The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-04
WHlRLS OF THE WHEEL.
1t is claimed that there are over 10000
tandem riders in New York city.


1t is claimed that there are over 10000
tandem riders in New York city.
The Arizona legislature has passed a
bill compelling railroads in the state to
carry bicycles as baggage.
The road race from Vienna to Berlin
this year will be one of the principal
events of the year in Germany.
Last year it is estimated that there We're
over 5000 wheels in use in Indianapolis.
This year the total is expected to reach
the 10000 mark.
A bicycle room has been set apart in a
new high school building in Detroit that
will provide accommodations for not less
than 300 bicycles.
The coming intercollegiate bicycle meet
in June promises to witness lively strug-
gle between Yale and Columbia, the lat
ter winning last year.
Mcfarland, Buffalo's fast track man,
might easily have made Yale's team but
was too lazy to go out and train and in
consequence got left.
Arabia. There may not be as much poetry
about the Arab steed of the future as
there was in the past, but it will go faster.
Sandow claims to have smashed all
worlds records in private trials. SandCw
also claims tnat he will confne his speed
to the seclusion of his own track in the
future.
has asked the Ontario government to en-
act legislation which win place bicycle
paths on the same basis as walks for pc
destrians.
1t is said that in Paris there is an in
ternational band of bicycle thieves, who
have warehouses for the storage and sale
of bicycles stolen in one country and sent
to another and the police are never able
to recover them.
The bicycle population of New York
city is placed by a newspaper of the me
trOpolis at not less than $4,000. If this
is so, it is no wonder that the New York
division is the banner one in the League
of American Wheelmen.
On account of the large number of
stories which are afoat each year rela-
deauX-Paris road race, the promoters this
year will have no less than 59l checkers
stationed along the course.
Florida is becoming noted for its ex-
celIent cycle paths. Where years ago few
wheels We're ever seen in the state there
are hundreds of northern tourists who
visit that section of the country for the
pleasure that wheeling gives.
According to patent Office official, there
saddles patented as there are bicycles.
The bicycle itself is almost free from pat
ent, and the public can make any kind
of pattern of wheel they see.
A bicycle rider who is about to take
up bicycle racing as a pastime, would do
we'll to get himself examined by a med-
cal man in order to discoveri if any weak
ness exists in his system as many an
athlete has ruined himself by severe racing
and training when his system was alto
gether unable to bear the strain.-Amer-
lean Cyclst.
American ingenuity leads the world in a
mechanical hne, especially in bicycle ma
chinery, according to the great English
technical journal Engineering. The Amer
lean makers have stepped in the field,
reached the top notch, and are at the
present time reaping a rich harvest in
selling at their own price special cycle
making machinery which cannot be pur-
chased from British manufacturers,