Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-23

ately limited to only one person; in this
case 1t has proved eminently successful.
This person took Ito bicycle riding about
three years ago for pleasure, and in very
great moderation for the first two years.
He observed last summer that the attacks
of asthma to which he was subject had
become fewer. The tightness and wheeling
which occurred every night have now en-
tircly disappeared"
The following paragraph. which appeared
In a recent number of THE English Cy-
clist," would indicate that the English pep
pie fully appreciate the fact that American
bicycles are cutting somewhat deeply into
the English foreign cycle trade:
There is no gainsaytng the fact that
American cycle makers are paying con-
siderable attention to the question of build
Ing up cycle export trade. Taking the
case OF the Mexican market alone, to
Wnlch our exports have declined from e, -
1872 In 1888 to only f6S5. During the month
OF May last. alone, American makers sent
cycles and parts to value of f1.235. or
nearly twice as much as we did in all of
last year. During the five months ending
with May the exports Of cycles from the
United states to Mexico reached a sum of
no less than f6.15O-a total which is greater
imam the aggregate from England to the
same country during the whole of the past
four yearsr'
What is true of Mexico holds good of
south Africa, Australia, New Zealand and
other territory that is essentially British,
can wheels sent out to those countries and
to Europe may, as the English claim be of
the cheap and nasty" sort-a fact as much
deplored on this side Of the ocean as on the
otner-but the fact remains that the Amer
lean makers are at last actively reaching
out for foreign trade, and, like everything
else they go after, are getting a goodly
share of 1t.
"A curious bicycle en- route from Hamil-
ton TO Warn. ambool, was inspected by a
humber of interested persons at the train
W 1ass night. says the correspondent of
ola style, the front wheel, about three feet
eight inches high, being made solid from
boards or an old washing machine, and the
nind wheel Is from small wheelbarrow.
both wheels are most ingeniously tired
win park, with strip of linoleum over
all. The backbone and hind fork is a gum
pough IN its natural state, bent with great
accuracy to the required position The
front fork is another gum Dough in its nat
ural state except that the parts forming
the FORK are bent together SO as to be par
aliei. Ihis works through an old wheel
box from a light cart which is fixed in the
thick part of the first branch, which forms
the backbone, and an iron rod passed
through near the top serves as handles,
ana the pedals are ingenious adaptations
OF some old iron utensils The maker is a
lad of fourteen. who lives on the north of
hamilton, and, 1t is said has never seen a
picycie except in pictures He used the
olcYcle Tor driving cattle home on the
farm, and found it very serviceable"
In a speech delivered recently at Rome
S1ty. Ind, Governor Mount said: 1.-The
farmers nave right to demand that the
government at least cooperate with them
IN securing better mail facilities for the
country. The farmer of the twentieth CEN
fury must be a man of the broadcast mind.
OF the highest development. The farmers
nome must be supplied with books papers
ana magazines. He must keep in touch
with the Intellectual, social and business
world 10 secure the advantages of daily
man sood roads Will be a necessity. With
good thoroughfares to insure speedy tran
ST. then, by the cooperation of the farm
ers ana the government. arrangements can
be made for the deposit by the postman of
home. Good roads and daily mails to the
farmer OF the coming years will be indis-
pensahle to the highest success, socially.
financially and intellectually"
If an English exchange is correct. thin
mania paper. also, is now being used for
making tubes for bicycles. The process of
manufacture is ingenious, the paper being
wound upon a mandrel, and coated by
means of glue from a spray, thus insuring
the absolute joining Of the paper, which is
made solid by means of great pressure.
When the tube has been constructed some
forty layers Of pepper being required for
this purpose, 1t Is subjected to great pres
sure from the inside, after the mandreI has
been removed, and the tube placed in a
very strong mold. This pressure is derived
from hydraulic machine. The outer lay
ers OF paper ere acted upon by means of a
rolling machine, which hardens them and
the tubes are then polished in a lathe and
stained the desired color, after which they
are vanished and are ready for use.
Cycle frames manufactured from bamboo
fiber are promise of the near future ac-
cording to a correspondent in Binghamton,
who says: "A. NJ Dewey special agent Of
the United States Department of Labor
has perfected. after some years of study, a
new material that Is lighter and stronger
than steel. The material is manufactured
from the fiber of Calcutta bamboo and it
is claimed it is just four times stronger
than the steel tubing used for the manu-
facture of bicycle frames. A sledge ham
mer blow will not affect 1t in the least
and 1t will stand much stronger tests than
the steel tubing. 1t Is lighter by pound
and half than steel. and it is said the
cost is much less than the best quality of
steel tubing. 1t is also impervious TO water,
and unaffected by heat or cold. In fact
it has been tested and found practicable for
wheel frames"