The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Editorial by Cor. Sec'y pro tem. W. V. Gilman on the L.A.W.'s annual spring mail vote (3,598 ballots sent at about $65), proposing to decentralize balloting through the Divisions and Councils and doubting more than a third of members will return their ballots.
- Continued report of the L.A.W. Board of Officers meeting in New York, covering the choice of Washington over Saratoga Springs for the Fourth Annual Meet (May 19-20), Dr. N. Malon Beckwith's election as parade commander, the contested membership cases of De Golier, Thiessen and Edmans, the Washington Cycle Club's resolution to bar non-League men, and committees on the constitution and the League organ.
- Editorial paragraphs disputing which New Jersey ticket is the 'regular' State nomination (weighing the League membership of the Hackensack, Essex, Plainfield, Camden, Hudson Co. and New Jersey Wheelmen clubs) and noting that George Bidwell has opened a bicycle sale-and-repair establishment at 4 E. Sixtieth Street.
- Official-organ listing of new League membership applications (Nos. 531-592) arranged by State Division, with names and addresses of unattached members and club additions across Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Ohio, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and New York.
- Standing editorial notice on the official-organ masthead giving the one-dollar subscription terms and instructing members to report address changes and correspondents to sign their contributions and submit copy by Monday morning.
- Editorial presents the New York State ticket-Dr. N. Malon Beckwith for Chief Consul and fourteen Representatives-and urges members to paste it on their blank ballot and return it to the Corresponding Secretary before April 10.
- Notice signed by President N. Malon Beckwith naming John C. Gulick of 191 Broadway as New York's fourteenth Representative, completing the largest single-state representation on the Board of Officers in League history.
- Letters of resignation from the L.A.W. addressed to Cor. Sec'y W. V. Gilman by 'Star' fancy rider Burt Pressey of Hammonton, N.J., and by Charles D. Rhodes and Howell Stewart of Washington.
- Reprints the Elizabeth Wheelmen's February 19 resolution heartily endorsing Dr. G. Carleton Brown as candidate for Chief Consul of the New Jersey Division.