New-York tribune., 1900-05-01
CYCLING.
wHEELMEN LIKELY TO ASK FOR GOOD
ROADS PLANK IN NATIONAL. PARTY
PLATFORMS-CHIEF CONSUL
BELDING ON WHEELING.

Whether 1t is policy for the League of American
Wheemen NEEDLE with National politics or not
is a question which for many years has troubled
the leading workers in the organization. When
Isaac B. Potter was president Of the organ-
Zation he rather frowned upon committing II to
politics. no matter how much interest he
took in political himself AS president of the
League of American Wheelmen he frequently
fused to be quoted subjects In which politics
entered, but at the time. he took the stump
for the Republican party. But he did it in
dividual. and a strong good roads man. Wheelmen
who have watched politics here recognized long
ago that few, ii any, of their good friends were
affiliated with Tammany Hall. The few improve
snee rammany ~ Ha got hold of local fars amply
shows this fact There are some people at present
organization may be more less of factor in the
are that good roads plank viii be asked for by
the League of American Wheelmen in both Ma
planks has been intrusted to the Highway Improve
s fs COMMITTEES hs ao6f E
its members the most experienced good roads
and viii have no trouble in securing an audience
% % dns aTw wheen in s G n M
rectly in line with its policy to nationalize the
of this year the work of the League has been con-
e Red dn to Of sa1s wa Teadbs
with the introduction of the bill in Congress by
Of hhay r9r
The insertion Of the I plank & in the party plat
being of National Importance.
Milo NJ Beldng. jr.. the Chief Consul of the
State Division of the League of American Wheel
men, is a practical wheelman, and he spends much
of the time spare from his business on his
bicycle. In speaking OF the opening of the outdoor
season Mr.. Beding said yesterday:
Some one asked what I thought of the crowd
Riverside Drive Sunday, and when told
him that / thought 1t about two-thirds as
large as any had seen in recent years he seemed
surprised. Yet that answer implied there is more
riding done to-day than ever before. TWO or three
a boulevard Riverside
about only wheelways in this borough, and
everybody there, OF course. Now the asphalt
ing of Eighth. Fifth. Madison and First has
caused the wheeling traffic to become divided
routes has caused wheeling traffic to divert In
other directions. / do not believe that member
could sit in the window of the Colonial Club In
afternoon, done few years and count
in one hour seventeen hundred wheemen go by
At that time everyb body riding past that point
Now II all wheelmen in the borough tried take
lam which IL would take the remainder of the
afternoon untange. 1t is the same in Brooklyn
A couple of years ago everybody over there and
many from this borough went down the Cycle Path
TO Coney Island Now the opening up of the
phalted and macadamized veins leading to the good
roads Of Queens has taken many wheemen out
into Long Island. especially on Sundays and holi-
days. They tell me that the number OF riders
on the MerriclI Road Sunday remarkable
l went down the Cycle Path to Coney Island and
| seldom If ever. wheelmen on those
our consuls is also encouraging The next meeting
Of the consuls will be held May l6. and | hope
that local work Will be pushed with right
through the summer. Our officers propose to pay
considerable attention 10 milkmen who throw their
broken bottles into the streets Such a practice is
damaging to horses and automobiles, we'll as to
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will Cooperate
with