The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-09
D0LLON SPEEDWAYTO.DAY
CHCELNe JEWELLER WANTS TO GER
IRRRSrED AGAIN.

win Refuse to Fey His Fine, and HIS Law
yer VIM Get n Writ Of Habeas Corpus
and Thus Get n Decision as TO the Right
of Ricyclists to Use the Speedway.
This aftsrnoon william Doll, the Maiden lane
ieweller who maintains that the Park Commits
sioners have no right TO keep bicycles OF the
Speedway. and has been arrested and fined So
for testing the right. is going to 90 on the
Speedway with his bicycle again. He expects
to be arrested-want TO be. In fact-and says
that with his arrest will begin q fight which he
Is confident will result In the new roadway be-
Ing thrown open TO every bicycle rider who cares
to use it. Mr.. DOLLS plan is. after being ar
rested. TO leave his bicycle at the station house
rs security for his appearance In court. He ex-
poets to get his case adjourned tomorrow. and
on Monday morning when rearraigned In the
police court he viii refuse to pay his flne-he Is
confident he will be flned-and will consequent
ly be locked up. Then his counsel. Col. Robert
1ngersoll. will get him out on a writ Of habeas
corpus. and the legal fight. which will deter
mine the right Of the Park Board to keep
wheelmen of the Speedway. will begin.
Mr.. Doll says that. while the League Of
American Wheelmen has made a deal with GER
tain horsemen to keep bicycles of the Speed
way in return for certain privileges. there are
thousands Of unattached wheelmen who are
"hh AA IA bo Aehb. Ao VIM " SSN CbChtSA
yesterday an interesting story OF his expert
enees with the authorities both before and
after his arrest last Tuesday.
In the 1rst place." he said. the statement
that / deliberately rode on the Speedway to get
arrested and make q fuss is false. Last Satur-
day afternoon I was out riding. and, IN entire
ignorance OF the fact that IL was contrary to the
will Of the Park Commissioners. 1 rode out onto
the Speedway. Amounted policeman yelled at
me. but I paid no attention to him. SO he
chased me and forced me to dismount by
crowding me into the gutter.
Il demanded his right to hold me up In this
fashion. and he showed me q type written list
OF things we couldn't do on the Speedway. 1
asked him to show nae a law prohibiting me
from riding my bicycle on the Speedway, but
NO, YOU won,,tr he said. because I'm GO
~FThis satisfied me. and we started away to-
Eether. When we got on the Speedway. he
said IN 2 patronizins sort Of way. that he
ordinances. and that he'd let me 60. This con-
vineed me that he. was doubtful about his right
Instead Of arrestins me himself he called
mount. and then took me TO the station house
at 152d street and Amsterdam avenue. To my
told me that he wouldn't hold me. and that
could 20 home. This strengthened my ,convie;
as S1R to the thei Tn Tis Rtt to le ssen Bicycles G of the eP speedt
way. It seems to me an outrage. too. that. the
city should spend millions fixing up a road fort
few horsemen, to the utter exclusion of every
Speedway again. As has already been pub
r 1sGgS; | S Eas eFrs MSsist aaa w Wen as1S SSa' f He
thought was wrong. but l maintained that
whether a bicycle was a carriage. II It was. he
admitted that / had a right, on the Speedway.
for 1t Is expressly stipulated thatlight carriages
pRn nO fhora and ~ n parrinQA AT ALL n hinYpla
The case Vas finally put of until Yesterday
yer that / went TO see advised me to talk the
the League Of American Wheelmen-an organi-
zation which he said, had the interests Of
ter's office he was not In. but | saw his partner.
Y. e.; Miner. who heard my story and grew ell
Greatl he said, tho very thing We want.
Mr.. Doll. the L. A. w. will fight this fight for
"Then he insisted upon my becoming u mem
Der OF the League, at once. Offering. to be my
sponsor. 1 gave hin a check for 81, the en-
Was summoned to the house of a lawyer named
Rosenfeld. who is counsel for, the League. l
found MT. Miner there. looking u bit crest
MIR, DOLL he said. 1t seems I made a mis-:
American &heelmen would take up your fight.
was nawar of an understanding between the
League and the he h2r sen The League is to
NSNl "a NhS SfSS "SyN eANa AA y
turn the hQrsemen are going to. assist the
League to obtain certain privileges
Then he offered me the 81 fee l had given
him earlier In the day. but [ declined it. Then
thetwo urged me to drop the fight. saying that
they. had fixed the matter with Magistrate
Wentworth 80 that I would not be fined in the
morning i dropped the matter and agreed to
sainp t IN Of pf foe sRftsie9w aSd LEFT / Fet thsm. to I e knew
that I was in the right. for that morning before
seeing Mr.. Miner I called on Secretary Holly OF
the Park Board and had him show me all the
laws relating TO the Speedway. There wasn't
one among them that gave the slightest right
that can be construed as permission for wheel
men to ride there.
We'll, yesterday morning l showed MagiS-
trate Wentworth that Webster's definition OF a
carriage was anything that carries or conveys;
q wheeled vehicle but 1t did no good. He fined
me So. Tomorrow, though. | will ride on the
Speedway. unless Col. Ingersol finds it impOs-
slble To- Eetthe hSbeas corpus application papers
Of. that is I'll fight this thing TO the end. and
I'm very sure that the upshot OF 1t will be that
the Speedway will be opened to all bicycle
riders"
The majority OF League wheelmen have no
sympathy with the effort Of William Doll to eS-
tablish the right OF bicycles on the new Harlem
support OF. but also a decided opposition to. his
position was demonstrated yesterday by sew
eral League members who. not knowing that
his fee had been practically returned to him.
called at the office of the New York State Di-
vision to say that they would protest against
| Doll becoming a member OF the i. A. W.. This
is unusual. and demonstrates the opposition Of