Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-16

bright colors and dazzling hosiery are tabooed. Dark colors and genteel styles will be the order. For men the rule will be a sack ccat of blue black, pants of a very modest check or solid color, dark stockings with just Q trace of color in the roll, low shoes, patent leather or tan; leather belt (black) and madras shirt with attached collar and dark tie.
 The style for women will be shirt waists, Eton jackets and skirts of dark cloth, the skirts to reach we'll down to the ankle; black stockings and low shoes, tan or patent leather. Men will wear caps of the golf pat tern, but modest in color, and the women will suit their tastes in head gear. But the leaning of the style settlers is toward the Alpine pattern of hat.
 It is taken for granted that very large percentage of the trade in | wheels are now in the hands of the combination formed to dominate the | wheel world in the United States. l When I wrote to an official of this combination to request informa tion on the proba bilities of the trade for | the coming season received the fol- lowing reply:
 Based solely on facts, the state ments that the aggregate sale of American bicycles will be from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent. larger this year than was that of 1900 may be safely ac- cepted by the most conservative trade critics. Further than this, the de- mand from all quarters for the high ] est grade wheels is to most satis- factory extent largely in excess of such demand in 1900. More $50 wheels and fewer $25 wheels of the chain type and from 20 to % per cent. more chainless wheels will be sold this year than has been the case since these two grades were adopted as standard, or since the advent of the chainless wheel. These are the facts, as near. as we can arrive at them, by orders from agents in va rious parts of the country. The causes are easily arrived at by those who have watched the development of the trade in the last two seasons" :" l The combination officials say that bicycles were never so well nor sc economically constructed as now; the system of producing and marketing I them was never so nearly perfect, and where formerly manufacturers, stimulated by the lash of competition, were playing at cross purposes to their own disadvantage and at the cost of the purchaser, the cycle build ing industry of the United States is to-day under the control of one great corporatipn that claims for it's prod ucts all of the virtues that book agent would for his wares.
 It also must not be overlooked that the greatest cycle meet of it's kind ever held in the country is scheduled for the first two weeks in August in connection with the Pan-American ex- position at Buffalo. Entry blanks, even at this early day, are in the hands of Director of Sports J. E. Sul- livan, and soon will be sent out to every cycling headquarters in the known world. All of the National Cy- cling association's championships for amateurs will be decided upon the track at the stadium. 1t will take a week of good sport to conclude these races.
 Following the amateurs, who will get gold and silver wreaths as tro- phies, will come the professionals. The ''profs' of Europe and the An | tipodes have been informed of the money that may be earned at this meet and arrangements will be made l to see that the championships, both for the N. c. A. and the world, will be we'll filled and hot1y contested. A K C. wEsTLAKR