The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-22
WOMEN ON WHEELS
Jersey Ones Who Are Equal
to Emergencies of
the Road.
WHAT SOME OF THEM WEAR
Questions of Right Of Way
Local Society Gossip.

That New Jersey wheelwomen can
mend a wheel in an mergency Is shoWn
by an incident which occurred in one OF
othe bicycle shops here where wheels are
rented. A lady returned a wheel which
she had hired and bowed with pride
the heat way in which she had mended
a punctured tire. AS usual, not having
the tire tape or proper tools, she had
made the best of a bad situation, and
tearing off the top of her glove, had bound
it neatly and tightly over the puncture,
buttoning it neatly on the inside OF the
rim.
In a conversation recently where a
number of men were discussing the
foibles of their sister bicyclists, one was
heard to say, 81 met a girl the other day
sitting by the roadside On the way to
Yonkers, the very picture of despair. Her
face bore traces of recent tears and upon
observing her wheel standing beside her
with a punctured tire, the cause OF her
grief was not hard to imagine. l prof
fered my services, which were promptly
accepted. She told me finally that she
had forgotten the pump and the fixings,
designed for just such an emergency. 1
happened later to get a glimpse of her
so-called tool bag, and what do you think
it contained?' No one ventured a sug-
gestion. well, gentlemen. it had a bot
tie of smelling salts, a cute little saehet
bag, a bonbonniere box, a tiny bit of a
mirror and a broken cent"
WOMAN'S RIGHT OF WAY.
Another just cause for complaint Is
that a woman will almost invariably pay
no attention to the strict rule keep to
the right" If when. she sees a man com
ing towards her she notices that her
side is even and smooth and his has, per,
haps, a puddle, she will calmly ring her
bell and proceed straight along her. way,
allows the man, or perhaps a hundred Of
them, the number makes no difference,
to turn from the course. to which he has
the right, into the puddle. Even If there
is no puddle to steer clear OF, she will,
quite invariably, remain in the course
she has marked out.
Now, If all these statements are true.
and most of them seem only too true,
women have many faults to correct be-
fore the next bicycling season. 1t is
now getting almost too cold to venture
out; only one man was seen at the ger-
gen end of the Boulevard Yesterday. But
during the winter there Will pe a good
lax in their duties to the tool bag to be-
come proficient In the art of caring for
a bicycle, and next season astonish the
their bicycles, instead of, While waiting
fer a good humored passerby, sitting by
the roadside weeping.
a list of the Jersey City women who ride
and the costumes they wore. A supple
mentar Wolff lIst FhgR Rrcycnrsrs.
Mrs. J, Ailaire, long blue skirt trimmed
tam o'ghanter Mrs; pr simmons, mixed
ter; Miss Edith Lindsay, steel colored
suit, short skirt, Jacket, cap. Miss EN-
ma Row la ID. , longT bla S|ss akir csn. p Miss
trimmed with white, white tam o'shan-
Jacket, white tam o'shanter; Mrs. Geo.
Bumsted.. short light brown skirt, tan
leggins. brown Jacket, tam o~'shanter;
skirt, brown Jacket. tan leggins; Miss
Elizabeth vreeland. black suit: Miss De
Huff. black suit; Miss Ann White, long
t ssre MIS- Mrs. 01 W. W. w. Nc Nich Sise ' slack ( suit,
sometimes gray suit; Mrs. Geo. Record,
short black skirt, coat. cap; Mrs. Charles
black suit: Miss Anna Parker, short brown
mixed skirt, coat, dark brown cap; Mrs.
Norman b i. Smith, n thit black Mils snpi;s mrs MRS.
hat: MISS issf stone. Black suit; Miss Amelia
3; My s5orf gr skjrt su Norf miIs ja mlpeae Aipines
hat. Mrs. Wooley, short black skirt, red
sweater. black caaTp: Mrs. Harry arr T. L1 Ssl,s
Anna Thompson, brown suit; Miss Alice
Pierson. long gray skirt, Jacket, tam
Mrs. John Headden. third, light gray
suit; Miss George Moore. brown suit:
Miss Agnes Westervelt; brown suit; Miss
blue suit; Mrs. Myron J. Furst, black
suit; Mrs. Van v. Mersereau, short gray
skirt. Jacket. cap. sometimes tan cor
duroy suit; Mrs. a. E. Dickinson, blue
suit; Mrs. Doubleday. long black skirt,
Jacket. black hat: Miss Bessie Faulks,