The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1895-03-15
REIGN OF THE WHEEL
PROOF OF THE BICYCLES
PRAcTicABiLiTY.
The Coming Machine Among the Pour
Hundred -- London's Hansoms Cycle
and the bamboo whsel-Tripis and
Quadrupie satellites

"In largo Western city In which my
firm IA interested In street railways"
said o prominent banker 70 "A New
York journal reporter, there are
1900 bicycles. The receipts OF our
railway company have, since tho gen.
oral adoption Of tho wheel. been re.
duccd on an average $500 a day"
This startling statement. showing
the practicability Of the bicycle could.
no doubt, b. duplicated when applied
10 ovory city In tho land. II would
Indicate that the time has come TO di.
vide the great wheel interests, 10 that
on the ono hand there would be a yo
hclo given over 20 pleasure and sport,
and on the other carry-all used
for business purposes.
A long step toward tho adoption 81
the bicycle principle 10 practical uses
has boon made in London, where q
vehicle fashioned after the hanson
cab has been invented. which Is pro.
pollod by mechanism similar 20 that
employed on the ordinary wheel.
This modern cab was recently OK.
hibltod AT the Stanley cycle show. hold
under the auspices Of the Stanley club
at the Agricultural hall, Ellington. In
addition. thcro wore exhibited many
novelties In the cycle line that cannot
fail 20 excite favorable criticism from
American dcyotocs Of tho sport.
The show was Of very considerable
interest, and gave au excellent idea o.
tho latest development In an industry
which now employs many thousands
Of operatives In all parts Of the world.
There worc 3G2 exhibitors, and no lrss
than 800 cycles Of every imaginable
description ON view, including many
machines Of foreign make.
In fact. tho show reached the
dignity Of bolny. declared inter.
national by the board Of trade.
Though extremely varied, ~ cannot
bo said that the show provided any
startling novelties, except In the case
Of tho now bamboo cyclic. The por-
feet pattern would soon, therefore, to
have been reached In our present
"safcty' typo Of machine. but tho
question OF weight still occupies tho
manufacturers, and the bamboo cycle
comes a. an attempt 10 solve tho
problem.
Tho bamboo machines are certainly
extremely light, some weighing no
moro than twenty-five pounds, and l.
n claimed for them that, given aluml'
mum joints and castings, tho bamboo
tube Is superior 10 tho steel tubs.
Experience alone can sottlo this
question.
Tho now triple and quadruplo
saiotios were also feature OF tho
show. and In tho tire sections werc
several exhibits 10 Illustrate the rapid.
ly growing adaptation Of pneumatic
tires 20 broughams and other carriages.
II will DO necessary for some en-
torprlsing. manufacturers TO pat upon
tho market wheels moro highly fin.
ishod than any that have yet been
produced. II may not DO uhNasona-
bic 10 expect. within the merit year,
machines that arc richly set 10 costly
| jewels and decorated with ran metals,
II IL barely possible that his time
noxt year the society columns ~ tho
morning journal will contain some
such notice rs thlsi
"Miss Elise Won Dcncken, the
charming heiross Of the Won Dcnckon
millions, was seen on the boulevard
yesterday, mounted on tho bicycle
given her on the occasion oi her birth
day by Colonel Robert Zimmerman
Won Dcnckon. Of Dcnckcn's Heights.
hor uncle. This machine vas made
by Sworth, OF Paris, for tho princess
OF Wales, and is work OF at The
tires are OF elder gold, the spokos and
rim Of silver set with rubIcs- Mis-.
Won Dcncken's fayorito iewols-whilc
tho handle and pedals aro OF pure
gold studded with diamonds The
saddle is covered with satin, on which
is hand-painted portrait OF Mr.. G,
Wyndham-Quin."
Michaux. tho French master mo.
chanic, invented the weighted bicycle
pedal, thereby securing constant
lateral position, and who thus took
the first stop In tho transformation oI
tho old and cumhrous yol0clpcdo into
the machine now 20 universally used.
Mlchaux, TO whom a monument has
recently boon erected At barbecue
In France. has only been dead iew
years.
Lioutonnnt-Co Colonel McCoslucy Butt
OF tho Twelfth regiment knew him II
. Paris whom Colonel Butt was u schoo
boy there, and he says that he romcm
Dor. riding on ono Of the lrst yclocl
podos Ia the yard OF Michaux's Parl
houses TO which the mochanician ha,
, applied the pedal.
Al this time what Is now known a.
tho big wheel. hal not b,on devised
but Michaux, as he experimental Will
I his weighted pedal, gradually in
, creased the size Of the front wheel o
, his bicycles until finally tho "bl
, wheel" which was so much In yogu
! for several years, came into being
. This was In turn, rs will bo rcmem
bored, followed by the safety wheel
! and then came tho chain, and lastl
; the pneumatic tire.