New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-04
CYCLING.
READS THRONGED YESTERDAY AND "A
BIG TURNOUT EXPECTED TO-DAY.
PACED RACING TO BB TRIED AT MANHATTAN
BEACH-MURPHY SAW MURPHY RIDE-MAU-
RICE o. ELDRIDGB on THE COST

| BEACH-MURPHY SAW MURPHY RIDE-MAU-
RICE o. ELDRIDGB on THE COST
or GOOD ROADS.
| The large number Of people seen the roads
| yesterday showed that many places of business
had given their employees half holiday before the
| Fourth On the popular wheeways in the SUBURBS
| II looked not unlike turnout generally seen only
| on Sunday or holiday. The fact that the scnoois
| were closed enabled the children and the teachers
| 10 get out the roads, and they were there ."
| large numbers With fair weather to-day the
turnout Of wheelmen promises to be the largest o
| the year. Large parties from some or the prom-
| nent clubs left here on tours last night and they
will not return until Wednesday, Those fond OF
racing will have a chance to witness some contests
at Manhattan Beach this afternoon. The principal
| feature OF the meet at the Beach Will be paced
race between Fixes and Gardner. This will be
Gardner's first attempt in the East at TINS sort OF
part OF the work satisfactorily an interesting con
test may result But the large 0ody S S wne o
parenty much for racing, II the attendance at
Throughout the State however, the veliest inter-
est is felt in the meets where amateurs compete
| financial as well a racing point of view
! 1t will probably be long time before the echoes
| OF Murphy's ride behind a locomotive at haywood.
| Long Island. will have died away. Among the in
terested spectators at the marvellous ride last Fri
day individual who sat on the railroad
bankment the start. He a queer looking
old fellow, and It did not require second glance to
| determine that he was native OF the Emerald
to poke fun at him, but the lively interest he dis
played in the preliminary movements OF the train
fellows to let him alone Finally one OF them
thought that Murphy would be able to ride %i mile
minute. That he will, me youngster," said the
| a Murphy ride a mile a minute and If a Murphy
can't do II. nobody can: Now, put that in yer pipe
travel thousand miles to see Murphy ride mile
a minute" His name was Murphy. too.
| Maurice o. Eldrdge. assistant in the office of
| Road Inquiry, at Washington says, In speaking OF
| the cost OF good roads: THE Improvement of
try roads Is chiefly economical question relating
principally to the waste OF effort in hauling
bad roads the saving In money, time and energy in
| hauling over good ones. the initial OF mprov-
ing roads. and the difference in the cost OF main
tanning good and bad ones 1t is not necessary to
| enlarge this subject In order to convince the
average reader that good roads reduce the resist
to traffic. and consequently the cost OF trans
portaton Of products and goods to and from farms
and markets is reduced to a minimum. The initial
cost of road depends upon the cost Of materials.
| labor machinery. the width and depth TO which the
material is to be spread and the method OF con-
structlon. All these things vary much in the
different States that Il is impossible to the
exact amount for which mile OF a certain kind Of
road can be built.
THE introduction in recent years OF improved
road building machinery has enabled the author-
ties In some Of the States to build improved stone
and gravel roads quite cheaply. Frs-class single
| track stone roads nine feet wide have been built
near Canandagua. n Y, for 5000 to $1,000 per mile
NewsJersey for siooc to 800 per mile The u ma a.
terial OF which they were constructed was placed
rolled. and the whole mass consolidated to thick
OF Te beaS Ss r the @ re %
varying In width from nine to twenty feet and in
Telford roads fourteen feet wide and ten twelve
inches thick have been built in New-Jersey. for
built at Bridgeport and Fairfield Coma ma eighteen
to twenty feet wide for 5000 to 5000 per mile. A
MILE MseaSam roads nave been bSt 0 RSoe s gr
and. sixteen to twenty feet wide for $4,000 to 5000
per mile
Some OF the important League OF American
Wheelmen meets at which local riders may
compete to-day the following: De witt
brothers. Binghamton. n. Y; C. c. Nells. Cana
joharie. n. Y; G. n. Y l. A. A.. Laurel Hi. n. Y:
at Campbels Point. n. Y; Separate Company Ma
tional Guard. Schenectady. n. Y: St. Marys Ath-
letic Club. Wappingers Falls. n. Y: ]. H. Nc
CURE. Johnstown, n. Y: Clinton Agricultural So
cety. Plattsburg n. Y: Lagoon Syndicate, AL
bany, n. Y; Catholic Club Sag Harbor. n. T.:
Young Mems 5, GhTistien AssoclatiSn Cortland.
letc Association, Syracuse. n. Y; Rockand Ath-
ss sns sF valley ws n END whs.
men, wkesbarre. Penn; Hazeton Driving
s Rhad Gafy
toona. Penn: Mahanoy, City Athletic Association.
ton; Lewistqn. Penn; Red Bank Wheemen Red
Roleston Wheel Club Leominster. Mass f. Whit
nrey Springfield VI: } \. Easand Great Barring
shaw Putnam. Conn and II. NJ. Clark. Ware,
Captain Reith. OF the Harlem wheelmen
nounces that will be held during the
present month. with the exception OF a trip to
Valley Stream, Long Island next Sunday where a
ball game will be played with the Century Wheel
men OF this city. This is the game which was
scheduled. as the star attraction Of the Associated
Cycling Clubs outing. which held at College
Point June % The incement weather which
marked that day prevented the game mentioned
The club is nothing If not versatile. Early last
fall gun club formed from the club
bership and some presentable scores at the traps
result Later a minstrel troupe with chorus
Of forty trained male voices made bid for popu-
baseball team that is yet undefeated a racing
team that now stands first in the contest for the
forming completes the list of attractions offered
mem a1SR that incudes some Of the pTomnen
wheelmen Of the district.
Tripets are beginning to be seen upon the roads
now in increasing numbers This is explained by
the fact that their day has gone by as pacing in
struments. and that the traders only too will
ing TO hire them out at moderate price A trio
of friends readily muster enough money TO
take of these machines out at the end of the
week. trplet runs as easily a tandem. and
IS far lighter than quad.
According to a report from Brussels. the demand
for complete machines Is slower but the reason is
not far to look for. as there are a number Of small
makers who make up complete bicycles from
American supported component parts
racing men. do not cranks over six and three
quarter inches, though their gears are much over
hundred. This is fact worth remembering
in long-crank discussions.