A company has recently been form: d called the Cyclists' Chalet Ca., Li, with the object of establishing roadside refresh ment rooms on favourite cycling routes. Tt is to supply temperance refcesliments only, and in particular to give xccommoslation to ladies who do not care to patronise roadside public-houses, that the scheme is promulgated, and if the venture can be made to pay there is no doubt that it will meet a widely-felt want; but there is a great risk that the long spells of win'er. Teglect may cause losses in remote places. One such chal-t has been erected between Bath and Bristol, and it is propose! to erect 500 such all over the country. At the present time such accommodation li occasionally found in cottages, but the establishment of picturesque chiilets, under uniform management, where good meals cheaply supplied, and the more commonly needed cycling accessories and repairing materials are kept in stock, his a prospect of success not wholly Utopian. ae One of the technical journals which dal exclusively with railway matters has been touching on the troubled question -of the conveyance of cycles by rail. It is not on the point of whether they should be carried feo or not, for the contingency of their being reckoned as passengers' luggage does not seem to be i at all by railway authorities; but the discus: ranges round the topic of whether special vans for the holding of cycles shall be added to trains. This rail way organ solemnly argues that the putting on of special cycle vans to existing t might strain the couplings to the breaking pint-and cause some terrible "accident If the lines of this country are worked with ro small a margin of anfety that the currying of cycles in. special van instead of higgleely-piggleely amongst other merchandise overlo"ds the train to smashing point, what narrow squeaks are daily encountered! One would that this journal +f railway matters had never heard of a horse-box being added toa train, and would expect some terrible. accident to happen if so dangerous an addition were made to the length of an express. ats The case of the cyclist: who was hooked off his machine at Prescot Hill, near Liver-by a police officer in pisin clothes, ted, it may be remembered, considerable stir at the time of the occurrence, ly an assault was "fi constable was appl the anti-cycling magistrates of the district. The case, however, was taken to appeal, and the laughter now rings on the other side, for the superior court allowed the appeal, and quashed the conviction and remitted the fine, as The Dunlop Tire Company are highly pleased with the success of their Tropical Tires," which have been proved to be the only tires to withstand the great heat of hot countries.
London, 12th November.
November gloom has settled down on the old country, and at last, after a phenomenal autumn, cyclists hare the are carpeted ith sones, and mad, rai and wind dri home all but the hardy few, whose boast it is that they keep up wheeling in an out of season. 'The summer butterflies have not all disap for afew mudguardless, high year racing speed men are still to be found on roads in a woefully bedraggled con-ion; while the true wi if always' be distinguished by his complete equipment of gear-case, mudguards to wheels (not forgetting the leather extensi one), and he of wil wen kno and appreciates the value of a gear distinctly low. we All the coming week the cycling world will flock to North London, where the rendezvous of the Stanley Show attracts all the ends of the earth, by special trains. The attraction is not due to any striking novelty, xs beyond a new metal, anda novel brake, or other accessory, there is nothing new in machines, nor' will the Americans' attempt to make us all: ride chainless bicycles have much effect. The attraction of the Stanley is that it is a yearly re-union of scatrored friends, and quite apart from novelties the Show is always an assured success, Our police and "magistrates are still keeping up their reputations. From the Neweastle district comes an extraordinary tale about " running-down case, Some fellow not worthy of the name of cyclist ran into little girl and left her injured to save his own trouble. The police rather than do nothing charged a man with the offence, on the strength of his havin, damaged front wheel and a moustache the one worn by the real offender! With no more evidences than this th potice proceeded. Of course the case was dismissed, the innocent rider had abundant evidence that he was not in the neighbour hood of the accident at the time of its ae Another minor hardship occurred at a resort, when a little child machine, was fined fiv for riding with an unlit lamp during hours of legal darkness, Her father was riding on one side of her, and her mother but as' the youngster's 8 policeman pounced up-very rigid reading of a case like this dvaeeving of punishment.
Another police case of the week was where a rider was mulcted in a couple of raineas, besides having costs to pay, bes cause he collided with a lady in his enders yours to avoid running. into a man wha was rolling about the rod in.a very Aruuken condition. One would naturally. expect the drunkard to have been hauled up fur disorderly conduct and causing an obstruction; but it seems less of an offence to be drunk, s" long as you are a pedestrian, than to dare to be a bicyclist.
19th November. te The publication of annual reports still continues, and reveals a prosperity during the past year in the cycle trade in strong contrast to the gloomy forecasts of pessimistic critics. An unfavourable balance sheet is indeed a rarity, while some of the companies declare a higher dividend than the normal ten per cent which has o"me to be considered almost small. The Humber Report shows a marked progress in every department, and big reserves have been set aside as well as the payment of a fifteen per cent dividend. The manufacture of p-pular machines at cheaper prices, which is the main feature of the business of the Star Cycle Company, for which the Austral Cycle Agency are colonial representatives, is also profitable, as a17 per cent dividend is declared. Firms that go
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