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Messenger Boys to Use Bicycles
New York Times, May 3, 1896
The American District Telegraph Company will put twenty of its
messengers upon bicycles today and if the experiment proves successful
many additional wheels will be used. It is though that bicycles will
greatly expedite the messenger service.
All the 1,100 messengers in the company’s service will appear today in
the new summer uniforms, new caps, new style of cap plates, and
“regulation” collars. The summer uniforms are navy blue with red
trimming. The caps are light brown and the plates of aluminium metal.
The boys in three sections will report for inspection today at three
offices one in Broadway, on in Broad Street, and one in West
Twenty-fifth Street. They are to be photographed.
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