The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Leader column urging wheelmen hurt by bad roads to sue the authorities, citing Frank Bauskett's fall at Main and Washington streets, Columbia, S.C.; it praises Governor Hill of New York for backing a roads bill, chides Governor Brackett of Massachusetts for silence, and notes Isaac B. Potter's completed New York State Roads Improvement bill.
- Corrects the previous week's report that cyclist Charles E. Kluge had died; the rumour arose from the death of Mrs. Charles E. Kluge.
- "S. F." reports a month of rain stopping California riding, a Bay City Wheelmen tournament planned for the Mechanics' Pavilion, and the new California Division board's free handbook with a road map and tours compiled by W. M. Meeker.
- "Toney" profiles Carle Purdy Cubberly, re-elected captain of the Somerville Cycle Club, and its fast men Van Wagoner and Albert Beers (8,368 miles and the Adams medal); also the Dorchester Bicycle Club's Neponset party and Sylvester Baxter's departure for Mexico.
- "Hawkshaw" exposes Smart Aleck's misreading of a bicycle-theft conviction, rebukes editor Prial of the Wheel for venting personal spite while criticising others, and reports the Pennsylvania Supreme Court reinstating Arthur Burt in the Union League.
- "Setagag" names Buffalo's winter riders (Billy Schaak, Captain Dietzer, Mac Martin, Prof. Richardson) and prospective racers from the Ramblers, Buffalos, Zigzags and Queen Citys, and reports forty more miles of asphalt and the Ramblers' new 36x64 gymnasium.
- "Argus, Jr." notes George A. Perkins and Charles F. Cossum in town on highway-improvement legislation, Mrs. N. Tip Slee's twelve-mile Westminster to Reistertown ride over Falls Hill in 1h 40m, and the Chesapeake Wheelmen's reception for Francis Wilson.
- "Cyclops" recounts Bert Myers escaping a mad dog thanks to a spare overcoat, Captain Fred Wolcott leaving the Peoria Bicycle Club for a Kansas City banking house, and Father McGair's 54-mile round trip from Princeville.
- "Ariel" covers the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's progressive euchre party, the Century Wheelmen's sociable and whist tournament, the South End Wheelmen's benefit at the Chestnut Street Opera House, and Park roads filled with safeties in April-like weather.
- "Cyc" answers Philadelphia's "Ariel" with nineteen Harrisburg Wheel Club men parading 3d and Market streets on New Year's Eve, Charlie Overman as their guest, and previews President Luscomb's January 22 appearance before the Board of Agriculture.
- "Clayton" reports the Columbia Cycle Club's smoker at Sangerbund Hall on the 21st, a pool tournament at the Hartford Wheel Club rooms, and the Evening Post's campaign for asphalt streets.
- "Alert" reviews 1889 as good for Chicago's trade, clubs and racing men but damaged by "fakes" and discredited records, and argues clubs elect fast riders rather than able heads to office.
- "Nitram" reports Captain W. A. Drabble securing gold medals for Atalanta Wheelmen mileage, the Elizabeth Wheelmen's 21,485-mile season led by D. B. Bonnett with 2,316 miles, and thirty-six new members elected by the Plainfield Bicycle Club.
- Weekly notes: Chief Consul Bull of New York disclaims the Presidency, Arthur B. Smith quits the Rambling Wheelmen of Bridgeport for Pierre, South Dakota, the San Francisco Bicycle Club locks its banquet doors at 8.30 sharp, and Wm. Blaikie's calf and thigh exercises are recommended to cyclists.
- W. T. Brown reports the death from heart failure of Edward W. Rhodes, L.A.W. No. 21,670, consul at Wayne, after two weeks' congestion of the lungs.
- Twenty-six of the club's twenty-eight members dined on January 8, the table photographed by flash light by D. H. Wright, with speeches from O. M. Bartlett on wheeling, Meissell on racing, Murphy on roads and Jackson on the "road hog."
- Geo. D. Mitchell's touring narrative continues, recommending English temperance hotels at eighteen pence to half a crown against the C.T.C.'s first-class houses, and describing the run from Stratford-on-Avon through Long Compton to Woodstock.
- Report of the open meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel on the 11th, with proposed changes to Rules B, 7, 21, 27, 28 and 32 and a committee plan dividing the country into five Districts holding qualifying championships before August 15.
- "A. F." passes on what the Racing Board's secret session decided: the districting plan adopted, M. O. Spring's reinstatement refused, Grant Bell's held over pending investigation, and the handicapper's fee fixed at twenty-five cents per man.
- "Roma" sets the Wheel's account against the Buffalo Courier's over who should lead roads legislation, defending the New York State Roads Improvement Association's claim by priority from I. B. Potter's April 1888 circular.
- E. J. Shriver's one-word answer to last week's headed query: "No."
- William D. Kempton, secretary-treasurer of the Ohio Division, complains the national committee's revised road memorial reached Division officers only on the 6th, a week before the Governor's address, and warns against the League injecting a road bill into the Legislature.
- The club's deferred Christmas entertainment at 62 Hanson place, where E. S. Sackett won a paper cutter at "hearts" and H. E. Raymond read his topical poem "The Worm in the Chestnut" illustrated by stereopticon views.
- Resolution of the Buffalo, N.Y., club asking its voting members at the National Assembly to work for the election of founder and honorary member George R. Bidwell as Second Vice President of the L.A.W.
- Notes Windle's reinstatement to amateurism, arriving too late for last week's issue, deprecates calling him "Amateur Champion of the World," and hopes he will not ride under Berkeley Athletic Association colours rather than a Worcester club's.
- "Salina" describes forty members crowding the January 6 meeting for Chairman Harris's house-hunting report; a house at South Salina and East Jefferson streets was favoured but its rooms were judged too small for billiard tables.
- Praises the Pope Mfg. Co.'s new calendar, a fourteen-inch round wheel design in Copeland water-colour with four cycling scenes, needing fifteen separate printings, available from its Boston, New York and Chicago branches.
- A visit to the Highlandville, Mass., factory finds it running at capacity; President McCune expects sales of the new Union Safety to test it to the utmost, with all 1890 stock bought and the tubing already landed.
- Introduces the new Freeport, Ill., firm headed by D. C. Stover with W. C. Smith as factory superintendent, making four safeties: the Phoenix at $140, Paragon $134, Iroquois $130 and Tiger $70.
- Detailed description of the Stover Phoenix safety: triangular tube frame swinging on a self-adjusting coil spring over the pedal shaft, dropped-forging clutch ratchet giving a coasting foot rest, patent self-lubricating filled chain, 30-inch wheels, 51 lbs, $140.
- Trade paragraphs: a run to the White Cycle Co. at Westboro' and a brief trial of the Broncho, President White sailing on the Catalonia for the Stanley Show, work begun on the Louisiana Bicycle Club's Octavia street house, a correction about the brothers Ives, and W. W. Taxis's fifty wins in 1889.
- L.A.W. directory: headquarters at 12 Pearl Street with Abbot Bassett secretary, President Chas. H. Luscomb, Vice Presidents Dunn and Lawton, Treasurer W. M. Brewster, and the standing committees on Membership, Improvement of Highways, Rights and Privileges, Rules, Racing and Transportation.
- President Charles H. Luscomb calls the Annual Meeting of the National Assembly for Monday, February 17, 1890, at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, and appoints Edward F. Le Cato, Dr. G. Carleton Brown and Robt. Holm to the Committee on Credentials.
- W. H. Emery gives notice of amendments to Article IX allowing a special committee on uniform and empowering the Executive Committee to appoint a national tailor and each Chief Consul a Division tailor.
- Shriver, Gardner and Warwick propose that all by-law interpretations go to the Chief Consul, that Road Book and Racing Board committees be added, and that the Rights and Privileges chairman be a practising attorney retained at $50 to $200 a year.
- Secretary-treasurer John J. Van Nort asks members to be patient about road books: only the first 200 have come from the bindery and they are being mailed in roll order.
- President Luscomb appoints Mr. F. A. McMaster of Nashua Chief Consul of New Hampshire.
- Chief Consul E. S. Hartwell appoints consuls at Holyoke, Greeley and Colorado Springs and announces League hotel rates at the Oasis Hotel, Greeley, and the B. M. Eating-house, Holyoke.
- Circular No. 10: Chief Consul W. H. Emery appoints Frank C. Cobb consul at Dedham in place of F. D. Ely, Jr., resigned.
- Consul List No. 2: Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown appoints some thirty additional local consuls from Arlington and Camden to Tuckerton and Watsessing Station, and names Wm. H. Huff for Beverly.
- List No. 1 of League hotels barred from giving non-members League rates, including the St. Cloud at Washington, the Trenton House, Hotel Gaddis at Bound Brook and the Palisade House at Englewood.
- H. Crowther explains that Pennsylvania bore all the risk and expense of the new road book and now offers it at cost to Maryland and New Jersey; failing that, their members must pay the $1 selling price.
- Chairman C. S. Davol announces the L.A.W. Racing Board's unanimous vote reinstating Mr. William Windle of Millbury, Mass.
- The Milwaukee Wheelmen call a meeting for January 25 to revive the officerless Wisconsin Division, which has eighty-nine members against Illinois's 375, and set out at length the League's case for membership.
- Chief Consul David J. Post removes W. G. Hughes as consul at Waterbury for cause and appoints Rollin R. Bird in his stead.
- At the January 4 call meeting in New Orleans the Division unanimously asked President Luscomb by wire to appoint John O'Reardon Vice Consul and W. H. Renaud, Jr., Representative.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm offers a fine calendar to every member who secures a recruit during the month, with application blanks in the Bulletin of January 3.
- H. C. Woodruff is appointed local consul for Hannibal in place of A. C. Miller, resigned, who is credited with building the Hannibal membership.
- Chief Consul Holm reports the Division at 330 members against his target of 400, an increase of nearly twenty-five per cent in four months, and blames slack recruiting in Kansas City, St. Joseph and Joplin.
- List 224, forty-six names bringing the League to 12,278, with candidates from the Social Wheel Club of Denver, the Wilmington Wheel Club, the Illinois Cycling Club, the Englewood Wheelmen and the Brooklyn Ramblers.