The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-31
A LONG TOUR ON WHEELS.
SAVANNAH BICYCLIsTs TO MAKE
A Run THROUGH THREE STATES.

They VIII Go From Washington to
New York By Easy Stages end Take
In Two Coming Meets-Heat Does
Not Deter the Savannah Cycler In
tho Lsast-Items ofInteress to Wheel
men.
G. s. Richmond, principal CT Rlchnond's
Institute, aud g. A. Gregory, city editor Of
the MORNING NEWS, left yesterday after
noon by the South Bound FOR Washington,
whence they will make 3O0-mile bicycle
tour through Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey to New York. They will arr
rive IN Washington tomorrow night and
will spend a couple or days there before
| starting on their tour. Their wheels were
shipped from here to Washington
by express. From Washington the tourists
will ride to Baltimore and then across
Maryland and through the Cumberland
mountains to Frederick and Gettysburg,
thence through Pennsylvania by the Ian
| caster turnpike TO Philadelphia; from there
by the way Of Trenton, Princeton, Orange
and Newark TO New YORK. They will
travel by easy stages an average
OF forty miles day and will
by a Savannah cyolist Mr.. Richmond is
president of the Savannah Wheelmeu, of
which MIR. Gregory is a member, and both
are members OF the League of American
WheeImen. They will take in the Asbury
Park meet next week and probably the
Staten Island cyclers' meet later on.
The roads from New York to Washington
I are among the finest in the country. Some
Of them ere pixies that were laid out cent
ury or more ago. They are as solid as
careful matchmaking for many years can
make them, and ore justly popular with
bicyclisJs. Good inns can be found at easy
stretches along this route and every day
small parties can be encountered making
the run to or from Washington. Quite
recently 200 cyclers many OF whom were
ladies, went over from the metropolis to
the national capital in three days. making
an average of 100 miles a day. When the
merits Of the route are better known among
southern oicyclists, this should bscome a
popular summer trip for them.
One Of the most graceful among the
younger lady cyclists ia Savannah, is Miss
Mabel Strachan. She has ridden wheel
but short time, but is now absolute mis-
tress Of it.
Bicycle parties are already forming in
various cities and towns Of the north and
west for extended tours of the country and
visits to the worlds fair at Chicago next
year. Many thousands OF bioyciists will
probably declare themselves independent OF
railroads and make runs of hundreds OF
miles TO the great exposition. While no ar
rangements have yet been made, IL is quite
probable that there will be perades aud races
OF the wheelmen during the course Of the
fair. Southern cyclers, with few exceptions,
will be unable, owing to poor roads, to 20
the entire distance to Chicago on their
wheels. A book. showing the points at
which good roads can be reached and the
various routes to Chicago, would probably
meet with large sale.
The hot weather Instead Of deterring the
Savannah bicyclists seems to merely add
new zest TO their sport. Even in the mid
die OF the day, when the Liberty street
pavement becomes soft aud sticky from the
effects of the heat, they do not forsake their
wheels. They claim that it is much cooler
riding on bicycle without an umbrella than
it is walking with that protection from the
sun. Later in the day, when the refreshing
hreezes are coming in from the sea, there is
general ex1dus from the city. The roads
to Thuuderbolt and Isle OF Hope are
then crowded with the wheelmen Thunder
bolt is their favorits resort, though, and
they are now classed as the best patrons OF
the fish dinners that have made that place
famous in Savannah's annals for many
years. The run is pleasantly made in from
thirty to forty-f minutes, while the best
stretch OF road, from the tollgate TO Mrs
Bannon's, is easily covered in twelve
minutes. On some nights during the past
two weeks as many as thirty wheelmen
have been counted on the bluff.