The record-union., 1899-05-29

lifeline worked with a sort of pistol,
after the fashion of the coast guards
rocket apparatus. This life-saving ap-
paratus reaches the scene of the fire
sooner than an ordinary fire escape.
The Wisconsin Legislature has passed
a law authorizing the country districts
to purchase road machinery without
the necessity of paying their road
taxes in cash, by making it possible
to purchase graders and rock crushers
on time payments. This will result in
the adoption of road machinery by
hundreds of Wisconsin towns which
have been unable heretofore to raise
the necessary cash.
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Here is a good record: ''The Associ-
ated Cycling Clubs of Long Island,
which was organized in June, 1893,
now numbers thirty-one progressive
clubs in it's membership. 1t was
brought into existence by the necessity
of systematic, organized effort among
wheelmen to promote and protect the
welfare of the fraternity and to secure
well-paved streets, roads and bicycle
paths and it's record of four years en-
deavor in these fields has proved the
wisdom of its founders and tested the
ZEAL forbearance and perseverance of
it's members. By its influence legisla-
ton has been secured for improved
highways and more of them; necessary
1irlx hot or-af ted
stretches of good roads have been
made; bicycle paths have been laid and
kept in condition; bridges have been
built; the rules of the road have been
enforced and the ordinances of the city
relating to wheelmen's rights have been
taken off the dead-letter calendar
Many abuses have been abolished, pub
lie officials have been prompted to the
performance of their duties, negligent
road contractors have been called
sharply to account, and much has been
accomplished toward furthering the as
sociation's objects in which it took the
initiative and which, without its int1u
ences, would have failed. Besides all
this, the association has been power
ful factor in promoting the fraternity
and brotherly feeling which is a char
acteristic of wheelmen, and its social
side is one of its strongest features.
While advocating the rights of Wheel
men the assocition has not lost sight
of their obligations, and it has been
as Jealous in intoxicating respect for
constituted authority and an observ-
ance of laws and ordinances among it's
own members as it has been quick to
| resent their infraction by the lawless
or ignorant. In all its efforts and the
success attending them the benefit and
necessity of united action and the
power of systematized work have been
made apparent, and the association
feels that the time has arrived for
every bicycle or wheeling organization
in Brooklyn and on Long Island to
affiliate with it and participate in it's
work, add to its power and influence
for good and share in the benefits Sc
cured
The State meet of the New York di-
vision of the League of American
Wheelmen, which will be held at Pat
chogue on June 29th and the two fol-
lowing days, will have one of the most
elaborate programs of entertainment
ever offered at one of these functions.
The features will be arranged with the
one idea in view of giving every visitor
really good time There will be
nothing formal. and there will be ev-
cry conceivable means used for get
ting the members together for a typical
cyclists meet
An invention for the wheelmen is the
hi l1G
Gently invented by ]. Davidson of
London, England. 1t is so constructed
that time and distance are both indi-
Gated on the same dial. For this pur-
pose the cyclometer is secured to the
front of the watch or is made integral
Herewith, and the arbor of the mile
hand of the cyclometer is made hollow
to receive the arbors of the hour and
minute hands of the watch, which
latter arbors are made sufficiently long
to extend through the arbor of the
mole hand and to project from the face
or dial of the cyclometer Thus when
the hour and minute hands are in posi-
ton they revolve in front of the said
! face or dial which, in addition to hav-
ing the cyclometer indications, is mark
ed with divisions like the dial of an or
dinary watch to indicate time The in
strument may be attached to any suit
able part of the cycle but preferably to
the handle-bar, SO that it can always
be seen clearly by the rider The cy-
clometer is driven by flexible and ad-
Unstable shaft from a star-wheel near
the hub of one of the bicycle wheels.
which star-wheel is rotated intermit-
tently in a well-known manner by a
striking piece on one of the spokes of
the cycle-wheel.
The French girls do not enjoy their
bicycles as do their American sisters
They may net ride alone and even in
couples unless a father, brother or
cousin accompanies them. Cycling is
rather frowned upon among the fash
ionables. Occasionally you see a fam
lily party-father, mother and children
out for spin, but they are usually
bound for the country
A gay recklessness characterizes Pa
risian wheeling costumes, but cyclers
do not ride so fast as in this country
The women's costumes are often biz
ARE, but there is a certain jauntiness
which carries them off One American
was struck with horror to see a cyclist
riding alone on a tandem, racing down
steep hill with the utmost cheerful
ness and unconcern. The riders do not
think it necessary to sit straight and