New-York tribune., 1899-01-10
AVE. BROOKLYN

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AVE. BRooK1.yN
Urgent INQUIRIES have been made to the officials OF
the League Of American wheelmen lately regard
ing an alleged concern doing business under the
name OF the Model Bicycle Company. with offices
st No. to Il Broadway. Circulars had been sent
broadcast 10 wheelmen. saying that the com
pany" would send model bicycle beautiful
nickei-plated smokeless bicycle lamp with colored-
glass sideights also nickel-plated electric ring
ing bicycle bell also nickeplated cycometer and
bicycle stand. all for the modest sum of s. s. An
other significant paragraph in the circular says:
THE model bicycle Is perfect charm. and is the
simplest and strongest made strictly high grade.
modelled after a 500 bicycle. Frame is in one
piece no awkward bolts or nuts visible. latest
style dropping handle-bars and newest detached
chain. You cannot ride this wheel and puncture
and cut tire This is not secondhand bicycle
and docs not weigh thirty pounds. hut s light
and easily carried and new from i@actory. @ VIII win
guarantee for one year Don't pay si" ,or do1. pns
model and the beautiful lamp bell. cyclometer ana
bicycle stand we send This hhera onrn OF sdnn nve
hered but Moe M M p's S s We ssT to
Some concerns spend large amounts in advertlsing
We prefer to introduce ours ny making you the
above oe and we KnoW yol VII adveTsT '1sm by
introducing 1t and creating demand for sales
Surnounting the etter-head pictures OF Two
handsome buildings. with the idea probably Of MAX
ing the people addressed think that they were the
Offices and factories respectively of the company.
reporter Of The Tribune visited the building No.
8 70 II Broadway yesterday and inquired for the
Model Bicycle Company" He was directed to the
nth foor where he found this sign on the door
Of q small Office. which closed Model BIZ
cycle Company. William c. Emery. Manager" c.
X Bill the manager Of the building. was found
In his Office. the eighth floor When questioned
about the Model Bicycle Company. Mr.. BIZ said:
Yes. We have had many inquiries for that COM
hut
in December a young man called on me and asked
small s25 office. saving that he wished
II he was successful he would want large offices
In Christmas week Captain MesteTyon n-i mace Win IN
the result that the Postofice officials had all the
nn s Of nose to coa iho n IT & not ake
70 determine what course we should pursue. l & saw
man Of fairly pleasing address and told him i'm
s we sn Sst sa the have S' o
anything Of him since Mr Emery has not not
frst Of the year There is nothing in the room ex;
cept desk and couple Of chairs. From what I
money. Most OF Them that did come in were mere
ly letters OF inquiry"
Wheemen OF Brooklyn hope that the rumors are
true that Colonel Partridge will be chosen AT Com
missioner OF Public Works. The Colonel Is the presi
dent of the Good Roads Association Of Long ISL
and and the wheelnen think that. with the pres-
dent Of the Good Roads Assocs ton. Leuten-
ant-Governor Woodruff. Governor Roosevelt and all
of the recently elected State Senators and Assem-
viii be carried on in earnest This year on Long
Island Msny Of the men msrcsn sfs aSo
Promise has been made that the work % OF macad nasn
head Bay will be begun early in the. spring; This
will take much OF the crush of of the boulevard
hs, he Work viii be- ph apdy
soon as the wea ther will permit
A committee from the League OF American Wheel
men and the Good Roads Association is working 10
make the entertainment OF the wheelmen at the
coming bicycle show al Madison Square Garden an
interesting one The League Of American Wheel
men will have quarters in the Concert Hall, and II
is expected that much recruiting work Will he done
Besides addresses by well-known wheemen. Ian
tern exhibition will be given by Messrs. Schwal-
bach and Wilcox. The slide will show the evou-
ton of the bicycle from the Draisne velocipede Of
1916 TO the chainless wheel OF to-day. 1t will in
clude the wooden veocipede Of 1896 the high wheel
Of 1876 the dwarf safety Of 1885 and the chainless
Of 1896 with Improvements for 1899 There will be
views of the famous roads Of the Old and the New
World including recent Partisan scenes on the
French Boulevard showing motor carriages and
bicycles. and the great Klpey Road & IN LONDON, as
and. The Camera Club OF Brooklyn win lend some
OF Its prize pictures as well
There seems TO be considerable uncertainty re-
rarding who will he the chairman Of the Racing
Board OF the League Of American Wheelmen under
the new administration. As G. W. Mears. Of Cleve-
land 4. a personal friend of the incoming presi-
dent T. ]. Keenan, jr. Of PttsDurg. and he is
well qualified fill the Office. II is generally sup
posed that the robes Of Albert Mott will fall on
the shoulders of the Cleveland man. Others men
tioned for the place Henry Robinson OF BOs-
ton and George l. Mccarthy. Of New York Many
think that the office Of the chairman should be in
this city.
The next race meet az Madison Square Garden
will take place Thursday night. The feature will
be a twenty-hve-rniie paced race between Elkes and
McDunee II McDuffee is in the condition he
in last summer IL ought TO ne interesting strug-
gle.
COLLEGE ROWING.