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Show Treop af llaraalaaa Cavalrr. The employment of blcjclo aoldlera In the South African war has practically practic-ally been the Crat thorough test which has been made In aetual warfare of tho bicycle aa an adjunct to a military mili-tary force In the Uulted States, however, drills havo been carried on with bicycles, in which soma remarkable remark-able feats bavo been performed Suv-erat Suv-erat companies havo bein formed In the National Cluard of Illinois, largely on the system devised by Major IL P Davidson, of Chicago, who has made n atudy of the blcyclo In warfare A "field battery' has been operated along a aandy road over loci, bruah 'and other obstructions and, although tho squad was badly Jolted, tho carriage has never been upset. In drills It will run at tho rata of thirty miles an hour, dlecharglnK bullet at tho rate of 4S0 a minute l'lana bao been vro-pared vro-pared for tho entire command to make a march from Chicago to Now York, and th'cnce lo Washington, taking tak-ing the sun along A aerie of drills will bo glen before tho president, secretary of war and other" 'otflclalo nt Washington to demonstrate tho etllcl-ency etllcl-ency of tho forco. |