The record-union., 1899-05-29
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
PoRTLAND's RECORD-WHEEL
BADGES.
New Club Rooms-Motor Pacing
Cycles in Fire Brigades-
Good Road Work.

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Five thousand wheelmen have paid
the bicycle license in Portland so far
this season. The Portland license is
~ 20. Good for the wlseelmen OF
Portland. They value wheelways ana
will not be guilty of using them wlth-
out helping pay for them. Different,
We fear it is in Sacramento There are
here over 5000 cyclists, but though the
Capital City Wheelmen ordered on
venture only 100 patron badges this
spring, signifying that the holder has
contributed 81 to the wheelway fund tor
this county, it has been as yet unabde
to dispose of a beggarly two Dozen rms
is very discouraging for good roads
work in Sacramento County. Let US
hope that cyclists will think better OF
it and step up to 800 K street and buy
the wheel badges and leave orders for
1000 more. The money has been ex-
pended ON the paths; will wheelmen see
the club go down in its pocket and meet
the bill after spending over 500 from
it's treasury for the same work and col
lecting as much more from big hearted
merchants and a few conscientious cy-
clists who took the old badges? BY
the way. the 1899 badge (good to June,
1900 is a handsome ornament for any
wheel
The attempt of Lawson, the Terrible
SWede," julius and the others-any 9TH
ers-to cheat the people of Dixon by an
nouncing a race meet there yesterday
with Otto Ziegler, Barnaby, Chapman
and a whole list of G.. c. W. riders, was
the rawest kind of work 1t was stop
ped in time and nobody was taken in
Who had his eyes open, let us hope, for
word was sent to Dixon of the facts.
Announcing people to ride whom the
promoter knows will not ride and are
not in the State to ride, is obtaining
money by false pretense, if any one
buys ticket on such representation.
All California riders under jurisdic-
ton of the c. A. c. C. have been for
bidden to ride under any MANAGEMENT
IN which Lawson, the Terrible Swede. -
has a finger until he pays up the Sac
ramento people the money he owes on
the Hirsch-Barnes match.
The C. C. w. have moved into their
satisfied. The rooms are cosy and
handsome for a reconstruction under
difficulties. and the club has now room
enough for hand ball court and for
croquet and tennis grounds. In the
house which is 4Sx25 feet there are now
. SIX large rooms with porches, outhouses.
paths, etc. With economy the club can
soon tit up the lower floor, fence in the
tlot anew, and put in the games referred
s. 10 Tor out door exercise. 1t now has
an assembly room 24x25 feet, a social
hall 13x23. a vestibule 10x12, a direct
ors' room 12x13, a training room 13x2O.
wheelhouse and gymnasium 13x2O in
one part and 25x21 in another part. The
walls of the upper floor are hung, with
paintings, photos and engravings. the
floors are well carpeted the windows
heatly curtained. The furniture is
plain but substantial The prevailing
colors of the walls and ceiling are in
the main tan and ecru, and in the YES
tibule and hall flame red and ecru. The
cost of fitting up the building was $500.
The club is now purchasing the prop
erty. 40xl60. on the installment plan.
The costliest bicycle in the world has
Just been finished at a gun factory in
Vienna. 1t Will cost 100000 gulden.
which is little more than SD. 500. The
owner is rich South African diamond
king and mine owner. who will present
the machine to his wife on her next
birthday. The frame alone cost |. 500
gulden, and at the last Vienna exposi-
tion it was admired by thousands. The
South African millionaire was SO struck
with the exquisite beauty of the wheel
that he bought it and had it inlaid with
precious stones and diamonds on, every
possible part
Prontable speculations are the obi
cycle railways on the seashore near
New Brighton and other English sea
side resorts. Rails are laid on the
sands, and on them bicycles run, but
they are SO fixed that no balancing is
needed. Thousands of ''trippers'' pat
ronized these bicycle railways last sum
mer, and several new ones are being
started. 1t is said that. as a rule. the
cost OF each bicycle used is got back by
the proprietors within a week, so the
profits must be considerable
IL now looks as though motor pacing
would be developed to a considerable
extent when the date of the national
meet arrives. If that is the case the
public will be furnished an opportunity
to see the greatest middle distance
riders in the world In private trials
that are to be made by McDuffee with
motor-pacing machines satisfactory re-
suits have been obtained. 1t is prob
able that Tom Linton will arrive at
g the track by the middle of June,
bringing with him a complete outfit
of European pacing machines.
The question of using cycles in the
service of the fire brigade has frequent
ly been raised, but little progress has
been made in England. Cycling fire
extinguishers are, however, used a
good deal on the Continent. Milan has
cycles fitted with hand pump and
about eight feet of leather hose which
is fitted inside the frame of the ma
chine Another useful idea. which is
used at Amsterdam, is tricycle. with