Weber’s New Departure Luggage Carrier is a combination luggage carrier and lamp bracket made of cold rolled steel, fitted with leather straps. This carrier also affords a suitable grip for carrying a parcel in when detached from the bicycle. It weighs, complete, about three ounces, and can be rolled up and carried in the pocket or attached to the top bar of the bicycle. The luggage is placed in the carrier and attached to the bicycle by slipping it over the lamp bracket. The carrier may also be attached to the seat post.
A [wicker basket carrier] is also shown, which will fit any handlebar, being fastened thereto with straps, and this certainly ought to become a popular one for carrying luncheons on small picnic runs.
For touring purposes a linenoid touring case, made by Crane Bros., of Westfield, Mass., is to be commended. It is made similar to an extension case of tough waterproof material, and is seamless. It can be removed from the frame in a moment, owing to patent buckles being used. Their ordinary size will fit the frames of nearly all the well-known bicycles in the market, but special sizes and finish are furnished as desired. Linenoid, of which these cases are made, consists of pure linen threads reduced to a pulp, chemically treated and moulded on iron forms subjected to heat from great pressure, and then finished. They also make a megaphone of this material, and which will carry the voice from a half to two miles, the distance depending upon the size of the instrument. They have a new idea in megaphones, one that is called a double megaphone, which allows the person using the megaphone to hear also without changing the position of the instrument. A supplementary tube runs from the mouthpiece to the ear of the user, so that with this double megaphone a conversation can be carried on with as much ease and satisfaction as if the users were near together.
AUXILIARY SEATS.
FAIRY CHILD’S SEAT.
The “[Fairy” child’s seat] is among the most widely used in this line of attachments. The supporting frame is made from a single piece of 5⁄16 inch wire doubled and bent to hook over the handlebar, the lower portion running down on either side of the head of the bicycle, and secured to the head by means of a short strap and buckle, the lower ends of the wires turning out to make foot rests for the child. The upper part of the wire frame is bent in a manner to form a support for a veneered seat board, and the seat board is provided with a light wire rail running around the side and back, while a wood handle is run through loops formed in the wire rail to secure the child in place, as well as to provide handles for the child to take hold of.
This seat is extremely simple and neat, and will fit either a lady’s or a gentleman’s bicycle. It is perfectly safe for babies or a child seven years old. The seat being in the position it is over the handlebar, is entirely out of the way of the rider, and the child sits so nearly over the centre of the head that steering is scarcely affected at all.