The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-03

reputation aud also n good Idea; i put OF! M
big resorts and race meets. Tho steps are g
feet hiuh and 1872 long. and the descent !,
neo This week my wife did her first trick rid
ing. and since then we've been together.
ITS very, vol for, every one TO Know n llttlo
Of trick riding. and every boy that rides .
whctl IA practising stunts. MS they shy. Nien
and women should know how to bring q wh"fi
speed In n crowded street and get crowded IN
among trucks. carriages, cars, or other wlsels,
pS,I, y !. 2 front Wheel up and miami noi can II hold spdf' a
wheel eth for three minutes.
hut we couldn't" said . stout woman, +.
Not without practice. hut the academy u
an admirable place 20 Try such work., II Is
simple enough: H. Ia also best to know how 10
although do not nly',s any one t. make a,i a
praCti g of riding VIII, hand, on. IL is TOOL
hardy TO 40 so nnlc,, dne meg q Is Yam md fset in :,
their proper places he has control OF the bike,
but the minute lie removes them the bike has
muscles wonderfully and keeps ono In trim all
the time. It gives one quick motion, which Is
Ii won't hurt YOU NJ all to try II indoors. but for
the sake OF your own lives and those OF othcr
pe.2PWIGf; , d2n yot TRY ,n to act tr ,%%Et S S1 sGo a To sili.
glass bail, from my wheel while riding just as
Buffalo 1911 did from his horse"
"Hully gee" said the small boy, and even
the women looked rs II they were thinking the
same thing.
Wheeling belongs alike to young and old, big
and little. rich and poor. Nobody IS debarred
who has the money to buy or hire n wheel.
IL is amusing to watch the crowds who pour
into tho salesrooms and hear their PROPOSE
tions to the managers. A woman walks In
and thinks nothing Of ordering = tandem and
two or three single wheels at a clip, paying
$3.50 down for the former and 500 each for
the latter. Perhaps before she gets out a wo-
,-aa ,lN Ia.I, ~. O. ala, ....o ,~t 1vaII
off IN this worlds goods enters. She must
SEQ the manager. Nobody else will do. Poor
manager! lie allows her to be brought into
his private office. showing very well that she
wants to make n trade.
why, you have no idea,' said one manager.
1.-THE ridiculous business propositions that pco-
pie make, and l must confess that most OF
them come from women. The other day ono
called with n little church paper. She said
che would advertise our wheel for n year
ana tale II out In " wheel, as II she wa doing
do that | answered.
"She went away. and in a few days was back.
So and pay $40 down for a wheel. and when
| again declined. she returned the next day
the year and that she would nay S75 cash for
the wheel. was firm, for l read her like n
book. she'll come in about next week and pay
tried TO get one by paying So monthly. and
when we declined to let her have 1t she offered
for the mother. but hard on the hoy. wasn't
~ THAT didn't work. so, she sold her piano,
and now has a '9d model. such things come
cycles, no matter what sacrifice they have to
make to get them; Put, you may be sure that
in the city are heartily glad that there are a
great many people who car, ard do come In and
They never ask for reductions or time.
indeed: It's ,marvellous-this- hold that
wheeling has taken on people; 1t has a grip
wealthy. and they are not content to own
wheels lust for their own use and pleasure. but
buy two, three. or four extra ones for the use
of any visitors that they happen to have. Take
the Gonlds; for example. Last spring Hiss
tlclen Goulc bought Two and the autumn be.
had one sent up to her, country place on tho
Hudson. That was evidently nm experiment,
dered two more the next spring. two In autumn.
and now has one or two tandems. Her latest
twenty, four pounds. 1t IS a plain black en-
nmelled wheel and cost 500, and 1t is no bette.
IN any way than any. of our other models. Her
brother. Frank Gould. also owns n nunbec OF
wheels which he keeps at their country place.
and it is said that they make delightful runs
funny story about the salesman who waited on
George Gould. He bought. | think it was, a
tandem and est two Sin single wheels s and when the
That didn't signify anything to the salesman.
and as he fixed ur his papers he showed a little
oitt Nildl Lc III IL ehlu.
Look here. how are you going TO pay for
these, wheels and where do you want them
To George Gould. at my private car, side
the man ALMOST hi collapsed; ;tls needless to
and 50 are his cniidren. lie bought three
for his. son. and the other for his daughter.
Mrs. Almcric Iaget. All. were plain wheels.
So Il IS Are sn ysry f WliitS S6 r5 WaIId in G E.1tT ,r rsrkdi
himself to a tandem and two single wheels,
on u diamond and the other a loop frame,
with him. 4 great deal has been said and
about tho -Four Hundred riding wheels
silver lamps and .cyclometers. but there isn't
a word OF truth in it. Our experience with
wealthy and pTTS1minent people has been iusi
Gus machines; they do not have their wheels
as we carry In stock"
Another dealer, in speaking OF prominent
enthusiasts, SAID:
~ think that the Rockefellers have more
wheels ut their country place thnn any other
family. They have IL large number OF single
wheels and three tandems. and can accommo-
send a man up there to inspect them occasion
ally, and he always comes back with glowing !
accounts OF the handsome storage room and
or the line runs that the young people and
their friends have"
Short runs are much in vogue. For n long
hiio AhSh NM otiC NtAb ep CdTTlel away
by the celebrating effect of cycling that they
planned II ride over a long route, forgetting .
they had to make the return trip. They
think about both ways now. and the men
don't Ike all'day runs any better than the wo.
men. They like to go OFT of town early In
the morning and not come bnck until nearly
dark, hut they don't want to put In the entire
day wheeling, with a stop for luncheon.
So now every cyclist who spends his or her
riding In the country uses up a good
deal OF gray matter finding short runs that are
interesting, a party OF girls were discussing
they should go Sunday in the Park the
morning. |
Lets go way OF" said n novice In the first
of rapturous enthusiasm.
Lets don't" answered an expert. II
served my time working on n bicycle last year.
This year I'm going 10 ride for pleasure. When
ono makes a fifty or IA seventy.five mile run ono
faals the pTectS fDr tIIo nr fhrna Iava UIn, a., |