The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-27

cycle clubs of the city. The l.. A. w
club is to hold its annual election of
officers the first Monday in April Last
year the membership of the club ran
up as high as 200, and it has been pro-
posed to select club house somewhere
on the hill.
A plan has been suggested which is
meeting with favor among the more
aggressive members of the club 1t Is
to build pavilion at the end of the
Smelling avenue rath and cooperate
with the Minnesota Driving club. The
matter will receive consideration at the
annual meeting. H..
The members of the Laurel Cycle club
are lust about to close their winter
and spring festivities, and outline a
programme for the summer months.
meeting of the board of directors
will be held in the near future when
several good things will be considered
The club is increasing in membership
and its club house on Sixth and Sum-
NIT avenue Is ever, a popular rendez-
Vous for the habttues of the wheel
The Capital City Cycle club is just
experiencing a season of spring-time
awakening. and expects the c. G.
c. c.. at the head of the list this year
Among its members are some of the
hardest riders in the state, and they
constantly keep in practice. E. J.
Fouch, the captain of the club, has or
ganized squad of twenty-five picked
men who will. during the summer, be
a feature of cycle affairs.
The interest which is being taken
by the wheelmen Of the city in the con-
struction of cycle paths this spring,
will undoubtedly be productive Of an
additional appropriation by the city
council for paths this year. At pres
ent there Is a small amount available
for this purpose. 1t has been suggested
that 1T be used for the work of repairs.
Unless other funds notwithstanding the
appropriation will be utilized e<
The blue sweater and. attractive trim
mings have become quite familiar in
the city, as the club now numbers 125
members, nearly all of whom are ac-
tive members.
The club will devote itself to general
athletics this year. Plans towards this
end are fast reaching completion. The
club will have a base bail nine, and
and number of other adjuncts, Of a
we'll organized athletic association, en-
joying all the functions of outdoor
exercise.
1t has been said that several of the
bicycle clubs will join the L. A w.
in a body this season!5
William B. Geery has been perform
ing Mr.. Anderson's duties as treasur-
er of the Cycle Path association during
the absence of that gentleman from
the city. A list of canyassers for the
cycle path fund has been compiled this
week from the census reports Of the
associated wheelmen. About 100 men
will begin an active canvass for the
dollars as soon as they are equipped
with the proper treasrurer's receipt
books.
The Minneapolis Cycle Path associa-
ton starts in the season with 1881. 40
on hand. The board Of directors met
this week and decided to petition the
council for an appropriation to meet
the expense of repairing the paths al
ready built. They also adopted a
course Of action for the year.
The first work will be on the Lake
street and Minnetonlxa path, from
Lake street and Calhoun boulevard to
the city limits, and then in Coop
Grafton with the county surveyor. Mr.,
Abbott, to ChoWens' Corners.
The other proposed Minneapolis paths
which will interest st. Paul riders are:
Portland avenue, from Thirty-eighth
street to Minnesota Valley and Fort
Smelling; Como avenue, from Fifteenth
avenue southeast to the city limits;
Cambridge street (and other streets
not yet determined upom to the east
end of Washington avenue bridge and
to the city limits on University ave-
nue. southeast.
The record at police headquarters for
1897 shows that lis wheels were re-
ported lost or stolen in this city last
year About two-thirds of these We're
recovered. Altogether the police de
partment restored about $50 wheels to
their owners last season. This num-
Der includes those stolen in Minneap-
oils and other cities and afterwards
discovered here. There is a note of
warning in the record as it stands at
the police department, and that is in
respect to the description of machines
lost Nearly one-fourth Of the cyclists
who reported lost wheelssdid not know
the number of the machine, and thus
the best means Off Identifying the
wheel was lacking. s. This might in
cry
The county commissioning, of Mon
tana, are opposed to, the new road law
Of that state because it takes the pow
err largely out Of their .s. hands, and
places it in the hands of the county
surveyors, and they, therefore, will en-
deavor to have the law repealed.
The new law requires the surveyors
to divide their counties into road dis
tricts; to define the. public highways
and file maps of them with the county
clerk; to keep the roads in good re-
pair to make plans and specifications
for all roads and bridges to be built;
to examine the Same;' to Superintend
the construction of all roads; to employ
suita bic labor and teams, and to make
quarterly reports to the county COM
missioners.
When the residents petition county
surveyor to lay out alter or discon-
tinue road, the county commissioners
name one viewer, the surveyor names
one Of the petitioners as a second view
er, and he himself becomes the third
one and is chairman of the board. II
the viewers approve the petition, they
proceed to survey the road and report
to the county commissioners for ap-
prevail or rejection. The road may
then be constructed under the control
of the county surveyor. The surveyor
can contract for work to be done for
amounts not in excess of one hundred
dollars, provided the money required is
on hand. The office of road supervisor
is abolished, and it's duties are trans
ferred to the county surveyor.
There is at present going the rounds
of the press an item giving the num-
Der of fatal accidents in different
branches of sport since 1894. The COM
piler of the statistics says that the
number of deaths resulting from swim
ming has been $50; boating. 1856; hunt
ing, 654; horseback riding, $780, cycling
264. The approximate correctness OF