The Wheel and cycling trade review . gear cases inthis oountry. TRY 0SSAWAN some makers have found thedress-guard question most vexatious. Thematter is so foreign to metal working thateven when a lacing had been decided on, anartistic or more than commonplace stringingof it has arisen to worry him. It is to lessenannoyances of this sort that the OssawanMills Company, Norwich, Conn., havebrought out the Ossawan net, a ready-to-be-applied dressguard, made in many colorsand combinations of lacings, which wouldseem to be assured of instant favor. Thenet is shaped for any wheel and
The Wheel and cycling trade review . gear cases inthis oountry. TRY 0SSAWAN some makers have found thedress-guard question most vexatious. Thematter is so foreign to metal working thateven when a lacing had been decided on, anartistic or more than commonplace stringingof it has arisen to worry him. It is to lessenannoyances of this sort that the OssawanMills Company, Norwich, Conn., havebrought out the Ossawan net, a ready-to-be-applied dressguard, made in many colorsand combinations of lacings, which wouldseem to be assured of instant favor. Thenet is shaped for any wheel and is readily at-tached in the usual fashion. SLICK AS A WHISTLE. Prince Wells, of Louisville, has begun hisannual fall crusade in the interests of theGenuine East India Grapholine for CycleChains. He believes it to be the only thing,of course, and warns wheelmen and dealersgenerally to beware of imitations, and to ac-cept none which has not his trademark. It isunderstood that he is quoting particularly en-ticing figures to the Semi-Pneumatic Hygienic Saddle.—P. & F. Mfg. Co.,Reading, Pa. TAPER OR OIL. The sale of the Victor bicycle lamp is nowbeing conducted entirely by the manufact-urers, the Kester Electric ManufacturingCompany, No. 640 Linwood avenue, Buffalo,N. Y. The Victor, as is fairly well known, isone of the smallest and lightest lamps on themarket, weighing but four ounces. Its pe-culiar feature is that it burns tapers insteadof oil, avoiding, it is claimed, all the discom-forts of kerosene or other such the taper is the feature of the lamp,it will also burn oil, patents for this inter-changeable feature being now in the lamp which burns oil only retails at$; that which burns either tapers or oilfor $2, which includes one dozen tapers. AN ILLUMINATED RAINBOW. Cyclists who admire color effect will be in-terested in the newest lamp brought out bythe Union Lamp Company, Nos. 76-84 Mar-ket street, Chicago, the Boulevard SpecialNo. 4.
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