San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-06
Che Daily Light.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1895
CYCLE BREVITIES.

There will be a meeting of the
San Antonio cycling club today.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has practiced
bicycling in France and rides we'll.
The Alamo Wheelmen had club
run by moonlight to the Salado
Thursday night.
Two-thirds OF the riders who still
wear skirts on the wheel, wear
knickerbockers under them.
=Chicago women, like those Of
Paris, seem to favor boomers.
Skirts are deemed an inexcusable
nuisance.
"The surest way to keep the re-
serve at high water mark is to levy
tax on bicycles and bloomers."-
New York Advertiser.
Beginner-But 1 am not riding
1 am only trying to.
Officer-Bejabbers, thin, Oh will
run ye in for giving a akkyrobatic
exhibition widout license.
'Four or five young men were
arrested last night for riding BIZ
cycles without first providing a
light. Deputy Chief Ray says In
future the ordinance will be strict
ly Observation-Disclosures paper.
The fashionable habit makers
are getting all the way from $35 or
$40 to $3.50 for smart suits. They
are made to fitas symmetrically as
the ordinary tailor dress, and are
made OF whipcord cheviot or COW
ert cloth.
one woman says: 81 didn't be.
lieve in boomers till my skirts
caught between my chain and
sprocket wheel and threw me off on
a railroad crossing, but 1 do now.
/ didn't ride after that accident
until i got boomers.
Kate Field has celebrated her
50th-or-so birthday by shifting her
skirts for boomers and plotting a
bike. With the 'knell of so ringing
in hes years, Kate has fallen a vic.
tim to bicyolepsy, and judging
from an article she glories in it.
"I'm afraid" said the bicycle
girl, "that we are getting altogeth.
or too original in our ideas Of cos.
tune"
Sits worse than that" replied
her mother. ave are getting posi-
lively ab-original."-W Washington
Star.
Tt is whispered in cycling circles
that several slick diamond snug
glerSp-have been using the tubing
ofSanct wheels to get the gems by
the customs officials. It is we'll
known fact that many small and
valuable articles are brought in by
wheelmen in bicycle tubing.
Lady Norreys, who is one of the
patronesses of the Trafalgar Bicy.
Gle club, which is to be opened this
month, is an enthusiastic wheel
woman; she does not, however,
consider divided upper garment
essential, but advocates tailor
made, shortish skirt, stiffened from
the ankle to the knee.
The man who invented the fold
ing bicycle does not know how to
ride a wheel and never mount
ed one in his life. Yet his in
vention is success. 1t will
enable bicycles to be carried with
ease on journeys and to be hung
upon the wall Of an ordinary room.
The connecting rods Of the bicycle
frame are hinged or jointed and
simply double over upon one an
other like the parts Of a fishing
rod.
1t is a significant fact that moth
ers are beginning to advertise for
governesses who can ride bicycle
and can accompany their daugh-
tiers in this fashion, and il seems
likely that a new remunerative
occupation may open up for
women in the form Of cycling
chaperonage. A skillful rider will
be able to hire herself and her
machine out by the hour for the
purpose of guiding and guarding
young girls Of the upper classes
who are learning to "bike." a s.----.,
Ell Paso has fast man. His
name is Woeltz. This fast man
has some friends who are given
to writing letters to Texas and
other southern bicycle papers in
sinuating that r. Hugo Hofheinz
of this city can't ride little bit
in comparison with their man
Woeltz. They also insinuate that
Hofhainz,s Records arc not
straight. Woeltz, they cay, has
recently ridden mile in 2:lS in
competition. And they think that
their man can ride it, If pushed,
a couple Of seconds faster. Only
a few days ago Hofheinz rode one
mile paced, on the Jockey Club
track, in 2:11l. His friends have
taken up the matter and the
friends Of Woeltz, of Ell Paso'