What Wheelmen Are Doing

The pressure for better highways which comes from bicycle riders is not always formal or conspicuous, but it is feit, nevertbeless, all the time. No public official who has anything to do with street pavements and road improveinents can escape the feeling that he will lose or gain favor with a large and active body of voters according to the part he plays in making or maintaining clean, smooth, and comfortable highways. In private conversation, in the periodicals of the day and, now and then, informal memorials or resolutions adopted by large bodies of cyclists, the influence of the wheelmen and their sisters, cousins, and aunts is exerted in behalf of better thoroughfares. It is a constant though varied pressure worth much more tbaó spasmodic and short-lived moveineiits. Tliis is .one of the broadest and most important features of bicyclingl because it tends directly to benefit almost every one, ín some degree. The people who use horse vehicles and those who simply walk or ride in street cars are all interested in well-made and well-kept high-ways. There is botli a practical and an aesthetic side to the road question, and iu every way the influence of the wheelmen is feit in the right direction. It is bound to be potent in giving to the American people roads and streets worthy of a thoroughly civilized nation.