Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-15
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the regular army, stationed at Fort Ham
ilton, with several other cracks, will set
the pace into New York cityS
The message will be delivered to Capt:
Wiggin by Gen. Ordwayo and he will start
sharp at the appointed time from theNation-
al Guard armory. 1t was originally intended
to deliver the message to Gen. Miles, in New
New York at the time, the message will in
all probability be delivered to Mayor Strong
While this has not as yetrbeeH definitely set
tied, it will most likely belthe dase.
VIII Go Over the Road.
In order to see that everything is all right
along the line of the ride, Lieut.. Libbey and
Private Bert Pitkin, who viii run the last
relay, will personally visit every station and
look over the field. They will ride their ma
chimes, and have mapped out a schedule, to
" hich they will ride. They will leave this
city at o'clock in the morning of Friday,
November %, and will reach Baltimore at .
o'clock the same morning. After stopping
over one hour they will reachBel Air at noon,
take dinner, and. after seeing that all ar
rangements are made for proper pacing,
will leave at 1 o'clock and reach Wilmington
at $50 in the evening. They will lay over
here for two hours, and then proceed to
Philadelphia, which city they expect to
reach by IL o'clock at night, having covered
1873 miles in nineteen hours, of which fifteen
hours were spent in riding, an average of
10 is miles per hour.
They will leave Philadelphia at 10 the next
morning, and after stopping over at Bristol
for an hour. will arrive at Trenton at 2
o'clock in the afternoon, leaving there at 4
o'clock, and arrive at New Brunswick, the
starting point Of their relay, at o'clock in
the evening. Their ride for the day Will then
have been sixty-two miles, in nine hours
time, or six hours actual riding time, an
average Of 1913 miles per hour.
The other ri 1ers in the relay will leave the
city in plenty of time to reach their places
before the message will arrive. General ar
engagements for this have not been made.
Some of the men will ride to their places on
their wheels, while others will take the train
for the nearest point. The aim of most OF
them will be to reach their relay some hours
ahead Of the regular time, so as to enable
them to ride over the roads, and gain some
familiarity with them.
The Military Cyclists.
The Military Cyclists are comparatively
new organization, being but three years
old. The company was organized largely
through the efforts of Mr.. Frank Libbey,
who called the first meeting for the early
part Of December, 1892, at his office, then
ON 18th street With the assistance of sew
eral others he interested a number OF bi-
cyclists in the enterprise, and Gen. Ord-
way, who was invited to encourage the
boys, was delighted with the idea himself,
and doomed it right along. The result was
that through energy and hustle, before the
end Of the month. the company with
complement of twenty men, was mustered
into the Nation al Guard as the second sep
arate company. Its officers then were:
Captain, Frank B. Couch; first lieutenant,
William Balch; second lieutenant, Frank
Libbey; first sergeant, Harry E. Crook;
qrartermaster sergeant Benjamin Wall;
second sergeant, John L. Mcqueen. car
ence B. Story succeeded to the captaincy,
and held 1t for nearly two years. He re-
signed this summer, and S. H. Virgins, the
present incumbent, was elected to the cap
taDcy.
The officers at present, in addition to
Capt. S. H Virgins, are as follows: Frank
Libbey, first lieutenant; second heutenancy
vacant; first sergeant, H. X. Gibson; sec
ond sergeant, r. B. Durfeei; quartermaster
sergeant. William Sorrells, n The roster Of
the company is as follows: S. H. Virgins,
F. P. Libbey H. K. Gibson R. B. Durfee,
r. G. Pryor, A. Bennett, A. Alexander, w.
R. Mouden, ]. F. DeSilver. Harry Gather,
w. B. Jackson, j. V. Tierney, w. E. Sor-
rells, William T. Smith, ! NJ Washburn,
Fred Lindsey, Fred. Franz, William J.
Lewis, F. NJ. Willis, Theodore Michael,
George Frech, c. E. Kraft, S. l.. Cox, L.
Rivers and r. H Atkinson.