Show TRICYCLE AS A HACK rho ota berro for Carryl nc and cycling for profit as well as for is perhaps more practiced ini washington than in any other city in the country and it has some odd de that strike the visitor with both and amusement saya the new york sun the smooth asphalt wed erects trec ts and broadd rc iuca the labor of propelling pro palling a cycle to i minimum and one sees bicycles and with all sorts of attachments for the carrying of which in worse paved and ess crowded cities would call for the services of a horse and wagon work jien ride to work on bicycler carrying their kits of tools oven to pails of paint and small plumbers stoves bal incel on a shelf in front of the machine one workman surprised a visitor recently and amused the residents by paddling along pennsylvania avenue with a twelve foot ladder slung foro and aft on his safety bicycle groceries and family supplies are delivered by bicycle but the oddest thing in cycles that a recent visitor to the capital saw waa a big tricycle with seats for passengers protected by an awning and a large for trunks which was plying for hire at one at tho depots dc pots in sharp competition som petition with the hacks the machine butr lightly wheels the size of one on either side it was propelled by a powerful negro who sat between alho big wheels in broad wide seat affording ample broom for two persons and in front of that over the small wheel was a would hold two or three trunks an awning was rigged over ehg i whole concern like a coven tho negro who was the owner said he does a good business and makes a good living conveying passengers between the depots and sometimes he takes visitors tk tour oath city for which purpose eee machine seems particularly ticul arly well adapted as the passengers have an view while the driver delivers his descriptive oration about washington its celebrities and abodes ea sll yinto their cars from behind in of leaning down and backward attoh belsk of numerous collisions as tho carriage drivers do the machine did nota appear to bo geared differently from tricycle and the driver sad it was not at all hard to prop eleven wi h ft big load and would turn in almost its own leng there seems here to open a vista ol 01 potable po tible pleasure who enjoy riding but who cannot afford to keep a horse and carr jago and will not trundle a cycle citizen of modest means keep tri cycle and have drive him around the park in it the idea of such a development afi Hw bicycle is not at all preposterous |