Evening star., 1896-08-15

been appointed to purchase q suitable
launch and other boats. and look up q
location for a suitable boat house. While
it Is not regarded as necessary to have
separate boat house. most likely the club
will erect one as soon as circumstances
will permit. In the meanwhile the use OF
enc of the local boat club houses may be
secured for the aquatic sport Negotia-
tions are now under way for a thirty-five
foot launch which might end in the club
purchasing the same.
In the club team race next Saturday for
the District championship the club will
be represented by George 8. Ball. Harry q.
Greer and Charles E. Cause. with George
Smith and Hardy Pritchard as substi-
tutes. The team will wear the new club
racing suits for the first time, the color
of which is Yale blue and white. making
q pretty uniform for the track.
o. Y. q. 8. Cycle Club.
The o. Y. e. g. Cycle Club. No. 1, will hold
no runs until the first part of next month,
when the weather gets cooler. The next
run scheduled is for the Cycle Cottage at
Sligo, and Capt. Van Deausen expects to
carry out large crowd Of the male and fe-
male riders.
Mr.. Frank H. Thomas. the president of the
club, has returned home from trip to At
lantic City.
Lieut.. J. ]. Costinett and wife and Mrs.
Parkhurst leave this afternoon for trip to
Pen-Mar, where several weeks will be spent.
Mrs. Carolyn Handy, the secretary, re-
turned to the city during the week from
trip to Virginia. and Is now summering
near New York city.
Capt. Van Deausen, Lieut.. Costinett and
Surgeon Handy took a spin Sunday to Falls
Church. across to Balls Cross roads, to
Arling' on and home again.
b. HI. w. Cyclists.
The B. H. w. Cycle Club of S2d street ex-
w IA Wodn
to Bethesda Park, Nd. starting at 7:SO
o'clock In the evening from the junction of
85th and 32d streets. The club has a men,
bership of fourteen, young men and young
ladies. and expects to carry out a number of
invited guests.
Morton Cadets as Wheelmen.
The Morton Cadets Company A, Sd Bat
talon, D. c. N. G.. are now as thoroughly
organized as a bicycle club as q military
organization. OF the fifty-five cadets en-
rolled fully forty-eight own wheels and take
part In the company rides planned by the
officers two or three times each week. When
the wheels first began to appear in the cor
ridors outside the company rooms a separate
organization of the wheelmen of the COM
pany was proposed. but this was abandoned
after some consultation with the captain,
and Capt. Shilling proposition Of a union
OF the bicycle club and the company organi-
cation accepted instead.
No sooner did the company rides receive
the sanction of the cadet officers than they
became formidable affairs for club rides of
fifty wheels are not easily managed, but the
thorough military training Of the cadets
made their management easier and the
rides more successful than could have been
the case In any other organization without
months Of training. Now the company quar-
tiers are deserted early each evening, and
the cadets hold their meetings either on the
road or dispense with them altogether dur
Ing the wheeling season.
several OF their number have developed
considerable speed. Privates O'Connor and
Ball having already appeared in several
loeal contests. but 1t is of club rides that
the company makes q particular feature.
Not that many other organizations cannot
cover the same distance in as little time as
u required by the cadets. but that their
order and discipline are the more note
worthy when contrasted with the lack of
such qualities in other wheeling organiza-
tons Among their honorary membership.
Fred Schade has carried Off the most honors'
appearing In more than one contest wear
Ing the blue and gray of the cadets. The
majority Of the other honorary members
like the active cadets. own wheels and an.
pear with the company on most of the
ordered rides ''.e
To say the rides are ordered is, however
msstatement, as Captain Shilling ia
punctl1ous In wording the notices In the
form OF Invitations. The cadets are noti-
ned OF the ride and asked to attend; they
are notified Of a drill and ordered to he
present. The result Is, though sin9ularly
the same in both instances, as nearly the
whole membership Is present in either
event When they meet at the armory the
wheelmen are regularly assembled "a for
drill, and then started of on the ride to the
place announced. They have already ex-
plored most Of the roads in the vicinity
OF the city, from Great Falls to Good Hope
hill, and will attempt tonight to ride to
y,1a IN
$50, ride to Baltimore and spend tomor-
row In sightseeing; then to ride back to
washington on their wheels Sunday night
This Is. for a new club no inconsiderable
undertaking, and the cadets look forward
to 1t as the best ride Of the summer. 1t is
the subject Of much discussion among the
other guardsmen who ride
The company Is handicapped by the lack
OF wheel racks, the corridors being much
too narrow to permit Of their construction
there, and the quarters being already well
nted with furniture and equipments. Capt
Smiling. however, IN recognition of the
numbers Of the company who would other
wise be seriously inconventenced, has given
his permission to have the wheels stored
against one side Of the companys loung-
ing room while the owners are In the ar
mory, step which the company was only
too glad to take. This is the only sense
In which the enthusiasm for wheeling has
interfered with the military duties, and, It
is safe to say, Is the only particular in
which 1t will do 30. Such outings as these
company rides make possible conduce to
the best possible good-fellowship among
the cadets, and WILL the officers agree, ft
both rank and file and shoulder straps all
the better for their winter work.
Affair Cycle Club.
The meeting Of the Affair Cycle Club
last week was not held on account of the
extreme heat. but meeting has been call
ed for Monday evening at the regular meet
Ing place. At this meeting the date of the
watermelon run will be decided, and invi-
tations sent out to the clubs friends to
Join in the jolllty Of the ride.
Louis and Charles Weaver are summer
Ing at Colonial Beach, where they will
remain for the month.
Charles Jones has just returned from his
summer outing, spent at Boyds, Asbury
Park and Colonial Beach.
Allie Craig returned during the week
from a cycle tour through Pennsylvania,
he and Vinton Birch having made a trip
to Carlisle, Pa. awheel.
Charles H. Weaver ia at Washington
Grove. attending the camp meeting serv-
Ices.
Queer Wheelmen.
The Queer Wheelmen have a run sched-
uled for tomorrow afternoon, commencing
at o'clock. The run will be around the