The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Three leaders: Divisions must decide at once whether they will join the Racing Board's racing districts; the World endorses Editor MacOwen of the Philadelphia Athlete in rebuking New York's Prial for ridiculing a correspondent; and it welcomes the L. A. W.-A. A. U. amateur settlement printed in full in the Official Department.
- The Middlesex Club's annual dinner at the Quincy House, Boston, where twenty-four members and guests sat down under President F. M. Jones, with L. A. W. First Vice President Dr. Emery and Secretary Abbot Bassett as guests; the World praises the club's roughly equal division of men and women members.
- "Toney" reports Cambridgeport Cycle Club business including Ex-President E. P. Craig's offer of a gold medal for a Memorial Day race, a proposed team road-race series between the Taunton, New Bedford and Fall River Ramblers clubs, and Van Wagoner's decision to meet Lumsden in the Fourth of July road race.
- "Hawkshaw" teases Brer. Miles over his note that the Elwell European tour party is "more than half full," argues that cycling should recognise no geographical or sectional lines, and ridicules clubs that still elect Club Surgeons, Color Bearers, Buglers and Lieutenants of Tricycles.
- "Nitram" notes the closing game of the Hudson County Wheelmen pool tournament, Chief Consul Dr. G. Carleton Brown's target of 1500 Division members, the Orange Wanderers tug-of-war tournament with a Dan Canary fancy-riding exhibition, and the Atalanta Wheelmen's fourth Ladies' Night.
- "Ariel" records the death of Mrs. Harold R. Lewis, first lady member of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club; Century Wheelmen's two Good Friday five-mile road races on the Montgomery avenue course; the Item's championship prize; and Philadelphia's invitation to the Pennsylvania Division meet on June 27 and 28.
- "Kismet" describes the attractions awaiting the 1890 L. A. W. meet - Goat Island, the Cave of the Winds, the Horseshoe Fall, the whirlpool rapids, Brock Monument, Lewiston Hill and Fort Niagara - and the seventy-member Niagara Falls Bicycle Club whose club house will be League headquarters.
- "The Stroller" reports Thrall of the Chicagos beating Robbins of the Lincolns 200 to 168 in the opening billiard game, Herrick's proposed race between the Illinois, Chicago and Lincoln club presidents, a Pullman road race expecting 150 entries, and the Chicagos' athletic entertainment.
- "Elnod" reports Providence wheelmen planning to see the Milburn-Irvington race on Decoration Day, the Rhode Island Wheelmen electing Pillsbury, Peck, Sprague and Ryder of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club as special members, and Lieut. Barker laid up with "La Grippe."
- "Elm City" reports the New Haven Bicycle Club voting unanimously to rejoin the League, Mr. Dean's discovery of an old guide-board law for the State Road Improvement Committee, and New Haven's 6-2 polo win over the Hartford Wheel Club before 700 people at the Lincoln Rink.
- "Star" defends the new "Porkopolis" Wheelmen and their no-stimulants experiment, urges makers to hand "The Objects of the L. A. W." circular to every wheel buyer, notes Indiana's plan to attend the Ohio Division meet, and records the finding of Hiram W. Longley's body in the Ohio River.
- "Pedaller" reports Gerwing beating Croll at the Coliseum - with an editorial warning that Gerwing has been suspended by the L. A. W. - agitation for a wheelmen's track, the Ramblers-Social road race training, and W. R. Brown teaching Denver ladies to ride at Martin's Ferry.
- "Norval" reports C. R. Grove taking the Hagerstown, Md. club pool championship, an Easton supper for Captain Hodson of the Crisfield Cycle Club, the Road Bill likely to be killed in the Senate Committee, and Mayor Davidson's resolution to macadamize Park Heights avenue (Pimlico Road).
- Paragraphs on Chicago's cedar-block pavement laid below cost, a road improvement bill wanted for the next Connecticut legislature, Frank Dingley's reported loss of long-distance form, a Cincinnati married ladies' cycling club, complaints about the August dates for the Niagara Falls meet, and the Quaker City Wheelmen admitting ladies.
- The Louisiana Division met at Chief Consul Hodgson's office and named Birchfield, Freenick, Hill, Guilotte and Born to bring the district championships and the district meet to New Orleans in late May, under the new rule requiring district championships before July 15.
- The Kings County Wheelmen of Brooklyn tried an Australian-style official ballot devised by Franklin W. Loucks, Arthur H. Smith and Edward S. Siebert; ninety-one votes for fourteen offices were counted within an hour and the rules will be adopted as a club by-law.
- The Harvard Bicycle Club voted to hand racing and its subscribed funds to a new separate association open to the whole university, which will hold a race meet on Holmes' field (May 17) with intercollegiate and interscholastic events; E. F. Rogers was elected temporary Chairman.
- Reprinted from the Danielsonville Transcript: the Auphnwalk Wheel Club of Danielsonville, Ct., met at the President's house in the rain, passed Mr. Gardner's mock resolutions of condolence to teamsters stuck in the mud, and feasted on russets, doughnuts and cider with toasts on "headers."
- "Reginald" writes that Kansas City is proposing a $1,500,000 bond issue for three hundred miles of macadam road through Jackson County, connecting Independence, Sibley, Blue Springs, Oak Grove, Raytown, Lone Jack and other towns to the city.
- A rider (No. 17371) details the hilly National road east from Wheeling through Washington, Pa., Brownsville, Uniontown and Summerfield to Cumberland, Md., warning that the last 39 miles require "taking your life in your hand and your wheel on your back."
- Florine Thayer McCray answers a clergyman who doubts whether cycling suits his listless daughter Edith, protesting against the notion that women are made of fragile clay and citing their endurance at the Centennial; first instalment, to be continued.
- Robert C. Matlock, L. A. W. No. 23739 of the Capital City Cycling Club, asks for the best road and distances from Columbus to Niagara Falls, and whether a party intends to ride from Columbus to the meet.
- Subscriber No. 23257 asks readers for a description of the route from Port Jefferson, Long Island, to Brooklyn.
- Review of the novel by Louis Reeves Harrison, a former editor of the World: a lost-identity story set during the Franco-Prussian war and the siege of Paris, with long excerpts of the cynic Estienne, Marquis de Grammont, on Boston culture and American wives.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's touring instalment: a wet ride to Basel, a ten per cent duty paid on the machines entering Switzerland, and the climb over the Juras and coast to Olten on the way to Lucerne, with praise for Swiss mountain road engineering.
- L. B. Graves & Co. to open in Washington handling Gormully & Jeffery wheels; a Keystone Bicycle Club gold medal by John Harriott; the Pope Mfg Co.'s Boston reception; Stall's Boston, Tremont and Record safeties; Worth's convertible single-or-tandem safety; and the compact 1890 Butcher cyclometer.
- Calendar of meets and races from April to September 1890, including the Century Wheelmen and Columbia Cyclers road races at Philadelphia, the Irvington-Milburn and Pullman road races on May 30, the Pennsylvania Division meet on June 27-28, and the L. A. W. annual meet at Niagara Falls, August 25-27.
- 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; and Secretary Abbot Bassett, 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- President Dunn's list of committee appointments for the fiscal year: Membership (Sanford Lawton, George C. Pennell); Improvement of Highways (Isaac B. Potter, Albert Mott, Maj. Chas. L. Burdet); Rights and Privileges; Rules and Regulations; Transportation; the Racing Board; and the Hotel Committee.
- Tables of Division membership for 1890 against 1889, showing a total of 12,703 against 12,193; Massachusetts rose to 1,658 and Connecticut to 742, while New York fell to 2,169 and New Jersey to 634.
- The Racing Board's amended Rule G lets a club, under special sanction, pay a member's entrance fees and necessary travelling expenses to represent it at a race meeting, with the A. A. U.'s matching resolutions appended; signed Chas. S. Davol, Chairman.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints the Hotel Bishop at Aurora, Ill., at $1.50 a day with 50-cent meals against a regular rate of $2.00.
- Chairman Geo. S. Atwater asks every Division Secretary-Treasurer to return complete lists of hotels, local consuls and repair shops at once for publication in the new League hand book.
- Chief Consul Joseph R. Wilson, Jr. appoints Charles J. Scherer of Memphis Vice Consul, Joseph C. Combs of Nashville Representative, and John M. Webb Local Consul for Bell Buckle.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm accepts Columbia's invitation to hold the annual meeting on July 4 and 5, with a parade to the University grounds, dinner on the campus, ten races, a banquet at Powers' House, and a hill-climbing contest on Broadway Hill for the championship of Missouri.
- A three-day official Division tour will start from Louisiana, Mo. about June 30 and run via Bowling Green, Mexico and Stephen's store to Columbia in time for the meet, in charge of W. P. Laing of St. Louis and Jno. Sansom of Kahoka.
- The Fleet Wing Outing Club of St. Louis, Mo. has qualified as a League club and is numbered 253; John D. Ripley, Secretary.
- Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery calls the Division Board of Officers to the Clarendon Hotel on Friday, March 28, to decide the question of a spring meet, an invitation to hold it in Worcester having been received.
- The Executive Committee reports that the old space allowance from the Bicycling World Company would have cost the League over $2000, and that a new five-year contract from March 1, 1890 increases both the money consideration and the space allowed the Bulletin.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm issues a final call for League hotel appointments at Booneville, Edina, Memphis, Bonne Terre, Kirkwood, Joplin, California and Purdy, warning that otherwise those towns will be left blank in the new Road Book.
- Report of J. H. Bloedel, ex-Secretary of the Wisconsin Division: $56.85 received and disbursements including a $10 Division championship medal and recruiting circulars, leaving a $24.67 balance certified by W. L. Simonds.
- Post-office addresses of every Division's Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer from California to Wisconsin, with Foreign Marshal Joseph Pennell care of J. S. Morgan & Co., Old Broad street, London.