The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-07-11
The Weather Clerk Plays Sad
Havoc With the Local
Holiday.
Throngs of People Were in
Sedalia-The Bicycle
Races Postponed.
Wheelmen's Parade - The
"Smoker" Was a Corker-
Banquet at Sicher's
Last Night.

The heavy rains Yesterday playe,
sad havoc with the holiday.
The early morning was bright an,
clear aud gave promise of fine weather
throughout the day.
At about $50 o'clock, however
great black clouds began to gather
and thickeD all around the horizon
and soon the whole sky was overcast
1t was not long before the rain came
down in torrents and drove people t,
shelter. They hoped against hope
until 11:30. when there was a slight
cessation.
In the meantime the trains from
the north. south and west had brought
in hundreds of dripping excur>ionists,
many of whom dared the threatening
elements and took the cars to AssO
citation park to hear Sam Jones.
The rain ceased until two o'clock
and the bicycle parade, headed by the
Sedalia Military band in a wagon,
started from Sicher hotel, south on
Ohio street. There were over 200
lady and gentlemen riders, two abreast.
and the procession was novel, beau
tiful and inspiring one. Throngs of
spectators witnessed and cheered it
from windows. doorways, sidewalks.
balconies and every point of vantage.
Returning to Third street, the parade
passed rapidly westward to the park,
and thousands ofpeople followed them
afoot, in cars and in vehicles. Just
as the grounds. were reached it began
to rain again, the races
were declared postponed IN
til this afternoon and everybody,
sadly disappointed, hurried back.
The SKI soon cleared and the re,
mainder of the afternoon was cool and
clear, but the track was in no condi-
ton for racing.
In front of Sicher hotel a great
crowd of men and boys were after.
ward assembled to see an impromptu
battle, which took place between many
of them in the street and a
dozen or so wheelmen on the
hotel balcony. 1t was friendly
though exceedingly dangerous en-
gagement, with much Of the realism
of war itself. There was continuous
rattle of packages Of fire-crackers, and
the loud report OF large cannon
crackers which were thrown back and
forth and exploded in the midst of the
combatants. Finally, the crowd in
the streets made it So hot for the war
riors on the balcony, that they were
forced to seek shelter, but soon some
OF them ventured out again and tried
to put their friends TO flight by shoot
ing skyrockets amongst them, but the
heavy cannon crackers drove them
a second time from their position.
While il was rather thrilling dis
play, it is one whose danger TO life
and limb is too great to be INDUCED
in.
Notwithstanding the ruin wrought
by the rain, the visiting wheelmen
were royalty treated, while here, by
their brethren of the local committees.
The Smoker" at Art hall Monday
evening. was a corker.
The Se,ialia Military hand occupied
the gallery and furnished no small
amount of the amusement. A piano
stood on the platform at the other end
of the hall. at which Prof. Lenzen, of
this city. presided.
Robert Holm, chief coDsGl of Mis-
souri, division, League of American
Wheelnen. took charge .. the pro-
gramme, and began the exercises OF
the evening by introducing Mayor
Stevens, whom he called Smith, to
the intense amusement of those who
know the genial chief executive. Mr..
Stevens delivered Il very pleasant
address OF welcome, extending the
freedom of the city to the visitors and
telling them in the course of his re-
marks, that he would remit their fines
if any of them got into the calahoose.
He said hehad hurried home from San
Antonio to welcome the wheelmen,
and had seldom seen a finer body OF
young men. Mr.. Stevens said
good many other pleasant things, and
was heartily cheered at the conclusion
of his address.
Mr.. Holm then announced a chorus
by twenty male voices, and intro
duced the following young gentle
men:
First tenors-Dave Dodge, George
Hoffman, Fred Billings, Bert Leake
and Henry Leist. Second tenOrs-
George Menefee, Frank Stallard,
Will West, Dick johnson and Bob
Gray. First Bass-W. Hogg, Mint
Johns, Ernest Clark, George Edmond