Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — Bicycles as Revenue Producers. [ARTICLE]

Bicycles as Revenue Producers.

An ingenious Idea has been hit upon by the president of a Canadian railway for creating travel on the company's cars. Along the railroad, running some distance out of the city, the company has allowed bicyclists to construct a cinder path, for their own convenience, as well as giving the company better ballasting on the road. The only revenue thecompany expects to derive from tlie path Is fPbtn the fares of the wives and families of the riders who take the cars to watch the wheelmen practice. As the ridetfe oif the wheel in Toronto number about 10,000, the enterprise of the railway company Is like'7 to be well rewarded.