The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-08-22
CANNOT AGREE
ON THE PRICE.
Bicycle Races Not to Be Held
On Labor Day In Canton.
OBJECTS TO THE SPRINKLER.
wheelmen Want Some Discrimina tion
Used-Couhtry Roads In Stark
County Bicycle Thief at
Work.

DBeO-COuhITy IN SShIh
County Bicycle Thief at
Work.
Fred Lehman, who was Injured In the
East Liverpool races is out again but
still carries his arm in a sling and Is
not quite as jovial as his wont.
The Tip Top Bicycle Club, of Akron,
O., will be entertained Sunday by the
Canton Bicycle Club, at their club
house in East Fourth street. Hence
there will be no Sunday run.
On the strength of several new mem
berships to the Canton Bicycle Club,
that association will commence work
on an addition to their club house
next week. BY his arrangement they will
be enabled to have separate reading
room.
Still they come, and here are the
names of those whose love of cycling
was made manifest inasmuch as they
were the purchasers of wheels during
the past week. Miss Courtney, Miss
Perry, M. e. Poole and Louis Goldsmith
each a Pierce; Miss Ryder b. F. Skunk,
| S. A. Ryder and p. Reemsnyder each
Pathfinder; David Eschler a Dayton.
There will be no bicycle races in
Canton on Labor Day. This statement
was given ont by the Canton Bicycle
| Club and therefore can be relied upon.
Negotiations for the use of the track
were to have been concluded this week
but as the price asked for the use of
the track was out of question the mat
| ter was left drop. While much disap-
pointed that there will be no meet
this year the promoters of the projected
races say they will never again be
caught in such a helpless condition.
Rather than this state of affairs should
occur again a track will be built by
the bicycle people to be used exclusiv-
ly for the furtherance of cycling in
general. If this plan will be carried
out the cyclists will never again be dis
commoded at an inopportune moment.
More to be pitied than the man, who,
when not in the country several miles
discovers the chain to be missing from
his wheel, therefore walking home, only
to find to his discomfeiture, that he had
chainless, is the cyclist, who when out
of sight Of anywhere gets an inconveni-
ent ,'unctue and is compelled to be-
come a pedestrian again for the time
| being. Far more.
The bicycle thief is taking things easy
these cool evenings and more
than one wheelman has Joined forces
with the uninitiated by reason of the
nefarious visits Of the former. AS yet
not one of these miscreants have been
apprehended, due in most part to their
foXlike cunning. recent case will IL
lustrate how such operations are con-
Quoted. AS two we'll dressed young
men came out of Court street restau-
rant, one of the two carelessly remark
ed to q passer by that he would give
him a quarter If he would shove his
wheel along. OF course the Opportu-
nifty was Immediately approved and the
third party took the wheel which was
standing at the curb and followed af-
ter the two until after the police sta
tion was passed and no one in the near
vicinity, then the stranger took the
wheel, mounted it and rode away,
leaving his companion to dispose of his
time as he may and the man whom had
helped him to carry out his plan, to
mourn broken promise. or course the
wheel was not the property of the
stranger as he asserted bur added an
other to the already lengthy list of
purloined wheels.
The expression ''as bad as a country
road" has always become a byword
with the American people. There is
no nation of people in the civilized
world, who as much need improvement
in road building as those Of the United
States. In the first place the American
method of road making is Of the most
primitive consisting chiefly in plowing
the bitches at the sides into the road
proper, leaving 1t in an almost impass-
able condition and having much the
same appearance as newly plowed
field. With the vast possibilities at the
disposal of the people of Stark county,
it speeks lily for us to keep our roads
| in such frightful condition.
| Wheelmen alone cannot accomplish all
these much needed changes, but should
have the farmers and users of the roads
in general in working favor Of their
cause. BY this union much could
quickly and easily b accomplished at a
minimum of cost which would prove
of mutual benefit. Nothing twill ever be
accomplished by the present method OF
pulling apart,
If there is one thing more than an
other, which rises the ire of the
sweet tempered cyclist that credit oi
rather discredit must be awarded the
solid line of profusely watered streets, Of
more pointedly, the people who cause
them to be so. When there are people
whose duty 1t Is to keep the streets IL
a presentable condition, 1t is a matte
of much conjecture why private par
ties should appoint themselves to thi
branch of service. Wheelmen are no
generally disposed to pass lightly owe
such offenders in fact they are NOR
inclined to use vile language" whei
speaking of these self conceived publ
J benefactors. After spending hours o
unremitting toll attempting to brinl
back to their former cleanliness bad
! ly soiled suit of clothes, soiled by
solid stream of water and mud spat
tered all over his heretofore spotles
clothes faalinR Of brotharIv love m