Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1893, Page 13

~ = T, ROCKLEDGE romantic and beautiful as any scenery in the old world. And her fruit! Do you fancy grape fruit; bananas: the Japanese plam, hanging in rich yellow clusters; a guava, with a flavor as delicate as the strawberry; pineapples which are not tough; mangoes: pawpaws? All these | and more are to be had for the pic! Fifty years ago one or two settlements were | effected near the inlets by men realizing the | wonderful resources of the country, but were | soon abandoned on account of trouble with | WILKINSON’S FRON A LAND OF FLOWERS. The Indian River Country and Its Tropical Beauties. Sara the Indians. Somo years Inter an orange grove | NO COLD WEATHER THERE. | was planted by Capt. Dummitt near the head of the river, and shortly after the civil war «| VRE R SS) small iron-bulled schooner was used to trans- wrt the produce of this grove up through the | iillsborough river, out at New Smyrna inlet | and along the coast to the markets of St Augustine and Jacksonville. Not long after | this it became known that oranges of superior | quality could be raised in the vicinity of the | headwaters, but becanse of its inaccessibility | this region remained a wilderness for somo | years. in the latter sixties a few families found | their way through the St. John’s or down the | coast to the place where they have since gained | comfortable homes and moderate fortunes. STEAM WORKS ITS WONDERS. A new impetus was given immigration by the opening in the latter seventies of a steamboat | route on the St. John’s to Salt Lake, opposite | Titusville, town near the head of the river. | A few years afterward this line was pushed south to Lake Poinsett, opposite Rockledge, | which ix twenty miles south of Titusville. A Trip Up Floriaa’s Lagoon—The Air Laden With the Perfume of Orange Blossoms— ‘The Advent of Railroads. ti oT MANY YEARS ago Jobn Randolph of Roanoke stood on the floor of Congress and opposed the purchase ef Florida from the | Spanish, on the ground that it was a “land of swamps, of quagmires, of frogs and alligators and mosquitoes,” ad- ding that “no man would immigrate into Florida -no, not from And yet thousands have immigrated, year thousands more, fleeing the Rareb winters of the north and the bleak | March winds, find there the fields elysian. Going through from Charleston to Jackson- | ville for the first time one looks out on the swamps on every side and wonders why so many seck this land of flowers. But after be has once sailed down the Indian river bis heart te won completely. He hears again the fabled Stories of Pouce de Leon and wishes there were ru duties for the after time. | adian river proper iva vast lagoon, which runs parallel with the coast and is vepa- | - rated from the Atlantic by narrow strip of land varying from a few hundred yards to two | miles in width und divided in several places by | inlets from the ocean. The river or lagoon is, generally speaking, from one to two miles wide, bat it cecasioually broadens into bars fire oF | from Enterprise to Titusville, and at the pres- ent time Mr. Fiagler’s new railroad from St. | Augnstine throngh Rockiedge and beyond is| ing rapidly built and will soon be completed. | is nadie A POINT JUST ABOVE ROCKLEDOR. | Por several years Lakes Worth and Jupiter, on eae cere e tind strctened tres tes cad te | the Lower river, have been connected by a tine he nthec sould not touch either bank. The | Of steamers with the J. T. and R. W. railroad shores are fringed witha thick growth of the &t Titusville, and ever since there has been a | wonderful development of the pineapple and | vegetable industries. | Rockledge. with her hundred greves and rock- | girtahore, her fine hotel, pleasant homes and shady walks, is the center of the orange country. Indian Raver Narrows, with itslargearea of low, | rich hammock lands, its oyster bunks and man- grove islands, might justly be called the went of the vegetableand banana interests. ‘The divide | between the St. Lucie and Indian rivers sur- | passes all in the number and productions of its Pineapple farms, while Merrit’s Island, with good water protection along its western front, worthily represents the most diversified inter- exts of any part of this Indian river country of equal extent. eabbage into the belief tha again, the eve meets only lon; somber pine, so common in the state, or per- haps the saw palmetto or mangrove. Of the latter thore are several varieties and in some parts of the river they form islands of the rich- est verdure. Nature never displayed a happier mood than in studding the clear waters with these clusters of mimic islands. LIKE STREETS OF CRYRTAL. The Iabyrinths between them scem like streets and corridors and winding paths paved with crystal In shades elightly modified all the colors of the sea are reflocted by the surface of | the river, and ite waters, somewhat fresher than the ocean, teem with such fivh as frequent the adjacent const». Among the varicties mont ——— FIRES NOT MEANT FOR LIGHTING. Lucende Principle is iuatrated in Washington. “You can’t imagine how I have been envying you your house this bitterly cold weather,” said Mra. Noodles yesterday, giancing as she spoke acrossa flower-strewn lunch table at ber friend Mrs. Tomkyns. Andsheadded: “As we | have sat huddled about a most unromantic | | little grate full of red coals we have thought of | you and of how you must be enjoying that | lovely wood firein your hall. I don't believe | that there is a handsomer fireplace in town— | and such a big one, too.” Are you joking?” asked Mrs. Tomkyns, “or | do you really not know that the fireplace you | speak of was only put there as part of tie deco- | ration of the hail and isa miserable sham with | no chimney at all? The first really cold day after we moved in last autama we thought we would like a cheerful blaze in that fireplace. I wanted to see, too, how my lovely new andirons | and fender would look when in active use, and my fingers were just aching to puilabout the loga | How the Lucus Ani RIVER BASK AT CITY POINT. with those brass tongs you helped me to chore. Felished by the epicure are the nrulletand | The maid touched up the fire, while Mr. Tom- pampero, which herd in vast Et kyns and I stood by to admire the effect. There ‘out the length of the river. was a magnificent blaze, to be sure, for ina ad expecially in the tar-| minute uot only the logs but the mantelpiece 1 nearer the inlets. Here, | ag weil were on fire, but such clouds of smoke + banks and green turtle. | J never before beheld. silow the sinaller fish from | “We opened the windowsatonce and the effect ft the manatee sometimes invades | from the street must have been quite alarming, in quest of such vegetation a8 its | for some one rang for the fire eugines and then waters afford. | followed such a scene of confusion ax I could The banks of the river are never precipitons, | not possibly describe. I don’treaily know ex- Wut in places bluffs rise from twenty | actly how it came about, but I have a vivid feet, though usually they are frora five to ten | recollection of nurse standing at tue head of feet high. These are often buttressed by the stairs and calling to me to eateh the baby, coquine rock, which is simply a hardened com- | whom she held upside down and waved madiy posite of disintegrated shell. At several places | to and fro; of cook, a dish cloth in her hand, on the banks may be seen mounds of consider- | screaming out of the parlor window, and of Mr! ch consist of the debris of | Tomkyns in smoking jacket and slippers rush- ents of long ago:such accumd- | ing here and there in @ vain effort to restore shells and | order. Meanwhile tho firemen bad arrived and broken pottery bear testimony to the work of | had rushed into the house. The result of it all if not ages was that we had dreadful colds, and some two- vm the river the fertile hammock Jegged beast took advantage of the opportunity end bigh pine b which border the shoreare to waik off with my best silver dinner forks and soon merged in the lakes and marshes of the | ny lovely fire tongs.” Spper St. John’s, the low prairies of the in- | “put didn't you know that most Washington le evergiades of the Grepiaces are not meant for real fires?” asked peninsula. - the hostess. y ite latitude but ite contiguity to | """-No. indeed,” replied Mre. Tomkyns. “Such the ocean and the gulf stream conduce to iso- an ide never occurred to me. The Boston late the Indian river country from the greater | Climate is much colder than this and we really part of Florida and the rest of the world. giv- | use our andirons there. I belie to be jag Ht @ climate and resources peculiarly its | fashion of which Washington bas the monopoly, own. but I do think tha: unfortunate strangers like ourselves should be warned.” “I have five firepinces,” remarked the bost- ut ouly ene of them is intended id_ Mra. Noodles, meditative! finger tips into # little eut- | glass bowl, “i believe that one is happier wi real fires of coai in plain,unornamental grates.” | Rieti BOe Doubly Won. From the Det-o't Free Press Up in one of the northern counties of Mary- | land a German magistrate, noted more for his | sympathetic and impetuous rather than just | decisions, was once hearing a case. The p' | tiffs lawyer was making his most serious | charges, when, before be had | magistrate arose pompously and waving his | hands, said: | “Dot's enough! You sbust got dor case. ! exclaimed the defendant's attor- . are the ors Shark and porpoise the Net o: THE DELIOMTFEL CLIMATE. And what a climate! where the thermometer Rever rises above 90 in the summer, and that weareely realized because of the delightful breezes from old ocean: where the freezing point has only been registered Within the ‘memory of man; whe: I have ee | Judgment is passed.” “Vell, all it; L let you “ap | Quiet being revtored, the atiorne for the | lawyer for the defense began. He made a most pathetic appeal for justice on the part of the defendant, elaborating perhaps unnecessarily. ‘When in the midst of it the magistrate arose. and. waving his hands ae before, interrupted S exclaiming: “Dot's enough! You abyst got der case, { | | | CogUING PROMENADE. of diossome, foeamine, maguclas and myriodael other Sow ‘exe. It is no wonder that northerners have gove there, built summer cottages and fancy | themselves in Eden from Lege api Brosd avenues arecut through a and olesnders down to the river. Each house bas its own wharf, sail and rowboat. Could a_ king be happier? ' The river is the boulevard of Prevard county, the only steeds needed Wind, or steam, or mascle. From City Point w Bockledge and beyond, ranning along the ebere for Give miles. is a coquino promenade as | of the box is twenty-two In 1586 the J. T. and K. W. railroad was laid | of the home plate. From a description of the | 4. | bat. Nine players on each side | cago ha THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. - BASE BALL INDOORS. The Game That Has Achieved Great Popularity. EVENTS IN ATHLETIC CIRCLES ‘The ColumDias’ Smoker—Preparations for the Sparring Conteste—Need of the ¥. M.C. A. for More Extensive Quarters—Local Gymnasium Notes. EW PERSONS HAVE ‘any sort of an idea how indoor base ball is played and the kind and size of the place to play it in, Since I began agitating the question of having winter indoor base ball, foot ball and winter wheel races I have been asked all sorts of questions as to this and that, and espe- cially as to base bail. In the first place indoor base ball is a Chicago invention and has been played in that city nearly four years. Other cities have adopted the game and its popularity as. winter sport is increasing to such an extent that it promises at an early day to rival the summer outdoor game as the national game and become the common food for the base ball crank. Tt can be played in any hall that is sufficiently large to allow proper distances between bases and for fielding. At this point it must be borne in mind that the distances for bases and field- ing are not nearly so large as in field base ball, because the difference in rules of playing, dif- ference of size of ball and style of bat. all make great size of hall unnecessary. The floor | may be of any material, as rubber shoes are generally worn; of course, » tan-bark floor is preferable, This game is played like field base ball ex- cepting that the rules are changed somewhat to comply with the reduced nize of the playing space. Each side of the dinmond is twenty- seven feet long and a base is placed at each corner. The distance from home to second base and from first to third is thirty-seven and ahalf feet. ‘The pitcher's box is six by three feet, marked with chalk, and the nearest line feet from the center ball it will become apparent why the above dis- tances are so short and why there is so much more fun and science in one evening of this game than there is in a whole week of field base ball such as we have locally been treated to for & year or two past very lively and this makes the fielding of a ball dificult, and it is astonishing to what degree of perfection some of the fielders of the clubs in Chicago have come in handling the big ball. The ball is seventeen inches in circumference, made of yielding substance, about eight and one-quarter ounces in weight covered with a white skin, something like a boxing glove skin. three-fourths feet long aud about one and one- fourth inches in diameter in the largest part. It is Of wood, with a rubber handle to prevent slipping. A metal rod abont an eighth of an | inch thick rans through the center of the bat to give it weight as a compensation for the dif- ference in length as compared with an outdoor play the game. in which it differs ‘There are some other ways i: | from ordinary ball, all made necessary by the necessarily smaller playing room. For instance, ‘A base runner must not leave his base when the pitcher holds the ball standing in the box.” “A bare runner must not leave his base ona pitched ball not struck until after it has reached or passed the eatch ere are other modifications and various rules which tend to make the game interesting aud cause the player to be quick and know his | business. The attendance at the leagne games in Chi- eraged about 3,000 persons, ehowing how interesting the game is, Now, why cannot we getup something like this to wake us up and show that we appreciate good thing when wo sce it. It's money in some man's pocket that will take this up and start in with a league of amateur players. It would not take much trouble to get up such a league, and I believe all the ball players here would be giad of the work and training it would give preparatory to next season's ontdoor work. THE COLUMBIA ATHLETIC CLED. The gymnasium and the bowling floors of the Columbia Athletic Club house have been the scene of more than ordinary activity during ast week. Instructor Crossley has been busy preparing his pupils for the athletic ition of tonight. Besides the work on the paraliel and horizontal bars and the flying rings and the horse, and so on, he will present Sewell and Midge Hoss in somo pretty work in a brother act on the trapeze. Ross bas devel- oped into quite a gymnast, and it will not be very long before he will be just the man Sewell wants for this work. 1. Cobb, who promises to become a good gymnast, is doing regular work, and he will give his forward somersuult from the horizontal bar. A new thing here will be the one-arm and no-arm fence vault by Hough, Gregg, Shea and MeEibone. ‘The standing high jump will have Capt. Wil- son, Johnson, Gregg, Hongh, Elder and Sew- eli.’ There will be’ wrestling bouts between Bluntand Dr. Schafhirt and a very interesting bout between Miteholl of the C. A. C. and Purman of the ¥. M. C. A. The Intter has never wrestled here outside of the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium, and judging from his work with McChesney on Wednesday he will make it very interesting for Mitchell. Another interesting event will be the wrest- ling between Shafer and 4 An exhibition in fencing by Prof. Heinz and Stearns will prove interceting, as both are ac- knowledged experts, and so with the broad- swords exhibition by 8. E. Darby and Mellach. For those who are fond of the art of sclf- defense there will be plenty to feast on, there being four contests on the card; the one be- tween Jimmie Greene and Carter will be lively one; then Dr. von Lindgren and_ Hensley give an exhibition, John Green will have a “go” with Stewart and Bateman and Eider will try conclusions. Prof. North is much pleased the prog- ress made by those who have joined his classes, which he has on Tuesdays and Fridaya. Ho takes a personal interest in each man and seems to understand the art of imparcng this class of knowledge. ‘Two of the juniors, Craig and Milstead, are very evenly matehed and are doing very well with the gloves. Craig is doing well also in points in wrest- gymnastics, E. F. Schafhirt is picking w ling very rapidly, and with his groat strength, combined with the practice with his brother, Dr. Schafhirt, who is well known as a “good one’ power- in that line, he will soon become }fal man to handle on the mat. Dr. W. G. | Schafhirt is thinking seriously of dropping wrestling and going into fencing and broud- sword for exercise, Frank Sherman will more than likely take chargé of the billiard room on Monday. He will prove very valuable in his line in many | waye, particularly in arranging tournaments and matches. One of the attractions for Feb- ruary will probably be an exhibition of billiard playing between euch men as Ives or Sloseon and certain experts thev will bring or that will be matched against them here. The billiard, exhibition will take place in the gymnasium. A lecture on ‘Travels in Europe,” illustrated by stereopticon, will be another attraction for the near future. A novelty in the way of a “smok: spoken of, and it iv in the- nature af a “smoker” by the members and for the members. © Some- thing new, and the iden is to have no set pro- gram, but to call on members in their places fora contribution to the evening's amusemont in the way of a song or story or speech. SPECIAL SPARRING CONTESTS. ‘The special sparring contests aro to be held on February 4, instead of the 28th instant, for the reason that some of the contestants willing to come down found they all this month, having other Lye y) tend. The lists are very well filled ond it all improbable that by In the first place the ball is | and | ‘The bat is about two and | ete at nies ot contests may be ‘and there will doubtless be a large moans members and their friends. A tionally. member is pleased with amusement committee. Ad- gymnastic and boxing exhibition to members and to ir friends cost of tickets, which may be ob- from members st the ‘club honso. Practice bowling on Thursday night went | along smoothly. and some very high scores were rolled by some of the bowlers who in the tournament were able to do little more than i YM. © A. ATHLETICS, ‘The need for a new and larger home for this Popuisr organization was never more clearly demonstrated than on the night of the special gymnastic exhibition for the pleasure of the sustaining members and their families. Over 800 persons were crowded into the gymnasium and many comers were turned away. unable to gain admittance. I trust some of thase present and. indeed, some of those who were unable to get in, will see their way clear with their money and influence among men of money to give to the association such a home as it needs and deserves. The amount of work and good don: here in the educational and religious and phys cal departments is something wonderful, and a home is needed which is more in keeping with the magnitude of the work and for the further extension of the work in its several branches. Few of the sustaining members present had the remotest idea of the amount of work done here, and expressions of surpriee came from every side. If these same members could be induced tocome down more frequently I believe they could very readily be persuaded of the neces- | sity for a new and larger building. The work done at the exhibition named was | gone over in detail in Tuz Sram and was in | every way acredit to Instructor Simms. Ho | has a lot of pupils who are willing to learn, and willingness is half the battle, and he has no trouble. in securing proficiency in the several specialties selected by the members and in most cases prescribed for them. The wrestling | of Purman and McChesney established the fact that in these men the “gym” has two coming | wrestlers, who will upon proper occasions in | trying conclusions with outsiders win several | more points for the association's athletic average. | The fact that Purman will wrostle at the C. C. exhibition tonight is @ move in the right | direction. It will show his friends what he can | do and it will broaden his knowledge of the art. | Sparring should be taken up next. It is an ex- | ereise that is not hurtful to the morals, how- ever painful it may be at times to the feelings of the participants in the art of eelf-cefense. In Quackenbush and Horan and Playter the Y.M.C. A. has three “star” men in their re- spective branches, The game of besket ball which was played in the exhibition created no end of interest and afforded considerable amusement. The two teams were well matched and played good ball. ‘The teams were mado up as follows: First team, Grove, captain; Eaton, Sims, McChesney and Williamson: second team, Burton, captain: Boteler, Herbert, Speiden and Sanford. Grove team won one goal before the expiration of the time allowed. The Juniors are a likely lot of boys, who are jowing marked improvement in their work. The candidates for the base ball team ure putting in plenty of work in the gym. | THE UNDERGRADUATE RULE AT COLLEGES. One of the most popular and at the same time one of the most modest young fellows is Phil King, captain of the Princeton foot ball team of the past season. His unanimous re- election as captain is abundant evidence of the high regard his classmates and team members held him in. His prompt resignation of the office was only another evidence of his great love for his college aud showed the lack of selfishness on his part to further his own per- sonal interests, for, to remain captain would have tended inameasure to defeat the very point which the meeting of the big colleges on | next Tuesday hopes to gain, and that is the un- dergraduate rule, which means simply that members of the law and modical and theological classes as post graduates will not be allowed to play on the big teams of the college in foot ball and base ball. Princeton has for the past three Fears, and I'say this without fear of contradic- favored the undergraduate rule, and not- withstanding that Yale now comes and makes this asan original motion Princeton will be found to heartily favor its adoption. If the rule is adopted King will come here next fall snd tinish up in law, and in that event he will play on the C. A. C. foot ball team. Oscan P. Scuatpt. ee Souvenir Coins. In compliance with many requests, Tu Stan has secured, for the accommodation of its patrons, @ supply of Columbian Exposition Souvenir half doliar coins, which will be fur- nished at cost price,—one dollar each. Apply at the counter of Tae Stan business office, a Justice Lamar. ‘M. Crofton in February Lippincott's. Judge Lamar is far and away the most pre- turesqne figure on the bench of the United States Supreme Court, A thin, dreamy-eyed, stoop-shonldered man, with~a wan, fleshless face, to which the skin hangs in folds, long Dlack-gray hair, and a ragged tuft of beard, he looks rather like poet or au anarchist than like the soholarly jurist that he is, He is now siz- ty-roven. He passed from a seat in Congress to 8 coloneley in the confederate army, and then into the University of — Michigan as professor of political economy. Mississippi sent him to the Senate in 1876 and re-clected him in 1882, but he resigned in order to become Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland. His former law partner, Senator Walthall, succeeded to his seat. It is said that while 1m partnership Walthall did all the work, while Lamar did ail the dreaming anent the air castles to be built out of the profits. After serving tio years in tho cabinet he was im- proved into a Judgo of the United Staies jupreme Court. His manner in court quite harmonizes with his appearance. He never len to what is going on, but sits aspect, doubled up in his chair, apparently lost in re He in almost as ab- sent minded as the great Pasteur himself. When Secretary of the Interior he used fre- uently to get lost in the corridors of the great department building, aad it ts enld the bis associates are in constant fear of his seandalizing the court by walking up Pennsylvania avenue in his judicial robes. He is profoundly moody. There are times when ho will devote himself with intense ap- plication to the unraveling of some legal pro! Jems;at others he will shun the semblance of mental effort for weeks at m stretch. He is auch given to the pleasure of riding, and is a familiar figure on pleasant days ambling along {he streets of Washington on a staid old family orse, —_-. ‘The Arizona Kicker. From the New \ ork Sun. A Puzasant Sunpnise.—During the past year the Kicker has bad no less than six different @ditors of the “horse talk” department. As near as we can remember, one was lynched over in Clinch valley, one was shot by Col. Taylor for referring to his thoroughbred as a bu: and the next four others threw up the “‘sit® without notice and traveled farther west to get a change of climate, Last week adudish young man, wearing eyeglasses, and @ white shirt, camo along and applied for the piace, and we took bim on in the fall ex- pectation of having to foot his funeral expenses within a week. He went over to Lone Tree last Tuesday to witness the horse race, and he hadn’t cleared the town before we hed given an order to Dan Powers, the undertaker, to trim up one of his popular special contest for wrestling of the middle- Tight, open to the District only, will be a Failed to Appear. Sak Sherveaine, the chances | 4 20® To BE TAKEN TO GREAT FALLS TOMORROW de chartien tos mackie br poems BY THE ARLINGTONS—SOME INDOOR ENTER- and officers whose numes will be posted ina | TAINMENTS—PROVISION FoR BicTcLIsTs aT tow dara sau'eenzale sank-aieuuses: ecm estes: ‘Thoclub election takes place Fé & ; rmothere of the amuscmsont committee teserge | _BleYeling in the mow i not quite so enjoy- grest credit for the ercallaa’ entertain able as it is on the smooth roads in the summer wrided for the re of the members and | time, although there has been no day this winter tent leather shoes, | | Prot the! ¥ 21, (On No Day This Season Has a Wheelman | that bicycles have.not been seen gliding over the conerete or snow along Pennsylvania ave- nue. The car tracks on many streets wero used by wheelmen in preference to riding through the snow, as the pneumatic tired wheels go over the granite block or cobblestone pavement without any trouble or discomfort to the rider. Last year's wheels are being put in the shop now in order to have them ready for riding in the early spring, while those anticipating the purchase of a new wheel are looking about to ascertain the advantages of the ninety-threo patterns. All this year’s patterns are lighter than last year’s wheels and tho diamond frame is used more than any other. A prominent feature of the new wheels is the absence of so much mechanism that has made some wheels of past years troublesome to repair when damage was sustained on the road. OPENING THE SEASON. Several members of the Arlington Wheelmon contemplate opening the season tomorow with @ run to the Great Falls through the snow. Already half a dozen men have signified their intention of making the journey, and should the weather prove cold some of them will wear a double amount of bicycling clothes in order to protect themselves. Should the trip be made tomorrow it will be the first club run of the year. The Mercury Club held a pleasant meeting Monday evening at the residence of Miss Webb, | No. 203 8th street northeast, and transacted | business of importance to the club. A musical Program brought the meeting to a close. Wednesday eveving the Nomad Club gave a Pfoeressivo cuchre meeting at the residence of r. and Mrs, William T. Robertson on M street, which was only one of the many pleasant social | | gatherings of the club this winter. ‘The annual meeting of the League of Ai can Wheelmen will take place in Philadelphia next month, and the delegates elected to repre. | sent the District of Columbia are already pre- paving for the event in anticipation of a good time. COLUMBIAN WHEELMEN’S ASSOCIATION. Circulars have been received here by the | wheelmen, giving information concerning the | tional Columbian Wheelmen’s Association in Chicago. Membership in the association in limited to reputable wheelmen, and special | Fooms are to be reserved in buildings near the | club house for lady cyclists. The purpose of | the association is to provide comfortabie and |commodious quarters, adapted for wheelmen during a time when suitable accom- modations are difficult to obtain; to concentrate wheeling interests; to enable cyclers to bring | their wheels to the fair; to provide reasonable | | rates for sleeping and eating accommodation: \and secure rooms in advance; to. provide a | headquarters for all wheelmen during the fair |and L. A. W. meet, as well as a place of as- sembly and conference, and to aid the cause of good ronds in every’ way possibie: to hold weekly receptions, and extend the acquaintance of visiting wheelmen; to mako Chicago the cycling center of the world this year. This association wil be composed of ‘wheel- men from every state and territory and Canada. Besides providing storage, it will procure roomsysleeping and eating accommodations in advance either at the club house, hotels or private families as he may desire and at such Prices as he wishes to pay. WHAT LADIES SHOULD WEAR. Now that the cycling season is soon to begin the question of what ladies should wear when on their wheels is again being agitated. One of the fair riders of this city wrote to the Bulletin recently giving her views as follows: Iam only a novice, but in the one year that I have been riding the question of ‘what to wear” has, to my satisfaction, been solved. I wear a skirt cut to fit the hips neatly, almost |like a riding habit, and widened toward the | bottom like an old-fashioned gored skirt. I arrange the gored or bias seam 60 that it comes on either sido, and as I sit on the whee! my skirt falls away from my feet, allowing room for the pedal to rise and fall without disar- ranging the skirt. In warm weather I wear @ silk blouse with skirt falling full around the hips, and deop enough to hide the spring of the saddle, In cold weather a jacket long enoughrto serve above purpose. Iwould gladiy give a pattern of my skirt, if it is desired, as I think the success of wheelii for women lies much in the proper dress. wear equestrian trousers and have found them very comfortable, My idea is this: The ma- Jority of young women who ride look as if their ‘skirt was narrower around the feet than above, giving the rider a very ungraceful ap- rancs, Acting upon this suggestion, I immediately set about making a skirt’ that would give me more freedom for my limbs and an im- proved appearance. Tut away all fullness around the hips and widened my skirt around the bottom. Phe ef- fect was good and all who have seen me on my wheel praise my ekirt. I fancy black or dark blue material, with aa little ornamentation as possible. but this ix best left to individual taste. I would only suggest a trial of my skirt, Horsewomen vs. Bicycle Girls. Riding horseback man fashion, or ‘‘straddie,”” is becoming rather common among. the horee- women in Boston just now, and right well do the fair ones look, too, says the League Bulletin, A woman on the back of a horse, sitting upon the usual side saddle, takes nt best an unbecom- | ing position as she heaves up and down without | the thigh support of the “straddle” position. | One would hardly notice that the rider was astride the horse with this new rig. A woman cycle rider,when seated upon a properly adjusted machine, is a far more pleas- ing sight than the horsewoman and one that toon will be the more frequently seen of the 0. Between Horse and Bicycle. Arace between ahorso anda bieycle took place in Savanuah, Ga., recently. A constable ‘hhad an attachment on the wheel ofa young man who had been sued in his court, and at- tempted to serve it. The wheelman was too quick for him, however, and jumping on tho machine rode off. There happened to bea horse handy, and the offiecr gave chase in the saddle, but very much to his chagrin was out- distanced. ‘There were a number of amused spectators of the race, and the wheelman has been lying low ever since, Cycling Notes. Rev. Henry Mitchell, rector of St, Philip's Episcopal Church, Circleville, Ohio, eays: “The bicycle isa great help to me in my parochial work, forIcan now make calls of long dis- tances without worry or fatigue.” W. H. Rogers, a cyclist of Plainfield, N. J., has just completed a wheelmen's census. He reports: Bicycles in city, 985; in North Plain- field, 274; total. 1,259. Riders in city, 1,200; in North Plainfield, 412; total. 1,612, ‘Tho whecimen of Bloomfield, N. J., have or- ganized » cyclists’ cadet corps, with these offi- cers: Chairman, H. M. Thomas; secretary, Ed- mund_ Smith; treasurer, J. R. Maxfield; cap- tain, H. M. 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