The record-union., 1897-09-03

E M ~ crackajack riders
VI on the professional
side cannot leave Tacoma and Seattle
t. reach here for September meet, and
the Capital City people have wisely
resolved to give no meeting that is not
first class in all details.
IT IS BENEFICIAL.
AS soon rs bicz'cle riding began to
become popular, now a number of years
ago, the Germans began to investigate
il to find out whether it was healthful
or not Chief among the Investigators
was Dr. Mendelssohn. The Doctor
studied every pro and con of the mat
ter, sat up nights thinking over it,
searched the records of antiquity. eX-
amined the effect of the wheel on every
muscle involved in pedaling and bal
sncing. uD hill and down dale, and eX-
perimented en- all sorts and conditions
of men and women. What he did not
discover concerning bicycling nobody
else ir this generation Will. Finally.
then, after sleeping over the matter
some weeks and mentally digesting his
facts. Dr. Mendelssohn has formally
and officially reported that moderate bi-
cycle riding is of inestimable value to
WHEELS AT SMITH COLLEGE.
y correspondent writes to one of the
leading cvcle papers that one of the
most complete conQuests yet made by
the bicycle has been among the Smith
College girls, at Northampton. "A few
years ago" the writer says, ''the young
women of that famous institution look
ed askance at the occasional women
Who had the temerity to glide beneath
the towns stately elms astride a wheel.
The performance was too utterly
shocking to be within the pale of po-
lite conversation. Gradually, however,
a few wheels made their appearance
about the college green, the seasons fol-
lowing saw more converts, rev OF
whom transgressed precedent to the ex-
tent of wearing divided skirts and rid
ing diamond frames. The bloomer girl,
however was practically unknown.
AT the beginning of the present sea-
son bicycling has attained such popu-
larity that the matter OF storing the
girls wheels had become an important
problem with the faculty. All the avail
able space in the gymnasium was flled
with the BICYCLES, and every hallway
of the various dormitories and houses
was overrun with wheels.
mo money for building bicycle ac-
commodations can be appropriated from
the college funds, but the opportunity
of a lifetime is afforded the first enter
prising capitalist to project a. storage
shed
Smith College rs have popularity
in riding which presents another sert-
Gus problem. Instead of riding single file,
or in twos, they have a Denchant for
riding six and eight abreast Down the
streets in solid phalanx they go. The
farmer coming to town seeks the gut
ter and the solitary wheelman throws
discretion to the winds and takes
chances of paying roundiy for the mo-
mentary, though necessary, privilege of
riding upon the sidewalk. Electric cars
do not leave the rails when they meet
a bevy Of college girls, but several col
lsions have been narrowly averted- The
college girls are, however, said to have
due respect for cows"
TAX RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
New York Times: Chicago is getting
back to sober senses ove:' the vehicle
tax Judge Tuley OF that city has de-
cared the ordinance void. The decision
was brought aLcut BIZ an Injunction
suit against the city, enjO;ring the bill
as Illegal. The court he'd that the city
had no right to license bicvcles. but
only an olcupdtion, and could not i'm
pose a Hoerse on specific property VIXEN
not used in business or II IN occupa-
ton. Counsel for the city took an
appeal, and the case Will be heard In
higher courts. The questions and COM
nlications threatened by the tax were
multitudinous. Should visitors from out
OF town be required to pay a dollar in
passing through the city, and should
strangers be required to leave their We
hicles on the outskirts of the city until
they went TO the Courthouse and OBJ
tanned permission to enter the city?
What If neighboring hamlets should re-
taliate in passing similar ordinances?
Century runs out Of the city would then
be a costly and tedious matter. Then
the West Park Board sent a committee
to Mayor Harrison and asked for part
of the coming revenue. If the demand
is not successful the Park Board pro-
poses to impose a special tax of its own
on all wheelmen using the parks. About
tha only sensible suggestion to clear the
tangle has been that the State take
charge of the tax question, and enact
equitable regulations for all towns
alike In Cincinnati matters have gone
further, for il is proposed there to tax
single wheels 50 and tandems 50. The
wheelmen have started such a vigor-
Gus protest that a compromise is ex-
pected. providing for a tax of 81 year,
and the revenue to be spent in building
cycle roads.
ARTICLES OF ALLIANCE.
The new. alliance between the League
of American Wheelmen and the Anna
teur Athletic Union is subject to the
articles which follow, which are signed
by President Isaac B. Potter and Chair
man of the Racing Board Albert Mott
for the league and by President Harry
Mcmillan for the union:
l. All cycling events in championship
or other open meetings of the Amateur
Athletic Union, or its associations or
clubs, shall be given under the rules OF
the League of American Wheelmen, and
all athletic events In any meeting given
under the sanction of the League Of
American Wheelmen shall be held un-
der the rules of the Amateur Athletic
Union.
> Charges against any cyclist or ath-
lete shall be tried by the party to this
alliance having jurisdiction. except that
an Amateur Athletic Union cyelist shall
be tried by a committee of three. one
OF whom shall be named by the ANA
teur Athletic Union, one by the League
Of American Wheelmen, and the third
member by the two so chosen; provided
that the accused shall, within twenty
days after the receipt of such charges
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