Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — Riding Bicycle on Railroad. [ARTICLE]

Riding Bicycle on Railroad.

A genius has invented an attachment for a bicycle which makes it possible to wheel along a railroad track at a high speed without chance of tumbling off. This invention consists of a small wheel attached to three pieces of steel pipe. The latter can be screwed to the bicycle or detached at will. The small wheel, which has large flanges, rests on the "off” side of the track, and the bicycle glides along gently, the rider leaning slightly toward the center of the rails. This machine has been tried on all kinds of curves and found to work successfully. The rider can lift the machine from the track in a few moments, and with it he can make fifteen miles an hour with ease. Manila's population is found to be 241,732, which gives it a place next below that of Newark, N. J., or seventeenth from the top in the list of cities of the United Statea Freight rates from Manila to Hongkong, a distance of only TOO miles, are as much as from San Francisco to Hongkong, a distance of >,OOO miles * ■ • -*•—-wa