THEANGLING. CYCEIST, 
[We solicit for publication, under this department heading, contributions of interest to angling 
cyclists, particularly outings on the wheel to fishing waters]. 
Fishing on a Bicycle. 
All our angling friends and readers are buy- 
ing bicycles—they go a-fishing on them. A 
jolly old salt water angler was spinning out 
the Boulevard the other day, and we hailed 
him at Sixty-sixth street. 
“Where to,” cried we. 
‘““Up to One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street 
and the Hudson after striped bass—they are 
running now,” and off he spun at breakneck 
speed, as if he was willing to take a header 
rather than miss the run of the fish on the 
first turn of the tide. 
And so it seems to be with all of them to a 
man, 
Some go to Greenwood |.ake for black bass, 
others up in Jersey, along the Passaic, for 
ditto; many 
City Point, 
hopac, Rye 
to Staten Island, Jamaica Bay, 
and again many to Lakes Ma- 
and other points innumerable. 
They combine the exhilaration of a ‘‘whir 
over the road,” with the subsequent thrill that 
comes from luring the game fish of our near-by 
waters. 
And now you know why we allot a brief 
space to bicycle matters, especially for anglers 
who use the wheel. 
The Economical Value of the Wheel. 
Much has been written, pro and con, as to 
the physical effects of riding on a bicycle, and 
now and then will be found a physician who is 
at variance with a common sense view of the 
subject, taking his stubborness of argument 
from isolated cases of distress, or the occa- 
sional ill effects which have arisen from excess 
of exercise on the wheel. When chronic dis- 
ease, or disposition thereto, of any character 
exists, it is often hurtful to take exercise of 
any kind. A man with heart disease should 
not gallop upstairs like a full blooded gelding 
nor a -voman with the proneness of the sex to 
pelvic weakness, run the treddle of a sewing 
machine with undue muscular effort. Moder- 
ation and good judgment are the safety valves 
of our indulgence in pleasures of any kind, and 
it is but little that the cyclist asks from his 
censor when he wants the judgment of his 
fascinating recreation placed on the plane of 
common sense. 
Can it be hurtful to the body or demoraliz- 
ing to the morals for an ordinarily healthy per- 
son to spin over a country road with the bloom 
and the balm of nature on every side of him ? 
Does not his own nature grow broader in its 
Sympathies and freer from the ‘‘cold cash” 
element of his business life? Moralists tell us 
that if ‘‘opportunities’’ were taken away, the 
world would be freer from crime. Certainly 
an outing on the wheel along the hedges and 
amid picturesque and elevating surroundings, 
wherein a man’s nature is attuned to the en- 
joyment of ‘the better things of earth,” is a 
great destroyer of these ‘‘ opportunities” for 
evil, albeit if even good should chance to come 
thereby. 
The value of wheeling, asa recreation, needs 
no sophistry of argument. It will have, in 
fact is*° now having, a masterful and whole- 
some economic effect upon the body politic. 
It will strengthen, healthily, the brains, im- 
prove the bodies and give the nerves stamina, 
three factors needed in the make-up of the 
people of a Nation whose physical and mental 
energies are going, somewhat, to waste under 
the thirst and ardor of pursuit for material 
objects. The hustling business man finds a 
facile instrument, amid the hurry and scur of 
his business life, in his tireless and rapid 
‘“‘bike;’’ the man or woman of sedentary 
habits turns to the wheel for the brushing 
away of the cobwebs from the brain, and even 
the non-riders, the onlookers, gather along the 
boulevards and view with zest and pleasure the 
vast crowds of circling tires passing in an end- 
less and fascinating panorama. 
But it is to the angler, our own constituent, 
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