BICYCLING. 



1795. 



A drowsy drone, 



A garden sweet, 

 And, all alone, 



In kirtle neat, 



So deft and prim 



To guide the reel, 



With sunshine in her dovelike eyes, 



The maid Priscilla daily plies 



Her wheel. 



1895. 



A noisy street, 



Or lane, or park, 

 Where cyclists meet 



By day or dark ; 

 In bloomers clad 

 From head to heel, 

 And resolution in her eyes, 

 The modern maiden deftly plies 

 Her wheel. 

 Monroe H. RosENFELD,in N. Y. Sim. 



Miss Ella Jones, one of the well-known 

 wheelwomen of Trenton, N.J.,is the heroine 

 of the day. She was riding her bicycle in 

 the vicinity of the State Prison one night, 

 when she saw Thomas Patterson grab Mamie 

 Malloy, a 12-year-old girl, and drag her to- 

 ward a dark alleyway. He prevented her 

 from screaming by placing his handover her 

 mouth. 



Miss Jones dismounted, went to the girl's 

 rescue, and demanded her release. Patter- 

 son slunk away. Miss Jones then remounted 

 her wheel and made a run to the next cor- 

 ner, where she secured a policeman. 



She then went after Patterson, overtook 

 him and engaged him in conversation until 

 the policeman arrived, when he was taken 

 into custody. On theevidenceof Miss Jones 

 he was sent to the workhouse for 90 days. 



William Decardy rode two miles at 

 Louisville, Ky., Oct. [4, in 3:52 2-5. The 

 previous record of 3:54 4-5 was held by John- 

 son, made on the same track. 



A tandem, manned by E. E.Anderson and 

 Herman Van Herrick, paced Decardy the 

 entire distance. They broke the world's mile 

 tandem record, 1:51, established a two-mile 

 record of 3:52 2-5; three miles 6:01; four 

 miles, 8:09, and five miles, 10:28. 



Arthur Gardiner broke the world's five- 

 mile record, making it in 9:58 2-5. 



A party of New York stock brokers made 

 r wheeling tour from Port Jervis, N. Y., to 

 Delaware Water Gap on Oct 13. Fred- 

 erick F. Ames, of No. 18 Wall street, engi- 

 neered the scheme. Among others who 

 made the journey were Charles Macey, 

 Ed. Jewett, J. F. Andrews, J. A.Blair, II. 

 S. Sternburger, Edward \V. Gould, H. G. 

 Weild, H. Benedict, J. J. Manning, Ed. 

 Snow and L. Daniels. 



The captain of the Knickerbocker I 

 Club, of Chicago, Mrs. |. \\ . Roth, I 

 a rider only since last April. A few w< 

 ago she made a century over the VVauk< 

 course, in 7 hours 54 minutes. Her birthda) 

 occurs on July 4, which, she says, makes 

 a purely national, as well as rational, won 



Williamson, of Niagara Falls, broke the 



25-mile record in the road race at I 

 ter.Oct. 5, covering the distance in [fa 

 32s., which is im. 13s. better than * 

 made. J. Dukelow, of the Rochester Ath- 

 letic Club, a handicap man, took first pi 

 his riding time being ih. 10111. li 



The newly-ected officers of the Monarch 



Wheelmen are: President, F.Wagner; 

 president, E. Onderdonck; secretary 

 Cochran; treasurer, F. Rowland; captain, 



J. Demorest; first lieutenant, A. Alden; 

 ond lieutenant, S. Lord; scrgeant-at-ai ins, 

 C. J. Lewis. 



In a private trial at Waltham, Mass., I 

 5, Sanger broke the records forth- ' j and '_• 

 mile, paced, setting the figures at 33s. and 

 50 4-5S., respectively. He was paced by a 

 quad composed of class B men. 



Harry Clarke,, a Denver class A rider, 

 rode 2 miles, unpaced, in 4:304-5 < u t. 4. ! 

 ing the class A record 20s. Clarke's 

 is official, as a sanction had been granted for 

 the trial. 



Sally Swimptops Paw, why won't yerlet 



me buy one o' them bikes } 



Paw — Wot's the use er me a-growin' 

 an' hay, an' then a-lettin' you help run 

 hosses outer biz ? 



At the riding academj :— 

 Teacher — Have you evei been on 



Pupil— No; but I took a ne* I 

 the other niplit on a cable car. 

 Teacher Say, I'd like to enj 



here before we ljo anv turther 



The movement to organize an lion 



of military wheelmen is popular, and ; 

 body in this interest is sun ;lt. 



Eddie Bald carried off the h< 

 races at Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 1 \, wit I 

 Murphy a close se< <>ii<! 



Improve the gaud) . shinin 



( )h, sill) , ' 

 A spin upon a moonlight night 



Is just ihe size 



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