L. A. W. Bulletin and Good Roads, Vol 27, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Waldo W. Stevens of Amherst, Mass., reports on bicycling in Bermuda after a recent visit, noting the $2.40 import duty, the law requiring lights after sunset, hilly country roads, and good agencies at Hamilton.
- A good-roads object lesson built around a photograph by Dale S. Carpenter of Cohoes, N.Y., of a horse that died in harness, arguing that bad roads are the slow poison killing scores of draft animals.
- The editorial leader extols the League of American Wheelmen's mission to secure good roads, contrasting the stagnation of a mud-imprisoned community with the prosperity of one blessed with smooth highways.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett, drawing on the Racing Board chairman's report and fifteen years as a race judge, argues that unsatisfactory judging stems from judges standing too near the track, and recommends placing them in the grandstand and making scorers of officials.
- An essay on how the bicycle, by lengthening a man's reach, has lessened distances and pushed the well-to-do and working classes alike toward suburban and country homes away from the crowded city.
- A summary of an English correspondent's experiments on power loss in bicycle chains across varied gears, sprocket sizes, tensions, and conditions of dirt and wear, concluding that loss on a well-kept chain is not serious.
- Reprinted from the New York Sun, a light piece celebrating the healthful flush brought on by fresh air and exercise awheel, distinguishing it from the supposed deformities of the 'bicycle face' and 'ostrich neck.'
- The tenth installment of the cycle-history series traces the high ordinary from 1875 to 1886, covering the 7-foot Ariel, Singer's Challenge, Stanley heads, adjustable ball bearings, tangent spokes, and Sparrow's 1879 ladies' wheel, ending as the low safeties arrived.
- A New York member, himself secretary of a side-path association, writes against cinder side-paths in general, complaining of inconsistent toll signs and labels and urging members instead to press for the good-roads bills this winter.
- The president of the Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Road Co. of Pennsylvania responds to a picture published Jan. 21st, defending his fifty-six-mile sand-soiled toll road and pledging cooperation with the L.A.W. to give wheelmen the best road possible.
- Notes the League membership applications of John M. Stahl, editor of the Farmer's Call and secretary of the Farmers' National Congress, and W. Holt Apgar, a Trenton, N.J., attorney prominent in the Royal Arcanum and Masons.
- A trade department noting a wanted-to-buy notice for two light tandems, the Rex Cycle Co.'s 'King Klondike' two-step by George Maywood Schleiffarth, and Frank Fowler's forthcoming book on his 'One-Profit' bicycle.
- Reports the tests of Prof. Waters of the Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station at Columbia, showing six-inch wagon tires far easier of draft than narrow ones on macadam, gravel, dirt, sod, and clay roads, and an aid to compacting road surfaces.
- A good-roads essay quoting Macaulay on the inadequacy of parish road-repair in old England to argue that building and maintaining modern through highways requires resources only the States can furnish.
- An Orange County, N.Y., farmer's letter to a Goshen paper favors bonding the county $200,000 for road improvement under last year's state act, while C. E. Ashburne, Jr., in the Louisville Courier-Journal illustrates the runaway cost of hauling over Kentucky dirt roads.
- A full report of the National Assembly at St. Louis, Feb. 8-11, 1898, including the Good Roads Day convention and banquet under Otto Dorner, the re-election of President Isaac B. Potter over Geo. D. Gideon, and constitutional amendments on junior membership, Sunday racing, and a Frank G. Lenz indemnity resolution.
- President Isaac B. Potter announces the National Racing Board members for 1898-9: Albert Mott of Baltimore, A. D. Wait of Cohoes, Herbert W. Foltz of Indianapolis, and W. I. Doty of Denver.
- The official directory of Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers for each state division from Alabama to Wisconsin, with Joseph Pennell as Foreign Marshal in London, followed by the schedule of L.A.W. badges and supplies.
- The state-by-state list of membership applications received under Article III of the Constitution, grouped by division and club from Arkansas through England, with members invited to report errors or file protests.
- The reader-query department answers members on sprocket sizes, running a bicycle on railroad rails, road books and maps, the origins of the terms 'velocipede' and 'bicycle,' and a cycle route to the Shenandoah Valley.