The times., 1898-07-19
THE COMMITTEE At WORK
indianapolis Preparing for the
l.. A. w. Meet Next Month.
ENTERTAINMENT OF VISITORS
On the Opening Day Governor
Mount VIII hold a Reception ut
the State HGusc-Entry Blanks
VIII He Ready This Week-Broad
Ripple and MiIlersviiIe Paths.

Indianapolis. Ind. jury IS.-Special.-
The committee on entertainment and re-
ception, Hiram Brown, chairman, has
completed the program for the week of
the meet. The first of the list of enter
tainments which have Deen provided
will be the reception TO the wheelmen at
the State House, given Dy Gov. Mount
and the citizens of Indianapolis. This
viii occur on the evening of August Q.
Among the prominent men who viii as
sist at this reception are Gov. Mount,
Mayor Taggart, of indianapolis; Presi-
dent d. NJ. Parry of the Meet Club: Hi-
ram Brown president of the local l.. A
w; President T. B. Potter, of the L. A.
w. and Secretary Bassett. The visitors
will all be given an opportunity to meet
these gentlemen during the evening. The
State House will be thrown open TO the
visitors. and the whole building viii be
elaborately decorated. A concert will be
held during the course of the evening,
and arrangements have been made TO
have the upper corridor used for dane
ing.
On Thursday evening two dig concerts
VIII be given in the city parks. These
parks VIII DG illuminated Especially lOT
the occasion with electric lights and
japanese lanterns and will oe given up
entirely for the entertainment of the
visitors Military bands viii play at
both Garfield and Fairv.ew parks. These
places are in close connection with the
city, and can easily be reached over good
streets and roads by wheel, while the
street car service will enable persons 10
reach them 10y few minutes ride from
the hean. Of the city.
Entry blanks FOR the national meet
will be sent out the first Of this week
They are now in the hands of the chair
man of the racing committee, Herbert
FoatZ, VINO IS waiting the approval of
Chairman Mott before sending them to
the riders.
The two-mile multiplet handicap, which
has excited so much attention has been
finally decided as to the way ii shall be
run. AS it now stands, it viii be a null
tiplet paced handicap. The entry blank
for this event will read as follows: EN-
tries for this race will be received from
| single riders with mutt:plet pace, each
entrant TO state the style of machine to
be used but not necessarily the names
of his pacemakers. The handicaps will
be made on rhe ability of the single rid
ers and the finals Will include those ma
chimes qualifying in trial heats. whether
single or muficycle. Entries for this
race will be confined to four of each
| class of multiplets, those received first
having the preference"
Chairman FoltZ has Incorporated an
| idea in the form of entry blanks for the
national meet, which viii be of great
value to he newspaper men at that
time. This is in the form of a stub Civ
ing a fun description of each rider. the
name of the wheel and also the size OF
the gear used. 1t is also requested that
| a photograph be SEN with the return OF
/ the entr This will do away with the
usual trouble which is met with in OBJ
tanning that data concerning the men
who take part in these meets.
| The meet which will take here on the
| 9th promises to be very successful. The
| entries will not be confined to local rid
| ers but will come from riders from all
over the State and from adjoining States.
All those that expect to take part at the
| national meels are taking these opportun-
! tiles to accustom themselves to the new
| track Most of those that were here on
| the 4th will be here and several oshers
! will also appear.
| The board of county commissioners de-
| cided today to cooperate with the wheel
way league and build cycle path from
| Millersville to Broad Ripple, connecting
the two wheelways, one the famous Broad
| Rinnle and the other the Millersville path.
This will give the bicyclists a ride. over
paths built especially for them, of six
| teen miles, and it should prove one of the
biggest attractions of the meet. The COM
missioners will begin work on the new
| path lust as soon as there is heavy
| rain SO that the scrapeFs can be used to
| advantage.
They are now formulating a plan to
/ build paths at the side of all of the gravel
roads in the county, and the members of
! the board say that next Spring this will
| be done In another year Marion County
| will be better equipped for cyclists than
| any other county in any State in the
| Union. In constructing the new path, a
| 5-foot path will be pianed at the side of
/ the road and separated from it by drain.
| The planed surface will be rolled and