The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Supplement department of late-arriving letters on the L.A.W. presidential contest, with the editor disclaiming responsibility for opinions expressed in it.
- F. P. Prial, a member of the National Assembly, argues that the "regular ticket" of Dunn, Emery and Atwater would shelve President C. S. Luscomb purely for the political advancement of his co-labourers, and urges delegates to hold their proxies so Luscomb can finish his nine-State highway-legislation scheme.
- Charles E. Gates of Buffalo protests at delegates pledging themselves to Dunn before the meeting and backs Maryland Chief Consul Albert Mott, citing Ohio's membership losses under Dunn and his own years of road-improvement work with farmers in his native county.
- N. H. Van Sicklen, Captain of the Chicago Cycling Club, offers to match his team against the reported Van Wagoner, Dampman and McDaniels combination at any number of men and any distance under League rules.
- "Toney" profiles the Dorchester Bicycle Club and its Captain Arthur P. Benson, holder of the American twenty-five-mile safety record (1h. 35m. 25s.) and of six consecutive Corey Hill climbs in 42 minutes, and reports the wheelmen's reception for Captain W. G. Kendall of the Boston Bicycle Club at Atlantic.
- Warwick's 1890 safety keeps the double-tube frame but reshapes it so the movable stay rod makes a true diamond frame (a loop frame for ladies when removed), and adopts all-ball bearings adjusted by a single screw on the right side of the machine.
- Leaders on the Prial and Gates letters lifted into the supplement, President Luscomb's Highway Improvements article, the value of inviting mayors and legislators to club dinners to preach road reform, the death of E. B. Freatman after the Buffalo–Rochester road race, the Dunn–Emery–Atwater ticket, and Dr. Savage's overnight enrolment of Campbell in the Berkeley Athletic Association at Hartford.
- Cincinnati's "Star" rebuts Biblical arguments against Sunday riding, reports the C. B. C.'s sitting room crowded since a new gas stove was put up, and answers "Marnola" of the Wheel on Ohio's claim to the League Presidency through James R. Dunn of Massillon.
- "Hawkshaw" notes Nellie Bly's seventy-five-day round-the-world attempt for the New York World, welcomes the decline of badge-wearing since Henry E. Ducker's Springfield tournaments, and condemns both the 74-mile road race run in falling snow and Tom Roe's San Francisco-to-Chicago ride as brutal rather than sporting.
- "Salina" reports Charles W. Wood's season-mileage badge going to George B. Penn on about 1,600 miles, an expected clean sweep of the Syracuse Cycling Club's Board of Officers, and the club-house question with the present lease expiring 1 May 1890.
- "Erratic Quill" describes the smoker for Tom Roe, who arrived from Ottawa — fifty-seven miles of mud — to be escorted to the club house amid Bengal lights with Munger, Barrett, Van Sicklen, Oberfelz and Riggs of Chicago, and reports the K. C. Wheelmen taking a 120x25-foot hall at Ninth and Main instead of building.
- "Vindex" answers the San Francisco Call's cycling editor over the $100 State-meet bonus, the Agricultural Park track's measurement and the Napa track report, and states that Southern California wheelmen are working for a separate Division.
- "Serom" reports the formal opening of the club rooms postponed two weeks, Chief Consul Richmond's road-improvement campaign ahead of the spring city election, and W. Dear's nickelled wheel crushed by a street-railway car directly under an electric light.
- "Ariel" corrects the World's report of Van Wagoner's Lancaster Pike ride — ten miles in twenty-nine minutes and four-fifths of a second — and covers his rained-off twenty-four-hour attempt with McDaniel and Draper and the Pennsylvania and Century clubs' winter receptions.
- "Nokomis" reports the proposed "Citizen's Cup" handicap races from Canal and Claiborne streets to West End over four miles of shell road, paced by a train of cars as a moving grand stand, and the Louisiana Cycling Club scooping the prizes at the Amite City State Fair.
- "Nostaw" reports F. K. Braitling of the Rambling Wheelmen paid in full by the horse-railroad company for the machine crushed on East Main street after a defective rail caught his wheel, and the oyster supper at Nichol's Cafe where Franklin Smith received the road-race cup and time medal.
- "Cyclops" reports the Peoria Bicycle Club incorporated on 11 November 1889 with C. F. Vail president and F. D. Wolcott captain, and Geo. M. Hendee already writing to enter all open safety events at the club's second annual fall meet.
- "Nitram" reports the Plainfield Bicycle Club's second annual fall games at Crescent Rink on 14 November, attended by the Elizabeth, Atalanta, Hudson County and Kings County Wheelmen among others, and gives the Hudson County Wheelmen's pool tournament standings.
- Paragraph news: Van Drelzen's photographs of Bert Myers of Peoria, the Kings County Wheelmen's one-mile handicap road race declared off, the Erie (Pa.) Cycle Club's hop at Jarecki's Hall, a Yale correspondent on Harvard's Thanksgiving road-race challenge, and the League's free Highway Improvements book drawing requests from farmers and road surveyors.
- The West End Bicycle Club's annual ball at Teall's, where toastmaster Thomas W. Shannon called on president C. J. Iven for the L.A.W., John Burns for the club's history since 1887, and Frank D. Chamberlin — lately robbed of his wheel — for "The Bicycle Thief."
- Sixty of the club's ninety members dined at Habenstein's Cafe on 13 November, with new president F. H. Crygier as toastmaster, Dr. W. H. Emery on the League's roads policy, Mayor Root on the City of Hartford, and Division lawyer Major Burdette reading a paper entitled "Moral — Mend your ways."
- A Rochester telegram reporting the death of Ellis B. Freatman, aged twenty-eight, of the Genesee Bicycle Club, from over-exertion in the recent Buffalo-to-Rochester road race.
- The paper's regular letters department, carrying three signed contributions on League road policy, race entrance fees and sidewalk riding at Elmira.
- G. R. Wilson (L.A.W. 25,198), a member of Mr. Mott's Committee on Highway Improvements, replies to correspondent "Star's" fling at Mott's scheme and invites Star's own Division to go and do likewise.
- Henry E. Ducker of Cleveland answers B. Taylor Bruce with five reasons for entrance fees and argues the promoter risks thousands where the racer risks a few dollars, citing a meeting at which the managers lost $3,500 while the amateur paid $26 and took over $800 in prizes.
- "Radix" reports Elmira's mayor and Common Council granting sidewalk-riding permits secured by $200 indemnity bonds, and the call signed by W. N. Easterbrook and others for the city's cyclists over twenty-one to organise and enforce the mayor's rules.
- The paper's racing department for the week, carrying the Plainfield fall games, the Maryland Club's road championship and the Manhattan Bicycle Club's coming Thanksgiving meet.
- Results of the Plainfield Bicycle Club's annual fall games: D. Oakes of the R. A. C. won the open one-mile safety in 4m. 34 1-2s., the Elizabeth Wheelmen took the tug of war from Plainfield, and Horace Snyder of Brooklyn gave a fancy-riding exhibition.
- The Manhattan Bicycle Club's second annual race meet on Thanksgiving Day over the Kingsbridge-Yonkers course — ten-mile and two-mile handicaps, with a gold medal offered for the best actual time in the ten.
- W. E. Crist beat Phil. Barber of Washington around Druid Lake to take the Maryland Club's annual five-mile road championship for the second year running; a third win would make the $75 medal his own property.
- George N. Strong of the Strong & Green Cycle Co. died suddenly at Denver, where he had gone for his health, after developing rapid consumption.
- Reorganised with $100,000 paid-up capital, the Springfield firm pledges keenest buying and constant watchfulness in manufacture, and claims its 1890 "Safety" cannot be equalled for durability and beauty of outline.
- The League's officers for the year: President Chas. H. Luscomb, 280 Broadway, New York; First Vice President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio; Second Vice President Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Mass.; Treasurer W. M. Brewster, 309 Olive Street, St. Louis; Secretary Abbot Bassett, 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- Committee rosters for Membership (A. E. Mealy of Baltimore, F. L. Casselberry of Mansfield, Ohio), Rights and Privileges (A. Moore Berry of St. Louis, George A. Perkins of Cambridge, Chas. F. Cossum of Poughkeepsie), Rules and Regulations (Dr. Wm. H. Emery, W. A. Davis, Chas. L. Brockway), Improvement of Highways (Dr. Chas. S. Butler, Wm. W. Share, Junius E. Beal), Racing (C. S. Davol, George S. Atwater, Harry H. Hodgson, George Collister, Robt. A. Smyth) and Transportation (W. M. Brewster).
- President Charles H. Luscomb announces that the L.A.W. will have road bills introduced simultaneously in eight or nine State Legislatures, with a joint conference of the Executive, Rights and Privileges and Highway Improvement Committees in New York on 7 December 1889.
- Isaac B. Potter of New York is removed from the National Committee on Rights and Privileges and Charles F. Cossum of Poughkeepsie appointed in his place by President Luscomb.
- Minutes of the Division Board of Officers at the Hartford Wheel Club on 13 November: a $100 retainer voted to Division lawyer Chas. L. Burdett, and a new committee of C. G. Huntington, L. A. Tracy and E. A. De Blois empowered to revise and reissue the Road Book.
- Notice of the adjourned Board of Officers meeting at the Trenton Wheelmen's club rooms on 4 December, with train times from Cortlandt street, New York, and Newark.
- Road Book Committee chairman H. Crowther explains that the map makers could not finish the new maps by 1 November, delaying the mailing of the Road Book.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm reports membership up from 272 to 312 since 1 September and removes the official figure-heads installed at the Sedalia meeting who have failed to work for the Division.
- George A. Case is removed as Representative and C. A. Graves of Joplin from the Touring Committee for refusing to answer letters or attend to L.A.W. affairs.
- A. C. Miller of Hannibal is appointed to the State Racing Board vice F. E. Hoffman, removed.
- The Laclede Hotel at Independence and the Hotel Richelieu on Washington avenue, St. Louis, are named official hotels at L.A.W. rates of $1.60 and $1.75 a day.
- Sec.-Treas. Chas. S. Howard sets the price at fifty cents to Massachusetts and Rhode Island Division members (one copy each), $1 to other League members and $2 to non-members.
- No. 243, the Auphnwalk Wheel Club of Danielsonville, Conn. (Edwin P. Lyon, Secretary), has qualified and filed its certificate as a League Club.
- Frederick Hood and Stephen G. Spiers of California are declared to have forfeited their amateur status under clause B, section 4, article V of the by-laws; Racing Board chairman Chas. S. Davol warns amateurs not to compete with them.
- Circular No. 8: Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery's list of local consuls appointed to 1 September 1890, from Abington to Worcester, with an appeal for a consul in every town and village.
- List No. 2: Chief Consul M. A. High's local consuls from Alliance to Zanesfield, followed by the League hotels he has appointed with their reduced rates.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown's first list of New Jersey local consuls, from Geo. T. Martin at Elizabeth to S. A. Defoe, M.D., at Washington.
- Sec.-Treas. Thos. F. Sheridan announces that the Constitution and By-Laws, containing a full membership list, and an officers-and-hotels card have been mailed to every member, and asks members to report errors for a forthcoming errata leaf.
- List 216 — 58 names, total 11,835 — published under Article III, with candidates from the California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Tennessee Divisions.