Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . e and is dust-proof. Thewheel has been tested thoroughly ; it wasridden 8,000 miles, then compared with thepresent chain bicycle ridden the same dis-tance, and the chainless, it was claimed,showed far less wear. The Stearns exhibit at the Chicago CycleShow was in many ways the most remark-able in the Coliseum. E. C. Stearns & in the first place the greatest amount offloor area allotted to any one firm—two honor was given to the Stearns septuplet, thelargest multicycle at the show. This me-gatherium among bicycles has never beforebeen shown in t
Hardware merchandising January-June 1897 . e and is dust-proof. Thewheel has been tested thoroughly ; it wasridden 8,000 miles, then compared with thepresent chain bicycle ridden the same dis-tance, and the chainless, it was claimed,showed far less wear. The Stearns exhibit at the Chicago CycleShow was in many ways the most remark-able in the Coliseum. E. C. Stearns & in the first place the greatest amount offloor area allotted to any one firm—two honor was given to the Stearns septuplet, thelargest multicycle at the show. This me-gatherium among bicycles has never beforebeen shown in this country, having beentouring abroad for the past six months. Itwas one of the leading attractions in theAmerican exhibit at the Stanley show, Lon-don. The Stearns triplet will also come infor a great deal of attention, and the regularmodels will doubtless be regarded as amongthe most notable at the show. E. C. Stearns & Co. exhibited a numberof interesting trophies and curios. In onecorner of the booth was a fine exhibit com-. STEARNS SEPTUPLET spaces greater than the next largest. TheYellow Fellow booth was seventy feet inlength and twenty-four feet in width, andwas magnificently decorated. In the pastE. C. Stearns & Co. have always madetheir sign the leading feature of their elaborate electric display of last yearwill doubtless be recalled ; this included anelectric tower surmounted by a revolvingbicycle. This years sign was built on anentirely new plan. The groundwork was ofheavy wire woven diagonally in strands abouttwo inches apart. The surface was about fivefeet wide and forty feet in length. Upon thisthe single word Stearns was shown, eachletter in a huge cartouche or shield mouldedin papier mache and worked out in high re-lief in a Louis Quatorze design. The car-touches were connected by Empire garlandsof the same material and set off by fleur-de-lis. Within each cartouche was a group ofpowerful incandescents, the light of whichshone through the jewels, o
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