New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-26
CYCLING.
OTTO DoRNER's VIEWS ON ROADS. TIRES
AND RUTS

OTTO DORNER'S VIEWS ON ROADS, TIRES
AND RUTs.
LIST OF CONTESTS FOR THE STATE MEET AT
PATCHoGUE-THE WHEEL IN FOREIGN LANDS
NO NECESSITY FOR RACING on SUN
DAY IN THIS COUNTRY.
Otto Dorner the good roads advocate, says:
| next to water the greatest enemy OF good roads
yes of all roads-is the narrow-tired wagon. Mar
row tires Ind water. acting together. have given
our country roads a third dimension. They are not
only so many miles long and many rods wide but
they are deep-so deep. alas. at times that travel
over. or. rather. through. them is next to impos-
sible. A heavily loaded wagon always leaves It's
tracks on the highway, and the depth OF these
tracks depends upon the material OF which the road
is built. the weight OF the load and the width OF
the tires. The rut formed by the passing wagon
forms a trough for the rain. which, instead OF run
ming OF the side as It should DO remains to sink
into the roadway and soften II. The next wagon
finding the ground softer digs It's wheels deeper into
the surface, and so the work OF Generalization ana
| destruction continues. vide tire, on the other
hand Instead Of forming rut, will roll and harden
the road surface. By the use OF wide tires, every
loaded wagon can be turned into effective road
roller and made TO improve the roadway instead OF
helping 20 destroy g. All that Is necessary 10
make the best road in the world Is to make 1t solid
and to give It hard. smooth surface. Nothing so
much tends 10 accomplish this as the frequent use
OF road rollers Wide tires road rollers, and
therefore road makers Narrow tires are road de-
stoyers II wide tires could be adopted for general
use. every loaded wagon, which to-day helps to cut
up ana Gesr9y T9Se %ouG The prepe
OF wide tires Is 20 generally acknowiedged IN
prescribing their use Austria requires tires OF at
least four and one-third inches width. Increasing as
the load to be carried exceeds three and one-half
tons In France all freghting and market wagons
turned into road rollers by being required 10
requires four-inch tires for all wagons used for
heavy loads and Switzerland requires that they
regulations have been adopted for the protection Of
the hgh-class European roads built during the pres
ent century"
The races TO be held at Patchogue Saturday in
connection with the wheelmen's carnival and State
meet will be follows:
one-thrd-me novice; three prizes. .25. SIS and SO.
SS s19nss ss Haa g. anG sod
One-quarter- mile state championship prizes goid
silver ff 0 handcap three e1 Prizes and So
One-mile handicap; three prizes. $2S; s25 and SO.
on single wheels. First man to cross the line at
each lap five points, second man three points
and third man one point. valuable prize VIII be
given TO the winning team.
Between the contests there will be trick riding and
6n exhibition by the champion walker Donovan.
There some encouraging Things SAID AT the
Cyclists Touring Club dinner in London recently,
not few Of the points made by the speakers being
worthy OF wide publicity among wheelmen. The
statement by the chairman for example. when pro-
posing the toast OF the Houses Of Parliament that
hundred members Of those bodies were mem
bcrs o, the club. Of itself testimony to the
influential position now held by that organlzatio
Lord OF the Manor OF Ripley and an ardent rider
received with cheers had some pungent things
q aE on he OF he frpaf % "
by the railway companies. BY way Of contrast he
quoted figures from the returns OF the Paris, Lyons
and Mediterranean Railway. which showed that
that company carried thirty thousand bicycles in
special at the time OF the last manPuvres
At the Paris terminus Of this line there is accom-
notation for four thousand bicycles and attend
ants are specially assigned the duty OF housing
the machines putting them aboard the trains
The company has also made such arrangements
that at any station between Paris and Fontaine
beau wheemen may be sure that he Will be able
TO store his machine at cost OF only one penny
Lord Onslow described how he had always TO pay
fourpence least for the storage Of his machine at
English railway station and that he had fire.
quenty been confronted by the statement that there
were already twenty or thirty machines in the
cloakroom, and no more could be accommodated
There is a vast American element that considers
the first day OF the week not by any means day
for sport and this element will cling tenacousy
10 the League OF American Wheclmen and support
that organization in everything Just long
Sunday sport - recognized or tolerated by other
wheeling bodies The so-called liberal spirit Is
istcnce but at the time llberality need hardly
20 so far az 10 destroy the weekly day OF rest and
put Il on an equal footing with all other days.
Wc have vet 10 reach that period where 50 radical
compelled to work fourteen or sixteen
excuse for an open Sunday that permits such
men to witness sport; but In America, and espe-
ciaily In the East where easy working schedules
prevail with the SATURDAY half-hollday In addition,
ample opportunity is afforded the working classes
to Indulge in games and TO witness exhibitions OF
speed and skill without turning Sunday into fete
day. or, as Il is In France, day OF sport riot and
blCod."-(Cycling Gazette
The third annual open moonlight century run
OF the Waverey Bicycle Club was held on satur-
day night. in spite OF the rain. The start was
made $50 O'clock. and the riders completed the
run at O'Clock yesterday morning. More than
ore hundred persons took part. among them being
Mrs Hitchcock OF the Century Road club and
Miss NJ Ellmers All the riders. except George
Carter and ". S. Pitts finished together. Carter
and Pitts left the other riders at Babylon. and
completed the two hours before the Others
did. The made In two divisions. Thomas
Sweeney the captain OF the club. and Mrs Hitch
cock acted as pacemakers for the first division
and Harry Koch Of the club. and Henry Welman,
OF the Mutual Wheelmen. set the pace for the
Mutual Wheeinen. who had twenty entries. Some
OF the clubs represented were Penn Glen Wheel
Century Road Club and Brooklyn Bicycle club
The course from the clubhouse along the
Clubhouse. TO Freeport. to Babylon, back to Free
port. TO Crawfords on the Merrick Road. then TO
The clubhouse
AN ITALIAN WINS CYCLING GRAND PRIX
Pans June 6-The international Cycling Grand
Pnx vss won here to-day by Tommassel. an
Italian Meyers OF Holland. being second and
Mono Piedmontese third.
POLO ASSOCIATION OFFICERS.
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Of the National Polo Association was held at Savn
Rock this afternoon when officers were