"BIKING" IN ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9161, 19 July 1895, Page 7

"BIKING" IN ENGLAND.

Reports from New Yoik people reosntly "rived ia England say that while the eicycle craza there embraces all classes it wn hardly be as extraordinary an epidemic "itis m London. It is the shief occupa«oa seemingly of the ultra-fashionable set, J* a »s having curious developments, gcling is not yet permitted in Hyde or «*gent s Parks, but the very latest fad of the ■wwt *et is to make up parties to ride at «c dead of night through the deserted Whalted streets of the city. Lately Lord Wdogan gave a dinner party, at which the Pe*lßl included the Duchess of Sutherland Lμ n Countesses -Arlington and Dudley, "•oy Chelsea and several men prominent in «c social world, the ladies dining in their costumes, consisting of bloomers, *>vered in all cases with light skirts, while i I :" c gentlemen were in knickerbockers. At ft Bff P art y> numbering eighteen, set f\ V ,? n their cycles for the region of St. 1/ , * ftnd the Tower, where at that hour, If ' "SrJ'P" »°f an occasional policeman, hardly a listo be seen. Their example m now ; ■ *»!ig generally imitated, co that the city ' being careered over nightly by many *»rtie e f rom the Wcßt En(L mOQS the giimc men Mr Balfour ia au expert rider. ««returned during the wesk to London g«n Ashtead Park, the residence of Earl f*ownlow, in Lincolnshire, a distiince of 160 ' G *• on lhe wWeel, accompanied by Mr v «o. Wyudhain,Jhis private secretary.