L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 27, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A run of short reader-contributed practical tips and squibs, including an emergency pedal-shaft repair, graphite versus oil for chain links, vaseline as a lubricant, a horse-shoe magnet for replacing bearing balls, and a railroad baggage tag to record a bicycle's attachments.
- Sterling Elliott's editorial leader argues the bicycle's superiority over the horse, carriage, streetcar, and walking for summer travel, urging readers to ask their non-subscriber friends 'what about it?'
- An editorial praising the Local Consul as the most important League official, the man on the ground who knows his community's roads and recruits and retains members.
- A Good Roads editorial explaining why wheelmen work for highway improvement as citizens, while conceding that building cycle paths is sometimes the proper first step.
- An essay on the unreliability of country guide-boards for touring cyclists, citing a northern New Jersey board misprinted '78 miles' for '7/8 mile,' and recommending a good map over local guesses.
- A trade listing acknowledging the season's bicycle, sundry, saddle, and tire catalogues, naming makers such as Gormully & Jeffery (Rambler), Pope (Columbia), Overman (Victor), and Western Wheel Works (Crescent).
- Charles H. Welch of Hyattsville, Md., arrested for riding on the sidewalk past an impassable stretch of road, is acquitted after local consul J. C. Ellis brings witnesses, the justice ruling that impassable roads justify use of the sidewalk.
- An extended letter from Chas. E. Duryea on riding position, arguing that handle-bars should be set so the arms hang naturally and adjust in an arc parallel to the shoulders, and that no marketed cycle yet fits the rider in all positions.
- A photographic feature on a prize picture by amateur C. Oscar Hennion of Brooklyn, used to discuss the importance of selecting interesting subjects rather than commonplace ones.
- Good Roads notes on a New York highway bill funding county roads entirely by the State, General Roy Stone's paper to the Engineer's Club of Philadelphia, and Mayor Taylor of Bridgeport's call for street commissioners to inspect roads by bicycle.
- A historical feature tracing English safety bicycles from the Devon and Swing Frame to Hillman's Kangaroo of 1883, the Racoon, and the Geared Ordinary and Bantam, detailing George Smith's record-breaking 100-mile Kangaroo race of 1884.
- The Good Roads department leads with Arthur Kirk's proposal for a Pennsylvania grid of new military highways forty miles apart, plus 'Decay Follows Neglect' on Columbus, Ohio's ruined streets and 'Working of Permissive Laws' on the limits of optional road legislation.
- The League of American Wheelmen official section listing 1897-98 officers (President Isaac B. Potter, Secretary Abbot Bassett), standing committees, the state-by-state roster of Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers, and L.A.W. supplies for sale.
- A consolidated L.A.W. official report giving renewals by state, National Committee appointments by President Potter, Abbot Bassett's 'New Numbers' note on renumbering the membership, and division news from New York, Milwaukee, Indiana, Maryland, and Ohio (which grew to 3,090 members).
- Racing Board chairman Albert Mott announces the 1898 handicappers (including R. F. Kelsey of Hartford and Geo. L. McCarthy of New York) and a sanction granted to the Penn Wheelmen of Reading for June 10, alongside a stolen-wheel notice.
- The long state-by-state list of new membership applications published under Article III of the constitution, spanning Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other divisions across several pages.
- Editorial replies to members on photographic prints, lamp oils, and road conditions around Salt Lake City, including a German-language note on the Apothecaries' Bicycle Club and a query from a Chicago tire repairman.