The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-10
TAKING ON NEW LIFE
Hudson County Wheelmen Re-
eeiye Sixty-six Appliea-
tions--Will Build a
New Home.

awakened from the lethargy, which has
marked their career during the last three
years n nave become infused afresll
with the spirit of activity which in the
days of the stately high wheel and the
~ungainly tricycle. placed them in the van
Of the wheel clubs in this country. Under
the able leadership of President Robert
Simpson they nave taken a new lease of
life. When Mr.. Simpson was elected in
April last he set out from the beginning
of his administrator to prove himself
worthy OF. the honor that had been con-
ferred upon him. He is an enthusiastic
wheelman and he has succeeded in I'M
parting his spirit to the other members of
the club.
He is interested in everything that per-
tains TO the welfare of the Organizations
He is a member of all the important com
mittees and at his suggestion many re-
forms nave been enacted. A strong rae
ing team has been placed in the field and
the interest IN track and road racing and
long distance riding has been revived
The imitation fee has been temporarily
suspended and the dues nave been re-
duced to 81 a year. The wisdom Of this
move was demonstrated at the last meet
ing of the club when sixty-six applica-
lions for membership were received and
a number of new members were admitted.
among the most prominent of these
Were:-Mayor Hoos, Postmaster Robert
Jordan, Tax Commissioners James Clarke,
ex-Assemblyman William Klink, Free
holder Abraham Wilson and William Fl.
Vermilye. President Simpson, George
Earle and Homer Green were appointed
a committee to draft some radical
changes in the bylaws and constitution
that will be voted upon at the next meet
ing which will be held on the first Friday
in July. 1t was also decided to build a
new club house as soon as the location
can be decided upon, the ground pur-
chased and the plans drawn. 1t is ex-
pected that all the p-reliminaries will be
completed before the summer is ended
and that the work of building will be
started in the early fall. There is money
enough in the hands of DR.. E. w. Harlan.
the treasurer, to pay for the ground and
1t has been decided to borrow the money
necessary to build. These gentlemen have
been appointed a committee to purchase
a suitable site which must not comprise
less than two city lots:-President Simr-
son, George Earle and Theodore Mercedes.
They have several desirable plots in view.
but have not yet made a definite choice.
or those they are considering one on
Bentley avenue, near the Boulevard, and
another at the Boulevard and Union
street seem to be most generally favored.
The interest at present centers upon
the second annua century run which the
Road Committee has decided to hold ON
June q to Tuxedo Park and return. A
novel feature of the run will be that it
will be split into two divisions. The
regular or slow division will leave the
starting point at C~ommunipaw and
Crescent avenues at 5:45 O'Clock in the
morning while the fast division will leave
the same point two hours later. IN enter
ing for the run wheelmen must specify
which division they intend to ride in. A
gold medal will be awarded to the first
man in the fast division to arrive at
Tuxedo Park. A handsome onyx lamp
will be given to the club having the
largest number of survivors and a hand
some clock to the club having the second
largest number. The time limit will be
fourteen hours. The course will be as
follows
boulevard to HackenSack, to Ridge
wood, around the Haverneyer stock farm
to Sufferns, where dinner will be served
and from which point the member of the
first division will race the remaining 10
miles to Tuxedo in competition for the
medal. In the event of rain the run will
be postponed for two weeks. The Road
Committee, of which George e. Biakeslese
is chairman, has decided to hold a race
meet for club members on July "a. The
committee will meet this evening at the
temporary clubrooms, No. 554 Communi-
paw avenue for the purpose Of completing
all the details.
A number of the Hudson County Wheel
men have entered for the century run Of
the Bayonne Rowing Association to
PIainfeld and return on June 20. Howard
NJ. Storer of the racing team will be one
of the pace makers. The other boys do
not hope to be able to ride with him any
considerable distance as he is a trife too
speedy for them, but they do not doubt
that they will be able to follow his trail
by the scent of iodaform which will cling
to him for many days as a pleasant
menento of the race of the Orient Wheel-
men he entered last Saturday and which
nearly ended the career of the racing
team. The atmosphere which has sur
sounded him and his racing partner, Neale
Ransom since the fateful day, has been
quite heroic. How they feel, the victims
decline to say, but it is safe to surInise
that they would rather be out of the
heroic business with whole skins than in
it in their present condition.