The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Announces the special edition's postponement from April 18 to May 2, then declares "all is well" in cycledom now the L. A. W.–A. A. U. quarrel is settled, trade demand is outrunning capacity and roads agitation is advancing; a third leader disputes the Referee's claim that the District Racing Board, rather than the Division Officers, should raise district racing men's expenses.
- L. A. W. member 26,376 of Philadelphia asks whether a party limited to fifteen days' holiday can enjoyably ride Philadelphia to Pittsburg in July over such mountainous roads; the editor invites readers who know the route to advise.
- Captain Cubberly's Fast Day circular asks Somerville Cycling Club members to log their mileage, with a $10 prize for most runs attended and an eight-mile-an-hour pace limit; also the Dorchester Bicycle Club's annual dinner at Hotel Thorndike, a Quincy petition to amend the sidewalk-riding ordinance, and the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's election of Robert G. Amory as president.
- "Hawkshaw" muses on the public road as the highway of all humankind, praises Buenos Ayres for chaining drunkards to iron balls to sweep its streets, retells a Montana youth's poker-minded father, and closes with a small boy who prayed for a safety bicycle instead of his daily bread.
- The Cycling Club opens the season with a run to Clayton and the Missouris ride to Bartold's; Chief Consul Holm wins over Watchman editor Rauchenstein on road improvement; Commissioner Rapp's report shows $86,730.15 spent on county roads; Kirkwood seeks a $10,000 macadamizing loan and John S. Prince leases the St. Joseph exposition grounds for a half-mile track.
- Bennett's March 30 coasting contest is won on safeties by Jas. Schenck of the Q. C. R. ahead of Emil Gobrecht and C. N. Stix, and on ordinaries by Chas. Aszman of the Crescent Wheelmen; J. E. Poorman secures the Walnut Hills Odeon as a ladies' riding school, and Chief Consul High expects large League accessions.
- "Pedals" reports year-round cycling in the Bois de Boulogne, tricycles outnumbering safeties in Paris and spilling constantly from their thirty-inch steerers; M. Medinger, once champion of France and host to the 1889 Elwell party at Fontainbleu, leaves for the south, and the Petit Journal's converted editor devotes a front page to cycling and starts a Friday column.
- "Consuls" attacks a Legislature that ignores the thirty per cent of State roads now impassable, notes the Louisville Club's smokers and the Ruff Wheelmen's promise of a rousing State meet at Richmond on July 8, and records eleven riders — seven of them ex-Kenton Wheel Club men — organising the Aquilo Cyclers of Covington.
- Two meets are likely in 1890, the Southern District L. A. W. races in May and the State Division's complimentary meet in September; the Louisiana Cycling Club's hares escape their hounds, Carey wins the N. O. B. C.'s Hill Cup from Valence street to West End, and "Nokomis" argues Nashville, Louisville or Atlanta would suit a League Meet better than New Orleans.
- Mrs. George H. Harris, who secretly learned to ride while wintering in Washington, becomes the first lady cyclist in Syracuse; Vice President W. A. Yale marks his birthday with a spread at Hall's, and Miss Anna Newman presents the Syracuse Cycling Club with an orange and black satin sofa pillow for its new club house.
- Dismisses the Morning Call letter urging a separate California league as "soreheadism" by a defeated clique; Chief Consul Thompson has appointed over forty more Local Consuls and is making leading hotels League houses with road-condition registers, while W. M. Meeher's road book and a proposed half-mile track in Golden Gate Park are both in prospect.
- "Clayton" reports the Hartford club will re-enter the League after its April meeting with over 100 active members, aiming at 1,200 Connecticut members by September 1; the Columbia Cycle Club takes larger rooms in Batterson's block, the Charter Oaks adopt a gray uniform, and the New Havens are thanked for their hospitality after the polo game.
- The Freehold Cyclers' second annual athletic exhibition at Shinn's Hall featured A. A. Zimmerman, Robt. Whittaker and Dan J. Canary but only cleared expenses; the Great Century New York to Philadelphia Run committee moves to April 21 at the Riverside Wheelmen's house, and the Palisade Wheelmen and the Rovers spring up in Jersey City.
- "Kismet" denies the Wheel's story that the village trustees will bar pedestrians from the sidewalks during League meet week, reports the Brinker–Gassler series fixed for Hamilton on May 24 and Niagara Falls on June 11, and defends the late-August meet dates against the Philadelphia Enquirer.
- Eighty-eight-year-old Maj. Knox-Holmes is seriously hurt in a tandem collision while riding with his granddaughter; three Asbury Park men are fined for sidewalk riding; Topeka bids for the Fourth District races; Prof. Von Nussbaum argues cycling consumes surplus fat; and the Pennsylvania Safety Bicycle Co. sues the Stow Flexible Shaft Co. for $15,000.
- A purely musical entertainment at the Philadelphia club house, conceived and carried through single-handed by Mr. J. L. Bretz as the whole Entertainment Committee, drew a smaller but more appreciative audience than the club's "knock-out" nights. Signed "Ariel."
- Messrs. Elwell and Higgins leave New York in about two months with a party of some twenty riders — from Portland, Baltimore, Cleveland, Erie, Cincinnati and Oregon — who will ride safeties across France with a week in Paris, then Switzerland end to end, the Black Forest and Rhine valley to Antwerp or Rotterdam, and steamer to London.
- The Missouri Division Touring Board's May 3 reunion at Louisiana will gather riders from Quincy, Hannibal, St. Louis and Clarksville for a day over Pike county's gravel roads to Bowling Green via the famous Belt road and A. Busch's stock farm; fare $2.50 round trip from St. Louis. Signed Linneus.
- The Eagle Road Club of Newport, R. I., dares Hall, Anthony, Beazley, Murphy, Doane and Banker to join Van Wagoner, Dampman and McDaniel in the 100-mile Crawfordsville road race of May 17, now that the Wilmington–Chicago team race has fallen through; entry fee $25 with Mr. Prial of the Wheel.
- W. Van Wagoner will start from the Tremont House, Boston, about April 20, riding via Fitchburg, North Adams, Albany, Buffalo and Detroit to Chicago at 100 miles a day; information on roads and distances between Albany and Chicago is wanted.
- Frank Mehlig of St. Louis, who beat C. B. Guilliotte of New Orleans for the five-mile L. A. W. championship but lost the return after slipping a pedal, challenges him to one- and three-mile track races and a twenty-five-mile road race on three successive days at New Orleans or St. Louis before June 15, the loser paying all expenses.
- The Columbia meet of July 4 and 5 has $150 already raised and nearly as much in sight, with four or five State championships and costly gold medals on a half-mile track; committees are named under J. L. Douglas, Walter Williams, Geo. M. Wilder and W. M. Brewster. Signed "Linneus."
- Prof. Von Nussbaum's dress advice for cyclists: soft, warm, porous wool-and-cotton clothing, long shirts and sleeves against sunburn, short tricot drawers, laced half shoes with salicylic powder for the feet, a mixed gray tricot suit, and a rubber shoulder cape in preference to a waterproof cloak.
- Florine Thayer McCray describes her first days awheel — aching extensors, cramp above the knee and arms strained from clutching the handles — all gone within two weeks, leaving her stronger for walking, ravenous at supper and free of any back strain, with a woman doctor confirming the verdict.
- Geo. D. Mitchell continues his tour with a sixteen-kilometre coast from Einsiedeln down to Brunnen on Lake Lucerne in thirty-three minutes without touching a pedal, then Gersau, Beckenried and the Brunig pass to Interlaken and Meiringen, before attempting the long-disused Susten pass to reach the Rhone valley with bicycles.
- Between 1,200 and 1,500 of the 2,000 invited cyclists packed the Pope Mfg. Co.'s three floors in Boston; a dinner was first given to the fifty office employees with a few words from Colonel Pope, and music on the ground floor came from Harry Daggett, Tom Henry and a violinist.
- Stover's new Paragon cut shows a changed steering post and a concealed centre brake with drop-forged head; the Warwick Cycle Co. will run nights; Lozier & Yost of Toledo are buying automatic machinery to reach 100 machines a day; Gormully & Jeffery take a Madison street store in Chicago, and Fairbanks, Sanborn & Co. hold the Eastern Premier agency.
- Lists the League's officers: President James R. Dunn of 40 Wall street, New York; 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 at 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- President Dunn authorises publication of his committee list for the fiscal year: Sanford Lawton and George C. Pennell on Membership; Isaac B. Potter, Albert Mott and Maj. Chas. L. Burdett on Improvement of Highways; a Racing Board of Davol, Collister, Garden, DeGraaf and Gideon; plus Rights and Privileges, Rules and Regulations, Transportation and Hotel committees.
- Under Article III section 5, six Divisions — California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tennessee and Wisconsin — have certified $1.00 dues and six more are inferred from filed rules, while eighteen including Colorado, Maine, Missouri and Texas have filed neither and will have their dues fixed by the Executive Committee. Signed Abbot Bassett.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett gives President Dunn's address until further notice as James R. Dunn, Esq., Room 69, No. 40 Wall street, New York.
- President James R. Dunn announces the appointment of Mr. George D. Gideon of 17 North 7th street, Philadelphia, as a member of the L. A. W. Racing Board.
- Secretary-Treasurer William D. Kempton adds the Eagle House at Lewisburg, Preble County, to the hotel list at $1.00 with twenty-cent meals, and appoints H. S. Francis of Uhricsville, Tuscarawas County, as an additional Local Consul.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol reports that by unanimous vote of the Racing Board, Will C. Palmer of New Haven, Conn., has been reinstated as an amateur.
- Chief Consul A. B. Richmond issues hotel list no. 8 — the Kirby House at Grand Haven, the Hawkins at Ypsilanti, the Higbee at Benton Harbor and the Lakeview at St. Joseph, all at $1.50 to League men — and repair shop list no. 7 covering Battle Creek, Union City and Ypsilanti.
- Chief Consul Samuel A. Boyle accepts the invitation of the associated cycling clubs of Philadelphia and announces the Division meet for June 27 and 28 there, with special transportation arrangements to follow.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints F. B. Stumpf Local Consul of Eureka in place of the resigned J. S. Davis and F. L. Herrling for Bensenville, and lists League hotel rates at Bensenville, Chenoa and Wheeling.
- Minutes of the Michigan Division Board of Officers at Sweet's Hotel, Grand Rapids: a balance of $379.53 reported, the Constitution and By-Laws adopted, 1,000 road books and 2,000 hand books ordered, and J. H. Johnson of Detroit elected to the Executive and Finance Committee. Signed C. A. Conover.
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol appoints W. O. Donnell of P. O. Box 145, Natick, as Rhode Island Consul No. 22.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks every member to bring in at least one recruit before April 30, the Division having passed its record at 370, and cites the forthcoming road book, the defeat of the Warner bill and the Columbia meet as arguments for the 400 target.
- The annual Division tour from Clarksville to Columbia will start from the Carroll House at eight A. M. sharp on July 1, reaching Columbia in time for the State meet, with W. P. Laing of 1724 Olive street appointed marshal and numbers limited. Signed Robt. Holm.
- Report of the February 15 meeting at the Grand Union Hotel under Chief Consul W. S. Bull: Dr. George E. Blackham held over on the Executive Committee by a 13-to-2 canvass, a conflict found between the Division By-Laws and the L. A. W. Constitution over standing-committee chairmen voting, and Vice Consul Bridgman's rejection of a proposed system of vouchers and quarterly reports.
- List 1 of 210 candidates published under Article III, dated Boston, April 4, 1890 — four from Colorado, twenty-one from Connecticut, twelve from Illinois, forty from New York, thirty from Ohio and twenty-one from Pennsylvania among them.
- Post office addresses of every Division's Chief Consul and Secretary-Treasurer, from R. M. Thompson at the Oriel Hotel, San Francisco, to Foreign Marshal Joseph Pennell, care of J. S. Morgan & Co., 22 Old Broad street, London.
- Dated list of coming events from the Orange Wanderers' April 8 tournament to the Hartford Wheel Club tournament in September, including the Pullman road race at Chicago and the Irvington-Milburn road race on May 30, the Pennsylvania Division meeting at Philadelphia June 27-28, and the L. A. W. annual meet and national championship at Niagara Falls on August 25-27.