The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-26

| He was told that an adjournment was un-
| necessary. as he had admitted that he waa
! on the driveway and he was therefore found
guilty and sentence suspended.
| Mr.. Childs was not satisfied with the dis
| position of the case and yesterday was SEEK
ing to have the l.. A. w. take it up on appeal.
! He does not know of what he was found guilty.
AZ the papers in the case were not explicit.
and he has been unable TO find law covering
the point. He sought the records and found
that in 1895 there was park ordinance pro-
hbiting wheelmen from using the driveways
of Oceah Parkway; but 1t Is customary for
park ordinances to lapse with each term OF
Office. and for the new commissioner to enact
new set, This ordinance was not reen-
acted. Whether it was or not, Mr.. Childs
considers that he hasa clear case under the
Liberty bill as Chapter sos of the Laws Of
, 1890 ia known to wheelmen. because it first
gave them equal rights on all roads with other
vehicles This has not been changed since.
although the Bailey law. which is an amend
ment to Chapter $685. in its original form
altered the reading of it so as to permit Park
| Commissioners to prohibit cycling on the
| drives 1t was changed back to Its original
| form in response to protest from Wheel
| men, as was printed in THE SUN last spring.
| The statute as it stands after being amended
| by the Bailey bill reads:
The commissioners, trustees or other authorities
having charge or control of any highway. public
| street, park. parkway. driveway place. shall
| have no power or authority to pass. enforce Or
| maintain any ordinance. rule regulation By
which any person using a bicycle or tricycle.. an
automobile motor vehicle. whether tho Same be
propelled by steam. gasolene electricity, or othef
source OF energy. shall be excluded or prohibited
| from the free use Of any highway. public street,
| avenue. roadway, driveway, park. parkway Or
| ala han thA hnm fQ In IN ..
! free use of persons having and using other pleasure
| carriages.
! II Mr.. Childs fights the case he may have
to do 1t alone. for President obermayer OF
| the l.. A. w., when asked about the matter
| while Mr.. Childs ght have a technical right
! to 20 on the driveway he had no business 20
| be there 80 long as there were two fine cyelS
Childs had appealed TO the l.. A. W. and the
case had been referred to the law committee.
He could not tell what would be done by the
| League until the law committee had MADE
report and the executive com mittee held
This is the first time there has been an OPP
| portunity to test this matter OF the PaIs
COMMISSIONER right. although II was sought
as far back as 1895, when Timothy L. wood
ruff was Park C9mmissionsr and issusd e.. tn
| driveway Alex Schwalbach OF the Brook
Ign Good Roads Association then rode on tine
driveway rspSatedly ana a. Sh@s en- &c fTe
test case, and he was not molested. Mr..
Schwalbach Ia taking an active lnterest ID
the case Of Mr.. Childs and is anxious TO hsyS
It carried TO a higher court on appeal.
was thro ugh him that the story came to light
A ministers cycling tour in the Shenandoah
Valley has been. planned for October. y
is TO cover a period of ten days riding a apd
return frpm Norfolk 5y RAJ, or oo ad nboe
will be composed mostly Of New York and
sro9kyn but VIII baR NOT n os Ses
arranged yet, but it ia expected that -
party will number about twenty. liner
was Ha Slergymens egCms n iSbr w 10 and
the present project was conceived oy memOei"
of that party.
A novel and interesting feature OF the
training Of the riders who make their guar
ters at the Manhattan Reach track Is tne
running Of handicap sweepstake races mar;
aged by Themselves The professional ana
amateur sprinters all go in together ana pmt
up % cents EACH They are snns s3fdTt
| Of the track This relieves the tedlnm nt
training and makes them ride more ae II !"
a real race.
More than two hundred entries are Teporte'
in hand for the annual Ncterans 'tsJlaari
course 9" ca" captatned by c. p. Stanbach If N.
Century Road Club Association The trncr
between the rival bodies does not seen IT,, .'
!
ion OF the Century Road club Of AnfI,hss
| hHs century on also Il Renewal on Wv,
Midsummer Century" Both runs VIII STAT
from Bedford R"sr. Brooklyn.
Tho New York Motor Cycle Club viii oaSs
a run to-day to Montclair. n j.. py Tas
of Fort Lee. Ieonia Hackensack and Bellr,
vile, starting from 1904 Broadway, at o'Go cs
in the morning. The Alpha Motor yc'
Club Of Brooklyn " i'll havea run TO sag iiat"",
and back. starting at o'clock this aIterihLomr
from Grant Square Brooklyn, and nnlshlnS
tomorrow night The stop ever n iThan MN
Wheelmen will have. their SUNDAY run Il
| City Island The Monroe Wheelmen WI,
| ride 10 Whitestone. he CenturyW hselm''
will 20 10 their rendezvous az Pelham ba'
Reader-To ride 10 Dobbs Ferry. cross t'
! Central Bridge. at Seventh avenue and '5',"
street, and follow jerome avenue past "non,
lawn Cemetery and take the frsr I1ad ="
| the left beyond the cemetery gate, Noenui
avenue TO Broadway, on which YOU ru'
| 70 Getty square, Yonkcrs. seventeen MIR
From there ride out on Nnrburtcn ayen v
to Hastings four and half miles, ana ~
| go straight ahead on Broadway nAss AM y
| half further. Ia Dobbs Ferry,