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Show V THE ARGUS. 8 CYCbING NEWS. An Awkward Predicament. have She fell upon the glassy slide, I hastened briefly to her side, " Oh, can 1 help you, missT " I said ; She blushed and shook her qncenly head. " I can get up," she murmered low, " If you, kiad sir, away will go. I turned aside and in a trice I heard her scuffling on the ice. And when I looked with queenly air I saw my fair one standing there, llut, ah, alas, she couldn't stir, And so I Boftly said to her: " Can I assist you from the placel She turned on ine her rosy face ; " I cannot walk," she trembling said, And still her face grew rosy red I knew it couldn't be the weather My 'lastic clasps have caught together. .Cleveland Plain Dealer. OCAL DEALERS who have riding schools in connec- tion a with regular their bicycle business are having a merry fight among thems- elves. The old rate of fifty cents per lesson or$2.5C for a complete course 6eemed to be about right and both teacher and pupil were satisfied, but a lower Main street firm, in order to get a corner on the business reduced the rate to 25 cents per lesson or SI .50 for the course, which was promptly met by the Wheel Co., who have made the rate $1 for the complete course. And the end' is not yet. Before the matter is finally settled those who desire to learn to ride a bicycle may have an opportunity to do so gratis, and perhaps some enterprising firm will add refreshments without extra charge. Inter-Mountai- n themselves to blame. has only commenced and unless some action is taken to stop it serious results will follow. Price-cuttin- only g We have had less than three weeks good weather and already over one hundred new bicycles have been sold, which indicates a good season and possibly a repetition of 1895, when over 2000 wheels were sold in Salt Lake City alone. Decoration Day road race will be given by the Social Wheel Club. The course has not yet been decided upon, but as the club has taken hold of the matter it will be a success in every way. Messers. Brown and Beveridge are the committee on arrangements and the details will be made known at an early date. A Lake in the interest of Cycling West. Miss Spillane rides a seventeen pound diamond frame Ariel bicycle and is a warm advocate of the rational costume for ladies. She wears the bloomer costume on all long runs and the divided skirt for short rides. Miss Spillane says that the ladies of Denver use the diamond frame bicycle almost without exception. The Cycling West is one of the best cycling papers published and enjoys a good circulation in Salt Lake, as a result of Miss Spillanes annual visits. Miss Spillane attended the meeting of the Social Wheel Club Tuesday evening and was elected an honorary member. d : v ; son, A. C. Ellis, Jr., William Moss, Two hundred and seventy-eigh- t Miss Snyder, J. E. Aldach, Willard Weihe, W. G. Williams, R. E. Wor- women joined the L. A. W. in March, rell, J. A. Kirsh, J. Jackson, C. R. not one of this number was from Hattie Luce, Adolph Han- - Utah. The Jensen boys, Collinson, Tod Brazier, Caine, Liday, Emery and other local cracks aie getting into condition for the coming road race and the entry list promises to have all the best riders in competition. The cycle path around Liberty Park will be completed. The Social Wheel Club, with the aid of the City Council, has taken the matter up and the funds necessary to place the path in condition for the use of the wheeling public will be raised by the club. The Social Wheel Club has engaged club rooms in the I. 0. O. F. hall, on Market street, which are being fitted up and will be ready for next Tuesdays meeting of the club. ; d Salt Lake is very much in need of a local Cycle Board of Trade if some plan can be devised which will maintain an established price on sundries and repairs, also a schedule of allowances on second hand wheels when taken in exchange for new wheels. As the matter now stands the owner of a second-hanbicycle who desires a new one has a decided advantage over the man with the cash, as he is invariably allowed much more than his old machine is worth. The result is that many who want new wheels first one and then purchase a second-hantrade for a new one of their choice, Something should be done as the dealers are getting the worst of it and d -- At a meeting of the Colorado Wheel-- : men, held at Denver on the 13th inst. The following are some of the pur- a proposition to secede from the L. A. chasers of new wheels for the week, W. was defeated. A resolution in Columbias Mr. and Mrs. S. V. favor of local option as regards Sun- Trent, William Martin, W. F. Simp- day racing was adopted. W. D. Brown has accepted a posiThe bicycle business in Salt Lake, tion with the Salt Lake Cycle Co., as so far as maintaining prices is con- bicycle salesman. He will sell Clevecerned, is in a deplorable condition. lands, Westfields and Crescents. There are a few unbusinesslike, shortW. D. Rishel is in receipt of inindividusighted and als in the trade who have no regard quiries from some of the western whatever for fair prices and as a re- cities for Stearns agencies and will sult the prices of sundries, rents and probably shake the dust of Zion from repairs have been cut down until it is his feet sometime next week. a question whether it pays to give atMr. Tiernan has purchased a 97 tention to these branches of the busiAriel. ness. narrow-minde- sen, Daniel Densley, C. M. Madsen, C. Erickson and the Misses Tufts. j Stearns Mrs. Morten, Mrs. Burns, Misses Davis, Kirkpatrick and Horn, ; Messrs. Gasten, Waterman, Emery, Fowler, Montgomery, L. A. Evans, A. M. Evans, Morris, Morten, May and Thompson. Clevelands Miss Wineright, Charles Levy, M. J. Ken- - j nedy, O. G. Hemminway, R. E. Pence, J. McCormick, Mrs. J. McCormick, Burt Walker, Miss Geoghe- gan, Cal Kelson, R. H. Officer, James W. Neill, W. R. Embrey, 0. I. . Shugren and T. R. Cutler. 97 o Hartfords reduced from $75 to $60. Jensen has experienced some difficulty in getting Victors fast enough to fill orders, but the factory now promises prompt shipment and all orders will be properly taken care of These are as good as the best The membership of the Social Wheel Club is constantly on the in- ColmmlbSaiS in the future. 1896 FIR5T CRUDE And are excelled only by the crease. The following were admitted to membership at the meeting held on the 13th : F. A. Merriman, Charles S. Wilkes, A. W. Smith, Standard of the Oscar Groshell, P. F. Roosa, M. Collinson, Jr., W. P. Fowler and Max PEERLESS, FOWLER and Herman. Other 1896 Patterns at Miss Julia J. Spillane, The CyExceedingly LOW PRICES. cling West Brownie is visiting Salt f World in 1897 Patterns. i GEO. T. ODELL, Geol l - t. t t: -- W.' .. fri H n-- u |