Show BICYCLING The Bicycling World publishes an interesting description of the League Meet at Boston on May 30th from which we clip the following The morning of 30th of May opened bright with promise The air was cool with a slight breeze prevailing the sky was cloudless and the bicyclersthey were omnipresent omni-present On Commonwealth avenue near Hotel Vendome a vast crowd of spectators gathered at an early hour and as the time approached for the bicyclers to assemble the throng became so dense that the po lice experienced the greatest difficulty diffi-culty in keeping space enough for the admission of the various clubs At this time the bugles sounded merrily and one after another long line of handsomely dressed wheelmen i wheel-men came up in good form dismounted dis-mounted and took the places assigned them A few unattached men straggled strag-gled around here and there in a vain attempt to find their divisions the marshals flew back and forth the mounted police dashed along the wavering line of spectators the sun rose also the dust and soon nearly 1000 wheelmen were in a quiet state of bake The divisions standing by their machines in the order of the parade were at 1045 am reviewed by the commander of the league the commanders com-manders of divisions and the marshals mar-shals Immediately upon their return re-turn shortly after 11 oclock the bugle sounded the mount for the en tire league and in the best of order the clubs slowly wheeled into line and by twos departed from the scene of the first review At Chandler street the president commander and staff dismounted and allowed the wheelmen to pass by in review From the station whence the review re-view on wheels was had the spectacle spec-tacle was a beautiful and impressive one As far as the eye could reach in either direction the streets were thronged with people with carriages iages and the houses gay with Bunting and flags At the head of line came the Bostons the oldest club in the country and the first te join the League of American Wheelmen Wheel-men They were led by Captain Hodges In its ranks were the president of the League the chief consul of the Bicycle Touring Club of England the editor of the World and probably prob-ably the most venerable bicycler in the country Their handsomedark green uniforms set off by a silver star and white whistle cord were among the most attractive in the lineFollowing next in the finest form came the New York Club men whose Captain Munroe stood reviewing re-viewing the League members as their commander The Massachusetts men in their attractive dark blue costumes turned out a large number of men and by their good discipline and fine conduct won general respect The New Havens came next and after them the famous Essex Club with their wellknown champion riding in front Among the clubs following follow-ing were the Manhattan of New York from whose membership came the League recording secretary and some of the fastest riding men in the country the everhospitable and Hartford clubs in excellent form and the J large bodies of men in the Chelseas and Walthams pennant after pennant in every color from rich crimson to white silk passed on and soon the irregular irregu-lar movements of some of the undisciplined un-disciplined announced that the great I unattached had arrived The parade was managed creditably credit-ably and passed off without serious accident of any kind |