Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-04-24
FOREIGN CYCLE NOTES

The Touring Club Of Belgium is making
rapid strides and is now said to have 49,
$50 members. The Cycle Touring Club of
France is said to have over 50,OUU mem
bers
cycle track has been erected at Bir-
mingham, England, that has accommoda-
tons for 1900 people.
The Austrian government has authorized
the construction of special road for cy-
ciists from Vienna 20 Baden.
William Raymar, Yankee cycling
| tramp, twenty-eight years of age, has just
passed through England. He rode an old
solid tire Ridge safety, weighing about
fifty pounds. on which he carried 206 ar
ticles, adding forty pounds to his outfit.
He claimed to the English riders that he
covered 10000 miles in this country. Be-
fore leaving England he was presented
with a cushion tire machine.
1t is claimed that cycle racing tracks
are now to be found in more than fifty
cities in Germany.
Porta, the Italian, recently won the
twenty-fve-mile championship of Austria
liza, the prize being Els about $50, gold
mccall, ribbon and badge.
The gross receipts at the Austral race
| meet in Australia were $12,52O. and the
net profits $6S65.
A. A. Chase. the English crack recently
| lowered the three-mile record of 5.5S to
$50 2-5. The first mile was covered in
1.53 20, the second mile in 352 % and on
for this accident the record would have
been lowered much more.
A mile on the Bots de Boulogne, Paris is
exclusively reserved for the use of cyclists.
Racing has commenced in earnest in
England, and some of the better men are
at this early date trying for records.
During the Brussels Belgium, exhibition
this summer a meet Of five days duration
is to be given. at which 1t Is hoped crack
riders from all over the world will COM
pete.
Cardinal Ricard has forbidden the priests
of the diocese of Paris to ride bicycles.
The reason is because priests in France
wear cassocks reaching to their heels, and
the cardinal regards the spectacle of
man In such costume. mounted on
woman's wheel, as undignifled.
Sheen House, in England which was
owned by the Tudors in the early part of
the sixteenth century, and since by the
Comte de Paris. has become the home of
the Sheen House Cycling Club, which in
Duchess Of Teck. Lord Frederick Bruce,
Earl de La War;. the Earl of Gainsbor-
ough. Lord George Lotus, Viscount Kill
coursie, the Earl of Portarlington, viscount
Valletort. Sir Lepel Hothfield, Gen. Stra-
cey, Maj Wingfield, Col w. Darlington
and Lord Sondes. A cycling track has
been built the outer track being of cement
twenty-five feet wide. and the inner of Gin
GERS nfteen feet wide, with a lawn in the
center. The house has been decorated and
1t contains a large winter garden and a
large hall for theatrcals and dancing. The
cub Is but six miles from London, and
close to the Thames. The membership i.
l.JN, and after it has reached 1000 en-
trance fees will be charged. The place will
be open to members on May l,
1t Is said that the sturdy little Japanese
youths who pull the rickisha Carriages
about the European settlements of their
ialr land regard cycles and cyclists as
their mortal enemies and most formidabIe
rivals. At Kobe this feeling has gotten to
such pitch that the boys injure the tires
OF the machines at every opportunity
over 700 marks have been subscribed in
response to proposal recently made by a
hanover paper that a great international
prize for cycle racing should be offered by
Germany. ~
LII Hung Chang now owns bicycle and
the Gar OF Russia is bicycling In Dem
mark. That sounds as If old empires were
ready for new customs.
The Australians call q half-mi,e h;cv,,.
race '.iutter" while the Frenchmen Iii
it scramble" SoA
The craze among Londoners for tho
shares of Incorporated bicycle enternr,sas
continues. During the single week enIe5
April there were issued for puhlic s,,h-
scrlption on the London market shares nf
eight such companies, to an aggregate
value OF IL $4,000 t$S.03O OOO). In the three
months ended March 81 the issue of bicvcla
snares amounted to e, $50, 900 (s17 9I5 i0M
IN the first quarter of last year public ~.
sue OF such securities was not large enough
70 oe separately classified in the quarterly
summary. The craze began soon after
Waru, however, and the total issues Tor
the year 1876 were 1,lS7 100 (sSS Q3S r,OM