The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Notes President Dunn's new committee list, condemns second-hand dealers who file the maker's number off damaged wheels, argues the A.A.U. cannot outspend the L.A.W.'s 13,000 cyclists in the Rule G quarrel, remarks on the Pope Mfg. Co.'s new "Quid Pro Quo" back-page departure, and cites a 123-foot Rhode Island roads-improvement petition got up in five days.
- "Toney" profiles Capt. Robert Grant of the Hyde Park Ramblers, revisits the disqualification of Harvard's Davis and Bailey for riding safeties against ordinaries, and notes the Somerville Cycle Club's "Living Pictures" entertainment, Haverhill's Riverside Farm park-and-track petition and the Charlestown Rovers' April 14 minstrel show.
- "Hawkshaw" retells Growler's tandem quarrel with his wife over the forgotten oil can, the "Wagner Cyclus" newspaper joke, dubs Dr. Emery the "Cycling Chauncey Depew," and traces the word "turnpike" to seventeenth-century Scottish spiral stairways.
- "Clayton" announces the seventh annual Hartford Wheel Club tournament at Charter Oak Park on September 1 and 2, Hannum's defeat of Willson in the club pool tournament, New Haven's maiden tournament on June 9, and the new "Charter Oaks" club formed at Colt's Armory.
- "Nitram" reports the Plainfield Bicycle Club's tame annual election and new gymnasium apparatus, the Bergen Wheelmen becoming the Rockland County Wheelmen, the Atalanta Wheelmen electing W. A. Drabble president and Al. Rummell captain, and the Orange Wanderers' April 8 tournament at Park Rink.
- "The Stroller" previews the mass meeting on next season's Pullman road race at the Pope Co.'s headquarters, the C.C.C.'s 9-4 indoor base ball win over the First Regiment, Langworthy's slow recovery, and the Illinois Division's five-man road-improvement committee appointed under Chief Consul Davis.
- "Consuls" reports that ten Louisville Club members resigned after losing the captaincy election and formed the Independent Wheel Club, while dissatisfied members of the Kenton Club at Covington plan a new club of their own.
- "Ariel" previews the Century Wheelmen's "Smoker" of the 20th with a possible Dawson-Lynch sparring match and a Century versus South End tug-of-war, John A. Wells's climb of the Falls Bridge grade on Schrader's lever-motion safety, and the Tioga Athletic Association's three-lap track scheme.
- "John" reports the Rome Cyclers qualified as League club No. 247, presses Chief Consul Bull to replace departed Local Consul J. H. Putnam, and plans another Decoration Day tournament with county and possible State L.A.W. championships.
- "Star" welcomes the new Porkopolis Wheelmen, notes seven Kenton Club men resigning under Chas. Croninger, A. A. Bennett's March 30 coasting race on Clifton avenue, and J. E. Poorman's four safeties offered for a Chester Park to Hamilton handicap on July 4.
- Banker and Lumsden cannot come to terms so the Chicago-Wilmington team race looks like being declared off despite Sporting Life's $100 trophy; also a Massillon ten-mile championship medal of 1887 finally settled by a throw of dice, Tom Stevens's Savage Club story of Stanley hanging an Egyptian traitor, and Light's cartoon of Grover Cleveland riding a safety over the "Tariff Split."
- "Tee Dee" credits the year-old Medford Cycle Club's growth from ten members to over fifty, debt-free with a building fund, thanks to its summer "sweater parties" and a winter dancing class of 250 pupils and twenty-one crowded assemblies.
- Prof. Paul Le Perrier of 54 West 24th street will take a party of cyclers over fourteen from New York about June 4 to September 25, riding round France and the Swiss lakes by way of the Pyrenees, with French practice for the boys.
- President Rushmore names the hotel, banquet, parade and runs committees for the New Jersey Division meet at Plainfield on May 30-31, and the joint Board and Meet Committee meeting settles an amended programme, with Dr. Benedict's road book expected about May 1.
- Urges friends of roads improvement not to forget the mass meeting postponed to Tuesday, March 18, at Utica, where grangers, business and professional men and eloquent speakers are expected.
- Secretary E. C. Willson writes that the Hartford Wheel Club has voted unanimously to hold its annual cycling tournament at Charter Oak Park on September 1 and 2.
- Messrs. Elwell and Higgins will sail from New York on June 7 by "La Bretagne," crossing France to the Jura, zig-zagging through Switzerland and the Black Forest and following the Rhine to Cologne and London, disbanding August 19 at a cost of $300 to $400.
- L. A. W. 17396 asks readers for the route and condition of the National road east from Wheeling, W. Va., and for the best road from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
- Standing letters department, prefaced by the editor's disclaimer that he is not responsible for opinions expressed and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- E. J. Shriver, shut out of new business at the National Assembly, asks the committee to report constitutional amendments for popular election of the President and Vice Presidents, a three-year presidential term, a clear statement of the power of removal from committees, and legislation on filling Assembly vacancies.
- Health Officer George I. Garrison, M. D., traces fire-brick paving from its first use at Charleston sixteen years ago to Wheeling's ten miles of brick streets, laid on gravel and sand and grouted with boiled tar at $1.00 to $1.41 a square yard.
- "Ariel" of Philadelphia protests that the World credited the Philadelphia Ledger for his own report of the Century Wheelmen's five-mile team race, written for the Philadelphia Times; the editor replies that the Ledger clipping was set up first.
- M. A. High, Chief Consul of the Ohio Division, admits he was mistaken in denying that a letter had been sent to Ohio, pleading preoccupation with appointing Local Consuls to circulate road literature after the defeat of the Tyron Bill.
- C. H. Smith of 211 Putnam avenue, Detroit, invites all wheelmen to a Detroit-to-Niagara Falls tour leaving August 20 through Canada by Blenheim, St. Thomas, London, Woodstock and Guelph to Toronto, then by boat in time for the meet.
- J. E. Poorman of Cincinnati offers four safety bicycles worth $475 - Warwick, Union, Jewell and Grant - as prizes for a July 4 handicap road race from Cincinnati to Hamilton, O., open to all amateurs.
- W. G. Schack of Buffalo asks the cost of different half-mile tracks for a proposed track and athletic grounds; the editor refers him to the World's articles of March 22 and 29 last year and advises engaging an expert local road engineer for an estimate.
- "Scribbling Cyclist" reports the new Providence Ladies' Cycle Club, whose nine founders were all League members or applicants, and hopes the column may become a "Reception Room" for lady L. A. W. members.
- L. A. W. 25815 answers "Argus, Jr." by defending the Chesapeake Wheelmen's "yellowish fawn color" uniform as quiet and unpretentious, noting 19 of 24 voting members approved it.
- Geo. D. Mitchell continues his tour, riding the dyke road from Dordrecht to Tiel where 'Gene knocks down a Dutch girl and runs over a hen, making eighty miles to Huls in a day, then taking the Rhine steamer from Cologne past the Lorelei rock, Bingen and the Johannisberg vineyards.
- Singer & Co. advance English prices five per cent while quoting the Singer Safety at $135 and Royal Singer at $140; also the Overman Wheel Co.'s embossed 1890 catalogue, Clifton S. Mirrill joining the Coventry Machinists' Co., the Ross Mfg. Co.'s paper-fibre bicycle boat, and W. W. Stall's added Psychos, Coventry Rivals and Rovers.
- Describes the John P. Lovell Arms Co.'s new $85 diamond-frame safety built of Credenda weldless tubing with 30-inch wheels, an oil-boiled narrow English chain, a swinging drop-forged bracket for chain adjustment, and ball bearings throughout including a separate rear-wheel bearing case.
- Lists the League's officers: 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; and Secretary Abbot Bassett of 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- President Dunn's list for the fiscal year: Lawton and Pennell on Membership; Potter, Mott and Burdet on Improvement of Highways; Boyle, Cossum and Dean on Rights and Privileges; Davis and Furst on Rules and Regulations; Brewster on Transportation; and Davol, Collister, Garden and DeGraaf on the Racing Board.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol declares Robt. Gerwing and H. G. Kennedy of Denver to have forfeited their amateur status for competing with professionals at Omaha, which carries expulsion from the League.
- Davol notifies amateurs that section 4, article V of the By-Laws, the L. A. W. amateur rule, will hereafter apply to road racing as well as to the track.
- The Racing Board prints amended Rule G, allowing a cycle or athletic club to pay a representative's entrance fees and travelling expenses only under the Board's special sanction, on penalty of suspension.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints official hotels at Braceville (Commercial Hotel), Onarga (Hotel Roney, L. A. W. rate $1.50) and St. Joseph (Swearingen House).
- Chairman W. J. Staples divides Missouri into five road-report districts under W. H. Cameron of St. Joseph, C. A. Graves of Joplin, G. E. Tivey of St. Louis, John F. Sansom of Kahoka and the chairman himself.
- Dr. G. E. Dow, Chief Consul of the Maine Division, appoints the DeWitt House, Lewiston, an official hotel at member rates of $1.50 and $2.00 a day.
- Correction of addenda from Dr. William D. Kempton: the Buchtel Hotel at Akron takes an L. A. W. rate of $2.00 per day.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm commends to consuls the circular Local Consul John F. Sansom of Kahoka sent with a copy of "Improvement of Highways" to every Road Overseer in his county, and asks how many books each county needs.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm notes that Missouri has not a single L. A. W. club on the Secretary's books and urges their formation in St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Sedalia, Joplin, Hannibal, Columbia and Maryville.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull announces that the New York State Roads Improvement Association's first public meeting will be held at Utica on March 18 instead of March 3, and asks members to enlist their local papers, Senators and Assemblymen and to recruit for the L. A. W.
- Chief Consul Frank A. McMaster appoints Local Consuls at Nashua, Manchester, Concord, Exeter, No. Ware, Brenwood and Portsmouth.
- Club No. 251, the Providence Ladies' Cycling Club of Providence, R. I., with Mrs. Josephine C. Barker as Secretary, is entered as the first ladies' club on the League list.
- Chief Consul J. R. Wilson, Jr. changes the spring meeting of the Tennessee Division Board of Officers to Monday, March 24, at 8 P. M. at Clarkesville.
- Chief Consul H. T. Hearsey appoints Herbert S. Barr of Crown Point, Indiana, as Local Consul.
- The Committee on Improvement of Highways reports a Legislative Highway Commission authorized by the House, urges members to lobby the General Assembly and the April 2 State election, and wants steam rollers bought for Cranston and East Providence and stone crushers for Johnston and Burrillville.
- List 232 prints 39 new applicants, bringing the League roll to 12,703, with the Article III conditions of eligibility and the two-week protest period.
- Post-office addresses of every Division's Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer from California to Wisconsin, together with Foreign Marshal Joseph Pennell in London.