New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-04

Dad book of the League Of American Whee.-
men and from recent reports brought IN oy yetr
eran road riders who are experts IN nhuihe hem
routes Staten Island is sixteen miles long D!
eight miles wide and, for its size, has propaply
more fine roads than some states. Az presehl
there are 125 miles of macadamlzed roads on
the island, and asphalt is pracucay u nm pa~
there. The citizens of the island down the Bay
are good road workers, and project Is now
under foot looking toward the comPielion pi q
fine boulevard. one hundred feet wl1e WIZ,
will when finished. run from the KChinoho
Road 10 the South Shore This road VIII not De
finished for a year, and II will cost SloVVo, ~
will be about six miles long. There are seVeIaI
ferries which can be taken to the lsiaho' as 'he
map Will show.
with continued fine weather to-day wheemen
will turn out by the thousands Most OF the
roads are reported TO be in excellent condition
and light shower this morning, followed by
clearing weather would not njure them.
Many touring parties have been arranged for
to-day, one OF the most interesting being that
composed OF the League Of American Wheelmen
members who left for the Delaware Water Gap
yesterday. and who will wheel back to the city
to-day Some Of the most important club runs
are as follows: Amphion Wheelmen to Yonkers,
Battery Wheemen to Plainfeld. n. j.; Bay
Ridge Athletic Club TO Queens, Bay View
wheemen to Highland Beach. Bushwick Wheel
men TO College Point. Castle Point Cyclers to
Queens Park, Centaur Wheelmen 10 Morristown.
~ j.; Eureka wheelmen 10 Englewood. Greater
New-York Wheelmen to City Island, Madison
Wheelmen 10 Rockaway, National Athletic Club
TO Ridgewood, n. j.; Nassau Wheelmen TO Tot
tenville Newport Wheelmen TO Grasmere
Staten Island; Penn Glenn Wheelmen to Coney
Island Prospect Wheemen 10 Paterson, RIVER
side Wheelmen to Coney Island, st. George
wheelmen 10 Rosyn, Vigilant Bicycle Clut
around the city. and Wolff-American Wheelmer
10 Coney Island.
This year marks the twenty-firs anniversar!
Of the birth OF the Cyclists Touring Club, a bod!
that boasts membership of upward Of fifty
five thousand. and that has served as the mode
on which other touring clubs have been fash
Toned. The coming OF age of the Cyclists Tour
ing Club is to be celebrated in twofod way
first. by holding in London the first annual con
gress Of the Lgue Internationale des Associs
tions Touristes, formed In Luxembourg yea
ago, and second, by carrying out an ofhcit
tour which is TO start from Harrogate, the brit
place of the Cyclists Touring Club early
August for the round OF the English lakes. III
proceedings in connection with the congress wi
be opened at the Hotel Cecil by an official n
ception OF the delegates on Tuesday, and II
remainder OF the week Will be absorbed by bus
ness meetings and by the excursions whic
have been arranged much after the tme-hol
ored method OF the British association III
dinner will be held in the grand hall OF II
Hotel Cecil on Wednesday. when large nun
Der OF members of the Cyclists Touring Gu
and their friends OF both sexes are expected
attend Colonel T. j. keenan,, president Of II
League OF American Wheelmen. Will be one
the guests.
THE Wheel" the pioneer bicycle journa
comments at length in its latest issue on II
racing situation II seems 10 nit the ma
squarely on the head when II says EDITORIAL
Near the middle Of New-York Bay IL revolvii
light. From distance it's Dubious glow
almost large q that Of the rising moon. .
closer range Il is smaller. Certain NewYork new
papers nave undniy enlarged the ,i SIZE ana II
yaniza tion-the n. c. A. or National Cycling A
ISOLATION. This 10 enterprfsing, but II Is not IA
Cyclists In this country and those foreign and
tsrnational organizations whose racing intsres
are entwned with those of the United Stat
should know the truth. Whatever the iapts OF I
League Of American Wheelmen may De. the