The Wheel and cycling trade review . nservatory. With the march of progress, however, thebicycle has well-nigh superseded the horse,and dusky Edgar, like Othello, may someday find his occupation as a mounted mes-senger to the President gone glimmering inthe ashes of the past. With a view to facili-tating the delivery of mail matter and news-papers at the Executive Mansion the Admin-istration decided upon a bicycle for thiswork, and a white wheelman, named Mar-shall, is now the courier of President andMrs. Cleveland. His duties consist in carrying the privatemail pouch, which formerly nestled b
The Wheel and cycling trade review . nservatory. With the march of progress, however, thebicycle has well-nigh superseded the horse,and dusky Edgar, like Othello, may someday find his occupation as a mounted mes-senger to the President gone glimmering inthe ashes of the past. With a view to facili-tating the delivery of mail matter and news-papers at the Executive Mansion the Admin-istration decided upon a bicycle for thiswork, and a white wheelman, named Mar-shall, is now the courier of President andMrs. Cleveland. His duties consist in carrying the privatemail pouch, which formerly nestled behindthe saddle of the colored horseman, has been a vast improvement in theservice in consequence of this new arrange-ment, and there are more deliveries than everbefore in the history of the Presidents house. HANDSOME IN PRICE AND APPEARANCE. To an extensive line of cycle specialties, theMeyer Mfg. Co., Rochester, N. Y., have addedthis saddle, in which, they assert the defectsof other similar saddles have been overcome,. and which combines all advantages of a cush-ion or pneumatic with none of their facilities are such that they claim to beable to do the handsome in the matter ofprice. WHERE FOOLS SLIDE DOWN. Coasting down Fort Lee hill is quite anundertaking, remarked the garrulous ferry-passenger to his neighbor with the hatchet-face. Yes, indeed, it is. Nobody knows it betterthan I do, either. Why. are you a bicycle rider ? No ; undertaker. I bury those whocoast. BIG CHAIN CONTRACT. The Austrian Small Arms Works, of Steyr,Austria, have contracted to supply a Viennahouse with 800,000 cycle chains during thenext two years. This is equal to over 3,000,-000 feet of chain, most of which is intendedto be placed on foreign markets. CRANK BEARING A FEATURE. x McKee & Harrington are pluming them-selves on their new crankbearing, which will bea feature of the 97 Lyndhurst. The crank axleis divided in the centre. Each section has oneside cut away, so as to for
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