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SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1928.
HUMOUR OF CYCLING HISTORY.
QUAINT STORIES OF THE EARLY DAYS.
MINER TO PAY £100 COSTS.
ALLEGED ELECTION
INTERFERENCE.
The Mansiold Magistrates re cently dismissed a prosecution "VELOCIPEDE MANIA." brought by i checkweightman
Many Interesting and humorous against the agent of the New stories are told in a history of the Hucknall Colllory Company, and evolution of the bleycle and of the jordered £100 to be paid towards carly struggles of riders against the defendant's costs. popular prejudice compiled by Arthur Thompson, checkweight. of Sutton-in-Ashfied, Mr. James T. Lightwood. The man,
book is entitled "The Cyclists' brought a number of summonses Touring Club: Being the no-against Captain Munchamp, agent mance of Fifty Years Cycling." the New Hucknall Colliery Com pany, for alleged interference with It is published by the Headquar-his election as checkweighman by, ters of the Club.
it was stated, asking Mr. G. Mr. Lightwood first laments the Spencer, M.P., of the Notts Indus- absence of any certain evidence of trial Miners' Union, to make it the genesis of the bicycle, and known to the men that Thompson refutes the suggestion that the would not be allowed to act if famous design on a window at the elected, and that if he were cleated cloisters of Stoke Pages Church is the colliery would not be opened.
of i The defonce was that Mr. Spen- the earliest representation
Icer headed a députation to Cap- cycling.
Itain Muschamp with regard to
20, 1769:
The Arat evidence of the exist- ence of a bicycle which he is able opening the pit, but that the Cap- tain only said that Thompson's to quote fa the following para-election would not be acceptable to xraph which appeared in the Public Advertiser on November the directors. The pit was not work- ing at the time. If it had been working, the Captain declared, he "Late on Friday night Mr. would not have made the obser Patente ran his newly-invented vation, as it would have been re- Phaeton, which moves without garded as interfering with the Horses, from the Bottom of Salis-checkweightmon. bury-court, Fleet-street, to the end of Southampton-street. Strand, and back, amidst a vast that no man used greater influence with the director than Captain. Crowd of Spectators, who had reuschamp in getting the pit re ceived information of his Design."
in the
Mr Spencer, in evidence, stated
opened.
It was not until 50 years later-
The Bench dismissed the case, that the popular imagination was anding that there had been no in- temporarily captured by the bleyterference with the election of cle. The coming of the hobby the checkweighman, and ordered horse" in 1819 caused great ex-the prosecution to pay £100 to
wards the defendant's costa. cilement throughout the country.
"Under the heading of 'New Sir H. Slesser, KC, appeared Invention," it is stated, "it re-for the checkweightman, and Mr. colved special notice in the Lon- Norman Birkett, K.C., defended. don Magasine for 1819, where it is] called "The Patent Accelerator; or Walking Expedition."""
The following paragraph taken from a Manchester newspaper in 1869 is given, however, to show the feeling with which the bicycle was regarded in some quarters,
as in 1889 against the landlady of the Hautboy Hotel, Ockham, Surrey, for refusing to serve Lady' # meal in the Haberton with caffee-room because of the "rational" cycling dress she was
"The velocipede mania having wearing. broken out here with alarming
The case (known as Reginn v.. violence, we commend it to Cup Sprague) was heard....at the tain Palin's (the Chief Constable)
the
coercive care. A mad dog can be Surrey Quarter Sessions, which avolded, because he runs straight; were held at Kingston. In
course of her evidence Mrs. but a mad man. (on a rantoon) rans anything but straight, and Sprague, the landlady, declared. when he meanders along the foot that it was her rule never to ad. path at the rate of ten miles an mit into the coffee-room ladies in rational dress, unless they put: hour he becomes a dangerous nuisance. If babies want to be on a skirt. frat. wheeled along the footpath, they must go in perambulators, and not on velocipedes."
with
"Some ladica, she declared, regularly brought skirts them for that very purpose.
"She added that there were a A number of cases in which ploneer cycllats prosecuted the queer lot of people to be found on. drivers of horse-drawn vehicles the Portsmouth Road. Sho bad for deliberately running them even seen women in skintights! down on the road are cited. The This statement aroused great in-
terest. results of these prosecutions seem- ed to rest mainly on the prejudices THERAPION No.3 of the magistrates.
than by any other known combinatie Gosurely Beitia faken is sooordance with the direrons O companyingit,wilichoshaitored healthbe restored THE EXPIRING LAMP OF LIFE LIGHTED UP AFRESH, andanewexlatenca im parted in place of what had maiatuly seemed worm-con,usedup, and salvelcos
"Then photographs were pre- duced of Lady Haberton showing her dressed in the offending, Furthermore, cyclists were recostume. It displayed her lady quired to dismount "whenever re-ship wearing a pair of exceeding- quested to do so by the driver of ly baggy knickerbockers reaching any other vehicle," and to provide below the knee and a jacket which
This wonderfal medicamani Laible for all themselves with a "continuously came well over the bips and open-
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sounding bell of not less than sixed sufficiently to show the alk inches in diameter, which bell
blouse beneath!" shall be capable of being heard forty yards ahead."
Finally, however, the Chairman, decided that the question of "rational" dress was irrelevant to the issue, And Held that an fan- keeper was bound to supply re-
Women's National Dress. But the sufferings of the 'men Berlin, Apr. 24.-It is reported that the Reichsbank has bought were as nothing to the trials of the freshments to a At and reasonable Russian gold to the value of 25,- women riders. Here is an account place. The jury found a verdict of a case in which the Cyclists' for Lady Haberton, and public 1000,000 marks (£1,250,000).
Touring Club took action as late opinion soon followed.
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