Vol 28, No 12
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Articles in this issue
- Book notice of Mrs. Pennell's "Over the Alps on a Bicycle", illustrated by Joseph Pennell and published by the Century Co., New York, on riding, pushing and coasting over the mountain passes.
- Notice of A. W. Rumney's little book "Cycle Touring" (George Bell & Sons), covering machine, luggage, maps, hotels and seventeen tours in Great Britain and France.
- Four-line comic verse on furnaces that smoke but, being low in the basement, will not smoke a cigarette.
- Anecdote from Connecticut of a man so eager to win a road-macadamizing contract that he bid one cent under any other bidder, and then threatened the selectmen with an injunction when his bid was thrown out.
- Paragraph on the sunken, flood-prone streets of Pekin, followed by notes on a family party cycle-camping from Portland, Ore., to Mt. Hood and the death in a collision of Wayne Parsons, L.A.W. local consul of Watertown, N.Y.
- Four-line verse of a soul that wants an angel's house built with wings.
- Editorial on how riders imagine a new or fashionable feature runs more easily, and how fads such as bigger sprockets and higher gears are carried to extremes.
- Four-line comic verse on striking workmen on the march who seem to be on pay-raid.
- Comic verse on the nuisance of clamping an infernal revenue stamp on nearly everything in use.
- Editorial arguing that the wheelman who threads the highways knows his neighbourhood best, and that a 50-mile ride lets him see 6,400,000 acres and still be home for breakfast.
- Seasonal essay contrasting uncertain Spring, Summer and Winter with the gracious days of Autumn for the cyclist.
- Article sorting bicycles into first-class, good, mediocre and bad grades, and warning that the lowest price does not buy as good a wheel as the highest.
- The Bulletin's advertising-criticism contest, naming August 26 winners J. Henry Long of Pittsburgh, Vincent O'Donnell of Bennington and Henry Gray of New York, with the rules of The Scheme for Sept. 16.
- Joe Lincoln's illustrated comic verse envying the sideshow freak who is paid a hundred a week.
- Illustrated account by A. W. Gillette of the Denver-Palmer Lake cycle-path, eleven miles built from Denver to Littleton, with its route, cattle-guards (designed by Peter O'Brien) and the Cycle-Path Association led by Gov. Alva Adams.
- Nixon Waterman's illustrated comic verse proposing a trade in ready-made legends for haunted houses and robber caves.
- Wisconsin good-roads advocates seek a constitutional amendment for state aid, and the Democratic convention endorses a good road system through ex-governor G. W. Peck and F. P. Van Valkenburgh.
- Quotes D. F. Magee's series on good roads praising oyster shells as cohesive road material, with costs of shelling southern roads.
- Argues wheelmen do work for roads, citing the Georgetown, Mass., cyclists who each keep a section of street clear of stones.
- E. V. S.'s question in the New York Evening Post asking when country roads and schools will be boasted of as city asphalt and colleges are.
- L.A.W. president Isaac B. Potter urges members after the war scare to organize local consulates, citing forthcoming charters, a cycle-path book and legislation work.
- Executive Committee resolutions of sorrow on the death of Charles Edward Pratt, first president of the League.
- Chief Consul Chas. F. Geiger appoints Beardsley, Westmyer and List to count ballots in the Oct. 15 to Nov. 15 election, Wheeling.
- George L. Bahl appoints committees and records nominations of Bahl, Ironmonger and Matthews for Division officers, Jacksonville.
- Chief Consul Conway W. Sams reports new application blanks available and urges local consuls to press renewals.
- Don G. Woodward certifies Thornton Birdsall as chief consul and C. C. Stanley as vice-consul at Portland.
- W. S. Bull lists nominated Representatives for the six New York districts, from New York, Kings and Queens counties to Erie.
- Chief Consul Wallace Sherwood appoints H. F. Hacklodorn, Edw. M. White and F. L. Wilson to the Division Board.
- Board meeting at Green Bay on August 16 under Chief Consul M. C. Rotier, with resolutions to continue officers and request free renewals for members in the army.
- Nominations for state officers (Samuel A. Boyle, Thomas J. Keenan, Jr., P. S. Collins) and for Representatives in the nine districts.
- H. W. Belding records resignations of officers and appointments of E. Garth Bilingsley and Albert Young, St. Louis.
- Chief Consul M. C. Rotier's report on local consulates, hotel signs, danger signs, committees, honor badges and Milwaukee street work, continuing to the Racing Board question.
- Invitations for the 1899 Annual Meet of the Division must reach Secretary-Treasurer Owen Lawson, Louisville, before Oct. 1.
- National Championship scores (Bald 153, McFarland 117, Major Taylor 115), suspensions and rulings for unsanctioned races, professional records accepted, registrations and Albert Mott's reports.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett announces pins for junior members and invites Divisions to say if they want them.
- Divisions offer a $25 reward for conviction of bicycle thieves, with list of stolen Midget, Rambler, Pierce, Stearns, Crown King and Czar wheels.