The San Francisco call., 1896-04-10
CYCLE DEALERS UNITED
Want Smooth Pavements, Park
Lights and the New
Charter.
Twenty. Nine Dealers Start Board to
Co.ope ate With the Mer.
chants Ass sociation.

The San Francisco Cycle Board of Trade
was organized last night in the Bicycle
rama, on Market street. Twenty mine of
the leading local bicycle dealers were pres
ent at the adoption OF a constitution and
bylaws, and signed as original mem bers
The objects OF the new organization are
to help the trade and the cyclers generally,
primarily by obtaining better City pave .
ments and incidentally by devising means
of advertising stolen wheels, recovering
them and apprehending the thieves, by
exposing fake advertising, and by CO.
operating with the League of American
Wheelmen in general wheeling matters
and with the Merchants Association in
the effort to obtain smooth pavements for
this City.
The initiation fee was made 50, with
dues 50 cents month, in order that none
of the smaller dealers might be discour-
aged from atfiliating.
There are ninety-seven bicycle
in the City.
Meetings will be held once a month, and
larse part of the business will be per-
formed by board of directors, consisting
OF thirteen persons.
The preliminary committee on street
improvement reported as a result of its re-
SShp AhNCotiSoSiOho IL 10 IOt ledSIUlt
to agitate the paving of Market street just
at present. but that the attention of the
Cycle Board of Trade might well be turned
toward the lighting of The park.
]. S. Conwell, Thomas Mullen, J.. NJ.
Brunnings,L. Devaney and James NJ. Ham
ilton discussed the report. and all agreed
that the fret feasible step would be to light
the park, the paving of Market street
being something that having baffied the
efficient Merchants Association should be
left 70 the new charter to make more easily
attainabe.
One idea offered for lighting the park
was for all the bicycle dealers, riders and
liverymen in the City to contribute their
pro rata share of the $4,000 necessary for
the electric light plant. Brunnlngs him
self offered TO start the dealers subscrip-
tion with 500.
After much discussion as to whether all
business should De done by the board as a
whole or by board of directors, the con-
stitution was adopted and signed by the
following, the election of officers being
postponed for future meeting:
James Hamilton of Baker & HamiI-
ton, Charles Watts of George w. Alexander,
]. Brunnings of Hooker & Co., E. P Slos-
sen of the Premier Cycle Company, w. Gil
dert of Hobrook, Merrill G. Stetson, w. ].
Kenney Of Kenney e. Payton, J. Vidy of
the Peerless Cyclery, w. R. Wheeler
Of Holbrook. Merrill & stetson,
+. Ruch OF the Morch Cycle Company,
L. Devany of Devany. Hopkins & Co., Bob
Levrie of the Morgan e. Wright Tire
Company, William Clabrough of CIa-
brough, Golcher & Co., E. Lozier of Lozier
& Co., T. H. B. Varney of the Bicyclo-
rama, James Joyce of the Pope Man
ufacturing. Company, w. B. Bryan OF
the Sterling Cycle Company, True
worthy of the Park Cvclery
Conwell of the Indiana Bicycle Com pany'
Q: I. Morwedel of Morwedel & Co,
w. J. Plxley of the Deering Implement
Company, Bernaze of the Overman Wheel
Company, Walters of the Gladiator Com
pany. Crawford of Davis Bros, Chapman
OF the Stearns Company, Winton Dubois
OF Baker q Hamilton, Quinn of the
Miners Iron Works Company, Brandt of
Baker & Hamilton and H. Schreiner.