The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-22

ing in One of the most beautiful wheels
it is possible to imagine is now on the
market and has a white saddle, white
enamel frame and white-tipped handle
bars. 1t is as dainty a wheel as any one
could wish to ride, and will be extremely
popular for a ladies' wheel. Ninety-six Will
be year in cycling which will surpass
all former records in America and all
foreign countries, and it viii be the fore
runner of greater things in cycling than
are yet dreamed Of.
AMERICAN WHEELS TO THE FRONT
A point of national pride is the fact
that despite the long-vaunted superiority
OF the English wheel over the American,
America IS thus far the only country
and especially England with American
plcycles. We have already beaten Great
Britain in most of the worlds great
sports, and the time is coming and is
not far distant, when our commercial
supremacy Will be unqueStioned. In one
week recently the appraised value of the
exports in cycles and cycling material
from the port of New York, exclusively
to Great Britain, was 10,Gc0 not a bad
showing when one recalls the pleasant
things English manufacturers have said
Of lis. The fact is that America has sue
cesSfully placed her bicycles on the Eng
fish market, and, though met by the US
udt British buster, has walked right
into the trade declared by John Bull to
be sacred to English manufacturers.
4, selection taken at random from the
statement of the bicycle exports from
the port of New York little more than
fortnight ago shows that bicycles were
shipped to the following countries: Ant
werp, British East Indies, Brazil Brit
ish Australia, Bremen, British West In
dies, Central America, Copenhagen.
Christiana Hamburg, Hull. Hayti, Hell
Singfors, Havre, London, Southampton.
Santa Domingo United States of Colon
bia and Valparaiso. The value of the
bicycles shipped to London alone was
over $1,000 The American bicycle in Swift
zerland is also an assured fact, and even
the Geneva dealers have lately been con-
WINGED. In Turkey, where the Sultan
named the wheel 1.-The devils chariot.
and forbade its use, the bicycle has not
had much chance until of late. The lat
est reports from Constantinople are that
cycling has at last gained some ground
and that q few wheels are now used in
Constantinople, Smyrna and Sa!onica.
There is track at Therapia on the
| Bosphorus, and another one is being
built at Pera, the fashionable part OF
Constantinople. Cycling is also popular
in Egypt, and one does not need to
mention Paris, where cycling seems uni
verSal.
Legislation and proposed legislation
anent bicycling is of too volumlnous a
nature to more than mention here. Speed
ways and boulevards rate of speed in
parks and on public highways, special
bicycle paths in parks proposed insur-
ance for bicycle riders, brake or no brake.
recently determined for no brake in New
| York. improved paving in cities and bet
ter roads throughout the country, sig
nails, lights and many other matters
! have all been brought prominently be-
| fore the public, and it is worthy of
note that the merry cyclist has in nearly
every instance had things his own way.
In this glance at bicycling one cannot
! fail to notice the great prominence
women have taken in this sport. Isaac
B. Potter, chief consul in New York state
division L. A. W.. believes that women
should be represented in the National
Assembly of the L. A. w. and of the
state boards. In a recent conversation