The Wheel and cycling trade review . n any event. ISNT THIS A NICE MAN ? Philadelphia wheelmen should at once pro-ceed to erect a monument to SuperintendentThayer. This official is too wise to live long,and his wisdom should not go unrewarded bywheelmen, a class for whom SuperintendentThayer evidently entertains naught but thekindliest of feelings. That this is so, see thefollowing rule Superintendent Thayer hasjust promulgated: Two bicycles cannot be shoved up a hill by oneperson, nor lead one and ride another, nor towa bicycle by rope or otherwise. It-is well to have it known as widely as po
The Wheel and cycling trade review . n any event. ISNT THIS A NICE MAN ? Philadelphia wheelmen should at once pro-ceed to erect a monument to SuperintendentThayer. This official is too wise to live long,and his wisdom should not go unrewarded bywheelmen, a class for whom SuperintendentThayer evidently entertains naught but thekindliest of feelings. That this is so, see thefollowing rule Superintendent Thayer hasjust promulgated: Two bicycles cannot be shoved up a hill by oneperson, nor lead one and ride another, nor towa bicycle by rope or otherwise. It-is well to have it known as widely as pos-sible that two bicycles cannot lead one andride another, nor tow a bicycle by rope orotherwise, but why the ungallant proclama-tion that two bicycles cannot be shoved upa hill by one person. Suppose one of theriders is weak, inexperienced or incapaci-tated? Why should not his or her companionhelp the dismounted one over the hill by as-suming temporary charge of both machines?This rule says no. If in any company of NEW ONES ON Father Noah, as he gazes earthward from his perch in the clouds: Blessmy soiil! I thought I had a pair of every living thing in that ark of mine, butI have no recollection of having any of those creatures down there, nor do Ifind them on the good old Arks manifest. WAS NOT FAVORED. Look here, said the editor, you includein this poem a line about the earth cyclingaround the sun. Yes, replied the poet, confidently; andIll stand by it. That line, sir, is not only anexample of polished expression, but it is as-tronomically correct. Mebbe so. But it wont go here. Cyclingaround the sun, he repeated dont you take the earth and putbloomers on it, and be done with it? wheelmen in Fairmount Park one of the num-ber comes to grief and can neither ride nortake care of his bicycle, the luckless wheelmust be left in the road if there is a hill in-tervening, since two bicycles cannot beshoved up a hill by one person. All this, ofcourse, supposing Su
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