The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-07
PASTORS ON WHEELS
three Clergymen Ride With
the Peoples Palace
Bicyclists.
SCOTS SPIRITED sPARRING.
Two of the Boxers We're Knocked
Out-Planked Shad Feast
Cue and Ball.
SCOTS SPIRITED SPARRING.

OF the one hundred and fifteen members
of the bicycle school of the Peoples Palace,
a large number, with friends, assembled
en- Saturday afternoon in the Assembly
Hall, where they started on their first trip,
their destination Icing Bergen Point. The
young ladies did not feel prepared for so
long a journey, but they gathered at the
hall to cheer the young men off. AT three
o'clock Rev. J. Lester Wells, secretary of
the palace, appointed John Gardner captain
in place of John Bender, who could not join
the party until later. The lieutenants were
Alfred Steele, John L. Sperry, Frank Nc
Cullough, Charles Peckham and Fred
Smith. As the procession formed, with
Rev. Mr.. Wells at the head, Rev. Edwin
McMinn and Rev. Theo Heisig, with their
wheels, entered the line, amid the delight OF
the young. men.
feet apart in the line on the north side OF
Grand street. At the command they all
mounted, and with flying colors, red and
white, the roadsters moved up Grand street
to the corner OF Bramhall and Ocean ave-
nues, where another large number We're
waiting to join the tourists. After the
colors were distributed by Rev. Mr.. Wells,
the pageant started with rapid speed, and
where the road was bread, especially
on Avenue D, they rode in double lines
and in groups. The wheelmen reached
Bergen Point at half-past four 2. M. and
repaired to the ice cream parlors where the
Rev. Mr.. Wells treated the party IN the
name of the Peoples Palace. Before they
mounted for home a vote of thanks was ex-
tended and three cheers given for the Peo-
pes Palace. Mr.. George Brown of the
Brown-Van Anglen Co.. Joined the party at
Rayonne and was introduced by the Rev.
MIR. Wells as an expert wheelman who a
travelled extensively ON the bicycle and was
well acquainted with interesting trips. Mr..
Brown responded in a pleasing manner and
kindly offered whatever infoT nation he had
for the pleasure OF the young men of the
Peoples Palace. The names OF some who
were in the line were:-Alfred Steele. Chas.
Peckham, George Coomb, Ralph FarrIer,
Stanley Mcintosh, John [. Sperry, Rev. Ed
win MacMinn, Rev. T. Heisig, Seth Sprague,
Victor GLENN, Fred Smith, ]. H. Couen-
hoven, John O. Grice, CIV. A.Walsh, Frank
L. Mccullough, Ed. Van Winkle, H. c..
Glover, Alex Smith, R.W. Harrison, Eugene
Batchlor, Ernst Bentell, E. Tilden, A. B,
Fisher, c. Deney, Henry Solomon, Ed. 8.
Ward, Fl. G.. Kohlfs, Alfred Bldweil, Chas.
Eye and others.
The tourists arrived at Bramhall avenue
at six o'clock. The Rev. Mr.. Wells au-
nounced that next Saturday the run would
be to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and that the
party would take the half-past one Annex
beat. Tn young men then separated, much
eiated over their first trip.
The Catholic Club Cyclers had a run yes
teriay to New Dorp, ST. The attendance
was not as large as the captain expected.
TIE majority Of the wheelmen took a run
after dinner.
Several OF the Jersey City Athletic Clubs
wheelmen drove their bikes to Orange yes
terday and had a pleasant run,
a score OF Hudson County Wheelmen went
to Piainfield yesterday and returned in time
for tea.
A dozen Palma Wheelmen were out yes
terday afternoon. No club run was
scheduled.
The Castle Point Cyclers had a big turnout
yesterday. They took a trip to the River
side Drive.