The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-11
THE WHEEL
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The new bicycle trust is not thorough
ly organized yet A few manufacture
ere are not wholly satisfied with the
terms, but their opposition is not forc-
BILE enough to prevent the deal being
contaminated. Latest advices from
New York are to the effect that the
promoters hold 10 options good until
August /. Promoter Spalding says the
extension of time means simply that
there are titles and mortgages which
require investigation, and that all of
the stock of the respective holders was
not turned over for one reason or anoth-
er. All stock was deposited with the
United States Trust Company which
receipted for it, When the transfer was
made provisional contract was made
with the active manager of each es-
Establishment. retaining his services for
period of three years. The contract.
however, is not binding on the Amer-
can Bicycle Company, and merely
bridges over the interim between the
present and the time when the Ameri-
can Bicycle company will assume ac
tive direction if the business.
The New York Sun reports that an
attempt will be made late this month
to ride bicycle one mile in one min
ute, with locomotive making the
pace. The rider who will make the eff
fort is Charles NJ Murphy of the Kings
county wheelmen, the former cham
pion of the racing track. The idea was
original with Murphy and he has been
seeking the opportunity to test it ever
since 1890, when he first preached the
subject. From time to time the scheme
has come to the surface again, pending
negotiations with some railroad, but it
has never materialized, owing usually
to the expense of building the neceS-
sary board track between the rails and
placing locomotive at Murphys dis
posal for practice trials. Meanwhile, in
1896, E. E. Anderson, a Western rider,
adopted the idea and made a trip be-
hind locomotive in one minute l 3-5
seconds. This disposed of the argument
that it would be impossible for rider
to breathe when going al such pace
Murphy has always been a remarka BILE
rider. On home trainer of that style
in which the wheel turns over rollers
and has to be ridden and balanced the
same as on the road, Murphy has COW
cred a mile in less than a minute and
those who know him are sanguine of
his success in the effort to accomplish
the much discussed feat behind an en-
CINE.
The scene of the performance will be
a tWo-mile stretch of road near Baby
Ion, Long Island, that Is straight and
De laid between the rails for two miles.
Half mile will be allowed in which to
get Roadway and half mile in which
to slow and stop. An engine and one
car will be used. Timers and other Of
ficials will be on the rear platform of
the car, while other judges will be at
the starting and finishing marks. At
the rear of the car will be built a wind
shield of large dimensions. something
like hopper in shape, so that the
Whlrllng air cannot beat upon the rider
from above, below or at the sides, but
Will have to rush in behind and blow
upon his back. The ride will be made
during the state meet at Patchogue.
on June 20 or 80 or July l.
People troubled with the wheel habit
have been assured at various times
that continuance of the habit would
bring about one or more of the Attic
tons charged UP to the bicycle We
have been promised epidemics of the
bicycle head, the bicycle face, the
bicycle rubberneck, the bicycle calf
and other distortions of the human
form. But the promised epidemics did
not spread beyond the craniums of the
authors, whose plying friends restrain
ed them in time to escape the asylums
for the feeble minded. The disease APP
pears to have spread beyond the At
idHlltr anu mas DTOken out IN d new
form in the London Globe, which says:
The cyclists cough is the latest
ailment to which wheelmen are said 10
be specially Liable. For some years,
we are told, doctors have noticed that
coughs are more prevalent in summer
than in winter. No doubt the excep-
tionally mild winters which we have
enjoyed since 1S94-95 reduced the re-
cent average of lung complaints: but
that dry her 81 H.
tiply them seemed inexplicable until it
occurred to doctor that the majority
of his patients We're enthusiastic cy-
clistS. Since, moreover, the character
istic of road traffic in dry weather is
business. 1t was very easy to arrive
a the conclusion that the coughs were
mainly due to irritation of the lungs
caused by the inhalation of dust.
Nor does the conclusion appear I'M
reaSonab bic to the lay mind: for analy-
sis OF the dust of our roads has repeat
eddy shown that it consists in large
numbers of spicules of triturated vege-
table matter, such as would inevitably
cause irritation when imbedded in the
tissues of the lungs. When, too, we
bear in mind how thickly coated with
dust a cycliSt becomes after ten miles
or so Of the high road in dry weather.
ana how common it is to see him
scorching by with mouth wide open
like fish out of water, we can realize
the terrible amount of dirt which he
must swallow in the course of a weeks
hard riding. And that the inhalation
of large quantities Of dust may cause
fatal illness is proved by the inquests
which are occasionally held upon dust
men who have been suffocated from
this cause"
Many wheel riders complain of sweat
ing feet. and to such some information
from the British Medical Journal will
be invaluable. A physician in that
publication advocates the use of form
ain for the trouble. The soles of the
feet should be painted with formalin
three times a day; between the toes
only once and not at all on the dorsum
of the foot. 1t is also useful to pour
tour or five drops Of formalin on the