The Wheel and cycling trade review . ication cost $800. A number of women impersonated Night;others fancied Day. Suns, moons, starsand crescents were thick as pearl seed. LiHung Chang was there forty-one times. The parade started from Fifty-seventhstreet. It turned at One Hundred and Tenthstreet. The head of the line had reached thestarting point before the rear guard had will give some idea of its was the usual slow ups, dismounts,gaps and scorches to close up that character-ize all cycle parades. Mr. Solomon managed the whole business. PARADES HERE AND ABROAD. In Am
The Wheel and cycling trade review . ication cost $800. A number of women impersonated Night;others fancied Day. Suns, moons, starsand crescents were thick as pearl seed. LiHung Chang was there forty-one times. The parade started from Fifty-seventhstreet. It turned at One Hundred and Tenthstreet. The head of the line had reached thestarting point before the rear guard had will give some idea of its was the usual slow ups, dismounts,gaps and scorches to close up that character-ize all cycle parades. Mr. Solomon managed the whole business. PARADES HERE AND ABROAD. In America, nowadays at least, a cycleparade is either an advertisement for a news-paper or a boom for a politician. In Eng-land parades are almost as frequent, but theyare usually for charitable institutions. Out-runners, afoot and in fancy costume, dartin and out among the spectators, and passthe hat. The collection, which oftenamounts to hundreds of dollars, is handedover to some public charity. RIBBONS OP ASPHALT. ,(V •! . IN «. The building of a stretch of asphalt oneither side of Hudson street is another stepin the right direction^ also the putting downof a ribbon of asphalt on Madison stretch of asphalt on Hudson street,when it is completed, will connect the upperWest Side residential district, containinghundreds of thousands of homes, with thedowntown business district, and we may ex-pect streams of people to avail themselves ofthis new roadway between their homes andtheir businesses, and it will profit themfinancially, as well as physically, besides af- fording them additional pleasure at bothends of the day. It must be borne in mind that people willcycle, and those Who believe that cycling isbut a passing fad must remember that cy-cling will only pass when something bettersucceeds it. The world will continue to moveabout on smooth pavements and on rubber-shod vehicles, either manumotive or power-driven. The day of cobbles is gone by, justas thoroughly as h
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