Show f f z c ASTRIDE THE WHEEL Some Spring Poetry From Al Enthusiastic Cycler THE BICYCLE GAINING FAVOI Many Ladies Arc Now Riding and Jfauy Nor Have Their Eyes Upon Them General Bicycling News This is the steel that Jones made This is the man who rolled the btecl that Jones made This is the wire anti rims and forks that ms formed by the man who owned the works J a 4 that rolled the steel that Jones EdhO This is tho man who built the wheel who a semblcd tho wire and rims and forks that was formed by the innn who owned the works that rolled the steel that Jones made This is the beautiful silver wheel that was bull by the man who assembled the parts tin wire and rims and handles and forks will never a Haw trom the wellpaid works This is the laclye fayre and free who ride fO < bolde and pleasantlee The beautiful silver wheel does she > Who thanks the irer of all our joys > For the strength of the steel I for the brain of the man Who tempered the steel For the skill of the man Who assembled the parts Ot the beautiful wheel 1 And sho thanks the Got who made the air And the sly so blue und tho trees PO fair l or by tiding that wheel of steel A newness of body and soul she feels And she sees new beauties everywhere An exchange remarks Every bicyclist should use his personal influence to scour good roads but his duty does not require him to get off his wheel over the handle and smooth tho highway down with tin back of his nock Pembroke received another Star safet last week The demand for childrens safeties ha become quite large Jensen has several on the road Gushing and Pembroke hay each two or three ordered Walter Jennings the longest Roman of them all will come dOn from a 5Sincl wheel to a safety for the coming season The bicycle or a now called the Sal Lake Cycle club will try aud build a one fourth mile track on Washington squari this summer It is i a consummation do voutly to be wished and if it is fulfilled a number of pleasant days of exhileration racing etc will be indulged in by tin Knights of the handlebar Tens n has lately placed several order for Victor safeties The Victor will be a oromincnt feature in all cycle parades this W ear The rycJM thus describes a new kind of wheel which certainly is curious even if i it does not prove practical The hub flanges arc large thin castings nearly hal the diameter of the wheel itself but sc skeletonized as to present the appearance only 0 elaborate spoke arrangement The sjiu o screw is perfectly tangential The rim is hollow und flat on the outside in fact of o section and the tire in place of being the usual cord of rubber consist of a number of acornshaped pieces which fit into holes in the surface of the rim 01 the button nd buttonhole principle adopting adopt-ing in fact the principle of Singers pedal rubbers for the tire The L A t W Hull till speaking of a prom mont eastern cycle club says The dub has just received its charter of incorporation incorpora-tion and in accordance therewith havi amended their constitution and bylaws 5 1 At the regular meeting on Friday evening these changes were presented to the club and a most lively session was the result The most radical departure is the admission admis-sion of ladies to membership and its advisability advis-ability has been strongly questioned by a number of the members That the fair sex arc a most decided acquisition the experience ex-perience of the staid old Philadelphia Bicycle club has proved beyond a doubt and the Penn IauianR are taking in ladies fgKt the last few meetings There ll is nc ruestion as to the great success this has irpved throughout the winter and it is U his combination that we must look for till I fe of our clubs during theseason wlun < > ur wheels arc housed In the early days < if cycling the club was a riding orpinizu ion almost solely but now the social element ele-ment is being recognized as a most import and adjunct and wisely so Several ladies wiv proposed for membership and it was voted to extend to them the u ° c and court osies of the club house pending the tern I orary tittingup of the room which is to bet el apart for that purpose The move has resulted in increased applications for membership mem-bership and ten lianas are already down or next meeting luis will bring the membership up to 140 and at this rate of mrease the close of the year will see JOO We believe the same policy would be good one for our own cycle club to pursue making of the club a social organization which could not be called in any sense selfish self-ish Think of it wheelmen Helen Grey the lady editor of the Tlicv rhnfi World speaking of the way the ladies are leaving the tricycle and taking to the ltl tllfh f l ta bicycle says And yet with all this enterprise en-terprise this goaheadativeness and their ventures 1 think these ladies of the south their to ern countries must doff plumes Boston for 1 believe we have more riders better riders prettier dressed riders and more enthusiastic riders than can be found JS I sew here Witness the successful clubs Middlesex the delightful we have notably the > ex lightful meets for instance that at Cottage city and the successful tours particularly the North Shore tours and tell me if I iim not right I am told that the Middlesex club ladies arc a unit in favor of the two wheeler The Mcrthurs will undoubtedly ride a tandem bicycle the Hilbourns are to have a double twowheeler aswcll The Heaths will have single wheels and so will the Kirkwood girls The Hopkins of ellington el-lington have already mastered the bicycle I the Coreys will ride the tandem two wheeler and the Bassets of Newton tell I me they are determined to do as the rest do I suppose the Stalls will keep to their I At double bicycle They led the way for us I hear little from Providence i The Davols 1 have already ordered a tandem but I do not Father what the young ladies of the club I will ride I can believe that Providence will be up with the times It occurs to me Idem I that eu want a new word The word tandem tan-dem is thoroughly engrafted upon oman om-an age as the word to express a tricycle I for two riders ono behind the oiher Tan Idem I-dem bicycle is to long Will not someone give us a single word for this machine so that we may economize words and time I We suggest the names of D Icycle or D L Ocycle either of which is legitimate the latter preferred for euphony Cycle tot to-t pronounced sighkl i |