The Portland daily press., 1897-11-18
Portland Wheel Club Celebrates It's
Anniversary
BY A MAGNIFICENT BANQUET AT
THE PREBLE.
The Newly E1ectsd Officers-The Proposed
Minstrel Show and Plans for the Win
Dinner Speeches,

The 18th annual meeting and banquet
| of the Portland Wheel club occurred last
evening, and marked the close of what
has been most successful year and the
| beginning of what will undou btedly
prove to be another season of prosperity
and advancement along the line on
which the l.. A. W. Is moving.
The annual meeting of the club was
held at the club rooms on Congress
street, there being an usually large num-
Der of membe in attendance. The cleo.
ton Of officers for the ensuing year re-
suited as follows:
Observation-Disclosures g. Sculley
Vice-President and Captain-George r.
Stevens.
| Secretary and Treasurer-Charles W.
| Dearborn.
First Lieutenant-Phillip D. Abbott.
| Second ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III. Ran
dali.
Club Committee-Charles P. Aver and
Curtis Fl. Simonds.
Bugler-J. Harry Lamson.
Color Bearer-T. M. Tolman.
l.. A. W. Representatives.. P. T.
Wish and B. II. Farnsworth.
The club voted to employ the Tuxedo
quartette Of Boston to furnish entertain
ment to the club members at their rooms
on Thanksgiving evening.
1t was also voted to give a minstrel
show sometime during the winter and a
committee of eight members with Mr.
Percy 81. Richardson as chairman, was
chosen to make arrangements for the
affair.
After transacting some other business
Of minor Importance the club adjourned
to the Preble house where they We're soon
seated about the handsomely decorated
banquet board to partake of one of Land
lord Whites famous dinners.
| Those about the tables were: e. G.
Scully, P. G. Kilborn, Joseph Maddocks,
It. A. Elwell, o. A. Grimmer, E e. Pet
erson, Frank NJ. Brown, Luther G. Gil
son, H. l.. Smith, Howard r. Stevens
Eugene G. Smith, Perley A. Swasey, Wal
| ter E. Horn, John r. Blackhall, A. c..
Johnson, Charles Il. Aver, @. H. Sim
onds, DR.. Geo. E. Dow, j Harry Lamson,
P. D. Abbott, A. E. Pool, M. S. Folkins,
@. Fl. Randall, g. W. Davis, L. H. Cobb,
L. M. Tolman, W. II. Chase, c. M. p.
Steele, Percy H. Richardson, Fred Dayen-
port, BENZ. f. Davenport, II. i. Mills,
S, G. bennett, o. P. T. Wish, s. b.
Philips, F. E. Davis. G. W. Small, A. W.
Lowell, CIV. Dearborn, Geo. r. Stevens,
Bertram E. Brett, EH. W. McCausland
Harry e. Woodward, B. II. Farnsworth,
F. e. Brown, E. E. TuttIe.
President Soully opened the post
prandial exercises by introducing Clar-
enoe W. Small of Deering, whom he said
had recently passed through very try
ing experience and had shown that he
was capable Of standing a defeat in q
manly way.
Mr.. Small was warmly greeted and
made very graceful and witty speech
He said that there were in Portland q
thousand wheelmen who might. If they
acted as a body. make wheeling in Port
land pleasure. He said that there was
not street in Portland which might be
called good for any kind of a vehicle
The city spends a great deal of money on
the park system. No wheelman objects
to this, but the first thing for city to
do is to build decent streets. The macada.
MIXING of streets is all right, but street
once macadamized should be looked after
and kept in repair, else the macadamizing
proves utterly useless. The pavemen is
of Portland are in wretched condition
and would be disgraceful to the city of
Biddeford, where everyone knows the
~ uba
walks, the system of street sprinkling and
the many other things tend to make
wheeling in Portland dangerous and dis
agreeable
All of these things can be bettered if
wheelmen will unite and pull together
'The proper thing to do,' said Mr.
Small, sis to interest wheelmen in tbes
matters and when we show that we are
united, then we can get what we ask for"
Ex-President Philip G. Kilborn con-
graduated the club on its new officers
and on the prosperity of the organization,
The newly elected Chief Consul Abper
W. Lowell was given warm welcome
and spoke briefly.
Mr.. 5. B. Phillips spoke upon the rela-
ton of the wheel to business. Ten wears
ago very few of us would have thought of
riding wheel to our places of business.
but now everyone rides. Bicycling pre
vents dyspepsia and adds pleasure to
routine business, thus making a man
happier and more content with life.
Everyone should ride wheel and ioin
the Portland Wheel club.
o. P. L. Wish made very eloquent and
interesting speech. He took for his sub
ject Loyalty" and having referred
briefly to some Of the interesting bistori-
Cal events in which Portland has nlaved
a part, having told of It's settlement its
growth and it's prospects, he went on to
say that Portland is in many resnects
the most prosperous citT in the United
States. She has more paved streets than
any city in the country and in her yari
GUS departments she spends more money
in proportion to her size than any citv
in the United States. "We should he
proud of this club, he said. eve should