The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-12
WHERE WHEELS wHIRL.

A dry goods trade journal published
in New York has started department
If bicycle news. Next!
President Potter has been receiving
scores of letters recently from railroad
and steamship companies, saying hat
they are carrying wheels free rs bag
gage and will continue TO Go so and
that cyclists are always welcome as
passengers.
A meeting of the Board Of officers Of
the Pennsylvania division OF the
League of American Wheelmen has
been called for January is at Philadel-
phia. which is expected to result in the
Endorsement of George i. Gideon for
the presidency Of the big organization,
or at least a split in the vote of the
delegates, who have been instructed to
favor keenan,, who is TO run for first
vice president on the ticket headed by
Isaac Il. Potter.
a New York manufacturing firm has
brought out SIS wheel having a new
design OF sprocket and chain and
equipped with an American gear case,
as a model with which il VIII challenge
any chain or chainless wheel rs TO
running qualities. The chain ana
sprocket is Of a quasi trunion pattern,
the chain blocks fitting in between a
double row OF teeth. The drauSht on
the chain is central. The "aar case
used is one that was exhibited 1T the
Chicago show last January. This firm
says it has been testing the features
OF this particular model of wheel for
over nine months.
There is another scheme on foot to
gather all of the cycling clubs in
Greater New York into one organiZa-
ton. This combination, il effected,
i .f,,
and wheelmen will be together for one
aim and will work as a unit for the in
terests of the wheelmen, politically and
ted Cycling Clubs of New York
that is trying to effect this CONSOLE
dation. When the old Metropol-
itan Association of Cycling Clubs died
last year. the Associated Cycling Clubs
of New York took it's place with the
purpose of taking in all the associations
within a reasonable distance of New
York city.
]. Frank Starbuck has accepted Ar
thur Chase's challenge to race LIN.
Starbuck says: BY dispatches
teIegraphed from New York and
published in the Philadelphia pa
pers today l learn that Arthur
Chase. the middle-distance chan piOn
cycle rider OF England. is anxious To
negotiate a match with me. | shall be
more than pleased to accommodate the
British champion. After my race with
Ecouard Taylore l shall be ut liberty
10 entertain any proposition that Mr..
Chase desires to make. | will agree 70
l,de Chase any kind of n race, paced
or unpaced, any distarCc suitable u
L, tn parties, for any fair sum of
money, indoors or outdoors the pacing
TO be limited or unlimited, at Mr..
Chase's discretion. While / am ready
to race Mr.. Chase paced, / shall be
more than pleased to make an unpaced
match with him.
At the annual meeting of the Nation
al Cycle Board of Trade, to be held in
New York on January 10. it is n9ot i'm
probable that an effort Will be made to
reorganize the Board so that the voting
power will not be controlled by some
six or eight manufacturers, as is said
to be the case at present. The present
laws of the organization permit the
voting according to the number of
shares held by each stockholder If
six or eight manufacturers control
twenty-five shares individually they
can indorse any matter that may arise
The idea is to change this so that each
stakeholder will have but one vote, ir-
respective of the number of shares he
may hold in the organization.