The record-union., 1899-07-31
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
oLYMPICS WANT A RELAY
MEET AT SACRAMENTO.
Foreign Notes-C. C. w. Matters
The Bicycle Trade-Run-
ming to Fires.

AAuR Co < 1TeSs
The warning of the Chief Engineer Of
the fire department should be needed
by cyclists. Hereafter department.
drivers will not heed them, and if
wheelmen are ridden down it will be
their own fault. The way cyclists
swarm on the streets running to fires
is positive nuisance. They take the
street in advance and alongside the
engines, trucks and hose wagons, and
greatly impede the passage of the de-
partment apparatus. The Chief has
directed that drivers hereafter pursue
their course regardless of bicyclists-
and it is a good order.
The c.. c. W. Executive Committee
meets this evening at the clubrooms
Immediately at the close of the regular
club meeting. There are propositions
and business of Importance to come
before it relating to bicycle racks,
races, fall contests, rewards, grounds,
sports and finances.
The Olympics of San Francisco have
written to a leading committeeman of
the G. c. w. begging the latter club to
arrange a track relay meet between the
two clubs. The c. c. WIS are willing,
but cannot see the way clear until
after the State Fair; because training
of horses will occupy the track until
then.
1t is a pity that a wheelmens fore
noon is not set apart by the State
Fair management. If $500 We're de-
voted to it there would be a splendid
input of riders and clubs. The track
could be put in condition overnight
easily and be ready for horses in the
afternoon.
Club spirit is taking better form
among the C. c. W. men and higher
grade of feeling and conduct bids well
to hold the club together in stronger
bonds than ever. Unselfishness, manli-
ness, gentility and concession in so
large a body are essentials of success.
Sydney Bulletin: A Melbourne lady,
whose husband is in the bicycle trade,
lost gold nugget brooch the other
day While whirling along on her wheel.
in his tire the same day, and tool.
the bicycle to the shop of the husband
aforesaid with the result that the
wife'S lost brooch was eXtricated from
the puncture. Providence enjoys a lit
tie joke occasionally.
Notices in French, German, English,
Italian and Spanish have been affixed
to the frontier posts by the customs
authorities at Belfort, informing wheel
men entering France that they must
obtain certificates of permission, which
will be available for three months.
New York Tribune: An eminent doc
tor has come to the conclusion that
sunstroke is not due simply to exces
sive heat or exposure to the full rays
of a cloudless sun. He declares that
sunstroke is, on the contrary, an in
fictitious disease, caused, like fever or
smallpox, by a specific organism or
germ. But this germ he has not yet
succeeded in isolating, though he hopes
in course of time to do so. There is
little doubt, he says, that the germ is
bred in the superficial layers of the soil
in certain low lying regions of the
earth, and that it is imbibed into the
human system by the breathing OF
dusty air. If this is true, how does he
account for the wheelmans singular
immunity from sunstroke?
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Eastward and westward the Ameri-
can bicycle takes its way. The Treas
ury Bureau of Statistics at Washing
ton reports that American wheels are
now ridden in all parts of the world,
from the jungles of Africa to the wilds
of Central America. -Four million dol
lars worth of American bicycles We're
sold in European countries during the
last fiscal year, and more than twice
as many were shipped to France, de-
spite her skilled workmen and ingenu-
ity, as were exported to that country
during the preceding year. Two-thirds
of our bicycles are sent to countries
which make a speciality of manufacture
ing, says "Leslies Weekly Even
Japan, with it's cheap labor, is con-
stantly increasing its imports of Amer
lean wheels. Our largest customer is
Great Britain, which took nearly So,
Coo. Coo worth of American bicycles last
year; Germany coming next, and Can
ada, France, British Australia and the
Netherlands, Denmark, British Africa,
British East Indies, Japan, China,
Dutch East Indies and Africa follow
ing in the order of the amount of their
purchases. Since Cuba has become
free we have SHIPPED to it eight times
as many bicycles as formerly. Porto
Rico and the Hawaiian Islands are
good customers though no direct ex-
portation to the Philippines is thus far
reported. America leads the world in
the manufacture and sale of the best of
everything.
Returns show that in France. at the
present moment over 100000 wheelmen
pay a tax on their machines. Similar
taxes are levied in Russia, Belgium and
parts of Germany.
A Liverpool wheelman, it is said,
while riding during a thunder storm
had the rear mud guard of his machine
stripped off by lightning.
The British Medical Press" has this
to say about mouth breathing and cy-
cling" "A not inconsiderable proper
ton of people are victims OF a degree
of nasal obstruction sufficient to render
it necessary to use the mouth more or
less for breathing purposes. In an
even larger proportion the obstruction
allows of sufficient air being inhaled