The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-07
LONG TRIP AWHEEL
The GreenVil1e Wheelmen
Will Hold a Club Run
To Philadelphia and
Return.
A YEAR OF TRACK ATHLETICS
The Sport Will Receive the Biggest
Kind of a Boom Next Fall
Diamond Chips.

Tho Greenyille Wheelmen, although
small in numbers compared with
+ho other cycling organizations OF
the city, are as enthusiastic
lot of evclers as can be found anywhere,
and as an organization they are as ac-
tive. if not more so. than many IKE Or
psnizations. The club was
eight years ago, when cycling was prac-
tically in its infancy, by a number OF
Young men who rode the good old ordln-
airy. When the present safety was
placed on the market and new riders APP
peared every day, the club doubled It's
membership in a very short llfle.
Weekly runs were introduced, and they
have been a feature ever since. although
there are numerous fast riders IN the
club scorching in club runs is not en-
couraged. the members believing that
club runs should promote soclaplhty
among the members. With this
end in view the club arranges
occasional trips which takes up
three and sometimes four Gays.
The last trip was to New Haven and re-
turn. and every one who participated
voted it a most enjoyable affair. me
next trip will be to Philadelphia re-
turn, and it has been so arranged that
those who participate will not be COM
nered TO stay away from business more
h half a day. The dates selected are
SATURDAY.. September 1, and Monday, Sep
TENDER . (Labor Day.. The start Will De
made at six O'Clock Saturday morning
from the clubhouse on Ocean avenue.
The $50 train from Bergen Point Will
carry the party to Elizabeth where the
trip will be resumed. The route will be
over the fine macadam roads of Union
county through to Plainfield.N New Bruins
wick n Princeton. The schedule calls
for arrival at Trenton at half-past twelve
o'clock. Dinner will be taken there at
the famous Legislators resort.the Amer
lean House. A rest will be taken until
two o'clock. The remaining miles VIII
be covered in good time. The party ar
irving at Philadelphia at six O'Clock.
The Bingham House at Market anu
Eleventh streets will be the headquar-
tiers. On Sunday morning paramount
Park will be visited. and no point OF IN
terest will be neglected. At half-past
two the return trip will be i-naugurated,
and Trenton will be the destination.
Here the party will stop over night, leaV-
ing at eight O'Clock the next morning.
New Brunswick will be reached at noon,
and dinner will be served at the CITY
Hotel. Two hours later the journey
will be resumed. inc Elizabeth should
be reached at five o'clock. BY seven
O'Clock all will be at home. The last
davis trip will be an easy one, and no
one need fear that he cannot make the
entire journey.
A bicycle tire that will mend itself
when it receives g. puncture, is the nat
est wrinkle. The bicycling News
gives the following description of the
way this wonderful tire is made. and it
does sound quite reasonable
First of all, we may say That TINS
new air chamber is not brought for
ward as a monopoly, but is applicable
to any existing form of pneumatic tire
where an inner tube is used. and. there
fore. old machines as well as new ones
can be so fitted up. The principle OF
construction is very simple, and yet ex-
trenely ingenious. The rubber OF Wnich
the air chamber is composed is drawn
on to a mandrill and then stretched to
double its width and double its length,
and when in this state of tension, a sec
ond band or thin rubber is solutionized
over the expanded tube. In this condi-
ton 1T is allowed to remain for some
ltnG Qlllll luOIOQSLiy 0oAo NNSAt
when dry, the tube Is gradually released
from the tension until it regains its nor
NAL dimensions. and is then turned in
side out, so that the s~oIutionized band is
Immediately under the tread of the tire.
Thus it will be readily understood that
that portion of the tire, or, rather, air
chamber. which stands out of the rim
and presents itself to the encasing sur
face, is in a state of transverse COM
preston. the strain of the opposing
forces being so great that When the
tube Is punctured the rubber automati-
eally closes up the wound ana prevents
any escape of air. We have had one of
these tubes in our possession for some
weeks, and though 1t has been pierced
in scores of places with pins, nails, pen
knives and various other instruments
of torture to pneumatic tires, the air
chamber is as hard as the first day it
was blown up. Tt may, perhaps, be
imagined from the foregoing description
that a considerable amount of weight is
not so. the increase being not more
claimed that by the adoption of the pat
emit ~self-healing air chamber, an outer
covering of lighter material can be used
with perfect safety, and, moreover, the
resiliency of the tire is in no way des-
troyed. This is another very great
point in its favor, and an advantage
which no other so-called. self-closing or
puncture-proof tire has been able to
present.
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