The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-30

fully performed last week, and start
| number two was made
| The combine is named the American
| Blcycle company, with a capital of $40,-
| 100000. 1t comprises forfy-fve CON
Germs, controlling fifty-six plants. The
| members Will be paid 10 per cent of
| the original appraisement for their
plants. OF this amount 80 per cent.
IS cash, ~ per cent. preferred stock and
oU per cent. common stock. The capital
| consists of S10,000,000 debenture gold
bonds, s per cent, twenty years; $l0,-
O00.ee0 In per cent. preferred stock,
cumulative as ITO dividends and pre-
ferred as to assets, and $40, 900 900 in
l common stock. The debenture bonds,
II called in before due, are payable at
1O5. Those in the trust are privileged
to subcribe to them at 80 per cent.
The combine is not as strong as origi-
nally projected, and does not control
the market by any means. Several
large concerns which gave options in
June are said to be out of it, and will
go it alone, or may form an opposition
company.
One of the features of the cycle rae
ing this season has been the number
of time riders to get back into the
game again. Zimmerman was the first
one of note to return to the racing
path, and now he is. to be followed by
Fred Titus. w. w. Taxis and Harry
Wheeler. SO the report goes. Titus has
only been out of the game about a year
and as he is comparatively young vet
he may do better than Jimmy" has
done so far. Titus started out early
last season to become an actor. but as
the audiences evinced no great desire
to go into raptures over his acting, he
has decided to go back to the wheel
again. Taxis has been out of the game
for three years, the same length of
time as Zimmerman, and he was one of
the most popular riders on the path at
the time he retired. Wheeler was the
champion of the Cash Prize league in
1893 and afterward went to France
with Zimmerman, winning regularly on
the French tracks for two years. 1t
Is expected that Wheeler and Taxis Will
start to train in a few days at the
Newark track and that they will take
part in the regular Saturday and Sun
day meets at that place during the
rest of the season.
There is large class of riders who
when travelling a-wheel, suffer dire
thirst and throat parching, because of
their overheating exertions and the
dust of the road, but who deny them
selves the satisfaction of drinking. For
these there is comfort in the views of
DR.. L. Championiere of Paris, who says
that when riding a man or woman
should drink all the water possible, but
should eat no solid food. He declares
that while 1T is useless to eat during
violent exercise, 1t is important to
drink If the body is in good condition.
This is in direct contradiction of the
notions of other physicians, but it is
in concord with the experience of some
riders, who indulge themselves in the
line of water drinking and find that
they are the better for it. While It
would undoubtedly make racing man
doggy" to drink just before starting
in competition, there are many hard
riders who drink copiously while trav-
cling. Others never do more than
rinse out their mouths and throats and
declare that they could not ride If they
drank. While doctors disagree and eX-
periences conflict over this matter of
drinking and riding, it is probably just
as well that riders should not be bound
by any prejudice created by the test-
nony of others, but should experiment
and ascertain whether it is better to
drink freely or abstain. So long as
the needs of different temperaments
and constitutions vary there is not like
ly to be any agreement on this subject.
All arrangements for the worlds
championship bicycle meet to be held
at Montreal August z to IL are per-
fected. From the number of foreign
entries received 1t should prove to be
the greatest event in the history of
cycling. The track at Queens Park,
one-third of a mile, is built in the most
modern fashion and acknowledged to
be one of the fastest tracks in the
world. The citizens of Montreal have
recognized the Importance of the meet
and are contributing literally for the
entertainment of visitors. The mayor
has proclaimed August 8. the first race
day, a civic holiday, and a number of
leading merchants have promised TO
close down on that day. Although the
racing begins August 8, the whole of
the week will be devoted to the interest
of the championships.
Providing your watch has a minute
dial 1t is an extremely simple matter to
so mark this as to be used as a speed
indicator, no matter what gear your
machine is.
Find out the distance your cycle is
propelled by one revolution of the pedal.
This, assuming your gear to be 20, Will
be 2199 inches.
Divide this number into $500 Ohe
number of inches in one mile), and
the product WILL of course give you the
number of revolutions you must make
to cover a mile-viz., 2SS and slight
fraction. ".t. ..... 4a
If it were possible to turn the crank
2SS times per minute this would, of
course, mean that you are driving your
cycle at the rate of one mile per min
ute, or 60 miles per hour.
Seventy-two revolutions per minute
would consequently mean that you
were travelling at the rate Of quarter
of mile per minute, or fifteen miles
per hour.
Therefore, still assuming that your
gear is TO- if you mark off, with dis
tinguishing color, twelve and half
seconds of the minute dial of your
watch and count the number of revolu-
lions your crank makes while the min
ute hand is passing over this colored
portion of the dial, it will represent the
number of miles per hour you are trav-
cling.
An international code OF communica-
ton between cyclists is an excellent
idea A plan has been devised In Paris
on the Morse system of telegraphy.
Tba strolxas are made on q bell follow