The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 25
Articles in this issue
- The leader announces that the paper's proprietors have incorporated as The Wheelman Company under E. C. Hodges, C. W. Fourdrinier and J. S. Dean, advises out-of-condition riders to take the season's first spins moderately, and attacks the street superintendents of Boston and Cambridge and Quincy's sidewalk-riding ordinance.
- The Harvard University Cycling Association will hold its race meet on Holmes' Field on 10 May under L. A. W. rules, entries closing 30 April with manager W. B. Greenleaf, 41 Weld Hall, Cambridge.
- The Charlestown Rovers' entertainment in cork at Association Hall drew wheelmen for turns including Walter E. Stone's "The Whistling Coon" and Frank Swift's "Swing Dose Gates Ajar," followed by a reception at Monument Square attended by the Cambridgeport, Boston, Massachusetts and Medford clubs.
- The committee arranging a tour from Worcester the day after the Massachusetts spring meet asks club captains planning runs from that city, and riders proposing to join the return tour, to write care of this office.
- "Toney" describes a hundred-odd riders massed at the reservoir run with the Charlestown Rovers, Cambridgeport and Roxbury clubs and visiting Rhode Island Wheelmen, two safeties driven by an electric motor in a Tremont street window, and Thomas G. Fowler's suit against the City of Boston over unguarded bricks at Roslindale.
- "Hawkshaw" argues that riding would give girls the grace modern dancing does not, welcomes Miss Marion Steele's letter on women's cycling, retells Ex-King Theebaw of Burmah's purchase of "a man wagon of steel," and recalls the Thompson-Pitman mile at the Philadelphia quadri-centennial races.
- "Indian" reports the organisation of the Indianapolis Wheelmen at Hearsey's riding hall, with Captain George C. Pyle and Lieutenant Hearsey among the officers and three ladies as charter members, and Col. A. A. Pope's road-improvement address to the Commercial Club.
- "The Stroller" notes the Illinois Club's athletic entertainment at the Madison Street Theatre on 28 April, the Oak Park Club's $500 from its dramatic night, the Chicagos' $600 raffle, and the collapse of both the Wilmington-Chicago and Lumsden-Campbell races.
- "Linneus" laments that only the Missouris and the Cycling Club survive as St. Louis cycling clubs, blames $24 dues for the swelling unattached ranks, reports Kirkwood's $10,000 street-improvement vote, and retells Daniel Webster's Faneuil Hall "road to ruin" exchange.
- "Norval" reports the Maryland Division's offer of a free road book to anyone joining before 30 June, the Centaur Club's Easter dance in East Pratt street and its Arbor Day chestnut planting in Patterson Park, and the park board's order against racing in Druid Hill Park.
- "Clayton" discusses the clash between the Hartford Wheel Club's seventh annual tournament at Charter Oak Park and the New York Division meet at Syracuse on 1-2 September, and reports Editor Goodman's fast run to Windsor and the form of Forster, Harding, Wood and Shea.
- "Star" reports Cincinnati cycling stirred by the coming meet, Harry Ellard's plan to revive the old Brighton Club, the Porkopolis Wheelmen's Easter run to Delhi and its improvised dinner, and the Crescent Wheelmen's projected 3 August tour to Chicago and the Northwest.
- "Kismet" argues against waiting for wheels to get cheaper, notes Julian Sterling's sketch of the Bridgeport Wheel Club in the New York World, and reports the Rambling Wheelmen hunting larger quarters.
- "Judge" announces that the Star Club has merged with the Detroit Bicycle Club, renamed The Detroit Wheelmen, with rooms at 30 Bagg street and officers A. H. Griffiths, Fred Case, Harry B. Doane and Captain Frank H. Whelden.
- "Nitram" reports the West Jersey Cyclers joining the L. A. W. to a man, and the horsewhipping of five Elizabeth Wheelmen - Capt. F. C. Gilbert, L. B. Bonnett, W. H. Caldwell, A. F. Calkins and Hy Whipple - by Theodore Glaser and his son on Rahway avenue, which the League will prosecute.
- "Salina" reports Prof. C. H. McCormick adding a two-mile ordinary and a one-mile safety city championship to the Y. M. C. A. field day in June, open to the Syracuse and Knickerbocker Cycling Clubs, and the Syracuse club's membership reaching eighty-seven.
- Paragraph news: the boy riders of the Eagle Wheelmen asking places in the Orange-to-Philadelphia century, Gov. Leon Abbett signing New Jersey's amended road bill, nearly 200 entries expected for the Pullman race, and the projected transcontinental rides of Frank E. Weaver and the Rogers brothers.
- W. J. Emerson, president of the Somerville Cycle Club, and A. E. Jacobs of 26 North Market street, Boston, seek two young bicyclists to join their tour of England, France and possibly Italy, leaving Boston about 12 July 1890.
- The Rambling Wheelmen of Bridgeport's first benefit filled Proctor's Grand Opera House for Louis Aldrich in "The Editor," followed by a banquet at the Wilson House with Chief Consul David J. Post as toastmaster and guests from Hartford, New Haven and Danbury.
- An argument for ladies' cycling clubs without costly club rooms, criticising a Chicago writer's ideal of a club of champion scorchers and holding up the Providence "Ladies' Cycling Club," every member of it an L. A. W. member, as the only soundly founded example.
- "Ariel" reports Captain Welch of the Wissahickon Wheelmen riding 156 miles to take the early Philadelphia mileage honours from Kolb and Guyler, and the campaign to pave Broad street with sheet asphalt, for which the Inquirer printed a blank petition on its front page.
- The Baltimore Cycle Club's dance and banquet at Eutaw Place, where G. E. Painter's electrical devices ran a dance indicator and an electric car on brass rails down thirty-five feet of table, serving fifty-six guests a four-course supper in fifty minutes without a waiter in the room.
- "Linneus" previews the 4 May reunion of St. Louis, Hannibal and Quincy cyclists at Louisiana, Pike county, with H. C. Woodruff leading the Hannibal men and Captains Burroughs and R. B. White the Quincy party, and hotel lists left at the city's cycle agencies.
- "Salina" explains how Chairman Charles W. Wood went to Hartford to reassure Chief Consul Post about the 1-2 September date clash, then to Buffalo to secure a pledge of no counter-attraction to the New York State meet.
- A Massachusetts party will train to Albany on 17 August and ride some 325 miles by Schenectady, Utica, Syracuse, Geneva and Buffalo to the League meet at $1.50 to $2.00 a day; Captains A. W. Robinson, W. G. Kendall and C. P. Cubberly have the particulars.
- The Sedalia Cyclers, led by Secretary-Treasurer Kelly, gave a smoker at Sichers Park hotel with Prof. Gregg's orchestra and trick riding by Harry Gordon, who came from St. Louis with W. P. Laing.
- The "Richardson Bill" for a ten-million-dollar state road loan was progressed in the Senate on 10 April and the "Weller Bill" enlarging county supervisors' highway powers reported favourably in the Assembly, both backed by the New York State Roads Improvement Association.
- "Swift" answers the paper's Niagara Falls correspondent, reporting Brinker himself confident but cautious about the match and Buffalo wheelmen ready to cover whatever the Falls betters raise on their village.
- S. Wallis Merrihew of the Wilmington Wheel Club prints his correspondence with Chicago captain N. H. Van Sicklen, blaming the Chicagos' demand for $600 expenses and $250 in prizes for killing a team road race already worth $350.
- Victor L. Emerson describes gigging a ten-foot alligator on the Suwanee river, then gives Windigate Hill near Mt. Washington, Md., as 645 yards long with 82 feet of rise, and recommends instead the 1,160-yard dirt climb from Lake Roland, which he claims to have ridden first.
- L. A. W. No. 24,525 of Allegheny, Pa., asks for the best route from Canton, Ohio, to Detroit by way of Toledo, with distances between points.
- The second annual Chicago Cycling Exhibit and Tournament will run a week at the Exposition Building from the first week in June, exclusively amateur, on a five-lap track with prizes aggregating over $1,500.
- Concluding instalment of Geo. D. Mitchell's tour: over the St. Gotthard to Faido and Bellinzona, along Lake Lugano to Chiasso where Italian customs took eighty-four francs a machine, then by dusty roads to Milan and Genoa, over 1,000 miles from Scheveningen.
- A cut and description of the Ladies' Rover imported by the John Wilkinson Co. of Chicago: 40 pounds, 26- or 28-inch rear driver, Starley adjustable cranks, Garford saddle, plunger brake and full dress guards, at $130 in standard finish or $140 nickelled.
- The League of American Wheelmen's headquarters at 12 Pearl Street, Room 37, Boston, with Abbot Bassett as Secretary.
- The League's officers for the year: President James R. Dunn of New York, First Vice President Dr. W. H. Emery of Roxbury, Second Vice President Geo. R. Bidwell, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett of Boston.
- The League's committee appointments: Lawton and Pennell on Membership; Potter, Mott and Burdett on Improvement of Highways; Boyle, Cossum and Dean on Rights and Privileges; Davis and Furst on Rules and Regulations; Brewster on Transportation; Davol's Racing Board; and Atwater, Hodgson and Marion on Hotels.
- President James R. Dunn rules for the Executive Committee that the dues of all Divisions and Sub-divisions for 1890-91 shall be one dollar, applying the order to those that sent no notice so as to make the rate uniform.
- Chief Consul W. H. Emery announces the Massachusetts Division spring meet at Worcester on 30 May, with badges issued on presentation of the 1890-91 L. A. W. ticket and no admission to parade or entertainment for non-members.
- The Westchester County Wheelmen certify, over Secretary E. Hanford Sturges' signature, that Frederick Jenkins has been elected to represent the club at New York State Division meetings.
- Geo. M. Wilder, chairman of the Missouri Division Racing Board, establishes state championships at one, two and five miles ordinary and safety, one, two and three miles tandem, and ten miles ordinary.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm lists the official Missouri hotels - the Shepard House at Bonne Terre, the Joplin Hotel, the Commercial at De Soto and the Reddish House at Memphis - with rates, and requires the certificate of appointment to hang in the hotel office.
- Chief Consul E. S. Hartwell appoints Charpiot's Hotel in Denver and the Alamo at Colorado Springs as League hotels, at $2.00 to $2.50 a day for members.
- Three clubs have filed their certificates: the Central Cycling Club of Junction City, Kansas (255), the Dayton Bicycle Club of Dayton, Ohio (256) and the Trojan Cycling Club of Troy, Ohio (257).
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints the Galva House at Galva at $1.50 a day and the Hammond House at Preemption at an L. A. W. rate of $1.35.
- Sec.-Treas. William D. Kempton announces an additional Ohio consul, B. A. Gramm of Chillicothe, Ross County.
- Chas. S. Davol, chairman of the L. A. W. Racing Board, declares H. V. Croll of Denver to have forfeited his amateur status and to be expelled from the League for competing with a professional, and warns amateurs not to meet him.
- C. G. Malliett of 23 John street, New York, will make the 1890 L. A. W. championship medals at $25 for 14-carat gold, $20 for 10-carat and $10 for sterling silver.
- Rates at New Jersey League hotels from the Arlington House and the Hotel Hoffman at Atlantic City to Naegeh's at Hoboken, Jacoby's Cafe in Newark and the United States Hotel at Paterson.
- Continuation of Chief Consul W. S. Bull's report to the 15 February meeting at the Grand Union Hotel: a revised road book with maps, the 1890 hand book, the League-hotel register scheme, membership up from 1,965 to 2,143, and the disputed Blackham and Bridgman vouchers.
- List 3, totalling 284 candidates, arranged by Division from California and Connecticut through Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee, with the constitutional eligibility clause and the two-week protest procedure.
- Post office addresses of the Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers of every L. A. W. Division from California to Wisconsin, with Joseph Pennell in London as Foreign Marshal.
- Dated calendar from Van Wagoner's 20 April record ride to Chicago through the Pullman road race and New Jersey Division meet on 30 May, the L. A. W. annual meet and national championship at Niagara Falls on 25-27 August, and the Syracuse, Peoria and Hartford tournaments in September.