The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-07-13
NEWS or TUE WHEELMEy.
Rain Prevents First Night Meet at vAiisburgh
Progress of Mrs. Bayne.

Progress of Mrs. bayne.
II began to rain at yailsburgh at Q O'Clock last
night and II rained hard. Ii let up. but began
again before the boards Of the bicycle track
had a chance TO dry. In consequence the first
electric light bicycle meet was declared Of, The
lights were not lighted nor the gates opened
and about 1900 persons who ventured tho
weather did business with the nearby hotels.
An instance Of how il profits one to be a
l.. A. W. member was furnished yesterday at
the city headquarters " hen a stranger came
TO see about getting road books and maps.
Members get these free, but tho price OF the
New York State book TO outsiders Is s.. The
visitor objected to pay ing the price and was
told that for the same amount he could join
the League and get a New York book free. He
wanted also some New England. books and
when told that he could also get these at a big
discount II he was q member, he began to see
things In a new light.
MILWAUKEE, July i2.-The most interesting
feature OF the L.. A. W. race meet yesterday was
Charles A. Jackson Of New York. a q. AR. vet
eran. - years. old, who rode from New York to
Chicago in order to be present in Milwaukee at
the meet and in the ntighborhood Of Chicago
for the q; Ar reunion, Mr.. jackson came
TO Milwaukee from Chicago by the Whaleback.
because his wheel was stolen from him In Chi
Cu8O. ~ bWyr tUhI tt UiltI has u NIllt Plp-
plant on his hands, a. the bicycle is so different
from other wheels that it will be at once spotted
4 pawned or ridden. Despite his years Mr..
fact that be rode from Buffalo to CLEVELAND. a
distance OF 2lS. miles, In two days and arrived
each day at his stopping place along about :
o'clock in TIE afternoon; He was thirty days
side trips. He says that there is to be a road
race Of Ave miles IN Chicago at the q. 4, r, re-
union, and he thinks he will 60 in II for the prize.
this Ia his first trip West, lie thinks the roads
n New York are the, best possible and those Of
Illinois as bad as he hope. to encounter. He is
lighted with his trip on the lake from Chicago.
Hancock street has been fixed, the two blocks
which cyclists, even the hardest. preferred to
walk. The satisfaction Of riders going over
the new asphalt can be appreciated only by
those who have ridden over the old holes Of. the
street that we're lined here and there by oobbles.
Wheelmen actually go out Of their way to take
IN these two blocks and gloat. Still the wheel
men want more. Il has been suggested by a
Incomplete and will be so until an asphalt STRIP
Is laid across the rough blocks OF Broadway.
The good riding now afforded makes The gran
put Il: This 80 Z TOO ' trivial ALL" a request re- Uss w 70 aroma.
any opposition. 1t would require only a little
of the material that is left over from the Han
cock street job"
Secretary-Treasure Clark Of the New York
State Division, l.. A. W. said yesterday thar
he thought acknowledgement TO blame for the
failure OF the national meet al Milwaukee.
whole secret Is in the one word locality" For
many years the major membership Of the l.. A.
W. has been In the East, and yet the old custom
OF holding the national meet East one year and
West the next has been preserved. A. n rule
the Eastern meets have been successful and
location Of ali meets should be near tho H'ai geo co.
graphical centre OF membership Is one that
Milwaukee Ia so far away that many OF tho
Eastern offcers who voted 10 have the meet held
there did not take the trouble to go to II.
The Kings County Wheelmen have arranged
next. This run has been an animal feature OF
this organization for the past five years. The
route selected ia via boat to Atlantic Highlands
and thence via wheel to Seabright. In this way
the Bay and the excellent riding afforded by
the Rumson road. Lew Perham. one OF the
old.time riders. has been placed in charge OF
this run. The start will be made from the club
house at Q A. nj.
On account OF the biHh winds, muddy roads
who 1. trying Tor a, century record for thirty
days. made only q single century Yesterday on
the Merrick Road Mrs. Bayne finished her coo
were covered with mud and drencned 10 he
skin. WIZ Brown, who has arranged the
last night that, she would not attempt TO ride
any more until this morning. The roads were
tlowi, g In the neighborhood OF Valley Stream.
Mrs. Bayne required eleven hours yesterday 10
finish the single century. Her appetite IL not
robust and her friends would rather see her
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