The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-27
Prominent Corinthian Club Men.
Caught in the Popular
Craze.
NEW ORGANIZATION FORMED.
Known as the Calamity Cycling Club.
The Members Will Arrange
Many Country Tours.
The bicycle fad is scorchingly hot,

The bicycle fad is scorchingly hot
All classes its influence feel;
Now the imam at the wheeln is abiuring his yacht
To appear as the ''m an on the wheel.'
The cycling craze has taken possession
OF men and women in all stages of life and
society. 1t has steadily drawn recruits
from other sports, until to-day it ranks as
the greatest outdoor sport of the time, and
has more deyotees actually engaged in the
pastime than any other sport ever known.
While the large body of wheelmen do
not belong to clubs or the League of
American Wheelmen, and are therefore
designated by the term unattached" still
the tendency has been for a few Jolly
spirits to get together now and then or
ganize club among themselves and admit
their friends to membership, and in this
way some of the largest clubs OH the coast
have grown to prominence.
The latest addition to cycling clubdom
promises to be at least a novelty in its
way, and the names of the charter mem
bers and some of the rules and regulations
they have adopted lead to the impression
that the club will be startling success if
its aims are all carried out.
The bylaws indicate that its name shall
be Calamity Cycling Club" the objects
being to promote cycling and brewery in
terests. The officers are to be chairman,
secretary treasurer, captain, lieutenant
and repairer. The dues will be 80 cents
per month, and the membership shall be
limited to twenty-five. The dues for each
month, after expenses for stationery and
postage are deducted, shall be expended
for cn1i1 nd Hound e. ~
memb ers present on the runs during that
month, of which there are to be two
monthly.
Careful inquiry has elected the fact that
all the members of the Calamity Club are
yachtsmen and mem bers of the Corinthian
Yacht Club. This may account for a Pc
culiar provision in the bylaws, which
reads:
Any clothes worn at Corinthian Yacht Club
low-jinks are permissible on club runs, bar
ring, of course, the Chapman lambie and the
McLaren dog-skin coat.
To-day was the date for the first run or
cruise awheel, and it was decided to go to
San Jose. The rain has resulted in post
ponement of the trip one week, however
The postal notice stated that members
would not be required to ride as fast as
the captain or secretary, as there would
be a separate division to accommodate
every slow rider. No 1897 wheels will be
allowed on club runs.
The officers for 1896, by mutual consent,
will be: M. A. Newhall, chairman; E. A.
Kolb, secretary-treasurer; F. E. Baker,
captain; C. R. Mckee, first lieutenant; F.
W. Merrill, repairer.
There are now over a dozen names on
the roll and the full membership of
twenty-five will doubtless be attained be-
fore the next meeting. Some of the pres
ent and prospective members, all of them
Corinthian yachtsmen, are mentioned: ].
l.. Hawks, Walter Crowell, Oscar Filing
house, ]. A. Bernhard, Sanford Plummer,
Fred Russ Cook, Pete Sloane, Dave Nc
Laughlln, Edward and Hugo Neil, Will
Toepke, Robert little and many others.