The morning times., 1896-06-21
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| StiH the interest grows in the great
bicycle parade.
Some persons have even grown SO en-
.thusiastic as to imagine IL will he held
tomorrow evening, and telephone mes
sages have been pouring in to The Times
Office. II is not the paraue that Is to lie teid
tomorrow, but meeting OF the committee
on arrangements. With this Committee
is to meet delegates from ell the clubs OF
the city. 1t ;s necessary that there should
be a large representation present and each
club should see 10 1t that a delegate il
sent. Send your captain or SECRETARY
TO the meeting. 1t will be held at All
Tenth street northwest.
The Sylvan Club OF Mount Pleasant, o
Ildies' organization, will have "a repre-
sentative there. This is the first ladies'
club that has yet promised to take part.
But there will be plenty more, SO the
ladies need not feel afraid. There will
be plenty of company.
AROUSING INTEREST.
The suggestions Of The Times concerning
music an0 decorations are creating much
comment. The Washington Cyciist de-
votes a column to the parade in its last
issue. This shows how the interest Is
growing. The Cyclist says:
That We Will nave bicycle parade
hccftlS Il duu Nltu tGC Chci6g
and enthusiasm being put into the project
its success is an equal certainty. And 1t
should be. Washington ought to have. and
DO doubt will have. the best display in this
line ever attempted. The wheeiman's
ingenuity ca be brought into play in
devising mechanical arrangements on tiis
machine that will be eye-openers.
-Tandems can be made to look like
full rugged ships: single ma chimes can
be converted into floats of great beauty.
and even two or four macliines could
be joined together and a platform rigged
up. supported by them, on which some
picture could be presented, which could
include several persons. As before stated.
prizes will be offered for the best decorated
wheel, most ingenious arrangement; best
costume, etc.
I'm a private letter received by us. the
writer in speaking of the New York parade
said: 4 saw the bicycle pa rade the other
day. but it was not worth speaking OF.
few clubs turned out, and the rest seemed
only an advertising dodge Surely we do
not want such Il criticism passed on our ef-
fort. Such a state of affairs-that OF al
lowing over-ambitious merchants to crowd
their eiradvertisiDg devices in among the riders,
should be well guarded against in our enter
prise and can be by having large and ef-
ficieDt corps of aids-de-camp to the marshal.
MUSICAL PROGRAM.
'.Thc musical program being arranged
will no doubt be pushed along Us it is
good thing. but we have been thinking of
the probable fate of some beautiful musical
composition when the order would he given
to dismouDt suddenly from some causei 1t
has been suggested that the bass-drummer
be supplied with tandem. the drum to oc-
cupy the place of the front seat.
.'But we risk to ask. how could he beat
the drum for it stands to reason the faster
the rider goes the faster the drum would
go, and he could never catch up. And then
Capt. Churchill doesn't know how his band
will be able to keep time as the pedal mo-
tion is so unlike that of marching. the
latter act marking time for itself Again
we would suggest that he compose few
pieces of music such as used for round
or round music There are many
obstacles but-we must surmOunt them all
Evidently the suggestions about Capt.
Clmrchirs dilemma are bearing fruit. The
captain is being talked about just now
amc g. all the 'cyc,ers in the city. He will
be overwhelmed with outside ideas some
OF these days.