eee NG] NG ey CEIST. 
[We solicit for publication, under this department heading, contributions of interest to Angling 
Cyclists, particularly outings on the wheel to fishing waters]. 
Cycling and the Fishing Tack!e Trade. 
The great popularity and indulgence in 
wheeling, which has caused such an immense 
manufacturing industry to start all over the 
country, has reacted on some branches of 
trade to an appreciable and, in some instances, 
unfortunate extent. Setting aside the visi- 
ble effect that cycling has had upon the re- 
ceipts of suburban transportation companies, 
and the equally evident result on the sale of 
Sunday papers, we find that the fishing tackle 
trade is also depressed by this new factor in 
the recreation of the people. Some houses 
have lost as much as twenty per cent. of their 
usual spring trade, and trace this loss direct to 
the wheel. Instead of going a-fishing, many 
anglers go a-wheeling. This condition will, 
we think, in a short time correct itself. A 
man, just now, with a wheel, is like a boy with 
a new mechanical toy—mere possession of it 
is a delight, but after a while he will get time 
to think and act upon the practical side of the 
matter, and will soon determine how to get 
the most enjoyment out of this expensive im- 
pedimenta of his pastimes. And don’t fear 
but what he will turn to his first love and go 
a-fishing again. Once an angler, forever an 
angler, so long as he can crutch it along the 
stream or be carried to a boat. We believe 
that the introduction of cycling as a national 
pastime, by increasing a love of outdoor recre- 
ation, will multiply the number of rod and line 
fishermen during the next half decade. 

On Staten Island. 
Please tell me if I will find a good wheel road to the 
Great Kills on Staten Island, and if there are the same 
to the by-fishing places between St. George and the 
Kills. L. D. W. 
NEW YORK, Julyr. 
If you take the most direct route from St. 
George you will have a fair country road all the 
way to the Great Kills, or if you go via Castle- 
ton Corners and the Bradley road and Gifford’s 
lane to Gifford’s Station, you will have a ma- 
cadamized road nearly all the way. With the 
exception of South Beach, where the weakfish 
sometimes run large and in numbers, there is 
no place between St. George and the Great 
Kills on the south shore, at which we can ad- 
vise you to stop for fishing purposes. 

Stop Fast Wheeling. 
“Wheelmen enjoy so many privileges on pub- 
lic highways,”’ said one of the most prominent 
local riders tous, ‘‘ that they should be scrupu- 
lous in respecting the rights of those using other 
vehicles and regardful also of the rights of 
other bicyclers. On Saturdays, Sundays and 
holidays when the weather is fine everybody 
who owns or can hire a wheel is likely to go 
out on it, and in consequence all the good roads 
near the city are thronged with riders of the 
silent steed. In these circumstances serious 
mishaps may easily occur from fast or careless 
riding. The chief danger is not when parties 
of riders are approaching each other, as the 
situation then can clearly be seen on both sides ; 
but when a company of ‘scorchers’ swoop 
down from behind upon riders going at a mod- 
erate speed, the latter know nothing of what is 
overtaking them until the wheel goes whizzing 
by, forit is the custom of this class of riders to 
give no warning of their coming, and often to 
run as close as possible to the slower wheelmen, 
apparently in order to give them a scare. Itis 
a most reprehensible practice. Common cour- 
tesy demands that a bicycle rider should sound 
a warning, either‘by bell or whistle, when about 
to pass another, particularly at close quarters, 
so that the latter may make room for the for- 
mer, or at least not swerve from his course and 
increase the chances of a collision. When 
meeting, too, wheelmen may well exercise cau- 
tion and give each other plenty of leeway. 
The men who ‘take the whole road’ are be- 
coming known as ‘bicycle hogs.’ The mere 
fact of such a name is a grave reproach to the 
whole cycling fraternity.” 
Women and the Wheel. 
Under the ‘‘craze”’ for wheeling which has 
taken hold of all classes of the community, 
here is a recklessness of indulgence which is 
apt to result in harm to the ardent partici- 
