The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-08
PUSHING THE PEDAL
Interesting Items from the
Various Local Wheeling
Organizations.
ACTIVE A. c. KNOCKED OUT
Chief Mcneil Prevented the Carry
ing Out of Last Nights Pro-
g%ramme-A. A. B. U.
Disbanded.

1nS SaSle 1Olul SyCiSlS
find rafting off wheels al easy way 70
swell the clubs treasury. The Wheei
Committee, of which w. j. Curtis Is
chairman has selected 3 wheel to be
raffled at the club house on Wednesday
evening November 6. The bike is a
model 40 Columbia. Should a lady WIN
the prize it will be exchanged Tor a
ladies' safety. The members are now
deeply interested in bowling and tour
clubs have been organized. Frank VII
lig holds the honors TO date with the
score of 200. f. W.. Mittelsdorf is next
in line with 179. Treasurer Horace L.
Bates has Just returned home from a
business trip through the West. he
was absent four months. Lieutenant
F. w. Mittelsdorf reports only one ae-
cident for the last century run. Whlld
riding through West Orange Carl Lang
punctured the tire of his wheel, but was
able to repair same in a few MINUTES
and finished with his eliminates.
The Boulevard Wheelmen will nave
as guests next Sunday the YorkVlie
Wheelmen of New York. The York
VILE boys are anxious to inspect the
new County Road and the Boulevard
Wheelmen will meet them at the wee
hawken ferry and escort them over the
road to Bergen Point. The party VIII
partake of a inner at mbuste Hotei'
Greenville and in the afternoon there
will be another trip over the County
Road. The Boulevard Wheelmen Will
compIete the arrangements for entertain
ing their guests at the meeting 'on
Friday evening.
The Clio Wheelmen have perfected ar
rangements for the invitation reception
which will be held at their ~adquarte
in Crescent Hall tomorrow evening.
The event promises to be a big affair.
The Greenville Wheelmen will meet
this evening at the M~inkakwa CluD
house to arrange for a club run on sun
day.
A handsome banner will be presented
to the club which has the greatest num-
Der of survivors in the century run OF the
Riverside Wheelmen next Sunday. me
destination of the run has been cnangea
from New Brunswick to PaIcnogue,
because of the better chance Tor fast
riding and the superior condltlon OF Ine
roads. 1t is expected that the fast div
ision. which Will start at nine O'Clock
from Jamaica. two hours later than the
slow pack, will cover the one hundred
miles in less than seven hours; Exper-
fenced pacemakers will have charge OF
both divisions. Entry blank and inform
alton can be obtained from James M
Gentle. No. 232 West 10Th street. New
York.
The following article from .The
W Mnedr naN who 10 think they have mastered
the problem of the pleasure possibilities
of the machine
ssCycling has, in the food of it's new
deyotees, become burdened with more
than a fair proportion of the half-baked
variety, whose knowledge of the plea
ride is of the limited, most limited. One
would think when a man was prepared
to spend a hundred dollars for almost
anything, he would carefully investigate
the article to be purchased before he
bought it, and afterwards would still
more carefully study its possibilities.
a great number of riders. They buy a
wheel without any thought of whether
it is suitable for their needs. they mount
it regardless of the proper adjustment of
saddle, handle bars or cranks, and then
ride it with no more atten ton to its care
than they would give, to the running
gear of a trolley car which carries them
TO and from business.
'What do such people know Of the
possibilities of the wheel?. Nothing.
They ride over the same park roads or
asphalt boulevards week in and week
out, they stop at the same resorts SO
often that even the walters know what
exertion of doing SO by serving it unor-
dered. To such riders cycling is but a
modern successor to the blind horse IN
the mill. who forever goes round and
round, regardless and careless of what
happens outside of the narrow circle his
feet have worn in the earth which IN the
end must receive into its kindly bosom
ali that remains of the patient plodder.
Cycling is to the ~half-baked contingent
a kind Of machine which must be pro
to the starting point, and the whole thing
repeated ad infinitum., This may be
many things, but one thing it is not, and
that one Is legitimate cycling.
9Th true cyclist must have something
A~lexander-like in his make-up-he must
be constantly seeking for new WORLDS "a
vestigate and decline to leave well
enough alone. No road must to him be
so perfect that no new road should be
sought for, no wheel so good that, per-
haps. a bett one for his purpose could not
be found, no arrangement of his machine
made more so. Progress is the first prin-
cipIe of cyling. Had the world been con-
tent with pedestrian locomotion OF make
shift aids thereto by means of the brute,
we should today have no railways, bicy-
Giles or electric cars. The explorer and
the investigator should both be embodied
in the makeup of the wheelman. Elm
mate either or both and the residue is
a something valueleSS to any one, its
owners most of all.
"Be as thorough in your cycling as You
find it profitable and wise to be in your
business. Know full well you and
the machine you bestride can do and
and well all in them that exists: Don't
dwaddle along without ever seeking a
change. Even II you search Tor some
thing newer and better leads you into
barren ways, yet your exploring will not
have been without value, since it will
have made you more appreciative of the
pleasures you temporarily forsook. Let
not one such failure discourage you.
Continuance will in the end most surely
more than it cost YOU to gain it."
Unless all signs fail the wheelmen all
over the country viii take an active
part in politics this year with the idea
of e~lecting to office persons who favor
good roads. The L. A.. w. officials in
the various divisions will urge upon all
member of the league the necessity for
united action In this respect. Chief Con-
sui Potter, of the New York Division.
fired the opening gun yesterday, in the
following circular;-The fall elections
are approaching. h Legislature for 1895
is about to be elected. 1t will be an inn
portant year for road improvement. A
bill will be introduced in Albany for the
general improvement OF highways
throughout the State. Let us make the
wheelmen's vote a factor in this CAM
paign. Let no candidate in your party
he "a good enough candidate for your
vote unless he is broad and brainy
enough to love progress and clear enough
to hatA mud. If we elect the right men
our work at Albany viii be easier. Get
the wheelmen of your town together or
ganize a meeting, pass resolutions in
favor of good roads, make ~sery candi-
date declare himself, and work for the
ripht man.
The programme of the race meet at
the Mount Holly fair tomorrow includes