The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Welcomes the reported L. A. W.–A. A. U. compromise amending racing Rule G so it will not apply to A. A. U. clubs, praises President Dunn's committee appointments (Potter, Mott and Burdet on Highways; Boyle on Rights and Privileges; Davol's Racing Board), and rebukes 'Pendragon' of the Buffalo News for calling road-improvement agitation rubbish.
- 'Toney' records the Melrose Cycle Club merging into the Melrose Club and planning a $14,000–$16,000 club house, a Boston Press Cycling Club smoker to be held at W. W. Stall's Tremont street office, and a sketch of Capt. Herman W. Hill of the Nifty Cycle Club of West Somerville.
- 'Hawkshaw' traces women's entry into cycling from the 150-pound saddle-less tricycle and Mrs. Grundy's side-saddle prejudice, and ridicules the lay press for sending a sixteen-year-old who had never seen a safety to write an illustrated magazine article on cycling.
- 'Linneus' reports the Track Association fixing ten events for its spring tournament of May 24 and moving the fall tournament to August 16, a Jackson County committee recommending $1,500,000 in road bonds at Independence, and Capt. A. L. Jordan and W. P. Grath taking charge of club road departments.
- 'The Stroller' describes the Chicagos' committee seeking the State Division meet for July 4–5 and the crowded meeting called by R. D. Garden to organise the Pullman road race of May 30, at which Miles was elected handicapper and the limit kept at twelve minutes.
- 'Salina' reports the Kirkwood driving park track graded and top-dressed under James Logan of Rochester, a Rome Bicycle Club tournament for May 30 offering the one-mile ordinary championship of Central New York, and a Syracuse Cycling Club rule making its treasurer collect L. A. W. dues.
- 'Nitram' presses the case against L. A. Clarke of the Citizens' Bicycle Club as leader of the 1890 Great Century Run, citing Philadelphia Press criticism of his 1889 mismanagement, and notes Frank W. Cramer's appointment as Local Consul for Camden and the death of William P. Burnett of the West Jersey Cyclers.
- 'Alert' answers L. A. W. member 16,937's complaint about 'the petty quarrels of the two Chicago correspondents,' defending his right to reply and attacking the self-glorifying style of cycling correspondents generally.
- 'Norval' reports the Maryland Bicycle Club's annual meeting showing over $4,600 collected and an $1,800 surplus, a country club house leased near Arlington Station, and an eighth annual banquet at which Albert Mott, Albert Kenly and B. H. Haman responded to toasts; Mott is named to the national Highway Improvement Committee.
- 'Star' notes a Kentucky Senate bill cutting Lexington pike tolls, Chief Consul M. A. High's drive to lift Cincinnati past 300 L. A. W. members before the meet, the $500 Poorman road race set for July 4, and three new clubs including the Buckeye Wheel Club and the 'Porkopolis' Wheelmen.
- Paragraph roundup: the North Attleboro Columbia Bicycle Club's ninth annual ball programme, the Hartford Wheel Club joining the L. A. W. as a club, Miss Lily Williams the professional bicyclienne arriving with a $1000 challenge, support for Governor Ladd of Rhode Island on road improvement, and the Brinker–Cassier safety match races at Niagara Falls and Buffalo.
- F. A. Elwell asks everyone contemplating his European tour to state their intentions at once, twenty having already booked.
- Epitomised report of the New York State Roads Improvement Association meeting at Baggs' Hotel, Utica, on 18 March, where Secretary I. B. Potter read his report and resolutions were adopted urging the Legislature to act, endorsing Senator Richardson's Senate bill No. 300 for a $10,000,000 road loan and the Weller bill on county highways.
- Chairman Kinney's nominating committee reports the association's new officers, with Wm. A. Sweet of Syracuse as President, county Vice Presidents from Cooperstown to Rochester, Isaac B. Potter as Secretary and Charles W. Wood of Syracuse as Treasurer.
- Five bills introduced into the Rhode Island Legislature by the State Roads Improvement Association, the Gentlemen's Riding Club and the Rhode Island Division L. A. W., covering state highway construction, bridge repairs, guide boards, a State Commissioner of Highways, and wagon tire widths of three to six inches by horse count.
- Stoddard, Lovering & Co. have appealed the £5000 judgment won by Rudge, the dispute turning on whether they could sell their stock to the Pope Mfg. Co. after giving up the exclusive American import agency.
- In Carroway v. Bahram and Schwab at Nashville, Tenn., Schwab was cleared but Bahram ordered to pay $200 damages for frightening the plaintiff's mule — said to be the first such case in Tennessee; the editors withhold judgment pending the facts.
- Standing note that the editor is not responsible for opinions expressed in this department and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- George Clarke, Chief Consul of Mississippi, reports membership falling from seventeen to eight and blames meets held always in the extreme East, asking Consuls Bernays, Hodgson and Lamb to back a southern meet at St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis or Louisville.
- Frank G. Lenz of Pittsburg, L. A. W. 14,866, supplies the two routes asked for by L. A. W. 17,396, having ridden them twice.
- Stage-by-stage route from Hotel McLure, Wheeling, through West Alexander, Brownsville, Uniontown, Frostburg, Cumberland, Hancock, Hagerstown and Frederick to the Hotel Carrollton, Baltimore — 268 miles, with the Uniontown–Frostburg stretch mountainous and dangerous.
- Route from the Hotel Carrollton, Baltimore, via Bel Air, Lapidum, a 15-cent tug across the Susquehanna at Port Deposit, Oxford, Avandale, Kennett Square, West Chester and Paoli to the Colonnade Hotel, Philadelphia — 109 miles.
- Richard F. Kelsey, Corresponding Secretary of the Ramblers, notifies the World that correspondent 'Setagag' did not voice the club's sentiment in attacking First Lieutenant W. V. Houck, and asks that no further personal attacks on its officers be printed.
- R. S. Prunty of Grayville, Ill., L. A. W. 18,737, asks for the best and most interesting route and road conditions from Chatanooga, Tenn., via Mammoth Cave to Louisville, Ky.
- Kenneth Brown corrects 'Toney' on six points about Davis and Bailey of Harvard, insisting they raced in an intercollegiate not an interscholastic meet, that there were no 'managers' of the meet, and that no bicycle club belongs to the Intercollegiate A. A.
- R. H. Davis advises 'Toney' to suppress further effusions on college matters and demands to know what he means by 'members of the interscholastic,' 'managers of the meet' and 'drawing cards.'
- A Massachusetts correspondent attacks Dr. Butler's report of the Committee on Improvement of Highways for omitting Col. Albert A. Pope, who gave $350 of the $500 pamphlet fund and $100 more toward the second edition, and for slighting George R. Bidwell.
- John G. Zook of Lititz, Pa., describes the will of the late Elias Becker, whose $10,000 estate is to build a four-mile turnpike towards Buch's mill should his son Frank die without issue, and urges others to follow the example.
- The Buffalo Women's Wheel and Athletic Club numbers 50; Dr. Frank H. Potter prescribes cycling as the best exercise for women, Mrs. George E. Blacknam of Dunkirk describes progressing from a tricycle to 30-mile rides and a run to Westfield, and Miss Foster of the Woman's Union denies it rounds the shoulders.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's tour continues from Mainz through Wiesbaden's boiling springs and Frankfort to Darmstadt, the Bergstrasse, Gross Sacksen, Heidelberg castle and Baden-Baden, ending with a four-mile coast from the Black Forest summit down to Buhl in fifteen minutes.
- Trade notes on a visit to Banker & Campbell's new Broadway store and their Ormonde line, D. Snitjer's removal to 1118 Olive street, St. Louis, Singer & Co.'s nineteen-pattern catalogue, Paul Hassenforder taking up the Swift safeties, and 'Ned' Oliver placing the New Era agency with W. W. Stall.
- Detailed description of the Hickory bicycle's rear hub — a rock elm hub carrying fourteen hickory spokes, a steel sprocket wheel, a bronze bearing tube and a hardened steel axle that can be turned a half turn to bring a new bearing surface into use.
- Dated list of coming events from March to September 1890, including the Philadelphia Item's championship five-mile road race on 4 April, the Pullman road race and Irvington–Milburn road race on 30 May, the Poorman handicap at Cincinnati on 4 July, and the L. A. W. annual meet at Niagara Falls on 25–27 August.
- League officers listed from headquarters at 12 Pearl Street: President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio; Dr. W. H. Emery and Geo. R. Bidwell as Vice Presidents; W. M. Brewster Treasurer; Abbot Bassett Secretary.
- President Dunn's committee 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; Davol, Collister, Garden and DeGraaf on the Racing Board; Atwater, Hodgson and Marion on Hotels.
- Dr. William D. Kempton announces additional Local Consuls at Carey, Greenville and Mt. Vernon, and additional hotels — the Galt House at Carey and the Curtis House at Mt. Vernon, both $1.50 to L. A. W. members.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints Local Consuls for Aledo, Dwight, Galva, Geneseo, Lexington, Morris and Toulon.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints the Wine House at La Place at $1.00 and the Windsor Hotel at Bloomington at $1.50, against regular rates of $1.50 and $2.00–$2.50.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints D. L. Baylor Local Consul for Purdy and vicinity.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm lists nine towns — Booneville, Edina, Memphis, Bonne Terre, Kirkwood, Joplin, De Soto, California and Purdy — still without official hotels, and urges Local Consuls to act.
- Minutes of the Board of Officers' special meeting at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago, 8 March, which showed a $700 cash balance and appointed a five-man Road Improvement Committee (Nichols, Chisholm, Barnes, Osman and Pattee) plus Rules and Regulations and Membership committees.
- Post office addresses of the Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers of every Division from California to Wisconsin, with Joseph Pennell in London as Foreign Marshal, for consuls and agents drawing supplies of blanks and League literature.