The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-01
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NEW York, Jan. 80, 1860.

NEw York, Jan. 80, 1869.
vELoopEDIsM.
~ has at length been decided that the coming
man Is to come on veloclpede. Brooklyn and
new York are intensely interested In the SUBJ
!ectd brooklyn, perhaps. a little more so than
new York. Velooipede schools have been
opened in both cities, velocipede clubs have
Deen formed, and, in Brooklyn veloclpede-
courses are to be laid down, and one has already
peen commenced, This looks as though serious .
work were meant, and velocipedsm were not
intended TO be q mere toy for the hour, to be
tnrown aside as soon as the season
Is over. The tenacity with which
Doth New York and Brooklyn have
embraced the new Idea is something wonder
ful. Inventors, by the dozen are forwarding
their patents to the Patent Office at Washing
ton. Some of the finest acrobats In the world
have opened a velocipede school, and devoted
to velooipedes that skill, patience and intre-
pidity which formerly did them such good SER
Vice on the flying trapeze Business men,
sportsmen, and that class OF actresses who
attract by their physique and muscle, are
among the most enthusiastic dl ciples of the
new art. For business and for pleasure, alike,
the veloclpede is declared to be the thing. The
tumbles ana bruises and other wounds OF
honor cheeIfuly incurred In the practice OF
baseball and skating, are as nothing compared
with those obtained in the effort to manage
these horaeless curricles
A new rhyme has been admitted TO the Eng
lish langusRe. and the poet who mas looked in
vain for a word TO match with tcicle hnds IL at
last In the Velocipedal "btcicle" and "Lrtclcle,"
Rink associations are preparing to turn their
sRating-grounds into velocipede courses so soon
as the Ice season shall have ceased, Inc Com.
missioBeTs of Central Park will, ere long, lend
q listening ear to the voice OF wisdom and pro-
gression, and as their brother commissioners
Of the Brooklyn Central Park have already
done, open the sacred precincts TO this new
rival OF Pegasus. A single firm In this city
vention is nearly perfected which promises to
put the best racer in Mr.. Bonner's stables to
shame, If, by any figure Of speech, horses could
be supposed to blush.
Among the veloelpede schools of this city, the
"Velocipede HalP' at the corner OF Tenth street
and Broadway ought, perhaps, to take the first
rank. IL Is here that Mr.. Frederick Hanlon,
one of the celebrated Hanlon Brothers. performs
with remarkable grace and ease. achieving
upon the velocipede the same kind OF feats that
al accom- plished circus rider performs upon his
p 75are-backed steed. He kneels and stands upon
whilst The animal" is going AT 4O speed, per-
forms q number of acts which unmuscular peo-
pie in private life usually prefer not attem ping
at all PesIsalps up. town velocipede academy
was the first one started. Tnls was followed
street, a locality haunted ny the bulls
and bears. Parkers establishments, on
street; and Burnham's, in Brooklyn, who has
the lar gest velocipedal hall IN this country. 1t
isreckoned that the number of velocipedists Ia
this city already reaches several hundred.
Augmenting in the same ratio, 1t Will, within
the next three months. be reckoned by thou
sands. The principal carriage makers OF the
city have already added velocipede making as
a branch of their business, and in their Ware
rooms, side by side with stately equipages,
nom the airiest of resilient gigs up to cum per.
some family coaches, may be seen the Informal
and fascinating bicicle, Jnat reinless rover OF
Nicolson pavements, whose personnel Is an
Unconscious seli-encomiast, whose every gilt
tering spoke Ia its own most eloquent spokes-
To crown ALL the velocipede has been all but
introduced upon the metropolitan stage. lC Is
one of the standard amusements at th9 Tam,
many" Every evening. during the interval
the Cafe Amusant. Thearea. to be sure. is some.
what confined. Dut the performers do all thst
Siderns sIn psas the eAPoSiap P@ts allowed have
mot the. circumference of clrcus.ring. Per.
the bicice is TO usurp it's place aud galleries
will discover new source for cold thrills in In
Venus on the Velocipede; A new element of
tionsi drama. Nemesis, mounted upon the
modern Bucephalus. WIN be swifter footed
drama. after having been tracked through five
long acts by a keenscented detective Gas Keen.
scented as those who have been ferrettng out
the Rogers murderer), VIII be brought to jus.
tice, as the curtain descends. through the
3 maLouvrcE of velocipedal Vidocq
"A visit to some OF the velocipede schools of
the city is worth while. AS the newest and
regard not easily satisfied or forgotten. Some
pupils learn in q couple of days, and some
Very few women are among the neophytes, and
1t is said that two of the Worrel Sisters bid fair
10 become SOoa CeLOctpeutWeS, III Wulcu cttse Cne
public will be sure to learn something about it
from the placards ip front of the New York
Theatre. Miss Carrie Moore, the Skatorial
Queen, is also announced as rising artist OF the
velooipede The rapidity with which beginner
hnds his heels raised into the air and his coun-
tenanoe abased TO the floor, is probably un.
euualled by anything In nature but a fash OF
ligbtning. Perils like this, however, are
nothing when progression is the watohword
Meanwhile beg Philadelphians TO remembef
that ,Dten East river is bridged, and ,ohen ouI
underground railroad is built, and 1hen velocl-
pedism becomes universal in the metropolis
we shall have tripled our claims to Excelsior >
and illustrated the fact that perpetual motion
means perpetual progress too. ALI BABA,