Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1896 — Money In Bicycle Invention. [ARTICLE]

Money In Bicycle Invention.

Inventions of bicycle mindriesarejust now apparently the most profitable direction in which mechanical Ingenuity can be directed. All the really meritorious devices on the markets for wheels and wheelmen are selling well and returning fine dividends to their owners. And the most remarkable feature of the cast* is the fact that these prove paying Investments from tile start and no losing system of introducing them is necessary, as in other businesses. One of the most remarkable Instances of tills state of affairs is the ease of a popular saddle made of aluminum and leather. It was invented less than two years ago and has been on tile market but a short time. Yet this year the sales have already reached 80,000, and there are-more to come. On this 80?000 the Inventor realized 50 cents apiece, or $40,000, a tidy little sum, which would lie conslderrtl a fortune by some people and does fairly well for an annual income on a bicycle sundry, —Chicago Tribune.