New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-07
Observation-Disclosures
WHEELS NOW POINTED TOWARD AsBURY
PARK
PROGRAMME OF THE WEEK THERE-NEw AS
pIIALr STREETS FOR Nrw-YORK CITY-THE
NUMBER OF RIDERS HERE.

pHALr STREETS FOR Nrw-YoRK CITY-THE
NUMBER OF RIDERS HERE.
Many wheelmen turning toward Asbury
Park and in consequence fewer club runs are
scheduled for to-day than is usually the on
Sunday Appended are some Of the most i'm
portant ones:
New-York by Desbrosses-st ferry at $50 a. m.
Train 70 Newark r., ,s.v. club
hcSss 0GT twenty -ssVeniS-s and
Century Cycle Club to Pompton. y. J. Leave
Broad.st.. Newark, at a: m
sSth.st and East River at 10 a. m
Liberty Wheelmen to Yonkers. Leave clubhouse
Lincoln wyhsslmsn to city Island. Leave club
hSse NO %Sasmen to at sayp m Long Island
Leave clubhouse. Flushing, Long Island. at $50
Harlem wheelmen to .Asbury. Park Leave club
house, No. II West One hundred-andtwen ty-fourth
Greenwich wheelmen to Aqueduct Long Island:
clio to YOnf sTsv Leave y
house No St. Marks PLACE at Axe M cave cu,
hO EsnDS 70 @ eoPSn aae Leave '"0
NewYoTk 6 Whselm.n to Travs ,9,o Island
d rsano clubhouse &o 20 East h
Newark Turner ,Cycers to Brunswick Leave
club quarters at Newark at q. IN.
Take your wheel with you to Asbury Park by
all means, for everybody at Asbury Park rides
wheel and the visitor TO the annual meet will
find plenty Of good roads. and there many
charming places in the neighbOrhoOd. Another
tip to those going to the l.. A. W. meet and
jubilee is, secure a copy Of The News Letter"
published by TIE Asbury Park L. A. W. wheel
men. 1t will contain many features Of interes:.
The Entertainment Committee has arranged the
following programme:
MISUNDERSTANDING and finding quarters for Wis
Tuesiay-Run to Long Branch Leave clubhouse
at go a m Run 10 Spring Lake. Leave clu6houfse
at Rhode island Point
norman. Leave clubhouse at 10 a. m National
farsss hop I'd 4easnre Bav Rumson and
Seabright Carnival on Wesley Lake; with decora-
op aah and Races
FTdayR1ns 70 TOW BED RaOk HOy
afternoon; Run to Ocean Hotel. Long Branch
SATURDAY to Beimar. Spring Lake and Sea
Grit. Leave clubhouse at 10 a. m Complimentary
hps adh al Emma ins at oSs aS 1
afternoon.
II il becomes necessary 10 use the bicycle in
war. goodly proportion Of the two companies of
artillery stationed at Fort Schuyler will be
ready at once for the service. or the 10 pr-
Yates in the fort. about twenty wheemen,
and besides three officers own bicycles. II this
proportion holds throughout the entire Army.
an effective bicycle corps could speedily be form
ed at every fort and station. However 1t is
likely that this average would not be equalled
in many other places. The roads on Throg's
Neck are especially fine and must be a constant
temptation 10 soldiers to learn TO ride. Besides.
train stieetcar near the fort and
bicycle is great convenience for those who
wish to reach West Chester Wheeling also re-
irecd q N fY1rot h.r ho, hall
stopped. as the still allowed to go out
on their bicycles the first day Of the week.
Several men have ridden 800 miles this year. on
many afternoons they have two hours Of leis
ure, and indeed they stretch the time II
they TO miss the supper. which is served at
6:15 O'Clock
Water Purveyor Norths scheme for the laying
Of asphalt pavements has after all been adopted
in its entirety The only objections to it related
TO that part Of the Boulevard between One-hun-
dred-an1-tenth and one hundred and nine
teenth-sts and certain thoroughfares in the
neigh borhood of Wall-st.. and were based on the
steep grades there Chief Engineer f. f. Nc
Lean Of the Finance Department, was Of the
opinion that asphalt was unsafe where the gra-
dent three four feet in the hundred, az
horses would slip The Board OF Estimate ac-
cord:ngly deferred ACTON on the report OF Mr.
North, but. when he was backed up by the engi-
neers of the Public Works Department. decided
q adopt his recommendations. The improve
ments planned for this year are Intended chiefly
for the lower East Side where asphalt is a
sanitary necessity but In fact OF especial
interest 10 wheemen. Smooth routes 20 some
OF the ferries are TO be provided. but most con-
spicuous. from the bcycsts point Of view. is
the betternent of the Boulevard from One-hun-
dred-and-sixth u One cumberland nineteenth
st This will give good and direct route to the
Fort Lee Ferry and 10 the Boulevard above
One-hundred- "a nd-twenty- fifth-st. which Is used
b. many wheemen on their way northward
either along the Hudson River or the Sound.
Even If Chief Engineer Mclean is in part
right. and horses Will be unable to keep good
f1othold on slippery asphalt on the Boulevard
between One hundred-and-tenth and One-hHn-
dred-and- nineteenth SITS. the case is not hope
less. Mr.. North at present merely means 10 re-
pave the eastern half Of the roadway. II truck
Ing proves dificut there at certain times OF the
year heavy vehicles can be kept to the western
side Of the thoroughfare where the old pave
rneut will remain If Mr.. McLeans objection Is
found TO be a good one. IL Will not De necessary
70 lay asphalt on the western side at all.
The odor OF the honeysuckle furnishes one Of
the delights Of wheeling just now. II comes
upon one in many places. a breath OF pure JOY
In The fine garden just north OF washington
Bridge at its end across the Harlem. Is a mass
OF these shrubs which sheds n fragrance upon
each passer-by. On the opposite side or the road
in a hollow are more clusters OF h0neysucKie
One Of the sights Of a tour TO sing sins - .ne
solid half-mile OF honeysuckle covering the
s,,ns wsi which bounds the grounds Of Rock
vood Hail This Is som, five miles this side OF
sing sing The western side Of the road Is
perfect embankment of woodbne, WELDING an
enchanting fragrance. II Is not an OF rinins 10
ride ard the wheelman who fails to take In
these ROADSIDE. charms misses much
Some ~ the. big manufac turers are catching
IN or their orders for mems wheels. while others
say the demand continues to outs'rp Inc sup
ply There seems special difficulty however !"
hlng orders for cycles for women o"e "se"'
was bewail!ng his inability to get any OF '"ese.
He said no could sell thirty Of them AT once u