The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-11

and wheeling is all the rage. Golf is also
coming up with boom. One and possibly
two more new tracks will be located about
New York this year. All the clubs are ar
ranging for meets, and several of them will
run two or three meets during the season.
! The New York State circuit will furnish some
excellent sport.
North Carolina is working for good roads
In manner that might be profitably emu
lated by other states, particularly in the
South. From recent report it appears that
| $780, 600 had been raised by taxation for road
Improvement purposes, one county alone hav-
| ing created a fund of $36 000 another one Of
ST.. 900, and third one of SO, 300. Some of the
work has been done by convict labor with
satisfactory results. About thirty counties
have levied road tax.
| The wheelwoman is settling for herself what
| she shall wear when she goes out on the
| wheel. Throughout the country the short
| skirt and golf stockings are favorites Bloom
| ers are worn underneath. Some of the former
| bloomer fanatics, seeing that their ideas
| would not be adopted, have taken another
| turn. Many are riding the diamond framed
| wheel in short skirts and wooden tights. The
| divided skirt is also popular, and, properly
| made, 1t be used on either the drop or
| diamond frame.
| The authorities in New York city are be-
| ginning to talk seriously about what they
| are to do with the cyclists. They are fairly
| overrunning the streets of the metropolis
| and the lack of proper facilities for getting
! to the good suburban roads in Westchester,
| on Long Island and in New Jersey Is caus-
| ing the wheelmen to howl in indignation.
| The best way out Of the difficulty is for the
| authorities to go back to the aqueduct pan
| suggested a year ago. This will make an
| ideal wheelway for stretch of fully fifty
| mixes, and it is just the thing that wheelmen
want The idea that the property would re-
| vert back to the old owners in case the acque-
| duct was used for any other purpose than to
| supply the city with water is rot. The wheel
| men simply want to use the top of 1t. The
water would rush through underneath just
| the same.
| Massachusetts, boasts Of blind girl who
! rides bicycle.
Terry, an Englishman, crossed the English
/ channel on a floating tricycle. in 'S3.
OF the 10000 riders in the L. A. w. ten
| years ago over 900 are still active members.
| Dealer In Collins, Caskets and Bicycles"
Is the sign Of New England merchant
The first American bicycle was sod by the
| Pope Manufacturing company, on March IL,
1873.
| Six solid-tired old ordinaries were recently
| sold at auction in Edinburgh, Scotland, for %
| cents.
| twenty-five additional companies of military
| cyclists.
| 1t was not until June s, 1888, that the New
| York wheelmen were permitted to ride in
| Central park.
The first bicycle rider in this country was
| Alfred D. Chandler, now an eminent Boston
| lawyer. July 1877.
| In the twenty-eight unions of bicycle work.
| ers in the United States there said to be
| 1000 members.
| Pittsburg aluminium concern has orders
| for $4,000 aluminium bicycle frames. Most
Of these are for export.
blind cyclist, Thomas T. Hayden, may be
seen ON tandem any day between Brooklyn
! and Coney Island.
The first bicycle made in this country-in
| 1S77-cost 1913.
The long distance events of the year in
| Italy will be one from Rome to Milan, and
| the other from Milan to Venice.
The new wind shield for racers will admit
| of forty miles an hour being made on wheel,
says prominent English rider.
Tyres-Have you named your boy. yet?
Spokes-No; my wife wants to name him
| after her wheel, and 1 want to name him after
| mine.-Judge.
Pneumatic shoes for cycling are being
talked of in England, the idea being that by
their use vibration and numbness would be
| reduced.
| The MISUNDERSTANDING
| rene is the name of a cycling journal pub
| lished in Denmark Danish wheelmen
very fond of riding centuries around it.-New
| York Press.