The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Leaders noting Alfred Stone's Brown University lecture 'Good Roads, and How We May Have Them in Rhode Island,' which credited the L. A. W. and the Rhode Island Division, and reporting that the L. A. W. Racing Board and Amateur Athletic Union officers failed to meet in New York as expected.
- Prints a letter from member No. 16,937 of New York arguing that 'Hawkshaw's' general-interest New York notes are worth more than the parochial club gossip of other correspondents, and asks readers and regular correspondents to say whether the letters should be broadened.
- The Utica, N. Y., mass meeting is put back to March 18th because grange and agricultural society meetings clashed with the original date; an outline follows of the New Jersey Division meet at Plainfield on May 29, 30 and 31, with lantern parade and theatre party.
- 'Hawkshaw' dismisses daily-paper talk of a war between the A. A. U. and the L. A. W. over the Racing Board's ban on hiring racing men under 'payment of expenses,' agrees with Sam Clark that a purely cycling club cannot last, and notes books by ex-editor Louis R. Harrison ('Rothermal') and W. I. Harris ('Athletic Sports').
- 'Oneonum' reports that Rhode Island Wheelmen ex-President J. L. Speirs narrowly escaped the railroad accident at Chickering Station, that Chas. Howland has left the Journal, and that a Providence delegation attended the North Shore Tourists' reunion in Boston.
- 'Linnaeus' reports the St. Louis Bicycle Track Association meeting at the Cycling Club house, which fixed a spring pony tournament for May 24 and the annual meet for August 23; Chief Consul Holm plans a hill-climbing contest on Son-of-a-Gun Hill near Manchester, and Vice Consul Jordan will attack the local 24-hour record.
- 'Vindex' contrasts southern California's seventy-degree winter riding with the snow-blocked north, records the founding of the Pasadena Cycling Club under President A. L. Atkins and Captain James W. Loncaster, and notes W. S. Wing's resignation from Osborn & Alexander's branch in favour of S. G. Spier.
- 'S. F.' warns that social members are turning Stockton's Oak Leaf Wheelmen into a social club that has just voted down League membership, praises the Bay City Wheelmen's first complimentary invitation ball, and cites Vice Consul Wagoner's road-improvement article in the Alta California.
- 'Argus, Jr.' expects Senator Poe to introduce the wheelmen's road improvement bill in the Maryland Legislature with numerously signed petitions behind it, gives the Maryland Club's nominating ticket headed by S. T. Linton, and reports the Chesapeakes still arguing over a brown-and-corduroy uniform.
- 'Nitram' describes the Plainfield Bicycle Club's three-day fair in its new gymnasium, which netted about $1100, and reports the Hudson County Wheelmen passing 100 members, ahead of Plainfield's 95, plus a Division board meeting at Elizabeth on March 7th.
- 'The Stroller' notes R. D. Garden's return from the East and his appointment to the Racing Board, and taunts Campbell for refusing a board track and rejecting Prial or Fourdrinier as stakeholder in his proposed race with Lumsden.
- 'Nokomis' lists the visiting wheelmen drawn to Mardi-Gras and the Saengerfest, among them H. P. Andrae of Milwaukee and Frank B. Steele of Buffalo, and describes the L. A. W. officials' forty-strong ride to West End; the Louisiana Cycling Club elects officers April 1st.
- Editorial paragraphs written while the editor is out of town: Maryland wheelmen push a road bill under Chief Consul Mott, the shortest election poem is 'Dunn / Won.', the Albany Wheelmen hold an indoor tournament with Dan Canary, and Thomas Stevens is entertained by the Savage Club in London.
- Helen Grey describes the North Shore Lady Tourists' February 26 reception at W. W. Stall's bicycle warerooms, 'The Stalleries,' with 150 guests, the Fadette Ladies' Orchestra, Mrs. Southwell's mock cycling paper and Mrs. Hopkins's Irish-dialect tale 'How I Learned to Ride a Bicycle.'
- The West Jersey Cyclers adopt resolutions on the death of member Wm. P. Burnett, ordering their colors twined with mourning for thirty days; signed by President D. Hitner Geise and Secretary Frank W. Cramer.
- Report of a hearing before the Committee on Highways and Bridges on a bill to appoint a State Road Engineer and establish a State road commission at a cost capped at $5000 a year, to give local surveyors expert advice.
- Reprinted from the Philadelphia Inquirer: the roughly fifty million dollars a year collected on distilled spirits should be turned over to the States and spent on road making, Pennsylvania's share being about four millions.
- The Wilmington Wheel Club's Opera House concert drew 1200 people and netted some two hundred dollars for its new club house, with the Ringgold Band of Reading and the Delaware Saengerbund; 'Ariel' then answers 'Alert' over the Wilmington v. Chicago road race, invoking Windle, Hendee and Ives.
- Messrs. Elwell and Higgins have issued a circular completing arrangements for their grand tour, crossing on the French line steamer La Bretagne from New York on June 7th; information from F. A. Elwell, 152 Pearl street, Portland, Maine.
- H. E. Bidwell of the East Hartford Wheel Club protests the Racing Board's charge of twenty-five cents per entry to the official handicapper, which on eighty entries would cost his club twenty dollars and amount to a prohibitory tariff on small meets.
- Victor L. Emerson disputes Mr. Deitz of Baltimore's claim to a Windigate Hill record of four successive trips, stating that on 10 April 1889 he mounted the hill six times running before Baltimore Cycle Club timers.
- 'Elm City' repudiates statements printed in the Wheel and the Stamford Cyclist about the New Haven Bi. Club's meet, correcting the date to Monday, June 9th and denying 'Deacon's' promises of twelve races, brass bands and the fastest men in the country.
- John Y. Culyer of New York, writing from his Central Park and Prospect Park experience, argues that serviceable rural roads of four to six inches of gravel or broken stone can be built for 50 cents to $1.50 a square yard, and calls the steam road roller the master key.
- 'Cyclops' of Peoria quotes City Engineer George F. Wightman's paper to the Illinois State Society of Surveyors and Civil Engineers, holding brick the best pavement known and citing Franklin street, Peoria, unworn after four years.
- E. L. Russell of Blossburg, Pa., complains that John A. Wells printed the old and incorrect route through his valley on page 72 of the new road book instead of the careful reports Russell sent two years ago.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's serial continues from Brussels through Antwerp to Holland, praising The Hague's brick streets and dyke macadam, and describing races with a steam tram, a launch, a four-oared gig and a three-dog team on the road to Delft.
- A cable reports the English courts awarding the Rudge Cycle Co. £5000 damages against Stoddard, Lovering & Co. for breach of conditions; the Boston firm, called on by a World representative, expressed astonishment at the verdict.
- The Joliet Wheel Company details its $125 Joliet Light Roadster Safety, Bretz, Curtis & Co. import the $100 Victory safeties for April 1st delivery, and the Pope Mfg. Co. mails every L. A. W. member its catalogue and a fifteen-colour Columbia cycle calendar.
- A return visit to the Chicopee Falls works finds four times the floor space of two years ago, a basement lavatory for four hundred men, triplicate standard, working and inspection gauges, Westinghouse electric lighting and duplicate coal or crude-oil firing.
- Describes the St. Nicholas Mfg. Co.'s new $110 safety: diamond frame with removable brace for a lady's machine, 30-inch rear wheel geared to 54 inches, cut sprocket teeth and a flat-faced chain of their own design.
- Standing notice giving League headquarters at 13 Pearl Street, Room 37, with Abbot Bassett as Secretary.
- Lists President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio; First Vice President Dr. W. H. Emery; Second Vice President Geo. R. Bidwell; Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis; and Secretary Abbot Bassett of Boston.
- Minutes of the Connecticut Division board meeting at the Hartford Wheel Club on February 27th, which voted $150 to entertain members at the annual meeting and had each member present pledge eight to ten new recruits before May 1st; reported by Secretary-Treasurer E. A. DeBlois.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond publishes Hotel List No. 7 and Repair Shop List No. 6 for the Michigan Division, covering the Palace Hotel at Milan, Sweet's at Grand Rapids and five Detroit repair shops, and appoints R. D. Merrill Local Consul at Union City.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints George M. Wilder chairman of the Missouri Racing Committee in place of N. T. Haynes, resigned.
- Chief Consul Samuel A. Boyle notifies the Pennsylvania Division that he has appointed Philip S. Collins an additional Representative.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks every Missouri member to bring in one new man before April 1st, the Division standing at nearly 360 and needing 500 to push road legislation; the Division road book is promised for April.
- Secretary-Treasurer William D. Kempton announces the Hand Book supplement mailed to Ohio members and lists changes since the Addenda: local consuls at Lima and Wellington and the Hotel Shelby at Shelby.
- An additional Ohio Division hotel appointment: the Hotel LeFevre at Belleville, $1.00 to L. A. W. members against a regular rate of $1.50, notified by Secretary-Treasurer William D. Kempton.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints six Illinois League hotels, including the Beckwith House at Marseiles, the Olney House, the Long House at Taylorville and the Broadway House at Sparta.
- List 231, totalling 35 names and 12,664 members, quotes Article III of the Constitution and the two-week protest rule before printing the week's candidates by Division.
- Post office addresses of every Division's Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer, from California's R. M. Thompson to Wisconsin's V. Munford Moore, with Joseph Pennell in London as Foreign Marshal.