The record-union., 1897-07-06
WHEELMEN'S PARADE.
As Usual, the Paraders Received
DiscourteOus Treatment.

The streets We're lined with people un-
til a late hour last night, the attraction
being the illuminated bicvcle parade
which was to close the celebration cere-
monies.
1t was nearly 10 o'clock when the
wheelmen lined out at Ninth and J
streets, as they had to wait until the
Park exercises We're over, and after TAX
ing a turn around Capitol Park, where
& great crowd fingered, rode down K
street to Third and up where they dis
banded.
A number of the illuminations were
artistic, and presented a pleasing ap-
pearance. but considered from a num-
erical standpoint the parade was not a
success. Only sixty-five illuminated
wheels Were in the parade and probably
al equal number of decorated and ordi-
nary wheels made the rounds.
Wheelmen state that they had 200
wheels, but very many dropped out be-
cause the people left the sidewalks and
crowded into the streets, leaving no
room to pass. That in forming, the
crowds prevented the divisions from
falling in properly and many wheelmen,
fearing accidents, left their division
They complain that they We're deprived
of the ordinary privileges of ordinary
professions; that their line was driven
through; wheel decorations injured, and
in several cases teams dashed at high
speed out of cross streets and ran
wheels out of line.
1t is certainly true that on K street
from Ninth to Sixth the procession was
allowed scarcely three feet of width in
which to move.
They say they cannot understand why
if 25,000 wheelmen can move in comfort
and safety in procession in New York,
why 200 cannot have room in the streets
of Sacramento. They say that it is
miraculous that many accidents did
not occur, and in fact one did c. Nj.
Campbell was run down and his wheel
wrecked and several narrow escapes
We're made from loss of life
The wheelmen and wheeIwomen We're
so greatly dissatisfied with the parade
on account of their inability to move it.
that at the conclusion of the display they
assembled at the rooms of the Capital
City Wheeimen, regardless of member
ship in that club and after a recitation
OF their grievances, by both men and
women, they unanimously passed the
following resolutions and requested that
they be printed:
Whereas. We had a good and eff
cient committee and competent Mar
shals and Aids, and participants went to
great expense and much labor to get up
parade in honor of the Nations birth
day at the request of the General Fourth
Of July Committee: and
Whereas, We were refused the use
Of the chief street of the city by the
people, who crowded into the highway,
leaving for blocks not two feet in which
to ride: and
Whereas, Decorations We're torn from
Wheels missiles thrown, and hacks and
teams drove through the line, and sew
eral times serious accidents were imni-
rent IN consequence and many decorated
wheels were taken from the line as a re-
suit, before the parade was complete; !;
therefore
Resolved That we viii never turn out
in parade again until we can be as
sured the same rights that other civic
professions are accorded
The committee on prizes, two well
known women and one well known man.
Of artistic tastes. say that the decora-
tions were not up to the standard set