The morning times., 1896-10-25
Bicycle with Telegraph Attachments.

tant, they are in reality over fifty miles
away.
LAS a rule, the ma jorty of Mexican
bicycle races are run on Sunday, which
| is the general day for recreation in this
| country. AT first the people did not take
| kindly TO the idea OF the riders appearing
bare-armed and bare-lcgged on the track,
but they soon got over that and now
everybody is anxious to go to the races
! and see the results. 1t is safe to say that
| bicycle riding and bull fighting are max
| ing u close race for popular favor ill
! Mexico.
Surrounding the track and on either
| side of the broad walks leading up to
the grand stand are set flagpoles, and
| on days when there is any racing the air
| is full of gayly colored bunting.
"In my racing experience in Mexico /
| have found the country and the people
most delightful, particularly in the imme
| diate vicinity of the City Of Mexico. In
| this very even climate 1t does not seem
| to me that one feels the fatigue of riding
or racing as in a more northern latitude,
and have found that, taken altogether,
Mexico is the place of all places for the
! enthusiastic wheclman.
| "One peculiar thing, however, is the
habit which the MeXicans have of taxing
| a bicycle dollar each month. Each
wheel is registered and nun mbered, and if
the rider is found on the street without
bell and a metal tag showing his number,
| and a light at night. he or She is fined So
| But there is so much else in favor of the
| place Tor the wleelman, that, after the
| first month, he does not bother much
|, about the tax"
A CURE FOR THE BICYCLE EYE.
Cycle spectacles are the newest thing in
| wheeling paraphernaa. They are not
intended especially, as might be at first
supposed, for persons afflicted with the
bicycle eye although they may be
| found beneficial for that ailment, but
| they have been invented for the sole pur-
pose OF keeping the dust out of the cyclists
| eyes as he wheels along sandy road.
They do not magnify at all, but are made
OF plain glass. The glass may be blue,
If desired to modify the glaring sunlight,
hut most of the spectacles have clear glass.
Their distinguishing characteristic is Il
scoop-like piece of metal gauze on the
outside of each glass, which fits the bol-
lows formed between cheek bones and
eyebrows and prevents particles of dust
from flying into the corners of the eye.
These gauze pieces are provided with tiny
hinges which fasten to the upper and the
lower edge of each glass, and by this means
they can be folded up with the ear pieces
and enclosediD IN ordinary case. which the
bicycle girl will wear on her chatelaine
AS these spectacIes do not in any way
affect the eyesight. they Will doubtless be
widely adopted, a circumstance which will
surely give rise to panic among the con-
servatives Who do not ride, as to the bale
full effects of the bicycle upon the eye.
sight Statistics to show that nine -tenths Of
the bicyclists wear glasses will only mean
however, that large proportion of sensi-
bic people are trying to keep the dust out
OF their eyes, At present, though they
are some what crude in both material and
construction. the spectacles are selling
for one dollar pair.
The new device can, of course be ap
Piled to any spectacles or eyeglasses, sc
that those who already-wear specs" as
an aid to sight, may convert them into
dust protectors by attaching the little gauze
scoop to the sides Of each ARR-