The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-23

last come according to the New York Sun.
The option of perspiring over a pump or
paying a or 10-cent fee to have plain air
put in tire has been positively the most
Dehind-the-tme feature of this cycling era.
1t would have been easy long ago to have ar
ranged a system of penny-in-the-slot tanks
charged with compressed air, but one did
1t. Now an inventor has come forward with
a contrivance of such mechanical excellence
that all manner of air pumps for tires seem
doomed. 1t is an automatic pump that will
I'LL the tires to any desired degree of hard
ness by the simple pulling of lever. The
machine is not operated by steam. electricity,
hydraulic power, or in any way that involves
replenishment 1t is simply large and i'm
mensely powerful pump with the proper slot
arrangement and mechanically constructed so
as to yield great leverage.
Never before has there been so much talk
about bicycle-track building in and near New
York as there is now.
Nineteen meets were held on the
Charles River Park track. Boston, last season,
and $26, 600 in prizes were given.
A Chicago judge has decided that the HUI
society of that city has a right to cause
the arrest of persons carrying babies or chill
dren on their bicycles.
Staten Island is at work on bicy-
Gle that will fy-he thinks AS the bicycle
has conquered roads, rivers and ice fields,
this resident of Richmond borough believes
that machine to traverse the air through
pedal power is the next logical step.
The short track scandal is valuable as
showing how the sport of cycling might be
managed by an organization having no motive
but that of money making. The league does
not control the sport in order to enrich its
bank account. does it tolerate short
tracks.-Cycling Gazette.
member of the national cycle board of
trade estimates that fully 20 per cent Of the
makers of the United States will market
chanless wheel Of some kind in 1898. A
prominent Massachusetts, maker has pur-
chased the entire right in a new chainless
having three sprockets engaging by means of
spur teeth.
LOUIS Kintz. the long distance bicycle rider
oi Bloomfield, N. j.. who was one of the sur
yivors in the recent six-day race at Madison
Square Garden has probably been manned
for life. KintZ is confined to his bed with
two badly injured knee caps spraincd
wrist ana a bruised body. the result of a
spill" 10 race at Little Falls. N. Y.
In the Paris cycle exhibition there is a
footwarmiDg pedal. The pedal is a sort of
box, in which are inserted two small cakes
OF charcoal composition that burns slowly
it will burn four hours. and keep the feet
of the slowest rider comfortable. Now any
body can ride fast enough to keep warm
Walter c. Sanger is trying to get on a
match with August Lehr, champion of Ger
many The mach is to take place at Bel
laire. Fla. Feb 1.
During the past season the innovation in
the repairs OF pneumatic tires has proved
success ard a heavy solution has practi-
cally replaced the old-style plug outfits The
advantage Of the heavy rubber solution for
the small Duncture in a single lube tire is
obvious; it takes less time, a novice may eff
feet the repair. and 1t is cheaper. During
the season of '98 about all the singIe-tube
tire-makers VIII use this style OF repair kit
The average price Of the kit. separate from
the tire, is from 10 to 30 cents.
Consul Monaghan at Chemnftz Germany
reports to the department of state "a talk
with the manager OF the largest and best
bicycle factories in the empire. He says:
The bicycle manufacturers will never rest
until theV get add ional duties. | am of the
opinion that our manufacturers could do no
better ard wiser than to send machines in
narts. af-ainst a possible increase of duties
In tie first place little or no risk Is run
for our machines and parts of machines are
so popular that they viii sell on their
merits"