New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-01

Mckeon appropriation bill the Borough OF BROOK
lyn Will have 100000 to spend for local street I'M
provement. The officers Of the associa ton believe
,ha at least part Of this should be u ssG
that with good road this thoroughfare would ma Ike
wards in this district. 1t would connect with the
macadamIzed system al Slytieth-st and open n
new route for drivers and wheelmen.
Another Improvement which wheelmen watch
ing for closely is that of the paving OF the APP
proaches TO the Harway-ave. bridge. Coney
Island. AS soon this work has been finished A
new and much desired route TO Concy Island will
be opened TO the riding public. 1t will take also
much OF the crush Off the Boulevard and the cycle
paths. The road connecting Cropsey-ave with the
bridge has been finished. but In the opinion OF
some expert road men the work has not been done
bridge the street has been paved to the bulkhead.
but beyond that considerable work Is yet 10 be done
An expert rider is able to ride there at present
but the prudent ones prefer to walk and trundle
The wheel for about 500 feet The repaving Of West
head. will be finished shortly. according to
promises.
The pen with which Governor Roosevelt signed
the Ellsworth Cycle Path bill was given TO W. s
Bull, the secretarytreasurer of the NewYork State
Division OF the League of American Wheemen
Mr.. Bull was at Albany when the Governor signed
the bill and he says that the threatened opposition
to the measure did not deve1op I'VE will have
before long perfect network Of cycle paths
through the State" said Mr.. Bull yesterday. on his
roe County. where 100 miles Of cycle paths have
already been built The Oneida County Wheeway
League has also done good work I'm cycle path
building, nearly all Of the paths being built by
private subscriptions.
AZ a meeting and dinner OF the Apothecaries Ri
cycle Club. held Thursday. the following officers
elected for the year: President. Sidney
Faber; captain. F. W Stechmann. lieutenant. Louis
+. Gregorius; bugler. Charles +. Schnkel; treas
urer, George Leinecker. and secretary. Hugo Kan
trowitz
The route TO he followed by the Century Wheel
men of New-York on their opening annual photo
graph Sunday will be follows: Starting
from clubhouse. No. JAG West Seventy -frst-st.. at
p. m. TO Boulevard TO One hundred a nj eighth
St. to Riverside Drive. to Grants Tomb. to one
hundred-and -eighth-st.. to Boulevard. TO Manhat
tan-ave., to Morningside Park photography to one
hundred nd-thirty -ffth-st to Fifth-ave to Wash
ington Arch TO Eleventh-st. to Greenwich ave, to
Eighth-ave.. 10 Boulevard. to Seventyfrst-st., to
clubhouse.
The swndler who has been victmizing people in
has been at work on each side OF the East River
victim membership in the organization he throws
a oco-covered tour book any number Of patent
lock bicycle racks and life insurance for $l,00
a year which carries with IL 81 a week in case OF
accident 10 the rider. The League Of American
the fellow. who is described as man Of good al
dress. about fortyfve years of age who wears dia-
monds in his cravat and on his fingers.
The wheelmen Of Buffalo interested in new
bicycle track which will be built in that city.