The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 4
Articles in this issue
- p. 1New Jersey County Roads Improvement Bill Becomes Law — First General Road Legislation in the Country
Governor Green signs Senator Miller's County Roads Improvement bill after it passes the Senate 15-3 and the House 34-10, making New Jersey the first state to enact general road improvement legislation, with the Elizabeth Daily Journal credited for sustained public opinion campaigning.
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Pope Manufacturing Company and Overman Wheel Company jointly announce that the Warwick Cycle Mfg. Co., Clark Cycle Co., Capital Cycle Co., Smith National Cycle Co., L. H. Johnson, and Strong and Green Cycle Co. are infringing their patents, and that they are selling ladies' Psycho, Rover, and Premium safeties below regular prices.
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Chief Consul George R. Bidwell will open a riding school in New York on April 1 with competent instructors, strictly private lessons with only two persons on the floor simultaneously and no spectators, as a practical demonstration of his theory that teaching men to ride is the most effective way to grow the cycling trade.
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E. J. Shriver writes from 234 Pearl Street arguing that the same ballot paper used for New York Division officers could simply be extended with national officers added, requiring no new electoral machinery, challenging The Wheel's conclusion that no feasible plan for popular voting exists.
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The paper acknowledges Shriver's suggestion is worthy of consideration and refers it to the National Assembly, while continuing to hold that whether popular voting would give better results than the current system is genuinely uncertain.
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Though the N.Y. and N.J. Road Racing Association has been buried, the paper reports road competition interest is not dead, with New Jersey club men agitating for a local road racing association and Brooklyn cyclists also considering one, and the paper urging the Hudson County Wheelmen and Long Island Wheelmen captains to call meetings.