Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-10-11 | Page 8 | Bicycle Tambourines New Terror in Paris

I BICYCLE TAMBOURINES NEW TERROR IN PARIS Startles Nerves of Pedestrians but It Pleases the You Youths Paris Oct 10 A A new terror has been added to the time street traffic of at Paris lI by t tp c ad adoption of an unwelcome substitute substitute sub sub- for the time familiar bicycle bell or horn The new device consists of or a L tambourine attached to tIme the front fork folk of or tho the bicycle As the time wheel revolves re It sots sets In motion a little wooden mallet and this beats rapidly against tho the tambourine tam tam- with an aim irritating staccato sound which startles nen nervous us pedestrians and amid delights youthful cyclists Sometimes the tambourine is Js of at metal and a particularly annoying form forum of ot the he new It device was heard In iii In Rue flume du when nimen a cyclist came tearing down the time street with the time mallet drum drum- on a miniature saucepan tho the strident echo cho ot of which secured him fd tT a Q wide L erth