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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
DECORATION DAY RACE
ARRANGEMENTS BEING MADE FOR
THE ANNUAL EVENT.
Regulations Governing the Wheel
way League Paths-TryIng to
Prevent Searching.

One of the leading features of the
Memorial day race meet to be held at the
Business Mems Driving Park in connection
with the annual road race is the team race
between the indianapolis l.. A. w. Club and
the Ridiculous Club. 1t is to be for glory
and profit the latter coming in the form of
an immense silver loving cup. The cup is
a prize that any club might be proud of,
and it is needless to say the two clubs will
put forth their best efforts to get it, 1t is
twenty-seven inches high and of beautiful
design. It is trophy presented TO the Hay
g. Willis Manufacturing Company to be
awarded in the manner now proposed. For
the Indianapolis Club there have been Sc
lected the following riders to form the
team: Ed Pfeffer, Ed Crawford and Matt
Paxton. The Ridiculous Club will be repre-
sented by c. q. Fisher Otis Lowe and F.
Ellis Hunter. The riders selected by the
Indianapolis Club are all racing men who
have made records of which they and their
club may be proud. They are good and
strong and may be counted on for making
the other fellows work for victory if they
win 1t. The Ridiculous Club fellows frank
" admit that they are has beens," but
Claim they have never lost their ability as
sprinters, though age has added to them
dignity.
It has not yet been decided what kind of
a race shall determine the winner of the
trophy, but 1t seems now as good as set
tied that it shall be a pursuit race. This
will prove a decidedly interesting event.
The men will start at six points around the
track. alternating Ridiculous Club man
and an Indianapolis Club man. AS fast as
one is overtaken he drops out The last
man to stay in wins the race for his club.
It is question of sprinting and endurance,
ard makes the hardest and most exciting
race imaginable. All the prizes for the
various events on the programme for the
meet have been purchased and will be
placed on exhibition in few days. The
prizes are for the full limit of value allowed
by the regulation Of the l.. A. w. There
viii be half-mile, mile, two-mile and five
mile events, both open and handicap. One
Or two events will be run off while the road
riders are making the circuit Of the Broad
Ripple course.
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Bicycle Notes,

Tom David, the Outing racing man. will
go to join the Michigan circuit next week
The Ridiculous Club will move to new
quarters in the Cyclorama building June /.
The Ridiculous Club has launched it's new
boat the Quo Vadis, on Broad Ripple. 1t is
the fastest of the fleet.
Ben Webb, of the Bells Company says
he would like to hear of a Sampson victory.
The suspense, he thinks, hurts business
The advent of the cheap wheel of 1898 has
led to the belief that the future demand will
be for a cheap jobbing wheel and a good
made-to-order wheel.
Dronberger and Stone, two fast road rid
erS. of Terre Haute, were in the city yester-
day. They will participate in the Indiana
Memorial day road race
Marc Thompson has announced that the
annual ordinary run Will take place in June.
There are about seventy-five of the old high
wheels in and about the city and all will
probably be in the run.
The large sprocket wheels which seem to
be the fad this year on most chain-driven
wheels are a mistake from mechanical
viewpoint. They may look all right, being
the vogue, but they add just much labor
to the rider. Where's the use in having big
sprocket wheels back and front for a 20
gear when smaller ones answer the same
purpose and require less chain length, and
therefore induce less friction? The smaller
the sprockets the easier the work.
BY making feature this season of paced
middle distance races for amateurs cycling
as a sport should take on a big BOOM
There is no reason why the amateurs should
not do good work behind multcycles, and
once this branch of the sport becomes at all
general among the ''pures" it will reach a
position high in the estimation of the pa
irons Of middle-distance racing. At many
of the leading meets in the metropolitan
district the amateurs will have a chance
TO ride behind pace and some star may be
developed thereby who will dim the luster of
such rider as the wonderful little Michael.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

washington is patting herself on the back
and congrat ulating herself that, by passing
an ordinance prohibiting riders from using
a bar that dropped more than four inches,
she has stopped scorching in the capital
she mas Dragged so loudly that she has at
tracted the attention of her neighbors, with
recipe. No doubt we shall hear of other
cities adopting the same measure but, just
the same Washington is on the wrong track
and all ordinances based on these lines are
useless so far as keeping riders inside the
ten-mlle- an-hOur limit is concerned. BIZ
cycle riders will scorch, no matter what
drop their bars have. It's part of their ma
decrepit, is free from the fever. Given a
smooth road and a strong wind on the back
and before one knows II he is Keeling off
miles close to the three-minute mark, and
what's more. he enjoys it, never stopping
to consider that he is guilty of the awful
crime of scorching.
If the police in the big cities want to keep
the pace down, the way not to do it is to
pass foolish laws like that burdened on rid
ers in Washington. Mount officers in citi-
zen's clothing on wheels and send them out
on the boulevards and city streets to appre-
legal rate of speed. Get intelligent officers
who can ride bicycles and know something
about pace. Wholesale arrests for month
or so will soon subdue the scorchers and in
a little while the city streets will be safe
to use. Chicago has done this for the last
two years and after June / man travelling
faster than ten miles an hour is a rarity.
lawbreakers that they are afraid to ride
fast for fear of heavy fine or a night in
jail. The way to bring the Scorcher to his
senses is through his pocketbook.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
Fair INTERCHANGEABLE.

Fair Bank this week will present one of
the most attractive features that grace the
refined vaudeville stage in the person of
Titenia, the marvellous dancer. This dancer
comes directly from her first tour of this
country after her season at the New York
Casino, where she danced herself into the
good graces of the public. She will execute
jigs, reels, hornppes, buck and wing
dancing and even a cake walk to rag time
music. In conjunction with the above the
management also offers Kurtz the juggler,
a Mexican Vaquero from the Grand Circo
Orrin, City of Mexico; Miss Blanche Sey-
mour, coincidence, singer and dancer, better
known for her clever work in connection
with Hanlons "Superba;' Frank Cushman,
minstrel and monologue entertainer; the
Van Adkins, horizontal bar performers The
new Fair Bank Band will have an entirely
new programme presenting several pleasing
and entertaining selections, consisting of a
few old favortes with additional numbers
that are new to the music loving public.
Vaudeville matinees will be given on
Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
REPORTS PROGRESS.
Meeting of Executive Committee In
dianapoIis Meet Club.

01auapOns meet CluDs
The executive committee of the Indian
apolis Meet Club held its regular meeting
yesterday and subcommittee reports showed
that good progress is being made along all
the lines of preparation for the big national
meet to be held here in August. President
Brown. of the L. A. w. Cycling Club as
chairman of the entertainment committee,
made a report giving estimates of the ex-
penses of entertaining the visitors on each
of the days. The full programme has been
prepared, bat. owing to some slight changes
which may be made, it was not made pub
lie. The programme will include banquets,
a smoker runs to various points near the
city and amusements of various sorts. The
estimates were allowed, appropriations
were made to cover them and the enter
tainment committee was authorized to con-
tract for the different events.
The executive committee decided that the
time has now come when continuous head
quarters must be opened for press bureau.
Hal w. Reed, chairman of the press sub
committee. will have charge of the bureau
and was authorized to devote his time to
the work and to employ stenographer.
lie will have an office at the Indianapolis
i. A. w. Cycle Clubs house, on North Me-
ridian street.
Chairman Hay of the badge committee.
be given to l.. A. w. members The design
which pleased the committee most was one
shared like key anG bearing a design rep
resenting parts of a bicycle. When the In
dianapolis delegation went to Philadelphia
Mayor Taggart informed the wheelmen in
his speech at the smoker" that the key
of the city would be given them when they
came to Indianapolis. Again this promise
was made at st. Louis in February, and it
seemed fitting that the. souvenir badge take
the form of a key. Chairman Hay will get
an estimate on the cost of this style of a
badge and report at the next meeting.
Chairman McKaye reported that the Mil
lersville path Is being rapidly completed.
After great many delays and after many
obstacles had been overcome the right of
way was secured and the path commenced.
Chairman Newly, OF the track committee.
graded and that work on the track proper
would commence Monday. The track as
ISOLATION has contracted with the Indianap-
oils Il. A. w. Cycle Club for the use of the
track for the state meet, July and 3. and
has agreed to have seats for $500 people
by that time
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
DEWEY AND THE CLOCK.
A Clear Explanation of Somewhat
Confused Matter.
Philadelphia Record.

Il
Under the heading, Trick of the Cal
endar," the Record published last Sunday
a short article clipped from an exchange
which related TO matter Oh some re- nt rae
ceiving kilograms from the other side of the
globe but which, unfortunately, as has
been pointed out by correspondent, was
wrong in one very essential particular. The
main question considered in the article was
the time-United States time-at which oc-
Cured the naval engagement In Mania pay
The statement made that, could the news
of the fight have been sent TO us lnstan-
taneously we would have received it on
saturday afternoon was a mistake The
truth is that, though the news was not
transmitted to us instanter. 1T did come in
a remarkably short time, and 1t reached us
Sunday evening, as it should have done,
for the day Sunday with us as we'll as
at Manila. The mistake is so obvious upon
a moments reflection that II would hardly
be worthy of notice were it not that the
whole tenor of the article is calculated to
render more confused a subject which to
many is already sufficiently confusing. and
about which it is desirable just at this time
to have clear ideas.
around the globe from Philadelphia, .eck-
oning westward. Its distance is such that
the sun in it's apparent daily course around
the earth (due TO the earth's rotation on its
axis having reached the meridian of Phila-
delphia and having thus marked for us the
hour of noon, must travel nearly eleven
hours before ii reaches the meridian of Ma
Mia At the end of that time our clocks
will of course. indicate IL ?. M While at
Manila IL Will De nOOnudy' III olHcI
our time Is eleven hours In advance of Ma
Mia time. The attack of Commodore Dewey
on the Spanish feet was made about cay
break"-on the morning OF Sunday, May l..
At that time the hour was p. IN. with us
in Philadelphia
But was the day with US Sunday or Sat
urday? The answer to this question de-
ponds on the position of Manila with refer
ence TO the date line" and It was, APP
parently a misapprehension as to the To-
calty OF this mystic line which led 10 the
error above noted The day was then sun
day with us, and we get at this fact in this
way:
The international date lIne"-the line at
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toll collected and the receipts from the sale
of season buttons cover the expense of
maintenance. The rights oil all stockhold-
ers are not confined to any one season,
but are perpetual
aInstailment stock Is also sold the s.
being payable I'm monthly installments of 81
each. A 81 Broad Ripple season button is
given on the payment of the first dollar.
and the stock button on the payment of the
full s. and the surrender OF the Broad
ION the Broad Ripple path a button en-
titling the owner to the free use of that
path during the current season is sold for
81 1t admits but one person. The toll on
this path is ) cents each way.
For the Millersville path button en-
titling the purchaser TO the free use of that
path during the current season is now on
sale for 80 cents. This button also admits
but one person. The toll on this path will
trip on the date of payment.
All the cycle path buttons, stock and
gate, and will be sold there and there only
in the future.
"Of the eight wheels offered by local
tributors in an effort to increase the ex-
tension fund but three have been pre-
ssented; the Crawford Vanguard and
'Grande,' as the amounts contributed by the
public were not large enough to comply
with the conditions imposed. There remain
TO be given out in similar manner the
Bells and Outing OF these three of the
wheels chosen by 1ot will be presented by
the committee representing the dealers, as
On the. first day of June the Waverley
wheel will be presented to a purchaser of
an 1898 Broad Ripple season button.
ON the 9Th of July the Ben-Hur wheel
VIII be presented to 1898 purchaser of
Wheelway League stock.
On July s, also, the Matchless Hearsey
Will be presented to purchaser of the new
Millersville path buttons.
The Geo: Fl. Cloves Manufacturing Com
pany. of Waterbury, Conn, has. donated
TWO of its Calcium King acetylene gas
lamps, which will. at its request, be pre-
scented on the LIST day of June, one to an
1898 purchaser of the Wheelway League
stock, and the other to a purchaser of an
1898 season Broad Ripple button.
The persons receiving the above wheels
and lamps will be chosen by lot by the
dealers committee in the same manner as
last year, each 1898 contributor having
The other two wheels the Bells and Out
ing. will not be awarded until later.
In view of the immediate need of funds
for the proper completion of the Millersville
path all friends of the Wheelway League
are urged to exert themselves to bring about
the sale of enough season and stock but
tons to insure the immediate receipt of
funds needed"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

UNTRIMMED HATS of Plain and Fancy
Straw and Mohair Braids, Dress Shapes
and Turbans, the wholesale price is
75c. retails for 81; our price. ........1 DC
SHORT-BACK SAILORS of Fancy Satin
Mixed Straw Braids. rough effects and
Dress Shapes of Lace Tape Braids, in
black and colors, wholesale price 81,
retails for .35; our price.
SHORT-BACK SAILORS and DRESS
SHAPES of French Chips. fine Milans
and combinations of Chiffon and Fancy
lar colorings. of Which the Wholesale
cost is S1.6O, retails for So; our
price .,.......... .".4Sc
Trimmed Hats, wonderful cOlIec-
ton of Fine Hats. We feel certain
that you will marvel at their stylish
appearance, being combination of
choice materials, executed by skilled
miIIiners.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
Being a War Correspondent.
Washington Star.


THE first things that l mean to do when
get to the front. whenever that may be"
said a newspaper man who had been noti-
fed that in case of war he is to be sent to
the scene of the fracas in the interests of
his paper. lis to tog out in the regular war
correspondents get-up and have my pic
ture taken. Every war correspondent has
got to do that, or he wouldn't be war cor
respondent. I'm going to buy pair of cor
duroy breeches, russell leather top boots,
flannel shirt of whatever color the war cor
respondents where | am sent may be affect
ing. helmet with lot of green yelling
inside of it. a big belt of undressed leather
with a couple of the biggest pistols / can
get for love or money sticking in it. Then
I'm going TO sling big pair of field glasses
over my shoulder rent a fiery. untamed
steed for the occasion and have my photo
took. I'll have il taken with lot o. gen.
erals and commodores and people like that
staggering around in fatigue uniforms in
the background. That'I be great, won't 1t :?
IN send copies OF the picture TO my people
and to all the girls up here that l know
and if they don't think when they see it
that / am a hot member and that I'm
pretty near cleaning out the opposing
forces all by my little lonesome why. I've
got this war correspondent business mixed,
that's ALL.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

So when Times ven shall fall asunder,
The soul may know
No fearful change sudden wonder
Nor sink the weight of mystery under
But with the upward rise, and with the vastness
grow.
And all we shrink from now may seem
No revealing;
Familiar childhood's stream,
Or pleasant memory of a Dream
The loved and cherished Past upon the new life
stealing.
Serene and mild, the untried light
May have its dawnng
And in summers northern night
The evening ana the dawn unite,
The sunset hues of Time blend with the souls
morning
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
At the Inquest
Art in Dress

ATT IN Dress.
You knew the deceased, l believe you
said? asked the coroner of the witness.
for six years"
HAD you ever heard him intimate wish
to die or declare that life was hsupport-
able?"
mo. sir"
Can you suggest any reason for his sui
cider"
Il can only suggest what may possibly
prove to be the reason, sir.
what is it,"
When he came in yesterday morning ne
the cause, and he replied that on his way to
the office he had seen wheeiman wearing
a red waistcoat and pair OF Drlgnt green
the poison within FIVE minutes after that.
sir"
men Of the ;,r,, ,,r5er the circumstances,
the only. verdict you can render is iustiiable
suicide"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

Youths Compani

Youths Companion.
The Park-avenue trolley line in the city of
Rochester is crossed by three consecutive
streets which bear masculine surnames An
Irishman with carpetbag entered one of
the cars the other day, and sat down gin
gerly rear the door. Four or five other men
completed the list of passengers. The car
swung around the corner of Chestnut street
James shouted the conductor man
signaled him, the car stopped. and the man
alighted A half minute afterward the car
neared another cross street.
William" announced the conductor. An
other man got out. The Irishman's eyes
grew vfsihly larger.
Alexander" shouted the conductor. The
third man left the car
When ii had started on the Irishman arose
and approached the conductor.
s'Oi want to git out at Avnoo b. he said
ME foorsht name is Michael
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
Mrs. Leslie Carter ina london.

NEW YORK, May 21.-Mrs. Leslie Carter
has caused something of a personal sensa-
ton in London as we'll as having made a
great impression as an actress. According
to a letter just received from a member of
1.-THE Heart of Maryland Company they
call her over there the "Rosetti" American
and she is said TO be the cynosure of all
eyes as she rides through Rotten Row every
morning along with the fashionables of Lon
don Her hair has excited a good deal of
attention as we'll as admiration and is
known as the "Rosetti' hair. 1t has become
the fashion with women to wear hair of the
same color and is said to be one of the
pronounced fads of the London season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

feta Silk in beautiful colorings,
usual selling prices ST.; our sale
price ......... Observation-Disclosures. SOC
TIES FOR HATS. large sizes, daintiy en-
broidered in cream or black on very fine
Mousseline. would be considered
cheap at 81; our wonder price. 81 90
PLATED MOUSSELINE, a trimming so
very much used this season, in about
10 new shades. 81 quality, at. per
yard ......... ............................ e1Oc
FLOWERS are of the utmost impOr-
lance this season. "a Hat without
Flowers is not in IT." At our prices 1T
will pay you to buy even for future
use.
VIOLETS of 3 in bunch, with foli-
age, = punches for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS C
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
LAST WEEK At PARK
THREE WAR DRAMAS THAT FIT
THESE EXCITING TIMES.
Fair Bank Announces a Change in the
Vaudeville Theater and
Band Concert.

A strong combination of war dramas will
close the season at the Park this week.
Capt. Herne, u. S. A. will be given to-
morrow and Tuesday matinees and nights.
1t will be staged with special scenery. cos
tunes, mechanical effects and plenty of
troops Over fifty people are advertised to
appear in this performance, and as an adj
ditional attraction large flag pictures will
be given all women on the lower floor at
the performances tomorrow and Tuesday.
Five or six years ago Joseph j. Bowling
brought out Capt. Herne" and it was sue
cessful for season in the high-priced the
aters 1t will be far more interesting now
than in those times of peace.
One of the powerful war dramas in re-
cent years is "A Fair Rebel" which will be
presented on Wednesday and Thursday. In
this play Miss Louise Reming. the young
leading woman, who assumes the title role.
has part which is said to fit her talents.
In "A Fair Rebel" she is given an oppor-
tunity to display her versatility. as she as
sumes several DISCUSSES, including that of
a Southern soldier boy. One of the most
interesting features of this play is correct
scenic production of the interior of the ia
nous Libby Prison. which will be intro
duced in the third act, when occurs the
escape of the Union prisoners, an exciting
scene.
Alabama" that most successful Ameri-
can play. will close the season at the Park
on Friday and Saturday alabama" is the
play that brought fame and fortune to
Augustus Thomas, it's author. 1t is a strong
production and has never been seen in In
dianapolis a. popular prices.
A number of clever vaudeville artists
have been specially engaged for this week
and they will appear between all the acts
of each performance in songs, dances and
other specialties Moving pictures and il
lustrated songs will also be a feature of
each entertainment. The magniscope is the
machine which will furnish the motion
pictures, including views of United States
war ships and the funeral of the Maine vic
tins at Havana. The company comprises
the following people: Louise Reming, T. c.
McDonough, Leigh Morrison, MacBarnes,
w. II. Lewis, George B. Edwards, Charles
Richards George Botsford. Myra Jeffer-
son, Maud Sinclair, Eva Lewis, Mile Cor
bin, Little Madeline, the twin brothers Ly-
man and Herbert and Howard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22

Our entire large stock divided in
THREE GRAND LOTS, as follows:
LOT 1, CHOICE $500
LOT =, CHOICE ......................$4 90
LOT :, CHOICE SO 90
Not a hat in this lot that can be copied
or duplicated for double the sale price.
ORNAMENTS-You never did see such
lot of fine Cut Steel and Rhinestone Orna-
ments, consisting of Fancy-Shaped Buckles
and hundreds of various newest designs
ORNAMENTS that sell at wholesale
for 70c, our price ......................25
ORNAMENTS that sell at wholesale
for $3.50, our price ..................5Oc
ORNAMENTS that sell at wholesale
for So. so, our price Csc
Elegant Spangled and Tinseled Crowns that
sell at wholesale at So each; our
price ....,.... ..,.................'..... DUO