New-York tribune., 1900-01-25

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members are getting ready to make a lively fight
for good roads. and prominent good roads workers
will deliver lectures the subject at enter
tainment to be given shortly
Henry John Lawson, of England, who says he in
vented the safety bicycle was a visitor at the
show yesterday. His claim is substantiated by
many of the veteran experts. Mr.. Lawson says
that he conceived the idea of the safety in 1865
Later he conceived the idea of wheel to be pro-
PEELED by both the feet and hands. Then he
fathered the boneshaker, with the pedals the
front wheel and 1877 he put forward the idea of
rotary motion for the wheel and the rear driver.
This idea generally ridiculed all the world
at its conception. He got the idea of the word
Safety from his father. the Rev T. Lawson of
Brighton, England. He says that he took i'm
portant part IN organizing the Humber Company.
in England, and also the Rudge Company. Mr..
Lawson has come to this country to introduce what
he is pleased to call ''gyroscopic' bicycle, which
can be propelled by motor well as by the feet.
The motor is small. of two horse power, and the
rider need not use the power except on hills He is
accompanied by Charles Jarrett, who here to
challenge Of the motor riders to for s. 900
a side. 1t said last night that a will be
arranged between Jarrett and Fourner the latter
use American machine and motor The diff
Guilty will be to find suitable road for such a
Murphy his home trainer in the balcony has
astonished many people who have not given such
things much attention 1t really looks dangerous
what are known roller bearings. which. the in
see Murphy QdSn INTO the cFOWu DelOW. Inc
mechanism is similar to that used in the Ben
Hur' and County Fair" theatrical productions,
and the feat is about dangerous. Police Ser
geant Martin, who is detailed at the Garden,
so impressed by Murphys apparent daring that he
gave notice yesterday afternoon that Murphy must
turn the trainer to one side, so that in case he
ran off he would not tumble into the gaping spec
tators and thereby perhaps injure of them.
Murphy insisted that there real danger,
but the Sergeant firm until young girl of
Of q non uvha n
Brooklyn, offered to mount the wheel and do the
same thing that Murphy doing. Then Ser
geant Martin relented and told Murphy to go
ahead.
automobile of the runabout type ex-
hibited yesterday and inspected critically by
the experts. The machine is propelled with gaso-
lene and sits unusually low. 1t is said that the
machine is so arranged to obviate the least
possibility of danger from slipping
There is one tire exhibited which shows novel
Improvement, If 1t will do all that is said it will.
The tire is of the double tube variety. Inside the
tread OF the inner tube there is strip Of soft un-
rubber 1t is said that in case tack or nail
enters the tire the action of the soft rubber auto
matically closes the puncture.
A 5-inch tire on a six hundred and fifty pound
automobile is interesting attraction at one of
the stands 1t is further interesting owing to the
fact that this heavy weight revolves easily
what known roller bearings, which, the in
ventor asserts will take the place of ball
bearings. AS the name implies, the weight rests
rollers instead of balls and the friction is said
to be much less that automobiles fitted run
with much ease than others not fitted
Many of the prominent manufacturers were alb
sent from the show last night, in attendance at
dinner to A. G. Spaldng, given by the directors
of the American Bicycle Company at the Union
League Club. Speeches were made by many of the
makers, expressing the heartiest of goodwill for
the organizer of the combination.
WHAT SOME EXHIBITORS HAVE TO SAY.
THE Bicycle Show this year comes pretty close
to being a truly artistic creation, said J. w.
Kiser, Of the Monarch sales department. yesterday
The general arrangements of the booths this year
the cooring, the grouping of the myriad OF electric
lights and the handsome furnishings of the little
Enclosures where the wheels are dispIayed-comes
nearer to the artistic than anything on similar
lines we have ever had before The expert at the
exposition cannot help being impressed with the
wheels. There is the same wild rush for the hand
but even in the stampede for trinkets the IaymaI
Will come across some particular bicycle which will
critically. The veliest interest seems to be felt i'll
its various forms. is bound to create the same
widespread interest that followed the development
of the invention in England The device is made in
various forms. so that the rider ordering his 1900
wish to have attached to his Wheel 1t will require
little care on the part of the rider for the first
two three times when he tries it, but after these
tests he finds himself thoroughly at home The in
vention will add an additional stimulus TO the in
the road in the spring than ever before. Another
year have given their entire attention to the
facture of bicycles. They have not bothered much
with tripets quads, quints and sextupiets and the
result will show in the perfection attained in cycle
construction. 1t Is but natural that maker Civ
ing his entire attention to form of manufact-
should achieve better results than if he
were trying to market a dozen different sorts of
machines.
There "a time in every sport and recre-
alton when something Is needed to stir up the whole
institution from the cellar to the roof to speak,
said c. w. Dickerson, Of the American Bicycle
Company yesterday, he stood in his Handsomely
furnished booth at the Cycle Show and watched
the hurrying thousands they made their waV
along the aisles. ANY man who has had much
experience in all around sports will readily under
stand Just what l mean There just little
something needed in the cycling industry, Just as
there is something needed in baseball and some
other things l might mention. Now. they have
not taken the bull by the horns in baseball and
the unfortunate chaotic condition which prevails
IN that sport at present is the result.
Il think the makers Of the bicycle in this countr,,
were more sensible. Something needed ana
lney We're good enough business 10 recopnjge
what IT was and TO apply the remedy immedateiv
me result was the combination of manufacturiSe;
interests, which will be of vast benefit TO tbe Jns
dustry not only in this country but over the en-