The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-04

FOR BETTER ROADS
Sound Reasons Why Wheel
men and. Horsemen
Should Join
Hands.
WITH THE BUSY BGWLERs
Match Games Rolled by Local Teams
Last Evepi1nlggnour Own
Rife Club.

The subject or s~pederoads is naturally
of vital import no fhe cause OF cycling.
Without good roads the pastime of the
wheelmen is gone, for no one cares to
jog along over 4wretchedly rough road
for the mere pleasure of balancing him
self on two wheels. Now there is one
very easy way to accomplish this END
and that is a determined effort on the
part of every owner of a bicycle to
lend his active support to the cause.
As a body, wheelmeh should be wide
awake and gather together an those
who lave this much-to-be-desired OBJ
ject at heart. and to see that the forces
are well marshaled when the time ar
rives for concerted movement.
There has been and still is, in a
measure, a kim of suspicious holding
aloof from one another of the horse
men and carriage builders on one side
and our wheelmen OF the other, which
is prejudicial to the interests of both.
The horsemen and carriage builders are
prone to believe that the great popular
ity of the bicycle is the direct cause of
the slow business tina they ave been
doing during the past two years. Now,
this is as it may be, but it is very
QOubllu IL NSSAAAS haS
horse and carriage trade to any great
degree. Business has been bad in every
branch of trade, and these people have
felt it with the rest. Cyclers. on the
other hand, are in a measure of the be-
lief that theirs Is the only sport and
that everyone will soon taboo every
other means of enjoyment save that fur
nished by the wheel. A good many
wheeimen not only believe this, but have
no hesitation in saying SO, and some ILL
advised ones talk so much about 1t and
run down riding and driving to such an
extent that they hav aroused consider
able ~antagonism to the sport of cycling.
= If the cycler, the carriage builder and
the horseman would only take time to
look into the matter, they would see at
once that all three of them would be
benefited by coming into close relation-
ship with one another, and thai If all,
and thai means every individual of each
class, would join hands in one great
and energetic movement for the better
ing of our road and highway systems,
the cause of all can be materially adj
vanced. 1t does not need the assist
ance of a powerful lens to read the
tokens of promise that the advent of
such a movement would proclaim.
BY a strang turn out by all these
classes at the primaries. they could easily
control the nomination of men who were
pledged to he advancement of a first
class highway system in the State, and
by an equally strong turnout to the polls
on election day these men could be sent
to the Legislature and success assured
as far as this department of common
interest is involved. As far as horsemen
- Il 11l +6af~ oifn1 fntor
ests are concerned, there can be no diff
Guilty in seeing the advantage that would
accrue to them in joining forces with
the wheelmen in this object. They can
not but know that there are hundreds,
even thousands. of those to whom a ride
or a drive would be of the greatest pleas
ure were it not for the same elements
which face the cyeIer who ventures out
upon our country or our suburban roads.
The cycler fears a broken wheel or an
ugly fail, from some treacherous bit of
average person, man or woman, does
not care to take the risk of having a
broken wagon, q lame horse, or a frac-
tured skull, the result of an afternoons
outing. ss4uss 20
Colonel Pope says that with good roads
an almost incredible extent. This is
absolutely true, also of these other lines
of business; There are today hundreds
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horses and carriages We're 1T not that
the use of both are limited to a very
meagre allowance Of available Highway
rtage has been driven to the country by
the trolley car, as has the wheel in a
deg County, ARd hat Il is ss ofnly aa By t ESing 9aS ie eno
joyable riding is to be obtained, and even
his is not satisfactory, on account OF
beds. Only the most %strenuous efforts on
the part of everyone will ever bring
about the one great and crying need and
the ones who are most interested in this
progressive movement are the horsemen,
the carriage builders and the wheelmen.
WheeImen to Play Euchre.
The second Of the series Of progress
sive euchr wb parties arrang &c be BY t the
Hall. Greenville. Immediately after the
bie ! uhe ca sdo't and a accomplish piHGen the
purpose for which they are held. namely
to keep the members interested during
nifty to enjoy the sport of cycling. Prizes
are donated by the members and the
games are replete with brilliant playing.
some slippers, is donated by Mr.. John
Walbrecht: During the playing refresh
ments will be served.
The New Macadam Road.
The work of matchmaking Garfield
avenue is progressing at a slow rate. the
section from Danforth avenue to Ave
nue. D being the only portion completed.
That the road will hardly come up to the
expectations of the wheelmen was demon
strated on Monday after the heavy rain
fail. Arlington avenue, which is now
completed, was covered with a layer of
grey mud, through which it would nave
been impossible to ride a wheel. The
presence of mud Is due to the earth and
pulverized stone which have been used
as a binder for the broken stone.
Official Vote of New Jersey L.. A.. w.
The returning board of the New Jersey
division of the League of American
Wheelmen met to anvas the vote for
the election of officers for the year be-
ginning with December. |, 1895, n end
Ing December /, 1896, in Trenton. The
following is the result of the election. ac-
cording to the official announcement
chief Consul, Robert Gentle. Elizabeth;
Vice Consul, C. Frank Kireker. Pater-
son: Secretary-Treasprer James G.
Tattersail, Trenton; REPRESENTATIVES. ..
Bacher. Englewood: d. A. ]. Wright,
Montclair; E. H. Smith, Jersey City; Z.
q. Salmon, Hackettstown; james g.
Lee. n C. Es Feel, Plainfeld; w.
S. Fighter, Newarks r B.1Lovell, Moores-
town; Dr.. H. Iredefl. New Brunswick;
Dir. H. Jackson Salem; w. 7. Brown,
Madison. Chief CensHlo Gentle n Sec
rctary-Treasurer Tattersall were unani-
nnously reelected; The returning board
was composed of Frederick g. Weise,