The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Weekly leader on the personal bitterness of the New York League campaign, Col. Pope's Hartford road address, and the 1890 Stanley Show, where 1,470 machines showed the rear-driving safety and the diamond and arquebusque frames dominant and the pneumatic tire the one novelty; also the Rhinebeck Gazette's $100,000,000 federal roads bill and the A.A.U.'s resolution against clubs paying athletes' expenses.
- E. L. Russell, Consul for Blossburg, Pa., offers road information to visiting tourists and warns that the road book's Roaring Branch to Elmira route via Blossburg and Corning is badly wrong, while Wellsboro' to Blossburg via Cherry Flatts is correct.
- "The Stroller" on the Chicago Club's smoker with the Ashland quartette, its new indoor base ball club (Hall Fake captain) beating the Woodlawn Club 16 to 11, the Douglass Cycling Club's masquerade, Lumsden accepting Campbell's challenge for three races at $250, and a member's milk-wagon damages suit lost twice before Chicago juries.
- "Toney" profiles the Springfield Bicycle Club, formed 6 May 1881, and its captain Fred A. Eldred, holder of the Springfield road records and of the 20-mile mark Whittaker recently lowered; also the Dorchester Club's racing team, the Somerville Cycle Club's ladies' night, and the 28 February road-commission hearing at the State House.
- "Nitram" on the Plainfield Bicycle Club's fair of 20-22 February, the Owl Bicycle Club of Bordentown's coming entertainment, Capt. Robert V. Whitehead's committee planning the Division meet at Plainfield for 30-31 May, and the Elizabeth Wheelmen's second club social.
- "Hawkshaw" on cycling writers blamed for pieces they never wrote, citing how "Old Vet" Pitman was accused of being the World's sharp-penned correspondent "Titnam," then tells a bicycle romance from an 1882 Brooklyn to Greenport ride and the song "Some Day."
- "Clayton" reports twenty-five Wheel Club men accompanying the polo team (Wood, King, Laiman, Shea, Spaulding) to New Haven, a movement to pave Asylum, Pratt, State and Main streets with asphalt and macadam, and two club bowling teams formed under Geo. C. Dresser.
- "Argus, Jr." on comedian Edward Leslie's visit to the Chesapeakes and Wm. Unverzagt's twenty-first birthday supper at Berger's, lawyer B. Howard Haman preparing a bill for a State Road Engineer, the Centaur Club's smoker, and the Chesapeake Wheelmen's monthly dance.
- "Ariel" reports the Chicago men refusing to race the Wilmington Wheel Club at over 25 miles, doubts they will face Van Wagoner's 100-mile road race, notes the Edgeley Wheelmen taking the old "Quaker City Wheelmen" name, B. F. McDaniel's gold stop-watch for his 24-hour record, and Momo Fckuzawa writing from Japan.
- "Salina" reports the Syracuse Cycling Club losing the lease on its intended club house, $900 already subscribed toward furnishing one, a resolution of greeting to Chief Consul W. S. Bull, a bid for the State race meeting, and four new tandems ordered with Avery and Wadsworth training for a club tandem race.
- "Star" argues that drink among the social element weakens Cincinnati bicycle clubs, reports the mysterious disappearance of H. W. Longley on 3 February, and notes a plan to condemn the canal, "the classic Rhine," and turn it into a five-mile asphalt boulevard.
- Edwin "Ned" Oliver leaves Gormully & Jeffery; Secretary Bassett's verdict on a piece of doggerel signed "P. Nutt" that "P-Nuts always make me ill"; Chief Consul Emery at the Bay State Bicycle Club's supper; Capt. Charles H. Luscomb made Brooklyn Park Commissioner; Perkins and Cossum pressing the Roads Improvement Bill at Albany; and a welcome to the new paper the Bearings.
- "Alert" ridicules W. S. Campbell for challenging Arthur Lumsden after being beaten by half a dozen men at Peoria, defends the Referee's treatment of Eastern riders, and answers the Bearings' remark that his statements are off but his poetry is not bad.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's touring instalment: taking the train from Pontoise into Paris for the 14th of July, living there on about $1.25 a day, finding Belgian block pavement poor riding, a Sunday run out to Versailles and St. Cloud, then the road to Brussels by way of Meaux and La Ferte Milon.
- The 50-mile road race for the Betts Medal, run at New Orleans on 2 February over St. Charles and Carrollton avenues, was won by 17-year-old B. W. Cason, Jr. in 3h 39m 20s, with R. M. Nolan second in 3h 48m 10s and H. Christy third; Neal S. Graham dropped out on the sixth lap.
- Letter from E. H. Rogers, C. H. Spencer and T. Barron of the Harvard Bicycle Club challenging the Yale Bicycle Club to a team race and leaving the choice of course, distance, number of men and date entirely to Yale.
- The New York Ways and Means Committee heard Messrs. Perkins, Cossum and DePuyster on 12 February and referred the L. A. W. road bill to a sub-committee, which will also examine Mr. Potter's bill and may submit a new draft.
- A nolle prosequi was entered in the felony and misdemeanor indictments against George A. Jessup over the failed City Bank of Scranton, Pa., after petitions from prosecutor Charles Tropp and from directors including Victor Koch, Morris Goldsmith and E. Merrifield.
- The paper's letters department, prefaced by the editor's disclaimer, carrying signed letters this week on League and Division rights in New York, the Rambling Wheelmen's polo team, Van Wagoner's 100-mile challenge and the new racing rules.
- Wm. M. P. Bowen of Providence argues that Article IV of the L. A. W. by-laws gives national officers no power to force the "De Puyster bill" on the New York Division, and urges them to withdraw it and back the Coggeshall-Rhodes measure and the Roads Improvement Association method.
- "Nostaw" states that the polo team representing the Rambling Wheelmen is run by a separate association of ten members who hold themselves responsible for its bills, the club as a whole having nothing to do with it.
- W. Van Wagoner of Newport, R. I., answers reports that Spooner, Barrett, Van Sicklen, Thorne, Roe and Andre had accepted his 100-mile road-race challenge, insists it be ridden rain or shine, and asks how Chicago can find riders for it but none to race Wilmington over 25 miles.
- Kenneth Brown of Cambridge argues that barring athletic clubs from paying racing men's expenses will drive cycling out of large athletic meetings and into the hands of the A. A. U., citing the Berkeley as the one club where cycling ranks with other track events and the Harvard Athletic Association's $16.50 Mott Haven allowance.
- Excerpts from Col. A. A. Pope's address urging Connecticut to create a State Superintendent of Roads, to use its useless stone walls and stone crushers to macadamize, to tax narrow-tired wagons and compel three to six inch tires, and to try the European tunnel system for pipes and wires under Hartford's main street.
- The Capital Cycle Co.'s 1890 announcement: five new diamond-frame Psychos, a $110 first-quality machine, ball heads, a thirty-day exchange offer, and specifications for the Ladies' Extra Light Roadster and the King of Diamonds, White Diamond and Black Diamond safeties.
- Trade descriptions of the 1890 New Mail diamond frame with Trigwell's ball head and axle band brake, the Coventry Machinists' $100 Swift Safety (Model D), and the new Premier full roadster; Holland & Havener of Worcester buy out Hill & Tolman, and the Overman Wheel Co. buy more ground and run night and day.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett asks for early bulk orders of renewal and application blanks so printing and transportation can be cut, and offers ruled club blanks holding seventeen names each and cost-price mailing for Divisions.
- Certificate that at their meeting of 4 February 1890 the Lockport Wheelmen elected W. L. Beck their representative on the present Board of Officers, signed by president R. Bruce Oliver and secretary A. S. Cook.
- The Mount Vernon Cycling Club of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, secretary Fred S. Crowell, has filed its certificate and is numbered League Club 248.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond's Hotel List No. 4, appointing League hotels at Monroe, Williamston, Grosse Pte, Ionia, Humboldt, East Saginaw, Dowagiac and Windsor, Ont., with rates, and Repair Shop List No. 3 naming W. L. Marr of East Saginaw.
- The New York Bicycle Club, per secretary W. E. Findley and president E. J. Shriver, has elected E. L. Heydecker, E. E. Bogart and W. E. Findley delegates to the State Division meeting.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints Waldo S. Reed of Springfield an additional representative at large, names A. W. Conner of Preemption local consul, and adds the Julien House at Belvidere as a League hotel at $1.50 a day.
- H. Crowther, chairman of the Road Book Committee, announces that dealers may obtain the Pennsylvania road book from Secretary-Treasurer J. J. Van Nort of Scranton at $1.00, retail price $1.50, and may not undersell it.
- Chief Consul Davis lists some eighty Illinois towns, from Argenta and Aurora through Quincy, Streator and Winnetka, in which no League hotel has yet been appointed, and presses local consuls to complete the list before the riding season.
- Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery appoints Alex. Burnett, Jr. of Chicopee Falls consul for Chicopee and Chas. A. Underwood of 22 Oakdale St. consul for Jamaica Plain.
- Emery asks consuls and members to send in the names of street superintendents, farmers and stablemen willing to appear at the State House hearing on 28 February in support of the Massachusetts bill for a Commissioner of Highways.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull appoints H. E. Raymond of Brooklyn a delegate to the National Assembly from the New York State Division, in place of Michael Furst, resigned.
- Bull calls on every member of the New York Division to support the Road Improvement Association's public meeting at Utica on 3 March, to enlist local papers, senators and assemblymen, and to get membership blanks from Secretary I. B. Potter.
- Minutes of the Missouri Division's semi-annual Board meeting at the Richelieu Hotel, St. Louis, 1 February: thanks to W. M. Brewster for getting Missouri placed in the racing district with Ohio and Illinois, instructions to vote for J. R. Dunn for President, and endorsement of a National Tailor and free wheel transportation.
- H. C. Penn, H. G. Wolzendorf and T. H. McNeil report that a list of leading Missouri papers has been made and Circular No. 1 printed asking them to publish roads-improvement matter, and ask for the Bulletin mailing list to complete a roll of the state's 340 members.
- Robt. Holm reports Missouri membership raised from 274 to 341, with 35 local consuls and 28 official hotels under contract, recommends a Rights and Privileges Committee chaired by a practising attorney, and reports nearly 7,000 miles of road gathered for the new road book.
- H. G. Wolzendorf expects the new Missouri road book out between 15 March and 1 April, with touring and repair hints, a full consul, hotel and repair-shop list, nearly double the road information, a dozen through routes, and four riding-district maps engraved free by G. H. Frommann; the "Legal Lifts" chapter is dropped.
- Joe. H. Kelly's Missouri Division account from October to February, receipts $431.94 against outlays for printing, circulars, postage and a hotel certificate frame, leaving a balance on hand of $378.84.
- List 228, 56 applicants bringing the League total to 12,500, arranged by Division from California to South Carolina and including Mrs. M. A. High of the Cincinnati Bi. Club, Dr. B. Oscar Doyle of Louisville and three women of the Briggs and Harvey families in Providence.