The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

whom there will be plentiful supply,
will travel about the building on the latest
in giraffe wheels.
Refreshments will be served by busy
corps of attendants mounted on bicycles,
and the manner in which it is promised
| these gentlemen will conduct their evolu-
tions will be truly remarkable.
| Each pillar of the building will be
decorated with sprockets and surrounded
at short distances by tires. Even the floor
will represent the wheel. Circular tiles
are 10 be laid with inlaid spokes, and the
triangles formed by the meeting of every
three circles will be filed by tiles repre-
senting small "bike'' frame. There will.
of course, be lively tingling of bicycle
bells, this being the only form of signaling
that will be allowed in the building.
Every kind of bell, from the silyer-toned
tingie 10 the ambulance-like gong, will be
used.
All the doors are to be locked at night
with bicycle locks and a number OF spe-
cial gensdarmes will patrol the grounds
on wheels.
Every seat in the building will he pneu-
matte and be supplied with bell. The
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for the public performances and contests.
There will be only one exhibit in the CEN
ter of the room. This will consist of a
number of the very latest inventions of
the bicycle world. The whole will be snr-
mounted by monster electric unicycle,
the invention of a Partisan electrician.
This feature is subject to change in case
more advanced invention is received.
The roof of the building will be fes-
tooned, the girders being made of steel
with every conceivable part of bicycle
woven into the designs.
The lecturers will be chosen from the
greatest bicycle experts in the world and
their discourses will enlig hten the uniniti-
ated and many riders of long experience
on the mystery of the bike.
Orders have already been placed in Eng
land for the manufacture of all the pot
terry TO be used in the building. Every
piece will be made bicycle fashion, cups,
saucers, plates, in fact even the forks will
represent the wheel. being only two
pronged and made in the manner of
bicycle fork.
One of the features of the entertainment
will be bicycle carnival in which 100 ex-
peru IlueIS Will take part. hOuRn anu
tumble riding will be seen, and an exhibit
ton given OF how easy it is to be in COM
pick bicycle wreck and not get hurt.
To the right of the main building will
be large room with a monster bath in
the center. In this every man who has
ever invented water bicycle can make
practical test of his invention. and by an
ingenious arrangement the bottom OF the
bath can be made to heave, creating quite
heavy SWELL which will doubtless prove
quite a test for the new invention.
There is already great demand for
space in the bicycle palace, almost every
leading man ufacturer in the world being
anxious to secure a good Showing"
American manufacturers will be largely
represented, and it is understood that
many of the novelties will be supplied
from this side of the water. Perhaps the
principal feature will be the newest form
OF water cycle, though it is by no means
sure as yet just how far advanced these
machines" are up to now. The formal
invitation for American representation
will be made to the Department of State,
for it is intended to make the bicycle
palace of such Importance as to be an
event in the worlds history, and whether
or not the United States will send official
| representatives is a matter that cannot
| be vet decided.