The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-12
ADULL WEEK FOR CYCLES
AN UNEVENTFUL SEVEN DAYS
AMONG WaEELMEN.

Annual Meet and Dinner-A Ladies'
over the Country.
Last week was an uueventtul one in
cycling circles. There was very little out
Of the usual run. The wheelmen are pre-
pairing for their annual meet and dinner at
Thunderbolt in July. This years meet will
be a more pretentious one than last
years was The club has increased
Its membership considerably and in every
way greater interest is taken In cycling.
In connection with the wheelmen there
is already talk Of organizing ladies' club
The number of lady riders is increasing
every week, and In a short time there will
be double the number there is now. A
ladies' cycle club would do much TO increase
the interest In cycling among ladies.
While no action has yet been taken toward
securing track, the matter is being dis
cussed among wheelmen, and negotiations
will be started in short time for suitable
grounds.
A peculiar accident happened to a
bicylist and his wheel in court house square
yesterday afternoon. A young man riding
cushion tire machine lost control OF his
machine while going south on Bull street,
and it ran squarely against the iron railing
Of the square, which is nearly three feet
high. The force of the collision drove the
bicycle back about four feet when the
front wheel raised like a horse on its
launches, lunged forward and completely
cleared the railing, landing In the grass
plat, throwing the rider several feet He
landed on bis knees and escaped injury.
The bicycle was twisted little. The acci-
dent was witnessed by crowds of people,
and every one was puzzled to account for the
strange action Of the bicycle In jumping the
| railing without even touching, and at the
same time carrying the rider. 1t was cer-
tainly remarkable feat, and was one of
those things which cannot be accounted for
beyond the fact that it happened. The rider
thought he had an ordinary bicycle. but he
has about come to the conclusion that it is
flying as we'll as riding machine
Here is pointer for wheelmen Keep
| your tires pumped up hard, but the front
wheel of a safety need not be so hard as the
back one. In hot weather don't initiate quite
80 hard because the heat expands the com
| pressed air in the tire. Valves sometimes
leak through dire getting into them, and the
little water pumped in will generally
remedy the matter. Beware Of side slipping
when riding on muddy or greasy roads-go
steadily and steer straight. Don't let oil get
| injuries the rubber and solution. Always
carry repairing outfit with yOu-acoidents
to pneumatics generally happen on most in
! convenient aud unexpected occasions. AL
ways take your inflator with you.
Tho French war office has just Issued
regulations for the employment of bicyclists
in the army. The present organization pro-
! vides for the enrolling Of between 5000 and
| 00O gyrh ~ in ~
curiously enough, provided with double
armament; for, according to the regula-
| lions, they are to carry a cavalry carbine
and thirty-six cartridges on the machine,
| and a revolver and eighteen cartridges in
| their belts. Their chief use Is to be that of
messengers, and old~fasbioned grumblers
say that the first result of a general havin z
a crowd of cyclists hanging about his head
quarters will be that he will send far too
many directions to his subordinRtes.
The village Of Watsessing, N. j., is
divided on she question whether it is wicked
to ride on a bicycle on Sunday. Almost
everybody owns bicycle In that part of
New Jersey. and the Watsessing Field
Club is therefore prosperous organization.
Fur members of the club recently made a
Sunday "trip from there to Philadelphia on
their wheels and it so stirred up the village
that the Methodist minister preached a
sermon against Sunday cycling.
Fast riding on Bull and Liberty streets,
| unless stopped, is likely to result in legisla
ton against cycling. The council has beer
very lenient toward the wheelmen, and
with the exception of granting them the
privileges of the sidewalks, it has granted
! every favor that has been asked. There il
an inclination among riders to speed OF
Bull street. The practice Is daDgerou
alike to wheelmen and pedestrians, anC
ought to be stopped.
The Savannah wheelmen who spent las
Sunday In Charleston had gala time. They
were cordially received and royalty enter
tanned by the Cnarlestonians both In thu
city aud on Sulllvan's Island. A very
friendly feeling has sprung up between the
wheelmen of the two cities.
The Humber Company has built ma
chine with the G. & J. pneumatic tires
This is the first time that American tirel
have been fitted to an English wheel il
England, and the result OF the test 4
being awaited with much interest.
The bicycle has proved of great assistance
to an African missionary who started last
year for Uganda. He covered nearly hi
entire journey on it, and found the narrow
paths In the country well adapted to it.
Miss Frances e. Willard of Evansville
Ill. organizer of the Wamen's Christian
Temperance Union, has adopted the bicycle
and intends to use it daily.
New Haven. Conn. claims close to 2ot
lady cyclists.
A TELEPHONE BLOWN Up.