The Wheel and cycling trade review . e is coming when we wont see somehorses in use, but I rather fancy that in a fewyears a man or a woman on horseback will beas much an object of comment as a person,especially a woman, on a wheel was ten yearsago. It will be a great daywhen wheels be-come a universal means of locomotion whereno great distance is to be travelled, and Ibelieve that that day will come in the womanscentury, which is the next, so wise men andwomen say. Oh, the hors« isnt in it any more, notwith-standing society made such a fuss over theshow which ends to-day. Society didnt dothis
The Wheel and cycling trade review . e is coming when we wont see somehorses in use, but I rather fancy that in a fewyears a man or a woman on horseback will beas much an object of comment as a person,especially a woman, on a wheel was ten yearsago. It will be a great daywhen wheels be-come a universal means of locomotion whereno great distance is to be travelled, and Ibelieve that that day will come in the womanscentury, which is the next, so wise men andwomen say. Oh, the hors« isnt in it any more, notwith-standing society made such a fuss over theshow which ends to-day. Society didnt dothis because it is interested in horseflesh, butbecause it had its new fall clothes and wantedto show them. Officials in all of the principalcities of this country are beginning to lookout for the cyclists, and their efforts, com-bined with those of the cyclists themselves,will soon bring about such road reforms thatnobody will ever think of climbing up on ahorses back or into a vehicle drawn by one MAKING THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE Radfahr Humors Idea of How the Military Cycle Record Could Be Broken By Employing Convict Pacers. of these stupid, untrustworthy animals. Agreat deal has already been done for thoseowning horses; and I think that an asphaltroad should be laid especially for cyclists, onwhich they could ride in the Park without en-dangering life and limb by being mixed upwith other V3hicles. An engineering friend ofmine suggests such a road fifteen or eighteenfeet wide on the Eighth avenue side of thePark or on the reservoir walls. That wouldbe charming, because a road could be madeto lead from there out on the aqueduct. And let me tell you something else, put ina jolly little girl. I tell you, we wheel peopleare getting to be big bugs, and my brothersays that the politicians are all anxious tomake up to wheelmens organizations. Thatshows what a power the wheel is getting tobe. Did any of you ever hear of horsebackriders being a political power? Nit, nit, said the g
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