New-York tribune., 1900-04-22

July Totenviiie Staten Island a. m m
JUIy Is TO PoaISn fbc nons nsla5 lsland a. m
July @y % % to TO 3gh @ FSo.d sssSn Staten 9 Island Island m
August 10 Freeport Long Island
10. Fort Hamilton a. a. m m
Ageust 26 TO Nex,Dorp Staten Island
sepeInSer TO Babylon. L2rg Island 9 a
sSsr ssPsSsr TO TO Be4Fea EanF SirBc Font \ M M
eemS @ @ to to G9Ty 9T5s Bay Bay Long Long Island Island m
septsmber 80 70 FreePort Long Island
October j. LynbToak Long Island a. m
October 2s valley stream Long m.
The last Sunday in each month will be reserved
for women. Tuesday evening Of each week will
be reserved for a run to Coney Island The road
officers follows: Captain Frederick W.
IBeyrl first lieuen2n Danisl j. Reilly jI second G
H Clarke; frst color sergeant Henry P. slet-
never; second color sergeant. Frederick Wenz;
Conway W. Sans, the president Of the League
Of American Wheelmen, speaking of the work of
the organization, says:
Do you know I cannot imagine What bicycle I dS, TiS-
they owe the League OF American Wheelmen.
and thereby be assisting it. As a matter of
fact / 90 not believe they think Of the mat nat
men ingrates. and scarcely any other construc
o n 3qd be US ahe @
II Is Gn few a5 no at saans dhs cySs Whatever aRe fe n
the courts Of the country They Wsee at nd tns @
Of an aas &
by all manner OF foolish legislation. To undo this.
aeTeah I @ After the hardest
a Of o ofk afe eed ali e s eses
men now have throughout the land When wheel
them TSh k siof Of the fact f they
TO Sss sspoose We were suddenly
10 return to the old conditions; don't you sup
saaf sSi''DD' '-' 7 ~
Motor tricycle. racing promises to become popular
in America this season 1t will begin at Woodside
Park. Philadelphia, next Saturday afternoon with
an international hour match race between Kenneth
Skinner of Boston. who rode from Boston to New
York. 2s1 miles. in seventeen hours and Charles
w IN of this eOnna cFafk The demand for
cyces has been SO er aRe eay Es pPe ph
pairing to turn them out Race meet promoters IN IN
motor tricycle. races this year.
Senator Dodge's Good Roads bill for Ohio, which
was pushed by wheelmen, has been passed by the
LEGISLATURE and has become a law. Under the pro-
visions of the bill the County Commissioners will
make levy of fve-tenths of mill for road
fund. The law requires that when the roads are
cent Of the costs. A number of road improvements
are being planned.
A meeting called by the management of the
Queens Park bicycle track held at Montreal
on Friday night for the purpose of perfecting the
organization OF bicycle association. which is
TO try to take the control of racing in Canada
The meeting was attended by about two dozen
local members Of the Canadian Wheelmen's. Asso;
citation. and . provisional committee formed
with the present chief consul of the Montreal dis
viii resign, as chairman. A big fght is expected.
for the Canadian Wheelmen's Association will not
give up control willingly.
India must have attractions for the tour
ing wheelmen. at least such tourists DR.. and
Mrs. Workman who have pedalled large
area of the Indian Empire in the last three years,
They have just completed a tour through Kathia-
mhana;b poona md he Kar caves The onnor
fnnifIes for bicvcng in India are s1fficentiY nu
and encouraging 70 cause every officer going
out 10 take his bicycle with him.
To-day the Kings County Wheemen will hold
their opening of the season. and every effort
is being put forth to have it surpass in the num-
Der Of participants any previous ever held by
this club. The members will gather at the club
house. in Grant Square. and the start for the des
10 a. M on the way through the park a stop viii
be made. when photographs will be taken.
Emile Bouhours followed his first success by capt
uring the fifty mile international paced race. de-
cided at the Pare des Princes track. Paris. He
covered the City miles =: the new worlds record ord
the best previous q hour 2 minutes 1e44 seconds,
by nearly four minutes. Bauge was second. five
and half laps behind.
A rider in Maine used the following ingenious
method When twenty miles from home he dam
aged his tire beyond the remedial ability of a
pair kit No transportation. He called the near
est house. and got a piece OF rope and some stout
string. He stripped of the tire. made another Of
rope, and saved his rim from injury while riding
home.
Automobiling is popular in the National Capital,
where the asphalt system affords unrivalled op-
portunities. Many senators. Represent tatives and
Government officials have become ''aUtofans' and
will carry their craze with them 10 their districts
all over the country.
Philadelphia has automobile club OF fourteen
members with a limit OF fifty. a committee has
been appointed look up clubhouse Broad
Walnut SITS, with facilities for storing vehicles.