A Bicycle Ordinance Needed

When the new ordinance committee )f the council gets down to work one of the very flrft things it should consider is a bicycle ordinance. There is a great and crying need for such an ordinance and its immediate passage may be the means of saving human ife or of preventing suffering. The bicycle has come to stay. It is growing in popularity and greatly increasing in numbers. It seems to be álmost the only saleable article on the markets. Old as well as young are one jy one dropping into its use. It is omnipresent by night as well as by day, and it is of its night use that we wish to cali the attention of the ordinance committee. In the cities of effete east as well as in the more progressive cities of the west and middle west, bicycle ordinances are rigidly enforced, with the approval of all true wheelmen. For these ordinances furriish as much protection to the wheelmen as to the horsemen and passers byOne of the main arguments of them is that all bicycles at night shall carry ighted lanterns. The bicycle is almost a noiseless vehicle. It gives no warning of its approach, except to the eye, unless equipped with a bell. And at night the eye cannot see it. Henee the need of lights. Dark nights collisions between bicyclers are of frequent occurrence and inany bruises are received. The night üse of the bicycle as practised in Ann Arbor, also tends to add to its unpopularity with horsemen, many of whom refrain f rom driving evenings on account of the vast number of unlighted wheels out. It is to the interest of wheelmen and of horsemen alike that the proper kind of a bicycle ordinance be at once passed by the council and enforced by the marshal.