L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 24, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Readers' letters opening with Tom Wallace, Jr.'s improvised handkerchief-and-rubber tire repair near Shelbyville, Ky., and a member's call to suppress police, ambulance and fire-alarm gongs on bicycles.
- A Philadelphia member protests the daily deluging of Broad Street and other thoroughfares, blaming the slimy pavements for a tandem fall and urging the city's 5,000 L.A.W. members to organize against it.
- President Sterling Elliott withdraws his endorsement of the American Wheelmen's Protective Association over unjust theft-claim refusals under 'clause 5,' directing future claimants to Chicago attorneys.
- Editorial arguing that heavy traffic carts unfairly wreck pavements laid for pleasure vehicles, and that draymen should be kept off boulevards reserved for bicycles and light carriages.
- Welcomes back to the League two of its 1880 Newport founders, Kirk Munroe of the New York Club (club No. 1) and Hugh L. Willoughby, who organized the Saratoga Bicycle Club and served as first treasurer.
- Sterling Elliott details the L.A.W. Bulletin's 1897 membership-recruiting prize competition, open to all comers, headed by at least two pianos, billiard tables, bicycles, tandems, watches and cameras.
- Reports Justice Werner of Rochester, N.Y. sustaining a demurrer in Anna Lechner's suit against Newark over a sidewalk collision with Wm. Fahy, ruling the bicycle, like a baby-carriage, has a sphere of its own.
- C. C. Caldwell, alias H. E. Carter, who borrowed money from L.A.W. members through the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys by feigning membership, is convicted at Cumberland, Md. of obtaining money under false pretenses.
- A run of correspondence on amateur photography and cycling, including H. A. Bristol of Saratoga proposing an 'L.A.W. Camera Club,' John H. Clapham on photography as a side line, and the Fostoria, Ohio club's Thanksgiving photographic exhibition.
- J. W. Wuppermann of New York describes touring the excellent Toronto-to-Kingston roads, the Thousand Islands stretch and hilly Montreal, noting Canadian riders keep right in meeting and use no bells or lanterns.
- A. H. Stubbs, M.D. endorses a slightly forward-inclined riding position over the over-erect or hump-backed 'scorcher' crouch, detailing the spinal and pelvic injuries the latter causes and recommending adjustable bars and a forward-L seat-post.
- Illustrated account, from photographs by California member C. J. Atwater, of the 125-horsepower convict-run plant at Folsom shipping some 350 tons of crushed road rock daily at twenty-five cents per ton.
- Lead Good Roads article urging wheelmen to hold successful 1896 election candidates to their highway-improvement pledges, alongside a member's theory on why farmers object to road taxes.
- Reports a new Worcester society formed to secure good roads, with local consul Lincoln Holland enrolling nearly 1,000 members in a week's canvass and aldermanic candidates 'listening to the noise of the new movement.'
- League headquarters roster of 1896-97 officers, standing committees and the state-by-state Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers, headed by President Sterling Elliott and Secretary Abbot Bassett at 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- Lists riders suspended for unsanctioned racing (chiefly at Ottawa, O. and Owosso, Mich.), those declared professionals by clause, the Santa Monica and Los Angeles tracks denied sanction, and sanctions granted to Los Angeles and El Paso clubs.
- Chairman H. C. Wallace presents proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Division Constitution and By-Laws governing officers, representatives, elections, League clubs and committee duties.
- Secretary W. Sheldon Bull certifies the mail-vote electing Isaac B. Potter Chief Consul, Wm. E. Underhill Vice-Consul and Bull himself Secretary-Treasurer, with district-by-district representative tallies.
- Consolidated official notices from the Iowa, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Kentucky, New Jersey, Colorado, Washington, Rhode Island and Connecticut Divisions, including stolen-bicycle rewards, the Armstrong Baggage Law circular, and the removal of a New Jersey local consul.
- Reminder that all National Assembly delegates must be elected in December, with a table of each division's 1896 quota (Pennsylvania 24, Massachusetts 23, New York 5) against 1895.
- Renewal List No. 15 and the long state-by-state roster of new membership applications received up to November 13, 1896, totaling 390 (national membership 71,646).
- Editorial replies to numbered members on courtesy, crank length and rear-sprocket choice, League hotel rates, and application statistics, closing with the 'Budviser' inn anecdote.