The morning times., 1896-02-10
sPoKEs FROM THE WHEEL

The bicycle police are success in New
York. and the force will be considerably
increased.
Mayor Hooper, OF Baltimore, viii open
the Baltimore L. A. w. convention with
an address.
Chicagos cycle row continues to flour
ish. dying out in one quarter of the CITY
only TO spring up in another.
New orleans wheelmen and cycling en-
thusiasts are working up bicycle show
and race meet during the Mardi Gras
carnival.
Saturday night the Boston Bicycle Club.
the Oldest eye ug organization in the
United States, held its annual dinner in
that city.
The Windie Cycle Company, of which
Willie WindIe, the ex-champion racing
man, is secretary, has been forced into
bankruptcy.
John Pagan, the young racer who took
such a big slice off the New York-Phila-
delphia record last year, has gone into
the bicycle business
Gen. Nelson A. Miles has accepted an
invitation to be present at the Good Roads
| banquet, which takes place i'll Baltimore
tonight.
There is talk Of building board race
track at Buffalo. Henry Z. Ducker, one
Of the most noted of the old-time cyclers,
is TO be connected with the affair.
The wave of taxation for bicycles bids
fair to ride across the whole country, and
one after another the various States are
likely TO pass laws taxing bicycles.
o. S. Bunnell has been keeping very
quiet of late, but he says that when warm
weather comes again he will no doubt get
another attack of night-race meet fever.
American makers are likely to make a
raid on England this year, as it is reported
the English manufacturers are already
forced to refuse orders for 1896 wheels.
A musical comedy now being performed
in New York introduces four young women
riders, dressed in black and white boomers.
The production has just been brought
over from England.
Samples of folding bicycles are being
tested by the Russian and Prussian army
authorities, and it is reported that if they
prove satisfactory that the latter country
will order several thousands of them.
d. w. Roberts, who became famous last
year through preferring the charges of
crooked racing against Titus, Murphy and
CabaDne, has been elected president of the
Associated Cycling Clubs of st. Louis
A company has been formed at Newark,
n. j., with capital stock of 100000 to
manufacture tubing. With the demand for
tubing that is likely to rise this year, such
company should be money-makng one.
One of the customers who recently pur-
chased bicycle in Philadelphia on the in
stallment plan proved, on investigation,
to be millionaire and a man who could
have bought out all the bicycle stores in
the town.
Philadelphia Will depend for representa-
ton at the National Assembly on p. S. Col
Inns and Robert Garden. With a couple of
good hustlers to help them they might do
some good, but they are heavily handi-
capped.
One of the big sextuplets was being taken
| around the country, and at one place it
was expected to cause sensation, but on
arriving at the town it was found that two
OF the big skies were already on exhibition
| there.
The antique Nbodcn safety wheel, built
in 1870, and among the first wheels ever
ridden In Germantown, was presented to the
! Wlssahickon Wheelmen of Philadelphia, by
DR.. j. Glenn Fling. The wheel originally
belonged to Irving corse. Of Germantown.