The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-24

The News Here and There Among
the Riders of the Wheel.
A recent cycling carnival in England pro-
duced $500 for charity.
The Salvation Army Cycling Corps has
grown to enormous proportions in Europe.
sufficient to Intricate a bearing for each
100 miles.
"Damenniederrad"-i sounds like an ex>
pletive of no mean force, does it not? but
it is only the German for "ladys safety"
Baltimore. Md. wants the national L. A.
W. meet for 1894 and so does Buffalo. AS
bury Park, N. j., will also make a bid for
the meet.
]. W. zimmerman and F. A. Foell, of the
Buffalo IN. " Cycle Club, have performed
the wonderful feat Of riding double Cent
ury under eighteen hours.
Thomas Stevens the well-known rider
who wheeled round the world, delivered an
| interesting lecture at the Mechanics Insti-
tuts. Nottingham, England. last week, the
| subject being "a Bicycle Ride Across
| Asia"
Switzerland has the first military cycling
school in the world at Berne. Last week
240 military cyclists arrived at the bars
racks of tue school, coming from the diff
ferent corps, engineers, infantry, artillery
and carbineers
A French chemist claims to have invented
a chemical preparation which can be ap-
piled instantaneously to pneumatic tires,
and entirely prevents the air from escaping
! T. L.
lilo with surprising results-so the French
papers say.i
Gen. Miles in his recent report to the
war department touches in brief upon the
couriers on bicycles in the army, and the
experiment made in carrying messages
from Chicago to New York, which expert
ment. he says, proved conclusively that the
| bicycle will in the future prove to be most
valuable auxiliary to military operations.
Two well~known foreign riders have been
| testing the relative merits of the cushion
and pneumatic tires. They took a distance
of about nine furlongs and raced over it,
one on cushions, the other on pneumatics.
The latter won by IS seconds, being 20 per
| cent faster than the former. Then they
changed machines and tried again, with an
almost identical result in favor OF the pneu-
matte.
! Here they are: WindIe's records-*One-
quarter mile 0 IS 2-5, *one-half mile 0 81 As,
! #three-quarters mile l 80 As, Zone mile
! 2 o. 3~5, one mile 2 Us 3-5, two miles % SIS,
three miles Z "a SIS, four miles 8 &c 3-5, five
! miles II Al.
| Zimmerman's records %One-quarter
mile 81, *one-half mile OIL As, %three-
quarters mila "a, some mile 06 As, two
miles 81 rs, three miles Z 10 As, four
miles 9 Il, five miles ~ % 2-5.
Styling start.
To those who do not understand what is
meant by gear, as applied to the safety BIZ
| cycle the following explanation Is offered:
| When a wheel is said TO be geared to q GER
/ tain number Of inches, it means that one
| revolution of the crank axle will send the
rider as far as would one revolution OF
| wheel that many inches In diameter. To
ascertain the gear OF safety multiply the
| diane er of the rear wheel ia inches by the
number of teeth in the sprocKet wheel on
| the crank axle and divide by the number of
i teeth on the sprocket wheel on the hub OF
the rear wheel. This will give the gear In
| inches.
Charles 7. Harvey, Of the Pennsylvania
| Bicycle Club. has applied for a patent on
what may be termed unioyo sulky. Some
little time ago the idea struck Mr.. Harvey
| who claims to be the first man to have
thought of and introduced the child's seat
| for bicycles-that, as speed has been in
creased by changing from three wheels
to two wheels, following the same line, a
| further reduction in friction and a COM
| sequent gain In speed could be attained
| by changing from a two wheel sulky to a
vehicle depending for its running upon one
/ circumference. The illustration OF wheel