Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-08
THE RELAY RACE ENDS.
From Chicago to New York Tn
 63 Hours and B Minutes.
PREVIOUS RECORDS ALL SMASHED.

Bicycle Riders Took Messages Over the Course at RattIing Pace and Finished This Morning, After Beating the Record of IO5 Hours by a Fig Margin.
 NEW YORK, June S.-Tke great relay bicycle race of the rod and the blue bc. tween Chicago and this city was finished at :56 o'clock this morning. The actual time of the race was 63 hours and 63 min, utos.
 The last relay should have reached the finishing point at Sixtieth street and the Western Boulevard at o'clock this morn ing. Arriving when they did, they broke all American records for relay race.
 The great race. which had its start at Chicago at 9:SO o'clock last Monday morning, was begun after I9onths of the most careful preparation. Two years ago, just after tho first relay race between Chi. cago and this city. General Nelson A. Miles, then in ChiCago, now commanding tho eastern division of the United States army, expressed himself as being strong ly in favor of the bicycle in military life and urged that relay races be more ire quently run. Believing that the wheel would in future play an important part in military circles. he himself became a rider and has had a great deal to say about
 
 almost on the strength of his words of en- couragemcnt.
 The blue and the red colors were used in this race to distinguish the sets of riders who carried. one a dispatch from the postmaster of Chicago to the postmas. ter of this city; the other dispatch from General Wesley Merritt to General Miles. The blue riders represented the military; the red, the postal service.
 From almost tho first day of the race the riders wero ahead of the schedule hard riding between the different colors to distance one another For the most part the roads were found fair, and the route arranged was q favorable one
 4 Big Crowd at the Finish. bicycle ridsc in town who did not know that the relay riders were far ahead of time, and that they would arrive not long after midnight. At midnight there was great throng at the junction of Sixtieth street and the Boulevard, the finishing spot of the race Long before there could be any hope of the riders appearing the walters peered into the darkness, and ev- cry once in awhile a great shout of Here they come!" startled the near by residents.
 Ou hhC HAIA LII u DuhulhB CIOSc db udhu there had been posted an immense chart showing the route from Chicago, through Indiana. Ohio. Pennsylvania and Now I ork and marked with figures that illus trated tho progress of the riders.
 The race from Yunkers to the finishing point at Sixtieth street and Western Bou- levard was run in three relays.
 From YOnkers to kingsbridge the blue message was carried by F. l.. Knapp and F. L. Douko; the red by T. c. Hall and J. l. Hall.
 From kingsbIidgo tho blue message was carried by c. F. Caffcrty and Dreivo- gal. and the rcd by A. L. Undorhill and Mack. This relay ended at One Hundred and Twenty fifth street.
 From One Hundred and Twenty fifth street to SiXtieth street the blue message was carried hy w. F. Murphy and J. c. Knowles, and the rcd by l. D. Munger and Price
 General Miles was at the end of tho line to receive the message from General Wes- ley Merritt. and Mir. McMnd, the secrc- tary of Postmaster Dayton, to receive that from Pustmaster Hessing of Chicago.