Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-05-01
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From All Quarters.
GREAT RELAY RACE IS ON
The Bicycle Riders are Far
|. Ahead of the Schedule.
READY FOR The FAIR OPENING.
Hundreds of Men are Work
ing Night and Day.
HARVARD TAKES 4 NEW POSITION.
She Has Arranged a Series
of Football Games.
AHEAD OF THE SCHEDULE.

AHEAD OF THE SCHEDULE.
Riders I'm the Great Relay Race From
Boston to Chicago Make Fast Time
Plougking Through the Rain and
Mud One OF tho Hartford Men is
Thrown From His Machine.
BOSTON. Mass, April 30.-Guy L. Gary
OF the Press Cycle club, and George E.
Quinn, of the Winnsimets, bsgan the BIZ
cycle relay race from Boston to Chicago,
by starting from the Office of the Boston
Post at p. m. to-day. To their care was
entrusted pouch containing a message
from Governor Russell of Massachusetts, to
Governor Altgeld of Illinois. The riders
passed up School and Beacon streets to
Coolidge corner, reaching there at 5:12, q
minute ahead of scheduled time. From
this point Eddie McDuffee and his brother,
Peter j., carried the pouch successfully to
P. ]. and James Clarke at Chestnut Hill
reservoir, reaching there at sic, q gain of
one more minute. The distance from
Chestnut hill to the Newton Lower Falls
hill was covered in thirteen minutes, a
gain of four minutes over the schedule
Here at 5:31 Hoyland Smith of New Bed
ford and Peter Gale Alexander of HYDE
Park, had a race up the hill and down into
Wellesley, reaching there at 5:42, three
minutes ahead of time.
Taking the pouch from Smith A. M.
Mugridge and E. G.. Merritt, paced by W.
L. Merritt of ''Nomad" fame, started for
Natick over the worst part of the road out
from Boston. Natick was reached at 5:51,
four minutes ahead of time-these riders
gaining one minute. The pouch was here
handed to F. W. Emerson and E. G. Beers
South birmingham.
AHEAD OF TIME
SOUTH FRAMINGHAM, Mass, April 80
The worlds fair relay riders reached South
Framing at 6:O3 p. M, gaining seven min
utes on the schedule. Wiener and Bennett
took the pouch to birmingham Centre,
where another change was made. All the
conditions were favorable to fast time,
though there was slight head wind. a
large crowd witnessed the passage of the
relays. j. L Allen timed here, George
Town at the Center
PALMER, Mass April 30-van Wagner
and Nelson left Palmer at 1915 to. night
for Springfield. They were A minutes
ahead of the scheduled time. The riders
left Worcester seven minutes behind time.
They found the roads rough, but they
reached Leicester on time and Spencer six
minutes ahead of time. The relay changed
at South Brookfeld at 9:01. At Warren
Williamson and Van Wagner took the
pouch at $3.50. The roads to Palmer were
the worst on the route, but the run was
made in 43 minutes. A large crowd had
been watching Main street for an hour,
and the cry "Here he comesl" was sent up
as Van Wagner came in sight. The Nell
sons picked up the pouch without slacken-
ing speed, and they were both out of sight
before watchers in the hotel Office could
get out of doors.
HARTFORD, Conn.,, May 1.-The first
Connecticut riders in the great relay race
met with adverse conditions In the rain
and pitohy darkness. Harry G. Tyler and
q. Hubbard left Springfield at 11:20, an
hour and seventeen minutes adead of
/ schedule time. They met the Thorn pson-
vile relay, Montgomery and Geary, at
| 1850 In pouring rain. They handed the
pouch to O. E. Stedmsn and j. @. Mitchell
| at Windsor Locks at 1887.
| These riders arrived in front of the
Hartford wheel club at LOG a M, and
| turned the pouch over to 81. B. Starkey
and B. Sealeme, who started out in a pour
ing rain for twelve mile ride to Berlin
| over slipper roads, reaching that station at
1:55. The stretch between the Locks and
Windsor was sandy and slippery, and on
the Hartford stretch there were no wheel
tracks to travel in.
A fall by Steadman was the only acct
dent. The relay left Hartford about an
hour and a half ahead of schedule time.
MERIDEN, May Nv. J. Wilcox end j.
E Brainard arrived at 2:20.
WALLINaFoRD, May 1.-Walter Barber
and William Parker arrived here at 2:45.