The times., 1898-06-12
WITH The INl'P|EEL MI \
Preparations for 1he l.. A. W.
Meet Progressing Rapidly.
BIG ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Flans for u Run From Chicago to
indianapolis Being Considered
Mayor TaGgart's Modesty Causes
Trouble - -Applications for Track
Positions Pouring In.

Indianapolis, Ind. June 11.-(SpeciaD-
Contracts for the building of the stands
and bleachers at the new track were let
this week. The seating capacity will be
about 1900 and the stands and beachels
will practically extend clear round the
track The big stand viii seat 1900 people.
and the plans are said to be models of
their kind. Mr.. Herbert Foltz, a member
Of Chairman Motifs racing board, we'll
known architect of this city. has charge
of this work Not only will the people be
well taken care of. but every attention
will be given to the care and comfort of
the racing men.
The members Of the executive commit
tee of the '9S Meet Club are inclined to be
enthusiastic over the outlook for the meet.
Communications from clubs and organiza-
tons all over the country, who are plan
ming to attend the big event next August,
are being received daily and it is belev-
ed that the war. instead of being detri-
ment, will be of benefit to the meet. This
Is particularly true of the East. Several
letters have been received from prominent
people of Boston, New York and Phila-
delphia. and the closing down of many of
the Eastern Summer resorts and the fact
that the Atlantic Coast Will be sparsely
populated by the Summer residents this
season. has lead many people who always
run down to the seaside for week or two
TO turn their attention to the West, and
the exceedingly low railroad rates will at
tract many people who have never before
ventureG beyond the Alleghanies 10 visit
Indianapolis next August
Plans for the big run from Chicago to
Indianapolis during the week of the meet
are being rapidly perfected. 1t is now
thought that fully three or four hundred
riders will take part in this big event, and
nothing but extremely bad weather could
prevent its being the most successful run
ever taken by an organized body of wheel
men. The visitors will be met by del
egation of indianapolis riders some thirty
or forty miles out and escorted into the
city. The tourists are planning to reach
here Monday evening. August s.
Thomas Taggart, the well-known bicy-
Gle mayor of indianapolis. and to whose
energy and genial smile is due much of
the success of the indianapolis boomers
at Philadelphia last August has become
unruly. Mr.. Taggart is vice president of
the Meet Club. and has devoted much of
his time this Winter in assisting the club
In every possible way, but so far all efforts
OF the press committee to have Mr.. Tag
gart sit for hts picture, to be used in
connection with the meet Club work, have
failed The popular mayor is decidedly
slow on this proposition, and 1t was de-
termined at the last meeting Of the eX-
ecutive committee that unless he comes
up like the other members Of the commit
tee within a week, he viii be lassOed, tied
down and carried bodily to the photogra-
piers. Notice of such action has been
sent him and the result is awaited with
interest. Mr.. Taggart just now is one
OF the busiest men in Indianapolis. but
he always finds time TO discuss the meet.
He is as enthusiastic as he was at Phil
adelphia last August. and promises that
his city will give the visitors the waTmest
welcome that they have ever received in
any city.
One of the new committees in connection
with the Meet Club work Is the commit
tee of medical relief. and which is in
TO be hot in Indianapolis in August To
say otherwise would be to throw aside all
precedent and declare for something
which has not happened in the city since
the days of the earliest inhabitants. Dur
ing the week of the meet some of the vis-
itors are bound to overexert themselves
either by riding or having too good a
time Physicians will be on duty through
out the week at headquarters and also a.
the track. DR.. Moffitt has secured his
staff of assistants from among the best
physicians in the city. He has also secur-
ed the use of several of the hospitals and
private sanitariums. While there will be
no effort made to kill off the visitors, spe-
cial attention will be paid to their gener-
al welfare. During the week of the meet
every effort will be made to return ev-
cry visitor to his or her home in as good
condition as when they reached the Hoo
sier metropolis.
The three big local breweries have writ
ten Secretary Woolen of the '9S Meet Club
that they will keep open house during the
week of the meet and that all visitors
are cordially invited to visit their estab-
lishments, particularly the tap room. The
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