The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-03-25
WOMEN Who spin.
But the Wheel They Use
Is the Gay and Rapid
Cycle.
JERSEY CTTY'S NEW CLUB.
Miss Collerd is the Heroine--A Love
of q Uniform-Personal
Points.
JERSEY CTTY'S NEW CLUB.


Is, ecialIy ~,cyitten for the Jerseg city Ne'cs.)
Praise be to common sense, Jersey CITY
at last las a cycling club for womenl
At last those far. sighted women who de-
cided that bicycling was the ideal sport
for them as well as their brothers, and
proceeded to enjoy it in spite of brothers
who jeered, female friends who sneered
and crowds of urchins VINO cheered-
these women of sense can take club runs.
aud wear silver initials on their caps.
Verify the world do move. and,if you give
ir time enough, will manage to drag along
Jersey City. Brooklyn has had a club OF
sixty for more han a year. New York
has five hundred uniformed Indy riders.
and in Washington the women who do
not belong to cycle clubs are the excep-
lions.
The idea of the Jersey City Club origin
ated with Mrs. Frank Eveland and Miss
Agnes Collerd. On the fifth of this month,
as already announced in The JERSEY
CITY NEWS. postals were sent in the name
of these ladies, to twenty-seven lady
riders of this city, asking that all inter
ested in the formation of a bicycling club
for women would meet at the residence
of Mrs. Bryce ColIerd. No. IS Clinton
avenue, aud discuss methods of organi-
cation. Prompt replies were received
from tweuty-one of thetwenty-seven, aud
an enthusiastic meeting was held last
Monday afternoon. The name or the
society was announced as The Bergen
Lady Cyclers." Miss Agnes Collerd was
chosen temporary chairman, and Mrs.
Du Mond treasurer. The club uniform
is to be dark blue in color. a impie gown
with no extra furDelows Co catch the
wind, and q pretty cap with the letters 3
L. G.. in silver. With this are to be worn
gauntlet gloves of white kid. The club
colors are dark blu and orange. The
club yell has not yet been announced
let us rope it will not remind one so much
of a very small cur as the MARBLE OF
their brother wheelrnen.
ENTHUSIASTIC-OH. MYf
The club is fortunate in numbering
among its charter members so many
young ladies whose enthusiasm Is
equalled by their perseverance,. The
first lesson every cyclist has to learn is
that safeties prefer to lie fat. and when
in that position they do not travel
rapidly. The envious spectator who sees
some wheelwoman going bumpety-
bump over our cobble stones. little thinks
how hard it was to battle the force of
gravitation and keep the machine right
I SIGe uO, A0UiC Ahd
ever had any such difficulty is a mystery
certainly not to be solved by watching
her now. TO see her gliding along, mile
after mile on a smooth country road.
rather shakes ones idea that she ever
had the usual preliminary bumps and
tumbles.
Among athletic young ladies of this
city. Miss Agnes Collerd easily takes first
place. In the opinion of competent
JUDGES. no one in the vicinity can rank
vita her in tennis. in fact. men of undis-
puted authority in the art pay her that
chief of compliments, so CALLING to the
feminine heart. She plays as well as q
man." 1t was to be supposed that a
young lady of as excellent Judgment
would become enthusiastic on the sub
ject of cycling and take first rank in this
department. as we'll. Miss Collerd is the
embodied opposite of the fragile. flaccid
type of womanhood which pro-
fessional humorists delight to label
tine modern American girl" For
example:-She recently god In a tri-
fiug spin to Bound Brook and return,
eighty miles IN all, and dismounted from
her wheel will as elastic a step as though
she had merely taken u turn around the
block. Miss Collerd comes of u family
whose womankind are not less noted for
good sense than good taste. Mrs. Bryce
Collerd is as devoted to the wheel as her
daughters. and Miss Ma,nie Collerd was
an expert cycler until prevented by a re-
cent serious illness. There are two fine
wheels In this house, and seldom does a
day pass without both In use.
CHARTER MEMBERS.
Among the other charter members are:
Miss Belle Newkirk. who, now that the
skating season is over, enjoys cycling in
stead; Miss Clara Dear. Miss Edith Col
lerd, Miss Hughes. the Misses Kennedy,
Mrs. Newcomb, Miss Sargent. the Misses
Koch. Miss Philbrook, Miss Kesser. Miss
II -..- AxAI,4 A4taa ~ l1An
Frank Eveland. Mrs. Bryce Collerd, the
Misses Smith and Miss Clara Tuttle. The
greater number of these ladies were pu-
pills of Mr.. Frank Eveland. and use the
machine which he recommends, u no
particular wheel has been adopted by the
club.
1t is the desire Of the founders that the
club include all ladies of Jersey City
who enjoy the sport and to that end u
general invitation is issued to all wheel
women of The city TO enroll their
The next meeting will be held on Thurs
day. March 81, at the same place. Dues
are, for the present.. twenty-five cents a
month, and no initiation fee is as yet re-
quired. AT this meeting the first election
OF officers will be held, u constitution
adopted and many important details ar
ranged, such as fixing time and place of
meeting.
The OBSERVING person need not be told
that the club has not taken any runs as
yet. But many Of the members have pre-
viously enjoyed runs in practice of four
or five, anu even as late az Elsction Day
INDUCED in a protracted spin. The most
satisfactory way has been found to be
reached by taking q train to Newark or
some town outside our borders, and set
ting out from this point over the excel
lent roads which are the rule, thu
omittiug the jouncing over pavements.
The D trty generally stops for dinner at
some previously scheduled hotel, return
ing to the train by ~ different route.
Such n club as this has a work In the
world. Tue Hudson county wheelmeu
evidently think that its WORK does not
lie in the same direction as theirs, for
they have ungallantly refused to receive
the club into membership. Il fact for
which the writer is undeniably glad.
Sooner or later the two organ zaiions
will become one; meantime, il will be
vastly better for the younger club TO win
its spurs without the help of any other
society.