The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 22, 1900, Page 4

OOK out for the man with the new bicycle. He may start in to tell you all about it. The man with the new baby, the man with the smart boy and the man who has just invented a new kind of machine to out the prevent whiskaderos from blowiz gas, all get out of the way man with the brand new ) his windjammed Percival Brown ha 'steen patent attachmen rubber pipes of them with on it There g a wonderful lamp to begin with that would set Aladdin on the if it ever caught his eye. throws the moon and stars all in shade and makes the ri 7 sun loc X a total ecl Then it has a steel spring, double back -1 action buck-em-off brake on the hind top-me-quick zhouse air brake on the front wheel and a wheel that pu back on the ice wagon. srown’s wheel has everything but in- tellect. An educated pig i=n't in it with that bike yhen it comes Lo a question of intelligence If Brown forgets to you suppose that wheel s It goes r it comes to an upgrade, then if Percy le his feet, do 5?7 Not much, »t ahead sawing wood ur doesn’'t wake vwp the wheel instead of run- ning back downihill again, just puts on its him on the ground own brake, dev and then lies dvwn. i Percival has romething like three hun- Smart wheel, dred and sixty-f've friends, and in telling them about the wheel and answering the numerous questi'ns it keeps his meouth so dry thit he btas to buy drink tickets by the j#ckage. The other day he struck a hard graft. He had just come in from a redhot scorch to the cliff and back without for refreshments, and was going in to a stop except flash one of his tickets on a man with a poker ¢ and ¢ white apron, when ¥ a corn i er from the interior stopped him, saying: This was what P. B him a splendid chand the chain was was and then to fellow that up with iinless I verbal edition o Bike and How to wWork After P. B. had nearly I merits of his particular spec ompleted tellirg the very unt brand of bike, the man from the moun- d explained that tains got confidenti: he had never ridde pliczted than a donkey; that this machi was the first one of the durned things that he ever had a chanst to look at. and he wanted to know what that hose pipe was on the wheels for. That was getting back to first prin- thing more « ciples, but Percival was patient and ex- plained the origin of the pneumatic tire, but when be came to telling about pump- ing air inte it to inflate the tire, it was too much fer the donkey man, who ex- . claimed, *“Gece, Mister, you don’t mean to tell me that you blow wind in there hard enough to make thgt hose pipe like that? I've scen wind blow pretty hard, but I never saw it blow quite as hard as a rock Dbefore. You can’'t fool me, stranger, if I am from the hills. There was no otler way to convince him than to deflate the tire and then pump it up again. There was a gond-sized crowd around by this time and Brown was busy an- swering questions about what made the wheels go round when the cranks didn't, and what made the coaster brake work, and how he managed to get a whole gas factory into the size of a tomato can, THE IUN +~ NOW BROWN 15 WORKING AN NIC -« AE MAY START IN TO TELL YYOU ALL ABQUT [T --