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[Feb. 6, 1897. 
allowed. The matter is treated more at length in the re- 
port of the trials. 
The Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co., through the general 
passenger department, of which Mr. E, E. Posey is general 
agent, has issued a circular in the interest of sportsmen 
which deserves more than a passing notice. Three field 
trials were to be held on its line: the Continental at 
Tupelo, Miss. ; the U, S. and Champion trials at West 
Point, Mies. All agents from St. Louis to Mobile inclu- 
sive were instructed to sell tickets at the rate of one fare, 
all tickets for return passage being limited to fifteen days 
from date of sale. The further instructions were added: 
"You are requested to assist the sportsmen as much as 
possible by seemg that their camping outfit, dogs, etc, , 
are carefully and promptly handled, and by rendering 
them aU the service you can. Dogs and camping outfit 
will be carried free in baggage car as customary, pro- 
vided they are delivered to and received from the main 
baggage men at the baggage car door," All these liberal 
concessions to sportsmen were thoroughly appreciated, 
the large attendance of visitors and their kmd words 
being ample praise. 
Dr. H. T. Foote, New Rochelle, N. Y., informs us of the 
death of champion Bromfield Sultan (20,668) after a short 
illness. His bench show career in England was excep- 
tionally successful. Dr. Foote imported him six years 
ago, he then being two years old. He won over forty first 
prizes in England and met with but four defeats, which 
were attributed to lack of condition. 
Leed's Barry, the famous St. Bernard owned by the 
Swiss Mountain Kennels, died recently from injury to the 
intestines caused by a large piece of glass which he had 
swallowed. 
KENNEL NOTES. 
Kennel Notes are Inserted without chargfe ; and blankg 
(furnished free) will be sent to any address. Prepared 
Blanks sent free on application. 
NAMES CLAIMED. 
Mr. Erwin M. Beale claims the name Earl Jingo for pointer dog 
Iphwed April 8, 1896, hy Jingo-Pearl's Dot. 
Communications for this department are requested. Anything on 
the bicycle in its relation to the sportsman ispartio ularly desirable. 
THE BEGINNER AWHEEL. 
[Ooncluded.l 
Scene — A Ninth avenue express train on the elevated 
road, New York. Enter Mr. White (Number 'leventy-'leven 
in the L. A. W.), who takes a seat beside Mr. Brown, re- 
cently graduated from the bicycling academy. 
"Howd' do, old noan? You were telling me yesterday of 
your experiences when you tried wheeling on the Boulevard 
instead of around the inner periphery of a riding school. 
How do you like the change, and did you ever get up to 
110th street? I am anxious to know." 
"If you will permit me to answer one question at a time, 
I will say first that I should like wheeling on the Boulevard 
immensely provided the course was kept clear of street cars, 
vehicles and other bicycle riders; and secondly, that I not 
only reached 110th street, but rode far beyond." 
"You surprise me. I thought the doctor when he sug- 
gested your taking up cycling cautioned you to take only the 
shortest rides." 
"Quite true; but then, as Fred.Mather — beg pardon, Bal- 
zac—says, 'I can resist anything but temptation.' When I 
got to llOlh street I felt pretty well played out, but just then 
1 happened to notice a fellow riding along abreast of me that 
I recognized as a man who had been in the cycle school at 
the same time that I was there. I had always felt a little 
jealous of his abilities as a rider, and I made up my mind at 
once that he wasn't going to pass me. 'Not on your life, 
you greenhorn!' I said to myself. 'You can't show a rear 
tire to me.' " 
"So you determined to give him a taste of your dust in- 
stead, ehf 
"No, not exactly. 1 didn't care to pass him, only show 
him that 1 was his equal in every respect, and that he 
couldn't pass me." 
"I see." 
"We rode along at a constantly increasing pace, one next 
the car track and the other next the curb, neither letting on 
that he had recognized the other, till we got to the 125th 
street cable road crossing. Here we were scorching at such 
a rate that I confidently expected to be arrested by one of the 
cycle policemen for fast riding. I can tell you, though, he 
would have had to sprint to catch us !" 
"But I thought you were opposed to scorching. Yesterday 
you couldn't say enough against scorchers." 
"Yes, I know, my dear fellow; but then it is diflierent 
when we do these things ourselves. Besides, it was hardly 
my fault, for I never snould have ridden so fast if it hadn't 
been for the other fellow." 
"True, I forgot him. Every one seems to have conspired 
against you. " 
"Well, I am sure I didn't scorch from the love of it. I 
was so tired out when we came to climb that hill beyond the 
car track that 1 would have given up and walked home if it 
hadn't been for the aggravating way in which the other fel- 
low hung at it." 
"His action was highly provoking." 
"I could see all the time that he wasn't enjoying himself. 
Going up that hill he worked not only his legs, but his whole 
body as well — sort of pumped along by a series of contor- 
tions — while his bicycle wabbled from side to side as if it 
were drunk, Wasn't having a much better time of it my- 
self, but then I would have died sooner than give up first." 
"What a fool the other fellow wasl" 
"That's exactly what I thought all along. 'Why don't 
you turn off somewheres, you blanked ass?' I kept saying to 
myself." 
"Saying to yourself of yourself, I suppose," 
"No, you blockhead, 1 was referring to the other fellow. 
We crossed Spuyten Dyvil bridge and rode on out Broad- 
way without another rider within half a mile of us, and yet 
neither of us showed by any sign that he was conscious of 
being in company. By that time we had lost some of oiur 
ginger, and instead of trying to be a good yard ahead I was 
content to feel that 1 had a foot the advantage of him." 
"Are you sure he didn't have a little the advantage of you 
at times?" 
"No doubt he may have thought so. He certainly needed 
some such encouragement to keep him going." 
"Well, we rode all the way to Yonkers that way without 
exchanging a glance, and when we got there I was content 
to know that I led him by an inch. My spirit was worn, 
but not broken. An inch isn't much of itself, but where a 
principle is involved it counts for a good deal." 
"I applaud the sentiment, but how in the world did you 
ever manage to stop? If both of you were as obo-couragious 
in your determination to do or die you might be riding yet." 
"I am coming to that immediately. Beyond Yonkers, as 
it happened, neither of us knew the road. By chance we 
turned up the wrong street, and the first thing I knew we 
had rim plumb up against a stone wall, part of the Aqueduct, 
I believe. It was the end of the street, and we could go no 
further." 
"Well, no doubt you turned around as if you were doing 
a perfectly natural thing and kept yourselves company in 
some other direction." 
"That is exactly what we did do. He turned to his right 
and I turned to my left; we changed sides of the street and 
rode back again, and though we just avoided colliding 
by a hair's breadth we never even looked at each other " 
"You didn't ride all the way back to New York that way?" 
"No, fortunately not. We failed to find the street we had 
come on, and by mistake rode straight down to the river. 
It had grown dark meanwhile, and just as we were exe- 
cuting a flank movement to go back up the hill a policeman 
came along and arrested us for not having our lamps lighted. 
Neither of us would stop, and he jerked the other fellow off 
his wheel first, so I felt that 1 had won. 
"We made It up between ourselves at the station house, 
and incidentally with the police. The first thing I asked 
him was where he had been going when I met him. He was 
still a little touchy, and he said, 'You write down the answer 
to that too, and we will exchange papers.' I was willing, 
and when we came to read them will you believe it, both 
said 'Grant's Tomb'l" 
There was a creaking of the door, and the guard put his 
head inside the car long enough to say 
"Warr'n street'" 
"My station," said White. Dan Daly. 
CHICAGO CYCLE SHOW. 
The annual Chicago show of the Nalional Cycle Beard of 
Trade was in progress during the entire week. Opinions 
are divided as to the success of the enterprise this year. Some 
dealers were discouraged by the smallness of the attendance, 
which was much lighter than was fairly to be expected, and 
by the infrequency of sales of their goods. Such manufac- 
turers say there is no good purpose served by holding these 
mammoth exhibitions. Others are quite as enthusiastic in 
favor of their continuance, and it is not likely there will be 
any change in the original purposes of the association. The 
truth is that the cycle show, as every form of business and 
amusement, has been affected this year by the hard times in 
this section of the country, the like of which has rarely been 
seen here, in spite of all efforts made to cover up that fact. 
It was the hard times which made persons so unready to 
buy wheels, and which made them apparently unwilling to 
come out to see the great show. Of itself, the show was a 
magnificent affair. The vast Coliseum building is perfect 
for such a convention of manufacturers, as it was perfect 
for a great political couvention. The interior was hand- 
somt ly and expensively decorated, and was a great pan- 
orama of mingled artistic and business clisplaJ^ There was 
hardly a leading industry of the country connected with 
wheeling goods which was not represented at the show, and 
that right royally. All the mechanical, technical and pro- 
fessional side of bicycling was shown in its most alluring 
and fascinating form. It was a gr at and interesting object 
lesson, one appealing to the masses of the people, for it is 
the masses and none less who do the buying and riding of the 
bicycle to-day. The wonderful invention, with all its de- 
velopment and all its improvement?, was shown, a thousand 
fold, and many were the thousands who noted narrowly 
each little variation from the features of the past in the way 
of improvement and perfection. Space fails to make any 
extended description of the show, or to speak in detail of the 
new things which were offered to the cycling world. The 
newspapers are really helpless when it comes to covering an 
affair like this, because the cycle show takes the place of all 
the newspapers as a vehicle of informatioii. At it the pro- 
fessional may learn what is ahead for him, and the amateur 
may jostle shoulders with him in front of the latest tire, the 
Qushion frame, the newest lamp, the new crank hanger, or 
the pretty girl in risky costume who hands out literature to 
the public. Great is the cycle show, as is the horse show or 
the dog show or the flower show. How shall we do with- 
out it? Therefore let not hard times cause the promoters of 
this fixtm'e to be cast down, or to plan a discontinuance of 
that which has been so well and happily begun. H. 
Chicago, Jan. SO. 
As the yachting journal of America, the Forest and Stream is the 
recognized medium of communication betioeen the maker of yachta- 
men''s supplies and the yachting public . 
The report of the special committee of the New York Y. 
C. on the question of the proposed yacht league is about as 
positively unfavorable as it could possibly be made; a con- 
clusion not entirely unexpected from the make-up of the 
committee, the majority of the members being known from 
the outset to be strongly opposed to the scheme. The re- 
port, which we publish in full, is a lengthy document, and 
enumerates a large number of reasons why the New York 
Y. C. should stand by itself in yachting, and aloof from all 
smaller and inferior clubs. Its adoption by the club places 
that body positively and publicly in the position which it 
has for so many years maintained in a less pronounced way: 
of opposition to all advance and improvement in yachting. 
To the extent that it defines thus clearly and positively the 
position of the New York Y. 0., the present movement 
whatever the result may be, has not been altogether a waste 
of time. It makes plain to all yachtsmen what has thus far 
been fully appreciated only by a comparatively small number 
who have been engaged from time to time in the past sixteen 
or eighteen years in the work of improving and unifying 
the various rules of yachting. 
In behalf of the report, it must be said that it is in a way 
comprehensive, and certainly most positive. It deals with 
three main points: the formation of a national union of 
yachtsmen, the formation of a union within a certain lim- 
ited territory, and the position of the New York Y. C. as 
related to all other American yacht clubs. In discussing 
the details under each of these heads there is no sign of 
doubt or uncertainty; the conclusions of the special commit- 
tee, like those of the club's regatta committee, are final be- 
yond possibility of discussion or appeal. 
The reasons for the summary rejection of the first propo- 
sition, as very briefly stated by the committee, are two: if 
carried out successfully, the plan would result in the forma- 
tion of a very large national association ; and this association 
or "league" would be composed of many heterogeneous ele- 
ments. In this respect it would only be like many existing 
associations in this country and abroad, composed of num- 
bers of persons brought together through a common interest 
in one general subject — not necessarily in the same ■•minute 
details of a subject. Such unions have long existed among 
scientists, professional men and sportsmen ; in many cases 
they have proved successful in spite of innumerable obsta- 
cles which could not exist in the present case ; differences of 
race, religion, politics and other material points being sunk 
by common consent, and aU meeting on a neutral field f Dr 
the common good. Leaving out of the question the innu- 
merable secret orders, composed of large numbers of most 
heterogeneous human elements, nearly all of the recognized 
sports, such as wheeling, tennis and canoeing, have found it 
not only possible, but highly advantageous, to form national 
or very large local associations. 
We have realized from the first that the task of carrying 
out the scheme proposed and elaborated by Mr. Lovejoy, 
even with the assured co-operation of the New York Y. C , 
would not be an easy one, or a matter of a single season ; but 
would require no small amount of good judgment and 
patient labor. At the same time we cannot see that it is in 
any way chimerical or impossible of itself. We know of 
nothing in the composition of the average yachtsman that 
unfits him for such harmonious association with others of 
his kind as is found in other sports and more serious pur- 
suits. 
Oh one point the report is discreetly silent: it does not in- . 
timate the future policy of the New York Y. C. in its atti- 
tude toward the gradual union of American yachting 
interests outside of the club, and we can only hope that it 
will be nothing more serious than laissezfaire, laissez dlUr; 
but, in any event, it is beyond question that the unifying in- 
fluences so strongly at work for a few years past will con- 
tinue to grow, and that it is only a question of lime before a 
union of the Atlantic and Lake clubs is formed ; this extend- 
ing later to include all American clubs. The visible feeling 
among many clubs and individual yachtsmen, the great pro- 
gress made in a very short time after long years of apparently 
fruitless work, and the constantly extending efforts toward 
local union on Long Island Sound, Massachusetts Bay and. 
the Great Lakes, all point to the one conclusion. The New 
York Y. C, and its committee to the contrary, all the ten- 
dencies of the times are toward the consummation of the 
work which they have pronounced impossible, whan aU that 
can fairly be said against it is that it is diflicult. 
In its hasty and sweeping dismissal of the proposed 
scheme, the committee has framed a most complete indict- 
ment against the existence of the New York Y. C. it- 
self, as opposed to smaller and differently constituted clubs; 
it is preeminently "composed of so many heterogeneous ele- 
ments, and, by reason of its mere size, so unwieldy that no 
good results can be expected from it." One might search in 
vain for a more apt and fitting characterization of the New 
York Y. C of to-day, Its membership is composed of 
men who are yachtsmen, heart and soul, but who have no 
voice in the club because they ate no longer yacht owners; 
of men who are owners of racing yachts, but who are simi- 
larly disfranchised because their craft are of the small sizes 
that still race rather than the larger sizes that no 
longer race; of men who control the destinies of the club by 
virtue of the ownership of craft long obsolete even for cruis- 
ing; of men who never were yachtsmen and men who never 
will be yachtsmen; of men who, by recent purchase of a 
steam yacht, are instantly qualified to make rules for racing 
yachts, of which they know nothing. What is the record, 
in the way of ' good results," from this unwieldy body of 
over 1,200 members, who-e destinies are decided by votes of 
from twelve to twenty -five men at its meetings? 
In disposing of the second point the committee covers 
more ground, three separate objections being made. The 
first of these is that the work proposed has already been 
partly done, so there is no necessity for completing and per. 
feeling it. It is true that the efforts of the smaller clubs, in 
which they have not even had the sympathy of the New 
York Y. C, have resulted in the establishment of a partial 
uniformity and harmony of action. At the present stage 
ttiese can neither be considered complete nor permanent; 
they are results almost entirely of individual work within 
the different clubs, of time and labor freely given to club 
committees and inter club conferences as the result of a de- 
votion to the interests of yachting at large It cannot be 
expected that the labor thus given in the hope of establish- 
ing sooner or later a permanent union with the necessary 
ofiicers will be available for all time. With a few more such, 
eft'orts to discourage them as the present one on the part of 
the New York Y. C., even the most enthusiastic of workers 
may find reasons for withdrawing. The work is partly 
done, there is no disputing that; for this very reason, if no 
other, it is incumbent now that the clubs should come for- 
ward officially and recognize it, the New York Y. C. first of 
all, if it is what it aspires to be, the premier yacht club of 
the Western Hemisphere, even the Royal Squadron of 
America. 
The second objection is that there would be a final court 
of appeal from the decision of club regatta committees> 
and that this final court might be unfairly constituted. The 
first point is one of the strongest on the side of the proposed 
scheme; it is a clearly recognized fact that the club regatta 
committees, those of the New York Y. C. not excluded, are 
by no means infallible either in judgment or absolute fair- 
ness, and that injustice is at times done to racing owners, 
with no possible appeal. It would be to the advantage 
of every fair and competent regatta committee in the 
country if its decisions could be passed upon under 
certain conditions by the right sort of superior tribunal ; at 
least the intent of the committee would be justified, even 
though an error were shown in its judgment, and it would 
relieve the committee of much responsibility. As to the rac- 
