Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1895-07-18
WnEELMENS' PARADISE.
The Great L. A. w. Meet at
Asbury Park, New
Jersey.
Interesting Description and
NeWs-Handsom Co.'S
tunes and Badges.
A MulattO Woman Refused 8
Place in the Parade
Left Under Protest.

Place in the Parade
Left Under Protest.
AsBURY PARK, N. j., July 10, 1885,.
The world is great circle, wheeling
through space and just at present, its
many spokes center IN Asbury Park,
which is the hub for all the wheelmen Of
the L. A. w. From the north, south,
east and west they thronged to this fair
town by the sea, until at the present
writing they are three Thousand strong
and this number will be trebled before
the week 10 over.
knowing the interest jamestown ia
taking in the wheel, with capital W,
I thought few notes might be Of inter-
est to jamestown wheelers.
Yesterday afternoon occurred the big
parade. This conslsted of the various
clubs, the captain OF each at Its head,
and its members following four abreast,
then q space and the next club IN line.
Proceeding the procession was brass
band and, as yet no attachment has
been invented for the holding Of instru-
ments while using the hands for the bar
Of the bicycle, the members rode in
vehicle having four wheels and drawn
by horses on brisk trot. But in these
horses eyes was a pathetic expression
and droop of the head said plainly
"Our day 10 over" Then came the
marshal, Capt. A. D. McCabe and three
little tots on diminut.ve wheels, two Of
whom we're girls, the other an energetic
little boy These little leaders elected
considerable applause.
The Old Massachusetts should have
had, by right, the place OF honor in the
procession, but only two OF it's members
being in line, it was gwen to the Essex
Co. club, the second oldest club IN the
league.
Then came Keystones of Plttsburg
and Keystones OF Philadelphia, and SO
on.
The procession started from Main
street, Asbury Park, and from thence to
Ocean Grove, making square through
the principal streets and back to Asbury
Park ending at the railroad square. The
streets on the line of the procession were
gaily decked with flags and orange and
black, the colors Of the Asbury Park
wheelmen.
1t was an imposing line of wheelmen
in numbers, and tho riders showed their
skill in the even ranks, which were at
one time kept at so slow pace that it
seemed the riders must dismount or lose
their balance. These clubs, as rule,
did not present the fine appearance Of
the riders I am used 10 seeing in the
parks of New. York and Brooklyn. Their
costumes were anything and everything
and showed evidence of use. The Den
YER club was an exception to this and
appeared in spotless white duck suits.
The ladies were we'll represented in this
club and added much to the tout en- SEM
BILE and probably were responsible in
great part for the loud applause that
greeted the Denver club along the route.
OF women there were many in the pro-
cession-women in skirts and women in
bloomers. A feature OF the procession
was corps of women that headed the
fourth division Mrs. l.. G. Boonton
was the leader-a middle aged woman of
merry countenance and veteran OF the
wheel. She wore dark gray bicycle
euit with ample skirt but behind her
came four women in bloomers. They
were called century riders because they
came through from Newark On Satur-
days century run.
The bloomer may be the common
sense costume but little can be said for
Its beauty as seen in the parade.
I saw two ladies who had short kind
of coat skirt over the bloomers but I
could not see either beauty OF utility in
this addition. Certainly the ladies Of
the Denver club in their tan shoes and
legeings, short white skirt, shirt waist,
white jacket and cap carried off the palm
in beauty Of costume.
The woman who has taken prize for
the finest fancy bicycle costume was not
in the PROCESSION for reasons. She is q
Miss Knox from Boston and q member
of the league for six years, but unfor-
tunately mulatto. Her coming created
great excitement and she was requested
to leave which she did under protest.
Why she did not simply say her dark
skin was due to sun burn, as the rest Of
us do, don't know, for all look black
enough after short stay on the sands.
don't understand this action in regard
to the one woman as I saw two colored