New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-10

A visit was made TO the various local cycling
academies last week, and the managers and
assistants found to be all hustle and
hustle preparing for the coming indoor season.
New riders swarmng TO the schools in
droves. and II is predicted that the indoor sea-
OF 1S95-96 will eclipse that Of 1s94-s5 In
structors say that they are giving more les
sons than at this time last year. and several
managers are thinking seriously OF opening
branch academies for use during December jan
uary and February The entertainments to be
arranged at the various academies will be on
larger scale than last winter. The season Of
the Michaux Club will begin shortly at Bow
mans Academy, while the indoor season of the
Cycle Club of Brooklyn promises 10 be interest
ing. The Cycle Club will hold forth at the old
18th Regiment ArmOry In Flatbush-ave. this
year. All predict that the swarm Of new riders
who will take 20 the roads next spring Will as
tonish the non-wheeng public.
Every wheeman VINO has ever crossed the
Brooklyn Bridge knows what a nuisance IL is to
purchase a ticket every time. and many have
wondered why it is that tickets cannot be bought
In quantities By riders who have frequent occa-
sion to go from New-York to Brooklyn, vice
versa awheel The reason why two tickets. for
example. cannot be bought at once is that all
tickets for vehicles on the Bridge have to be
sold in regular order, and accounted for in
regular order too. by the ticket collector. whose
ticket-seIer. This is the rule laid down by the
trustees A wheelman crossing the Bridge must
accordingly dismount buy ticket for three
cents and later surrender ii to another man.
The latter operation usually be performed
the fly 10 speak; that is, without getting
off the wheel. The system is absurd one,
and wheelmen generally will be glad TO know
that petition is 10 be laid before the Board OF
Trustees at its meeting tomorrow asking for
change. The petition will be presented by the
Committee on Political Action Of the Board of
Delegates Of the Associated Cycling Cure OF
Long Island. The committee consists Of Michael
Furst chairman A. c. Ruprecht. Waldo E. Fuller
and William F. Cowenhoven. The petition states
that the cyclists represented by the petitioners.
well the large body Of Wheelmen In BROOK
lyn not represented IN the association have long
been annoyed by the manner Of collecting toll
from wheelmen on the BrooAlyn Bridge They
object most particularly to the fact that under
the present regulation tickets sold only for
immediate use and not In strips or punches FOR
use at the convenience Of the purchaser. Thus
IL becomes necessary :Or rider going across
the Bridge from Brooklyn TO New-York to dis
mount at the Brooklyn end. purchase ticket for
three cents from the gate-keeper. and. mounting
hts wheel again. TO hand over the ticket thus
purchased 10 a second gete-keeper or toll col
lectOr some several hundred feet beyond. Re-
turning from New-York. this process must be
repeated. Your petitioners are informed and be-
Neve that these matters are entirely under your
regulation and control We know that tickets FOR
use on the Bridge cars are sold to passengers
in such quantities as they ask for. Your pc
tiuoners therefore respectfully suggest and re-
quest that similar regulations be made Tor the
accommodated Of wheemen crossing the Bridge,
and that tickets in form and style devised for
this special purpose be sold in convenient guam
titles 10 wheelmen using the roadway
This petition is entirely reasonable and ought
TO be granted There IL apparent reason why
the tickets used on the cars should not be de-
clared good for the use of wheelmen on the road
ways That would furnish some relief. But the
thing that should be done is to pass resolution
giving wheelmen the free use Of the Bridge
bicycle causes no damage whatever. yet the toll
assessed on it is much as Is charged Tor
horse and one cent more than that for sheep or
a hog and even half cent more than is pald lof
riding IN the when two tickets are purchased
at one time. II is understood that the Bridge
Trustees say that they have no right to abolish
tolls for bicycles and that this can be done only
by act Of the Legislature. II that Is the case,
such an act should be drawn up and presented
early in the coming session. Bicycles ought 20 go
free on the roadways. just as foot passengers go
free the promenade
The wheelman whose experience in trying to go
through the ca bin Of a ferryboat recently de-
scribed in this column will probably be interested
IN the experience Of another member Of the cy-
cling fraternity who found himself al the stern
of p crowded ferryboat the other evening, and II
Is here Set down for the benefit Of all whom IT
NAV concern Both the passageways given up
70 horses and vehicles were full he says out
made up my mind 10 worm my way through Il
possbe and make clean saving oi three or lour
minutes Ny first thought was that should nave
IN take the machine my shoulder, put When
glanced forward | saw a huge oad OF ndTeIs ana
concluded that il would be holeless 10 Try -
soi,eeze mast IL But Just then friendly truck
driver divining my purpose. remarked; NeIgnoor.
Won can get through :he other side Taxing
II for granted that he could see more from ms
point OF vantage than ! could promptly acleu
a1rica
lighted. had often seen men walk through such
a ma sage 10 reach the front or the BOAT, ana IN
nv Younger days had sometimes done II myself
with the wheel. though, II Was noVslty' out
found il a comparatively easy task There was
plenty Of room. in fact. all the way alongside OF
The trucks except that men were standing mere
ond ,bere and I had TO ask them 70 allow me 10
nass Thus ! readily found my way. without MT
ing the wheel from the moor, u the 'front.' OF the
1--we con,nartment There three wagons abreast
hrocLed the Wav but a. soon as the boat entered
her slip managed TO squeeze between them and
was on land before a single wagon LETT the DoaI
II might not be SO easy every tline but am
Going 10 try II again whenever l find myself in
the same DOA
7, Was hinted some time ago in these notes that
NTH good weather the Kings County Elevated
Road in Brooklyn expected T. do a large bicycle
carving business on Election Day. with such
weather as prevailed that day everybody VINO
could go abroad on a wheel did 90, and the hne'
smooth roads on Long Island proved magnet
that drew a multitude Of riders In that direction
The elevated road carried about 1850 wheels the
largest number ever transported in one day since
Il hogan to accommodate wheel men and women
In this way and save them the joltins over odu
ma venenis that must be traversed II one rides All
he way TO Queens County. The cycling fratern-
-, greatly appreciates the Efforts which TINS
,5anv has made in it's behalf. though. Of
curse every one Of its members hopes that the
zine will soon arrive when resort 10 elevated
trains will no longer be necessary
Mention has been made Of the ordinance adopt
- IN Rrook,yn two or three weeks ago providing
= ,a,altv OF 50 for the offence OF putting tacks
h~okar glass or ether sharp substances where
.bev will be likely 10 injure bicycles. II was
- hv he Rrooklyn Board Of A dermen with