The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-05

ARCANUM RACE MEET
The Prosperous Cycling Club
$ Making Arrangements
for Next Spring.
BANG THE PIEs
Exciting Team Match at Edinger's
Alleys-Palmas Defeat Newark
Bay-Griggs to Open
the Fair.
MINKAKWAS BANG THE PIEs

matters OF importance TO dlScusS at ehS
meeting last evening that no time was
found for the Second OIL the series OF
progressive euchre parties which was
scheduled to take place i~mmediateiy at
ter the meetings. AaldA Em FSvent was
postponed Until next Wednesday even
ing After electing two new members.
Captain Ear. ciizscisea=she interest of the
members BIZ anrpppeipg that Mr.. William
Armbruster. the popular proprietor of
the Greenville Schuetzen Park had Of
fered to present to the club one or more
valuable prizes for the road races to
be held by the club early in the spring.
The members at once interested. spent
the remainder of dthe evening discussing
the ARRANGEMENTS for the races. Al
though no definite action has been taken
in the matter as vet, It is practically
certain this there will be open and club
races, that the Greenville section of
the Boulevard will be the course. the
starting and finish line to be in front OF
Administers Hotel. However, as the
event is still some time off. further ar
rangements were deferred until a later
meeting.
Rega riding ClassR b.
Whatever may be said in favor of
Class B men. there is no that the
L. A. w. men will be benefited by con-
frming all riders to two classes amateur
and professionals. The Glass B men are
neither fish. flesh nor fowl. nor good
red herring, and difficulties such as
that which have recently stirred the
wheeling world. namely the Cabanne-Tt-
tus-Murphy affair. are much less likely
to arise. Baseball. football. track ath-
letics and the like nave not been able
to keep up a seni-professional element.
and it is hard to see just how cycling
can differ from other branches of sport
in his respect
The Bicycle in the Army.
Major General Miles is evidently deter
mined to test to the utmost the availa-
bility of the bicycle for military use.
The trial just concluded was his idea.
and proved conclusive.y that the bicycle
rs undoubtedly the best method so far
discovered for covering the great dis
tances that this country is SO remark
able for, and which figure very mater
ia.ly in all military problems that present
themselves to the War Department. 1t
would seem that from what has been
accomplished by the $50 mile trial be-
tween Washington and New York. that
for courier service the bicycle has no
equal. provided the roads and pathways
are in even fair condition. AS mounts
for any large body of men 1t is yet to be
ing anything like large bodies of troops,
probably will be worked out eventu-
ally. The work done by the men who
carried General Miles orders to General
Kruger at Governors Island Is deserving
of the highest praise. The time made
ing the great difficulties that lay in
their path, and the UNFORESEEN oostacIes
that arose as they CONTINUED thelr lo the
trip would take somewhat longer than
the time scheduled FOR it. and that they
The distance actually ridden was $50
hours and forty-eight minutes. and this
for the service. but detailed offhand to
do the work. In addition to the PROF.
that the bicycle Is especially ad spsin
brought forward the ever-recurring
fact that our road systems are the great
overcome in undertaking what might
b. of vital import in time of war. 1t IS
not probable that the ordinary bicycle
and tumble work that might and would
have to be done in a dangerous country.
More than n wheel broke down doing
the rough work that was required of
them on the trip. and would seem TO
argue that the military bicycle must be
# ffa e p mas adapysd d'r far c mn T gho some 1es
thing Of a load without Inconvenience
or decreasing the powers Of speed below
the men was very simple. The men
carried ten rounds of ammunition and
the regular army revolver. The uni
hat. gauntlet gloves. navy blue knicker-
Triggers and black cycling stockings
The wheels averaged Ts twenty-five pounds spnad
attained was fourteen and twenty-five
hundredths miles per hour and the
m pn%ndredfbs WAS mfles eign The an arera swen Number
of miles per hour was ten and forty-one
hundredths miles.
Local snap shots.
Among the gentlemen of the legal
astride the wheel. none are more ardent
biyman James !. Erwin; Mr.; Erwin is
In addition to Mr. Erwin. this organize
ton has other we'll known lawyers in
Charles Martin and isaac Goldsnhorn.
Sergeant Charles Haag. Of he Fifth
precinct. will be a cycling crank next
considering the purchase of a wheel. but
he has finally decided to await the SO
men, has the bowling fever in its worst
form. He is a member of two teams.
busy banging the pins in practice games.
As the result of his visit to the Point
Breeze race meet at Philadelphia on
Saturday. Walter IRoome now wears q
pretty diamond ring. the first prize in
the one nile open Glass A event.
To Preserve Natures Beauties.
Mr.. Charles w. Garfield is the editor
of an interesting department in the
michigan Cyclist' called the Road ana
Roadside" In a recent number of the
paper ALr. Garfield makes a strong pro-
test against the de~faGement of highways
b. advertising on feBeas and buildings,
or on trees and other ma tural objects.
He cites as an example a large rock by
a wayside which had long served as a
landmark ard came 2toAibe an. object. OF
fn r. and The rich S5ioF OF its iichens
have given pleasure to all who passed
il. In an hour the rock was scraped
Eare and it was than lcayored with a
haze Of pigments to- celebrate some mans
baking powder or pills or superior collins;
osisets at ,promdnents,pcints Ike street
verfisers and thesp -mhhdc5uth creations
are rot only direct hemishes upon the
Iardsgapc, but they shut out the bealiti-
M. Gsrfeld writes III IaabeIutiful turn
IN q highway about the he1d OF a email
stream. where from onesprant an inter
citing view cs the wateEaberle-. with its
dropping shrubs and trscery Of ferns,
Say an immense sign was placed so as
t. directly hide th59 view. 1t was
placed there sfmplyntbecsus> 1t WIS IN
the direction where people loved to look,
and a maker Of boots and shoes planted
10 every lover Of nature who passed that
way. Certainay this methos of ddver-
Using is o. Migrant abuse CT the rights
Of tie people who drive or walk over