Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-04

clubs, and 1 replied in English, expressing
the great satisfaction felt by the whole party
at the kind manner in which we had been
received in France and Paris
We started off again, three abreast, up the
Avenue de la Grand Armee and round the
Arc de Triomphe. Down the magnificent
Champs Elysees, across the Place de la Con-
corde, and along the Rue de Rivoli, rode
the "half hundred" with quiet precision
worthy of military corps, until we reached
our Paris headquarters at the cosy and COM
Portable Hotel de la Tamise, in the Rue
d'Alger where our iron horses were stabbed
until the order was again given to march.
We were entertained later by our French
wheeling brethren at the Restaurant De-
hauve. the spacious private hall OF which
had been specially engaged for the occasion.
The Reception Committee was composed of
NJ. Grassen. President of the Societe
Velocipedique Metropolitaine; DIR. Minart,
President of the Sport Velocipedique
the Cercle de la Pedale; NJ. Pradelles, Sec
retary of the Veloce Sport Parisien, and NJ.
de Baroncelli, Consul of the Union Veloci-
pedique de France.
NJ. de Baroncellf made a telling speech in
French, in which be expressed the great
sympathy that the French velocipedist felt
for their American brethren; he rendered
all honor to the American wheelmen who
had accomplished a feat never before per-
formed by any foreign cyclists. M. de
Baroncelli then presented us with a detailed
itinerary of the roads to be followed from
Paris to Geneva, and said that the consuls
of the different cycling clubs in the different
towns through which we have yet to pass
had been informed of our arrival, and would
be ready to meet us and render any assist
ance or give any information in their power.
EUROPEAN ROADS.
The roads in Europe are vastly superior
to anything we are used TO in America, and
the distances are shorter. The scenery to an
American has the effect of finished pictures.
1t is nature with her hair combed. The
highly cultivated fields, carefully trimmed
and bordered, with long avenues of poplars
and elms strike an American in France; while
in England he is impressed with the whole
groomedl Our New England out-of-doors seem
cry often looks as if it had just got out of bed
and had not finished its toilet But the glow
ing green of everything in England strikes one
particularly: green hedges in place of our rail
fences, always ugly, and our rude stone walls
which are not wanting In a certain look Of tit-
ness approaching to comeliness, but poor feat
ures OF landscape as compared to those uniVer.
sal hedges.
The difference in the hours for meals dis
turbed us somewhat in the beginning, but we
IL.
French to English cooking, but the ham and
eggs of old England was a rare treat to all of
them. The French early breakfast with cafe
au lsit is too light a meal for an American, and
especially an American cyclist, who expects
more solid food to start off upon in the
morning
THE ITINERARY.
On leaving Paris we 60 to Fontainebleau.
where we intend remaining over Sunday, to see
the palace and the forest From Fontainebleau,
we start for Geneva taking the route outlined
for us by NJ. de Baroncelli, which, indeed is
no other than the grand. straight departmental
route to Geneva, by way of Tonnerre, Mont
bard. Dion. Dole, Poligny and Morez 1t will
take us eight days to reach Geneva, where we
remain a day.
- We then take the steamer to Viileneuve go
over the Pass to Toul, visit Interlaken, Lu-
cerne, the R!gi, Zug, Zurich Albruck, Frei-
burg, the Black Forest, and from Strasburg go
TO Cologne; after which we take the steamer
to Rotterdam, and at that old Dutch town our
party separates.
Here is the roll CALI. 4. Beal Ann Arbour
Mich; w. H. Bennett Chicago ILL.,; E. L.
Breed. Lynn, Mass; t. c. Brinsmade, Cleve-
land, O.; A c. Buttolph, Chicago. H.; G. H.
Cake, Clarkesville, No.; A. G. Collins, Boston,