The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-23
WHEELS AND WHEELS
knacOndans to Take to Bicycles in
Large Numbers This Year.
TWILL BE ALL THE RAGE
All Agents VIII Have to Pay a City
Lioense-InterestIn Gossip
About Wheelmen and
WheelWomen.

Inc CITY author1tieS are a1ter people
selling clothing, crayon portraits, BIZ
cycles and the like in Anaconda who
do not pay any license. and IL the tenn
porary agents for eastern houses know
what is good for them they will call
on City Treasurer Delury and plank
down the necessary amount, the same
as local merchants do The city OFF,
Gals do not intend that old established
business houses, who help financially
and otherwise to keep up the city gov
eminent, shall be compelled to COM
pete with bicycle agents. for instance,
who ait present are as numerous as
Office seekers. and who are selling BIZ
cycles withdQt paying anything into
the city treasury. This year promises
10 be a great year for bicycles and
everybody who can afford the luxury
intends to have a wheel. The Bicycle
club has a large membership and there
will be hundreds of people riding the
bicycle this year who never thought
of riding one before. The ladies, also,
intend to participate in the exhilaralt-
ing pastime, If one is to believe what
he hears. and it is also rumored that
the fair ones will not be hampered in
pedaling their bikes by long skirts
when they reach the outskirts-out-
skirts is good-of the city limits.
Speaking of bicycling yesterday
]. ii. DAILY said the Scyclist who
can maintain a dignified appearance
with a small or large, yelping dog
lodging about his feet is worthy of all
admiration. 1t is always better to dis
mount than to attempt to kick at a
dog. The chances are ten to one that
the wheelman will either fall or make
a ridiculous show of himself in recover
ing his balance. The Anaconda dogs
seem to have a particular grudge
against all wheelmen and 1 have had
TO dismount many times in order to
avoid a heavy fall. The interference
of some of the local dogs is very good
at least they have secured several
-touchdowns' with bicyclists whom I
know who do not know how to
tackle the average Anaconda dog"
There is talk of organizing a Fat
Ma IS Bicycle club. All whee men weigh
lag 200 pounds or more are requested to
hand in their names to Rod Williams,
who is taking an active interest in the
formation of the club. The heavy
weights have always been victorious
in baseball and other athletic contests
with their lightweight friends in this
city in years gone by, and Mr. Will
Jams believes the large, handsome
fellows who are idollzed by the fair
Ones" will win hands down in bicycle
runs this year. =.-s--
An international indoor six-day cy-
cyling event is being arranged to take
place in Madison Square garden. New
York, next December. The contest
will be a 144-hour event, in other
words, a continuous race. The size of
the prizes will be as follows: First
$1,000; second, $500; third. $500; fourth,
$3.50; fifth, $500; sixth, 5000; seventh,
oil
500; eleventh, SIS. Pat Powers, the
well-known baseball man, is one of the
promoter.
Brain worker. snatch. seize and en-
Joy every moment you can spare for
.cycHng!-American Cyclist.
According to governmet returns the
people of this country annually pay
three per cent. on $26, ZOO, 000, 900 in main
tanning the present bad system of road
ways.
II 10000, 900 miles OF new macadam-
izer road could be built in the United
States one-half of the total draught
animals now in use could be dis
penSed with.
Extraordinary high gearing is a fad
with prominent Denver riders. Some
ing themselves with gears ranging
from 100 to 12o.
Southern drivers do not fully ac-
knowledge the right of the bicycle to
the public highways. The road-hog
appears in greater numbers in the
South than in any other part Of the
country.
Washington society has developed
good many skillful riders, and the
bon ton will enter into cycling with en-
thusiasm this year.
There are now in use In the United
States 5000. 900 horses. 100000 mules,
1900, 900 bicycles and $4,000 asses, exclu-
sive of the two-legged variety.
The United States now has more
tracks than any other country in the
world, England not excepted.
Chicago wheelmen are pleased with
the prospect that wheels will be carried
free this year on the suburban trains.
The years may come and the years
may go.
Geologically,
And the planets kept on their whirl
Mathematically;
The clouds may frown. and the winds
may blow.
Periodically.
And political cyclones twirl
Problematically.
think I know what I'll aim to do,
Theoretically.
Ere the swift forces of nature swirl
Too emphaTically,
I'll mount my wheel and away I'll go.
theoretically.
For spin with the bloomer girl
Diplomatically.
American Cyclist.
Do you know that the department
OF agriculture has information on hand
which proves that IL costs the farmers
Of the United States 9A6,0o0O0O to
market their produce. and that two