The evening times., 1895-08-24
All Around the Wheel.

Bicycle riders in Sedalia. No. are COM
PEELED by new ordinance to carry red
lamps on thier bicycles at nights. No
other color satisfies the law.
In Bridgeport, Conn, they now have Gn
ordinance requiring the use OF lamps on
bicycles at night. wheelmen have tried
10 persuade themselves that it is a joke.
AS they are promptly arrested, they DO not
think it is very funny now.
New York is the first city 10 recognize
the rights of citizens who ride bicycles, and
who use them in going to and from busi-
ness. resolution previously passed by
the aldermen to pave Church street from
Chambers to Dey in granite was on last
Wednesday roscinded and one substituted
making asphalt the material. This is part
of the bicycle path that will be established
between the Battery and Central Park.
An unused church is the last building
to be used as bicycle academy. There
are few vacant halls in New York that
have not been put TO this use. The out
lay OF capital required is very small,
and the risk involved in becoming the
manager of an academy is not very great.
The halls are usually rented for a time
when they would not otherwise be engaged,
and the prices asked are low, while there is
sufficient rivalry among the bicycle COM
panies to make it possible for q man 10 get
hold OF enough wheels to commence opera
tions without great outlay.
Cincinnati wheelmen are preparing bill
10 be presented to the next Legislature
which provides a line Of rot less than $5
nor more than 500 for whoever placeA
glass, metal, stone, earthenware, OF other
substances to cause injury to pedestrians,
horses, carriages, or bicycles. unless done
for roadmaking or repairing. The bill also
provides that whoever breaks cuts, defaces.
runs down, coll:Ges with, or otherwise in
jures any carriage, bicycle. or other vehicle
belonging to another when travelling or
standing on the highway or sidewalk,
shall he fined Lot less than $40 nor more
than $500.
A Newburg, N. Y, man has invented a
bicycle lawn mower. The machine is
made with an ordinary bicycle hind wheel
and a tweniy-mch mower in the place
of the front wheel. The mo wer wheels
have rubber tires, and they run Just as
smoothly as bicycle itself. 1t is attached
with long steel prongs or forks. and may
be adjusted TO cut high or low. The pedals
are placed directly on the large wheel shaft.
dispensing with The chain sprocket wheels
and crank shaft of the bicycle. The mower
cycle is Quilted just as the bicycle is, by
the handles. and lawn can be gone over
in one-third of the time it takes TO do it
with an ordinary hand mo wer.
In his article on what to avoid in bicyc-
ling, printed in the August number of the
North American Review, Sir Benjamin
Ward Richardson, a well known English
medical authority, writes that excessive
cycling is dangerous because of its ef-
feet upon the heart, the motion of which he
has known to bc raised from 80 to 200
bats minute by the exercise. He J
thinks. too, there is a tendency to develop
the lower limbs at the expense OF the upper.
There is little doubt of the correctness of
these observations, and they are the more
trustworthy because Sir Benjamin is him
self a cyclist, convinced of the benefit of |
the exercise when moderately indulged.
His conclusions are supported by DIR. |
Reilly.