The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-21
HAVING A GOOD TIME.
Meriden Wheelmen Entertained in
Halifax, N. S.

Halifax N. S.
The Morning Chronicle Of Halifax,
Nova Scotia of July 10 contains the fol-
lowing concerning Meriden people who
are wheeling through Nova Scotia:
The Meriden, Conn, cyclists who ar
rived here from Chester Sunday were
taken for a trip on the water Monday
evening by a number of the Ramblers
on the A. c. Whitney. The party num-
bered about fifty, including the visiting
cyclists and Mr.. Salter, of the New
York Journal of Commerce. The boat
first went around the Arm and returned
and then went UP the Basin. They
landed at the Ramblers' club house,
where music and refreshments were in
dulged In, and started for the city
about 1880. To say that all the visi-
tors were delighted Is putting 1t mildly.
They were enthusiastic over what they
had seen. Some of the visiting wheel
men said the club house was the pref
tiest they had ever been in They left
yesterday morning for Windsor.
In the party are: l.. II. Ives, N. u.
Beckwith, J. E. Brainard A. III. Ora
ham, r. w. Cooper, W. H. Squire, Eu-
gene c. Rogers of Meriden.
THEIR RETURN.
Yesterdays Meriden Journal records
the return of the brave bicyclists as
follows:
."The Nova Scotan wheeling party,
which left Meriden on July 8, have
returned home with the exception of
Leland H. Ives, who will remain at st.
Johns, New Brunswick, for a few days.
Some of the party, which was made up
of w. H. Squire, j. e. Brainard, N.
U. Beckwith, Leland H. Ives, r. w.
Cooper, L. w. Freeman and A. H.
Graham, returned Saturday evening,
while the remainder arrived yester-
day.
1.-THE cycling tourists say that they
| had remarkably fine time and that
| they were cordially welcomed. On
July 10 they sailed from Boston harbor
on the steamer Boston and arrived in
Yarmouth early on the morning of
July IL. That day they rode ninety
one miles along the south coast of
| Nova Scotia to Lockport. On July II
| the party wheeled fifty miles to Ches-
| ter, and the following day forty-five
miles to Halifax, where they laid over
all day Monday and were entertained
| by the Ramblers club of that city.
"a steamboat was chartered especial
| ly for the occasion and delightful
| sail enjoyed. The visitors were given
| the freedom of the city and one of the
| married men in the party claims that
the single boys had more boys than
| they could handle. In the evening,
| Noble Union Beckwith, the poet of the
| Wheel club, recited at the club rooms
| of the Halifax wheelmen, an original
poem that he composed for the occa-
sion. 1t was a gem, SO his companions
| say.
THE return trip was made along the
| northern coast of Nova Scotia. On
| July IA the party rode fifty miles to
| Windsor, where reception was ten
dered them by the Avonia Wheel club.
"On July Is and 16 the route lay
through Grand Pre-, Blomidon and the
Annapolis valley, and on July II a
ride of seventy miles was taken from
Digby to Yarmouth.
IAN incident connected with the
| journey that furnished much amuse-
| ment not only to the Meridenites but
| to all the passengers aboard the
| steamer going to Yarmouth, was when
]. E. Brainard in descending from the
pilot house. stepped upon a hogshead
| of water. The top caved in and he
was 1oundering around when pulled
out by Mrs. Williams of Boston,