San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-20
CYCLE BREVITIES.


Mr.. Frank Leslie desires that all
hacks and private carriages should
keep to the right side of the road
when he is training.
Tires will be larger and heavier
next year, say the cycle manufac'
turers. Will the single tubers be
in the ascendant, or the double ?
In transgressing a city's bylaws
riders should remember that cor.
porations have neither bodies to be
punished nor souls to be condemn
ed.
Manager Browder, of the Men.
ger, trains regularly every night
He has introduced a novelty in
pacemaking, having the work done
for him by his pet dog.
Some unkind people say that a
man who has his wheel stolen
does not require sympathy as he
loses only one of the many he pos
sesses. Think this over.
Corporal punishment is being ad.
ministered in England upon some
of those convicted of bicycle steal
ing. OF course, cyclists are not per.
mitted to WELD the cat-o'-nine-tails.
The LIGHT will gladly print
the opinions of local wheelmen as
to the best bicycle tires, double or
single tubes, il wheelmen will
omit the names Of manufacturers
in their replies.
Many Of the cities which have
given the best part of the best
streets over to the car companies
are the first to tax wheelmen, who
carry their lives in their hands
lodging the death dealing and
limb manning street cars.
Cyclist Frank Moore seems to
have won the distinction of being
the champion in this city at quick
ly stopping his wheel with the foot
brake. In winning his spurs on
Alamo plaza one night recently,
he stopped his wheel before him.
self had ceas.d to revolve in the
air.
The burglar who "swiped" near
ly all of Mr.. Confines stock of
sporting goods, either forgot to
take bicycle, or probably expect
ed it to be delivered to his resi-
dence. II he wants one, he can
have it yet, by calling on Mr.. Cor
tines and making himself known.
There is nothing small about this
dealer.
George Conklin, of Blairstown,
Iowa, has recently invented a con-
trivance which will prove boon
to wheelmen. 1t is a sunshade,
and so constructed that it can be
attached on the bicycle and adjust.
ed to keep the sun off, and it is flat
SO that it does not interfere with
the speed of the wheel by catching
the wind.
George E. Dodson, of Chicago o,
claims to have invented a pune
tureless tire. Mr.. Dodson declares
his is the only positively puncture,
less pneumatic tire ever brought
before the public. He says that a
wheel on which his tire is placed
can be ridden over a plank into
which has been driven any num-
Der OF steel nails.
Emil Jorgenson, who owns a re.
pair shop in Lake View, Chicago,
is very lucky man, for not only
has he the reputation Of being a
competent man in his business, but
he is also the husband of very in
dustrlous and ingenious woman.
Mrs. Jorgenson has made, without
any assistance from her husband,
two bicycles. The first of these she
sold for 800 cash, and the second
has also been disposed Of.
The effluvia arising from Com.
merce street, after the blocks are
flooded by the street sprinklers, on
even these cool autumn days, is
enough to cause not only wheel.
men, but every clerk and merchant
as well as lady shopper OIL
business man, to express the wish
that the unoccupied firemen
could be utilized to wash of all
the block paving with the fire
hose about twice per week and the
sprinkler, unless it could be made
to deposit the water more lightly,
be discarded altogether.
One Of the greatest evils that lie
being faced by bicycle dealers is
the installment buyer. Many peo
pie who are constantly getting
wheels under this system are not
able to pay for them. The loss to
the dealer comes from having
wheels returned after two or three
months, roughly used and moth
ing paid but the meagre weekly
payments, and sometimes that neg
lected. 1t is usually the case that
these installment buyers are PEG.