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The news & observer., 1897-07-18

pionship of Florida, also one and two
| mile State championship and % first
| and 10 seoend prizes during the year. In
1894 he won the one-half, one-quarter, one
two and three mile State championships
| made eight State records and four
Southern records, defeated Isaac Baird
defeated all the best men in Georgia,
Florida, North Carolina and South
Carolina against whom he raced, win
ming during the year 36 frsts, II seconds
and 2 thirds. In 1895 Adams won the
Southern championship, one-quarter
one-half, one, two, three, and five mile
State championships, defeating W. l.
Hufstetter in two special matches, met
and defeated all the best men in the
South, made II Southern records and 10
State records. He now holds most of the
State records for North Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida and South Carolina. win
ming SO firsts and 6 seconds in handicap
races. He was defeated only once in
open race. In 1896 he made the amateur
worlds record for from three to ten
miles, won IA firsts, 8 seconds. He made
one-quarter mile in 26 4-5, third mile in
SO 3-5 seconds and the mile in 2:O4.
He also made one-half mile in one
minute, unpaced one-half mile in
50 seconds, paced, and one
mile, paced. in 2:01. This year Mr..
Adams suddenly gave up racing and
seems to have lost all desire for the ex-
citement. Best of all, l can say about
him is that notwithstanding the fearful
temptations that falls in the way of all
sporting men, the subject of this sketch
is unscathed, being an earnest Christ
ian.
Greensboro has developed other
riders since Fitzsimmons left who if
they perseVere may turn down his rec
ords. Among the number are Messrs.
Herman and Merritt Buchanan. Robert
ID. Douglas, Richard D. Butts, Simp-
son Schenck, Tom McAdoo and Robert
n. Wharton. The Buchanan brothers
gave promise to be fast men, but busi-
ness prevented their training as much
as they should. Merritt Buchanan won
the time prize at the Fourth of July road
race last year. Tom McAdoo has won
good many prizes in races and would
make a fast man but for a slight af-
fection of the heart. Robert Douglas
has just entered the arena as an aspirant
for honors in the ring. His first race at
| the Driving park Saturday resulted in his
| winning second prize. Mr.. Douglas is bet
ter known as an all-round athlete, having
been president of the Georgetown College
| Athletic Association. Mr.. ID. Butts made
| a sensational run at the race track re-
| Gently against a horse, defeating the
latter; time, 2:26. Robert II. Wharton is
doubtless the fastest man in the city al
present, of course, barring Adams. He
made his first appearance as a rider
in the five miles handicap road race from
| the Battle Ground to Greensboro last
year, coming in at least Il of a mile
| ahead. His next attempt was in Char
| lotte, but owing to insufficient training
| he was only able to get third on even
| of entries. In the last of June, however
| he succeeded in winning first in thu
| handicap race, with six entries, and tive
seconds. Joe Weam is the champion
boy rider of Greensboro, having beater
every thing in the city.
Greensboro. July II, 1897.
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GREENSBORO'S SPEEDY RACER ADAMS
The History of Cycling in This Thrifty Towo--A Leader in
Speed, Having Furnished States Champions tor
Several Years--Judge Douglas Star Rider

| fell on Mr. Garland Daniel, who has
| pushed the business very successfully
ever since. Mr.. Daniel informs me that
| last year he sold 240 wheels, and this
| year has already sold over 200, so that
his sales will greatly exceed last years.
Although Mr.. Daniel has never developed
a speed equal to Fitzsimmons, he is
very fast racer, considering his two hun
dred and forty odd pounds avoirdupois.
There are other dealers in the city, who
also sell many wheels. The Odell Hard
ware Company has sold already one hun
dred bicycles and they do not make a
speciality of these machines. Mr.. Myron
Newell, dealer in buggies and bicycles,
has sold about forty wheels up to this
date. There are at least a dozen other
dealers who sell from five or six to fifty
wheels year 1t is interesting to note
the growth of riding by women in
Greensboro.
For a long time it was regarded as
very unlady like performance and no
one would take the lead until four
or five ladies simultaneously appeared
on wheels. Three or four others joined
the ranks during the season, but even
then the gentle sex was slow to take to
the two-wheelers, and the following year
the number was reduced and it looked as
if society had determined not to ride.
Last year, however, all the young women
in Greensboro seemed to catch the fever
at once and score OF them took to the
wheel, and this year from seventy-five to
one hundred young ladies ride. Among
the most skillful riders this year are
Misses Peyton, Reece, Case, Callum
Dick and others. For a long time the
question of divided skirts worried the
members of the fair sex, but it was at
last adopted, and it is doubtful if one
man in hundred recognizes one when
he sees it on the street.
The oldest rider in town is
Prof o. w. Carr. The pro-
fessor is sixty-four years old and he re-
Gently made the trip from Greensboro to
Trinity College in less than day. Judge
r. M. Douglas and Mr.. p. D. Price
come next Judge Douglas was asked by
his associates on the Supreme court
bench why he did not ride in Raleigh
He said he did not know whether il
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would be exactly the thing or not. To
this his friends replied that it would be
all right if he did not fall into the gut
ter, it being very unseemly spectacle
for judge to be seen lying on his back
n gutter. Judge Douglas is one of the
city's most distinguished citizens, and as
rider he has become familiar cyclist in
all the phases Of the fever. He is a
handsome man, as you may see from the
cut printed here.
Among the fast men in Greensboro
Mr.. George Adams stands alone. Mr..
Adams came here from Jacksonville Fla.
His racing career is a story Of victories
from start to finish. Starting out in his
racing career in 1891, he has raced in
some of the most important towns in
Massachusetts and New York State; al
so in Washington, d. G.; Richmond
Va; Greensboro, N. O.; Charlotte, N.
C.. Columbia, s. c.; Atlanta, Ca; Jack
onville, Fla, and numerous other points.
In nearly all Of these races he came out
first. In 1891 Adams took ten first
prizes and eight seconds. In 1892 he won
IA firsts, 8 seconds, 3 thirds. In 1893 he
won a 20-mile race against two running
horses, won one-half mile State cham
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upon here as a novelty suitable only for
boys and rich mems sons. and it was
predicted that the fad would soon die out
altogether, as the tall wheels were en-
tirely too dangerous to be practical.
When the safety frame appeared great
deal Of fun was made of it on account
Of its size and everybody said it would
not do, it would be too slow, and it
was very hard to convince people of the
superiority of the new machine. Now
there are from six to eight hundred
wheels in use in Greensboro, and not a
high wheel in town. Mr.. George Fltzsim-
mons, now of Charlotte, was first to give
any real impetus to the trade in wheels.
He also became a racer of no mean abil-
ity and won great laurels by his speedy
runs. He was for several years the State
champion for almost every distance. He
held most of these until serious at
tack Of typhoid fever kept him from the
track for one whole season, and then he
decided to give it up for good. He was
champion Of the South for two years.
When he was in his prime, Fitzsimmons
as he was called by everyone, was the idol
Of Greensboroeons and when he moved
to Charlotte two years ago his mantle
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CYCLING IN WILMINGTON.

The Local Consul of the L. A. w. here
is Mr.. NJ. p. Taylor, Jr., and under his
administration cycling has become even
more popular than before. Mr.. Philip
Heinsberger, formerly Chief Consul of
the North Carolina Division, l.. A. W.,
and Mr.. Chas. Whitlock, leading deal
er here, are probably the most promi-
nent cyclists in the city. Mr.. George
Chadbourn is probably the fastest rider
in the city, having won nearly every
race in which he has participated. All
told, there are about 2,200 wheels in
Wilmington, about 800 of these belonging
to lady riders.
Wilmington, N. c., July II, 1897.
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'Are you hurt? Come up here quick and
l will look at you."
''He was sorry that he spoke" for this
is what he saw.
| There is a young druggist in Raleigh
who is quite popular with the fair sex
and often they drop in by his fountain to
get "a cool drink and have laugh"
This young mans name is a mos: IA
miliar one in cycling circles and he is
often out at night riding MS bike OUT
calling. Some moIths ago he heard q
friend tell how to bluff the cop" when
you were halted for not having your
lamp lighted. The druggist thought il a
good scheme, and so a few evenings ago
when a cop called to him that his light
was not burning the 'pothecary stopped
to explain to the officer how it had just
gone out. That's a good excuse, MI.
-" said he "but l think you have
made a mistake. You have no lantern"
X N "a
You may notice the wheelmen in this
city and you will find that out of the
two thousand or more there are only
about 100 wheelmen who wear bicycle or
golf suits while riding. There are many
reasons given why this number is so
small, but there is only one reason why
some people INSIST on criticising those
who wear the short trousers. Some peo-
Iple really admire them on others, but
knowing how ridiculous they themselves
would look dressed in golfers, they can
not refrain from criticising.
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Massenburg, and he could supply a good
comic paper with rich jokes that have
been played on him since iaa joined. A
few weeks ago, am told, he found HIM
self seated at his table in his own hotel
chewing desperately on part of an old
tire of Mr.. Macy's. When h. discovered
the trick of his friend, it is said Mr.
Massenburg had tire glue ground into
Mr.. Macy's tobacco and some say Mr.
Macy never knew it until he had smoked
the entire box of tobacco and tire glue.
He says he must stick to that tobacco.
The Tarboro cyclists have more "get
up and go" about them than any cyclists
in the State, but at least one young man
in that section wishes to live on the repu-
tation of the town. He was riding down
a steep incline, with one of Tarboros
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LOOKING FORWARD.
(Puck.)

'But Senator" queried the young re-
porter, ''you aren't going to drop the
investigation? Won't Havemeyer be
questioned again about his campaign
contributions "My son." replied Sena
tor Sorghum, "the United States Senate,
having put its hand to the plough never
looks back. The question of Mr.. Have
meyers 1892 contributions no longer con-
Germs US. The subject under investiga-
ton just now is, What does Havemeyer
propose to do for us in 1882"
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have my camera with me on a ride out
the Crabtree road. l was spinning along
just at the farthest end of the plank
road and turned off to the left to be in
the shade of tnat famous old tree, while
tightening my saddle. had been seated
only a moment when 1 saw in the dis
tance two riders approaching. L could
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ak About Wafer.

Nature has supplied us with a remedy
or every disease. Many of the reme-
lies are found in roots, herbs and barks,
and to effect cures the medicinal prop
critics must be extracted and put into
concentrated form, and then properly
compounded.
Nature has also placed some of the
very best medicines in water, common.
ly known as mineral water" One of
the best of these is the famous OTTER
BURN LITHIA WvTER. For indigestion.
kidney, bladder and diseases of like ma
ture there is nothing better than Otter
burn Lithla. And the price is moderate.
handle it in large quantities, and am
the sole dealer in Raleigh. Bring your
own containers and / will furnish the
water at 90 cents for half gallon, 50
cents per gallon, or 30 cents in 8 gallon
lots. Extra charge if / furnish con-
tainers. By the glass at my soda foun-
tain, carbonated, s cents.
LII. BOBBITT.
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Down in Henderson there is right
royal club of cyclists and they can tell
you a thing or two about how to run a
club. 1t is true that they are only a few
undred dollars in debt, but what matter.
Mr.. Henry Macy is president of the club
and Mr.. Ed Stevens is secretary and
reasurer, and the club owns a track that
to be beauty when completed. A
rominent member Of the club is Hotelist
The news & observer., 1897-07-18

IXTEEN YEARS
ago the first oicy c.e
ever seen here ap-
peared. This wheel
was owned by Mr.
A H. Alderman,
now cashier of the
Greensboro Ma
tional Bank. Al
though it was a
very crude affair,
weighing probably
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They tell us a little story about a
prominent lawyer of Raleigh who is an
active member Of the Cycle and Pleasure
Club. The young captain of the club had
led his followers over a rocky road sew
eral miles from the city and then or
dered the club to dismount. Delighted to
have a rest from such awful roads the
riders were soon upon the solid earth, but
the captain, much to tie surprise of the
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tell by looking at them that neither was
speaking a word, but the sublime smiles
interchanged every moment told me the
story of the afternoons ride. l watched
them pass, and remembering that 'they
were quite alone" was glad that neither
saw me, because l feared it might pune
ture the scene. Then L ran out into the
road and pressed the button and as a re-
suit you may study from this picture who
the couple were.
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seyenty-fve pounds, solid frame and
without ball bearings, it was the Won
dor of the town. Mr.. Alderman tells me
that when he rode it to Guilford College
On one occasion the country people went
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'Let me make the wheels of the ma
tion," said the bicycle manufacturer,
''and I care not who makes the laws."-
Puck.
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JUDGE X. NJ. DOUGLAS,
Next Oldest Greensboro 'Cyclist, is
Supreme Court Justice.

wild over it and turned out in crowds to
witness the wonderful sight. About this
time, or rather before, Mr.. Charles Ser
geant made a wheel for himself weighing
$50 pounds, but it was found too heavy
for practical use. From the time Mr..
Aldermans wheel arrived until about
two years later the bicycle was looked
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06

The residents of the Pauoa Valley
will be happy to hear that work is to
be commenced upon it early in May.
Such is the statement made to The
Star by the Road Supervisor. Peti-
lions do some good if they are only
stuck to. II would be advisable to
widen and straighten the road when
once the work is initiated Well car
ried out this road will complete the
road running at the base of Punch
bowl and will afford pleasant drive
giving a variety TO that perpetual drive
down the valley, and variety is the
spice of life.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06
FRANCE ON THE WAR PATH.

All does not seem as smooth between
France and Russia as it did at the time
when the Car visited the Republic
last year and NJ. Faure had that mag
nificent embroidered coat built which,
after all, he did not wear, for fear of
the ridicule of the French press, APP
pearing, after all, in the humble claw
hammer, the garb alike of the gentle
man and the waiter.
The first little rift within the lutte
has been the rejection by the Russian
Censor of the Press of a small volume
of poems on the Cars visit to France.
Copee, Prud- 'homme, Heredta and
others of less fame. The book has
been carefully gone over by the
French journalists, in default of any
explanation by the Russian Censor,
and the only Objectionable lines seem
to be these. In one poem the Gar is
spoken of as having, in France,
"L'honneur d'avoir conquis
L'amour dun peuple libre."
(The honor of having conquered the
love of free people.) OF course any
thing about free people" arouscs
the utmost horror in the Censor. If
the Russian people were free what
would become of the Russian bureau
cracy? 1t would be swept away and
its offices supplied by some of the pes
tilent Nihilists Away with a BOOK
that breaches anything about "fcee
people" indeed.
The Partisan Press has gone wild
over this affair and the Censor VII
have his time fully occupied in sup
pressing the various editioas that
reach the frontiers of the Empire.
But this is a storm in TEAPOT. Tie
main thing is that the French are be-
ginning to wonder what they arc
going to gain by the Russian alliance,
The Paris age" asks if it viii give
them back their lost provinces o. Al
SAGE and Lorraine. If so, well and
good, but if it is to maintain peace
what good is that to France? What
France wants is war, combined
movement of the Republic and the En-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06
PROSPECTS.

AS to what will and what will not
happen in Washington with regard to
the Hawaiian question is only known
in official circles. Unofficial letters
carry no weight whatever. They are
simply the case of the wish is father
to the thought. A bit of worthless
gossip picked up here and another
there is eagerly snapped up by these
scribblers and twisted into an ''official
statement" As a fact the State De
partments are extremely reticent to
unauthorized gossips, and it is only
the accredited representatives of ma
tons that receive exact insight into
the inside track of the affairs that
they are interested in.
Such men as Julius Palmer are
therefore largely thrown upon their
Imagination and how vivid his partic-
ular Imagination can be we all know.
A man who can, out of his inner con-
seriousness, evolve an assassination of
the eX-Queen and put Mr.. Thurston at
the head of it is a man of extremely
brilliant in this line, and
should be able, as soon as he has done
dancing attendance upon his sover-
eign, to turn forth a number of ro-
mantle short stories and get good
prices. \ continuatio of Kings in
exile by Daudet would be good.
Thrown back upon their magma
tons then they boldly invent what
they desire, and produce fund of So
called information" which is greed
lily swallowed by their clients. who
have not the means, even if they had
the wish, to criticize and sift the ma
terials upon which the reports are
said to be founded. Thus a lot OF
stuff is circulated in the opposition
press here which is based upon the
unstable fabric of a dream.
The affairs of the Republic of Ha-
waii stand firm enough. The policy
of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Gresham is
not the policy of President Mckinley
nor of his Cabinet. The Cabinet con.
tains staunch friends of the Republic
and Gresham's policy is as dead as
Gresham himself. Even in the multi
plicity of more important matters
there is every hope that the Hawaiian
question will be taken up and finally
settled. Reciprocity we are promised
by the committee of Ways and Means
Annexation we shall get.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06

pirc of Russia upon Prussia. And IL
does not see that France is going to
get what she desires i'm this direction.
Another French paper has been in
tcrviewing a Russian diplomatist and
his remarks do not yicld much COM
fort either The digest of his remarks
is here given. He says in substance;
Russia really can not see why you
complain. Emperor Alexander Ill
has taken your Republic by the hand
and treated her like a lady. raising her
to an equality among sovereigns by
the introduction he has given her. But
the Emperor of Russia can not prom
Use to restore Alsace-LolTaine to you
any more than the Emperor of Ger
many can promise to give the French
provinces of Nice and Savoy to Italy.
Russia has done what she could to
please you with regard to the Egyp-
tian question. Russia has joined her
protest with yours, although we
thought this protest useless. The one
place where we can work in perfect
accord is the Near East. France, like
Russia has much interest at stake in
Turkey. But France must not forget
that Russia's interests are FREEDOM
inant in this case. Russia can
have Germany as a friend any day.
France was in verify the Cinderella of
Europe until Russia uplifted her, and
the French people ought to know that
it is not very polite to remind your
friends of money lent to them. .
The last state of France will then be
worse than the first"
This gives but cold comfort, and
shows that the astute Slav has got
rather the best in the diplomatic en-
counter. 1t also goes to show that
pageants and addresses and banquets
to fleets and all the fuss made during
the visit of the Car to France had
no influence whatever upon the main
results at issue. And now in France
they are talking of an alliance with
England or the Dreiburd. What a
scramble there will be in Europe with
in a month or so.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06

Mrs. A. Tween, residing at 100 Henry
Street, Alton, ILL.,, suffered with sci
attic rheumatism for over eight
months. She doctored for it nearly the
whole of this time, using various rem
edies recommended by friends, and
was treated by the physicians, but re-
ceived no relief. She then used one and
half bottles of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, which effected a complete cure
This is published at her request, as she
wants others similarly afflicted "a
know what cured her. For sale by al
druggists and dealers. Benson, Smith
& Co., wholesale agents for H. I.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06

Hawaii can give London wrinkle
in the matter of dogs. The only
method that has been hit upon to
show the difference between owner
less dogs and those who have friends
is using the muzzle, and to this there
are numerous objections. If the Lon
don authorities would adopt our tag
system they would find it work very
well. There is very little difficulty
here in rounding up the waits and
strays when the proper time of the
year comes around. This is far bet
ter than the muzzle system and super
Tor to the name and address plan, be-
cause under it every dog is registered
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-06

The Maori population of New Yea
land, which is published in an appen-
dix, amounts to 39,S54-in this are in
cluded 3,503 half castles, who live as
members of Maori tribes. Half castles
living with Europeans are enumerated
with them; of these there were 1859
Therefore for purposes of comparison
with the population here, the figures
must be recast. The true Maori pop
ulation is 36,351. The true half caste
population, which answers to our part
Hawaiian, amounts to 5,762. Compar-
ing these figures with the Census Bu-
reau here, it will be found that the
pure Hawaiian population is less than
the pure Maori population, being
31,019 to the Maori 36,351; while our
mixed bloods amount to S,4S5 against
5,762. \ curious thing about this re-
port is that the tribal system still pre-
walls and that the Maoris are enum-
Grated by their tribes. The census was
taken in February, 1896, the results
being published in March 1897, just a
year later.