Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-12-19
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recent issue of the London Rpsniag
N6,oS and Post, which the Barnum adyeT-
Using bureau slipped into the GAzErTEs
mail, gives some interesting psrticu-
lars of the growth OF cycling and of the
magnitude of Cycle manufacture in
Great Britain. We are told that there ara
at present 100000 people In the United
Kingdom who ride the caprioious wheel,
and that the various factories at Coventry
and elsewhere turned out last year
10000 of these vehicles, valued at nearly
E3, 100000. Year by year the voteries Of
the sport increase in numbers, and
thousands of hands are employed in All
industry at which few years ago invest
ors Of capital looked askance. In recent
exhibition ct Sydenham there were 1900
wheels, representing 200 different exhibit
ors, most Of them heiling from Coventry,
Birmingham and Wolyerhampton. The
reader Is treated TO description OF one
OF these cycle manufactures, that OF
buckingham Il Adams, at Birmingham,
which has a capacity for turning out 100
machines per wees, every part being
manufactured on the promises. The de-
velopment Of the industry has trained
GLASS OF artitioefs in metal each Of whom
is expert In his own particular branch;
there is elaborate subdivision OF labor;
machinery has been Invented and multi.
piled, and where che hand was engaged
20 years ago 200 are now employed. And
still the work Of development and i'm
proyement ross on, Every year. says
the London paper, "Rid5 experience ss
to Wllat IS good ard what is to be
avoided, and ct last the investing public
has begun to see that there are pcssibili-
ties in the cycle trade yet undrsamt OF.
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The Cronin verdict was doubtless the
| best that could be reached, with an
obstinate juryman in position to dictate
terms to his fellow jurors, but it il q
compromise that disappoiats the country.
Nearly everybody oufside OF the jury
room trusted that such of the prisoners
as might be convicted of conspiracy and
murder would be hanged, and agreed
| that they had richly morited hsnging.
Thespeetacle oftheir bodies dangling from
the gallows would have taught their
murderously inclined fellow.members Of
the Clan na. Gael the same wholesome
Lesson that the hanging OF the Haymnrket
mrrderers Taught the Anarchists, and
! would have been accepted by the law
abiding members Of that organization IS
conducive to the purging Of their ranks
Of their worst elements. But justice and
law have at least won notable victory in
Bringing crime, resting entirely on cir
cumgtantial evidence, 80 convinoingly
home to the chief perpetrators
that even Juror Culver could rot
refuse to unite in verdict which sends
three OF them to jail for life. II is not
strange, but rather the contrary, consid-
eriag the extreme latitude permitted in
the catechizing and selection of the jury,
that one man should have gotten on it
VINO stood out aRainst the death penalty.
There is, instead matter for congratula-
ton that, after 90 many weeks Of sharp
practice in the empaneling Of a jury as
to do much to justify the press quips
about none but ignoramuses being con.
eidered eligible. the result has not been
even less satisfactory.