The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Unheaded leader column backing R. A. Simon of Napa, Cal. on electrical starting, timing and photographing of cycle races, admiring the Australian officials who ruled out Great Austral winner Mullins, and previewing the Racing Board's Chicago meeting under Mr. Davol. It also answers "Hawkshaw" on driving versus educating the farmer, and reviews the first eight sections of Isaac B. Potter's New York roads bill alongside Gov. Hill's message on State highways.
- "Ariel" reports the Century Wheelmen's midnight New Year's Eve run out Diamond street to the Park, claimed as a record with twenty-one riders, and their New Year's Day reception in the new club house attended by three to four hundred wheelmen; the new uptown Oxford Wheelmen held their first reception the same day.
- "Hawkshaw" argues that the "drive the farmer" and "educate the citizen" schools of road improvement need not clash, jokes about "the grip" and Smart Alick's removed brake, and credits the safety with drawing older business and professional men into cycling and giving wheeling its political weight.
- "Linneus" reports the agreed consolidation of the Missouri Bicycle and St. Louis Cycling Clubs as the Missouri Cycling Club — rejected as unconstitutional in a dispatch received after going to press — plus E. C. Klipstein's visit from Springfield, Mayor Noonan's signing of the amended tire ordinance, and Will Harding's solo rainy New Year's run to Ballwin.
- "Argus, Jr." passes on rumours that a large local League club is careless whether its members belong to the L. A. W., welcomes the Chesapeake Wheelmen's expected application, notes the Chief Consul's inquiry about adopting the Pennsylvania road book, and records Vice Consul George F. Updegraff on the Hagerstown Bi. Club's new quarters.
- "Elm City" describes the new Connecticut Wheelmen's Polo League of Meriden Wheel Club, New Haven Bicycle Club, Ramblers and Bridgeport clubs, New Haven's 5-to-4 win over the Meridens under Captain Andrews, and the N. H. B. C.'s tenth-anniversary banquet at Loomis Temple of Music on January 24th.
- "Star" recalls the fault-finding non-member on a borrowed wheel who disrupted the Ohio Division tour, warns of a Kenton Club hanger-on who would be protested if he applied to the League, and praises Buckles's sketch and Charley Allen's text for the meet programme.
- "Nitram" reports the Plainfield Bicycle Club's new "Saturday Night Entertainment Committee," the Hudson County Wheelmen's New Year's visit to the Harlem Wheelmen and their engraved silver-plated chair, the Atalanta Wheelmen's Newark entertainment with Marshall P. Wilder, and the election of Geo. H. Earl as Hudson County president.
- "Nokomis" reports that Harry H. Hodgson has carried the Louisiana Division to 110 members — 95 per cent renewals and a 100 per cent increase — with the next Betts medal race due about the 26th and the L. C. C. building the first club house owned by a cycling club in the South.
- Report of the Tennessee Division's special meeting at Secretary-Treasurer B. A. Patch's office in Clarkesville on December 31st, 1889, where Chief Consul J. R. Wilson, Jr. was charged with drafting a highways bill for the next Legislature and canvassing every member by letter and through the press.
- Weekly roundup: the Poughkeepsie Bicycle Club's enlarged rooms, Charles H. Luscomb elected president of the Long Island Wheelmen, the "Andrews Opera Co. Bicycle Club" applying to the L. A. W., Peter J. Dukelow's 16m. 30s. win in the Genesee Bicycle Club's five-mile championship at Rochester, and the Buffalo Bicycle Club's $13,362.02 annual report.
- Obituary of Charles E. Kluge, who died on Friday last; a well-known figure on the racing path for three or four years, he held the Milburn-Irvington course 25-mile record.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's serial continues with Coventry's crooked streets and its curiously graveless cemetery, then the party of four riding the King's high road through Kenilworth, Guy's Cliff and Warwick to Leamington and Stratford-on-Avon, where he passed off the wrong half-timbered house as Shakespeare's birthplace.
- W. S. Maltby writes from Melbourne on the Melbourne Bicycle Club's spring meeting before 20,000 at the Cricket Club ground: P. T. Sharp lost the novice race to A. J. Davey on a trainer's technicality, and Mullins, winner of the £200 "Great Austral" from 34 starters, was suspended two years for riding in false form.
- Standing letters department, opening with the editor's notice that he is not responsible for opinions expressed and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- "A Luscombite" argues that E. J. Shriver owes Charles H. Luscomb his support in the canvass for the L. A. W. presidency, and suspects Shriver of decrying Luscomb's candidacy in order to suggest himself for the office.
- R. A. Simon of Napa, Cal., describes the electrical rig he built in 1879 to start and time fire-department hook-and-ladder, hose-cart and foot races, and proposes a $15 to $30 gong-and-clock apparatus, worked from one button, to replace the pistol shot at bicycle meets.
- Quotes the Memphis Commercial, which keeps up the agitation for a Public Road Convention and concedes the meeting place to Nashville, arguing that macadamized highways will raise land values and repay the farmers who pay for them.
- Announcement of the new Hartford Cycle Co., housed in the former Hartford Engineering Co. factory, with a cut and full specifications for its single model, the $100 "Hartford Safety" — 30-inch wheels, cold-drawn weldless steel tubing, Humber-pattern chain, Kirkpatrick saddle, 54-inch gear and 49 pounds.
- Untitled trade column: A. O. Very of 173 Tremont street takes the New England agency for the Union Safety, Warwick Perfection and Yost & Lozier machines with E. P. J. Morton running the bicycle department; Banker Bros. reopen in the East End of Pittsburgh; Rankin & Bruce of Providence book spring orders for their toe clip.
- Cut and particulars of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s new Columbia Ladies' Safety: 28-inch wheels, double-loop seamless-steel frame, the Light Roadster spring fork, Knous detachable cranks, gear 50, netting dress guards and adjustable foot rests, at 48 pounds.
- League roster for the year: President Chas. H. Luscomb of New York, First Vice President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Second Vice President Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett of 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- Membership of the League's standing committees, including A. E. Mealy on Membership, Dr. Chas. S. Butler on Improvement of Highways, A. Moore Berry on Rights and Privileges, Dr. Wm. H. Emery on Rules and Regulations, C. S. Davol on Racing and W. M. Brewster on Transportation.
- President Charles H. Luscomb appoints Malcolm L. Bridgman of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Chicago, Ill., to the Racing Board, vice Smyth, resigned.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull calls the semi-annual meeting of the New York State Division Board of Officers for the Grand Union Hotel, New York City, on Saturday, February 15th, at three P. M.
- Circular No. 10: Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery lists newly appointed consuls at Arlington, Athol, Ayer, Baldwinville, Franklin, Lynnfield, Mansfield, Readville, Somerville, Swansea and Westfield, and asks members to name candidates for Amesbury, Fitchburg, Florence, Gloucester, Jamaica Plain, Mattapan, Marlboro, Natick and Whitman.
- Chief Consul Samuel A. Boyle appoints H. W. Fishburn Local Consul at Ephrata, Lancaster Co., and urges every Local Consul to have the "Freights and Farmers" article from the 3 January Bulletin reprinted in the local newspapers.
- Sec.-Treas. Thomas F. Sheridan's constitutionally required financial statement, showing two remittances of $185.50 from Abbot Bassett against payments for championship medals for Peoria, 1,000 Illinois Division constitutions, recruiting circulars and League hotel certificates, closing with the balance at the Marine Bank, Springfield.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks consuls to send in at once the names of all repair shops in the State, so the committee preparing the new road book can list them for the convenience of tourists.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints Chas. J. Case of Carthage Representative of the Division, vice Geo. A. Case removed, with charge of the south-western portion of the State.
- L. H. Johnson and Jno. B. Dodd of the Orange Wanderers certify Capt. C. A. Lindsley of 27 Cone street, Orange, as the club's representative on the State Board.
- List No. 7: Chief Consul M. A. High appoints J. C. Gormly at Bucyrus and F. H. Bowlby at Galion as Local Consuls, and names L. A. W. hotels with their rates at Archbold, Bellevue, Bucyrus, Clyde, Eaton, Galion, Gallipolis, New Vienna, Norwalk, Portsmouth, Wellston and Scott.
- Chief Consul David J. Post announces G. E. Booth of Saybrook, Frank H. Barnes of Southington and C. H. Stevenson of Westville as consuls, and removes H. H. Taylor and A. J. Cutting for cause.
- List 223, of 44 names taking the League total to 12,233, with applicants from the California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island Divisions, printed with the constitutional notice and the blank application form.