L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 24, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Reader letters on cycling topics, including a Kansas City member boycotting the Pennsylvania Railroad over its bicycle freight charge, remedies for rust stains, W. B. Simpson's six-point defense of the leaning 'scorcher' posture, methods of assisting riders up hills, and Jules Doux of Utica praising local cycle paths.
- A Halifax member warns tourists to Nova Scotia to carry their L.A.W. tickets to avoid a $30 wheel deposit and to remember that the rule of the road in Canada is to keep left.
- Editor Sterling Elliott's leader argues that, unlike partisan political papers, the L.A.W. Bulletin must touch many subjects to hold its sixty thousand readers of every social and political stripe united on the common ground of road improvement and wheelmen's rights.
- A feature listing the world's one-mile cycling records as of May 1, naming W. W. Hamilton, John S. Johnson, Otto Zeigler and W. C. Sanger across professional and amateur, paced and unpaced categories at Coronado, Louisville and Denver.
- The League's information department offers members printed guide-board statutes, road and sidepath laws (including the New York Armstrong Bill and the Massachusetts road law), and touring data, directing route inquiries to state division road books.
- An account of I. R. Bettis's mandamus suit against the Missouri Pacific Railroad, quoting the legal brief by Rowell & Ferriss and J. H. Lumbalen of St. Louis arguing that a bicycle is personal baggage the carrier must transport without extra charge.
- President Sterling Elliott proposes furnishing members winged-wheel emblems as decalcomania transfers for bicycle frames, mailable for about four cents each, and asks for expressions of interest at the L.A.W. Road Department; accompanied by a note on bicycle lamps in baggage cars.
- Reprints the resolutions of the 20,000 wheelmen of Minneapolis to organize and elect city council and park board members who appreciate good roads and streets.
- George Appleton of Providence, R.I., relates a humorous sketch of running down a battered straw hat on a country road, only to hit a hidden boulder and tangle with a 'special constable' and three mischievous boys.
- The full day-by-day schedule for the week of the National L.A.W. Meet beginning August 10 at Louisville, Ky., listing runs, smokers, the uniformed-club parade under Newton G. Crawford, watermelon feast, and races at Fountain Ferry track.
- Promotes a side trip from the Louisville Meet to Mammoth Cave, describing Echo River, the Giant's Coffin and the cavern domes, and noting a special Louisville & Nashville Railroad rate of $9.00 for League members.
- Detailed touring routes to the Louisville Meet from Chicago, Cincinnati/Maysville, Nashville, Cairo and the National pike, naming towns along each and noting the Indiana division's organized tour from Indianapolis.
- A Wilmington member condemns Delaware's 'farming out' road-repair system run by farmer commissioners with road scrapers, and urges Delaware League members to recruit and vote out road officials hostile to wheelmen.
- Touring-clothing advice from Beecher Ogden of Scranton and other correspondents (F. W. Goette of Macon, No. 8,502), recommending sweaters, knickerbockers, Scotch cheviots and old gray League cloth, and how to pack a minimal kit on the wheel.
- An interview with Gen. Roy Stone of the Government Road Department predicting that flat-steel 'steel highways' carrying electric horseless carriages, powered cheaply by harnessed water power, will become the ultimate solution for great thoroughfares between cities such as New York and Washington.
- A satirical editorial answering a Waterbury wagon-maker's objections to Connecticut's new wide-tire act, defending the law as a reform that will keep streets in good condition despite truckmen's and farmers' complaints.
- Lists the 1896-97 League officers (President Sterling Elliott, Secretary Abbot Bassett, Treasurer E. S. Hartwell), standing committees including the Racing Board, and the chief consuls and secretary-treasurers of every state division, with membership-application and renewal blanks.
- Racing Board notices: removal of H. B. Storm's suspension, the 1896 world's championships set for Copenhagen, a long list of riders transferred to the professional class (many from Little Rock, Ark., and Fort Russell, Wyo.), numerous suspensions for unsanctioned and Sunday races, and sanctions granted.
- Reports of state division business, including the Wisconsin Annual Summer Meet at Appleton (M. C. Rotier's report and Good Roads work via newspapers and farmers' institutes), the Iowa Division annual meeting at Cedar Rapids, and Pennsylvania, Nebraska, New York and Colorado division notices.
- The state-by-state list of applications for membership received under Article III of the constitution, running through Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and the rest, plus lists of new League clubs.
- The department answering members' questions on hotel reductions, road books and routes, chain treatment, repair-shop discounts, L.A.W. hotels and Canadian customs, and listing touring-route requests from members such as A. B. Price of Newark and Robert J. Ringwolt of Philadelphia.