| Show SI1IHVA1K IIIL1U1MI There Is or was and ought to be an ordinance In this city against bicycling on sidewalks Several people have been Injured In their persons or feelIngs feel-ings sometimes both by reason of the wheeling that goes on so persistently In such places and there Is no Bum clent reason why the practice should not be abated If the ordinances are not enforced In one respect the failure to do so will not be long In extending to others nnd eventually the municipal code ns a whole would thereby be weakened A citizen of the Fourth municipal ward makes complaint that a numerously numer-ously and lespectably signed petition was recently forwai led from his sec tlon to the City Council usklng that action be taken regarding the matter complained of but BO far It has remained re-mained unnoticed In that part of the city the sidewalks are very narrow and the danger of collisions Is thereby Increased In-creased considerably several having already occumd In such cases the pedestrian Invariably gets the worst of It but whether so or not the practice prac-tice ought to be put a stop to by some means Some few are so radical In their opposition as to demand that the bicycle people be given a reservation and compelled to occupy It This Is I of course nn extreme view nnd not likely to bo seriously thought of It Is I however how-ever the natural outgrowrtn of the other extreme neither of which needs to exist at all Vie are satisfied I the City Council will do what Is I right in the premises when It gets around to It meantime the cjclers would do well to anticipate the coming action and of their own volition remove all cause of complaint |
