L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 27, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Reprints the text of a proposed Massachusetts law fining anyone who drives animals or vehicles onto a side-path built for bicyclists, or who scatters glass, tacks or nails on a cycle-path.
- Editor Sterling Elliott's signed leader argues the National L.A.W. should never sanction Sunday racing as a body, yet should not impose the Eastern majority's sentiment on Western divisions where local option might allow it, ahead of the St. Louis Assembly.
- An editorial predicts ever-widening bicycle use until wheels are ridden until worn out rather than discarded for improvements, making cycling affordable to nearly everyone.
- Editorial note defends Luther H. Porter's history-of-the-cycle series running in the Bulletin as carefully researched, contrasting it with the garbled "histories" padded out with shears and paste-pot in other papers.
- Reports heavy demand for the 38-by-24-inch four-color L.A.W. Calendar, priced 25 cents to members and orderable from the "Calendar Editor."
- Chief Consul George L. Cooke of Rhode Island explains his proposed amendment to Article VI to have the President and Vice-Presidents chosen by the membership-at-large rather than the National Assembly.
- J. G. Linsley of Oswego, N.Y. objects to restricting junior membership to relatives of existing members, urging the League to enroll any youth of good character to draw whole families into the cause.
- Signed "A Massachusetts Member," this argues against abolishing the League Club fee, citing the Massachusetts fight in which forty fake clubs were formed to seize Board of Officers representation after the Independents' election win.
- A humorous essay on the social and commercial doors that an L.A.W. membership ticket opens for the traveling wheelman, from suspicious grocers to Queen Victoria's parlor.
- Luther H. Porter's history installment credits Kirkpatrick Macmillan, the Dumfriesshire blacksmith, with the first practical pedal-driven machine (c.1838), and describes the imitations by McCartney, Thomas McCall and Gavin Dalzell.
- Surveys conflicting opinion on funding cycle side-paths, quoting the Wisconsin C.R.C.'s opposition, the New York State Board's resolution against a bicycle tax, Frank Van Doorn of Rochester's toll-path scheme, and Louis N. Kenton of Philadelphia.
- A paper by J. H. Jayne read at the Marshalltown, Iowa, Farmers' Institute attacks the labor-tax road system, comparing it to letting untrained taxpayers take turns teaching school and calling the whole arrangement a cancer.
- An essay by member No. 119,026 argues that durable macadam depends on hard stone with carbonate of lime as a cementing agent, condemns clay-and-sand binding, and laments that Essex County, N.J., lacks a single well-built road.
- The L.A.W. official pages list the 1897-98 officers (President Isaac B. Potter, Secretary Abbot Bassett) and standing committees, announce the National Assembly opening Feb. 9 at the Southern Hotel, St. Louis, and detail the certificate-plan railroad fares.
- Consolidated state-division reports including the Wisconsin annual meeting (Green Bay '98 State Meet, anti-Sunday-racing instruction), Ohio's seventeenth annual board meeting at Cleveland, and the Iowa, Indiana, Maryland, Washington, Kentucky, New Jersey and New York divisions, with redistricting lists and membership tallies.
- Chairman Albert Mott's notices on the Madison Square Garden six-day race case and Charles W. Ashinger's tracks, A. G. Batchelder's handicapper conflict with the American Cycle Racing Association, the suspensions of Cass O. Clark and Edward Sandison, and riders transferred to the professional class.
- The state-by-state list of new membership applications received up to the Monday preceding publication, printed under Article III of the Constitution to allow members to protest objectionable applicants.
- Reprinted from the Pittsburg Leader, this answers Mercer County farmers conspiring to dismiss bicycle-riding hired men, arguing the wheel is the first real substitute for urban attractions and a cure for keeping boys on the farm.
- The reader-query department answers numbered members on League renumbering, the Touring Club de France representative F. S. Hesseltine, removing tire cement with naphtha, and cycling muscle development.