Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1895 — CYCLES ON THE TRACKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CYCLES ON THE TRACKS.

Wheelman Can Now Ride Over the .Country on Railroads. There are times daily when a railroad company is not actually using its tracks for the passage of trains, and it is everywhere conceded that the right of way at such times unquestionably belongs to the tramping thespian, wending his way back to New York from some profitless tour. No one heretofore has ever questioned his right to the track at such times. His is a second mortgage that recognizes only the superior power of the locomotive, which is deaf to all argument But Hamlet will have to fight for his rights, for they may be encroached upon by the bicycler. George E. Heaton, of Kalamazoo,

Mich., has patented a device by which an ordinary safety bicycle can be fitted to railroad tracks of any gauge. The attachment is very light and in case the company needs the track for their own purposes the bicycler can readily lift his machine off the tracks to a place of safety.

THE BAILROAD BICYCLE.