The morning times., 1896-10-25

on reel just above the rear fork II the
machine. On the handle bar is tele-
graph instrument which is connected
with the wire, one end of which is held
in the station operators room. The ad-
vantage Of this is that the operator on the
machine lays his own line as he rides
down the track and is in constant com
munication with headquarters. Where the
wreckIng train is busy at some other
portion Of the road the bicycle telegraph
office can precede it and by wiring TO
headquarters the details of the wreck,
the officials are able to act intelligently
and III this way money, as well as time,
may often be saved
When the operator desires to return TO
the station the reel above the rear. wlrel
automatically recoils the wire leaving the
operator the free use of his hands with
which 10 manage his mahcine. When il is
desired To use the bicycle on any highway
the triangular attachment is easily rern3ved
and folded and carried on the machine.
All the required tools and the telegraph
apparatus are carried in satcbel swung
beneath the top bar of the frame. The
brace rods of the attachment may be con-
vertel into Il support for the bicycle when
repairing lines along highways, or when
telegraphng.
The attachment weighs about fifteen
pounds, and stanchly made bicycle,
proper for lineman's use, twenty-five
pounds, making the whole equipment but
forty pounds in weight.
a speed of twenty-five miles an hour
can be easily made when following the
railroad track and fifteen to twenty miles
an hour has been attained, without fatigue
to the rider, when the wires follow the
highway.
a TRACK IN THE CLOUDS.
The idea of a bicycle track In the clouds
must seem like Il dream TO cyclists who
amuse themselves in an effort to dodge
wagons on the crowded streets of a city
or who squirt around the conventional every
day tracks of the ordinary courses. And
yet the course at the La Piedad Track at
Mexico City, Mexico. is eight thousand
feet above the sea level There the clouds
hang low in the clear atmosphere. hover
Ing about the peaks of snow clad mountains.
The air is light and invigorating; the
leaves of the dense foliage are of an un
natural freshness; the grasses are frag
rant and of a peculiar richness. 1t is an
ideal spot for Il cyclist and the champion
rider, A. W. Evens, who recently visited
the course, came away with this idea, ii
We can judge by the following account con
corning the track, which he has writer
for US:
when the Cyclists Union Club was
started in Mexico a year ago the members
began to look around for suitable track
with the result that one was planned On Tie
Poseo de Ia Piedad, and it is now one OF
the finest tracks in the country.
''There are many reasons why this track
is i fayorite one among wheelmen. Nor art
tile least of these the cqUable tcmperatur,
of the climate and the delightful scenery o.
the locality. II might tn tnuHght that a
an altitude of : 600 feet. racing would b.
difficult, but il has not been found SO
Some remarkably good records have beer
made over this track, and the riders hav,
experienced no i'll effects from their work
This highest track in the world is on
fine avenue, the surface of which is yer,
good, as in fact are all roads leading int
the Mexican capital The track itself il
covered with a material rescm bling cement
hut not quite SO hard. For five or sil