New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-18
4 WHEELNEN'5 AMBULANCE COhfo
COMPOSED OF RED CROSS GRAD
YATES.
THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN wHEELMEN ISSUES
NOTICE TO AMATEUR RIDERS OF THE
sTATE-THE TUBE TRUST
FORMED-A NEW RAG
ING AUTOMOBILE.

this new feature will prove to be as popular as IL
deserves. While the corps has been organized Win
the idea OF benefting the members or tnat partcu-
lar club the corps will give aid to the Injured when
ever a wheelmen Is met the road who needs
assistance f. J. Hughes. OF Roosevelt Hospital. Is
in charge of the ambulance corps. Some Of the
members will accompany the Century Wheelmen on
tenton Of the club to give the members OF the
also accompany the club members on their runs;
The club Is making arrangements TO pay It's ahhuai
bers will go among the Quakers in three sections;
One section Will leave this city on SATURDAY ana
viii leave on Sunday night and the third section
! will 90 by train Monday morning.
The member Of the National Racing Board of the
| League of American Wheemen for this State yes
| terday sent the appended circular, which will ex-
plain itself to every amateur racing man and pro-
| moter in the State:
Through its Racing Board the League of Ameri.
can Wheemen exercises Jurisdiction over all cycle
competitions exhibitions and record trials on tracks
and the tracks themselves within the United states
in any way be concerned or employed therein, AS
well all race promoters clubs. associa lions or
rules 'o Of said Board
ut acts as a governing body establishes rules
! for the conduct and government Of track races.
exercises its powers to prevent fraud or imposition
upon the public. and to enforce the mutual ooliga-
tions Of promoters and racing men"
Riders and promoters notified that the League
above extract from the rules, will strictly enforce
each and every of its regulations II Is In con-
thority and jurisdiction are recognized by eyer, every
its animation with ali governing organizations sus-
pended riders and promoters are Ineligible 10 par
number r" Of riders in the State of NewYork
have been transferred to the professional class ana
any riders competing against them, even IN the
! guise OF amateur race. Will be likewise ua Tins,
sgspende c 'n and the transfer and suspension win
be recognized by every other athletic government.
Riders particularly cautioned against ridng
| in sanctioned by the League OF
American wheelmen II they Do So they VIII r, pc
| will be granted them should they make application
for reinstatement Promoters are likewise eau eau
n G they Mill have to sg5 the FOR aGe
meets their tracks will be fined and suspended.
The Racing Board does not want riders, track
what they were doing when engaged In illegal rae
ing, hence this warning. which will be enforced to
the letter
| According to the manufacturers who were In this
city yesterday there developments in the
| bicycle trust. r. L. Coleman, OF the Western
! Wheel Works confirmed the information that the
steel tube trust had been formed yesterday at his
| Office. No IS Warren-st. 1t is understood that
this combination includes the Shelby Albany and
! Pope tube plants. as we'll about ten others.
output Of This country combnations in the
bicycle business now seem to be the n order of hs
the part makers there Is a saddle trust and tire
msnufacturers congregate. it was said last night
that the bicycle trust was making progress nicely
! but no one would vouchsafe any further informa-
| ton than that which has already been printed In
! The Tribune. 4r1 r.
| Convict labor and good roads n combination
which, Just at this time is a-important 10 Ken
lucky. Since the days Of Boone the State has
been mire all winter and under several inches OF
dust all summer, has been in the same cond-
ton as nearly any other State In the Union. To
remedy this condition is what causes the Ken
tuckians to think OF the before nioned combina
ton. The State Ill afford TO go TO the ex-
pense Of building system Of good roads. and In
| looking for alternative measure the wheemen
them out. The officers of the League Of American
Wheelmen have been in communication with
arly those interested in the good-roads move
ment. and in this way have received much en-
couragement Ii seems to he the consensus or
| opinion that the use Of convicts Is the only way
which the roads Of the can de Gy
| traffic at all seasons Of the year. In urging the
such use they would not be coming in contact with
class Of free labor as the a maG G
such little progress that there is no such thing as
go6d ToaGs are for the entire people and
the convicts being supported by the people, should
be made to build and repair them.
Anew racing motor or automobile, has been test
cd abroad with excellent results. It is said. 1t Is
the invention of Camille Jenatzy. Belgian in
ventor OF electrical motors for automobiles. The
| machine d
| pedo- boat or a double pointed cigar There
four wheels attached to the machine. and the mo-
torman or rider sits inside only his head and arms
being visible above the machine The motor
tried recently reduce the kilometre record on
straight course The trial made in the forest Of
St German. With a standing start the machine
covered the first kometre In Il AS seconds and
the second kilometre I'm "a seconds. Timers were
stationed midway OF the course. as well as at the
finish Those at the intermediate timing point
said that the machine went past them with pc
/ oil M IA
an undulating movement and what noise there
was not unlike the whir OF immense wings. The in
ventor calls his machine the 'Jamais Contente.'
He expresses the opinion that he Will be able to
make the motor travel at the rate Of seventy-fve
miles an hour. He says that he has already trav-
eIled fractions OF a mile at a speed which would
equal nearly sixty-six miles an hour.
Mathew Gibbs. prominently connected with cy
cling and a delegate to the Associated Cycling
Clubs OF this city. has given considerable thought
to the suggestion of wheelway on the Brooklyn
Bridge II have made the trip the Bridge
eral times" said Mr.. Gibbs yesterday, with the
idea of seeing what could be done. | am OF the
problem will be for the engineers TO agree upon
structure for wheels built level but outside OF
the roadways The additional strain the struct-
ure would amount to little, and IL will he easy
matter settle the approach question in this way
they reach the Bridge proper. when they could
turn off sharply side and q the special