The record-union., 1898-06-08

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tricycle. is also more difiicult to steer.
and Is more unwieldy in turning COR
ners.
THE INDIANAPOLIS MEET.
No such extensive arrangements have
ever been made as are in preparation
by the '9S Meet Club Of Indianapolis
for the great bicycle meet at that city
in August next. A special track is al
ready under construction. The sum of
$lO,OOO Will be spent in entertaining
visitors alone. and as much more goes
in prizes, specialties. decorations. etc.
The women of Indianapolis are making
extensive preparations to entertain
guests Of their sex. The meet begins
on the 9th, and ends on the 14th Of
August During the week Governor
Mount is to hold a reception for all
guests at the State Capitol. Runs,
races. concerts. banQuets, smokers,
opera-parties, picnics, brigade riding,
flying runs. etc, and the national
championship contests fill the pro-
gramme.
VALUE OF ADVERTISING.
Those who keep their fingers on the
pulse of trade say that the value of ed
vertising in daily newspapers was
never more clearly demonstrated than
during the recent dull period when
those who advertised persistently We're
practically the only ones who did any
business Concerning the cause for the
dullness, the war and the lateness OF
the spring have been abundantly
blamed. but it is a question whether
these twin reasons are all sufficient.
Ii is a fact that the 1898 models did
not show enough improvements over
81 wheels to warrant riders changing.
The only true novelties offered, the en-
closed chain and the bevel-gear ma
chimes, have taken well as specialties,
and it is a question If 1t would not
benefit the retail trade generally to
push them more as the actually new
wheels Of '9S. Dealers having stocks
could make the turn by stopping their
talk on plain chain wheels and urging
the manifest merits of an enclosed rum
ming gear, which could easily be OBJ
tanned by their attaching suitable gear
cases to the wheels now in stock.
PRESSURE OF VEHICLE TIRES.
Louis Rosenfeld. the Senior Consul Of
the New York Consulate of the J.. A.
W., has made a study of the wide tire,
and he will be a happy man when
be passed in this city. Practical tests
have shown that a steam roller weigh
ing ten tons has a pressure of 4tN
pounds to the square inch. A twelve
and-a -half-ton roller has a pressure Of
500 pounds, and a fifteen-ton roller
pressure OF 600 pounds. The standard
diameter of these rollers is six feet. with
a face of twenty-five and One-half
inches. The average coalwagon u-ed
on the city streets has three and one
eighth inch tires, and, being fiat, they
have a pressure of / ,43O pounds to the
square inch, or two and a half times
as much as the fifteen-ton roller. The
ordinary truck with a five-ton load and
two and one-half inch tires, theOretic-
ally exercises a pressure of LOCO pounds
to the square inch. Most of the tires
on these heavy vehicles are crowned,
which makes them that much worse for
the roads and streets.
OF CENTURY RIDING.
New York Tribune: w. H. Anderson
of the Century Wheelmen, in speaking
about century riding, had this to say:
The first step a rider should take to
condition himself prOpprly for century