The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-16
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Each county is to be visited. 1t can draw
upon State Mineralogist Crawford for any
information it wants. Finally it is to give
information free of cost to all who call
upon it.
1t is of its particular character of being a
bureau of infOrmatian on the highway
question that the new league committee
is about to take advantage as preliminary
to being heard in the good-roads conven-
ton. Secretary Kitchener said yesterday
afternoon that he would write, as soon as
the committee could come together and
agree upon course of action, to Secretary
Wolfe of the bureau, and call for all the in
formation obtainable. Chairman Wynne
observed last night that this information
would at once be communicated to the
press through the various cycling editors,
with the suggestions and comments of the
committee added, and thus, he hopes, an
effective crusade, in an educational sense,
will be inaugurated against impossible
roads and reprehensible street work
Delegates to the good-roads convention
will be chosen by the league at its next
meeting, one month from last Saturday
night, and the associated clubs will select
theirs at their regular meeting, at the
rooms of the Imperial Club in this CITY on
the first Saturday of February. There are
twenty-five clubs in the association, six
teen of which are in this City, two in Oak
land, one in Berkeley, two in San Jose and
one in Petaluma.
when General Roy Stone, who was
sent out here by the Department of Agri-
culture, was addressing last years conven-
tion," observed Mr.. Wynne, 'he took oc-
casion to say that California was the only
State in which he saw wheelmen with
practically no representation is such
gatherings. 1t will be different, however,
this year. The politicians are fast begin
ming to consider the bicycle vote and are
coming around to US, and it is a question
of only very short time when the bicycle
vote will have its effect upon the highways
of the State.
mo man is so well posted on the charac-
ter and condition OF a road as wheelman.
Unlike the driver of horse vehicle, he is
his own horse, you might say. and has to
note every defect or merit of the route
over which he is travelling. In this county
its roads are really its streets"
Mr.. Wynne criticized the work done by
the San Francisco Street Department, and
told of one foreman who did not dare to
object to BAD work because another fore
man had told him he ''would break his
head with shovel if he did not keep his
mouth Shut" and the man was afraid he
would "lose his job" if he went to Mr..
Ashworth, because the other foreman was
"a pet"
Chief Consu Kerrigan, in discussing the
political phase Of the question, said the
will be able to elect their candi-
date for Superintendent of Streets in this
City next time.
The latest roadbook of the L. A. w.
shows great deal of very beneficial work
has been done in the way of a series of
maps of different parts of the State, indi-
eating in red the bicycle routes for the i'm
provement of which the league is to work.
Most of the surveys and measurements and
original drawings were made by Frank d.
Elwell, the published maps being the work
Of Victor Hancock.
The liverymen and drivers of this City
have now very active organization which
will cooperate with the wheelmen in this
good roads crusade.