The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24
A HISTORICAL SHOW
OF BICYCLES.
The Display by Riders and Makers
Opens Shortly in New York.
Greatest Wheel Show Ever Planned.
A Week of Exhibiting and Fancy
Riding in Madison Square Garden.
CopYright 1903

A Week of Exhibiting and Fancy
Riding in Madison Square Garden.
Copyright, 1898.
New York, Dec. 13.-Not since the rise
of the bicycle to its present Importance
as factor in every day life, has it been
put upon parade, so to speak, in so elabor-
ate way as has been planned for the
week beginning Jan. s next. There
will then be opened formally in
Madison Square Garden, New York city,
a national exhibit of cycles, Cycle acces-
series, and sundries. Not only will the
entire trade throughout the country be
represented, but riders in every class are
to participate. During the six days of
the show there will be witnessed, in
addition to the array of wheels and &C
coutrements, such variety of perform
nance in trick riding and racing, as
will Guido all previous records of the
kind. Yet the true character of the oc-
casion is not to be loss sight of. Here
tofore bicycle events have been mostly
trials Of speed and proficiency for in
dividual championship honors The
coming show is designed to represent
mainly the present supremacy of a
machine in those capacities usually as
cribed to living steeds alone.
1t is the Metropolitan Association of
Cycling Clabs, which has fostered the
present undertaking. The exhibitors
now number considerably over one
hundred, and so colossal is their project
that even railroad rates from the most
distant points have been arranged for,
while apart from the regular exhibits
there are to be displays of ex-
pert riding by men who have won promi-
nence at every meet, including the trick
riders, w. S. Maltby and Sidney Black.
The garden itself is being specially decor
ated and the exhibit platforms are so ar
ranged as to leave aisles of ample width.
In the center of the amphitheater will be
stage, with an area of 5000 square feet,
six feet above the floor. Upon this will
be done the fancy riding to the accompa-
nlment Of afternoon and evening concerts
The show opens at o'clock on Monday
evening and continues each day thereaf-
ter from until IL p. m, and a banquet
will bring the affair to an end on Satur-
day evening. A. Edmdnd Hildick, of the
Riverside Wheelmen, New York, Fred
er1ck heer, of the Hudson County Wheel
men, Jersey City, and Henry L. Salton-
stall, of the Elizabeth Athletic Cyclers,
Elizabeth, n. j., form the committee of
management.
Not the least among the matters of in
tefest 10 wheelmen in connection with
the show is the question of permanent
museum of cycles. The coming national
exhibit is essentially modern The latest
devices are to be given the places of
honor. To the taste of Individual exhibit
tors will be left the question of showing
what are now merely curiosities of the
trade. 1t was proposed to have a model
of Baron Won Drais' famed cele-
fer, or speed maker, the real
father of bicycles. The baron designed
IT about 1910, he being a hor-
ticulturist in the employ of the then
grand duke of Baden The quaint ma
chine was two-wheeled object which
the baron invented to expedite the going
of his professional rounds. In 1915 a
counterpart of the article was publicly
exhibited, but not until fifty years later
did the first real bicycle come into use.
The exhibitors at the coming show have
no counterparts of these old affairs. Only