The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-10

CYCLERSb EXHIBIT
At Madison Square Garden
Promises to Excel Those
of Past Seasons.
PUGILISTIC KINGPINs.
Local Bowlers Fare Badly at Eliza
beth-The Jersey Ball Team
COmpleted-po at Tay-
lor's Hotel.
PUGILISTIC KINGPINS.

The bicycle show to be held in Madison
Square Garden. from Jan. Is 10 %, inclus-
IKE. will attract bicycling agents. makers
and mechanical experts from all parts of
the country, and quite a number from
England. 1t has been estimated hat the
value of the exhibits viii approach $3.50.
600. Almost every one of the seventy-five
exhibitors will present souvenirs to the
visitors. and they win comprise calendars,
paper cutters. match boxes. paper weights.
pocketbooks. bamboo canes, scarf pins,
buttons and many other things.
Many improvements will be made in the
Garden to provide for the comfort of
guests. There will be writing rooms,
public stenographers. a bureau of informa-
ton. post-office. coat room and cafe. In
the Bureau of Information efforts will be
made to keep a classified list of the agents.
Those expecting mail matter during the
week should al it addressed to them,
care of Madison Square Garden. The
show opens ON Saturday. January IS, at
eight p. M. and Closes on Saturday,
January 25, at eleven P. NJ. Except on
Sunday. the exhibition can be visited at
any time during the day or evening. Ow-
ing to the extraordinary demand for
spaces this year there Wi be no available
room for trick and fancy riding, but as
heretofore such exhibitions could never
be viewed with comfort. they will not be
missed. There will be music afternoons
and evenings.
Sterling Elliott ofABoston, who is SO
prominently spoken of as a candidate for
the Presidency of the League of American
Wheelmen at the coming meeting, when
asked what changes if any, he advocated.
replied:-.I would favor a change hat
would cause the payment of no sum of
money to the President. and that he
should be requiredaato to furnish vouchers for
all expenses aaifselerk hire the same as the
Secretary. As matter of fact. the
President receives a salary of $1,000. Then
another thing. the League has n its con-
stitut.on the word amatenr, while It has
a lot of Professionals on the roll. We
must either take gu the word amateur
or take out the professionals. There is
not room for argument on both sides of
this question. s~VRersanallJ lam in favor
enr' aG most 'e easiI gn nadef WI5 e and mpI most e4n ike
" to command respect for onr organiza-
ton: | believe gninstEpstsd proxies.
and which do not nsegSsarily represent
should be abolished. g fftR5nk it is ali right
members 10 cast its vote. but a State not
represented in person by anybody should
send explicit written instructions, and its
think Glass B Is a great ~absurdity, and
yet it was probably the wisest thing that
League members were not in the frame of
mind to accept professionalism, had it been
called by its proper name"
So far as bicycle racing and record
breaking are concerned, the year just
ended was the greatest in the history of
bicycling. Race meets and road races
arn Afd IN A-~a 1~ol - ALs- -.%s-t&
and elsewhere, and the new records
were established at a fast and furious
pace, SO that it was almost impossible
to keep an accurate list of them.
An important meeting of the Clio
Wheelmea will be held this evening. at
which several. designations of prominent
will be Thomas E. Longield, Frank FL
1ison, 0 Fardleman and Walter
Roome. Others will follow and the club
suit is brought about because of dis
satisfaction over the management of
the big parade on the Hudson County
and Ellison were prominent in looking
after its arrangement, and 1t turned out
quite as successful as was anticipated.
Souvenirs that cost the club $l00. We're
purchased with the expectation Of sell
ing them for ten cents apiece, which
would have Melted a large profit, but the
rid of them, and a large number were
left on their hand&aThe other expenses
sank the wheelrnen into debt to the sum
of $50 or more, land ELLISON and Long
field, who worked nightNand day, were
blamed for this. and it'd because of the
talk that has been going on in the Or
ganization that compels the designations
John s. johnson, the professional rider,
will go abroad-ThisE-W winter. New York
Is wn sDou 5o the only EaP Pls Sss 81 f fsis e0uFnt em
IDEAS ass; regaTdins 5tohss5Ss value as "a