Show < < + + + + + tl G p bib to 1R I J i > u > I < < < < + c < THE 17nQ IOUS ynviEi xow BEIXG ADAPTED TO THIS PURPOSES OF < BUTCHER UAIilCit AD CLYXDLESTICK l I ERIT IS SUP VXiAXTIXG THE IIOKSJir AXD BUGGY OP THE OOUTxTRY PEDDLERS PEDDLER-S 3ID INGENIOUS nEIVICES BY AVIKCII TUB BICYCLE IS 3IADE A SEIRVAXT OP COJOlERCE I < Copyright 1S96 by S S McClure Co tToiaiItous is the cycle multifarious multifari-ous are its manifestations The idea that the bicycle and tricycle craze would prove a mere temporary fad like golf or rollerskating has given place in the public mind to a conviction that cycins machines In their infinite variety have come to stay Wise men are grasping r thp fact that the popular method of pro Ixpulslon may be turned to account for I business purposes Tne butcher the baker ana the candlestick maker unite 3H seeking forms of the wheel which will sx once advertise their wares and save their mopey The result is wna may be called the applied bicycle Today there are bicycle cigarshops bicycle barbershops barber-shops bicycle streetpianos bicycle baby carriages and even bicvcle hearses The Ji = t s wellnlsh endless An enterprising New York electrician was ono of the pioneers of ar Hed j cycling Formerly he sought custom Ja the highways and byways seated In a spring wagon Now he has fitted up what he calls a perambulating electrical elec-trical shop It Is a wagon with three wheels of which the iirst formerly belonged be-longed to a bicycle This operates through a slit in the flooring and is deflected de-flected to right or left by means of the bcycle handle The electrician propels Ills strange contrivance from within by means of pedals and a sjjrocketchain connecting with the rear wheels Thus installed and surrounaed by gaudy lettering calling attention to his skill asa as-a bellmender and general electrical ex I iiert the vner pedals about the me ololis < HIS BARBER SHAVES AWHEEL I A barber of Gravesend L I whose I 9j QaN5Y VANIA RX1 J3ERLMJ I J I 1 p IGARS CIGARS i I I I L 4 I I I if I 1 A ci f CHC A 1FWYORK L ° 1YL1 LWW h I Ii k y I WL0llW IIF 7 S I 4 Efty c 2 I Z H = custom lies among scattered farmsteads has exitHanged his horse and buggy for a bicyclebarberchajr The very novelty of this traveling apparatus increases In-creases the number of rustics who come for their periodical shaves or harcuts ahd Figaro on wheels is a thorough success suc-cess Ihe most gorgeous enterprise of the tricycle description is an electrically lighted cigar store on wheels which is now being propelled by its owner about tho streets of Berlin Germany The clear salesman pedals around in search of customers It is in a measure the parable of Mahomet and the mountaineer mountain-eer < The body of the vehicle consists con-sists of a box which is used to carry storage batteries The box is sur mo anted by a handsome glass case in which the cigars and tobacco are ex liibiicd In front of the case are the necessary apparatus for lighting and clpping cff the ends of cigars Above all i = a framework carrying a series of incandescent In-candescent lamps which set off the enterprise enter-prise at night and attract customers to It In the neighborhood of the caf sand s-and theatres this very modern tobaccon 1st does a thriving business THE ORGANGRINDING WHEEL rAN One of the latest adaptations of the tricycle to affairs of trade is in the line of the street piano The value of these instruments as money makers and for popularizing new music has already been Tjointed J out Out of respect to geographl cal distances they have seldom strayed jar from metropolitan centres There lore they are sure to be a revelation in backwoods districts An Italian with advanced ad-vanced ideas has become impressed with this fact and has given an order to a S > romirent piano manufacturing firm in New York for a tricycle street piano He inttnds to stick to the unworked country districts traveling from village to village and from town to town until he strikes the more western cities where street jjanos have not yet penetrated Then he may take it more slowly As the idea is new and as his transportation will cost him virtually nothing he ought soon to bo able to accumulate the fortune whch everi Italian is said to be looking for with a lew to returning to the land of sunshine and spicy garlic smells EVEN THE BABIES AllitJ to the tricycle street aiano is the tricycle baby carriage A man in upper New York City has arranged it and there is now a constant straggle be xween the members of that family to see whch one will give baby his aIring It Involves the principle of a new style of bicycle in which the handle bar is situated sit-uated In the rear of the rider thehan dIes occupying a position at the sides i ant coming around in front just enough io allow the cyclist to grasp them and SJ updght IOn I I-On the New York boulevard which is eminently a thoroughfare of wheels S a pink lemonade vender operates a tri I cycle whch is also a carrier for his i i stack < in trade The large water cooler 1 5 which holds his concoction of aniline and lemon juice is situated on a Da Harm j behind the seat As a rule he halts by the wayside and so dispenses his cooling sriraught to weary cyclers but he has lcen known on special occasions to draw I a erlassfull of lemonade while en route and land it over to a thirsty vheelman I 1 Jo erstwhile pedaled along by his side LAWNMOWER CYCLES Te Idea of the bicycle lawn mower puwas on ago put into practice by a 1 I New York state man who found that it 1 worked very well on level ground but 5 that It was apt to overturn its rider J when uerated on the side of a hB It L has since been improved upon and is now V 3 capable of cutting grass on any slope I that will hold an ordinary safety bicycle I < hen pedaled sidewise to the hill The I J rider of course sits upright under all i 1 I circumstances the mower alone adjust Z ins Iteelf lo the slope PractcaJly their ij 0 the-ir is an unicycle with a mowing ap j J tr 5 > 1lj naratus attached in front It rninht l be classed as a tricycle but the wheels of the mower would have to complete the assumption There is a chance for a wide application of the idea A tin peddlar who frequents the rural districts of Pennsylvania has recently sold his horse and used the proceeds therefrom in having bicycle wheels and pedals put to his cart This is indeed a far ury I into the future for a countrY pedJler without his horse and cart serins as strange and incongruous as smoke wlil I out fire His expenses however aie now minmized TS much as pos > ioie nnu lila I profits have received a corresponding increase in-crease The wear and tear on the outfit i is as nothing compared to the expense of i stabUng a horse in a different place I every night The time consumed in traveling I trav-eling from village to village is also much less than under the od method and the always to be considered aupearance of novelty which the new vehicle possesses is undoubtedly instrumental in drawing custom A BAKER CYCLIST I Washington D C is probably the first large city possessing a baker who has included the cycle in his business arrangements arrange-ments His cart once possessed but two i wheels and was pushed by hand Now it has three wheels a saddle pedals and sprocket chain and the feet of its owner do all the pushing Under the new system sys-tem one man can deliver as much bread as two could formerly and the work is not nearly so hard The vehicle looks like the ordinary tricycle delivery cart now I used in the larger towns and cities and it is In fact the same in every respect except ex-cept that the box or body of it is elongated elongat-ed It has been suggested that a small tricycle carrying crane for the purpose of lifting barrels cases or other packages I of a like nature be made for use in factories fac-tories and hotels The idea embraces a small carriage with one front wheel I and two rear wheels the objects lifted to be held up between the latter Itt It-t would have a wide application in the I government service and particularly around wharves I Many bicycle boats have been invented and some are in actual operation Their widest commercial application so far Is in ferriage use Strictly speaking they are unicycles their one wheel being equipped with paddles and operated by means of a sprocket chain connected to the pedals For all practical purposes the ferry boats on which they are used could be as well operated by a dog treadmill tread-mill the latter being connected to the I paddle wheels by a belt running on tight and loose pulleys THE WHEEL IN WAR The extended application of the bicycle I in war is well known It will be useful for laying land telegraph and telephone wire for bearing messages and dispatches I and other work of similar nature but it is also capable of being mechanically applied ap-plied to the transportation of guns of the gatling or other rapid fire type and thus we will have the bicycle gun Given a maxim gun and a wheel a single man could work fearful havoc with an unso phistocated enemy In this connection I also the bicycle ambulance may be mentioned men-tioned For field practice it permits of quicker and better work being done than with the common stretcher Several hospitals I pitals in larg cities already have a bicycle ambulance corps The combination combina-tion consists generally speaking of two machines and a stretcher although there is a very effective one in use which employs em-ploys only one machine In an asphaltum paved city the bicycle stretcher is an institution In-stitution of merit and Is often in a position posi-tion to render better service to the injured than the regular ambulance In fact there seems to be no limit to the application of the Wcytle as far as commercial or other necessary enterprises is concerned That this fact is generally understood is evident from the increasing number of forms to be seen on every side That it will increase must necessarily be the case inasmuch as its economic advantages are too great to be ignored Thus cycling which originated as a pastimebids fair to assume the proportions of a great and I serious social movement the influence of which must be felt all over the wold THEODORE WATERS |