L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 27, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Editor Sterling Elliott's leading editorial whimsically proposes putting the L. A. W. Racing Board in charge of regulating the weather so that cycling can become the perfect pastime; the page also carries the journal masthead and circulation figures (104,500 printed).
- Reviews the agitation for separate cycle side-paths, quoting Niagara County Side-path Commissioner Chas. T. Raymond and noting a new side-path law taking effect in Albany County, N. Y.
- A correspondence feature airing members' debate over whether the L. A. W. should abandon racing and even good-roads work to focus on side-paths, quoting member No. 73,337, the Lockport Democrat, and dissenting voices.
- A feature collecting cyclists' ingenious wayside repairs of punctures and broken frames, with signed accounts from Madison Sebree (Cincinnati), H. Garvin (Erie), E. J. Logue Jr. (Philadelphia) and others; continues across pages 9-10.
- Part III of Prof. R. C. Carpenter of Cornell University's technical series on bicycle efficiency, analyzing tire friction, wind resistance, chainless versus chain wheels, and the effects of speed and grades; continues to page 12.
- Cites D. F. Magee in the Lancaster Examiner that over $200,000 a year is wasted on worthless mud-road repairs in Lancaster County, Pa., with a similar complaint from Ohio member No. 90,957 on poor road supervisors.
- A subscription notice explaining why the L. A. W. Bulletin stops at expiration and urging members to renew at least a week ahead through the secretary.
- Practical advice for members planning summer tours, prompted by an inquiry from No. 123,431, on moderate daily mileage, route planning, and the importance of good roads, inns and an efficient brake; continues to page 16.
- Reprinted from the Scottish Cyclist, warns cycling tourists of French customs rules after an English traveler was fined 500 francs for carrying a box of matches into that match-monopoly country.
- Announces winners of the previous ad-criticism contest (Jas. McC. Trippe of Baltimore, H. W. Chapin of Syracuse, Martin Bailey of New York) and sets the rules and $5/$3/$2 prizes for critiquing this issue's advertisements.
- Foreign cycling news drawn largely from the Scottish Cyclist: free inflating stations spreading across the United Kingdom, France's reduced cycle tax, a round-the-world rider jailed in Spain, and the drugging-and-robbery of a cyclist near Aberdeen; continues to page 20.
- An English dealer, writing in the Rambler, recounts the annoyances and amusing experiences of hiring out bicycles, from customers using false names to swapped saddles and tires.
- Reports the Pennsylvania Superior Court's decision striking down Erie's $1.00-per-bicycle ordinance as an illegal revenue tax, a case taken up by the officers of the Pennsylvania Division.
- An essay celebrating the bicycle's worldwide universality, declaring it everybody's friend and the universal vehicle, popular in every important city except Venice.
- The Good Roads department gathers short articles on highway improvement: 'Cinders for Paths and Roads,' 'Economy of Wide Tires' (the New Jersey Wide-Tire bill before Gov. Voorhees), 'State-Aid in Connecticut,' and 'An Evenly-Distributed Burden' quoting General Stone on state-aid in Maine and New York.
- Editor Abbot Bassett's official department lists L. A. W. officers and committees (President Isaac B. Potter, Racing Board chairman Albert Mott) and a state-by-state roster of division Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers, with membership application and renewal blanks.
- Renewal List No. 17 (1,828 renewals, April 25-30) and renewal-season instructions, followed by division news and recruiting drives from Maryland (Conway W. Sams' prize competition), Illinois, Rhode Island, Colorado, Ohio and Wisconsin (M. C. Rotier's call for a thousand volunteers); continues to page 27.
- Chairman Albert Mott's Racing Board notices: appointed referees, approved track and pacemaker contracts (National Cycledrome Co. with Earl Kiser, John S. Johnson and others), registered racing men (Nat and Tom Butler, Arthur Gardiner), national circuit dates and sanctions granted.
- The constitutional list of new membership applications received, arranged state by state from Illinois and Massachusetts through New York, Pennsylvania and beyond; continues across pages 29-30.
- The Bulletin answers members' questions (Nos. 123,053 and 182,995 among others, on League repair-shops and recruiting), alongside the dialect serial comic 'Deer Uncle Bulatin' recounting a boys' runaway adventure with a bull and a policeman.