Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-09
THE ASBURY PARK MEET
Thousands of Wheelrnen Are
 Gathering at the Seashore.
LOTS OF BLooMER GIRLS THERE.

AO1O OE D1OUMhh 01hL0 Iubh6s The Cyclists Have Full Possession of the
 Town and Are Enjoying It-Racing Men
 Arc Preparing For the Contests on
 Thursday.
 AsBURY PARK, N. J., July 0.-Asbury is wheel, and legs are trumps. Four thou sand cyclists have already arrived. and they are still f1ocking in on every train. For once Asbury Park horses are eating their oats in peace. They will not be need ed until next week. Bloomer clad beauty is epidemic. It flashes by with pink cheeks and flutterinG garments on the avenues, in the bypaths and everywhere but the celebrated board walk, sacred to the bag BY bathing suit
 If the present meeting is not the most successful of it's kind ever held in the Unit ed States, all indications fail. By Wednes- day it is expected that 10, GOO cyclists will capture the town. There is terrific amount of mild excitement as it is. What the village will do when the entire army of wheelmen arrives can only be conjec- tured. The town is decorated with flags or bunting, like man of war on parade.
 Welcome" signs are stretched across every street, but they are not necessary.
  brush the dust of travel from their per sons than they are scooting along the ave- nues in scurrying shoals like moss bun kers in the lower bay.
 All Kinds of Riders.
 It is queer sight to sit on the hotel piazzas, as many thousands do, and watch them go by. There are gray riders, brown and blue riders and even yellow. AS for stockings, well, if man in full possession of his faculties should swallow two or three barber poles and half dozen checker boards, he might dream of a variety as great and as gaudy, but it is doubtful. Some of the boys have got golf mixed up with their wheels, but that is all right when you come to think of it. According to a canny old Scot, golf is a game where ''you knocks q ball to the deil and then runs awfter it.'' Going to the dcil on a wheel is much better than walking; at least Asbury Park seems to think so.
 "This is the culmination of tho bicycle craze, and I'm glad of it," said a gray haired old chap on the board walk during the evening. I venture to make q counter prophecy that it is only the beginning. This vast blowout will simply prove to be the years crcsccndo so far as wheeling goes. There is no possible doubt that the wheelists are as full of enthusiasm as of music.
 Founder Bradley has donated the use of his bathing pavilions to the cyclists during the week free of charge. Already the kicking and splashing out in front of the board walk is something tremendous. The clubhouse of the Asbury wheelmcn was a sort of Mecca during tho day, where everybody registered and received his priv ilege ticket. Over 800 of these were dis tributed during the day. Philadelphia is well represented in tho Century wheel men, 500 strong. They are stopping at the Ocean hotel.
 Racing Men Are There. It must be borne in mind that this meeting is a peculiarly Asbury Park af- fair, particularly on Sunday. A young cy- clist from the west, who was not up to snuff, attempted to ride over the bridge into the grove on Sunday. He met his l doom in the shape of an Ocean Grove con stable, who chased him back across the bridge so fast that those who timed him say he broke the record for the distance. While the meek and lonely cycliSt, who is only out for pleasure is taking in the sights and enjoying himself generally, the blue blOOds of the track are spinning around the big oval at tho grounds get ting themselves in condition for the seri- ous work of Thursday.
 Here are some of the flyers who were out today: Zimmerman, Bald, Charley Murphy, Macdonald, Stcnson, Mullikcn, Ruppert Grosch, Dirnberger, Tony John son. Titus, Sims l.. c. and k. C. Johnson, Callahan, Brandt and Royce.
 It is n noticeable fact that the wheel men who arrive by rail look fresh and live ly compared to those who roll in from thoir century runs. The latter, in many cases, have allowed pride to get the upper hand and have hung to their wheels when they should have knocked off and taken a train. Thirteen members of the Clifton Wheeling club of Baltimore arrived. They started on their wheels, but very scnsibly gave it up and finished their journey by rail.