Identifier: wheelcy18211896121897newy (find matches)
Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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f tele- ny, and the crowd that lined each side of thestreets had a chance to laugh until their sidesached; everything imaginable was carica-tured, and many of the novel ideas were strik-ingly original. It would take pages to halfdescribe the many features, but Indians,tramps, an elephant, that, by the way, tookfirst prize; immense birds, horrible examplesof the effects of free silver by the score, keptthe lines of humanity in good humor all alongthe route. It must have proved a hard thingfor the judges to settle the question to whomthe prizes belonged, but the elephant that gotpremier honors was certainly artistically got-ten up; The second prize went to a Maidenman, who burlesqued Trilby with a blackface. The dummy feet were the size of 14-pound hams, and how he managed to pedalthe machine is a mystery. A loud dress anda tattered umbrella completed an outfit thatwould invoke a smile anywhere. Two Rox-bury wheelmen dressed as fiery Hottentotssat side by side on Abbott Bassetts old so-
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Clever advertising had wrought the publicinterest to a high pitch, day after day the pa-pers teemed with accounts of the many won-ders in store, with the final consequences thatlong before the allotted time for starting, thestreets along which the parade was to passwere thronged with a surging mass of hu-manity. They had come from all points ofthe compass, on foot, in cars, with teams, andriding wheels. Beautiful Commonwealth ave-nue, with the pretty dividing parks down itscentre, presented an animated and pictur-esque scene. The number of wheels passingand repassing on either side was bewildering,the varied costumes and displays forming acomposite picture that set many an attentiveswains thoughts bicycle-ward, while themaiden at his side carefully polished herglasses and daintily adjusted them to herdear intellectual nose so that nothing shouldescape her vision. The parade, beyond a doubt, was the mostcomplete and varied ever held. It did notconsist merely of a long string of civilia

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