Show TWO NEW inventions speed and durability the qualities sought for one of tho the most important of aluminum novelties of the year is the invention of a new yorker it is a racina skate that is almost without weight ailt and at the barns time sufficiently strong to stand the tremendous pressure brought to bear by skaters ambitious to break Dono hues record of I 1 a 1 mile in 2 minutes 13 12 15 1 5 seconds the skate is compo composed ed of a steel runner eighteen inches long ions one sixteenth of an inch thick and almost as thin as the blade of a L nife the blade is supported by a peculiar shaped aluminum support on top of which is a light strip of mallog mahogany any making 0 a beautiful and artistic skate one of the greatest problems skate manufacturers have had to contend with was the production of a skate with a knifelike knife like runner eighteen or more inches in length stroba and rigid 0 and yet light enough r to make inake their use practicable the pneumatic tire with all its merits nie rits has the great drawback that when an accident overtakes it the wreck is total for the time being A little tack or a piece of glass or a jagged stone renders the cyclist helpless miles away from home bome or the nearest repair shop and unless he Is one of those geniuses who can mend any anything thin from a watch to an engine there is a weary iveary walk homeward with a crippled wheel to carr carry y there is some merit to the new tire that is made half of cork and there is a tile tiie that is filled with little rubber balosso balls su so that a puncture ot of any coition of the tire does not make useless seless xi the whole affair A canadian Canadia a has perfected a radical departure that many cyclists pronounce very practical especially ally for long ion tours within the rubber tire is placed a series of strong yet sensitive were springs this tire is said to run smoothly A puncture of the outer surface causes no damage although it should be promptly repaired this the cyclist can do himself the freight of the alie spring is less than two pounds |