The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-18
NOTES ON WHEELS
Club Will Inaugurate a Novel
Road Race on New Years.
Movements of q Smooth" Bicycle Thief Now
in the Tolls of the Red-Eyed Law
Personal Matters.

The Zig-zag Club proposes to hold a run
on New Years eve. which will not only be
a novelty In the way of road races, but an
original way of watching the old year out
and the new one IN. Tie entries TO il. as
arrangements are now, will leave the club
house on North Pennsylvania street at IL
o'clock of the Saturday night before the
New Year. and, after completing the
round trip to Broad Ripple. the first man
to land at the clubhouse steps in 1893 will
be declared the winner. and receive the
prize which will be offered between now
and then. 1t Is not to be declared off on
account of weather or condition Of roads,
and that mystic moment which divides one
year from another will dou btless be passed
by many of the contestants while hub-deep
In mud or snow, or perhaps stalled. The
course is eighteen miles In length, and lie
will be a lard road TO travel by the
light of wintry stars. and q moon that has
not yet risen. A banquet will be spread in
the club parlors on the return from this
nocturnal tour, and daylight of 1913 will see
the tourists vending their way homeward.
Thomas Hay. of Hay & wilietts. was
good friends with his bed last week. Cold.
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Harry Hearsey, Will Of. Herman Wine
berger aud Harry Chase returned from a
hunting trip of six days in Tipton county.
Friday. They came home as conquerers
come.l minus ammunition and traces of
civilization and plus heavy. heavy game
bags. The latter shot full on their 0aths.
They were to nave spent the time at q
farmhouse near jackson. but on the Sec
ond day OF their stay 1t was burned To the
ground. Several of the hunters gradn-
ated from the head of the hero class in
saurpn tha family hRirl0nmA faafhpr- haha
and other fixtures of the place. They
lived In "A hut like primeval mound builders
from that Oh. e.
George Collister, who is known to the BIZ
cycle fraternity from one coast to the other
as "Red-headed George" spent several days
in the city last week. He 10 q member of
the J.. A. w. racing board. and represents
the Wenton Cycle Company, of Cleveland.
L. NJ. Wainwright is in the East for the
Central Cycle Company.
The local detectives arrested Arthur
Hoffman last week and charged HIM with
the theft of q bicycle. To quote his own
language, he said: Pm only went years
old. but Pm pretty slick.u The bicycle
was taken from W.. T. Barnes, of the In
diana Bicycle Company. and a few weeks
later n travelling man, employed by that
OhhFaht ce" Oh ~ oOpOb
platform at Nashville, as he was passing
through. and identified IL Hoffman had
disposed of t TO a man there.
He also purchased a machin from Minor
a. Hunter early last spring. on which he
made but one small payment. and they
have been looking for 1t all summer. The
detectives at last located it 81 the home of
the boys parents near Nora.
The Ziz-zag Club wiilput in an electrical
attachment to its piano.
She had bells on her fingers and bells on her
toes.
And now she'll have music wherever she goes.
L. J. Ryan, representing the Hubbard,
Spencer * Bartlett Company. of Chicago,
was showing his wares In town last week.
There was q meeting at the Zig-zag Club
last night for the purpose of organizing
among its members a secret society to pro-
mote it's social feature. When organized,
TO become n member of il will entail the
going through of an initia toni A w arranted
TO blCndine the BLACKLIST head of hair and
TO excel Dante's inferno. Such organize
tions are in existence in many of the prom
inent clubs OF the country and they are "a
tie that binds.n