The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
THE WHEEL
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Laws of the Road" is the title of a
valuable pocket pamphlet compiled by
prominent member of the Hartford
bar The much-discussed question of
road rights is conciseiy stated and
brief summaries of court decisions are
given We quote few paragraphs:
"A bicycle is a vehicle. i therefore
comes under the common law princi-
pies. and riders of wheels have the
same privileges and are under the same
burdens as drivers of all other We
hicles.
Each person using a highway must
use ordinary care and prudence. AS
the right to use the highway is person
al, it follows that no one class of per-
sons mas rights superior to other CLASSES.
1T is not the duty of a party law
iully travelling upon a public highway
upon a bicycle to stop and ask if
horse will be frightened
The law is especially considerable to-
Ward those who desire to cross street
on foot, and all vehicles must use care
| in approaching street crossings.
'Nehlcles can be left standing by the
side of streets or highways and when
SO left, If damaged by other vehicles,
the damage must be paid for"
| over 600 has been spent by the
state of Massachusetts in the building
of improved highways All of this sum
has been secured from the legislature
| through the efforts of the League of
American Wheelmen. and every wheel
man riding over them is indebted TO
the league for his pleasure, yet large
majority of them are not members of
the organization which they could as
sst so materially in this and other
lines of work.
AS Jimmy Michael feels to-day he
may never return to the cycle track.
He is content to ride horses while his
| money holds out said a friend of his.
| When he goes broke he will get on
| his wheel again and do the old trick
with the other riders" Michael is the
only man who never lost his pace I'M
less when known to be physically unfit.
| He is also the greatest exponent of the
art of picking up" pace.
1t has remained for a woman to dis
cover field of usefulness for the old
high wheels of former years. Ever
| since the ordinarfes were replaced by
| the SafetieS it has been a wonder what
became of the high wheels. They We're
a piece of almost worthless junk, and
riders, being unable to get anything
for them, would not destroy them. The
cellars of houses and in the wheelrooms
| of clubs have been filled up with the
old wheels chung to out of sentiment.
| Here and there they are to be found
doing duty as sign in front of a re-
pair shop or hotel,b The new use for
them is that of an ornamental garden
| fixture. The woman who hit upOn the
| idea says:
Firmly fixed in front of some ugly,
bare space, or even in the center of
flower bed, they can be converted
into things of beauty and a joy forever
have one covered with nasturtiums.
which have the merit of growing quick
| ly, but any creeper would look equally
Well"
She goes on to air her knowledge of
the old ordinaries in this naive style:
"One rarely sees these high machines
in use now. To learn to ride one re-
quires considerable nerve and endur-
ance, as a fall from the lofty saddle
entailed very hard knock, generally
on the head, and never in the right
place. A stone in the road would often
give one an involuntary header into a
bramble bush or on the hard road"
Now the bicycle is playing the role
of Sherlock Holmes. In a recent Rhode
| Island robbery the make and number
of the bicycle of the thief left behind
are to play a part in his conviction
1t could not, the story goes, have been
sold earlier than May, and the agen-
cies within wide radius of the place
where the robbery was committed are
limited to two or three The modern
| highWayman rides a treacherous steed
A simple pocket filter, which may
save cyclists and travellers from dis
ease germs, is a short rubber tube with
a mouth-piece al one end and a wire
netting at the other. Inside the net
ting is a small portion of powdered
charcoal in a little net cell. When the
charcoal end of the tube is inserted in
the water the germs are not allowed tE
pass and the charcoal frees the waite,
from all impurities which may be con.
tanned in it. The tube acts as a straw
through which the water is drawn
pure and clear. 1t is convenient way
to drink from a brook when riding
through the country, and the filter is q
great safeguard against all possible i'm
purity.
Now that the big policeman may NJ
longer ride on the street cars in Mil
Waukee without paying fare. as othe
people do, they are taking to bicycles
and the entire force, almost TO a man
has purchased 30-inch wheeled ma
chimes of local manufacture.
Racing men on the national circui
last season warned s'Plunger Bill" Mar
tin again and again that tying his fee
to his pedals in such a way that h
. could not lOsen them in case of a fal
was the very height of foolishness, bu
to their protest Martin would not lis
ten. When the men heard of the ter
rible accident he met with over in Aus
tralia, in which he received such Seri
Gus injuries as to imperil his life Their
was a general Il told him So from tn
riders.
Bald, Cooper. Gardiner, kiser, Nc
Farland, Stevens Freeman and mum
: Der of other tirSt-raters have located d
, Berkeley Oval track, where they hav
: secured delightful quarters at the Coun
, try club From Berkeley Oval the
will travel to and from New York cir
a cult points, The party will separate 70
July and gather again for the star
of the grand circuit.
! The professional riders say that the
will not meet the winner of the amateu
championship in a match race at tn
close of the racing season. They sa