The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-09
CYCLERS VERY BUSY
The Catholic Club Pedal
Pushers Will Also Have
a Race Meet.
THE HANLoN- ROBINSON FIGHT
The Hoboken Lad Reported to be
in Fine Trim-Bay Views
Bowlers.

The Catholic Club cyclers find little else
to talk about at present outside OF the
race meet which will be held at Inc
Gutenberg track on October 20. Messrs,
William Obergfell. J. G. Bigalke anu
William Brock. who compose the COM
mittee of Arrangements, are Worhihs
like beavers to make the event a sue
cess, and a big entry list is assured.
There will be but three races, a nVe
mile handicap, a one-milezseratch, ana d
two-mile handicap. The handsome prizes
that will be awarded to the winners IN
the events are causing the fast ones
to train in earnest, and close and exelt-
ing races may be looked for. The entries
will close on Thursday, october II.
The ive-mile race for the champion
ship of Hudson county, which will be
the star event of the Hudson County
wheelmen's race meet at the gluten
berg race track on Saturday, October
10, is exciting unusual interest in local
wheeling circles. Heretofore Walter
Roome of the Clos has been the undis-
puted champion of the county, but a
new claimant for county championship
honors appeared a few days ago IN
Cecil S. Hasbrouck of the Castle Point
Cyclers of Hoboken. Hesbrouck, his
friends claim, has developed remarkable
speed of late and he is backed heavily
by the Hoboken contingent as a result.
Roorne, on the other hand, is in fine
form and is riding better today than
ever. In the mind of the Roeme con-
tingent there is not the slightest DOUBT
regarding the result of the race, and IN
case the Hasbrouck supporters have any
spare cash to wager on the result there
will be more than enough Roome corn to
cover it. At all events it will be a great
race and worth going miles to see.
The bowlers of the Hudson County
Wheelmen are busy these days perfecting
themselves in the game. The club Will
be represented by a strong team in the
tournaments of the Metropolitan Asso-
citation of Cycling Clubs and the Asso-
ciated Clubs of New Jersey.
Captain Barr of the Boulevard Wheel
men is busy arranging for the run on
Election Day. which promises to be the
most enjoyable neld by the popular club.
The run Will be from Lake Hopatcong to
this city, a distance Of about sixty miles.
The boys will leave early in the morning
and ride to the d. L.. & w R. r. depot
in Hoboken, where a train will be board
ed for Lake Hopatcong, arriving there
about nine o'clock. In this way hill
climbing will be avoided, the homeward
trip being down grade all the way. Cap
tam Barr is arousing much enthusiasm
among the members and he is conadent
that at Ieast twenty-five will turn OUT
thomas Longield will represent the
Clio Wheelmen at the meeting to be held
at Woou's Hall on FRIDAY nlgnt TO Or
ganize a Jersey City bowling tourna-
Tue Cycling and Athletic
Association Will hold a series OF roac
races on Election Day.
fne use of the bicycle for the purpose
CT loeomotion and travel is SO recent
mat as yet there is little adjudication as
to the rights and liability of travellers
employing it upon the highway says
the .Detrcit Free Press. but lne tfena
wheel on a plane OF equality With otner
vehicles.
with strenuous opposition, both from Pc
destrians and agencies of the road, Inc
former c~onuending that 1t was a vehicle
and should be excluded from the side
walk, and the latter asserting that it
was an object of terror, the use of
hlch was perilous in that it frightened
horses. But by degrees this child of ad-
versify began to De recognized by the
courts and its legal status to be estab-
iished. Finally its paternity was estab-
lished and it was placed in the category
of carriages and vehicles. Although
Blackstone. Coke and other common
law jurists never experienced the sensa-
llO4l VI q CEAA Oh q bACyN4S, = OSA
to the law of the. mother country for the
earliest cases involving the law of the
The authorities almost without excep-
ton, now recognize the bicycle as a
carriage or vehicle entitled to the
rights of carriages and vehicles in gem
eraI, and no longer regard it as an oh
s~truction TO or an unreasonable use OF
the streets or roads,. but rather a new
and "germane to their principal use a
pathway" One Taylor, an EngllShnan,
was the first to take the bicycle into
court, and the case OF Taylor against
Goodwin is a leading one.
Mr.. Goodwin sprinted on a certain
road in violation of a statute making
the furious driving of a carriage upon
the highway IN offense. Upon the trial
he did not deny the allegation Of i'm
mediate speed, but commended that the
bicycle was not a carriage" and that
the word driven as ordinarily under
stood was not applicable to the bicycle,
and that the mere fact that it had
more than a wheefbarrow or roller
skates. But the court was of the opin-
ion tina t was a carriage in the full
sense of the word. and that persons rid
ing it NAV be said to drive it in the
sense that an engineer drives an engine,
although he guides as well as propeis it.
Investigation discloses American au-
In applying the established law of the
road to the wheel. probably it is not en-
titled to the dignity of a carriage. and
while there is no authority for the state
ment. It seems that the wheelman in rid
{. Ing on the road should be governed by
the immemorial usage and custom an
piicable to horsemen. It has been held
that there is no law requiring a man or
horseback to turn either to the right OF
to the left hand. He should be governed
by his notions of prudence. A horsemar
should yield the travelled track to q
vehicle where he can do so without perl
A bicyclist and a horse can pass along
a track much narrower than that re.
uuired for carriages; they also occupy
much less linear space. In both cases
the control of the traveller is more ahso.
lutte than in the case of horses attached
10 carriages. but the bicvclist cannot
he forced to ride his machine on dan.
serous ground. The cardinal rule, how.
ever. is to 'keep to the right
Summing up the law pertaining to hi
CYCLES in a general way. it may bt
I. Municipal corporations or cities arr
liable to a bicvclist for Injuries incurred
bv reason Of defective roads Il. e.. un
guarded embankment, IA deep rut. q
large stone), provided he IS not guilt,
of contributory nesligence. A. city Il
under no special ~obiigatrc1 TO wheelmen
and the defect must be such as to cause
injury to vehicles in general A bicy