The San Francisco call., 1896-08-29

l say keep up the fight for an Armstrong
pill. Certain railroads running out of
Chicago are bidding for the trade of cy-
clIsts. Candidates for the Assem bly, want
10 meet US. l have heard from several of
them. The ACTUAL voting strength OF
wheelmen in San Francisco is 1000. In
addition to these every wheelman has a
friend, almost without exception, to whom
he loans or rents his wheel for occasional
trips, and all of these riders are for good
roads and free trans portation of wheels as
baggage and are entirely in sympathy with
us. Anybody who has ridden down Mar
ket street and had his teeth nearly Jared
out is in sympathy with us"
President G. E. Adams Of the Olympic
Bicycle Club SAYS he does not understand
why the Southern Pacific with the knowl-
edge its officials must have had that wheel
men were alive in the interest OF an Arm
strong bill in this State, and in the face of
the organization of Wheelmen's NUM-
cipal League, should have imposed charge
on bicycles. I'VE are all pleased" he
said, THAT the order is to be rescinded. L
say Keep up the agitation till law SINH
lar to the Armstrong bill is passed by our
Legislature. do not want to suspect the
Southern Pacific of any ulterior motive in
resembling the order, but that would be
the best course to pursue. But it is as
Mr.. Stubbs says-they have furnished US
with accommodations some times when we
have asked for them. However, | do not
see that bicycles are any harder to handle
or more undesirable to handle than milk
cans which the company carries on its
passenger trains and which frequently
delay the train in the handling. l am not
in favor of wheelmen entering politics as
a political organization with candidates of
their own for various offices, but let them
rally to the protection of their own in
h. 4f.,
wheelmen that they have political
strength"
Bicyclists on the wing on Golden Gate
avenue last evening paused to express
their qualification at the retreat of the
Southern Pacific Railroad from its impo-
sition of the charge for the transportation
of wheels on ferries and trains. A group
of cyclers of both sexes expressed almost
in chorus very candid opinions of the
order, and their JOY at its withdrawal.
j. F. Morris, past president of the San
Francisco Road Club. was encountered as
he was coming out of that club with his
wheel. He said "We naturally feel much
elated at the resembling of the order.
However, we shall keep up the battle for
the passage OF bill by the Legislature
CHASING bicycles as baggage and requiring
all railroads in the State to carry them
free as baggage. We also want better
streets and roads. We will not attempt
to interfere in the nomination of Street
Commissioner, but we will support only
the Street Commissioner who will give us
improved streets. | am in favor of Keep-
ing at it till an Armstrong bill is passed"
Harry Larkin. secretary of the Bay City
Wheelmen, expressed original and some
what divergent views. He said: MANY
mem bers of our club die not look upon
the 10-cent charge for carrying wheels on
the ferries with so much disfavor as some
of the other wheelmen. We thought it
would have a tendency to keep off the
the boats the hoodlum element among
wheelmen, who often make things so dis
agreeable on the boats. The members of
this club will take no active political part
in the campaign. The L. A. w. does that
sort of business. This is L. A. W. club,
and we will stand behind the L. A. w. If
this club had among its mem bers candi-
date for Office we would get out and work
for him. But it's the L. A. WIS duty to
look after politics. Our members favor the
passage of an Armstrong bill, but we are
not going actively into politics"