Show 1 II TUB BICYCLE BULKY lh < Intrninr Loa a those In 51 ike a i 1Hr nt Moii r tae of II 1 Wherever the trotter and pArer are raced and the struggle to tend a horse IB harness a mile la two minutes It I on the herle tnlk Is I used Three 1 yearn ago the Oral ones were receive with laughter so odd did they look beside be-side the old highwheeled hickory I welghlnc twice as much says Chicago i Tribune Pew are aware that a Chicago Chi-cago newspaper man William Welton by name an admirer of the harness harae nod l for many years a rider ot the bicycle failed to hear Dame Fortune For-tune when the tapped at his I door with I the palentable Idea nf the blcyclo sulky In her hands It came about In this way He wee at that time a reporter on a Detroit afternoon paper I which prints also a Sunday morning edition Ile hail been on the paper only a week and was anxious to turnover turn-over some good 1 Sunday stuff It had I occurred to him before this that a pulley rigged with bicycle wheels rubber tires and 1 above all ball bearings would run many pounds l easier lo the mil than the oil stylo sulky and It would make seteral seconds difference In Ihe struggle to have a horse trot In two minutes 80 lie wrote a fake It was In the form of an Interview with Dr Olbson of Jackson Itch owner of Tremont Z 28 M sire ot Juno wont 2U and others In the story Olbson was credited with lilting OlIg Kesteil 1 the Men The next fall the first blcyclo sulky appeared In Iluffnlo and was made sport of but Ihe horse heat one ho nppirently had 110 license to boat Today not drltcr Roes Into i race without one The newspaperman newspaper-man who never applied for a patent In fact never thought of Itwho threw away his chance to prove tho Intention In later ears by gltlng all the credit lo n third person In 1 still In Iho grind Million hue been made out Jf the rubbertired biillbearlng wheel |