The Saint Paul globe., 1897-04-11
SUCCESS IN SIGHT
MINNEAPOLIS CYCLE SHOW MAN.
AGEMENT CLAIM CRITICAL
POINT is REACHED.
ELYSIUM FOR BICYCLISTS
WILL THE BIG EXPOSITION BE
WHEN THE EVENT Is AT
LADY RIDERS WILL BE THERE.
Entries for the Bench Show Begin
to Come In-FOOd Management
Selling Space.
LADY RIDERS WILL BE THERE

T During the past month the managers
of the Minneapolis cycle show have en-
countered and overcome obstacles
which would have appalled, men Of
less enterprise and determination AS
matters stand at present, the worst of
the battle is in the rear, and the sue
cess of the cycle show for 1897 Is an
assured fact. Included in the eXposi-
ton of cycles and cycling novelties,
which will occupy the main floor, will
be found the best offerings of every
factory of Importance in the United
States. There is to be a bigger turn
out of combination wheels than ever
was seen in this part of the country
before. Every factory is sending full
complement of tandems, triplets and
QuadS. while most of them are sending
a SeXtuplet, and one concern is going
to send machine mounting ten men,
which up to date seems to be the
greatest freak ever turned out of
| bicycle factory. A novel feature among
the wheeling exhibits this year is to
be found in the large number of dou-
ble-drOp tandems being turned out
This is an unfortunate indication from
the point of view of the young man
whose fancy in the gentle spring time
turns to the shapely back that con-
fronted him in 1896, when on a combi-
nation wheel he and Angelina tripped
| it over the country roads on bicycle
built for two. The Davis Sewing Ma
chine company appears to some extent
responsible for the POPULARITY of the
H. l. - 4.
to take kindly to this innovation, and
it may be expected that several hun
dred of these machines will find their
way into local hands before the close
of the present season.
A telegram was received last night
from Dottie Farnsworth, who is prob
ably to be matched against Miss CLAW
in a special race over the cycle show
track, announcing that the whole
bunch Of riders would be here next
week.
The track at the exposition building
is already under way and it will prob
ably be completed before the end of
this week This track is to be con-
structed in the light of all experiences
that have been gained in track build
ing for indoor work all over the United
States in the past year. The track
built last season was defective in GER
tain ways, the corners being too low
which necessarily reduced the speed
and did not permit record breaking
time. The girls now on the circuit have
become used to riding on tracks that
would appear impracticable to the or
binary observer though as a matter
construction, and an experienced rider
is able to make almost as good time
on them as though the path were
straight away in the open with the
wind astern. A dozen men have been
kept at work on the interior of the
building during the past week, and it
is now assuming something like order.
Within the week the exposition
building will begin to assume at least
the semblance of the big show that is
to follow
Manufacturers from the East are anx-
iOus to get their exhibits in early, and
the principal exhibitors will probably
begin making their arrangements for
the big show during the next six days.
The local dealers who are to exhibit
will not begin work until the latter part
Of the week but all of them intend
making elaborate displays, and from
all that can be discovered this should
be the greatest exhibition Of wheels
and wheeling novelties ever witnessed
In the Northwest
The managers Of the bench show,
which is to be held simultaneously with
the cycle show, have been getting their
entries in during the last week with
satisfactory rapidity. The owners of
local dogs have shown a disposition to
delay making their entr 8 until the
last moment. but the reiterated an
nouncement that all entries would close
on April - has had the effect Of bring
ing them into line, and there are now
enough entries Of local dogs to assure
the success Of the show from a Mime
apolis and st. Paul point of view. There
has never been a really successful
bench show in either city, and a good
deal of hesitancy was felt by the man.
ayers of the present show in embarking
on so uncertain an undertaking. The
holding Of the bench show in connec-
ton with the cycle show has enabled
the managers of the former to adver-
tise their exhibition all over the North
western states. and it is now assured
that there will be big turnout of dogs
and dog owners, as well as dog fan
ciers, from Iowa, North and South Da-
kota and Wisconsin.
The food show management has been
selling space this week at a rate which
leaves practically nothing to be dis
posed Of. There seems to be no doubt
whatever that this show will achieve
a social as we'll as artistic success. In
Eastern cities pure food shows are fire.
quently held with great success. In
Minneapolis, however, the idea is prac-
tically an innovation, although pre-
vious attempts were made several
years ago with but Indifferent results.
But. a few years suffice to accomplish
many changes. People are constantly