270 The American Angler 
One of the old concerns recently expressed 
to us the hope that the price would tumble, 
especially with the old concerns, which he 
thought would check and steady the rush of 
new people into the business of manufacturing 
bicycles. We think the hope and wish an 
illusion. The new concerns will start in better 
equipped than many of the old concerns, who 
are still using machinery which is obsolete, 
when compared with the improved kind turned 
out to-day. The new concerns start in with 
the latest machinery, and can buy material 
raw and in parts pretty cheap for cash. They 
will have the benefit of all experiments paid 
for by the old concerns, which cost millions. 
So it looks as if the price-cutting (if there 
be any) will come from the big new concerns, 
who may get panicky and cut loose as to price 
in order to get a good start in disposing of 
their product. There doesn’t, at present, seem 
to be any cause to suspect that '96 prices are 
going to be any lower (as far as high grades 
go) than they were this year, and there is no 
apparent reason why they should. 
The manufacturers couldn't commence to 
supply the demand early this season, and it is 
natural to suppose that many would-be pur- 
chasers, who were disappointed in not getting 
wheels, will try again next year. A man or 
woman gets the fever in April or May, and 
unless they get their wheel promptly the fever 
passes away, the attack being renewed the 
following year with more intensity than ever. 
Then, there must be expected a natural in- 
crease of new buyers over this year. Possibly 
a third more people will buy bicycles in 1896 
than in 1895. The export trade is also gaining 
slowly but steadily, as the export figures show, 
and which will continue to be of more import- 
ance each year. Altogether the outlook is 
favorable, and the man who goes below the 
century for a first-class wheel will only em- 
ulate a well-known pioneer concern who gave 
away upwards of $1,000,000 this year by re- 
ducing from $125 to $100. They could prob- 
ably have sold all the wheels they could make 
at the latter figure. 
Low Rate Account Grand Army Encampment at 
Louisville.—On the occasion of the Twenty-Ninth An- 
nual Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic 
at Louisville, Ky., September irth to 14th, a rate of one 
cent per mile has been put in effect over the West 
Shore Railroad, the net rate from New York to 
Louisville and return being $17.35, and proportionately 
lower from stations north and west of New York. 
By order of the Department Commander, Edward 
J. Atkinson, the West Shore Railroad has been 
designated as the official route, and in return for this 
official recognition they have scheduled a special train 
to leave New York Sunday, September 8th, at 9.00 A. 
M., which will run onthe time of its ‘‘ Day Express” 
through to Louisville without any change of cars. 
It is expected that the encampment will bring forth 
a grand rally of veterans and their friends. 
In addition to the many attractions at the encamp- 
ment, the dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga 
National Park will take place. Rates of one.cent per 
mile have been authorized for this side trip, and the 
limit of the return tickets of the West Shore Railroad 
will permit a stay of an extended period if desired. 
A special issue of tickets and advertising matter has 
been placed in the hands of the agents of the West 
Shore Railroad, and can be had on application. 
Great is the Cotton States and International Expo- 
sition, Atlanta, Ga.—Enormous preparations are being 
made for the coming Exposition, which opens Septem- 
ber 18th and closes December 31st. Probably no other 
city of similar size and environments in the world, 
certainly no other such city in the United States, 
would have undertaken this great enterprise so won- 
derfully accomplished by Atlanta, and even Atlanta 
could not have done this without the Southern Rail- 
way—the greatest Southern System entering Atlanta 
from all four points of the compass, North, South, 
East, West—absolutely the only railway entering the 
Exposition grounds, and consequently the only line 
bringing passengers from all parts of the world into 
the gates of Atlanta, and into the grounds of the Ex- 
position, performing the best service and affording 
liberal rates. 
On the direct line to California and Florida, this 
railway gives the tourist and pleasure-seeker an op- 
portunity to visit one of the grandest Expositions next 
to the Chicago World's Fair. The facilities from New 
York and the East in reaching Atlanta could not be 
improved upon. The Southern Railway, the great 
trunk line between the North and South, operates 
solid Pullman vestibuled trains, New York to New 
“Orleans, Memphis, Jacksonville, Chattanooga, giving 
through Pullman sleeping and dining car service 
from New York via Atlanta, the Gate City of the 
South. For further information, descriptive book in 
thirteen different languages, address any officer of the 
Southern Railway. New York office, 271 Broadway. 
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