The record-union., 1899-12-25
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
STREET, ROAD AND PATH IN
TEREST REVIVAL.
4 acknowledgement
-Trade-Eastern Road Sentt-
ment-Local Club Notes.

The first electric cart of the hremen
Of Paris is now running on the streets
and has already begun its work Oh say
ing life and property. It is nahosoine
vehicle, with seat in front LOT sew
eral firemen, and horizontal steeri's
wheel. Back of this is a "dos-o-oos
arrangement which will permit OF seat
ing several fremen. Between THESE
seats is a box for hose. The batteries
are carried underneath, and scaling lao-
ders are carried at the side.
Some time soon electric automobile
street sweeping machines will be used
In Paris, and the old clumsy dust ma
chimes will be done away with. the
motor is in front, while underneath and
behind is a tank of water, and the
sprinkling device in the rear and the
sweepers, which can be raised out OF
contact with the pavement whenever
desired. The new machine can be run
back and forth over a street to sprinkle
1t. 1t will then return and sweep the
dirt in piles and electrically driven
carts will carry away the dirt after II
has been heaped in piles.
There are many things that Will
serve to bring wheelmen and the own
ers and drivers of automobiles closer
together. Both are interested in good
roads and well paved streets, and many
believe that the two classes will DC
found shoulder to shoulder in coming
litigations and troubles. One veteran
bicycle dealer fitted up a repair shop at
his place for the automobile. Il have
made a careful study of the horseless
carriage problem said he yesterday
"Only yesterday a man rode up in his
automobile and asked me to make GER
tain repairs in the machine. The lever
which controls the machine had weak
ened, and he wished repairs made be-
fore serious break occurred. I found
the tubing of which the lever was COM
posed to be of the cheapest and mean
est sort, and not the kind Of stuff which
one would expect to find in high
priced vehicle. I showed this to the
customer and he ordered me to take
out the whole thing and to have it
properly brazed. Why, 1 could not sell
S25 bicycle if 1t had brazing of the
sort found in parts of that automobile
Our American manufacturers would not
stoop to anything so contemplate.
would imagine that a properly con-
structed steering apparatus would be
necessary in that sort of machine
The Capital City Wheelmen give tneir
annual ball February 22d at Turner
Hall. 1t is to be as complete an affair
as energy, good taste and care car
make it. The club has an enviable rep
utation for doing its social events il
first-class style.
An English exchange says: British
manufacturers have racked their brain:
to effect improvements in bicycles, blu
none Of them evidently have yet don't
anything to improve the wabbiing
shaking toolbag which has been car
ried, fastened to the saddle, ever since
bicycles came into existence. You hard
~ ever see a toolbag on an American
machine. An American wheel is 81
made that only one tool is necessary tC
adjust any of the parts. This tool, an6
a telescope pump and repairing ma
terials in a compact form, are usually
carried in the recesses of the handle
bars" This will be news to the aver
age rider in this country.