquer. With a good track al- ways ready, the club men say that they could get up rattling good races every month during the season, and the popularity that would greet them is shown by the crowd that witnessed the recent road race. A well-known tire firm advise us that the fill- Ing of cuts in pneumatics with a tamping of cotton wool and solution is not all that is necessary for a good and perfect repair. The outer cover should be removed, and a patch of strong linen or canvas solutioned over and around the region of the cut on the inside, al- though the original canvas lining may not be damaged in any way. Otherwise when the cut is of respectable dimensions, the canvas lining is not PO will protected, and trouble may ensue at some future time. But with the inside patch aforesaid, the canvas is strengthened where necessary. Alfred A. McCurdy and another soldier named Lynch escaped from the guard house at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, in 1888 by killing the guard. Before AlcCurdy's enlistment he was a noted professional rider and the winner of many long-distance races. For the past two years McCurdy has been residing in New Or- leans under his right name and working at his trade of shoemaking. Finally be sought ad- mission to the Pelican Bicycling Club, but one of the members, suspecting his identity with the professional, made inquiries and discovered that McCurdy was a deserter, and the latter was arrested on Tuesday. He adrjits being a de- serter, but denies having a hand in the murder of the guard. Simple Simon. Want us to tell you how to be a real amateur, eh? Well, the safest way if you intend being an amateur cyolist is not to ride fast. Then, Simon, you might chloroform your- self every day. This might not keep bacillus of $ entirely out of your pure amateur blood, but you wouldn't know it. You miqht mount your wheel and emigrate to Africa, where everything good to eat grows wild, including the eaters, who are all amateurs; where ten cents will buy clothes enough for a "Black Crook" company; where the poorest man that ever rode a wheel can get a sufficient number of wives to support fair" in luxurious idleness without his having to resort to the maker's money to accomplish the same thing. Come to think of it, Simon, if you are bent on your deadly purpose of becom- ing a pure amateur you had better try Africa. The Cycle Record says:^-"It is an open ques- tion just now whether the two or three wheeler is the better machine for a lady. Certainly the former is less cumbrous «nd less difficult to pro- pel; it is aleo easier to stable at home; but that horrible side-slip makes bicycling out of the question for any but most strong-nerved women. The writer has noticed several nasty accidents from this cause, and 'wears a worried look' whenever he meets one of the orposite sex a-wheel, fearing a possible catastrophe." There "DOG 1^ THE Have you read the mutterings and sputterings in the advertisements of those makers whose worm re- nowned machines DOfi'T Have you noticed how quick these self same peo- ple announce the winning of some unimportant race? RALEIGHS WON IN 1892 2,300 RACES, Cycle Co., Ltd., & Sank Sts., flew Vofk. SHALL WE ANNEX HAWAII? YES. Shall We Have Our Wheels Fitted With SEDDON TYRES? YES. Shall We Give Up the Old Fashioned White Washed Tyres? YES. The New York Recorder of Jan. 29th says: "We veil ture to predict that before many months the Red Tyre wil! be to the front on road and path, and instead of rival mantt factnrers having to distinguish their wheels by different col ored rims, other tyre opponents if there be any will hav( to whitewash their tyres to make them distinct from the con quering 'Red One.' " The Recorder knows a good thing or two about tyres. TOURIST, Tb* Road RACCR, Tb< Patb RACCR, Tb* Record BRCAKCR, ib« SULKY Driver, Ai)d, IN FACT, All Owo*rs of Wb«ls Most Hav< Fitted Witb tb* Best Tyre, THE SEDDON IF1 1=1 E IE. AMERICAN SEDDON'S TYRE CO., 65 Reade Street NEW YORK. LIGHT, STRONG AND EASY RUNNING. GRACEFUL, DURABLE AND SAFE. MODEL D, S13O.OO. AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORY, , mflSS. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. BALili CO., mass., Make the most perfect ball for cycle work. Our men are aii skilled ball makers. Nothing but the best material used. Hear what Wm. Bown, of Birmingham, England, says: "They are very fine, W. W. Stall, the kies, says: "We buy the best on earth." 2,000,000 per month, prices. TiJ" «T. Gr'FLA.'N'F, 3E»r-est. et.33.ci. O-exi. 3V!er the best I have seen." maker of Trotting Sul- them because they are Capacity now nearly Write for samples and ANGLO-AMERICAN IRON & METAL CO., MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO CYCLE MANUFACTURE AND REPAIR. 213 FE^-RXj ST., is neither open or closed questions about the matter as to whether two or three wheels are better for woman's riding, and so able a journal as the Record should know that this is so. Women are Ay much correct as men wore in getting rid of the tricycle when the safety came, and the fact does not admit of any argument, whatsoever. Sport and Play, dealing with "faked" wheels for hill climbing, very pertinently says: "Somo oi the machines ridden are fitted with cranks 7i or Sin. in length. The machines used should as much as possible be in their normal state as for roadsters. 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17. THE SPORTHSTQ LIFE. 11
CYCLING.. HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE.
Siam cycles now.A balled spot the bearing.New Haven hu a colored men's cycle dab.One touoh of scorcher makes the whole ran &
tVln.The French irreverently call the wheel St.
Velo.1 A punctured tire is a bunion on the toe of oy- I cling.
Not amiss the pretty widow who rides a bicycle.
Much club news reaches u: too late each week to be used.
A wheel rack riding aa old solid over a rutty road.i "Resolutions" of condemnation won't stop cycling whyoism.
Tacking against the wind When the tank tackles the pneumatic.
To be English refer to your early morning ride as a "pipe opener."~ The London Telegraph refers to tires "filled with inflated air." Neit!
Some people ride a bobby as they would a bi- cyele simply for eieroise.
Send two cents in stamps 'for THB SPORTIHQ Lirs's new advertising cards.
The man with a punctured pneumatic is ex pected to patch up his trouble.
Next to cycling, amateur photography is the most popular craze of the day.
Sloth is the murder of speed and the lather of amateurism in consequence.
Even arrests do not seem to deter the mad rush of the New York scorcher.
The Danish Cycle Tidende has established an insurance against theft of cycles.
A scorching wheelman ran into and killed a woman at Lynn on Thursday evening.
Five dollar shares in the original pneumatic tire company are now held at $25 each.
Cyclers in Cork have been regulated to the six mile an hour gait. Scorching did it.
Springfield is to have a grotesque and fancy dress parade of wheelmen on the Fourth.
Joe Dean's a judge now. He will go down into history as Joseph, the just, we know.
Nearly all the men who have invented mi le ft-minute bicycles are residing in cemeteries.
Men in business and pneumatics (re much alike. Keep both "cool," and they won't "bust."
One of the drawbacks of an extremely light machine ia its unpleasant running over rough ground.
Luck may be defined as that which enables «nr neighbors' tire not to puncture as frequently as our own.
Has anyone ever seen anyone else riding with that much advertised "cycling canopy" over their heads?
M. Zola has swapped some of 1'argent for a bi cycle, and will soon make a better acquaintance with la terre.
It is all right for a rider to Insist on having his own way in cycling if he would only take it and get a move on.
You never hear the heirs of a rich uncle ad- Tising the old gentleman to try a bicycle as a cure for his ailments.
Don't make any mistakes, please; you no longer dismount from your machine, you simply "moult" your saddle.
The man who inspects the chains of all the machines before they leave the factory must, of course, be links-eyed.
The man who never made a mistake in his cycling career breaks his record when he begins telling anyone about it.
How the term "devil" sticks to cycling. In Colorado the mountaineers call a wheel a "go- devil" even to this day.
The men in an insane asylum look, somehow, like the men you meet with a mile-a-minute bicycle patent on their hands.
A set of THE Sponimo LITE'S new illustrated advertising cards oan be obtained for a two- cent stamp to defray postage.
The Governor of Moscow comocls wheelmen in that district to wear long trousers. The Governor of Moscow is a mug.
When a man writes a particularly selfish and unreasonable letter to the papers about cyclists he always signs it "Fair Play."
Caustic, it is said, will cure warts. This does not refer to the warts which have a habit of ap pearing on pneumatics, though.
Steer clear of disused car tracks. The irtin splinters which ornament the rails of old tracks would rip a oast steel tire to bits.
General observations drawn from particu lars are the jewels of cycling knowledge, com prehending great 3 tor* in a little room.
Low gears is quite as muoh of a cry nowa days in cycling as low-bridge is in canal loco motion. Hoth are timely warnings, too.
Most American cities are not much like the lower regions since there are no pretenses of good intentions in their paving contracts. Jt New York is going to stop fast bicycling. The elevated roads there may run over people, but they're not going to let the bicycles do it.
English courts have decided that a policeman can pull or knock off his wheel any rider who does not stop when ordered to by the officer.
"I wish my bean was a pneumatic," said one girl to another. "Why?" "Well, if he was, he might pop some time or another; that's why."
An employee of the city water department in Chicago ran dawn a wheelman. The L. A. W. Tan down the employee; cost to employee $25.
New Brunswick, ?T. J., has a city ordinance providing a $20 tine for bicyclists who ride on the sidewalks or travel at night without lamps.
Those who seem to lead the public taste in cycling are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursu ing.
Do not notice the remarks of the blackguard you meet when riding. He's not worthy of it, and you cannot reach his proficiency in billings gate.
The wheelmen of St. Louis are happy because the authorities have agreed that certain streets ahull not be sprinkled before 9 A. M. or after 6 p. x.
"Do wheelmen get cut rates at Springfield hotels?" "Seems to me they do at the Warwick judging from what I've read in the wheel papers recently."
A most valuable feature of club life genuine club life, by the way is to be found in the fra ternity of a cordial sort that exists between the members.
This before-breakfast riding is very much like a veast cake. It is a conspicuous example of early rising, but it is invariably followed by a big loaf.
"I had an awful dream last night. I dreamed J was riding along a lonely road " "What on?" "A nightmare. What did you think; a racing wheel?"
"Tbcy love darkness rather than light be cause their deeds are evil" would be a very ap propriate quotation to use in referring to the lampless scorcher.
Tom Roe's first accident was at Union Corners, nn<l yet there are those who say there is nothing in a name. Tom's beginning to be "dated" early in the game.
The cross-the-continent tourists are the most industrious wheelmen, since their business com pels them to be constantly scouring plains and sealing mountains.
It is proposed to keep the streets clean by a system of fines. These fines are to bo collected from every wheelman who swears at the filthy condition they are in.
The Buffalo Press Cycle Club prints the nnuies of expelled members, and then collects their debts to the club by law. That's business, acd good business, too!
Another example of tie inscrutable wisdom of law-makers may be found in the Florida Legis lature's action in taxing bicycles $5 and reduc ing the tax on cigarettes.
J. E. B. Thanks, for compliment. We think If you choose some name like Valkyrio for a
woman's wheel that you would get novelty and appropriateness combined.
Cyclers of Elmira, N. Y., who procure a metal number from the police officials and obey some few simple rules, are allowed the privilege of riding on the sidewalks.
If the wheelmen want their sport to be pop ular they will use every precaution to the end that the people will not demand severe meas ures of municipal regulation.
It is thought to be a feat of riding worthy of commenting on in the wheel papers abroad when a man is seen riding one wheel and wheeling another along beside him.
The press cannot do better service to the cause of cycling than by continually warning riders against making the pastime obnoxious to the public by indiscriminate pace in the streets.
"Ah!" said the trims-continental rider as he pushed his wheel up a dried-np river bed which served as an apology for a Nebraska road, "this is carrying this touring game to an ex-stream."
Some extra long-legged American has given an English maker an order to build a special safety with an ISin. ball bead, and with the saddle end of the top tube 12in. above the back wheel tire.
An impression is fast gaining ground that in these, the days of safety riding, there are no Euch things as dangerous hills. But this theory, no matter how great its popularity, is none the less a fallacy.
They have begun arresting the wheel whyos who scorch through New York streets endanger ing their own and others' lives. Let the good work go on until not *a one of this brand re mains unpunished.
A Fort Wayne nabob is said to ride a gold- plated wheel. If it is true, his friends ought to get a guardian appointed for hiux A man crazy enough to ride such a machine isn't safe to be left outride an asylum.
This riding from back-country district* to Chicago for "wagers" of large amounts, on paper, is growing tiresome by its prevalence; every village wobbler is taking a hand, orrathw a foot, at the game, it seems.
When the true story is told of the real cause of the recent cut in the price of wheels it will be found that the thing started from a disagree ment between partners, each of whom wanted all there was in a good thing.
Success always calls forth aspirants to share it. An American inventor, possibly inspired by the performances of the hydrocyole in England, has applied for a patent for a "twin float, single paddle, lever-steering cycle boat."
"Votyou rid in' dot baby bysickle for?" queried one German to his countryman as he met the latter struggling with his first ride on a safety. "Votyou links I ride it vor? I don't have very high to fall from it alreatty, don't it?"
No, Willie, when a cyclist goes out for a spin it does not necessarily follow that he uses a spinning wheel, though of course his wheel is responsible for the spinning, neither does it de mand a pair of spin-die legs on the rider's part.
An idea seems prevalent in all lines of busi ness especially among small traders that to sell bicycles is a sure, safe and speedy way to get rich. The persuasive drummers tor the makers are rapidly curing the aforesaid small ones of this idea.
Here is a report in an out-of-town dally of an accident to a wheelman: "Bicyclist Thomas Halligan, Jr., and a big Dutchman in a wagon succeeded in doing about $25 worth of damage to a $160 bioyole at the corner of Bull and York streets."
"Do you mind all of them rheumatic wind tire companies comin' toould Oirland to organ ize their stock oompaniei?" "Indade I do; and why be they after comin' here?" "Shure, and that's aisy to see. They be after Dublin their capital, sure!"
In England the rider who does not wear a cycling costume when on the wheel is regarded as a member of the "crock brigade;" in Amer ica the long and the short of it, so far as leg covering is concerned, is always in evidence at all wheel gatherings.
It is a common thing for road riders to have a watch fixed on the handle-bars for convenience, enclosed in a leather case. It has been proved, however, that the vibration causes the watch to lose time, and the latest idea is to wear a bracelet watch on the wrist.
"McKenna's Flirtation," an American farce comedy now "starring" through the English provinces, is advertised by the leading lady rid ing the streets of each town the company is to play in mounted on a safety with a placard on her back telling of Mac's mash.
It is said a thousand words suffice all the ordinary needs of a man in any language. But five times that number fail him when be at tempts to express bis feelings when he runs a brand-new pneumatic over a broken bottle on the first time out with the wheel.
The fat lady, after she had taken her tenth lesson, remarked to the perspiring teacher, who was trying to hold her on: "I don't think I ever will learn to ride, do you?" "I hope so," gasped the teacher, as he let his bulky burden run plump into a convenient post.
"If every rider had a brake on bis wheel, and rang his belf or blew his whistle with regularity and kept his lamp burning at night, and main tained a speed of five miles an hour below One Hundred and Tenth street, the bicycle nuisance, as such, would not exist." New York World.
"How many stops would I have to make be fore I reaob Bungtown?" said Mo Lush to a farmer he met on the road. "Well," said the bucolic, viewing McLush's ruby nose, "there are six road-houses between here and there', and I guess you will have to stop about a half a dozen times, sir."
A clever soda water and ice cream dealer, who has a place on an asphalted street muoh fre quented by wheelmen, has a sign displayed say ing be will inflate the tires of any customer while they are enjoying the imbibing of the illusive and pneumatic soda or encompassing the chilly cream.
A wheelman of Cold Spring Harbor, L. I., has received the following notice: "CoLD SI-RIHS HARBOR. Hf. Hawkint White The White Caps are on your track. Get your bi cycle off the streets before 11 o'clock at night or you'll be ducked in the harbor. Beware. WnirE CAPS."
On Sunday a cab proceedlqg out the Fort Lee road in New York ran over a dynamite cart ridge and was almost demolished. Two wheel men who were passing were blown from their wheels, but were not seriously injured. Here's a new danger added to cycling for the uroakers to lament about.
Bicycle riding is a legitimate method of loco motion on the streets and highways; but, like every other kind, it must be pursued with care for the public safety. Most riders, we believe, are intelligent and careful enough to observe the rules necessary to prevent them from be coming a public danger.
"There are probably more bicycle riders In Washington than in any other American city. None of the women bicyclists appears gra:eful. But did any one ever see a woman who rode a safety bicycle gracefully?" JVeto York Herald. We have seen some that did, but not many, not many, we grant you.
It is now quite a common sight to see, in smaller cities where street illumination is still done by gas, the lighter make his rounds on wheel to attend to his duties. In performing these he does not dismount, but rides up to a lamp post, rests against it, light! the light and goes on his way rejoicing.
Here it is again the evils and horrors of cycling. A new medical discovery is that a wheelman is in great danger from open-mouth breathing because of its effect on the hygiene of the mouth as a prophylactic means of increas ing microbian affections of the buccal cavity. Isn't that an awful thing?
"I want to get an advertisement from you for oar next issue of your celebrated spring frame, little-wheel-in front bicycle. From its very name you could find no more suitable paper than ours to advertise such a machine as yours in." "Yes! By the way, what is the name of your paper?" "Hard H'orfc."
An ordinance regulating the speed of bicyclei at not exceeding 10 miles an hour has been passed by the committee on ordinances of the Wukham board of alderman Monday evening. The committee has also recommended that the
ordinance requiring that lanterns be carried on bicycles after dark be repealed.
0. D. Scott, the Australian rider, who rode from Adelaide to Melbourne, a distance of 589 miles in four days and twenty hours, has been presented with a gold medal for his plucky per formance, which, considering the almost track less country he in many places traversed, was an exceedingly fast and meritorious one.
A California paper remarks: "This bicycle business is getting worse all the time. Boys and girls, young men and young women and old men and old women are toiling and spin ning over macadamized roadways in such in creasing numbers that it looks as though the entire population would soon be on wheels."
One thing about which opinion is greatly di vided is the question of pedals. Whilst many riders would swear by rat-traps, others strongly advocate nothing but rubber for the roads. Then toe-clips or no toe-clips is another oft-disputed point, not a few of the most experienced men saying. "Don't have anything to do with them."
How seldom we hear the term "butterfly" nowadays! At one time it was in great demand indeed so much so that a dozen years ago one could hardly open a wheel journal without find ing at least every other page decorated with it. Why this thusness we know not, except it be that the genus has disappeared under the ad vance of the scorcher.
A cycle camp for the dog days, July and August, is being talked of by Canadian riders. It is the intention to select some point sufficiently near the city to permit of riders going to and from business. Bioyclists wishing to go into such a form of Dating can obtain further particulars upon application to the secretary of the Toronto Bicycle Club.
We would suggest to some enterprising maker that instead of the usual cross-bars on corru gated tyres an advertisement in the form of raised letters should be used. A cyclist riding along and seeing imprinted in the mud or dust for miles and miles, some such information as "Crooklct's cycles are the best," could hardly fail to accept it as Gospel;
English wheel papers are constantly referring to the personalities indulged in by editors on this side. Here is an example of how one English cycling editor refers to another of the same ilk recently: "So, the ohoggy ohortlings of the Mancunian fossicker apart, it is a good thing to have exchanged curiosity for real in terest and^understanding, etc."
The Maryland Bicycle Club is -pushing the work of the rebuilding of its Baltimore club house rapidly, and one of the members told the Neu» re porter that in three or four weeks ground would be broken. The contracts for the construction of the building and the annex will be awarded this week, and a meeting will be held to-mor row night to decide on the contractor.
The Maryland Bicycle Club, which was the first organization of its kind in the United States to own a club house, has completed all arrangements for a large addition to its hand some quarters. The plans and specifications were drawn by Thomas C. Kennedy, and the work will cost $15,000. The improvements will more than double the size of the present club house.
An English rim maker who weighs 2261bs. baa had bis photograph taken standing upon the centre of a wheel weighing but 26m., and which was unsupported save by the resting of the felloes upon two chairs. He thinks that is proof enough of the excellence of workmanship and strength, too, of bis wheel, a thought which will be borne by anyone else who is capable of thinking at all.
The great body of wheelmen, we are glad to say, need no warning to induce them to care fully respect the rights of others on the high ways. But those who consider themselves en titled to ride recklessly and to run their wheels where they are forbidden by ordinance, should take notice that they are pursuing a course which will justly result in arrcits and fines until it is stopped.
The recalender Ananias has made two import ant discoveries. The entire reputable press of the country have combined to down the gift- enterprise sheet, the To-order, by backing up the N. C. A. in its efforts to elevate professional cycling, and W. B. Troy has assumed the con trol of the L. A. W. Racing Board. True? Why, of course! Did the calendar lifter ever tell any thing but the truth?
Zola is ambitious to become an expert bi cycler, and he has purchased a wheel. He hopes to cure his nervousness by the exercise. Zola believes "that the bioyole is destined to fill a most important role in our social conditions and that after a certain number of years it will be come a necessary institution. Every house hold fathers, mothers, sons, daughters and children will take to U."
A Frenchman has invented a cyclometer, which he terms the "Mascotte," and which is fitted to the steering socket just above the frame and connected by a rod with the axle of the front wheel. Being specially prepared for the French market it is marked to register kilo metres. The dial is clearly marked, and its position enables the distance ridden to be seen at a glance whilst riding.
Why don't those who are so prone to preach about cycler's profaning the Sabbath get up and howl now against the paper, the maker and the rider who are responsible for starting "a race" to California on Sunday? Why don't they? Well, just because in this ease some of the most prominent howlers "against profane advertising" are doing it themselves. The shoe is on the other foot, that's all.
"American cyclists seem to be utterly unable to underatand wbat we want with gear-cases. They also fail the realize what side-slipping of the pneumatic tyre means. From these things we deduce the theory that American riders are chiefly of the 'butterfly' order." Brilith Sport. And as usual, allow us to remark, Mr. Edge, your deduction regarding things American is illogical, and very stupid, besides.
Since the municipal authorities of Asbury Park have refused to allow bicycle riding on the sidewalks of the town, because of the dan ger to pedestrians, Founder Bradley has inter ested himself in the matter. He is having a continuous walk laid along the ocean from Deal Lake to Avon to be used exclusively for bicyclists. The next thing Asbury Parkers ex pect to sea is the founder riding on a two- wheeler.
This Prince this and Princess that has ordered a bicycle form of advertisement is about worked out,evon if it ever did have any real value. Who cares whether they ride or not or what wheel they ride if they do? Their opinions are of no especial value in the matter, especially since they usually have some one else to think for them in such matters, and these underlings "think" aa they are paid by those whose goods they buy.
There don't seem seem to be any rush to fill "wheelmen's hotels" in Chicago. Anyone is welcomed, and gladly welcomed, too, at these hotels, whether they ever saw a bicycle or sent $5 advance money or not. It is as we have always predicted it would be plenty of room for any and everybody who wants to visit Chi cago, all the fire-alarm statements of interested and anxious "hotel committees" to the contrary notwithstanding.
A contemporary says: "It is a fallacy to suppose that a high gear is advantageous down hill." How can such an assertion be justified? A high gear is clearly bad up hill, and if it is also, as our contemporary states, not an advan tage down hill, then surely it must be bad all the way round, and if such were the case a highly geared machine would be nowhere, and there could be no dispute as to whether a high gear should be used.
For a sprint of 200 or 300 yards a relatively low gear is often better than a higher one. In just the same way in the old racing days men on Min. and 55in. bicycles could sprint 300 yards as fast as the 60 inchers. But there is a great difference between a spurt, which calls for a great muscular effort, and where the best results are perhaps obtainable by rapid action combined with light pedaling, and ordinary slogging speed or touring pace on the road.
It would be a pity should many of the other places follow the lead of New York in enacting that cyclists must not in future ride harder than seven miles an hour through the streets of that city. Yet some such rule must become
general unless fools can be induced by moral suasion to put some curb on their folly in street scorching, and the cycling brand of fool is open to no moral suasion less energetic than a club bing well and vigorously administered.
Complaining of sidewalk riding by cyclists, a writer In a daily says. "There is no excuse for such conduct, as the roadways are in capital condition, and the forsaking of them tor the pro hibited paths seems to be done in a mere spirit of bravado. Among the chief offenders are a few obeeky-looking young females I won't call them ladies, though from their style of dress they presumably aspire to that position." Rather caustic remarks, even if correct, which we doubt.
After a period of three years' inactivity, the St. Petersburg Cycling Club is again in exist ence. The members are now trying to get per mission from the authorities to ride in the streets, and they fully expect to receive this sanction. Already the police have relaxed many of their former restrictions upon riding, with the result that the number of cyclists in the Russian capital it rapidly increasing. A very nice country this must be for a wheelman to live in!
"A curious case happened near Forfar recently, where a man became the instrument of his own punishment in a startlingly sudden way. James Laing was out shooting when he met a police man mounted on a bicycle. Apparently object ing to any form of sport other than his own, he struck the bicycle with his gun. The machine was smashed, but the gun went off and the shot lodged in Laing's side, and he is now in the In firmary reflecting on the cruelty of fate." Scottith Cycliit.
A skit appeared in THB SPORTIHQ LIFE three months ago telling of the woes of a rider and his betrothed, where the former went out for five minutes to repair a pneumatic and how he was an old man before he completed the job. The skit wasn't good enough to quote when it was a home product, but now it has been lifted into English papers and credited to "Ex,"itis being reproduced in the wheel papers here. It is imnorted now, you see, and that makes It better, of course.
A New York newspaper discusses the project of hunting down reckless bicycle riders with horses ana hounds, the riders to be provided with lassos. The proposition is hardly more than the hyperbole natural to the public indig nation over a death there caused by reckless riding. It will probably not be necessary to re sort to such extreme measure;; but it is evident that there is a class of bicycle riders who need instruction that they must pursue their exercise with due regard for the rights of others.
The Irish Cyclist says: ''Lady cyclists may find the following idea for keeping down the dross useful. It is the invention of one of the most experienced lady riders in Ireland. In stead of the usual elastic loop under the foot use a single piece of elastic, safety-pinned inside the hem with a gentleman's necktie clip (to bo bought at any draper's) stitched on to the free end. The clip can be fastened to the tongue of the shoe when required and clipped up on the elastic when the wearer wishes to walk without it."
"We're flying light these days," said a wheelman to a Buffalo Commercial reporter the other day. "What do you mean by that?" he was asked. "Ob, we don't carry brakes or any thing else to obstruct speed. Everybody wants to be a racer now." It is certain that he didn't speak for all the wheelmen of the city, thous- of whom are careful riders and good citizens, but he did speak for a great many hare brained speeders, who act as if they owned the streets and pedestrians had no rights what ever.
The Western Traffic Association, governing the lines south and west of Chicago, lately made an order excluding bicycles from baggage cars, and charging for their transportation, even when accompanied by owners. Through the efforts of the committee this order has been re scinded, and all the roads that formerly carried wheels free are now doing so again. For this happy condition of things the thanks of wheelmen are largely due to J. 0. Blake, the Chicago member of the L. A. W. transportation committee.
Something ought to be done for the benefit of pedestrians. The bicyclers are bad enough, but they are not » circumstance to the drivers of carriages and wagons. The Parasian idea is rapidly developing here, and the individual who is so poor and lowly that he or she must appear upon the highways other than in a carriage has no rights that drivers or courts are bound to re spect. We have come within an ace of being run over half a dozen times within the last three months, and we are no novices in crossing a street, either.
The Asbury Park Wheelmen have decided to erect a handsome club bouse to cost about $5000. The ground has already been secured, is located in the centre of the city and is an exceedingly desirable site. The bouse will contain parlors, wheel room, billiard room, gymnasium, bowling alley, bath, kitchen, large dance and concert ball, etc. The building will be rapidly pushed to completion. Representative business men compose the building committee, with H. B. Ayres as chairman. This will give the wheel men headquarters among the finest in the country.
The Kansas City wheelmen are very enthusi- asticover the outlook for them at Fairruount Park. The decision to establish a special field for amateur athletics on the east side of the lake, including a club house and grand stand of 2000 capacity, and a fine one-third of a r»" bicycle track, is regarded as the opening of wider fields to conquer. With a good track al ways ready, the club men say that they could get up rattling good races every month during the season, and the popularity that would greet them is shown by the crowd that witnessed the recent road race.
A well-known tire firm advise us that the fill- Ing of cuts in pneumatics with a tamping of cotton wool and solution is not all that is necessary for a good and perfect repair. The outer cover should be removed, and a patch of strong linen or canvas solutioned over and around the region of the cut on the inside, al though the original canvas lining may not be damaged in any way. Otherwise when the cut is of respectable dimensions, the canvas lining is not PO will protected, and trouble may ensue at some future time. But with the inside patch aforesaid, the canvas is strengthened where necessary.
Alfred A. McCurdy and another soldier named Lynch escaped from the guard house at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, in 1888 by killing the guard. Before AlcCurdy's enlistment he was a noted professional rider and the winner of many long-distance races. For the past two years McCurdy has been residing in New Or leans under his right name and working at his trade of shoemaking. Finally be sought ad mission to the Pelican Bicycling Club, but one of the members, suspecting his identity with the professional, made inquiries and discovered that McCurdy was a deserter, and the latter was arrested on Tuesday. He adrjits being a de serter, but denies having a hand in the murder of the guard.
Simple Simon. Want us to tell you how to be a real amateur, eh? Well, the safest way if you intend being an amateur cyolist is not to ride fast. Then, Simon, you might chloroform your self every day. This might not keep bacillus of $ entirely out of your pure amateur blood, but you wouldn't know it. You miqht mount your wheel and emigrate to Africa, where everything good to eat grows wild, including the eaters, who are all amateurs; where ten cents will buy clothes enough for a "Black Crook" company; where the poorest man that ever rode a wheel can get a sufficient number of wives to support fair" in luxurious idleness without his having to resort to the maker's money to accomplish the same thing. Come to think of it, Simon, if you are bent on your deadly purpose of becom ing a pure amateur you had better try Africa.
The Cycle Record says:^-"It is an open ques tion just now whether the two or three wheeler is the better machine for a lady. Certainly the former is less cumbrous «nd less difficult to pro pel; it is aleo easier to stable at home; but that horrible side-slip makes bicycling out of the question for any but most strong-nerved women. The writer has noticed several nasty accidents from this cause, and 'wears a worried look' whenever he meets one of the orposite sex a-wheel, fearing a possible catastrophe." There
"DOG 1^ THEHave you read the mutterings and sputterings in
the advertisements of those makers whose worm re nowned machines
DOfi'THave you noticed how quick these self same peo
ple announce the winning of some unimportant race?
RALEIGHS WON IN 1892 2,300 RACES,
Cycle Co., Ltd.,& Sank Sts., flew Vofk.
SHALL WE ANNEX HAWAII? YES.Shall We Have Our Wheels Fitted With
SEDDON TYRES? YES.Shall We Give Up the Old Fashioned
White Washed Tyres? YES.The New York Recorder of Jan. 29th says: "We veil
ture to predict that before many months the Red Tyre wil! be to the front on road and path, and instead of rival mantt factnrers having to distinguish their wheels by different col ored rims, other tyre opponents if there be any will hav( to whitewash their tyres to make them distinct from the con quering 'Red One.' "
The Recorder knows a good thing or two about tyres.
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mass.,Make the most perfect ball for cycle work. Our men areaii skilled ball makers. Nothing but the best material used.
Hear what Wm. Bown, of Birmingham, England, says:"They are very fine,
W. W. Stall, the kies, says: "We buy the best on earth." 2,000,000 per month, prices.
TiJ" «T. Gr'FLA.'N'F, 3E»r-est. et.33.ci. O-exi. 3V!er
the best I have seen." maker of Trotting Sul- them because they are Capacity now nearly Write for samples and
ANGLO-AMERICAN IRON & METAL CO.,MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
EVERYTHING PERTAINING TO CYCLE MANUFACTURE AND REPAIR.213 FE^-RXj ST.,
is neither open or closed questions about the matter as to whether two or three wheels are better for woman's riding, and so able a journal as the Record should know that this is so. Women are Ay much correct as men wore in getting rid of the tricycle when the safety came, and the fact does not admit of any argument, whatsoever.
Sport and Play, dealing with "faked" wheels for hill climbing, very pertinently says: "Somo oi the machines ridden are fitted with cranks 7i or Sin. in length. The machines used should as much as possible be in their normal state as for roadsters. The maximum length of crank (6J) or minimum gear (say 60in. for machines under 351bs. and 57 for those over that weight) ought to be stated, but in every other respect the ma chine ought to be left to the judge for him to say whether it is a fair roadster or not, and nothing under, say, 321bs. in weight should be passed under any consideration. If these re strictions are carried out, hill climbing contests will give us a good idea of the real powers of a machine, whereas under the rules hitherto in vogue, the result tells us simply nothing re specting the .winning man and machine. I have machines used in these competitions which were simply useless for riding on the road."
The Suspend.Tho racer compelled to roam
From hauuU where R. B.'i bring devpa'r Should la the N. O. A, sin a; "Home, Sweet Home,"
Aud ahow tbat he didn't care.
^S&~THE SPORTING LIFE will be mailed postpaid toany address in the United States and Canada oneyear for $4.00, six months for $2.25. three months for $1.25.
OR DOG EXTERMINATOR.A f«w drops of dilutKi Aqua Ammonia from ihs
nozzle of our Kl-YI will toach the bicycle chasing: *'°« a leawu he will n->t likely soon forget. It works like magic. Ai a rider puU it, "Y<m ct-uM bear him howl ten squares. Price eacli, 50 cents.
Manufd bjr A. U. ItettS & CO.,306 Water Street, Toledo, Ohio.
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AUrlderiMythejo_. .. . t mean doit for tbtur.onej: $2O
iy» an elegant Oxford an*! j OB* i«dacduicUl pitted BlcjcU.
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