The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-26
TROT OUT YOUR BIKE
This Is the Season When
Nature and Man Join
Hands to Make I'm
provements Inn
possible.
nANLoN AND ROBINSON TO MEET
In a Finish Argument In Private
on October 1.-THE Wefers-
Donovan Match.
nANLoN AND ROBINSON TO MEET

4ld0 llAFta
of cycle enjoyment" says The
WHEEL "but times change, and wheel
men more than other people are prompt
to change with them, in fact, it is al
most a dead heat as to which can first
cross the tape of changefulness-the
wheelmen or the times. The day was
when cycling was a pastime, dependent
upon the freakiness of the barometer
ard thermometer. has long since vanish
ed. Today the man who rides full three
hundred DAYS in the year is no longer
deemed worthy of even a two-line5n notice
in his paper. In every sense of the
word cycling has become an a~fl-the-year
around enjoyment for thousands and
thousands of people. and yet, despite
this fact, there is a season when all
things seem to eliminate in making
perfect the enjoyment of the wheel.
There is a season when nature and man
have Joined hands to make no improve
ments possible in the wheelmen's en-
1oyment. That time, that perfect sea-
son, is now. For the next six weeks
the roads, the weather.. the bracing air
and the not too fervid rays of the
sun are all as though for cycling es-
pecially meant.
1.-The still. dreamy weather of mid
September. forerunner of Indian sum-
mer. has come. Clematis, purple aster
and the wild carrot are all abloom. All
this the cyclist notes as he fingers along
the suburban road, or the park drive,
enjoying to the full each mile he ira,
verses and every breath laden with the
soft, air which passes into his
lungs like mellow wine down the throat
of the bon vivant. AS on he wanders,
Estless as to where wends his way, if
he be of observant mood. he cannot but
note how every beautiful insect is afioat
in the still air. like tiny boats on a
waveless ocean. Rose tinted moths sleep
in the roadside blossoms. recalling to
him fond recollections of earlier days
when his belief in elfs and fairies was
yet mistaken. The swallows weave
their intricate flights in CLASSY air, now
seeming to seek TO lose themselves in
the smoky haze which overspreads all
the landscape, and then anon skimrning
close to the rider. as If to show him..
mortal though he be, that he has not
yet. with all his boosted machinery and
well trained muscle. been enabled to
even family approach the skill and
speed of these feathered couriers of the
air.
"Pen can but family picture the pleas
ures which in these crisp September
and October days await the wheelman.
So few and SO perfect are they tina it
seems but little short of a crime for any
one VINO can ride to rob himself of one
single days enjoyment such as this. If
there be any season when cycling is at
its best it is now. and the wise one en-
joys, it to its full, remembering that win
ter cometh. when none but mudlarks
Hr0fand IN npfnxrI oualipO -
In thanking the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners for the many ex-
cellent street improvements recently
made. the Clio Wheelmen have set an
example to the other cycling clubs of
the city. Good roads are of more direct
benefit to wheelmen than any other class
of citizens. and when our city authorities
provide good Dad the wheelmen should
show that they appreciate what is being
done for them.
The United States Military Wheelmen
will hold their first annual convention at
the Broadway Central Hotel on Tuesday,
October Is. Addresses will be made and
volunteer and regular service. The fol-
lowing topics will be discussed-"Proper
ARMS Ms1shf for q cy aiatstsy as s5eyftfI the M p i
Cyclist Avoid Military Titles?'' What
Weight of Clothing Should be Carried"
The mem6 Mraa Of the Le ! g, Of
week.
A London letter to the american Cy-
CllSI tTItiClStS Tile treatment I1dI Geo.
Banker. the American professional. re-
ceived at the recent International worlds
championships as follows:-
There IS an opinion on this SIC that
Banker was treated abominably at
Cologne. Whatever may be said or lone
now. Banker is the u%ndoubted profess
Protin,s nonsense. and all the DOGGY Of
the officials to the contrary notwith-
standing. OF the facts Of the case there
in his heat and therefore had not the
slightest right to ride In the final at all;
yet the officials allowed themselves to
was wrong to begin with. 1t is said
that Banker was fairly upset at seeing
again In the final the man who had
heat Banker had without doubt done his
best and very possibly had shot his bolt;
He was: consequently, quite unnerved
lowed to start who had no right there,
for silch an injustice would upset any
man who vas honesty ! e 81 try trying ! r to win win
when he returned to the dressing room.
There is nothing derogratory in this.
s Ell ~ eon soTs M # an esh.S SRinor of ehi a.
ishrsess. It is nothing of the kind. 1t is
the physical symptoms of a breakdown
tive physical relief; and those who think
otherwise are merely such as are only
possessed of the animal characteristics,
or who have cultivated these at the ex-
perlse of the mental. But the silly de-
cision ito run the race again ticks me.
The case is as simple q one as ever wac
seen: A man rides in the final who has
TO ignore his riding. in fact, to treat the
race lust as If he were not there?'
Arlington and Garfield %venues. when
the work of Improvement now going on
IS completed. viii give wheelmen what
they nave longed for for years-a first
class east roadway to Greenyiile On Ar
being put on. but it is not likely that the
entire roadway from Grand street to
Greenvime will be completed much before
newt year. -
II being originally brought out in Dublin.
Now a nuTcture-proof tire has been pro-
duced: IT is an ordinary air tube. and It
long as a piece Of the rubber Is not st acfz
French nails into an inflated tube with
out letting any of the air out; and then
D machine was ridden over a board
tbiek1y set with III inch nails, the tires
still remaining we'll inflated
WEFERS VS.. DONOVAN.