The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 13
Articles in this issue
- The leader dissects the L. A. W. Racing Board's code as amended at Chicago on 11 January 1890 - the return of compulsory sanction, five racing districts, championships confined to two-wheelers, the tighter novice and class-race definitions - and apologises to Governor Brackett of Massachusetts for wrongly reporting he had omitted roads improvement from his message.
- "Toney" traces the New Bedford Cycle Club from its 1886 founding as the Wayside Wheelmen and profiles Captain Francis L. Wing, promoter of the Taunton-New Bedford 20-mile road race; also the Massachusetts Club's plan to spend its surplus on a banquet and the Charlestown Rovers' annual party at Congress Hall.
- "Hawkshaw" retails a club-room exchange with Smart Aleck, answers a correspondent with a rhapsody on what and where "Bohemia" is, and rejoices that W. Windle has been reinstated by the Racing Board.
- "Linneus" reports the Missouri Bicycle Club's rejection of consolidation with the Cycling Club after Bob Sharpe and Willi Brown raised constitutional objections, V. P. Ring's racing trip to New Orleans, H. G. Wolzendorf's work on the Division road book, and Vice Consul Jordan running down a pickpocket on his wheel.
- "Nitram" covers the Division Board of Officers' meeting at the Plainfield Bicycle Club, a move to bar non-League cyclers from League hotel reductions, the Elizabeth Wheelmen's February entertainment with Marshall P. Wilder, and the Atalanta Wheelmen's $100 take at Newark.
- "Alert" exposes a San Francisco-to-Chicago ride partly done by train, dismisses the prospectus of Van Sicklen and Barrett's new paper the Bearings, and argues for a Lumsden-Windle match while rebutting "Stroller" over Winship of Chicago against Bert Myers of Peoria.
- "Clayton" names the eleven Hartford Wheel Club men who rode over 1,000 miles in 1889, credits Chief Consul Post and Secretary DeBlois for Connecticut's membership growth, notes Dan Canary's exhibition before 2,000 at the rink, and reports actor Will Gillette still riding his 59-inch ordinary.
- "Star" defends Ohio's rural population as the natural constituency for road reform and retells a skunk fable aimed at Governor Campbell's silence on highways, then notes Charley Hanauer's outlandish new Cincinnati bicycle tried on Barbour of the Primrose & West Minstrels.
- Paragraphs on the Maryland Club of Baltimore's $30,000 of property, John A. Wells's sale of the American Athlete to Arthur H. McOwen ("Cris. Wheeler"), W. E. Swift's Topeka bridge-riding conviction appealed to the Kansas Supreme Court, and a denial that Windle will ride for the Berkeley Athletic Club.
- "The Stroller" reports F. W. Gerould re-elected president of the Lincoln Cycling Club, the Illinois Club at 215 members outgrowing its quarters with W. H. Arthur winning the captaincy, and the Chicagos at 219 preparing a reception and ball for their South Park house.
- "Oneonum" describes the Rhode Island Wheelmen's monthly ladies' nights, the "angling" party of the 20th at which Miss Taipe and Edgar Brown took first prizes, the annual supper booked for 13 February, and talk of changing the club uniform from clerical black to gray.
- "Elm City" reports the New Haven club polo team beating Meriden 3 to 2 and gives the Connecticut Wheelmen's Polo League standings, complains of the Ramblers' followers at the rink, and notes eight members riding 15 miles to Branford and the N. H. B. C.'s new green cloth uniform.
- "Setagag" describes the Buffalo Ramblers' newly decorated club rooms and track work, the Buffalos abandoning "scrapping exhibitions" for pure athletics under wrestlers Daniels and Lewis, and heavy Buffalo trade orders for 1890 including one dealer's $8,000 worth of wheels.
- Geo. D. Mitchell continues his tour narrative: a New York Herald paragraph brought a deluge of tradesmen's mail during ten days in London, after which the party forwarded luggage to Paris and rode out through Croyden, Redhill and Horley to Brighton, bound for Newhaven and Dieppe.
- Death notice for George E. Brett, who died of peritonitis at Newton, Mass., on 18 January - an L. A. W. member and former Everett (Mass.) Wheel Club man known chiefly for touring and distance riding.
- W. W. Stall entertained the Newton and Somerville, Mass., clubs at 509 Tremont Street, Boston, where the Elmwood quartette supplied the minstrelsy and Stall's admirers presented him with a cheque.
- "Cyc." describes the club's January reception to the ladies, with Mrs. W. Grant Wilson and the Misses Chayne, Hoyer, Vollmer and Binnix receiving, and a programme including Miss Margie Reinoehl's reading "The Farmer and the Wheel" before dancing.
- G. R. Bidwell writes that he has secured a seat on New York's Committee for the International Exposition of 1892 and intends, if the city wins the Fair, to join Brewster, Flandrau and other carriage makers in a building devoted to bicycles and carriages.
- Two roads-improvement bills reach Albany: the Perkins-Cossum measure introduced by Assemblyman De Puyster, and Isaac B. Potter's bill for the New York State Roads Improvement Association, carried by Senator Coggeshall and Assemblyman Rhodes, which would oblige counties to build at least 370 miles of improved highway.
- Perkins and Cossum of the L. A. W. Rights and Privileges Committee win support for state road laws in Maryland, where Chief Consul Mott is now drafting a bill, and in Virginia, where Governor McKinney and the Committee on Roads and Bridges asked for one general law to replace the many local ones.
- Chairman W. M. P. Bowen of the Rhode Island Roads Improvement Committee prints letters received from three of the state's distinguished men on building and keeping the public roads.
- E. Benj. Andrews of Brown University calls country-road improvement one of the most important economic reforms before the public and reckons judicious expenditure could raise Rhode Island farming land values by at least 25 per cent.
- Henry Howard writes to Chairman Bowen that a European horse does twice the work of an American one because of better roads, and condemns the "egregious folly of working out the tax."
- W. T. C. Wardwell of Bristol argues that good country roads raise property values across the whole state and blames Rhode Island's farmers themselves for submitting to miserable roads without protest.
- The Erie County, N. Y., Medical Society unanimously adopts resolutions presented by Dr. Frank H. Potter endorsing the state highway construction bill as directly benefiting community health.
- A new Philadelphia firm of young cyclers introduces the Referee safety - 37 lb, braced diamond frame, tangent spokes, ball head - with a testimonial from the late "Jack" Purvis-Bruce, and also represents the Surrey Machinist Co.'s Invincible machines.
- Trade paragraphs: H. S. Owen's Capital Cycle Co. will offer twelve Psycho safety patterns from a 21-lb racer to a 50-lb roadster; Strong & Green sell the Quadrant Suspension Spring at $4 extra and reconstitute with Mr. Wells and sprint champion Wm. M. Perrett; Singer & Co. circulate their 1890 improvements.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown appoints B. O. Miller of Camden an additional Representative, New Jersey being entitled to another.
- President Chas. H. Luscomb declares the Louisiana Vice Consulship vacant and appoints John O'Reardon Vice Consul and W. H. Renaud, Jr., a Representative to the Division Board of Officers, subject to review by the National Assembly.
- The Englewood Wheelmen of Englewood, N. J., W. A. Westervelt secretary, have qualified and are numbered League Club No. 246.
- Certificate that Henry P. Stoney of Cherry Hill, N. J., has been elected the Englewood Wheelmen's representative on the State Board.
- Racing Board chairman Chas. S. Davol declares Frederick W. Van Sicklen of Rutherford, N. J., formerly of Chicago, to have forfeited his amateur status for turning prizes into cash, and warns amateurs not to compete with him.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm calls the semi-annual meeting of the Division Board of Officers at the Richelieu Hotel, 14 Washington Avenue, for Saturday 1 February.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond's List No. 2 of Local Consul appointments: E. C. Adams at Battle Creek, F. J. Pratt at Jackson, A. J. Heeson at Tecumseh and Gale E. Jackson at Monroe.
- List No. 1 of Michigan League hotels and rates, from the Churchill at Alpena at $2.00 to the Abram House at Lapeer, including a 33 1-3 per cent discount at the Comstock House, Hudson.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints local consuls at Kirksville, Green Top, Stanberry and Joplin, and reinstates G. A. Graves to the Touring Committee with headquarters at Joplin.
- Certificate that John Knous, president, of 95 Washington Street, has been elected the Columbia Cycle Club's representative on the Connecticut State Board.
- Chief Consul W. H. Emery calls a meeting of the Division Board of Officers at the Clarendon Hotel, Boston, on 1 February.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond appoints T. J. Tabor Local Consul for Hudson, Mich., in place of Chas. D. Allen, resigned.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis lists League rates at the Dunlap House, Jacksonville, the Hotel Royal, Joliet, and the Halliday at Cairo.
- Geo. H. Strong elected delegate to the National Assembly in place of R. M. Welch, and Arthur H. Wright of Stockton appointed Vice Consul by Chief Consul Thompson after J. Phil Percival's departure.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond's appeal to Michigan consuls and members: two-thirds of the Division's 25 per cent membership gain is in Grand Rapids alone, and he warns of removals where consuls fail to appoint League hotels and repair shops.
- Minutes of the adjourned Board of Officers meeting at the Plainfield Bicycle Club on 17 January: membership up to 619, the Division's own road book approved at $2.50 rather than waiting on the Pennsylvania book, and the State Meet accepted for Plainfield on 30-31 May.
- The full L. A. W. racing code as adopted by the Racing Board on 11 January 1890, transmitted by Chairman Chas. S. Davol: General Rules A-I on sanction, records, the nine national championships and five racing districts and handicapping, and Track Rules 1-37 on officials, starts, fouls, class, lap, team, run-and-ride and consolation races.
- List 225 of applicants for L. A. W. membership - 51 names bringing the total to 12,329 - arranged by Division from California and Connecticut through to Rhode Island, Tennessee and Texas.