The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 18
Articles in this issue
- The leader defends the League's refusal to affiliate with the A. A. U., arguing its clubs harbour imported "promateurs" who live on club training tables, recalls the 1886 disqualification of Rowe, Hendee, Rhodes and Ives and the collapse of Ducker's A. C. U., and weighs President Luscomb's removal of Mr. Potter from the Committee on Rights and Privileges.
- Apologises for the foreman's omission of a paragraph from President Luscomb's annual report as printed on page 357 of the 21 February issue, and reprints the missing passage on the reluctance of the New York, Massachusetts and Ohio Chief Consuls to support the road movement.
- The Rhode Island Wheelmen of Providence elected officers without opposition on Feb. 10th and laid covers for seventy-five at their annual supper, ex-President Speirs presiding as toastmaster with responses from Dr. W. H. Emery, Geo. L. Cooke, Jas. A. Kinghorn, W. M. P. Bowen, Dr. E. Y. Bogman and Captain H. L. Perkins; signed "Elnod."
- "Toney" profiles Medford Bicycle Club captain Arthur J. Cushing, holder of the six-and-a-half-mile Waltham record, and reports the Globe's mixed-up cut of Dr. Emery, a rumour that the Harvard tournament will run under A. A. U. rules, and the Racing Board's re-districting giving New England its own District 1 championship.
- "Hawkshaw" recalls the L. A. W. old timers at the Board of Officers meeting — Sam Clark, Dean and Fourdrinier — and 60-inch gold-plated wheels, then recounts a costume-swap race round a suburban driveway in which his host's wife won and the husband fell when his skirts caught in the chain.
- "Linneus" describes the Missouris' first smoker and athletic entertainment, with 125 cyclists, President Chauvenet's address, the Imperial Banjo Quartette and West End Mandolin Club, Harry Jordan's trick riding and boxing by Morris and Victor, and notes a coming euchre party of the Cycling Club.
- "Elm City" reports Norman and Fisher winning the Orange safety and ordinary races, the New Haven polo team taking the state championship with five straight wins over Bridgeport and Meriden, and the club's grand tournament with the Connecticut Division meet at Elm City Driving Park on June 9th.
- "Oneonum" covers the Rhode Island Wheelmen's annual supper for upwards of seventy under toastmaster J. L. Speirs, with guests Dr. W. H. Emery and Chairman Bowen of the Road Improvement Committee, a new telephone (call 831-4) in the club rooms, and the founding of a Providence Ladies Cycling Club.
- "The Stroller" reports talk of putting the West Twelfth street bicycle track in order, Newell of the Illinois Club's marriage, Ned Oliver joining a new cycle firm instead of Northwestern journalism, the Lincolns' Valentine Ball, and Langworthy of the Chicagos breaking his knee cap on his own steps.
- "Salina" credits the city's disgraceful streets with electing a Republican mayor and council, and reports the Knickerbocker Cycling Club seeking larger rooms, G. Howard Avery's Labor Day work proposal, and Syracuse Cycling Club talk of keeping the L. A. W. uniform for road riding with a black dress suit.
- "Argus, Jr." ridicules the yellowish fawn gunning-suit uniform urged on the Chesapeake Wheelmen, and reports Henry Dietz climbing and coasting six cobbled hills in succession without a dismount and beating his own Windy Gates hill record with eight climbs running.
- Paragraph roundup noting Louis R. Harrison's novel "Rothermal, a Story of Lost Identity," E. H. Lawrie's expected visit, the coming Racing Board conference with the A. A. U., "Perseus" attacking the National Assembly in Sporting Life, Niagara Falls fixed for the 1890 meet on Aug. 25-27, and Chicago securing the World's Fair.
- "Nostaw" reports New Haven's 8-2 polo win over the Bridgeport Wheel Club, whose defence was weak apart from Sterling and Lockwood, and warns coast-city wheelmen against street sprinklers using salt water that ruins nickel and enamel.
- "Alert" answers "Ariel" and "The Stroller," insisting Western track men Tuttle, Myers, Lumsden, Thorne and Winship beat the Eastern cracks Banker, Campbell and Van Wagoner, and sets out the facts of Mr. Street's withdrawal from the Illinois Cycling Club captaincy contest with Mr. Arthur.
- "Star" explains why riders give up the wheel — the would-be scorcher who rides head down and the tippler who measures miles by saloons — and reports a Clifton avenue coasting contest, Chief Consul High's return from New York, and Cincinnati's adoption of Central Standard time.
- "Ariel" describes the house warming of the Philadelphia Cycle and Fields Club at Ardmore on the Lancaster Pike, an inside organization of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club, and reports Century runs to Norristown and Lansdale and President Dunn's expected visit on League business.
- Some fifty members and guests of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club dined at Young's Hotel, Boston, among them Charles E. Pratt, J. S. Dean, C. S. Howard, W. H. Emery, E. W. Pope, A. D. Peck and Abbot Bassett, with music by the Bay State Banjo and Guitar Club and character sketches by E. H. Frye.
- The Syracuse Cycling Club has leased the "Martin" residence at 222 East Onondaga street for three years, Chairman Harris of the Club House Committee acting as architect; it gives double parlors, bath and locker rooms, a library and an upper-floor billiard parlor, with occupation on May 1st.
- "Argus, Jr." outlines B. Howard Haman's completed road bill, which would create a State Road and Bridge Engineer at $3,000 a year to supervise county repairs costing over $100, while petitions for a road law circulate through the State.
- Notice of the death of Benjamin L. Darrow, aged about fifty, for several years publisher of the Wheelman's Gazette, at his house, 545 North Illinois street, Indianapolis, after a long illness.
- Standing head opening the letters department, with the editor's disclaimer that he is not responsible for opinions expressed there and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- Charles H. Luscomb prints his November 1889 letter asking Ohio Chief Consul M. A. High for a draft road-tax bill, and Frank W. Jay's reply that the Ohio Rights and Privileges Committee could obtain no suggestions with Kirkpatrick away from home.
- "An Ottawa Wheelman" proposes that the C. W. A. hold its meet alongside the League's at Niagara Falls on Aug. 25-27, the Ottawa Bicycle Club resigning its own claim in favour of Niagara to secure a larger attendance.
- Edgar S. Barnes of Springfield, Ill. offers the Capital City Cycling Club's hospitality for the racing-district organization meeting suggested by St. Louis correspondent "Linneus," and urges that road improvement plans be discussed there too.
- The New York State Roads Improvement Association and various agricultural societies will hold a public meeting at Utica on March 3rd, 1890; T. R. Proctor of Utica offers free use of a hall and headquarters and promises the support of the Oneida County newspapers.
- The Century Wheelmen's first road race of the season, five miles from Haverford to Bala station, was won by J. M. Oellers on an ordinary in 15.42, beating all the safety riders; his first team scored 71 points to the second team's 65.
- Engraved banner opening the paper's weekly trade department of new-machine descriptions, agency changes and manufacturers' announcements.
- Wheeling's Stanley Show notice of Frederick White's Broncho safety, brought over from the White Cycle Co. of Westboro', Mass.: a rear-driver on two 30-inch wheels with no chain at all, the gearing-up done by a patent action inside the driving-wheel hub and found nearly as free as a plain ball bearing.
- Crawford & Co. of Washington, D. C. offer a $40 juvenile safety with tubular steel drop frame, 24- and 26-inch crescent-rimmed wheels and a reversible seat standard suiting children from eight to sixteen, weighing 34 pounds; a 28-inch ladies' model at about $50 is promised for spring.
- Brewster Bros. & Co. of Unadilla, N. Y. enter the trade with a cross-frame weldless-steel safety, 30-inch wheels, Humber-pattern chain, plunger brake, 54-inch gear and 48 pounds weight at $85, guaranteed three months against defects in material or workmanship.
- The Overman Wheel Co.'s 1890 novelty for ladies, light men and boys: 28-inch wheels with hollow rims and tangent spokes, single-tube drop frame, Victor spring fork and saddle, about 44 pounds, geared to 50 inches, $135 f. o. b. Chicopee Falls, ready about May 1st.
- The Overman Wheel Co.'s 1890 model, shown on the front page, gains hollow weldless steel rims, a forged-steel nickel-plated saddle whose leather seat detaches instantly without tools, spokes drawn down from head-sized wire, and long hard bronze nipples to stop rusting.
- Sterling Elliott's tire fits a flanged steel band to a turned hickory felloe, the rubber carrying an oval bore through which a tough steel ribbon is drawn taut and screwed into the felloe; one sample was said to have run seven months and stayed perfectly solid.
- League officers for the year: President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio; First Vice President Dr. W. H. Emery of Roxbury; Second Vice President Geo. R. Bidwell of New York; Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis; Secretary Abbot Bassett, 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- No. 249 Social Wheelmen of South Bend, Indiana (Schuyler Colfax, Secretary) and No. 250 Benton Harbor Wheelmen of Benton Harbor, Mich. (Harry R. Huntington, Secretary) have qualified and filed certificates as League clubs.
- Certificates of election filed for New York State Division representatives from the Niagara Falls Bicycle Club (H. W. McBean), Harlem Wheelmen (Louis I. Haber), Syracuse Cycling Club (George B. Penn and Fred C. Baird) and Knickerbocker Wheelmen of Syracuse (E. L. Lancaster).
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull appoints Isaac B. Potter a delegate to the National Assembly from the New York State Division, in place of Dr. George E. Blackham, resigned.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints the Fey House at Rushville a L. A. W. hotel at $1.50 a day against regular rates of $2.00.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis calls a meeting of the Illinois Division Board of Officers at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago, on March 8th at 8 P. M.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm reports the Division at 350 members, twenty short of its record 367, and urges consuls to answer doubters by citing the defeat of the obnoxious Warner Bill.
- Chief Consul Holm asks consuls and members to send road-improvement newspapers, pamphlets and clippings to Highway Improvement Committee chairman Prof. H. C. Penn at Columbia for copying and distribution to the papers that signed the publishing agreement.
- Chief Consul J. Carleton Brown appoints local consuls at Hoboken (C. J. Rolffes), Roseville (Dr. Wm. L. Fish) and Ridgewood (Howard Maltbie), and lists hotel appointments at Jersey City, Tuckerton, Camden, Perth Amboy and Newark.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond issues hotel list No. 5 — Port Huron, Adrian, Ishpeming, West Bay City and Jackson — and repair shop list No. 4 covering Port Huron, Adrian, Homer and Jackson.
- The semi-annual meeting of the Michigan Division Board of Officers will be held at Sweets Hotel, Grand Rapids, on Wednesday, March 12th at eight P. M.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond appoints Arthur T. Swart local consul at West Bay City.
- Clubs wishing to entertain the Michigan Division for the coming season must have their propositions in the Chief Consul's hands before the spring Board of Officers meeting, to be held about March 1st.
- The Committee on Improvement of Highways — Geo. L. Cooke, Wm. M. P. Bowen, J. D. Bosworth and H. N. Francis — asks members who have not signed petitions to the General Assembly to send them to Secretary Bosworth at Providence for a supplementary petition.
- Chief Consul Albert Mott corrects the road book: the Hamilton, not the Baldwin, is the League hotel at Hagerstown, and members should strike out "Baldwin" on pages 85, 87, 89, 156, 160 and 161.
- Secretary-Treasurer Frank O. Moulton's report shows $153.79 brought forward from George F. Hill against $13.15 paid out for express, postage and C. C. Bennett, leaving $140.64 on hand at February 18th.
- The Tennessee Board of Officers will hold its regular spring meeting on Monday evening, March 10th, at the Clarksville office of Chief Consul Joseph R. Wilson, Jr.
- List 230 of 43 candidates brings the League to 12,629 members, with names from the Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee Divisions, printed with the Article III. eligibility rules.
- Directory of Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers for every Division from California to Wisconsin, with Joseph Pennell of 22 Old Broad street, London, as Foreign Marshal.