Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-09
THE WHEEL.
, No+os of Iu,crest to the Cyclers.

HERE ere tour
oG cvcling clubs in
81 L Hartford with a
CMf combined member
III M ship of $50.
~ 3A{ OVER three hun
| 4aIE@h.M dred wheelmen IN
| @I duiped in lantern
az wv parade ct Toledo,
EN I'm Ohio, November =.
nv wA The Milwaukee
Ibsll - wheelmen have en-
fEsIM S tered local indoor
T. V# ;Nh1 " baseball league.
| EM w wv A. G. GRAHAM, OF
NIS[ Minneapolis, has
>~ lowered the State
twenty fve-n>ile road record to one
hour thirty-six minutes and thirteen
seconds.
Bob GARDEN, of Chicago, is accom-
panying Col. Pope from that city to the
Pacific coast.
| The Arlington Club, of Washington,
D. c., is thinking Of building bicycle
track on the outskirts of the city.
In an Irish parish tricycles have been
purchased for the dust superintendents,
on which to go their rounds.
GEORGE HART has applied to the
racing board for reinstatement as an
amateur.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will in the future check bicycles accom-
panied by their owners if the latter
have no other baggage.
CONNECTICUT has passed Illinois in the
brush for precedence in League mem
berslip. The Nutmeg State now leads
by six members, with total Of 1885.
The most curious case is in the En-
glish courts. A man has brought suit
against cyclist on the ground that the
wheelman frightened him and developed
case of heart disease.
W1SDLE and several other good
American riders may go to England to
compete in the 1891 N. G. q. champion
ships.
E. J. KELLER, awell-known bicyclist,
rode over trestle over mile and half
in length at Birmingham, Conn.,, on a
safety bicycle, the wheels of the ma
chine running on the ties of the trestle
and the ties being nearly foot apart.
1t was dangerous feat and caused much
comment.
The Chicago cycling clubs number
nineteen all told, and their combined
membership is fully 1880. Thirteen
of these clubs are we'll housed, two of
them admit ladies as auxiliary mem
bers, and all have days set apart on
which the ladies are allowed all the
privileges Of the clubhouse.
THE Rhode Island wheelmen have
appointed committee to arrange for q
billiard and pool tournament.
The Treasury Department has de.
cided that bycicles can not be regarded
as personal effects, and in cases where
they are regarded as household effects
they are entitled to free entry only
when it is shown that they have been il
use abroad for not less than one year.
WHEN Mr.. Gladstone recently spoke
pers made great effort to cheat" each
other. The Ne'us, by using corps OF
cyclists to rush the stenographic notes
from Dalkeith to its printing office
eight miles from where the speech was
delivered, published the earliest ano
most complete reports. The note:
were dispatched every few minutes.
The copy was rushed over the eight
miles in thirty-three minutes.
MEN, women and children ride bi.
cycles in Washington, and even the
letter carriers are being mounted or
them, writes correspondent. Nearly
4 all of the collections and suburban de-
liveries are now made by mounted car.
riers and, owing to the smooth asphalt
streets, much valuable time is saved by
their use. 1t is probable that at nc
distant day the messengers of the vari
GUS Government departments who now
| fly about the city on horseback will be
mounted, like the letter carriers, on
bicycles. Secretary Proctor has taken
tie initiative in the new movement, and
the well-lznown War Department. mes
senger, who has been for many years
dashing about the city on coal-black
charger, now rides on one of the silent
steeds that neither sleeps nor eats.
The Cabinet officers themselves will
probably stick to the old-fashioned
style, as they think that coupes arc
good enough for them.