The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-03
A GENEROUS ACT.

n uLNLHUUo All.
a Well Known Citizen Contributes
/ $50 to the Republican Field Day
Promoters - Stamp md Salade
Leave for Canton This Morning.
A well known citizen. whose liberal!ty
has been manifest on numerous occa-
sions. but who desires that his name be
withheld from publication, yesterday
made 4 donation OF $50 to the Republic
can Field Day finance committee. TO be
devoted toward paying the charge made
by the West Virginia State Fair Asso-
ciation for the use OF the fair grounds
for Field Day. The gentleman has the
hearty thanks Of the promoters OF Field
Day. especially as such marked LIBERAL
ity was entirely unexpected.
Tonight, at the chamber OF the first
branch OF council. city building. there
will be a meeting OF the officers OF the
First West Virginia Rough Rider regi-
ment. for the purpose Of arranging for
uniforms, the Field Day parade anu
other matters of equal Importance. Tha
officers are as follows: Colonel, DR.. H.
B. Baguley: lieutenant colonel. Charles
H. Geiger; majors, Charles E. Dannen-
berg. S. B, Blair and r. E. schafer;
Quartermaster. George w. Bowers. jr.;
commissary. Gabriel Jackson; surgeon
major. DR.. J. N. Alley: surgeons. Drs.
w. C. Etzler. n. B. Jobes and W. E.
Alexander.
At the same time and place there Will
be meetings OF the Field Day commit.
tees, for the purpose OF furtherlng ar
rangements for the big affair Of October
l3. A full attendance Is desired.
Captains OF Rough Rider companies
who have not secured their quota OK
tickets for Field Day from Secretary
Treasurer Dave C. Dingcr. of the
finance committee. are urgently re-
quested to do 80 to-day. and distribute
the tickets among their men for sale.
1t is upon the advance sale of the
tickets that the success OF the affair
rests. and there should be no tagging at
any point along the line. Rough Riders
selling tickets are urged to place them
In punches Of five and ten wherever
possible-the low price OF ten cents
makes this an easy proposition. Up to
date nearly 5000 tickets have been dis
tributed. and It Is likely 10000 Will be
sold before Field Day arrives.
This morning MT 6 O'Clock, Messss.
Jason c.. Stamp and Edward Salade
leave for Canton on their wheels to
make arrangement for the Intelligent
cer- Repository Presidential Relay Race.
They will stop In the towns along the
route, Harrisvlle. Cadiz. Georgetown,
Uhrichsvllle. Canal Dover and Massil-
Ion to enlist the services OF local wheel
men rs relay riders. They will be met
In Canton Thursday morning by n rep
resentatlve OF the Intelligencer, when
the arrangements for the starting of the
message on Its journey by relay to
Wheeling will be made.
Some people have only dim idea Of
what relay race means. Two have
been run through Wheeling, the first In
1884, from Washington to Denver. Colo,
the riders carrying u message from
General Miles. U. s. A., to the army
officer In command OF the department
OF the Colorado at Denver. Another
relay race was conducted the following
year by the Intelligenccr. the riders
bringing message from the mayor Of
Pittsburgh to Mayor Caldwell. OF
Wheeling. The modus operandl is quite
simple riders being distributed along
the route In advance. and one after the
other they take up the pouch containing
the message and ride their respective
relays, which are usually five to ten
miles long. Relays are used because
single cycler would be unable to ride is
fast for ninety-two miles Ohe distance.
from Canton to Wheellns) us he can for
five or ten miles.
Tho ton-Wheeliug Relay will like
ly leave Canton at s a, m. (fast tlmc)
on the day Of the Field Day. and It Is
expected that It can be pushed over the
hilly roads OF eastern Ohio Mt n speed
little under fifteen miles an hour.
The message ought to reach Wheeling
between and 4 o'clock In the afternoon.
Great interest is being shown in the re-
lay. and It Is undoubtedly the star feat.
ure of the Republican Field Day.
For the four bicycle races scheduled
for Field Day, entry blanks may be had
Mt Stamps sporting goods store on md
nrter Friday. There are four events,
the mile novice, the mile open. the mile
handicap and the two mile handicap.
Entries are open to cyclers OF West Vir-
Glnla, eastern Ohio and western Penn
sylvanIa. The haadicappns will be
done by WIN r. Stevenson, formerly
the = A. W. official Handicapped FOR
this district