Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-20
PEDALlNG TOWARD GOTHAM.
Wheclmen Rushing Gen. Miles Dispatch.
Time Lost by Bad Roads.

"heclmen Rushing Gen. Miles Dispatches
Time Lost by Bad Roads.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 20.-The bicycle
riders carrying the relay message from Gen.
Miles Of Chicago to Gen. Howard of New York
reached Elyria at 1858 this morning. ". A.
Crawford and A. Neal Of Cleveland went out to
| Oberlin. met the Norwalk riders and relieved
them of the message. The roads along this
| section Of the country were well nigh i'm
passable. Little time was lost, however, between
Perrysburg and Oberlin.
From the latter point, where the fast Cleve-
land riders got hold of the dispr.ch. some Of
the lost time was gradually regained Neal
| and Crawford had very hard ride Of it, the
latter falling from his wheel three miles west of
Elyria. Neal managed to get into the town and
fell from his wheel just as he was met by II. s.
FOllansbee. who carried the message to Reed
VILE. AT the latter place +. ". Colson took the
package and delivered it to Z. J. Douplc, who
carried il to Rocky River.
A crowd Of interested people assembled
at the Wheelmens Club rooms at day.
break to witness the arrival of Messrs
Joseph Johnson and Lindsey. They took up
the message at West Cleveland. The messen-
gers should have arrived at u o'clock mid
night. but were six and half hours
behind schedule time. The roads be-
tween the third and fourth divisions
| are in a terrible condition and much of the way
| the wheclmen were compelled to dismount and
| lead their wheels through the mud. During the
night they encountered a pouring rain. but kept
| steadily on.
Whselman johnson threw the strap over his
| shoulder without delay on the arrival Of the
| messenger from the west, and with his COM
panion. Lindsey. dashed away
| At $50 IN. johnson appeared in view push
| ing his wheel to its utmost speed. Cheer after
| cheer greeted him he dashed up to the club
quarters. Ernest johnson was mounted
| and ready and without an Instant
pause threw the strap over his
for Lake View. 1t was just 5:54l< O'Clock when
he started. The pavement is in fine condition
and the run to Lake. View was quickly made,
| where the next relay was in waiting to take up
| the trip.
The course through Cleveland lay up supe-
rior street to Bond, thence over to Euclid ave-
nve. after which they took direct line to Lake
View. At Wilson avenue there was even a
larger crowd than down town, and
again cheers went up. At this
point stranger with running horse
met them, and a pretty race ensued for the
the messenger bearer. was in the lead
and the horse could not head him
although they remained almost together.
When they dashed into Lake View 1t was
GIL o'clock standard time. The four and one
half miles had been made in seventeen minutes
and two-hfths seconds. At Lake View the mes
sage was received by J. E. Ellenberger and be
dashed away TO wicklife.
Between Elyris and Cleveland twenty-siz
minutes of the lost time was made up. II. s.
| Follansbee made the remarkable record of nine
teen minutes between Elyria and Rdgevi.le,
which is a distance of SO miles.
AsHTABuLA, ONO, May 20.-Relay Riders
Turner and Harkins Of the Cleveland Bicycle
| Club arrived at Hotel James at 9:54 am. CEN
trail time. Turner carried the dispatch from
Gen. Niles and Harkins paced. Their
time from Madison, Ohio, was exactly
one hour and fifteen minutes, theil
schedule time being two hours. Both
men showed evidence Of hard riding. Harkini
lost his saddle twice and took one header en-
route, but rode in with Turner. L. H. Ban
mister of Youngstown took the message from
| Turner and was Oh half q minute ahead of A
b. Cleveland, his partner, the latter being on
watch for the arrivals at the wrong corner.