The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Unheaded leaders on electrical propulsion of cycles promised by Wheeling, on Judge Fouke's Illinois decision settling wheelmen's rights, on Massachusetts towns' statutory duty to keep roads safe and convenient, and on a Colorado Springs rider fined $9.35 for sidewalk riding.
- Commends the Elwell Tour, personally conducted by Mr. Elwell and Mr. H. S. Higgins, through France, Switzerland, Germany's Black Forest and the Rhine, Belgium and London, with the party limited to thirty.
- The L. A. W. Committee on Rights and Privileges is at work: Geo. A. Perkins of Massachusetts and C. F. Cossum of Poughkeepsie have drafted a road bill for the New York Legislature and will visit Ohio, Virginia and Maryland.
- "Toney" traces the Massachusetts Bicycle Club from its 1879 founding through the mid-winter carnival and the abandonment of its club house, then profiles Captain Alonzo D. Peck, Jr.; also reports the Cambridge Bicycle Club defunct and prints a letter from Capt. Nat G. Rogers of the Wakefield Bi. Club.
- "Hawkshaw" on "Bicycle Jim" the Salvation Army Brigadier, a nerve specialist charging $10 to prescribe a bicycle for insomnia, Louis R. Harrison ("Madeline") among the Fellowcraft Club Bohemians, and a warning that typhoid among a dozen local athletes follows over-long training.
- "Linneus" reports the tire-width ordinance amended from number of animals to size of axle, making it a dead letter; the Cycling Club's twelve-man run to Ballwin under Captain Sanders with Vice Consul Jordan on Undertaker and Son-of-a-Gun Hills; and G. Frohman's free city maps for the new road book.
- "Nostaw" records twenty-two Rambling Wheelmen over 1000 miles for the season (one or two near 4000), Andrew J. Steiger's machine reduced to atoms by two racing teams near Fairfield, and the club's first "smoker" with the Imperial Quartette.
- "Nitram" on the New York Philharmonic Club concert at Trenton that netted the Trenton Wheelmen's treasurer about $150, the new Mercer County Wheelmen, Geo. C. Pennell's appointment to the L. A. W. Membership Committee, and the Plainfield Bicycle Club's $2000 gymnasium.
- "The Stroller" answers "Utprosim" of the Referee over whether Winship or Myers led when Bert fell in the interclub road race, reports Randall nominated for the Chicago club presidency and Barrett against Van Sicklen for the captaincy, and notes Van Sicklen and Barrett will issue The Bearings on February 6th.
- "Cyclops" on the first political wrangle in the Peoria Bicycle Club's election, and the arrival of three wheelmen including the Rev. Mr. Odell, late president of the Aurora Bicycle Club, and Will McCune formerly of the Springfield Bicycle Co.
- "N. O. Toften" calls 1889 Buffalo's longest season, with ten club men over 4000 miles, a second athletic exhibition by the Buffalo Bicycle Club and its wrestler Di Lewis, a gymnasium planned by the Ramblers, and revenge over Rochester in the tandem race.
- "Argus, Jr." argues Article VII of the L. A. W. Constitution must be changed so National officers are elected by ballot of individual members through Division secretary-treasurers rather than by delegates armed with proxies; he also reports Henry Dietz of the Chesapeake Wheelmen climbing Windy Gales three times without a dismount.
- Full-page drawing signed "Fitz": Pat reads Mary Ann a letter from Tim in "Ameriky," who is working for a "Boysikle Mon, an ridin' an Agle," the vision above showing Tim astride a flying eagle.
- "Star" explains Mr. Petrie's one-sided pedal-rubber wear by a C. B. C. member whose heel swung outward, reports the club's theatre party honouring Will Marqua as minstrel end man, and asks how a League club split between two States would be represented.
- The Buffalo Courier's charge that the L. A. W. will not support the New York State Roads Improvement Association, with W. S. Bull's reply; Richard Webb of Holyoke seen in Troy; the San Francisco Bicycle Club's 1890 officers under Geo. J. Hobe; and Col. Albert A. Pope dividing $1200 among his Boston cycle employees.
- The Long Island Wheelmen fill the Criterion Theatre, Brooklyn, for the Gilbert Dramatic Association's "Old Love Letters" and "Pygmalion and Galatea" with Grace Gayler Clark and Harrie J. Stokum; plus balls and receptions by the Linden Club of Malden, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club and the Port Huron Wheelmen.
- By "Star": little Gottlieb Blitzenstrahl is carried off by a fur-clad dwarf to an icy palace of toys, falls in love with a nickel-plated boy's safety bicycle, and wakes on Christmas morning to candy, a pocket knife and a gilt-edged Bible instead.
- Standing letters column, carrying the editor's disclaimer that he is not responsible for opinions expressed; this week's letters turn on the Luscomb-Dunn contest for the League presidency and on road legislation.
- W. M. Brewster answers "Stroller," saying a personal business appointment in Chicago, not the political status of Chief Consul Davis, kept him from Mr. Randall's banquet to Tom Roe.
- E. J. Shriver of New York refuses to pledge his vote to Luscomb or Dunn and urges delegates to stay free for a compromise candidate — Emery, Brewster, Bull, Atwater or "hustler" Burley Ayres — to heal the canvass.
- "C. C." declares he will support James R. Dunn for the L. A. W. presidency, quoting "Marnola" of Louisiana: "Our votes from the State will be sent / To vote for Dunn for President."
- Member 23257 defends Mr. Dean of Danielsonville, Conn., against "Nostaw," listing Bridgeport's failure over selectmen's names, its bans on riding certain streets and a race course, and the verdict when an expressman crushed a wheelman's machine.
- William D. Kempton, Sec.-Treas. of the Ohio Division, answers W. T. Eastwood of Baltimore: premature road legislation acts like a boomerang because the public reads it as a few wheelmen taxing everyone else for their pleasure.
- New York Times interview with Chauncey B. Ripley on the Union County, N. J., system — 16-foot macadam beds of hand-laid trap rock, a twelve-ton steam roller, about $10,000 a mile raised on twenty-year 4½ per cent bonds — after a year of rains cut suburban New York roads to pieces.
- The Warwick Cycle Manufacturing Company's new machine: a combined loop-and-diamond removable frame in weldless steel tubing, ball-bearing head, rear hub and sprocket forged in one piece, a 2¼-inch front hub on the Warwick Perfection rim, and cranks adjustable from 5¼ to 6¾ inches.
- Edward G. Messing joins Gormully & Jeffery's Boston depot; C. E. Duryea, H. G. Rowe and S. H. Hazard incorporate the Rouse-Duryea Manufacturing Company at Peoria; the Sweeting Cycle Co. of Philadelphia orders 4000 'Rival' safeties from Warman & Hazlewood of Coventry; F. F. Ives takes charge of A. G. Spalding's Chicago bicycle department.
- In Ransom v. Talbott, Judge Fouke overrules the demurrer on December 17th, holding that a bicycle is a carriage under the Illinois law of the road; the victory is credited to the Illinois Division and to Edgar S. Barnes, Consul at Springfield.
- League headquarters at 12 Pearl Street, Boston, Room 27, with Abbot Bassett secretary; President Chas. H. Luscomb, Vice Presidents James R. Dunn and Sanford Lawton, Treasurer W. M. Brewster, and the standing committees on Membership, Improvement of Highways, Rights and Privileges, Rules and Regulations, Racing and Transportation.
- State-by-state roster of chief consuls, vice consuls and delegates from California to Wisconsin — New Hampshire and Wisconsin recording no election, Vermont none appointed — followed by the ex-officio members.
- President Charles H. Luscomb appoints Mr. George C. Arbuckle of Dallas Chief Consul of the Texas sub-Division.
- President C. H. Luscomb rules that under section 1, article II of the L. A. W. by-laws a proxy is legal if signed by the member giving it and voted by the assembly member named in the instrument, the former by-laws having been abrogated.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol suspends H. G. Kennedy of Denver, Col., from the race track pending investigation of his amateur standing, and warns amateurs not to compete with him.
- Chief Consul E. S. Hartwell of Denver asks for a local consul in every Colorado town, appoints Jas. W. Neill at Leadville and O. H. Cheeney at Monte Vista, and names the Monte Vista hotel official at $2.50 a day to L. A. W. members.
- Joseph R. Wilson, Jr., C. C. of Tennessee, corrects the consular appointments published December 13th — it should read Wm. O. Horner, not Homer, and A. J. Burkhardt, not Bukhardt.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol announces that the L. A. W. Racing Board will meet at the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, on January 11th, 1890, at nine o'clock.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm creates a Highways Improvement Committee of Prof. H. C. Penn of Columbia as chairman, H. G. Wolzendorf of St. Louis and T. H. McNeil of Kansas City, and asks consuls to get the local press to publish its road improvement articles.
- Robt. Holm appoints League hotels at Carthage (Harrington House), Sedalia (Sichers Hotel), McAllister Springs (Hoffman House) and Clarksville (Carroll House), all at $1.50 a day to L. A. W. members.
- List No. 6: Chief Consul M. A. High appoints local consuls at East Palestine, Gilboa, Ironton and Ottawa, and League hotels at Delphos, Dupont, East Palestine, Gilboa, Hamlet, Ironton, Ottawa and Van Wert with their L. A. W. rates.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints Herbert W. Foltz of Joliet and Julius P. Schuh of Cairo as the Division's two additional Representatives, and asks local consuls to secure a League hotel in each town.
- List 221 — 39 names bringing the League to 12,135 — with applicants from the Peoria Bi. Club, Portland Wheel Club, Genesee Bi. Club, Business Men's Cycle Club, Bergen and Englewood Wheelmen, Century Wheelmen and The Rovers.