Show WHEELS AND WHEELMEN Amelie Rives is one of the latest converts to the ranks of lady cyclists G W Cushing has placed orders for two more Columbia safeties rover type The moon is a cycler and so is the sun and their tour through immensity long since begun CanvasserBuy a cyclopedia Mister RusticNo no Never could ride one of those wobbly things A colored driver is WashingtonD C was lately fined J100 for threatening to run down and drive over a cyclist The Pope manufacturing company is the first American firm to manufacture a tandem tan-dem bicycle suitable for a lady and gentleman gentle-man or two of the latter A bill providing for the permanent and systematic improvement of roads has been introduced into the Ohio legislature and the Ohio division of the L A W is working hard to secure its passage The charter of the city of Troy New York is to be amended to provide that the city shall hereafter pay onehalf of the expense ex-pense of macadamizing the streets This is one of the things the League of American Wheelmen is working for I The Bicycling Worlds Buffalo correspondent I correspond-ent Ali Baba says Ladies are beginning begin-ning to show unusual interest in physical culture and by the amount of enthusiasm displayed it will not be long before we have many of the gentler sex active cyclists G W Cushing received a Columbia safety by express the past week It was purchased by James E Jennings Mr Jennings is thoroughly satisfied with his purchase and says he has no further use for an ordinary being able to climb hills with half the exertion necessary on a big wheel I i Los Angeles is being paved with asphalt and the riding is superb This city is surrounded sur-rounded by a number of lovely places to visit and the roads are fine This year a boulevard will be constructed to Santa Monica the great seaside resort and the trip can then be accomplished in an hour This is the favorite run of the wheelmen Wheelmen should visit southern California the ideal wheelmans paradise Vindex in L A W Bulletin The Bicycling World comes to us in a cardboard card-board wrapper this week in order to protect two fine lithographic supplements The first represents the Columbia tandem bicycle bi-cycle seated on which are Messrs C W Fourdrinier and J S Dean editors of the World The second is a picture of the Columbia rover safety and Mr Robert D Garden The portraits are said to be excellent ex-cellent of all The pictures are in imitation of watercolor drawings Here is one more notch cut in the stick on the messenger boy Telegraph Superintendent boy is a bicycle I want you to ride in delivering your messages Messenger Boy Cant I have a few days to go to riding school before I begin 1 T SVhy Dont you know how to ride M BYes I know how to ride all right but I wanted to learn how to do the standstill stand-still act At the tenth anniversary banquet of the Buffalo New York bicycle club Dr C E Butler responded to the totst of the L A W as follows I know of no better word picture as a comparison for the destiny of the League of American Wheelmen than this Among the legends o the late cii war there is a story of a dinner party given by Americans residing in Paris at which were propounded sundry toasts concerning not so much the past and present as the expected glories of the great American nation Heres to the United States said the first speaker bounded on the north bj British America on the south by the Gulf of Mexico on the cast by the Atlantic anton ant-on the west by the Pacific ocean but said the second speaker this is far too limited a view of the subject in assigning our boundaries we must look to the great and glorious future described for us by the manifest destiny of the Anglo Saxon race Heres to the United States bounded on the north by the north pole on the south by the south pole on the east by the rising sun and on the west by the setting sun But here arose the third speaker If ware w-are going said this patriotic American to leave the historic uRa and present and take our manifest destiny into the account why restrict ourselves into such narrow limits I give you the United States bounded on the north by the aurora borealis on the south by the procession of the equinoxes on the east by the primeval chaos and on the west by the day of judgment Such are the unbounded possibilities of the League ot American Wheelmen The objects of the league were during its first period of existence exist-ence for the development of a social organ ft i r8 lf ization and later its energies i were directed i to the regulation of racing and at the present pres-ent time the doctor said A question paramount para-mount to all others a question of vital importance im-portance to all wheelmen of infinite benefit bene-fit to thecountry at large was the rights of the wheel in the parks and the improvement improve-ment of the roads and public highways This is a stupendous task but we will triumphinjt |