The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-25
SHOW NOW OPENED
WICHIrA'S BIG BICYCLE EXPOSE.
TON IN FULL BLAST.

Waving Aloft Everywhere-Grand Ar
raw of Pretty Bicycles Fill the Room
and Every space is Occupied Parade
Through the Principal Streets Gives In
| terest to the Event-Living Pictures
Giving the Evolution of the Bicycle are
shown-visited by Interested People.
The Wichita Cycle show opened ur
yesterday al O'Clock.
Wichita is bound to be metropolitan
and whatever she undertakes to do she
does it well
The exhibit is said to be better than
the one recently held at Kansas City
I compared with the size of the city and
much better than anything undertaken
by any other city of similar size in the
United States.
The show is held in the Lyceum thea
ire room on the. ground floor OF the
Garfield hall and is under the auspices
of the Wichita Bicycle club.
The theatre is handsomely decorated
with purple and orange, the colors OF
the club. All the pillars of the interior
/
gay colors and streamers extend from
enc end of the hall to the other.
In addition to the gay colors Of the
club the scene is enlivened by flowers
palms and other living species Of the
horticultural kingdom in endless var
iety. These combined with the variety
of colors in wheels and the light OF
electrical bicycle lamps serve to give
the interior of the building a most lively
appearance.
There are bicycle enthusiastic every
where. Every member OF the club, not
excluding Farmer Doolittle, Is an en-
thusiast and all Of them are present
and lending their aid to make the af-
fair e. grand success.
Shaw's full orchestra is present and
serves the visitors with some Of the
sweetest up to date music ever heard
in Wichita. This. in ITSELF IS a feature
Of the show worth double the price of
admission.
Then there are the living pictures. An
immense Tense IL focused on the black
curtains Of the stage and pictures rep
resenting every evolution of the bicycle
are produced. 1t opens with represen-
tation Of a happy faced old grandmoth-
er at her spinning wheel and closes
start in a bicycle race.
At Z o'clock last evening a grand
parade was given in which about 100
wheelmen participated. This parade
was viewed with interest by hundreds OF
people.
During the evening great many peo-
pie visited the show and all Of them
We're highly delighted.
There are twelve general exhibits.
Thomas Shaw's is the first one after
entering and turning to the left into
the main isle. He shows the Erie and
Syracuse wheels and also a fine stock
of musical instruments.
No. 2 is by Carr & Williams and con-
tains very elegant display of Wichita
and RamDler wheels.
The Anchor Trust company with Mr.
Isaac West comes third. They show
the America, Phoenix, Columbus, Vic
tor. Envoy and Fleetwing wheels and a
full line Of sundries including tires.
Biting Brothers have probably the
most unique display Of anybody. It
consists principally OF bicycle clothing
IN endless variety. They have wax fig
ures there representing two men on
wheels ready for the start in a race
with third figure standing behind
them with revolver pointed in the
air ready to fire the signal to start. It
is pretty display and one that is very
highly complimented by everyone who
sees It.
The next display Is that of W. W.
Pearce containing a fine line Of Column
bia and Hartford bicycles and a full
line Of sundries.
To the right of that IS the display Of
Smythe & Sons with five different var
ieties Of wheels among them some OF
the most popular wheels in use.
Newt Stage has very artistic and
splendid display OF bicycle sundries and
repairs. His Is very complete show in
itself and attracts the attention of all
wheelmen. He has introduced electric
fty to add to its appearance and in this
way, especially, he exhibits a fine line
of bicycle lamps.
Next to Newt is the booth Of the
Topeka and Wichita Cycler, a paper
devoted exclusively to the interests Of
wheelmen.
To his right is the fine display of BIZ
cycle ball bearing shoes by Sid Neff II
IS all right and makes a good feature Of
the show.
The center of the spacious hall is
given to the J. r. Meade Bicycle COM
pany and that Of A. n. Wallace. The
Meade company have the Kenwood,
Chicago Flyer and two grades of Tel
egrams; the Wallace company have the
Tribune, Deere, Sylvan and Moline with
F. W. A. Vesper Of the bicycle depart
ment at Kansas City in Charge. Both
have very fine displays.
The show will be continued today and
tomorrow and being a Wichita enter
prise everybody should attend il. They
can pass an hour or two Of pleasure and
profit there.