The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-14
ITS OPERATION TO BE THE FEA-
TURE OF THIS YEARS
CYCLING.
MINNEAPOLIS WHEEL SHOW.
FE WILL HAVE A NUMBER OF REP
RESENTATIVES OF THIS
CLASS
WITH A VERY FINE BENCH SHOW
In Which Every Dog Fancier of the
Northwest Can BE Interested
without Trouble

. The public enthusiasm being exhibit
ed over the cycle show to open in Min
neapolis April 10, appears to have in
fected the dealers here as we'll as the
manufacturers all over the country.
According to the arrangements now
made by the various manufacturing
concerns of Chicago to dig up business
in the Minneapolis show, as that which
characterized the companies referred
but a short time ago.
The reason for this is by no means
difficult to discover. Millions of wheels
have been sold throughout the East
by the factories that are making stan
dard machines, and the territory has
been fairly we'll supplied, at least so
far as the present season is concern
ed, but in the Northwest, where there
is many populous community prac-
ttcally unworked the manufacturers
are realizing the proper field for their
best effort in 1897. There is a magni-
ficent market in the West for wheels,
and there will be no expense spared
by the best of the makers that are in
the Northwestern business
W. T. Boutell of the firm of Boutell
Bros, Minneapolis, said yesterday aft
ernoon that he believed this would be
the banner show year in MINNEAPOLIS.
He pointed out that there was a great
er incentive for the big makers to put
i'll good exhibits than had ever been
the case before, when being overrun by
Eastern orders they were practically
unable to fill Western commissions
with anything like promptitude, even
if they were secured.
Take the Spalding wheel for in
stance" said Mr.. Boutell. There will
be the finest show for this wheel that
the company can possibly put on here
All the decorations used in the Chicago
show will be forwarded to Minneapolis
and. in addition, we intend to see that
none of the exhibitors Guido us. [
believe that the Spalding chainless,
which was on exhibition at the Chicago
cycle show, will be one of the strongest
features here. The booth in which
this wheel was kept was surrounded
by mob of 1000 or more people all
through the Chicago exhibition, and, if
there was any more generally interest
ing exhibit there, 1 failed to get a sight
of it. There is hardly a doubt that
this chainless machine is the wheel of
the future. 1t is heater, more compact
and less subject to damage from fric-
ton than any of the chainless devices
in the market, and 1t cannot fail to
prove interesting to Minneapolis or
Minnesota riders generally.
For my part / believe that a show
of this character is a good thing, not
alone from the point of view of the
nyyll n nal hryH rvOI1
eral business aspect. 1t gives a large
number of people employment and
starts things going in the cycle season
with proper eclat. From our point of
view we have nothing to fear by COM
petition with our neighbors, and we
prepare to show the public what We
have to sell in the coming show"
There was a rafting demand for
space in the exposition building all day
yesterday, and a good deal more than
half the available room in the main
floor has been disposed of, while the
upper floor is already fully occupied
The galaxy of Minnesota inventors is a
large and interesting one. There are
no less than four chainless wheels in
vented and manufactured in this state
all of which will be exhibited at the
show. One Of the inventors, a Mime
apolis man, has already disposed of his
rights to one of the biggest cycle man.
ufacturfng firms in the country, and
there is not one of the four that does
not possess some distinctive merit. L
is the opinion among the best informed
among the dealers that there will be
several chainleSs wheels on the mar
ket next year and some have said that
the Pope manufacturing company in
tends making every wheel turned out
of it's factory next season on the chain
less plan.
P. J. Kennedy, of Kennedy Bros, the
Minneapolis agency OF the Columbia
wheel. said yesterday that he did not
know to what extent the experiments
with the chainless wheels tried by the
factory this year had been successful,
but he was satisfied that if there was
a really practical chainless wheel in
the market for 1898 it would be a Co
lumbia.
II think the show an excellent thing
as it is being arranged" said P j.
Kennedy in talking the matter over
''The cycle show should eventually be
made a general sporting exposition, TO
be held annually, and l am glad to see
that there Is a tendency to recognize
other branches of sport in the show Of
our wheels that ought to prove attract
i've to those who know what a really
first-class bicycle Is, and hope to see
everybody represented there"
The same degree of enthusiasm Is
exhibited by Mr.. Knoblauch, who will
make the most complete exhibit Of
cycling footgear for ladies and gentle
men ever put before the public of Min
neapolis and St. Paul.
II Think" said Mr.. Knoblauch, that
we are bound to have a great show
There was nothing like the interest
taken in the show last year by Eastern
manufacturers that there is this sea-
~ - l. -
hum. So far as the local exhibits are
concerned. there is no doubt about
their being ffrst-class. I am enthusi-
asticaHy in favor of the cycle Show
We went into 1T last year, and 1t was
a good business investment. We are in
it again this year for keeps"
The managers Of the Minneapolis
kennel show. which is to be held at
the Exposition building at the same
time as the cycle show. are making
extensive arrangements for giving the
best bench exhibition ever held here
A list of the very liberal premiums
offered is now in the hands of the
printer, and will be mailed to 5000 diff
ferent exhibitors at other similar shows
recently held in the Northwest. Every
dog fancier throughout the Northwest
will be forwarded premium list
Local prizes, will be offered by the
management for dogs in Hennepfn and
Ramsey counties only, the object being
to stimulate the breeding and exhibit
ton of fine dogs by Minneapolis and
ST. Paul men. To this end champion
medals will be awarded to the best
specimens of the following breeds:
Beagles, bloodhounds, bulldogs. collies,
dachshpnds, Dalmatian deerhounds,
foxhounds, great Danes, greyhounds,
mastiffs, Newfoundlands, pointers,
poodles, pugs. Russian wolfhounds,
sraniels fBfenhefm, Clumber. cocker,
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