Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1899 — Extra For Bicycles. [ARTICLE]

Extra For Bicycles.

Travelers on the railroads will hereafter be compelled to pay extra for checking wheels as the bicycle will no longer be considered as baggage. The edict has gone forth from a meeting of the general passenger agents of all the railway lines in the central part of the United States, held’ recently in a uniform charge of 6 per cent of the price of the passenger’s ticket Will be charged for checking a bicycle. The action is the result of a recommendation made by all the general passenger agents on the lines east of Pittsburg and Buffalo, and this is as good as granted. Every wheel, no matter how long or how short the distance it is to be transported, “ fifty poundß °‘ So o