The Monitor-register., 1897-04-23
LETTER BON,
Bicycle Notes-sunday Riding.

While looking at the different makes
OF wheels in a Salem bicycle store last
week the proprietor, 10 speaking of the
merits of his high priced machines, re.
marked that the ornamental and pretti-
est looking bicycles were less durable
than the plain high grade wheels which,
being made of the very best material, are
stronger, more durable and give better
satisfaction in every respect han the
fancy looking cheap constructed ma
chimes.
| predict an early appearance here of
the socia BILE or companion bicycle. sit
enables" says a cycling paper, "two
persons to ride side by side instead of
tandem fashion and the gearing SO ad-
jdsted that a heavy man and a small boy
can ride as easily together as two persons
of equal weight. VINO knows but what
an enterprising Woodstown cycler will
this season be seen giving men, women
and children rides on his "~sociable"
from the high bridge TO the lake for a
nickel or dime ?
1t is computed hat there are three
m lion bicycles ia the country. The
proprietors of one of the stores here said
this week that he had orders tor ten ne
machines
Spring, padded and Pneumatic seats
are now slowly taking the place of the
old, hard injurious saddles. A bicycle
rider thus upon the ing
change. People have at last come to the
conclusion that when they ride bicycles
they ought to have something more com
Portable to sit on titan a knife blade
they have found it does not pay to use a
saddle hat numbs all the 10 wer part of
| tho apatnUnU in q Hve r1jIa snjn Thou
want seats to sit in while they are on
bicycles the same as they have when 90
horseback or at the table eating their
dinners Rao"ing the ~psopls's wants
The manufacturers have goIe To work to
furnish it. aud the result is a fac as.ort-
ment OF 6icyoIe SEATS
Apothsr editor says: The bicycle IS
here to stay Tor good, as it has become
the subject OF serious c~Onsidsration both
III the pulpit and legislative halls.
At a Methodist conference up in New
York state there vas a spirited discus
sion on bicycle riding Ga Sunday. The
Rev. j. M. Buckley argued that it de
pended upon what appeared to be his
duty. II it seemed to be his duty to take
a trolly car on Sunday DR.. Buckley
would do it. Ii be as three miles from
church be would go there OF a bicycle.
Yet he realized that the wheel was a
great meDace to the American Sunday
and hat it was running thousands Of
young people by leading them from their
feeling of reverence for thu day. DR..
Strobridge, who rides a wheel on week
days, said that ms cad of ~denouncing
the bicycle the business men Should be
persuaded to give their clerks more time
so as to remove the temptation of Sunday
riding.
DR.. Mains thought it much better for
the multitude to ride the wheel in the
open air than spend the day in the saloon.
An outside view from the noted DR..
Parkhurst, o! the Madison Square Pres.
byterian Church, has been obtained by
one of the New York papers. Hs re-
fused to take& positive stand. He said
that the use of the bicycle on Sunday
was a large, inters sting and practical
question which should not be passed
upon ip any one of its aspects. 1t was a
question bound to furnish food for
much discussion, bat he did say that for
a person to go ont on a bicycle on the
Sabbath does not involve as much of a
breach of the day as to use his coaohmen
| aud horEeS,