The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Two leaders: one holds that the District Racing Boards, not the National Assembly, must raise the funds for racing men's expenses under the new racing rules, and urges Divisions to ratify them; the other warns small clubs of fifty to seventy-five members against expanding into palatial quarters, where cliques and rival interests wreck club harmony.
- Some thirty members of the Boston Press Cycle Club sat in mystic circle with clay pipes at W. W. Stall's office, entertained by the Wakefield Bicycle, Mandolin and Guitar Club (Capt. A. W. Flint, Lieut. E. A. Wilkins, F. A. Hunt and G. E. Dunbar) and by Stanley Clemens singing "Nancy Lee."
- A. B. Barkman of 241 Broadway, New York, is preparing the annual 25-mile handicap road race over the Irvington-Milburn course on Decoration Day, and issues entry blanks.
- "Toney" reports Massachusetts wheelmen taking their first Sunday runs of the season at the reservoir, the Somerville Cycle Club securing the whole second floor of a new building at Medford and Pearl streets, and ten men of Company H, First Regiment Infantry drilling awheel at Chelsea before the Governor and Adjutant-General.
- "Hawkshaw" urges riders to cultivate easy, graceful road form as an object lesson to the public, crediting the "Old Vet" W. R. Pitman for the lesson, and reflects on the grind of producing weekly cycling copy after nine years.
- "Ariel" describes the Columbia Cyclers' first smoker at Strong & Green's North Broad street school, ending in an Eagle bicycle polo match won by John Hazleton over Edwin Roe; the "Fairmount Lady Cyclers" organized under Miss E. A. Dunbar, and George D. Gideon was appointed to the National Racing Board.
- "Cyclops" reports the Peoria Bicycle Club will choose its tournament committee and canvass for cash only this year, and that Owen Eyeman of McPherson, Kan., rode Scott City to Garden City, forty miles, in two hours forty minutes.
- "The Stroller" notes the Lincolns electing one of their members to local office with brass band and band wagon, the Illinois Club's new club house on Washington Boulevard, and Sherman of the Chicagos changing from a safety to an ordinary.
- "Nitram" denies The Bearings' report that the Rutherford Wheelmen had "gone under," and recounts an expelled member pawning the Hancock diamond medal, whose purchaser removed the diamond and melted the gold.
- "Nostaw" reports the Rambling Wheelmen's semi-annual election and a letter from Chief Consul Post that will bring a vote on joining the L. A. W.; the club holds its third annual meet on Decoration Day.
- "Judge" reports the Star Club's winter at 89 Miami avenue and the Detroit Bicycle Club's reorganization as "The Detroit Wheelmen," keeping its standing as the twelfth oldest club in the L. A. W. on Abbot Bassett's ruling.
- "Norval" quotes the Hagerstown Globe on winter-long riding, records John F. Oldfield climbing steep Tower Hill in Druid Hill Park awheel on April 5th, and notes a seventh Baltimore club forming.
- "Salina" reports the death of Mrs. Milton S. Weaver, the Syracuse Cycling Club's choice between Rome and Cortland for Decoration Day, and Mrs. A. L. Bradley as the city's second lady rider.
- Newtown, Ct., voted $4500 to macadamize two miles of its main road; other notes cover St. Louis's fast men, Chief Consul Bull's purple-and-red L. A. W. membership cards, Prof. Jenks on the freight economics of good roads, and the Farragut and Union cycle clubs' formation.
- The Roxbury Bicycle Club feted Dr. W. H. Emery at Young's Hotel on his election as First Vice President of the League, with Abbot Bassett, C. S. Howard, E. G. Whitney, A. W. Robinson and C. W. Fourdrinier as guests, followed by a sketch of the forty-two-member club and Captain Keltie's road record.
- Vice President Enoch M. Barker writes to deny "Norval's" report that the Crescent Club has collapsed, saying nine members remain after resignations to the Atalanta Wheelmen and new applicants await the club's move to fresh quarters.
- At Park Rink, Orange, N. J., D. Oakes of the Riverside A. C. won the mile ordinary in 3m. 27s. and C. F. Coggeshall of the Bloomfield Cyclers the mile safety in 4m. 1s.; the Atalantas beat the Elizabeth Wheelmen at tug of war by two inches and Dan J. Canary gave trick and fancy riding.
- About fifty members and New Haven guests dined at the Opera House cafe, President Latham speaking only once past midnight had made it April 2d, with Rowland's poem on "Mr. Horr and His Loud Trousers" and a mock "wedding" closing the night.
- About 300 attended the opening of the Passaic City Wheeling and Athletic Association's $15,000 electric-lit club house, with fancy billiards by Orville Oddy, Jr., and wrestling and boxing by H. Rhody and M. Berger; membership stands at 115.
- "Ariel" apologises for omitting the South End tug-of-war team's win over the men in gray at "Pennsy's" athletic entertainment, having left to catch the 11.45 car down Girard avenue.
- Frank M. Belt telegraphs from Montgomery on April 8th that he broke the world's quarter-mile record in thirty-two seconds, officially timed, with documents forwarded.
- W. H. Jones of Sheffield, Ala., L. A. W. No. 20526, asks members for the best bicycle route from Columbia or Nashville, Tenn., to Louisville, Ky., and Cincinnati, O., for a trip next month.
- W. J. Morgan writes from Portland, Ore., urging that Californians Frank Elwell, Charlie Wheaton and Harry Davies be sent East against Windle, Campbell and Lumsden, and reporting on Buffalo Ramblers J. J. Wirtmer and W. L. Hughson and Oregon's wretched roads.
- Chief Consul H. H. Hodgson of Louisiana answers George Clark's plea for a Southern League meet, promising a Fifth District meet at New Orleans in June and noting the eleven states of the district hold fewer than 300 members between them.
- "Ariel" reports a rain- and snow-swept trip through the coal regions, praising the Scranton Bicycle Club's house as unsurpassed and the Penn Wheelmen's new Penn Square rooms in Reading, with thanks to Van Nort, Stone, Lusk, Grubb, Schmidt and Mills.
- A Closter, N. J., correspondent (L. A. W. No. 24691) argues convicts should build the county roads under a competent engineer, weighing escape risk, temporary accommodation and local-government objections against the gain in systematic work.
- Marion Steele recounts learning to ride in a Providence riding room and at Roger Williams Park, the stares of a sewing-circle brigade, and argues for shorter skirts and the ladies' wheel over the lumbering hundred-pound tricycle.
- Geo. D. Mitchell's serial continues over the snow-covered Susten pass at 7400 feet — the first bicyclists to cross it awheel — after dinner at the inn Am Stein by the Stein glacier, then up the St. Gotthard road past the Devil's Bridge and Andermatt.
- Description of J. K. Starley & Co.'s socket-steering ball-bearing-head Rover imported by the John Wilkinson Co. of Chicago: 30-inch wheels geared to 54 or 56 inch, tangent spokes, Garford saddle, 48 pounds all on, price $135.
- L. A. W. headquarters stand at 12 Pearl Street, Room 27, Boston, with Abbot Bassett as Secretary.
- Lists President James R. Dunn of 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 of Boston.
- President Dunn's list for the fiscal year: Lawton and Pennell on Membership; Isaac B. Potter, Albert Mott and Maj. Chas. L. Burdett on Improvement of Highways; Boyle, Cossum and Dean on Rights and Privileges; and Davol, Collister, Garden, DeGraaf and Gideon on the Racing Board.
- Secretary-Treasurer George C. Pennell announces the New Jersey Road Book, a system of maps with cycling roads in red lines on the Connecticut plan, out in May at $2.50 generally but 25 cents to Division members.
- Chief Consul W. H. Emery calls a meeting of the Board of Officers of the Massachusetts Division at the Clarendon on Friday evening, April 11, at 7.30 sharp.
- Chief Consul Harry H. Hodgson asks renewals to J. W. Dodge before April 30 after the Division's 96 per cent renewal record, announces the Fifth District race meet at New Orleans in June and a new road law for the May Legislature.
- The Porkopolis Wheelmen of Cincinnati and the West Jersey Cyclers of Camden have qualified as League clubs and filed their certificates.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints the Palmer House at Louisiana and the Commercial Hotel at De Soto as official hotels, at $1.00 and $1.50 to L. A. W. members.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol declares G. F. Waldron of Omaha, Neb., to have forfeited his amateur status by competing with professionals, in violation of clause b, section 4, article V of the By-laws.
- Chief Consul M. A. High appoints the Turpen House at Greenville and the Iron City House at Canal Dover as League hotels at $1.50 to members.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis lists reduced League rates at the Transit House, Aledo; McPherson House, Dwight; Genesee House, Genesee; and Lincoln House, Lincoln.
- The Division's annual business meeting will be held April 19th at Sachem Hall, Red Men's Building, 320 Post street, San Francisco, to hear officers' reports and fix the annual meet.
- Chief Consul V. Mumford Moore names twenty Local Consuls from Ashland and Kenosha to Waukesha and Green Bay, including H. P. Andrae and P. H. Sercombe at Milwaukee.
- Chief Consul J. Carlton Brown appoints fifteen more Local Consuls, from Vineland to Clarksborough, and names Frank W. Cramer for Camden in place of B. O. Miller.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm urges every member to recruit one more before April 30 to carry the Division past 400 from its present 370, citing the road book due in May and the defeat of the Warner bill.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull's continued account of the clash with President Luscomb and Dr. C. S. Butler over highway legislation, recommending the National Assembly withdraw Assembly bill Number 10 in favour of the Coggeshall-Rhodes Highway Improvement Bill drafted by I. B. Potter.
- List 2, totalling 192 candidates, published under Article III and arranged by Division from California and Connecticut through Ohio and Pennsylvania to Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Nova Scotia.
- Post office addresses of the Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers of every Division from California to Wisconsin, plus Foreign Marshal Joseph Pennell in London.
- Harry D. Hedger of 473 Tremont street takes the Boston agency for Banker & Campbell's "Ormonde" cycles; Charles H. Weld & Co. opens a depot at 235 Tremont street with the Vulcan line; H. G. Rouse buys out A. T. Atkins of Pasadena, and Prince Wells has opened a Louisville agency after refusing a London engagement.
- Calendar from W. Van Wagoner's April 20 record ride to Chicago through the Item five-mile road race, the Irvington-Milburn road race on Decoration Day, and the L. A. W. annual meet and national championship at Niagara Falls, August 25-27.