The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-05-15
PHOTOGRAPHERS BICYCLE TOUR.
1t Was Organized In This City BY Mr..
T. A. ElWell.

cyclers Organized BY Him-They Leave
For France the First of June-Harry
Lamson One of the Party.
On the second day of next month, the
great steamship Spaandam, of the
Netherlands line will sail from New York.
Among it's passengers will be party of
IS American bicyclists, who will con-
stitute the sixth party of European
touring wheelmen that Mr.. F. A. Elwell
of this city, has organized and will
have conducted within the past seven
years. Mr.. Elwell who was one OF the
pioneer bicyclers in this State, is the
parties of touring bicycles through
Europe. His first party, seven years ago,
mum bered nearly 80 members. They
journeyed through Ireland, England,
France, Switzerland, Germany and Hol-
land. They were received with much
hospitality and demonstration in Great
Britain and in London were bang uetted
by the great BICYCLE club there, and no
less distinguished person than the
Hon. A. j .Balfour was one of the guests
and responded to toast.
Succeeding tours have been confined to
the Continent because of the uncertainty
OF the English weather. The present
tour will begin at Boulogne on the
northern coast of France near Belgium,
where the Netherland steamers seek
landing. From there the party will pro-
coed to Paris. by way of Beauvais. the
cathedral of which has the highest
vane of any Gothic cathedral in the
world.
From Paris the route to Switzerland
will be outside the lines of ordinary
travel, and will take in the great cities
of Troy and Bezancon. Like Mr.. Ell
Wells Architectural Tour of two years
ago through France, this tour will in
olude many out-of-the-way places be-
cause it has special object. 1t is
Photographers Tour" and some OF the
most skillful photographers in the coun'
try will be among the members. Al
least 1900 photographs will be taken.
In crossing Switzerland tie "Bernese
Overland" will be traversed. A good
deal of time will be spent in the Black
Forest ofsGemany,a paradise for bicyelers
or pedestrians.
Then instead of following the Rhine
down to Frankfort, as most travellers
do, and as the previous bicycle tours
have done the party will cross the river
and travese the Rhenish Palatinate, {
little out-of-the-way province, that il
enclosed by great bend of the kline
is seldom visited by travellers and is one
of the quaintest and most picturesque
places in all Europe.
: The party will reach the Rhine al
Bingen and follow downsSo Cologne, ano
SO to Holland, which will be traverseo
from end to end.
The tour will occupy just so days
on land
One of the expert photographers of thu
party will be Mr.. Harry Lamson, OF thu
city, son of MIR. j. H. Lamson.
Another member of the party will b.
Mr.. FIR. Goodrich, of Girard, Ohio. wht
has accompanied Mr.. Elwell on twt
previous tours in '91 and 1872. He ha
always declared that tired bicycle wa
good enough for European roads, and il
in 1892 rode the only solid tire in |
party of 20 pneumatics and cushions
He had ridden the same wheel the pre-
ado IN
miles between breakfast and supper OF
it. This is fact and must convey SOM
adequateidea of the perfectionso f Europa
roads. But this year Mr.. Goodrich ha
abandoned his old "solid tiren and con
Guided that anywhere the pneumati
tire is the best thing yet in bicycling
His objections had always been that tn
apprehension and bother of puncture
more than counterbalanced the extr
comfort of pneumatic on Europe
smooth roads, But his theory has ex
ploded more completely and more perma
nently than a pneumatic tire every di,
Dr. could.
Two prizes are offered to the member
of the tour by the management for III
best collection of photograph. TIL
judge to award the prizes will be Mr.
Edward L. Wilson, the eminent photog
rapher of New York, editor of Wilson,
Photographic Magazine and world
wide traveller, whose photographs an
articles have appeared in many of on
leading magazines The prizes will b
300 and $50