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Mr Gard, the champion of the Bicycle Club, is a graceful and easy rider,and propels his machine in a manner that attracts universal appreciation. His splendidly proportioned form mounted upon the aerial seat just kills the ladies.

The "Second Edition" was the first Buffalo Evening News ever published. The first edition never even made it to the press room. As shared in a 1980 edition celebrating The News' centennial: “The first edition of The Buffalo Evening News didn’t sell a copy. In fact, it never made it to the press room. Due off the presses at 2 p.m. … the first edition wound up on the floor – a tangled mess of handset type. “In his unpublished history of The News … Charles H. Armitage, onetime political writer and city editor, described what happened on that first day: “ ‘Copy had been written and put in type and the type locked in the four little forms that were to convey the issue to a waiting public. And then, on the way to the press room, a decrepit elevator got out of control and the contents of those forms became a mass of pi.’ (Pi is a printer’s term for type that has been jumbled or thrown together at random.) “Mr. Armitage added, ‘What comment was made on that occasion by Edward H. Butler, founder and until his death nearly 34 years later sole proprietor, is not on record.’ ”