The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 15
Articles in this issue
- The weekly leader answers the New York Sporting Times' "the war is on" by defending the League's right to make racing rules for athletic clubs, backs Secretary Bassett's circular of questions on the value of L. A. W. membership, awaits the Kansas Supreme Court on Topeka's anti-cycling ordinance, and echoes Chief Consul Bull in urging cycle dealers to join the League.
- Wired by Isaac B. Potter: the New York State Roads Improvement Association will hold a public mass meeting at Utica, N. Y., on March 3d, with prominent speakers from around the country.
- "Toney" profiles Captain Adelbert E. Jacobs of the Malden Bicycle Club, who traces his line to John Jacobs of the ship Ann (Plymouth, 1623) and who beat the New Brunswick crack Fairweather in 1888, and reports the Wakefield Bicycle Club roused from lethargy by whist tournaments, ladies' nights and its Mandolin and Guitar Club.
- "The Stroller" twits correspondent "E. Southerland Southside," notes Tom Roe joining the Fire Insurance patrol, corrects the Chicago Club's roll to 319, and describes the Chicagos' club-house reception, with over three hundred couples in the grand march and "Birdie" Munger watching Randall and Davis walk arm in arm.
- "Linneus" reports a movement to revive the Manchester-to-the-Pump road race in May, mourns Arthur Young, the city's oldest rider, who rode a boneshaker on garden-hose tire in '79, and proposes a district meeting at Springfield or Chicago with H. G. Rouse of Peoria and E. N. Sanders on an auxiliary Racing Board.
- "Nitram" rebuts "Ariel's" claim that New Jersey merely wants a cheaper road book than the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland edition, and reports the Owl Bicycle Club's election at Bordentown, the Elizabeth Wheelmen's sold-out Library Hall entertainment with Marshall P. Wilder, the Plainfield fair almanac, the new Mercer County Wheelmen of Trenton and the Camden Wheelmen's banquet.
- "Alert" describes the Chicago Cycling Club's club-house opening, with dancing at Rosalie Hall and supper for 450 in "The Cafe of Roses," and denies "The Stroller's" story of discord in the Illinois Cycling Club, insisting Street electioneered for Arthur and was re-elected Secretary.
- "Clayton" quotes a local paper's praise of the Hartford Wheel Club's seventeen-dance sociable at Central Hall on January 29th, and reports C. Eugene Riplee organizing a polo team of Wood, King, Shea, Laiman and Hannum or Spalding to meet New Haven.
- "Salina" offers the Syracuse Cycling Club's roller-skate polo team, with Ed Haskins in goal and "Art" Bradley rushing, to any wheel club that will cross sticks, corrects George Huntinghouse Harris's initials, and sizes up new Captain "Bob" Judd.
- "Setagag" welcomes the L. A. W. Racing Board's stand against promateurs, foresees Buffalo tournaments by the Ramblers and a district championship if the League meet goes to Niagara Falls, and reports resignations over Captain Meehan's appointment of W. A. Houck as First Lieutenant of the Ramblers.
- Governor Brackett names old wheelman Thos. H. Wakefield trial justice at Dedham; the District of Columbia will mount its militia signal company on safeties on General Ordway's advice; Merrihew of Wilmington chases Van Sicklen for a fifty- or twenty-five-mile race; and Judge McDonald of Kansas City urges five million dollars of Jackson County road bonds.
- "Bird" reports the Des Moines Cycling Club seeking rooms in the new Y. M. C. A. building, A. E. Hodgson laid up with the grippe, hopes of installment-plan wheel buying, riding possible until January 12, and short races with useful prizes at this year's State Fair.
- Obituary of Harry E. Brown, who died February 2d, 1890 — a founder, House Committee chairman and President of the Maryland Bicycle Club of Baltimore; signed "Secretary."
- Meeting at the Clarendon Hotel under Chief Consul Emery endorsed James S. Dunn of Massillon for L. A. W. President, W. H. Emery for First and George R. Bidwell for Second Vice President, and resolved that the National Committee act jointly with Division officials on highway work.
- At the Richelieu Hotel, St. Louis, Chief Consul Holm reported membership up from 274 to 341 and Secretary-Treasurer Kelly a balance of $371.45; the new road book was authorized for April 1st and Delegate Brewster instructed to vote for J. R. Dunn for President.
- Standing head over the week's letters, with the editor's note that he is not responsible for opinions expressed in the department and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- "Argus, Jr." denies that Maryland Division officials oppose road legislation, reporting that Chief Consul Mott's Highway Improvement and Rights and Privileges committees found the existing road laws sound and will propose a State Road Engineer instead of a general law, and defends local committees against Mr. Perkins's national committee.
- Geo. R. McAuslan of Providence, R. I., prints an itinerary for August 30 to September 8 — North Conway, Crawford House, Bethlehem, Flume House, Plymouth and Center Harbor — with a tally-ho coach following for the ladies, at an estimated $35 a head.
- A Bridgeport Wheel Club writer answers the World's Bridgeport correspondent on the Connecticut Wheelmen's Polo League row, arguing that the Rambling Wheelmen illegally elected non-riders Stewart and Spencer at a special meeting; the directors disqualified them at Meriden, Manager Hudson forfeited the game and his club withdrew from the league.
- Cut and description of Singer's $105 Apollo: a strong diamond frame, thirty-inch wheels geared to 54 inches, 3-4 inch patent spring-wired tires, ball bearings to all parts but the pedals, guards to both wheels and chain, brake and foot-rests.
- League headquarters at 12 Pearl Street, Boston, Room 37, with President Chas. H. Luscomb of New York, Vice Presidents James R. Dunn of Massillon and Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett.
- Rosters for Membership (Mealy, Casselberry, Pennell), Improvement of Highways (Dr. Chas. S. Butler, Wm. W. Share, Junius E. Beal), Rights and Privileges (Berry, Perkins, Cossum), Rules and Regulations, Racing (Davol, Atwater, Hodgson, Collister, Bridgman) and Transportation (Brewster).
- President Luscomb appoints Harry T. Hearsey of 149 No. Delaware street, Indianapolis, Chief Consul of the Indiana Division, vice J. F. Probst resigned.
- President Luscomb appoints V. Mumford Moore of Milwaukee Chief Consul of the Wisconsin sub-Division and W. L. Simonds Secretary-Treasurer, and will name the meeting's nominee Vice Consul once Wisconsin organizes as a full Division as Louisiana did.
- List No. 3 of League rates — the Hastings House, the Arlington at Ann Arbor and the Burdick House at Kalamazoo, with Grand Ledge, Armada and two Iron Mountain houses — plus repair shops at Ann Arbor and Coldwater, from Chief Consul A. B. Richmond of Grand Rapids.
- Circular No. 12: Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery appoints A. H. Massey Consul for Whittendon and asks for volunteers to serve as Consuls at Amesbury, Fitchburg, Gloucester, Lowell, Natick, Marlboro and a dozen other towns before the season opens.
- Missouri Chief Consul Robt. Holm tells Joplin and St. Joseph, with only eight League members each, that they lag behind his successes at Maryville, Columbia and St. Louis, and offers lists of non-League wheelmen to recruit from.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull warns that several New York clubs have not filed club representatives as required by the Bulletin of January 10th, and urges a full turnout at the Board of Officers meeting at the Grand Union Hotel on February 15th.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown recounts Pennsylvania's failure to honor the joint road-book agreement and describes New Jersey's own book: nine maps about 14 by 17 inches at two miles to the inch with roads traced in red, priced $2.50 generally but 25 cents to Division members.
- Chief Consul Bull circulates the Coggeshall-Rhodes bill, drawn by the New York State Roads Improvement Association and introduced by Senator Henry J. Coggeshall and Assemblyman Bradford Rhodes, asking officers and consuls to lobby legislators, place editorials and send names to Secretary I. B. Potter.
- Chief Consul Jas. B. Green appoints Local Consuls at Clear Lake (Geo. C. Etzel), Oskaloosa, Sigourney, Keokuk and Mason City.
- Chief Consul T. M. Slosson lists League rates at the Nicollet in Minneapolis and the Windsor in St. Paul, and at hotels in Faribault, Fergus Falls, Owatonna, Currie, Detroit, Crookston and Winona.
- Slosson names Local Consuls at Dover, Duluth, Fergus Falls, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Winona, Crookston, Little Falls and Morris.
- Vice Consul Geo. L. Cooke lists the Highways Committee's local representatives from Barrington to Woonsocket, notes a large voters' petition due before the General Assembly on Feb. 12, and asks members to have local papers take the American Press Association's six weeks of road "plate matter."
- Secretary-Treasurer John J. Van Nort quotes members' thanks for the new fifth-edition Pennsylvania Division Road Book — "a 'Dandy'" — and asks Division workers to repay it by bringing in hundreds of recruits.
- Chas. G. Lucas of Louisville was unanimously chosen Vice Consul and A. D. Ruff of Richmond Representative, reports Chief Consul A. J. Lamb.
- Club No. 247, the Rome Cyclers of Rome, N. Y., organized January 1889, has qualified as a League club and filed its certificate; G. Linn Prescott, Sec.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown appoints C. Frank Ware of Camden third member of the New Jersey Division's Rights and Privileges Committee.
- Additional Local Consuls appointed for Plainfield (F. L. C. Martin), Atlantic City (Thos. Newell) and Lambertville (H. E. Van Horn), with a correction that Ridgefield's Consul is Gustave Hausman, not Gausman.
- List No. 2 of League hotels, from Ryans at Elizabeth and Laings at Plainfield to the Hotel Lafayette at Cape May at $3.50 a day, with rates given only on presentation of a current membership ticket.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints the Jennings House at Elgin, the Aetna House at Danville and the Hotel Commercial at Kankakee, all at $1.50 a day against a regular $2.00.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints Jno. F. Sansom to the Touring Committee with headquarters at Kahoka and H. G. Wolzendorf chairman of the Road Book Committee.
- The Commercial House at Kahoka and the Commercial Hotel at Stanberry are named official League hotels, the latter at $1.40 a day to L. A. W. members.
- List 227 — 65 names, bringing the League to 12,444 — printed under Article III with the rules on endorsement, fees and protest; candidates include the Rambling Wheelmen of Bridgeport, the Syracuse Cycling Club and eighteen from the new Wisconsin Division.
- Directory of Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers for every State Division from California (R. M. Thompson) to Wisconsin (V. Mumford Moore), with Joseph Pennell of London as Foreign Marshal.