THE SPORTING LIFECYCLING DEPARTMENT.

VOLUME 19. PHILADELPHIA, PA., APRIL 23, 1892. NUMBER 4.

IN THE CLOUDS.FLYING MACHINE THAT CAN SOAR

THROUGH SPACE.

The Practical Inventions ol Men LikeMaxim and Dnryea Not

a Dream.Ma*«., April 18. A man

who has been prominent in cycling for many years having invented many new devices in that trade, has given to the public another idea, on which he has been working f'>r some time, aud which, backed by the opinion of inch an eminent mechanical and scientific authority as Hiram Maxim, appears to be thoroughly practical.

The man isCHARLES E. DURYEA,

of this city, and the idea is a flying school."You cnn't expect to swim," says he,

shrewdly, "unless you go into the water. Equally absurd is it ID think ,of flying with­ out first learning to fly."

Mr. Uuryeii belongs to the school of which inch eminent scientists and inventors as Oc­ tave C'hahiite, Prof. 8. P. Laiigley, Prof. .1. Ellreth Watklns and Hiram Maxim are con- ipicuous representatives. For fifteen years or more, in his quiet way, this Springfield man has studied the movements of muring birds and the phenomenon of kite flying. rhe woods are full of intelligent people who believe with him that we shall be navigating th* air before naany more years have passed.

The flying school rather than a flying ma­ chine is the peculiar idea of Mr. Duryea.

He maintains that we could not use a per­ fect machine if we had it and, therefore, that tbe form of the machine is at present a matter of little moment. Hiram Maxim may invent K machine that can fly. but, in fact, it will never be made to fly until some one comes along who understands in some meiisure the rt of sailing in the tenuous upper world. Imagine one who has neveV been in a boat and who knew nothing of ocean navigation

> or the handling of sails, trying to run a yacht around Point Judith. Think of a man who had never seen a bicycle, or even had heard of one, trying to ride the first time. How many boys learn to swim without being slowly taught the conditions and laws of buoyancy through continued intimacy with Hie water? Mr. Maxim, or any other inventor, says Mr. Puryea

WILL NEVER FI.Yuntil he becomes familiar with the conditions and laws of a>rial navigation through actual luspension in space. Hence the school.

Mr. Duryea's idea consists in anchoring a big balloon about half a mile from the earth by means of guy ropes. Then the rider and bis machine are drawn up from 500 to 1000 feet into the air. Of course, the height of the leronaut is relative largely to the condition of the atmosphere the intention at first being lo escape the shifty air currents that hover just over the earth's surface. The v«nture- ome person will now b/'gin to push his pedals and make his propeller go and en-

/ deavor to describe small circles with the ma­ chine. A spring balance is just over the ma­ chine to indicate the variation in weight, it any is effected through tlie work of the pro­ peller. A man with a cool bead would be apt tc learn a thing or two after being up (here half an hour, and the fascinating side of the sport would doubtless commend itself to young people, who would soon make the flying schools the most popular social func­ tions in the large cities and towns.

At first everything would be experimental, but Mr. Duryea believes that the gearing and pedal arrangement for leg power is suffi­ cient to propel any flying-machine that ap­ proximates perfection. But if experiment proves that leg power is insufficient to get motion, then more power can be supplied by mechanical means without adding to the weight of the machine already burdened with its human freight. Electric power could be supplied from the ground by means of a wire following the rope. Or better still a small engine may be driven by compressed air drawn from the ground through pipes. All the power that can be used may be easily made available. When finally the right sort of power for experimental purposes has been found and the machine on high actually moves ahead because of its inherent energy, then our daring navigator of the sky may hope to nay with the Count of Monte Cristo, "The world is mine!" The more speed he ran get up the greater diameter will the cir­ cles have which the machine in its flight around its axis will describe; which means that like the flying balls of the governor of a steam engine, the machine will tend to rise.

THK FLYING MACHINE.To the uninitiated it may be said that Mr.

Duryea's flying machine is a very fair em­ bodiment, at least in outline, of the latest thought in the science of aeronautics. It has the aero-plane, for instance, which is one piece without nny joint in the middle. Hiram Maxim's aero-plane is all on one level, but Mr. Duryea likes the inclination upward on itner side of the middle somewhat better be­ cause it seems to him nearer (he model strp- plied by the locked wings of a bird when soaring. The plane is 3(Jft. from tip to tip and ICIft. the other way, while the material is a bun'iboo frame covered with canvas. The wooden propeller is 4ft. in its longest dimen­ sion, and the total weight of the machine, al­ lowing for a five-foot man, is SOOlbs. The large rudder is in the rear. The total area of the plane would be about 300 square feet, or nbout one square foot for each pound of weight. A power of of 231bs. would suffice to support the whole apparatus when moving in space, says its enthusiastic exponent.

KXPERT OPINION.In order to impress the skeptical reader

with the profound seriousness of this article, it may be well to refer at this point to the machine Hiram Maxim hopes to make suc­ cessful,^ description of which is as follows:

"My large apparatus is provided with a plane 110ft. long and 40ft. wide, made of a frame of steel tabes covered with eilk. Other smaller planes attached to this make up a surface of 6500 fquare feet, The whole apparatus, inclu­ ding the steering gear, is 145ft. long. The ma- ohine is provided with two compound engines, each weighing SOOIbs. The steam generator weighs 350lbs. There are 48,000 brazed joints in the generator and it Is heated by 45,000 gas Jets, there being 43ft. of grate surface. The beat thus produced is perfectly terrific. The most novel feature about the engine is the sys­ tem by which I burn petroleum and generate Itcam. Petroleum id turned into gas and then that is buincd for generating rteam. The en­ gines have lately been tried, and it was found that they gave a push of lOOOlbs. on the ma­ chine, wbieh seems to indicate that the machine will carry 14,000lbs. The actual amount of power shown in useful effect upon the machine ittelf was 120 horse-power. A part of the aero­ plane, or actual kite, is made of very tbln metal and serves as a very efficient condenser for the steam. When completed the machine will weigh, with water-tanks and fuel, lome- whcre between 5000 and 6000lbF., and the power at my disposal will be 300 horse power in ease I wish to use it, but it is expected that »b iut 40 horse-power will suffice after the ma­ chine has once been started, and that the con­ sumption of fu»l will be from 40 to SOlbs. an hour.

It will be seen that the fundamental prin­ ciple in both Mr. Maxim's and Mr. Duryea's machines is the inclined plane. The plane iu the Jailer's is about 1-18 as Urge us Mr.

Maxim's, ind the entire apparatus is, in its exlreme simplicity, 14 or 15 times lighter. But Mr. Mnxim's machine will never fly, says Mr. Duryea, simply because Maxim haa not been graduated from a flying school.

The inclined plane certainly seems to point to the ultimate solution of

THE PROBLEM OK ARIEL NAVIGATION, for not only do the soaring birds suggest it, hnt experiments by Prof. Lungley, of the Smithsonian Institution, have demonstrated that "it costs less power to maintain the hori- /ontal motion in the air of an inclined plane at a high velocity than at a low one." Of no other body than the inclined plane, and such as have wliat is technically known as a per- t£ct waveline form, does this proposition hold true, according to the latest experiments. This means that the successful flying ma­ chine will be capable of unprecedented.speed and that the higher the velocity it attain* the lens will be the power required to propel it. So in being in line with the most advanced modern thought in the matter of the inclined plane theory, Mr. Duryea is protected by the company of eminent scientists from the sus­ picion that he may be insane. He seems per­ fectly rational even when expounding the beauties of his flying school.

ON AKRON'S SIDEWALK.

The Akron Bicycle Club CondemnSldewalk-Kitllng College Boys

Celebrate.AKRON, O., April 13. Editor SPORTING

LIFE: At the last meeting of the Akron Bicycle Club the main topic for discussion was the riding on sidewalks in the business portion of the city.

It is regretted by all of the older riders, that this growing evil cannot be overcome, but all efforts seem in vain, and we expect it to continue until some person is injured and

THE CITY COUNCIL TAKK8 ACTIONthat will keep bicycles off from the sidewalks all over the city.

A number of ideas have Ibeen advanced to stop this careless riding, but none of them have proven practical aud we would be pleased to hear from riders in other cities who have been troubled in having riders abuse u privilege that, in a city like Akron, is a boon to wheelmen.

INFORMATION WANTKD.We want to know what they did to stop it

aud how successful they were.Buchtel College has been successful in hav­

ing Wheeler street abandoned, which gives them one of the finest athletic grounds in the State. The boys at the college celebrated after the council meeting by firing cannon crackers on the campus.

The Tennis Club will have a club house this summer and the members lire all enthu­ siastic and expect to win more laurels this summer .than ever before. NoKKA.

EAST ORANGE.

A Ten-Mile Race Over the Irvington- Mtlburn Course.

EAST ORANOB, April 20. -Editor SPOUT­ ING LIFE: The race for the '"Holt Cup" will be held on the Irvington-Milburn course at 5 p. M., on Saturday June 4. TMs is a ten mile team race open to bicycle clubs of Es­ sex county only. Teams of font men, all contestants to be bouafide, active .members of the club which they represent.

The Kast Orange Cyclers are considering the advisability of becoming an L. A. W. club.

A raffle for a pneumatic-tired Columbia bi­ cycle was held iir the club house of the E. O. C'.'s on April 8 and was won by the club jani­ tor, thus putting him on the list of "new mounts."

Would.it not b« better for contestants, spec­ tators and all concerned it the B. M. C. L. road race from Philadelphia on May 16 were to finish on Central avenue, East Orange, just above the terminus of the "Rapid Tran­ sit" line, than to finish, as proposed, on Fre- linghuysen avenue, Newark? Instead of the cobbles, Belgian block, railroad, etc., of Elizabeth, this would give a clean eighteen miles from Plainfield on the finest of ma­ cadam roads. Electric carsrun from Newark to the finish line, and there is amplero^m for all spectators. ORANGE.

IN THE FAR WEST.

A Cycling Club Organized in Mani­ toba Dubbed "The Rovers."

MANITOBA, April 13. A meeting of wheel­ men was held last evening in Mr. A. E. Dykes' office, for the purpose of organizing a bicycle club. There was a pood attendance, and in the discussion that took place on the proposition it was manifest that all present were highly in favor of the project, it being felt that the city could support two clubs now that the ranks of local wheelmen were being largely augmented by new disciples of the sport and also by adept cyclists coming in from the East.

After the question had been fully discussed it was decided to forma club to be called "The Rovers," aud the following officers were elected for the year: President; P. Lavalle; secretary-treasurer, B. R. Davison; captain, J. McC'ullpngh; lieutenant, A. E. Dykes; corresponding secretary, A. 0. Watson. It was also decided to adopt a blue uniform and to amalgamate with tbe Canadian Wheel­ men's Association. The club begins its exist­ ence with a membership of twenty, and the officers expect to have double that number on the roll before the season opens.

NEW AMATEUR LAW.

Suspects Will be Suspended UntilThey Prove Their Innocence Lns-

conib Votes Againut It.NEW YORK, April 15. The A. A. U. has

made an important change in its rules to bring the question of the "amateur" boxer to ahead. It has been decided by a mail vote of the several district associations to pattern after the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen in de.iling with questionable ama­ teurs. In the future when an individual is suspected of receiving money lor his athletic services charges will be inado against him. From the time the charges art: made he will be

HELD AS GflLTYuntil he can prove his innocence. A notifi­ cation of the charges and the time when his case will be considered will be sent to him. The athlete will now have to prove liis inno­ cence, if suspected, and it is likely that many suspension" will now be made. The vote of the associations of the A. A. U. was as fol­ lows: Affirmative, Howard Perry and Harry McMillau, Atlantic; W. B. Curtis and James E. Sullivan, Metropolitan; Walter Simpsou, New England; E. Ai Rix, Western; Fred. Steams, Central. The only negative vote was by Charles II. Luscouib, of the League of American Wheelmen.

DREW A PISTOL.

A New York Rider Pulls a Revolver on a Car Driver.

NEW YORK, April 20. A man giving his name as Dahiel H. Oppenheimer, of 90 \Vest Seventy-first street, wns arraigned at the Har- iem Police Court yesterday on the complaint of Henry Smith, of 348 East Thirty-sixth street, a driver of the Boulevard Surface Railway Company, who testified that Oppen­ heimer insisted npou riding on a bicycle alongside his car and putting his hand on the window sill of the vehicle. When remon­ strated with he drew a revolver, threatening to shoot the driver.

Oppenheimer wan arrested, and yesterday morning told Justice Taintor in Harlem Po­ lice Court that the weapon was not loaded, and that he simply carried it to frighten small boys who had annoyed him. The Court fined him ?10 and confiscated the revolver.

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CQiNVICT LABOR.ONE WAY TO SOLVE THE GOOD

ROADS PROBLEM.

The Illinois Legislature to Give Se­ rious Consideration to the Sub­

ject What Cttuld be Done.Shall we utilize convict labor ou the public

highways?Why not?8»y» an editorial in the Chicago Herald:"The subject ot courict labor will be one of

the most important to engage the attention of the next Legislature. The adaption of the con­ stitutional amendment in 1886, abolishing tbe contract system in the employment of the State's convicts and the further fact that all existing contracts in that connection are soon to expire, will make it imperative on the general assembly which is to bo chosen this year to make some other disposition of the labor of the peni­ tentiary's inmates.

"Another »ubject that is likely to demand a good deal of attention from the legislators is tbat of an improvement in country roads. The coin cidence with respect to these two urgent mat­ ters may prove to be an advantage instead of an eoibarrassment. The disposition of tbe one uiuy go a considerable wny toward disposing of the other. At the law forbids the employment of conviots outside the nails of tbe penitentiary for any except public purposes, that fact may also bo in the. nature of a benefit.

"It has been often suggested that the con­ victs coald bo profitably and satisfactorily era- ployed in improving the roada of tbe Stute. The suggestion should be agitated and some conclusion arrived at, if possible, by the time tbe Legislature convenes. One proposition worthy of serious consideration is to utilise tbe convict labor in the manufacture of drain tile. It is claimed that tbe use of this tile at the sides of a roadbed meets every requirement for drainage purposes. *.••**

"It would keep the convicts busy for many years to manufacture sufficient drain tile to supply all the roads in the State. The tiling of tbe roads would undoubtedly greatly improve their condition or render it more susceptible of improvement. After an effective drainage system bad been established tbe grading could be done with whatever material is most con­ venient.

'The friends of the movement for better country roads cannot do more effective work than by purbing tbat movement prominently to the front and compelling its consideration by tbe Legiilature, which will be called on to settle the convict labor question."

THE PHILADELPHIA CLUB

Will Close the Social Season With aProgressive Euchre The Annual

"Field Day."The Philadelphia Bicycle Club had their

second club run on Easter Monday to Bryn Mi»wr, returning via Ardmore, where dinner was served at the "\Vigwam," in "Phila­ delphia's" usual homelike style.

TO CLOSE THK SOCIAL SEASON.The entertainment committee of the club

announce a progressive euchre party for Friday, April 29, which will close the social season.

The members of the club are starting to ride for the season of'92, for which besides the standing prizes for largest mileage and largest number of single runs, a special and handsome prize has been offered by Mr. Chas. E. Carpenter."The officers of tlie Philadelphia Cycle and Field Club, at Ardmore, are busy prepar­ ing the bouse and grounds for the spring and summer season.

A stag supper party will be given on Sat­ urday evening, April 23, while the second spring "Field Day" will be'held in May.

A BROOKLYN SUIT.

Robert Smith Sues F. B. Martin For Damages From Being Run Down.BROOKLYN, April 16. Brooklyn wheel­

men are interested in a suit brought in the City Court by Robert C. Smith, as guardian of his son, Robert, to re­ cover $3000 damages from Frank B. Martin, a son of John T. Martin, warenotiseiaan, of 28 Pierrepont street, Brooklyn. Young Smith was riding his bicycle along Franklin avenue on May 31, 1891, when be came in collision with a spirrted team driven by Mr. Martin. The horses became frightened and a runaway was narrowly prevented. Young Smith claims that Mr. Martin was so angry that he leaned forward in his seat and lashed Smith with his whip.

AND UK WILL WISH HE HADN'T.Mr. Martin has tiled an answer admitting

the assault, but claiming Smith provoked it with the intention of establishing u griev­ ance, and inducing a bicycle club, of which he is a member, to prosecute the case.

Judge Osborne yesterday granted the ap­ plication of the plaintiff, who is now become 21 years of age, to briug the action in his own name. ______

THE PHILA.-NKWARK RACE

To be Run on May 10, Starting From Germantown Junction.

The Business Men's Cycling League, of Newark, who some time since announced an open handicap road race from Philadelphia to Newark, have arranged lor the race to take place on May 6.

The. start will be made from Germantown Junction out North Broad street, and wilt terminate at Newark. The distance will be about ninety miles. The course will be over the Century Run route. This will be the greatest long-distance road race ever held in this section of the country. There will he forty prizes, and the race, it is expected, will attract all the crack road racers. Tbe event will be started at 6 o'clock in the morning, and considering that the course leads over all conditions of roads, the distance should be covered in about nine hours. Entries will close with J. S. Holmes, 150 Broadway, New York City.

SYRACUSE SAYINGS.A NEW BICYCLE TRACK TO BE

BUILT AT MAPLE BAY.

A Liberal Offer Will the Clubs Ac­ cept? The Century C. C.'s

First Anniversary.SYRACUSE, N. Y., April IS. A new plan

which will aid wheelmen and athletes in ob­ taining a race track and athletic grounds was proposed last evening by Willis S. Barnum, proprietor of the Maple Bay summer resort on Onondaga Lake. Mr. Barnum has made a proposition which the clubs in Syracuse shuuid not hesitate to accept. He otters to build a first-classthird-of-a-mile bicycle track at Maple Bay free of expense to the men who will use it. He. makes the offer to the Syra­ cuse Cycling Club, the Century Cycling Club and the Syracuse Athletic Club jointly. All that Mr. Baruuui asks is that the clubs share an equal expense in the building of a fence to enclose tbe track and erect suitable grand stands.

A LIBERAL OFFER.Mr. Barnum has said: "I am very anxious

to have the athletes and wheelmen accept this proposition, for I think it will be of mutual benefit to us all. The clubs can have the use of the grounds free of rental as long as they want them. I will build a track according to regulation specifications and will keep it in constant repair. After the grand stand and fence are built there will not be a cent of expense to them as long as they choose to ac­ cept the track."

"I will also give them theprivilege of leas­ ing the track aud athletic grounds whenever they have an opportunity, and they can divide the rental money between them. I ask for no share in the profits of the meets. The middle of the park could be fitted into cricket, base ball and teni.is grounds and leased to outsiders tor tournaments, etc. All I want jftto-have the, peoplecoue to Maple Bay.

FASORABI.T IMPRESSED.The proposition struck tbe clubs favorably,

and even if it should be found essential to build a training track in th» citv, the offer should not be thrown away. The patronage of joint bicycle races on Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day would in one season more than defray the cost of the nec«- sary buildings. Ten thousand people visited Maple Bay on the last labor holiday and a large share of the crowd would have taken in the races had they been held there. After the regular program ot exciting events, last­ ing from two to three hours, a pleasant even­ ing could be spent in the grove.

The wheelmen also could illuminate the track and hold occasional evening club championship races, which would always at­ tract large crowds. It is still more advisable to accept the proposition of Proprietor Bar­ num from the probability of a lake front bou­ levard in the near future and also tbe con­ struction of an electric railway.

Special meetings of the clubs will be called early next week to consider the proposition. If Proprietor Barnnm's plan is adopted the ground will be surveyed and work begun im­ mediately, so that a large joint membership race meet can be held there on July 4.

ONE YKAR OLD.The Century Cycling Club is quietly eele-

braiing to-day the first anniversary of its birth. Exactly one year ago twenty-three un­ attached wheelmen assembled at the Globe Hotel and decided to form a club.

The officers and hoard of directors chosen for the first year were: A. B. Blodgett, presi­ dent; J. A. Die), vice president; J. E. Ruhl, treasurer; J. II. Johonnot, corresponding sec­ retary; R. C. Strong, recording secretary; D. J. Bacon, captain; L J. Everson, M. P. Hop- kins, directors.

The growth of the club has been a con­ tinued boom, though it took an additional impetus this spring, now having a social and active membership of 160. It has leased a fine club house in James street aud will take possession May 1. Prominent among the members are Mayor Jacob Amos, Willis B. Burns, Charles E. Ide, A. B. Blodgett, O. G. Jones, Charles F. Saul. John E. Bacon, S. A. DeGan, A. M. Smart, D. M. Edwards, F. W. Green, Dr. A. A. Stillmnn, L. C. Smith. E. C. Hall, Curtis Doxsee, J. E. Davis, G. H. Mann, D. C. Adams, George Palmer, James H. Johonuot, Howard Plaisted and Orin Snow.

ON THE ROAD AND PATH.The club expects to take an active interest

for the first time this year in rond and track racing. Among the fast riders are Roy S. Smith, George B. Penn, Floyd Coombs, George Rice, Charles Hand, D. J. Bacon, Harry Currnn, JameB H. Johonnot. F. L. Beadleson. Ralph Strong, Fred Hudson, (ieorge Stillman and C. E. Wood. The mem­ bers regard Roy Smith as the best rond rider and George Penu as the best track man.

During the past season the club has partici­ pated iu a number of cycling events. Its first public appearance was at the L. A. W. meet in Rochester, where it created a favor­ able impression in the parade.EIGHTY-EIGHT MEMBERS IN THEEE MEET­

INGS.At the February meeting twenty-two mem­

bers were elected, at the March meeting twenty-fonr and at the April meeting forty- two, making a total of eighty-eight in the last three meetings. The club was incorpo­ rated April 11, 1892, and is now being man­ aged by a board of governors, consisting of fifteen members. The present officers ot the club are: A. B. Blodgett, president; I. J. Everson, vice president, B. C. Williams, re­ cording secretary; C. E. Wood, correspond­ ing secretary; L. A. Lang,J treasurer, and J. H. Johounot captain.

ALL AROUND.The Syracuse Cycling Club decided last

evening to attend the Rome tournament on Memorial Day. A large number of racing men will be entered, and if the champion­ ship can be brought to Syracuse, the S. C. C. means to bring it here. It is said that the Century Cycling Club will also be represented at Rome.

The Century Cycling Club will have the distiuctiou of openiug the L. A. W. racing

circuit of June 11, at Kirk wood Park. The committees are all working hard, and assur­ ances have been received that the event will be a credit to Syracuse. Many fast wheel­ men will ride their first race of the season on the date mentioned. The programme will soon be announced.

Captain R. P. Judd, of the Syracuse Cy­ cling Club, has announced the opening run of the season for Tuesday evening, April 26, to Liverpool. An invitation has been ex­ tended to the Century Cycling Club, the cycling division of the Syracuse Athletic Club and the Y. M. C. A. Wheelmen to join in the event. At Liverpool a complimentary lunch will be served by the Syracuse Cycling Club. The start will be made sharply at 7 o'clock.

The Century Cycling Club will hold a ten-mile handicap road race May 18, on the Cicero plank road. It will be open only to the Century Club.

Geo. K. Frazer announced last evening that he intended to establish a training school for bicycle riders at Star Park. It is said that the Syracuse & Binghiimton Railroad Company will furnish the material for a cin­ der track and Mr. Frazer will do the work. The track will be from fifteen to eighteen feet wide. Wheelmen will be sold season tickets to use it.

C. J. Conollyj manager of the Rochester- Syracuse division of the relay bicycle ride between Chicago and New York, lias made these assignments: Rochester to Pittsford, seven miles J. A. Graham, Gorden S. Mont­ gomery and W. J. Hoye; Pittsford to Pal­ myra, sixteen miles, C. J. Iven, James Mc- Taggart and Fred H. Smith; Palmyra to Ly­ ons, thirteen miles, Howard Mills, Emmett Schenck ai.d Harry Trotter; Lyons to Weeds- port twenty-four miles, P. K. Dukelow and William M. Couolly; Weedsport to Syracuse, twenty-one miles, C. J. Couolly, F. J.Nugeut and George McTaggart. SALINA.

CONNECTICUT NEWS.

New Clnbs and New Men ComingEvents in Ansonia To Tour to

the League Meet.AxsONlA.Ct., April 18. Editor SPOBTIXG

LIFE: The Ramblers, of Waterbury, have disbanded on account of disagreements in the management, aud their quarters have been token by the Waterbury Wheel Club, which was organized about a month ago.

The new club started with twenty- charter members, and as soon as it becomes thor­ oughly established will secure more com­ modious rooms. An effort is being made to add a ladies' membership to the club.

L. V. Cock, secretary of the Ansonia Wheel Club, has removed to Buffalo, and his suc­ cessor will be elected at the May meeting of the club.

ANOTHER NEW ONE.The Seymour Wheel Club was formally or­

ganized April 11 by electing officers for three months.as follows: President,R. A. Hamilton; first vice president,Lewis McEwen; second vice

5 resident, Oliver Williams: secretary,Thoinas . Thomas; treasurer, Edward 8. Cooper;

captain, Oliver Willian s; first lieutenant, Clarence Smith; second lieutenant, Lewis McEwen. The charter membership num­ bered nineteen. Uniforms of black cheviot were adapted. The club will not secure quar­ ters until fall.

The Ausonia Wheel Club held its first club run on Good Friday, to Waterbury and return. On Decoration Day the annual club road race of five miles will be run over the Seymour and Wakelee avenues course. The racers will be handicapped.

On June ll^the annual field day will be heldVTlnVDerby Driving Park, aud a bid will be made to secure some of the best talent. A committee has been appointed to see that the track is put in condition and the prize committee are looking for valuable prizes for the open events.

Several ot the members of the Ansonia Wheel Club propose to wheel to the League meet in Washington and afterwards tour through the Shenamloah Valley and to Old Point Comfort, whence they will return by steamer. Two weeks will be given to the trip. F. M. SMITH.

A DELAWARE RUN.

The Wilinington Wheel Club Enter­ tain Representatives From

Many Clubs.WlLMINGTON. Del.. April IS. The Wil-

mington Wheel Club will have another meeting on next Thursday night, when the recent election will be contested. There is every probability that the trouble will be settled and that affairs will be changed to their former status.

A party of local wheelmen took a run to Kirkwood on Sunday last. Wrhether the number had anything to do with it or not is very questionable, but it is a fact that the run was filled with accidents and casualties, "just as in the days of the high ordinaries, as one of the participants put it. B. F. Mc- Daniel engineered the run, which was com­ posed of members of various organizations. Ex-Captain McDaniel furnishes the following list of clubs represented: Century Road Club of America, Wilmington Wheel, War­ ren Athletic, New Castle Wheelmen, Dela­ ware Field, Delaware Wheelmen, South End Wheelmen, Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, At­ lantic City Wheelmen, Booth's Corner Rangcrp, Hickory Wheelmen, the Mc­ Daniel ites, and the improved Order of Odd Fellows. __

WHEELMEN'S RIGHTS.

A Resolution of Thank H Passed For Legal Services In Defense of Cyclers.HELENA, Mont., April 13. At a meeting

ot the Helena Wheelmen held Monday eve­ ning resolutions were passed thanking At­ torneys Craven and Hcpncr for their services in prosecuting the hackman, Murphy, who recently ran into one of their number.

In connection with this subject it might be well for the drivers on all vehicles to bear in mind the decision of the Supreme Court, which gives bicycles the same rights as they on the thoroughfares and also orders that drivers in passing bicycles, when going in the same di­ rection, must pass on the left hand side.

FELL FROM HIS MACHINE.

A Rochester Man Fractures an Arm While Learning to Ride.

ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 15. William Flack, residing at 28 Charlotte street, while learning to ride a high bicycle on the Rowe street asphalt pavement about 8 o'clock last evening, fell, badly fracturing his left arm. Dr. Losey, of Phelps avenue, was summoned and had Mr. Flack removed in the hospital ambulance to bis home, where the fracture was reduced. Flack is married and has two children.

DEATH ON THE WHEEL.

Two Schoolboys Run Over by a Wagon in Trenton.

TRENTON, N. J., April 13. Isaac, the nine- year-old son of Dr. Isaac Cooper, and Herbert, the eight-year-old son of Samuel Margerum, were riding to school this morning on their bicycles. A horse attached to a loaded coal- cart shied into the boys,throwing them under the wheels. The Cooper boy died this eve­ ning and the Margerum boy ia iu bed with three broken ribs.

Ziinmcrman Beaten.LONDON, April 18. At the bicyclists'

meeting at-Brighton to-day Fowler (''), an English rider, iu a half-mile scratch race beat Arthur A. Zimnierman, of the New York Athletic Club, nine yards.

A GREAT EVENT.INTERCOLLEGIATE FIELD TODRNAMENT

ON TIOGA'S TRACK.

The A. C. S. H. Committee Select theGrounds ol The Tioga Athletic

Association.The committee of the Athletic Club

Schtiylkill Navy, at a meeting on Saturday night, after a conference with the Tioga Ath­ letic Association's committee, decided upon, the grounds of that association as the place where the collegiate athletic carnival is to ha held.

UNEQUALLED ADVANTAGES.This is a ten-strike, the grounds being the

best in this part of the country. There is a cinder bicycle track a third of a mile ia length, while inside of that there will be a turf track a quarter of a mile in length. The ground covers fourteen acres aud will be just suited to the games.

Stands to hold ten thousand people will be put up, and more if necessary, and there will be a cinder straight-away of 220 yards. All the events will be run on the turf un­ less it rains, and then the cinder track will be used. Workmen will be put to work on the grounds at once, and will roll the turf and tracks daily so as to get them into the bert condition. There will be three entrances to the grounds, one for general admission, an­ other for grandstand and the third for re­ served seats. Thp grand Hand will be erected on the west side, it having been arranged to move back the fence 100 feet for 500 feet.

The grounds are very easy of access, the Pennsylvania Railroad having a station di­ rectly at the track at Westmorland whil* the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad's Twenty-second street station is at the south­ west corner. Special trains will be run each day, and a large force of police will keep order.

Tbe grounds possess some novel features. Wet weather will put all the contests on the cinder track, but under favorable conditions the managers expect to have ten or twelve men run in a bent, while five cventscau be going on simultaneously. The turf track will be made as fast as the cinder track. NO GROUNDS IS THE COUNTRY HAVE ONE.

The cinder track provides a Rtraight-away course of 220yds., a feature that no other track in the country possesses. The entries will close May 3, and the following notice will be sent out: "All entries must be en- dorscd by the captain, manager or chairman of the athletic committee of their respective colleges."

A bulletin has been sent out to all the col­ leges in the country by the committee, which contains the first official news. The tourna­ ment will not be postponed on any account, no matter what sort of weather, and all en­ tries must be endorsed by the captain, mana­ ger or chairman of the athletic committee of the various colleges. The grounds are to be prettily decorated all over with colors, while the fence will be covered with bunting. Each college will have its own tent, and, judging from the large number of favorable answers, there will have to be a large number of teat* put up. ~~

CO-OPERATION ASSURED.The committee is receiving a cordial re­

sponse from all the large colleges. Joseph Howland Hunt, president of the Harvard Athletic Association, writes offering to act as auxiliary eoniniitteeman until the Har­ vard representative can be chosen, and giv­ ing assurance of that university's hearty co­ operation in everything to make the affair ft success. Paul Foster Leach, of Princeton, has just completed a four days' visit to Phila­ delphia iu the interest of the tournament, and reported great enthusiasm and active preparation for participation by Princeton men. He said there might be seventy entries from Princeton, with a large college follow­ ing. Yale has given equally cordial assurance, and the University of Pennsylvania will, ie is said, enter her whole team.

HOW THEY WILL liE ENTERTAINED.Arrangements for the entertainment of the

collegians who will fill the city during the carnival are being oushed forward rapidly. A committee of twenty-five of the most promi­ nent members of the Navy Club is to be ap­ pointed to receive the visitors on Tuesday night, May 17. The twelve club's constituting the Schuylkill Navy promise novel features for the entertainment of tbe guests on Wednes­ day evening. _

The boat bouses will be illuminated, and there will be an illuminated review of the boats, whichj it is expected, will excel the famous one of Centennial times. The navy has a membership of fifteen hundred, and it is thought that more than one hundred boats and barges will be iu line.

THK PRIZESwhich will reward the efforts of the winners will be worthy of the occasion. The contract for the handsome medals has been given out, and they are now in the hands of tbe makers. Not only will gold, silver and bronze medals be given to the first second and third, but souvenir medals will also be awarded to the winners ot the trials.

The committee on arrangements have en­ gaged Parlor P/, Colonnade Hotel, as their headquarters until after the tournament.

ZLUrSIERMAN'S EXPENSES.

The New York Athletic Club Deny the Soft Impeachment.

New York, April 16. Tha officials of the New York Athletic Club are greatly put out over rumors that have been circulated to the effect that I lie club ia defraying the expenses of Arthur A. Zimmermau.thecrack bicyclist, who is now abroad. William B. Curtis, the chairman of the athletic committee of the club denied that his organization was paying /immerman'8 expenses. Proposals were made to the club by Zimmerman to defray his expenses, but they refused.

Mr. Curtis asserts that letters of introduc­ tion to some of the influential athletic clubs abroad were given to Ziuimerman, and upon, the strength of these letters he was well re­ ceived, and all doubts of his amateur status were set at rest. The assertion that the New York Athletic Club is paying the expenses of /iiuiuernmn is shown to be without founda­ tion, when that club is retrenching upon its team expenditures this eeasou. The bicycle team for this year has been

NARROWED DOWN TO THREE men, including W. F. Murphy, A. A. Zim­ nierman and C. M. Murphy. This season the team will be sent to only the most important out-of-town meetings.

DATES ASSIGNED.

Tournaments Which Will he Run Under the New Racing Rules.

The clubs are beginning to apply for offi­ cial dates tor their nice meets from the dis- trict members of the Racing Board in accord­ ance with the new rules, which make it com­ pulsory for all meets to be officially sanc­ tioned. The following clubs have received the consent of the Racing Board to hold meets: Century Wheel Club, Syracuse, June 11; Cortland Wheel Club, Cortland, June 13j Buffalo Press Bicycle Club June 17 and IS; South End Wheelmen, iPlill.idelphia, June 25; Riverside Wheelmen, New York City, July 9; Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, Philadel­ phia, July 23; Penu City Wheelmen, Sept. 3.