New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-08-15
CYCLING.
FIRST DAY OF THE LEAGUE OF AMER1-
CAN wHEEI.MEN MEET AT BOSTON.
BOATS AND TRAINS THRoNGBD WITH CYCLISTS
on THEIR WAY TO THE HUB-THE PoFU-
LARITY OF THE AMERICAN WHEEL


on THEIR WAY TO THE HUB-THE PofU-
LARITY OF THE AMERICAN WHEEL
NOTES AND COMMENTS
The annual reunion and meet OF the League oil
American Wheelmen began In Boston yesterday
and the festivities will be continued right through
the week While many club men and unattached
riders started on Saturday and Sunday. the num-
her which left yesterday large that the
transportation companies found 1t Impossible 10
accommodate the late arrivals. at least on the
boat lines going to Providence and ran RIVER
Il was impossible to get berth on either OF those
lines after 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Most
Of the travellers took their bicycles with thcm
Large continRcnts OF wheelmen left the Grand
Central Station on the trains which started Mt
and 5 p. m. and many more went on the nldnight
train es'ercay wa %, sitabe hotel and boarding
house accommodations. and generally to getting
noints but the sports and entertainments will be-
gin i'm earnest to-day. Racing VIII pay an I'M
pnv Two DAYS. or at most three days have been
devoted to racing but this year tnere wi, rde re
Of this country will he present, as wei as me ma
jority OF tho foreign riders who took part IN me
International championship contests nj Moh'reai
last week
The first annual meet OF the White Plains Wheel
men will he held on the one-half mile track of the
Westchester County Horse Show Association at
the Fair Grounds White Plains. N y. on Sep
tember &C. The contests will he a one mile novice
race open; a one mile county championship; one
mile ha ndicap open: "A five mile team pursuit race
for county teams only two mile handicap, OPEN
a motor exhibition for county records, proies-
sionaI race and several match races. captain
Charles P saubach. of Company X. sth Regiment
will referee the contest Entries GIoTT on Sep'em
Belgian correspondent OF an English exchange
observing the almost total disappearance OF En-
rlish wheels from the market undertook to hnd
out the cause ut Is the American machine ne
writes that has literally crowded the English
wheel out Of the Continental market. and the rea-
aons enpear TO be logical. one dealer told me
that the quality Of the English machine was too
good for the present demand. An enthusiastic
wheelman nowadays wishes to change his machine
every two years at the most and this INDUCES MN
10 pay less for a machine than he would were he
10 look for one that would last him years. This
changing OF fashion and keeping up to me ,imes
has therefore completely thrown the high priced
Of the wealthy classes will no longer pay the
prices. and are demanding wheels at from $40 TO
SIS at the highest. This enables them to change
their machines at will without too heavy loss
for a second hand machine to-day, no matter how
Srns Do more than So such is the state Of the
market. Machines that formerly sold readily az
slCO and H25 can longer find buyers with the
result that English concerns are no longer rep
resented at Brussels"
MANY wheemen purchase a mount every
err Assuming that a person does only fair
amount Of riding, this IL good practice; but In
cases where the machine is used every day and
gets a lot OF wear, It is advisable. when possible
TO keep two bicycles. Most people are unaware
OF the change which takes place In metal when
IA constantly subjected strain and Jar. and
which in bicycle Is generally alluded To "a IA
ticue.' sort OF disqualification takes place. and
the particles Of the metal forming the tube tend
TO separate from each other. II any one would
take the trouble TO cut piece OF tube which has
boen I'm daily use bicycle for conslderaOle
period and examine It with a magnfying glass
and then cut piece OF tube he would see
tallization weakens the tube until some day 1t
suddenly snaps off Had the bicycle not been
used every day this would not have occurred
Rearing this In mind constant riders would 10
well 10 keep a full roadster for rough work on bad
roads and a lighter wheel for fast riding under
favorable circumstances"
ST. Louis now has an automobile street cleaner
which performs its duties as capably as and with
greater facility than the great. cumbersome device
now so familiar The automobile is itself OF or
dinarr construction. that the brushes, which
rcvolve in the much after the fashion Of the
old sweeper are operated by electricity. which
than they were driven under the old plan.
a country rector who believes in trying 10 at
tract riders NJ tho wheel now offers in
ducoment tea at close Of service"