The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-06

the end of the race should find it very
handy.
Only one wheelman out OF every three
owns his own machine.
A Canadian wheel club has a bugle corps.
Experts agree upon 64einch as the best
all round gear for wheel,
The Philadelphia Bicycle Club had mile
age last year Of 81, $40 miles.
There are 100 wheelmen to every single
mile OF good roads in America.
The wheel trade lass year, it is said. spent
1856, $40 for advertising.
Massachusetts, heads the list of wheel
women in the L. A. W. with 24O; New
York follows with 156, aud Ohio Is third
with 81.
Seventy six per cent of all pneumstics
used are estimated to be punctured before
they have been ridden 200 miles upon the
road.
A wheelmsn has one chance in / $50, 900
Of being killed by bicycle accident, and
one in $4,000 Of being seriously in ured
by it.
Recent estimates place the number Of
wheelmen in New York and Brooklyn at
$4,000. The number OF wbeelwomen in the
two cities is estimated at !, 500.
A French oyclist and the driver Of a
French ''growler" t4-wheeled cab had few
words about rights OF way, and stealing
quietly behind bis enemy, the cyclist, who
had to give way on the road, chalked on the
rear Of the cab: "For the removal of cholera
patients only. Please do not come near"
There were no more fares that day for the
anti-cycling 'cooher."
A nickel|in-the-slot fixture has been placed
upon machines intended for rental. The
rider pays as he goes, and failure to pay Ia
followed by the mechanism loo king the
machine so 10 can only be ridden with great
difficulty.
In Austria the winner of handicap can
not compete in another race or that descrip-
ton on the same day aud track.
In a recent mile race in South Africa a
wheelman was pitted against trained o.
trioh, and the bird won.
French racers use assumed names upon
the track.
Over 500 race meets were held in the
United States during 1892.
Moody Boynton, inventor of the bicycle
railway system, recently appeared before
the New Hampshire House OF Representa-
tives and asked for charter for his rail-
way. In the course OF Mr.. BoYnton's re-
ha kE,a
twenty-five miles a minute with safety.
Zimmerman has received q special invi-
tation from the German Cycle Racing AS
ISOLATION to compete at their championships
on June IL and IL.
A man whom the wheelmen of the coun.
try should rise up and call blessed lives in
Rochester. He has invented elf-patching
trousers. The plan is simple, but is said to
be effective. The cloth is of double thick
ness where most of the wear comes, the
pattern being carefully adjusted 80 as to
coincide in each piece. When the outer
covering wears through all that has to be
done is to darn in the rough edges The
pattern and cloth remain intact.
German oyclist-soldiers have received
gracious permission TO omit the regular
salute when they meet an officer They
are, however, 80 maintain rigid attitude
and slacken their pace. The new regulation is
a very considerate one. Imagine the agoniss
of a private trying to keep up a slipping
pneumatic on a greasy day, and edging
hopelessly toward che gutter, II he beheld
an officer, and was obliged 20 take off one
indispensable hand 60 salutel
A new form of tandem safety has been re-
Gently designed in which the front rider
sits facing the rear one. His saddle is fixed
just in front OF the steering socket, his han
dle-bar on the top tube of the diamond, and
his chain wheels and pedals almost immedi-
ately below the rear riders. There would
appear to DO some confusion among she
riders' feet at some periods Of the revolu.
tiop, aud at best it hardly seems satisfactory
for the front rider to have his back ITO the
horses.n
The Canadian customs department has
granted the petition of Canadian wheelmen
and will hereafter admit free the wheels of
visiting wheelmen when known to be bona
fide visitors II the visitors are unknown
they will have to pay the duty, but it will
DO refunded upon proper representation
made at Ottawa.
The plain truth is good enough for Hoods
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