The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Leader notes on the 1884 English road-improvement agitation and Mr. Kennedy-Child's speeches, the League passing 12,000 members, the Luscomb-versus-Dunn presidential canvass counted state by state after Mott's withdrawal, why national highway legislation is premature, and Baltimore wheelmen winning a road appropriation in a single day.
- Urges New England readers to visit the Boston maritime exhibition, singling out the full-sized model of the yacht Quickstep, the United States Government models and photographs, and the boat Liberdade built by the 'modern Robinson Crusoe,' who attends it in person.
- 'Nitram' details the Hudson County Wheelmen's fair of 17-21 December, with a safety bicycle for the best bicycola score and a furniture prize given by W. H. DeGraaf of the Harlem Wheelmen, and the club's decision to postpone rejoining the L. A. W. until the fair's proceeds are known.
- 'Hawkshaw' mocks the cycling press's annual Christmas-stocking 'chestnut' and then dissects the club grumbler, who never works for his club, never resigns, and is not to be confused with the honest critic.
- 'The Stroller' reports Racing Board Chairman C. S. Davol settling in Chicago for the winter, and Tom Roe's stormy reception -- boxes at the Columbia Theatre for 'La Tosca,' urchins forcing anonymous circulars on the audience, and a Kinsley's banquet given by the Chicagos with Mayor Cregier present.
- 'Linneus' reports twelve resignations from the Missouri Bicycle Club and W. M. Chauvenet's election as president, a 14-mile hare-and-hounds chase to the Blair monument in Forest Park won by Captain Sanders, and Lieutenant Geo. F. Peckham taking the club mileage cup with 3,592 miles.
- Reprints the New York Sporting Times backing W. S. Bull's scheme for future L. A. W. championship meets against Samuel Miles's Eastern-Western-Pacific sectional plan, which it says would leave national entry lists too small to interest anyone.
- Adjourned meeting of the Division's Board of Officers at the Trenton Wheelmen's rooms on 4 December: Chief Consul Dr. G. C. Brown's recruiting letter to every non-League club in the State, and Secretary-Treasurer Geo. C. Pennell's report that the new constitution is printed.
- Report of the 7 December conference at President Luscomb's office, where Dr. Chas. S. Butler's hour-long report on road law led to votes to memorialize every Governor, to abandon national legislation for now, to press bills in New York, Maryland, Ohio and Virginia, and to appropriate $500.
- Reports the 3,000 Chicago circulars charging transcontinental rider Tom Roe with taking a team from Ottawa to Joliet and a train from Las Animas to Coolidge, and prints Roe's flat denial to a Chicago Tribune reporter.
- Short notes: New Jersey wheelmen carry every favored candidate in the Elizabeth charter election, Geo. Lloyd and Ralph Temple land from the Teutonic, the Cincinnati Bicycle Club's smoker, a Rambling Wheelmen polo match at the Gem Rink, Bridgeport, and Henry F. Campbell's Auburn lecture on his English and French tour.
- Standing letters department, opening with the editor's disclaimer that he is not responsible for opinions expressed and reserves the right to expunge improper matter.
- 'Rural' ridicules the letters of F. P. Prial and Mr. Alden urging Luscomb's re-election, calling Alden's rebuke of Chas. E. Gates of Buffalo rich from a man whose own club, the Long Island Wheelmen, has withdrawn from the League.
- Argues that road law for thinly settled Western states such as Missouri must differ from Eastern law, warns against bonding counties into long-term debt, and thanks Col. Albert A. Pope for speeches now circulating through Western papers.
- 'Marnola' of New Orleans explains that, Albert Mott of Maryland having withdrawn, Louisiana's votes will go to James R. Dunn as the only remaining candidate and the man who best knows the League's committees.
- Arthur Allen Dean of Danielsonville answers 'Nostaw's' complaint about missing sign-boards by recommending the Connecticut Road Book, 'a sign-board at every turn in the State, bound in leather.'
- The racing man endorses W. S. Bull's plan over Samuel Miles's sectional scheme, wanting only state honour men eligible for national events and expenses paid by division or club but never by makers or dealers.
- Captain W. H. Van Sicklen states the Chicago Cycling Club will meet any team organized strictly under L. A. W. rules at up to ten miles, excepting a twenty-five-mile road race being negotiated with the Wilmington Wheel Club, and cannot ride on Decoration Day because of the Pullman handicap.
- L. A. W. 23,257 of Baltimore answers Mr. Kempton, arguing that losing road-improvement legislation on the first trial costs nothing and that the farmers he has canvassed all want good roads.
- 'Salina' withdraws the claim that the Knickerbocker Cycling Club had lost its enthusiasm, but insists Captain Lancaster's twenty-three men at the recent parade were barely half that, some of them under eighteen or not members.
- L. A. W. 23,416 of New Haven seeks a companion for a New York to Pacific Coast trip of not over 110 days, awheel or afoot, by Geo. B. Thayer's outward route of 1886, starting mid-April.
- The paper's standing racing department for the week, carrying separately headed reports of meetings and record rides at Napa, Buffalo, New Orleans and Philadelphia.
- Central California wheelmen's meeting at Napa before some 500 spectators: F. E. Southworth won the mile and a quarter in 37 1-2 seconds, breaking the Pacific coast amateur record, Doane and Wheaton collided, and Julius Smith took a header in the five-mile handicap won by Geo. P. Wetmore.
- Match tandem mile on the Richmond avenue asphalt: Brinker and Milley of the Buffalo Club beat Iven and Chamberlain of the Rochester West Ends by forty yards, the excited timekeepers having forgotten to time, so the 2.39 was guessed at.
- F. B. Borm and O. M. Spring of the Louisiana Club rode Baton Rouge to New Orleans in a day, 121 1-3 miles by the river road through Bonnet Carre and Kenner, in 14 hours 32 minutes of actual riding over heavy sand and against a head wind.
- B. Frank McDaniel of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club covered 211 1-8 miles on the 7 1-8-mile Montgomery avenue and Lancaster Pike course, beating the 205 miles of the South End Wheelmen's Dimon and Kolb and taking the Item's gold watch.
- Review of the Lozier & Yost youths' diamond-frame safety: cold-drawn weldless steel backbone, removable top brace rod converting it to a girl's machine, tangent spokes, Torkelson patent adjustable saddle, 35 lb. at $35, with Wm. Read & Sons of Boston as New England agents.
- Errata correcting an earlier report: the re-organized Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co. will trade as the Union Cycle Mfg. Co., not the Springfield Cycle Mfg. Co., with 1890 particulars to follow.
- League headquarters at 12 Pearl Street, Boston, with Abbot Bassett as Secretary, and the year's officers: President Chas. H. Luscomb, Vice Presidents James R. Dunn and Sanford Lawton, and Treasurer W. M. Brewster.
- Membership of the L. A. W. standing committees, including A. E. Mealy on Membership, Dr. Chas. S. Butler, Wm. W. Share and Junius E. Beal on Improvement of Highways, and C. S. Davol on Racing.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints Jno. Sansom local consul for Kahoka and vicinity.
- Chief Consul Samuel A. Boyle notifies members that refreshments and meals may be had at Wolfe's bakery, Bryn Mawr, large parties on reasonable notice.
- The Vineyard Valley Wheelmen of Napa, California, R. A. Simon president and S. K. Buford secretary, qualify as League club No. 245.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis's 1890 appointments of some fifty-five Illinois local consuls, from Argenta and Beardstown to Woodland Park, dated Chicago, 6 December 1889.
- List No. 2 from Chief Consul Joseph R. Wilson, Jr., naming local consuls at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Cleveland, Franklin and Bristol, their terms expiring 1 September 1890.
- President Charles H. Luscomb makes A. E. Mealy of Baltimore chairman of the Membership Committee in place of Mr. Jessup, resigned, and appoints George C. Pennell of Elizabeth, N. J. as its third member.
- Chief Consul M. A. High's circular to Ohio local consuls, recalling the Tyron Bill's defeat for want of public demand and listing the membership blanks, road pamphlets and Improvement of Highways circulars available from Secretary-Treasurer Dr. William D. Kempton.
- Chief Consul High's appointment of some thirty-five more Ohio local consuls and a schedule of League hotels with their reduced rates, plus notice that the Ohio Division meet will be held at Cincinnati on 24-26 July.
- Chief Consul Joseph R. Wilson, Jr. appeals for recruiting, the Tennessee roll having slipped from about 120 to ninety-five, and argues that numbers are what will win the State a road book, League hotels and better highways.
- Circular No. 1: Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks local consuls for the names of road commissioners, county surveyors and newspapers so copies of the L. A. W. Road Improvement book can be mailed to them.
- List 219, seventy-six names taking League membership to 12,014, arranged by division from the Vineyard Valley Wheelmen of Napa City to the Beloit Academy Wheelmen of Wisconsin, with the constitutional two-week protest rule reprinted.