The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Thanksgiving pushes the week's press run to Friday; the leader welcomes C. H. Luscomb's declared candidacy for the L. A. W. presidency against James R. Dunn while insisting the World stays neutral, and commends Col. Pope's Syracuse roads speech, Rhode Island's highway memorial and the Fort Worth Gazette's $1,800 good-roads prize fund.
- The declared L. A. W. candidates so far: Charles H. Luscomb and James R. Dunn for President, William H. Emery for First Vice President and Geo. S. Atwater for Second.
- "Linneus" reports carriage makers preparing to test the constitutionality of the city's tire ordinance due January 1, the Missouris' gymnasium classes under Captain Hildebrand, the Cycling Club's hare-and-hounds chase at Forest Park won by hares E. N. Sanders and A. L. Jordan, and a proposed Western racing circuit of St. Louis, Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, Peoria, Denver, St. Paul, Detroit, Quincy and Cincinnati.
- "Hawkshaw" objects to the Grand Rapids correspondent borrowing his nom de plume, and credits the late "Jack" with replacing the old boastful full-page maker's advertisement with readable essay-style copy in the American wheel press.
- "Serom" tells how ten club men rode through a downpour to the West End plaster mills for a keg of sweet cider on the 13th and styled themselves "the Corn Cob Ten," and reports Captain Hain in Chicago buying tools with $5,000 subscribed for his new safety.
- "Nostaw" reports Judge Perry of the Common Pleas Court reversing Harry Elliott's judgment against expressman John Herron over the Fairfield avenue bridge collision, and twenty Rambling Wheelmen and twelve Bridgeport Wheel Club men at the New Haven Bi. Club's smoker.
- "Cyc" describes the club's first "Ladies' Night," with Misses Chayne and Reese receiving, President Charles P. Lusk welcoming, and a "wheel club song" composed by "H. B. G." dedicated to the ladies.
- "Nokomis" reports honorary Captain R. G. Betts donating a bronze medal for a fifty-mile Louisiana Cycling Club race set for December 8, the holder's time open to challenge for four months and a re-match for two.
- The South End Wheelmen's resolutions of November 18, 1889 on the death of fellow wheelman George N. Strong, condoling with the Camden Wheelmen, signed by John J. Bradley, Samuel Jackson, Jr., and chairman J. R. Lincoln-Edwards.
- Lieut. Col. Peter C. Hains's report on the $10,000 survey authorised by Congress on February 23, 1889 for a national road from the Virginia end of the Aqueduct Bridge to Mount Vernon: $1,228.10 spent, $7,473.46 still available.
- The club's tenth-birthday dinner at the Getty House, covers laid for forty, with toasts by President Robert A. Fones, Secretary Alexander R. Taylor, Consul Henry W. Pagan and Capt. Charles B. Lockwood.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull confers on giving permanent form to the 20,000-member association, while Secretary Isaac B. Potter of New York City completes a highway bill for introduction at the next session of the State legislature.
- P. H. Sercombe leases Milwaukee's Exposition Building for an indoor track and riding school; also the Lincolns' club raffle prize list, Tom Roe missing his Chicago Herald tour schedule, A. J. Marrett's visit for J. K. Starley & Co., Geo. R. Bidwell's new New York building, and the bowling craze among winter-bound New York and New Jersey cyclists.
- Col. Pope's address to the citizens of Syracuse argues good roads are the cheaper investment, citing Illinois's $15,346,000 in extra hauling, English horses doing twice the work of American ones, Providence's granite-block Westminster street and Buffalo's sixty miles of Trinidad asphalt, and urges a bond issue, service tunnels and a Citizens' Street Improvement Association.
- The week's letters department, opening with the editor's disclaimer of responsibility for opinions expressed, and running W. S. Bull on the racing rules, W. D. Kempton and "Linneus" on the League presidency, Alfred W. Mabbett's reply to Mr. McKee and Ernest L. Lancaster's defence of the Knickerbocker Bicycle Club.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull answers A. A. U. secretary James E. Sullivan and Referee editor Samuel A. Miles, arguing the national cycle championships should be confined to L. A. W. members and organised by district to stop racing men "revolving" from League clubs to rich athletic clubs.
- W. D. Kempton of Cincinnati doubts the President's plan to fight for road bills in several State legislatures, citing the fate of the Tyron Bill, and urges the League to educate public sentiment through its Local Consuls and road literature first.
- Alfred W. Mabbett, secretary of League Club 234 at North Adams, Mass., denies that the Berkshire-Hudson "protest" named Mr. McKee, admits calling a rival make a "milk wagon wheel," and reports Captain Kane re-appointed Local Consul.
- The St. Louis correspondent backs Luscomb for the customary second term, with Chief Consul Emery of Massachusetts for First Vice President and W. A. Davis of Illinois for Second.
- Ernest L. Lancaster, captain of the Knickerbocker Bicycle Club of Syracuse, answers "Salina" by noting his four-month-old club turned out 23 men in the recent parade against the six-year-old Syracuse Cycling Club's 53.
- Interviewed in Boston, W. S. Bull regrets Albert Mott's withdrawal, blames the loss of three Brooklyn League clubs for the State Division's decline, and warns that Luscomb's declared legislative policy conflicts with Isaac B. Potter's completed highway bill and the Roads Improvement Association's plan.
- W. J. Richardson (L. A. W. 24740) of New York seeks a League member for a two-week 1890 tour from Newark through Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, then by Dover and Wilmington to Cape May and up the Jersey shore to Sandy Hook.
- Kay Bee of Cambridge answers "the Cynic," arguing it was Holden's refusal to flinch from stopping the Princeton man, not his broken collar bone, that was ennobling.
- The Duryea Wheel Company of Washington, D. C., will market a light new safety whose three-part spring frame isolates saddle, handle-bar and pedals from vibration; Banker and Campbell of New York have ordered $10,000 worth.
- The new concern under President J. B. McCune, Treasurer Walter Measures of Cleveland and Vice President C. F. Stokes of Chicago has bought the plant and patents of the Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co. at Highlandville, ready to start work at once.
- The L. A. W.'s national officers: President Chas. H. Luscomb of New York, First Vice President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Second Vice President Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett of Boston.
- The League's committee rosters — Executive and Finance, Membership (A. E. Mealy, F. L. Casselberry), Rights and Privileges, Rules and Regulations, Improvement of Highways (Dr. Chas. S. Butler, Wm. W. Share, Junius E. Beal), Racing and Transportation.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown names T. F. Merselis, Jr. chairman of Transportation, C. A. Swift of Rights and Privileges and F. A. Kinch of Improvement of Highways for the New Jersey Division.
- No. 244, the Juniata Wheelmen of Huntingdon, Penn., D. S. Drake secretary, has qualified and filed its certificate as a League club.
- Chief Consul M. A. High's third list of additional Local Consuls — Cumminsville, Dayton, Elyria, Fremont, Genoa, Hicksville, Medina, North Bend, Plainville, Preston, Tiffin and Woodville — with newly appointed L. A. W. hotels and member rates, reported by Sec.-Treas. William D. Kempton.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints the Pacific Hotel at St. Joseph a League hotel, regular rates $3.00 a day and $2.50 to L. A. W. members on presentation of a membership card.
- Holm calls on consuls to fill the gaps in the League hotel list at Clarksville, Booneville, Edina, Carthage, Lexington, Memphis, Bonnie Terre, Farmington, Kirkwood, Joplin and Sedalia, and appoints the Galt House at St. Charles at $1.50 to League members.
- List 217 — 74 names bringing League membership to 11,909 — with divisional counts for Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Georgia, including Miss Ada Taber and Miss M. E. Fettretch of New York.