The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05
NEWS OF THE wHEELMEN.
GOOD ROADS PROHISED TODAY III
THE WEATHER rs FAVORABLE

N-NN ---F 'NANA VIII AUAIn no
the Special PoInt OF lnierest- Moro NI.ncy
Needed FOR tho nnttrrS Park CScIe Path
RidiaE Under nin1culties on Lang Esinnd.
With clear skies all roads should DO in good
condition for riding to-day, although somewhat
dusty. Now that the weather department has
como TO its summer form, IL will be reasonably
safe for cyclists to attempt excursions at some
distance Tito tho country. and II will bo the first
Sunday when riders have been able to do so
without feeling nervous about the rain clouds.
There are still three regiments at Camp Black,
and Hampstead will probably again be tho chief
point OF attraction, for II Is likely that before
another Sunday the camp will be broken up and
removed TO Montauk Point, which IL 1877 miles
from New York. In New Jersey, on Staten
Island, on Long Island, and up the State tho
roads are all fine, except for a few bad holes with.
in the city limits and places whore repairs arc
being made. According TO the L.. A. W. State
Division report. the boulevard Is stlll torn UP
below SoVontieth street. Caution should be OK.
ercised at night on Seventh avenue because Of
piles OF building material. Eighth avenue, near
12Oth street. is being prepared for asphalt.
Boulevard Lafayette is unridable, and the
Ringsbridge road is Door above 20oth street.
For the rest part the report continues monot.
onously to r~eiterate that the macadam roads
arc good and the dirt roads fair. Relative to
ride to Camp Black. tho report has O statement
that might help q stranger who was going
across lots and was completely twisted In direc-
tion, but 1t would be OF no aid to one seeking to go
directly to the camp and return. The error In tho
ideas of the South Jersey correspondent who
furnished tho information to tho division, 10
best Illustrated by the paragraph in which 1t
resulted. which Is as follows: Route to Camp
B~lack-Ftoute by Jericho turnpike Is good to
Mineola and fair from Mincola to Garden City.
BY tho way of Queens and the new Hampstead
road, or the way of Locust avenue and tho new
Hampstead road, roads are in good shape"
The shortest and best routes to the camp were
published in THE Sun of May @. The best way
to consider the Information OF the State Division
Is as . Joke. Garden City is this side OF Mineola.
There is no new Hampstead road from Locust
avenue. Locust avenue ends at tho Merrick
pike, and there Is no new Hampstead road from
The latter.
In spite OF all that he has done to bring dis.
credit upon himself and the sport of cycling. and
notwithstanding the fact that no is ~self-con-
0cious. the scorcher evidently believes in him.
self and believes in searching. One of the species
to whom reporter of THE sun talked the other
day went oven further than admitting himself
TO be one of the nuisances and d~oggedly main
tHining his right to be such. He told a story ex-
Now, I'll tell you, he began, Il was taking
a sister-in;law of mine out a week ago. and she
was q girl who had not ridden a wheel more
than three times in her life. She hated scorch.
ing, or thought she did, worse than you. for you
Washington avenue, Brooklyn. over the brick
pavement, where the grade is such that you
want to do more work at back pedalling than
you usually 90 in climbing a hill. After her
the breeze growing sitter on her temples, and
saw the ground beneath and the landscape about
gasp and exclaimed. Isn't this glorious!' l
said. o course it is, but YOU want to look out
for the police. because you are seorching. you
police or anything She felt Just the way we
grand. l tell you, you will stop scorchinG Just
as soon as it ceases to be pleasuruble. The
Others on a road is great. Those who enjoy it
would not figure on a track, or L they could
proposition is not the same. 1t is like a country
deacon going to church behind an old gray
road and he always does it, yep. tell you. you
will see the end OF scorching when human M
and the gloat OF conquest are lost. and when itis
no longer enjoyable for a lone rider to rush
can do toward snnihilatine time and distane ne
and watch the trees flash by and feel the self
that he Is doing i ali himself. SSowS' that Is the
ecorcher.s side OF the story, ana. l tell you. it is
lis the bicycls a leg.pulling machine T. asks
country paper ana then correcting itself in
Jog but also the left Longer than 1t really ought
s Ioe 6sii" 4 Senhie~p oP ncs FhstSrss' he, hw IsSs a i! it.
ally stretched makes amy material difference
e a subject for, physioloFists. but many
that there is an apparent elongHtion Of
the legs in consequence OF riding. A
common remark OF dealers when a man buys a
wheel on which his foot Just reaches the pedal
stretch, you know. and it will 1T You all right"
This Is not the buncombe that i sounds like,
does reach the pedals properly, and the man
who starts with a low, easy reach usually finds
chatting in this line. says:
use Il 2+inch frame. even with a direct post and
the saddle down as far as II would go; l got a
plumb upon the frame could just manage to
work 1t. l wished for months that l had got a
ceased to bother me. ! forgot 1t. Last year 1
got . 24-inch frame, the ono l am riding now.
tho frame than on the first wheel l had In 1894,
but 1 am plenty low enough. 1t may be there
difference in the size of tho saddle itself, but /
ASSTo n been 1h takin 4bs som %S careful tb observations IEsI %M and
reach further than at first
A physician gives 1t as an off,hand opinion
S sI.s e Of t tfm O iaFS m UP t' s scS S9Ga for 1 tba mus mus.
nomenon to a slight extent, and that a man who
never rode before might be able to reach half an
tion or the denial of the fact, there 10 abundant
testimony to show that wheeling makes the legs
grow longer.
A BROADWAY dealer calls this bicycle wealth
en-" and adds that II he could only do as big
business every day as he did yesterday no
Eion for a summer home. From such remarks
70 appears that the trade IL prospecting under
alone in their EMULATION. The faces of the
roadhouBe keepers are beginning to relax. by
tomorrow they will wear smiles. and with an.
ether week Of clear skies they will forget tho
losses they have sustained. The boulevards and
roads have been alive with riders on every
day of this week.. Because of the rainfall tho
country has a richer Rreenness than is usual
even at the first of June. Best of all, the fair
days have come at a time when the nights also
are hne. Tho moon filed on Thursday. but 1t
will ahed broad mellow light for u week to
come. and those who love tho sweet dewy air
of the hours after sunset and like to ride when
the roads and fields wear the WitchinR pallor of
the moonlight should get out within .the next
few evenings; abundant opportunity will be
echeduied moonlight runs, but riders who
start out by themselves will not find the way
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