The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-23
GREAT RELAY RACE.
Elaborate Arrangements Made by the
New York Journal.


Two bulletin boards will be erected to
tell the news, hot from the wires, of the
great New York Journal and San Fran.
cisco Examiner bicycle relay race, which
will start from the Golden Gate next
Tuesday. One of them is now being con
structed on the front of the Journal
office, opposite the City Hall Park. The
other will be on the west side of the Bou-
levard, between SiXty-eighth and Sixty
ninth streets. 1t will he II monster
affair, nearly one hundred feet in length
and twenty feet high. Both boards will
show huge map of the States traversed,
indicating by dotted line the path of the
relay race and the towns through which
it passes Under this geographical dis
play there will be Il continuous panorama
depicting the characteristics OF the sec
ton traversed by the wheelmen.
Starting at the Pacific ocean, will he
shown pictorially in succession the Col
den Gate of California, the Sierra Nevada
mountains, land of the Mormons, the
Rocky Mountains and Pixies Peak, terri
tic encounter of Il bicycle rider with IL
bear, Fort Douglas, showing hostile In
dams and United States cavalry; wheel
men chased by Indians on ponies, the
wheelmen giving the overland mail train
tight race, Il view of Omaha and Coun-
ell Bluffs, showing the bridge over the
Missouri river; an impression of Chicago,
the wirdy city,, II view of Niagara Falls
the capitol ut Albany, and New York
harbor, with the statue of liberty in the
foreground.
Over the top of the bulletin will be a
prolific relief of the entire stretch of coun-
try, showing the attitudes of lofty, snow
capped mountains over which the relay
men have to ride, also showing the great
CT M hn nt.xl,t
level of the di ferent sections IF the coun-
try. Over the edge of the profile two
miniature automaton bicycles, with rid.
ers Will be run, one representing the re-
lay rider proper, and the other his substi-
tute, who will trail behind at n distance
OF from fifty to one hundred feet, ready
to take his place in case of a broken
wheel, fall over a precipice or in the
event of his illness.
The riders will travel over the profile
at "A corresponding speed with the actual
relay rider, record of whose movements
Will he transferred by wire every few
minutes by corps of managers repre-
senting the New York Journal, the San
Francisco Examiner and f. c. Stearns
~ Co., of Syracuse, who will travel n
short distance ahead of the relay in trains,
wagons or on horseback This will he
done to have the relay riders in position
so that as soon as one finishes his run the
other can strap the packet to his shout
GERS ana he oil without Il moments DELAY.
The dummy riders of the bulletin re
lief map will carry the national flag by
day and crimson electric light on their
heads Mt night. 1t will be interesting to
note the steep mountain sides that these
little yellow fellows will have to as
cend, and the corresponding depressions
down which they will have to coast.
Two large clocks will show respectively
the number of miles traversed from the
start, ana the number of days and hours
consumed. An artist stationed AFT a Ioroa
chalk board will write the latest news
wired In about the race and entertain the
audience with caricatures of bicycle life
while waiting for messages. At night
the bulletins will be illuminated with
electric lights, for the race will never
stop minute, night or day, after it
starts from Frisco until it reaches the
journal office in this city.