The record-union., 1896-01-15
WHEELS OF 's6.
Coming Great Shows in Chicago and
New York.
New Racing Records Made at Santa
Monica and New Orleans
Class Riders.
(From Cycle Topics }

| Two big cycle shows are coming and
they represent the interests of most of
| the bicycle firms in America Begin
ming January 4th, and continuing for
one week, the Chicago cycle show will
command the attention of the public.
| On January 18th the New York show
will begin and last for week. Taking
into consideration the competition in
this country to-day among firms MAX
| ing bicycles, the attempt of one to out
rival the other in attractive features
will be side-show in itself. Many new
and handsome patterns, the advance
models for the '96 outputs, will be ex-
| hibited for the first time. A visit to the
cycle shows is entertaining as we'll as
| instructive. Each manufacturer usu-
ally has a corps of efficient employees to
comment on the features of their
wheels, and inspection can only result
in giving >wheelmen an idea of the deli
cate mechanism of the bicycle and dem
orstrating that they are more difficult
to construct than most people imagine
| An English firm is executing an order
for $50 bicycles, which will be used by
company of Salvation Army soldiers.
This seems an excellent way for the
|
it certainly would make a sensation if a
band of this number would ride through
the streets of an American city. 1t is
for a good cause, however, and should
be encouraged.
Peter j. Berlo. at New Orleans, on the
new quarter mile cement track, paced
by the quintuplet, broke the following
flying start professional records: Three
miles, $40 4-5; four miles, 7:50; five
miles, 9:51 2-5. Berlo also tried for the
! two-thirds mile, but mistake was
made in the measurement. He did the
half in 0:50 fiat.
! Active steps are being taken in the
suppression of the bicycle thief. This
much dreaded individual is the terror
of wheelmen and though his depreda-
| tions have not been conspicuous for
| their frequency of late there are many
| of these robbers now abroad. Nearly
every city in the country, where cycling
dominates, has taken precautions to
mete out justice to the bicycle thief in
| large and unrelenting quantities. In
New York State a year ago band Of
organized thieves made bicycle stealing
| their object, but several Of the gang
were apprehended and are now Ian
| gushing in prison. Every wheelman
should unite in bringing the bicycle
thief to justice.
| It is with a degree of satisfaction
| that the wheelmen of the country note
| the entree to the ranks of some of the
| eminent scholars, professional men and
other renowned personages before the
public to-day who have adopted cycling
as a beneficial exercise. Politicians.
lawyers, physicians, authors, actors,
| justices, artists and almost every pro-
| fession is represented in the cycling
| masses of to-day. The tendency on the
part of Americas snartest men and
women to follow the mode of cycling
certainly augers we'll for the sport
| A happy go-lucky lot of racing men
are making merry-and the records fly
at Santa Monica, where the Stearns
| team is encamped at the present time
under the efficient management of
| Dad G1eezen. A score of hardy
riders are wheeling down the best time
set by good men before them and as
sisting to pull some one of the party out
for a particularly fine performance.
| Christmas week in sunny California
was taken advantage of by the Stearns
team inasmuch as several of the boys
| broke worlds records. Earl H. Kiser
rode paced quarter mile in % 3-5 Sec
onds and an unpaced quarter in p.
/ Shefsh went out later and covered an
unpaced quarter in "a seconds. Ran
| dali, Shefski and Hatton covered a
quarter mile over a strafghtaway
course on the triplet in - seconds,