The record-union., 1899-12-04
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
STATE ASSOCIATION-C. G. w.
AFFAIRs-A LECTURE.
Care Of the Chain-The Wheel In
War-Automobile Cost-The
Wheel and Accidents.

W0ee4 and Acc1denCs.
Professor Benjamin Ide Wheeler
President of the University of Call
fornia, has consented to lecture before
the Capital City Wheelmen for the
benefit of the building fund on Tine
Olymp1an Games and Their Revival III
Athens" The lecture will be Illus
trated with beautiful stereoptlcon
views. AS to when it is to take place
rs as yet undecided, a date when an
auditorium can be had and when Fro
Iessor Wheeler can come, being some
what difficult to agree upon. 1t Will
be great treat, and pack any audience
chamber in the city. Professor
Wheeler was in Athens in 1898 at the
revival of the games, and his descrip-
ton Of them is exceedingly eloquent and
is full of educational value.
The c. c. W. have taken the night
of Washington's Birthday as the date
for the Clubs annual ball. The success
of that of last year has raised expec-
tation concerning the second affair that
will put the Social Committee to its
stumpS to meet.
The Board of Governors of the c. A.
G. c. failed of a quorum Saturday night
at San Francisco and adjourned until
the last Saturday evening in January,
1900, when the annual election will
take place. 1t is taken for granted that
the association will then resolve to
limit itself to road racing, so far as
races at all are concerned, and turn
over the track racing jurisdiction to the
National Association. Whether Presi-
dent Nippert will consent to reelection
in January is in doubt. He ought to
consent for he is the right man in the
right place, and the policy he has
i. adopted he should be allowed to fully
develop. He is unselfsh, devoted and
progressive and is popular with all with
whose good favor is worth having. The
associations very life depends upon an
able, self-sacrificing President being at
the head for the new year. which is to
be reorganization era for the associa-
ton.
Mr. Mackie of the Olympic Club gave
the Capital City Wheelmen a talk last
Monday night. He conceded that the
.Olympics had been fairly beaten in the
late race with the local club, but held
that it was not really a fiftymile race,
but only ten five-mile races with tag
ons" and eighth-mile sprints. His idea
is to have the Olympics come here again
and meet the c. C. W., preferably to the
latter going to San Francisco, but to
have it a straight fifty-mile race, the
pairs in each relay starting from OPP
posite sides of the track. This will
make, he says, a square test of good
riding, with no pace probable and nc
sprinting out at the finishes by men neck
and neck. He urged this idea strongly
but it did not appear to meet with
much favor, though listened to with in
terest. At any rate when the next
match is arranged the subject will be
one for very lively discussion.
''Huzzal" shouts the multitude
A woman yonder is being crowned
with laurel.
Is she a poetess? Or has she put VI
a can of preeminent preserves?
Neither.
She is the only woman who has ever
wheeled 346 consecutive centuries with.
out going insane.
Then, huzza.-Detroit Journal.
A Philadelphia man, according tt
1.-THE Record" who has just returned
from Paris, which is automobile crazy
says that the cost of maintaining one
would bankrupt the ordinary citizen
There are plenty to choose FROM" he
remarked, with steam, gasolene, pc
troleum or electric motors. These
range in price from $500 for a motor
cycle to $4,000 for heavy rigs suitable
for carrying four persons and driver
While in Paris I busted myself to the
extent of finding out how much it cos
to operate one of these carriages Fol
year it is about as follows: Case
lene, $3.50; lubricating oil, So 40: re
pairs to carriage, S102.50; repairs t.
machinery, S1S5; repairs to tires
$3.50; sundries, S64.S0; depreciation
$50; tax, 500; servant. 5000. Thai
makes total of SS72.75. Remember
this is for Paris, where my calcula
tions are based upon the actual expert
ences of friend of mine. But they
can't vary much in this country"
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1t is estimated that the bicycle side
paths to be erected in the various coun.
ties of Pennsylvania will cost $500 {
mile. The paths are to be raised twelve
to eighteen inches above the roa(
level The minimum width must bt
three feet and the maximum six feet
1t looks as if the motor vehicle would
follow closely in the track of the wheel
1t was only a little more than ten year.
ago that "safeties" began to be a pop
ular means of transportation, and ter
years from now the motor carriage viii
no doubt have a permanent hole
throughout this country.
New York Tribune: Most remarkable
of the seasons features is the increas
in the number of juvenile wheels il
use. Only few years ago a child O.
six or seven on a bicycle was a novelty
To-day there are hundreds of them il
this city. The little riders are seer
mostly in the streets where they live
coursing up and down on the asphalt
doing stunts" or playing game: