India rubber world . policy of the new company, ColonelPope said that last year, which was a bad year for the sale ofbicycles, there were sold something like 600,000 wheels, andthat although nobody had any definite figures, during thepalmiest days of the bicycle manufacture there were somethinglike 1,500,000 wheels made in a year. A point that he empha-sized was that this was before the cheap wheels had come intothe market and purchasers had become disgusted with inferiorproducts. Replying to a question he said that he believedthat there was a normal market in the United States for 1,000,-000
India rubber world . policy of the new company, ColonelPope said that last year, which was a bad year for the sale ofbicycles, there were sold something like 600,000 wheels, andthat although nobody had any definite figures, during thepalmiest days of the bicycle manufacture there were somethinglike 1,500,000 wheels made in a year. A point that he empha-sized was that this was before the cheap wheels had come intothe market and purchasers had become disgusted with inferiorproducts. Replying to a question he said that he believedthat there was a normal market in the United States for 1,000,-000 wheels a year. The plan of the company now is to turn outhigh grade wheels at a fair price; his theory being that thereare thousands of people who would rather pay $60 for a goodwheel than to pay $40 for one of another sort. When asked ifthe price of bicycles as a rule would be lower than they havebeen in the past, the Colonel waxed highly indignant, pointingout that as all the companies had lost money at the present. prices, the natural policy must be better goods at a higherprice. Colonel Pope makes no secret of favoring a comprehensiveplan for interesting the whole American public in cycling, andas a beginning has formed a Publicity Department at the headof which is one of his B >ston lieutenants, K. L, Winkley. Healso expressed himself in favor of the suggestion that automo-bile clubs admit bicycle riders, giving them the same attentionand service that automobilUts have, and further that in theirown interest automobilists, bicyclists, and good roads menshould all stand together. He felt that if they did so very rapidprogress would be made, better laws passed, and that the timewould come—and very shortly—when in a city like New York itwould be as much against the law to drive a horse through thestreet as it is at present to drive cattle and hogs. Colonel Pope on May 19 paid a visit to the Columbia bi-cycle factory at Hartford, Connecticut—the factory in whichhis suc
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