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As the tire sustains the wheel, this publication promotes Its Interests." VOL. IV. MILWAUKEE, WIS., OCTOBER 16, 1893. No. l, * CASH'PRIZES • '-an-w '<n>w ^wm Young Men, improve your time.by securing sub­ will be given to any one scribers for THE PNEUMATIC. Aim to be who will act as agent for THE PNEUMATIC in his rewarded with $^.00. If you fail in that, $5.00 town and secure 20^ paid subscribers at the price of SO cts. each. _ ;• remember the other amounts can. be claimed. It is money easily earned and you have a large field will be given to any one desiring to be an agent to work in. and will send in ten paid Offers $2.01 subscriptions at the price of SO cents per year. Most Liberal. Any enterprising young man can secure these Cash will be paid to any one for Prizes over and over again six subscriptions at 60 cts. as a • ~- each, and SO cts. for four, reward for a little work The object of $1.00 money to be deducted from this offer is to more thoroughly circulate THE remittance in each case. PNEUMATIC among cyclers throughout the country. ADDRESS M. C. ROTIER, PUBLISHER, 505 EAST WATER STREET, MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN. HAVE V8a EVER, £ti SPP RIBBENAN ANDRAE Those who know pronounce the "ANDRAE" machine perfect in its lines of construction and superior in Strength and Speed. It is built of the best imported steel tubing combining lightness and durability. ; _aauuiBuamgJBjmBusBm.iBttB>aM.w _ (JB'KS OF . .. HORSFALL & PATZLAFF, LUMBER DEALERS. PRAintn DOCHIEN, "WIS , September 39, 180,'i. , Jnucs ANDHAE, Milwaukee. Wis , DKAH Siiti—Wheel received by express* this> morning. To say that I was pleased with same would be ex­ pressing it mildly. I am better ple.tscd with it than anywheel I saw on exhibition at the World's Fair. Kims W? Hiunulh. Would not exchange the "ANDHAE" for any other make. Yoms truly, C. A. PATZLAFF. PAST RECORDS SHOW THAT THE "ANDRAE" HAS MORE THAN HELD ITS OWN IN THIS PERIOD OF CYCLE BUILDING, JULIUS ANDRAE, mm*MILWAUKEE SAVE MONEY BY HAVING YOUR BICYCLES REBUILT during the dull season. Long years of experience has enabled us to do our work in the most practical manner. •....• REPAIRING....... RE-ENAMELING JULUJS ANDRAE RE-MODELING AND SOLID AND CUSHION TIRED 225 W. WATER ST., MACHINES REBUILT TO PNEUMATICS. A A A A niLWdUKEE THE PNEUMATIC. human failing, Wisconsin, for three long years, has had its cycling interests carefully watched over by able men, whose patient industry and intelligent moves liaveyielded excellent results, but increasing business responsibilities and worries have made it impossible for them to accept another term which the members have been so anxious to press upon them again, and now, when the old veterans of Wisconsin bicycling lay down their, scepters, may they be conscien­ A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO WHEELING AND ITS INTERESTS. tiously assumed by their successors. The work of the SUBSCRIPTION FIFTY CENTS PER YEAR. incoming officers will principally lie in maintaining the har­ CONTRIBUTORS: NED. WOODMAN, MONROE, WIS. O. T. CARPENTER, MILWAUKEE, WIS. mony, good-will and average growth in the membership which has been so well mapped out by the retiring officers. M. C. ROTIER, Editor and Publisher. All copy lor advertisements, changes tor same, news and correspondence |T IS difficult nowadays to find any pursuit followed by for publication must he sent In before the 7th, to Insure Insertion the same ^ men which has not been invaded by women. In bicycling month, Contributions returned If not published. as in everything else, the number of female devotees is ENTERED IN THE P. O AT MILWAUKEE Aa SECOND CLASS MATTER. rapidly increasing. The bicycle girl bobs up serenely at every turn but with her appears the pleasant anticipation ADDRESS M. C. ROTIER, 505 EAST WATER ST., MILWAUKEE, WIS. of reading columns ofstuffaboutchoosingacyclingcostume. •"THIS year more than any other it has become veryappar. Suggestions pour in from all. The girl is literally besieged, * ent that the wheelmen are permitting their favorite 'Would not this,' asks the male, 'be more sensible, even if sport to run close to the ragged edge of popular disfavor. less modest, apparel!' and he proceeds to-unfold his model. The manufacturing interest in races is likely to causearevul- 'Would not this,' asks the antiquated female, 'be more be­ sion of feeling against wheel racing, through suspicion that coming a woman who is in duty bound to respect her sex, even while she repudiates it in mounting a wheel ?' Then stich events are advertising hippodromes, and in many others step in and offer suggestions, and so it goes on until bicycle clubs there also exists the stigma of trade influence, everybody is at sea what apparel to don and many quit the which many riders, independent and undesirous of being sport on account of this vexatious question. classed one way or the other, will refrain from having any connection with. Bicycles in '94. OUNTY fairs have introduced an innovation in setting • Speaking of next year's machines,, the Wheeler, of Eng- C aside one or two afternoons for bicycle racing, and land,.makes several good suggestions. It says: horsemen look with jealous eyes upon its popularity. There "In former seasons fashion held full sway, but we are- has hardly been a fair held this year that did not haveafew bound to admit that she is losing her hold over the votaries cycling events scheduled on its program, all of which nat­ of the wheel. It may be fashion that causes cycles to be all urally has caused the antipathy of the horse-breeder, jockey wrought after the same pattern, just as men's nether gar­ and sport against the wheelmen to become more pro­ ments are all made after the same style, or it may be nounced, as the former scent, danger to trotting interests. merely an example of that natural law whereby the fittest But in that case only will cycle racing prove to be a rival of pattern of cycle survives. We incline to the opinion that horse racing. Amateur sports generally attract a different for next season the tubing used will he of somewhat larger element of sport-loving people, because betting is a feature diameter, especially as regards the bottom rear stays; that not tolerated in the amateur, ranks and therefore draws its gear cases will enjoy an even greater popularity than has admirers and patrons from a class of people who will not been the case jn the past, and that the, tendency will be to patronize a turf contest. return to the lighter and easier-running block chain, instead of the heavy and rattling roller. We do think that a little UR division's membership needs watching. The ranks more attention might be paicTto chains. -Too frequently, that were so well filled last year at this time have O • even in the best makes, the pitch is not dead, true, and, as a been sadly impaired. This condition of affairs exists in a consequence, the chain is not as perfect as it should be. We majority of the divisions this year.' We wonder whether think it would pay many firms to devote some care to the this is another form into which hard times has shaped itself, present article. In such a matter as this, the public will or whether it was not caused in some degree by a laxity on insist on having the best, no matter what the cost may be; the part of retiring officers. It is but natural to suppose and we think it" would also pay the makers, in consequence that at the end of several terms, of faithful service they of the increased satisfaction likely to arise. '' grow a bit weary of their gratuitous labor. But, whatever " Gear cases will have to be madeeasily detachable, and may have been the cause with other divisions, we hasten to comparatively dust-proof. We regard the latter point as exonerate the officers of our division of even this slight THE PNEUMATIC. Echoes of the Path* of infinitely more value than that of containing oil. The The record-breaking ride indulged in by an English _ chain can always be well lubricated if the case be compara­ tively dust-tight; and if it be easily detachable, very little young lady has made thing's tumultuously interesting over trouble will allow of the chain being removed and thor­ in England, It brings up the question: "Shall women oughly cleansed. For next season great improvements in break records and ride in competition before audiences ? " tires may be expected, and from experiments made by the Harry Tyler's popularity among the stars of the path pioneers in the pneumatic movement, it would seem that as was manifested at Springfield, when he won that great mile .yet the wheel world has by no means got to the bottom of race. Among the first who extended their congratulations the- tire question. Nearly all the tire companies have some­ were Zimmerman, Sanger and Windle,. thing new in hand for next year, whereof our readers will learn more anon. Cushions are dead for all practical pur­ Asa Windle, one of the largest, most powerful and best poses, as from the beginning we prophesied they would be trainers who traveled.on the circuit, always handled Zim in ere long. Up to the present the puncture difficulty has not the push-off in a race where- good talent was against him, been grappled with in any thoroughly satisfactory way. It and by his terrific start made ft an easy thing for Zim to would seem as though speed and immunity from puncture win, in short distance races especially; but at Springfield, in are two entirely opposing characteristics, and the tire that the big International race, Asa's start, for the first time, has one cannot also possess the other.

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