The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Leaders on Chief Consul Emery's Massachusetts roads bill, the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture meeting at Harrisburg, and the Racing Board's district-championship assessment scheme (Massachusetts about $61, New York $80.28); also a warning against foreign makers circularising American dealers, and the Governor of Rhode Island's message on road law.
- "Toney" profiles Newton Club captain Frank S. Wilson, an electrician and 1888 Boston Bicycle Club hare-and-hound winner, and reports the Charlestown Rovers' dividend, the Roxbury Bicycle Club's party at Orienta Hall, and a 25 February entertainment for Massachusetts lady riders got up by the North Shore Touring Party committee.
- "The Stroller" on Van Wagoner's open challenge for a 100-mile spring road race, taken up by Barrett, Spooner, Terry Andrae and Bert Myers, Winship's refusal to match-race, the Illinois Club ball at Martine's, and the South Side Tricycle Club's disputed admission to the Chicago Cycling Club.
- "Star" weighs Cincinnati's two proposed bicycle tracks, at the East End gymnasium grounds and the Cincinnati Base Ball Park, and reports Chas. F. Cossum's consultation with the Ohio Division on road legislation and Covington's bond and bridge-toll campaign.
- "Cyc" describes George A. Perkins of Boston and Chief Consul Boyle representing the L. A. W. at Governor Beaver's road-improvement session of the Pennsylvania Board of Agriculture, the Harrisburg club's smoker for Perkins, and the club's floral gift to Nellie Bly at the station.
- "Elnod" speculates on the identity of rival correspondent "Oneonum," reports Providence lady riders meeting to form a club in connection with the Rhode Island Wheelmen, and recounts "The Judge" being taken with a fit at Campbell's Bicycle Agency.
- "Alert" laments Munger's departure for Kansas City in punning verse signed C. C. C., and reports the Chicago Cycling Club's club-house opening with Rosalie Hall engaged by a covered way, and the Illinois Club's ball at Martine's Hall on 24 January.
- "Nitram" reports Stewart V. Winslow of the Rutherford Wheelmen leaving for California, the Owl Bicycle Club's New Year's Eve run at Bordentown, the Plainfield Bicycle Club's February fair and the Division meet fixed for Plainfield on 30-31 May, and Hudson County Wheelmen's 40-pin bowling win over Kings County.
- "Elm City" describes the New Haven Bicycle Club's tenth-anniversary banquet at Loomis' Temple of Music, with toasts by President Frank Thompson, Dr. W. H. Emery and Chief Consul David J. Post, and rebuts "Nostaw" of Bridgeport on the polo standings.
- "Topaz" reports Chief Consul A. J. Lamb sending out nomination blanks, with A. D. Ruff of Richmond standing for Representative and Dr. C. G. Lucas of Louisville for Vice Consul, and a proposed gymnasium, pool and billiard addition to the L. C. C. club house.
- "Ariel" reports the South End Wheelmen at the South Broad Street Theatre where Charles Danby gave Captain C. A. Dimon a pewter medal for 205 miles without a dismount, the Road Book Committee's final meeting, and the Associated Cycling Clubs' new officers under President W. R. Tucker.
- "Salina" reports the Syracuse Cycling Club's annual meeting and 1890 elections, and its decision to lease a three-storey club house at 311 Montgomery Street from 1 May, with $730 raised for furnishing before the members dispersed.
- Items on the Crescent Cycle Club's wheel to Ford's Opera House in Baltimore, the Berkshire County Wheelmen's masquerade ball at Pittsfield, George Morton of Bridgeport's patent "bicycle supporter," Charles M. Hall's electrolytic aluminium process, and the death of wheelman G. M. Simmons of Kenosha, Wis.
- "Alert" defends cyclists racing under athletic-club colours, arguing that bicycle clubs which build no tracks and train no riders have no standing to object, and blaming the ban on paid training for the decline of racing at Lynn and Springfield since the days of Rowe and Hendee.
- Helen Grey prints Miss M. Kirkwood's letter recording 2,404 miles for 1889, and a Baltimore correspondent's argument that wheelwomen should join the League in their own right; she also trails a reception for Boston wheelwomen by the North Shore Tourists.
- Report of the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture session at which Gov. Beaver urged a uniform state road law, George A. Perkins spoke for the League against charges of selfishness, and three resolutions backing the Philadelphia committee and urging highway legislation were passed.
- Standing head of the letters department, with the editor's note disclaiming responsibility for opinions expressed and reserving the right to expunge improper matter.
- Isaac B. Potter, chairman of the New York Division's highways committee, protests that President Luscomb's rival bill has crippled the Coggeshall-Rhodes measure backed by the New York State Roads Improvement Association, and sets out five dated warnings he gave the Conference.
- Wesley A. Yale's complimentary banquet for eighty-five Syracuse Cycling Club members and guests, with Lucien S. Wilson as toastmaster, Fred Brigham on "Sharkism" and the club's history, Henry A. Rounds on "Our Members," and George H. Harris on "Ideas of a Club House."
- "Nostaw" of Bridgeport answers the New Haven Wheelmen with heavy sarcasm over their objection to tin horns and cheering when the Ramblers scored, offering to take lessons in gentlemanly behaviour.
- C. W. Edgerton of Fort Wayne, Ind., asks readers for comparative cost, smoothness and durability data on asphalt, cedar block and "fire brick" pavements before his city paves ten to fifteen miles of streets.
- R. C. Morris burlesques his club's election by printing a table in which he is chosen to every office from Chief Consul and Captain to "Grand Worthy Header Enumerator" and "Chief Dog and Road Hog Slayer," without a dissenting voice.
- Tom Roe denies "Stroller's" note of 27 December 1889 that he and Barrett sought money for their wheel trip, insisting their expenses ran nearer two dollars a day than the twenty figured by the correspondent who held the funds.
- The New Haven Bicycle Club beat the Bridgeport Wheel Club 2 to 1 after overtime on 24 January, with Halligan's goal tending and Bradley's half-back play noted and Lyon weak at centre; the Ramblers' forfeit at Meriden over two protested players is also covered.
- Notice to the New York State Division that the Coggeshall-Rhodes highways bill has been introduced in both houses, and that the rival "DePuyster bill" launched by President Luscomb's conference will be opposed; signed by Potter, Dickinson, White, Jenkins, Newcome and Furst.
- Joseph Pennell reports on the Elwell Touring Party in Europe, commends the 1890 tour to members with little time and no languages, and criticises the minority who travel without learning the customs of the countries they ride through.
- Chief Consul M. A. High announces the tenth annual Ohio Division meet at Cincinnati on 24-26 July 1890, with races on a specially prepared track and a run to Coney Island returning by moonlight on the boat.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints W. D. Sheriff local consul for California, H. E. Zorn for De Soto, and W. J. Staples chairman of the touring committee in place of the resigned C. B. Ellis.
- Holm presses the consuls at Moberly, Clarksville, Sedalia, Kirksville, Palmyra and fifteen other towns to send their nearest repair shop's name to H. G. Wolzendorf in St. Louis for the new Missouri road book.
- Holm lists eleven towns - California, Stanberry, De Soto, Kahoka, Joplin, Kirkwood, Edina, Bonne Terre, Green Top, Booneville and Memphis - with no League hotel yet appointed for the forthcoming road book.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints local consuls at Abingdon (J. B. Smith), Belvidere (S. A. Sabin), Dixon (E. L. Kling), Eureka (J. S. Davis) and Pontiac (J. M. Daily).
- Chief Consul E. S. Hartwell appoints the Hotel Kitchen at Leadville the Colorado League hotel, with a material reduction to L. A. W. members on presentation of tickets.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond's Hotel List No. 2 names League houses at Romeo, Bay City, Lansing and Tecumseh, corrects the Hotel Bryant rate at Flint to $1.50, and gives a first list of League repair shops at Bay City, Flint, Alpena and Hastings.
- Secretary-Treasurer John J. Van Nort announces that the new Pennsylvania-Maryland-New Jersey-Delaware road book has been mailed to every Division member, and will be sent to L. A. W. members outside the Division for $1.00.
- In the Chief Consul's absence, Vice Consul Geo. L. Cooke appoints Jas. T. Lockwood consul at Apponaug and Arthur W. Helme at East Providence.
- Chief Consul David J. Post revokes the United States Hotel of Hartford and the Atlantic House of Bridgeport and appoints in their stead the City Hotel of Hartford and the Wilson House of Bridgeport at $2.00 a day, or fifty cents a meal or lodging.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett quotes Article III, Sec. 6 and names the only Divisions that have filed certified by-laws: Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Rhode Island.
- Bassett quotes Article III, Sec. 5, requiring every Division and sub-Division to certify its annual dues before 1 April or have the amount fixed by the League's Executive Committee.
- Circular No. 11: Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery outlines the bill creating a $3,000-a-year civil-engineer commissioner of roads and bridges, cites Prof. J. W. Sanborn's traction experiments on dirt versus gravel roads, and urges consuls to lobby Representatives.
- List 226 records fifty new applicants and a League total of 12,379, the largest batches from Pennsylvania (14) and Massachusetts (9), and including racing man W. W. Windle of the Wanderers Cycle Club, West Millbury.