New-York tribune., 1886-01-17
HOV VHEELMEN PASS THE UINTER.

CLUB ENTERTAINMENTS, ICE RIDING, AND TRIPS
TO MORE TROPICAL LANDS.
Winter having fairly established itself the bicycle
disappears into the ground while the skate and
the toboggan come to the front. The wheelmen are
not idle however In NewYork they arc turning their
attention club dinners and entertainments while the
peace of Boston whcemen is distracted by nc,pent
row over the manage OF the League Meet which is
TO bo held there next spring There are two strong
clubs in Boston The Massachusetts, wheelmen are an
organization belonging TO tic League of American
Wheelmen while the Boston Club is not a member of
the national organization. On the strength OF this the
Massachusetts, Wheelmen say they are going to have
the lions Of the work and glory OF managing the
coniL @ League Meet The Boston Club say they will
not play all unless they put equal footing
with the other organization and there the matter rests
at present.
In this city the members of the Citizens Club are
beginI ing TO talk about club dinner. nIhey have
Strengthened up the walls of their club house in West
Fifty eghtb-st, at expense OF $1,000. but feel
rather badly about having to throw much good
money into hole. contractor from whom they could
recover nothing undermined their party wall and came
near tumbling the house down about their Tie
Ixion Club have moved into their large house in
West Fi pinth-st and arc growing daily IN numbers
and Importance. They will give recettion, or old
fashioned in the latter part of the month
Those who interested IN wheeling are not at all
sorry TO see the snow come because it keeps most
people within doors they begin from tt at confinement
to feel thu lack of exercise and when the time OF the
singing BIRDS and the opening of roads is come they
will plunge into the delights OF the wheel with all the
more zest. Still there enthusiastic wheelmcn who
ride all through tbs winter, and really. machine
runs as well surface OF hard, well racked or
of ice and frozen dirt, upon summer road IL also
glides safely and easily ice that has not been cut
up by skaters. An English party laying plans on
a trip through Holland on the frozen canals. As the
canals arc used by skaters the "trip will hardly be
success. .
81 took a spin up canal in Pennsylvania once"
said a wheelnan in discussing the Holland trip re-
Gently The surface smooth but had been scored
n little by sharp skates and the particles Of ice were
blowing up and down the canal | ran mp in the face
Of the wind and got along ainously for half mile
Then my wheel began to slip and made no headway
Noticing that the rubber tire encrusted with the
fine particles of ice, started to turn about and
down before the wind The moment that swerved
from strag ght line the machine went out from under
me and rode down the tow-path with bruised thigh
and broken crank
A trip which is attracting the most attention from
American wheelmen is the one to Bermuda This land
of skies and smoothly planed chalk roads, has
already been visited by several touring wheelmen
large party are TO start Tor the island March 2 The
ladies TO be lett behind this time but may lake
part In the excursion their trcyces or IN carriages