The Bearings, Vol 9, No 5
Articles in this issue
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Chief Consul Luscomb returns home to a celebratory reception at the Long Island Wheelmen clubhouse, giving a calm masterful speech on the League's plans for good roads and explaining why every wheelmen should be a League member.
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Denver's four Louisville delegates return home to a parade headed by the First Infantry Band and over 200 cyclists, the mayor giving a welcoming speech, after the city wins the 1894 LAW national meet against Asbury Park and Boston.
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The Bearings reveals that Boston arrived at Louisville without a room, punch, cigars, pictures, or badges, while Denver had decorated an entire hotel dining room and Asbury Park had a piano and Zimmerman; Boston delegates quietly withdrew their candidacy after realising they were outmanoeuvred.
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Delegates visiting Louisville for the assembly make side trips to Mammoth Cave, where they establish an LAW monument on a large boulder in a secluded corner, with guide Ed Bishop promising no future visitors will be admitted unless they are League members.
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The Bearings correspondent describes the lighter side of the Louisville assembly, including eastern delegates who arrived armed with revolvers expecting frontier Kentucky, and one who asked whether Mammoth Cave was near Lexington.