People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1894 — Great Relay Race Started. [ARTICLE]

Great Relay Race Started.

Washington, Aug. 8. —Promptly at noon Monday Chief Consul G. B. French and Ronsaville, of the District of Columbia division of the League of American Wheelmen, started from the white house on the great bicycle relay race from Washington to Denver, to be run in conjunction with the forthcoming L. A. W. meet at Denver. The two wheelmen bore a letter from Private Secretary Thurber to Gov.'Waite, which is to be passed from bicyclist to bicyclist till it reaches its destination.