The morning times., 1896-04-19
w. c. Whitney Put a Cycle in
Daughters Trousseau and an
Easter Groom Is Buying a
Beauty-Some Stylish
Wheels.

Wife and I are to have our silver we'd
ding the middle of April. | want TO make
her "a wedding present that she Will re-
member as long as she lives Aud think
III give her silver bicycle
I'm the most delicate manner we in
quired If wife was practical bicycle
rider.
THE old gentleman flushed Yes sail
he, she is. Wife is only forty one years
old We were married when she was six
teen. We have been married tweut y five
years Now I'm an old man. but she is u
girl yet Make her a wheel OF best material
and have it silver
Now, our only way Of accomplishing q
silver wheel is To send one or cur best
wheels to a silyersmith's to be plated with
silver The firm Of x silvered this wheel
and very brilliant il was when il came back
TO US. The plate was the heaviest in the
market, and the cost 10 the Old gentleman
with the girl wife was $500 He was
so delighted with 10 that he left q here
until the day OF the silver wedding and
visited il every day, carefully wrapping
tissue paper around 10 when he had looked
at it,
We had another order for a fancy
wheel. II, too, was siIvered wheel AMI
tIs handles were pearl. IL cOst-Gr Will
cost, for II is not dCne-mOre than 81 600
| would tell you the name OF the gentleman
who OrCleredit, but cannot $50 at present.
He is 70 be married this spring, and this is
bis wedding present 20 MS bride, vino IS a u
ardent cyclist.
We have also an order for a gold
wheel. The order reads of pure gold
but that is ridiculOus. We Will simply
plateOne o. our wheels. Miss Emily Wander
Dilt Sloane, one Of the seasons debutantes,is
an enthusiastic rider think she has gone
abroad and taken her wheel with her.
She rides for speed, and she has the easiest
way of getting over the rough roads that
he along the Hudson that / ever saw
Her mothers country place lies in the
great chain OF millionaires' farms.
There is supposed to be a bicvcie
boulevard running past the AstOr Morton
aud Rockefeller places and all the Others.
But spring rains are no respecters OF
bOuleVdris. and the roads are ripped uB
annually. But through il all this young
woman rides swiftly and serenely along
predict that she will be thrown yet. She
is in our opinion the champion Of the
younger riders
we sent a new wheel to Mrs. I. Town
send Burden the other day. II is q little
gem. There is not a finer one than hers
10 be found this year. Ii happened TO
be the very pick of the lot.
we are shipping many ladies' bicycles
Eow TO country places. J. J. Van Allen
Aas ordered three ladies' wheels. He
use during The summer when he has house
parties. His mems wheels are the finest
made. We send fewer mems wheels TO
country houses than women :. because most
men take their wheels IN their luggage.
while women rarely 90 So
We have an order here" said the
bicycle authOnty. lingering his book, TO
send the finest OF wheels. one lady's and
one gcntleman'S, to Bar HdrbOr sOCn for
M L C.av.
hard this year. This couple took two OF
Us last year The OLD wheels are probably
scratched, or else the owners are tired or
them and want new ones The old wheels
will go in the servants hall for use when
getting mail or carrying messages, or
other quick, light work or the summer
There Is a singular thing about the buy
ing OF a bicycle which nearly every cOnS-i-
entiOus bicycle seller will acknowledge, and
that Is the fiCkIcDeSs OF bicycle patrons.
Today they ride one wheel and like il: to-
morrow they go visiting, try another wheel
and prefer L. The result is that every house
has in its order books the same names. for
the wealthy do not hesitate to bay two or
three wheels season, according 10 wh1m.
from different makers.
As frr preferences, they will tell YOU one
* as good as another. That ia our actual
experience. We would Ike 10 tell you thaC
the bicycle we sent up 10 Ferncliffe 20 Mrs
JACK AStOr the oJher day iS The only one Mrs.
AstOr will buy this ysar, but weknow better
our rivals will also book orders from thar
house.
The AstOr wheel is a heavy one. n is
not for racing Few ladies OF the our Hun
dred like 70 race. and Mrs. AstOr has no
proclivities that way. She likes 70 sit a sub
StantiaI wheel and ride slowly enough To bs
sure of her bones She likes a wheel u littl,.
too large for her, as it gives the muscles
bPtter exercise in reaching.
HARRY GERMAINE