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Show GOING WITH THE WIND. Motorcyclists, dashing along at 30 to 40 miles an hour, are endangering endan-gering the lives of pedestrians in the streets and children at play; not only that, but they arc risking their own lives. At noon yesterday, a cyclist was speeding at not less than 30 miles an hour, dodging in and out of the beaten path which hugs the poles on Wall avenue south of Twenty-fifth street. He was enjoying en-joying the sport, all unconscious of his danger. Had his steering apparatus failed to respond to the twisting of the handle bars, had a pebble thrown the machine out of a direct line a foot, had a tire given away, he might have been hurled to his death against one of the poles. It is the same speed craze which causes auto drivers to indulge in joy riding and which so often of late has brought sorrow to the homes of the reckless. A motorcycle, like an automobile, is a comparatively com-paratively safe machine running at a moderate speed, but the instant it is given a momentum great enough to carry the machine and its rider to destruction, if some of the mechanism breaks, that moment it becomes a most dangerous plaything. |