Vol 26, No 1
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L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads 26, no. 1 (1897). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-bulletin-and-good-roads/vol26-1/
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Articles in this issue
- Tom Wallace, Jr., of Shelbyville, Ky., on dressing neatly for hotels and travel, and on the sweater versus the negligee shirt.
- A short notice from Shelbyville, Ky., asking why Ohio and Michigan charge for checking a bicycle as baggage across their state line.
- J. C. Vining of Denver, Col., describes a leather strap with a rubber-covered canvas pad that mends a punctured tire without a full deflation, illustrated.
- A Henderson, Ky., correspondent asks whether a proposed town ordinance against riding with ram's-horn bars could hold; the editors answer.
- A method of clamping a bent tube between three grooved wooden blocks in a vice, illustrated.
- The Lloyd Wheelmen, a new New York L. A. W. club made up of officers and employees of the Lloyd Plate Glass Insurance Company.
- How to draw a crank key with a vice, a copper cent and a wrench, illustrated.
- Verse, author not printed: a mock toast to the Queen's jubilee and England's ships and lords, turned on the Fourth of July.
- Editorial reply to a reader who asked for pictures of the editor and poets, which the paper declines on grounds of modesty and journalistic ethics.
- Sterling Elliott recalls his time as chief consul of Massachusetts, opposing a bill to compel bicycle lamps, and sets out the paper's advertising and editorial independence and its paid circulation.
- Verse, author not printed: a soda fountain where the poet met his fate, for five cents' worth of plain phosphate.
- Editorial on a Buffalo temperance paper, the Battle for Truth, Protection and Temperance, that reprinted matter from the L. A. W. Bulletin without credit; quotes Romans ii. 21 and Matthew vii. 12.
- Editorial marking the start of the new volume, thanking readers and advertisers and noting the paper's standing with the League of American Wheelmen.
- Verse, author not printed, under a drawing of a woman on a bicycle: women are not in decline, since they work at the polls and are getting in line.
- Editorial proposing three cheers and a tiger for everybody, and for the League of American Wheelmen in particular, on Independence Day.
- Verse, author not printed: Mary's bright new bicycle lamp goes out whenever she rides, but a bright young beau cycling at her side lights the way.
- Editorial dividing cyclists between those who ride the crowded city boulevards to be seen and those who seek quiet rural roads.
- Editorial urging readers to follow the Good Roads series of letters from prominent men on road-building by convict labour.
- Comment on daily papers printing a chair turned face down as a bicycle rack, and the observation that only some chairs suit some bicycles.
- A careful sidewalk rider meets a child running from behind a hedge; both are seriously injured, and wheelmen are warned to remember it.
- Answers a question on whether a member's wife profits from League membership: the advantages go to members only, and a wife's own bulletin would cost $1.75 a year.
- Three-year-old Clara Elizabeth Haigh of Chicago wanders from a drug store, and fifty cyclers search until they find her distracted father, Mr. Haigh.
- Verse by Grace Duffie Boylan on a lost child, the town bellman's cry, and a wheelman who rides down the child to bring it home.
- Lieut. James A. Moss of Fort Missoula, Montana, applies for League membership while a company of U.S. soldiers rides bicycles from Helena to St. Louis on War Department orders.
- A New York village reports its cobble-stone streets now measure about a quarter of a mile, and the editors comment on Mr. Waring's street cleaning.
- Verse, author not printed: a teakettle sings only when filled with water, but a man is not a teakettle.
- Quotes the Albion (N.Y.) Free Lance on how a beginner who thinks of running into things runs into them, and how mind influences matter.
- Argues that a town is liable for damage from loose stones left in the street, and that picking up stones is the cheapest road improvement; opinion of No. 147,453.
- No. 87,770 suggests that League tourists, especially those going abroad, keep diaries for the officers to compile into a book for next year's tourists.
- Whether boiling a hardened chain in tallow draws its temper.
- Verse by Nixon Waterman, the associate editor: a dull, dark day when you are away, a bright one when you are near, skies in your eyes and a smile that is shine and cheer.
- The paper will number the competitors each week so that each one's prize stage shows; the Bulletin prize catalogue is available for a stamp.
- Verse, signed by an interested party: the horse would enjoy work if the roads were as they ought to be, but muddy wheels are worst of all.
- Editorial on the guarantee a reliable maker gives with a bicycle, illustrated by four returns in one mail: a bicycle that had hit a stone wall, worn tires, a cyclometer and a broken L. A. W. fountain pen.
- Verse on tobacco: the speaker cannot see how a reasonable man chews or smokes, though he thanks the Lord that the weed was sent to others.
- Editorial on state laws requiring railroads to carry bicycles free, and on the case for station storage for commuters' wheels, reprinted from Locomotive Engineering.
- Short verse, author not printed, on the doctor's bill that follows a man's sickness.
- Legal article, reprinted from Law Notes, on how courts have treated the bicycle as a carriage on the highway (Taylor v. Goodwin, Matter of Wright, State v. Yopp, Moses v. Pittsburgh), continued on page 15.
- Verse, author not printed: the number of peas and the size of ministers' salaries cannot be judged from outside.
- Short joke, sent in by a friend: a dentist asks a bicyclist how many teeth he has, and he answers eight in the rear and nineteen in front.
- How to make a bicycle stand from a soap box with its bottom left out, with a sketch and a note on using the box for small parts.
- The paper's prize list for membership competitors, from a first prize of a Henry F. Miller upright piano ($600) through watches, cameras and the rolled-gold Good Roads pins; the page also gives the week's new names and totals.
- Weekly table of the leading membership competitors, each with name, residence and number of applicants, headed by J. A. S. Heath of Philadelphia with 1,536.
- Introduction to a series on what the State officers have accomplished and the methods they employed, with photographs of the chief consuls.
- Chief Consul E. Kostomlatsky on the 1896 Iowa bicycle bill, defeated in the Senate by the League's remonstrance; over 150 Local Consuls and 75 League hotels in the State.
- Chief Consul John W. Clendening on a free-renewal offer for members who bring in two new members, lists sent to Local Consuls, and a bicycle baggage bill planned for the Legislature.
- A member touring from a hotel designated an L. A. W. house receives a reply from the hotel that it does not know what that means, though it is well kept.
- Editorial welcoming the divorce of millinery openings from places of public amusement, following Chicago and Boston, with the hope of storing flower-garden hats.
- Miss Lillie P. Stagner, eighteen, of McLean County, Ill., takes the first prize for an essay on roads in a Good Roads League competition.
- Verse by Joe Lincoln: a little old house at the bend where the road has its end, its blackberries on the vine, roof-tree racked and windows cracked, and the playmates, brother and sister of old and Father at the gate.
- Allan Forman, editor of The Journalist (New York), asks for accounts of the bicycle as a tool of newspaper work, to be paid for at up to a thousand words.
- Members write that Hudson River steamboats charge for wheels, and ask why the Armstrong law does not cover water transport; the editors say it applied only to railroads.
- Letter from H. B. Donly, secretary of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, on the sources of road information for Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime and prairie provinces.
- Resolution of the Camden, N.J., Methodist Preachers' Meeting endorsing the League's stand against Sunday racing and sports on bicycles.
- Three competition drawings for the L. A. W. $100 poster prize, by W. Lee Jukes of Philadelphia, Ben V. Walter of Omaha and I. N. Sherman of Middletown, Conn.; all three received honourable mention at the Albany assembly.
- A short piece on bicyclists who ride without company and so prejudice the pastime, against the sociability of carriage, boat and car parties.
- Amateur photographs and their makers: D. M. Farnsworth of Michigan City, Ind.; Thos. R. Hartley of Philadelphia on Lake Worth's wheel paths in Florida; Wm. A. Mangle of Brooklyn; Edith Howell of Baltimore; Frank A. Joseph of Malden, Mass.; George F. Hoag of Sing Sing; a picture of Merrick Road.
- The League's National Committee on Highway Improvement offers $125 in prizes, from $50 down to $5, for photographs of bad country roads; pictures to Otto Dorner of Milwaukee, chairman.
- Verse by Nixon Waterman in praise of a quiet country place off the railroad, with a stanza to the city man who should come up and stay.
- Judge Bond's Missouri Court of Appeals ruling that bicycles are not baggage, the Trunk Line Association's concession to wheelmen, and the call for special legislation; reprinted from the St. Louis Republic.
- A four-line verse on a courtship that ends with the glove given and then the mitten.
- A column of short unheaded queries and paragraphs: best routes asked by Rev. W. L. McDowell of Baltimore, Roger G. Perkins of Schenectady, C. L. Hulse of Middletown, N. Y., and H. A. Sholl of Burlington, N. J.; a seal-wax suggestion from D. H. P. of Brooklyn; a verse; a question on a deaf and dumb citizen of Constantinople.
- Verse, signed No. 137,299, on the fence-rails, mud-holes and broken buggies of country roads, and the lot of the farm youth who stay on the plough.
- The use of convict labour on the public roads, discussed in letters from Joseph F. Scott (Massachusetts Reformatory), W. M. F. Round (Prison Association of New York) and Warren F. Spalding (Boston).
- Official notice of cancelled repair-shop contracts: the Brooklyn Cycle Co.'s stores at Brooklyn, and several Catskill and Long Island hotel contracts; the Ballard House at Cooperstown renamed the Park Hotel.
- Proposed amendments to the Division constitution and by-laws, including the membership figures in Article III, signed H. C. Wallace, Chairman of the Rules and Regulations Committee, at Scranton, June 22, 1897.
- A separate amendment notice for the Division's semi-annual meeting at Philadelphia on August 3, 1897, listing changes to Articles I, IV, V, VI and the By-Laws, signed Charles A. Mertens at Erie, June 23, 1897.
- Half-year report: Michigan has risen from 17th to 10th place among the States, the membership is 1,600 against a 2,500 target, and the July state meet at Grand Rapids is announced; signed Edward N. Hines and Leo A. Caro.
- A call for Ohio members to make a special effort to raise the Division into fourth place on the Fourth of July; signed William D. Kempton, Chief Consul, June 23, 1897.
- Charles L. Chandler of Denver appointed assistant secretary-treasurer; the Colorado State Meet awarded to the Rover Wheel and Athletic Club of Pueblo for July 5; signed Charles Wilmott Dawson, Chief Consul.
- The programme of the 1897 national meet in Philadelphia from August 4: registration, runs to Fairmount Park, the Lancaster Pike and Wissahickon, the Delaware steamboat excursion, the Willow Grove races and the Atlantic City run; Thomas Hare, chairman of the Executive Committee.
- The schedule of accepted dates for the Wisconsin State Circuit race meetings from Monroe on July 14 to Sheboygan and Racine in September; signed J. R. Jones, Jr., chairman of the State Racing Board, Racine.
- A correction asking members to erase the Puncturoid Manufacturing Co., 482 Boylston Street, from the list of Boston repair shops on page 36, the insertion having been unauthorised; signed J. E. Tippett, Chief Consul, June 24, 1897.
- The Division adopts the honour certificate and honour medal plan, with its conditions for new members and the dates of issue; signed G. W. Grandy, Secretary-Treasurer, Burlington.
- Isaac B. Potter reports a letter from President Orr of the Canadian Wheelmen's Association: the L. A. W. bond stands as guarantor for members' dealings with the Canadian customs.
- The 1897 Road Book of the Maryland Division is ready, for members to call for at the Baltimore office of Robert H. Carr, Jr., or from the local consuls, with out-of-town copies sent free; signed Conway W. Sams, Chief Consul.
- A signed notice on the St. Louis bicycle tax: the writer denies the rumour that he instigated the ordinance, says it has cost the Division over 600 applications and 500 renewals, and points to his recorded vote against the measure in the Missouri Division Board. Printed head: 1,752-MISSOURI DIVISION.-2,500.
- Under the head '$25.00 REWARD': notices of stolen wheels in New York and Rochester, among them E. S. Bartlett's Rochester tandem, Paul Rie's Niagara, Hubert S. Brown's Cleveland, Albert Fox's Andrae and a Madison Avenue machine, each with a reward.
- Under the head '$25.00 REWARD': a stolen Roslindale safety, number 1, taken on 21 June, with a reward for its return; Victor Muller, L. A. W. No. 141,056.
- A condensed report of the semi-annual meeting of the New York Division Board at Saratoga, June 21, 1897: committee reports, resolutions on George R. Bidwell's appointment as Collector of the Port of New York, a ballot amendment, and the by-laws and committee business that run on to page 26.
- The mid-summer meet at Nantasket on 17 July: the water-chute, toboggan and boat arrangements, a baseball game, a coasting match and the Boston and Nantasket runs; signed A. D. Peck, Secretary-Treasurer.
- Baltimore, June 28, 1897: the tandem two-mile professional championship is assigned to the Penn Wheelmen of Reading, Pa., for their meet of 10 August; a handicap by Herbert A. Drachman; and the names of riders and officials suspended, reinstated or transferred, with rulings on the Overholt and Pullman tracks.
- Short answers to readers' questions: the League colours, the Bible's 'tires', the law on drivers who refuse to turn out, the Big Dipper, and a Chicago female pawnbroker; with a cartoon of a laundress captioned 'Wringing the Changes'.
- Verse on how pawnshops would thrive if wheels were thickly sown, since wheels will not stand a loan.
- A dialect letter headed 'Deer Uncle Bulatin', from Sandy: Pa is thrown in the street and the Kole Man's cart pitches him over; the cat Jim; with cartoons.