New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-07
GREAT BIOYOLING TOUR.
PROPOSED JOURNEY OF 100 WHEELMEN
THROUGH ONTARIO AND NEW-YORK.

lHhOOpu ANN AMI NL"
That the use of the bicycle grows steadily
year by year shown by the increased interest In the
bicycling associations All those in the United states
and Canada will send representatives to the sixth annual
meet the League OF American Wheemen to be held al
Buffalo July Banda After the business ana pasue
OF the occasion what IL called the Big Four Tour VIII
be begun the third Of the kind ever undertaken. be
two and three thousand bcyciists Will attend tho
meet. select 100 will engage in the tour. arrange
ens for which have been deliberately made There are
division commanders with leutenants, and q fully
equipped quarermasters department. The latter 49, OF
course OF great Importance, as the bicycists with All
their pride in their agile vehicle. DO no,
claim that 1t can readily convey trunks anu
valiscs over country roads. Baggage ambulances
will follow the party and will contain not only luggage
limited to certain quantity for each tourist but VIII
also carry the sick and wounded, and disabled wheels
there DO any The style OF dress peculiar to bcycsts
will be the rule nut there may be variety OF Color ac
cordng TO the taste OF tho wearer. Predetermined
straw hats of uniform Shape and size will DO donned at
the start and bcyclists will look somewhat ike DC
witched asccntury Quakcrs mounted on stills as they
stenl swiftly and silently through the astonshed "hu
The commanders staff will carry n purple silk banner
and purple badges Ths divisions four In nunner' Will
DO dlsng shed by flags Of tho following colors chicago
old gold; Boston, red; Buffalo, blue Ncw-York, white
Tho "Big Four Tour takes its name from
the fact that Il ia organized by the wheemen
OF the four large Cities Chicago, Buffalo. Boston and
York The route is not all on krra rma and the
bicycle has at divers times TO yield local supremacy 10
naval means OF locomotion. Elsewhere the bicycsts
acknowledge fatigue by even rcsorng 10 the incohsru
Gus aid Of the railways II does not seem to occur to
them that this rank treason to their noble craze
The tourists will start Monday. July o. at A. m''
from the Gene.ee Hotel Buffalo. the line being formed
I'm Mainst the commander and stan on the right, fol-
lowed by the Chicago Boston and Nowfork divisions In
the sequence given The relative order VIII remain me
sane throughout the tour but the divisions WIN rotate
I'm noson so that each In turn will have the head OF the
column. The route extends from Buh1o 10 hochester'
then across Lake ontario " steamboat 10 Cobonrg ~
wheel Bcllevills and Kingston by steamer 10 me
dam. ~ Y. by wheel to Schenectady ana Albany,
down along the 'a; terry shore to visit. tho catsE xiii
and west Poiat aud then from Tarrytown through
SewYorE some OF the hnest road for bicycling In the
country form part q the route Ihe mr., run don
over smooth II Is expected that This will heget
a good appetite for the first dinner OF thu outing Then
to Batavia the afternoon another twenty miles mus.
be traversed before the pilgrims turn IN Ior tner hrst
exertion The next day only sixteen plles VIII pc
made before dinner. Then from BERGEN oy hlghwey
ard cowpath "beo-ine" will be struck for Rochester
distance Of twenty miles The tourists will simply roll
down hi the next morning all the way from inc -Four
me evening they will be entertained at chop" The
route to Kingston along the shore OF Lake ontario Is
ih. marty will nger for two full days. encamping ut
shady Ledge. and Will make aquatic excursions IN
IN them. on Saturday evening. the llth. by the
resident FLANDERS From Clayton. on the New-lork
s,de 10 the Mohawk the bcyclists will be conveyed by
the Utica and Black River Railroad EVERYBODY Knows
,ss. yic scenery II to be found along the chief trbu
tsrv of the Hudson from Amsterdam 10 the old fashioned
Dutch burg of schenectady No more dchghtiul roads
erls In the world. Down the Hudson the Old postronte
viii no followed and entertainment Tor man ana mt
hinc will he sought by preference at antique taVerus
d ,,nr. covered farm houses. The roguish cyclists
% tke mains TO pass close to Vassar College as pos
be perhaps with the hope that some Of them may re-
vvc I'm N adeny nOsoms the dream OF the lar Lady OF
sh,ntt The populous part OF NewYork will he entered
nv way the Riverside Drive ana the BOVeNaru, ana
m, tour will end at Central PARK
Tho commander OF the " Biz Tour" tourists will he
pradcrick g. Bourne OF the citizens Bicycle Club, Now
YorL. Frank H. Taylor OF NewYork, Il commodore Din
charge OF all aquatic arrangements and dyersonsl j.
81 MAYNARD, OF Chicago II quartermastcr, and H. d.
corcy of lston a. assistant quartermastcr The cap
al, o the New York division George q. Didwell and
his Ieutenant Ia simeon Ford.