Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-25

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York was next in number with thirty-five
representatives. Pennsylvania had twelve
and Rhode Island and Connecticut eleven
each. Illinois had one and Maryland one.
The District of Columbia was represented
by two. They were H. s. Owen and H. 1.
Carpenter. both being credited as being
members of the Arlington Wheelmen. There
are three delegates whose location cannot
be placed. Under the head of the I'M
known Is the name of Wentworth Rollins,
who most likely was a member of the
Capital Bi. Club of this city, which was
organized the year previous.
If the press dispatches be true a queer
state OF affairs exists in the Maryland d.
he found which will be willing to accept
the state meet for next year. The meet
last year was held ii Frederick. but 1t
was not successful. The year before the
were not satisfactory The wheelmen of
Frederick who were behind the enterprise
lost money. and profitng by past experience
no city is willing to take hold of the mat
ter 1t might be that some arrangements
Will be made later for the meet, but that
IS uncertain. The published press dispatch
OF the matter is as follows: THE state
meet of the League of American Wheel
men Will not be held in Hagerstown next
summer. despite the fact that the Mary
land division is trying to force it on Ha-
gerstown- George F. Updegraff ex-cap-
tain of the Hsgerstown Bicycle Club,
stated today that he had received a let
ter from Chief Consul Sans, who asked
him to get into the harness again by ac-
ceptinS place in the state l.. A. W
board, but updegraff politely declined
tpdesraff further stated that the wheel
men here do not want the meet and will
rot have it. He said the eastern shore
does not want it again, Baltimore city
cannot get up interest enough to hold
the meet there and Frederick had her
eye-teeth cut last year, when the 'fizzle'
meet was held there. In fact, he said, no
town in the state wants it,
The General Council of the Cyclists
Touring Club of England has accepted the
proposition of the l.. A W. looking to an
interchange of benefits. and contracts are
now being prepared which provide that an
l.. a. W. member may join the G. 7. c.
(when about to tour abroad and receive
his membership ticket, foreign tour books
maps hotel lists, &c, before sailing. This
arrangement will enable him not only tC
lay out the details of his trip before reach
ing Europe. but will insure to him the
benefits of discount rates al hundreds of
hotels in all the popular cycling districts
of the continent and the British Isles.
A letter has been received from President
Piant of the PLANT System of railroad
and steamboat lines, covering several
thousand miles of land and water routes in
the southern and southeastern states, in
which the writer states that the entire sys-
TEN has adopted the rule of treating bicy-
Giles as baggage. that no extra charge is
made for this service and that cycling
travel over these routes is in every way en-
couraged.
In considering the application of Boston
for the 1898 l.. A. w. meet the executive
committee has been forced to regard the
hostile attitude of the New England rail-
road and steamboat combination, and their
unpopular practice of charging an extra
sum ranging from IL cents to several dol
lars for each bicycle checked as baggage
over roads running to and from Boston. An
L. A. W. meet at Boston would be vastly
popular and would probably add $2J0,0OO in
railroad fares and freights to the New Eng
land railroads. but l.. A. w. members argue
that this sum, and even more, might better
he paid to friendly roads running to some
western city than to enrich the Golfers of the
New England combine ton A letter has been
sent by the executive committee of the L.
A W. to the general passenger agent of
several eastern lines to ascertain, before
final decision is reached whether these lines
cannot be induced to abandon the obnox-
lous rule now in force Of making extra
charges for bicycles.
President Potter is in correspondence
with prominent members of Congress with
the view of obtaining the passage of a bill
empowering the Secretary of the Treasury
to admit touring cyclists from Canada and
from transatlantic countries into the Unit
ed States without exacting the payment or
deposit of customs duties on the wheels
brought by such tourists for their per-
sonal use.
The loan committee created by resolu-
ton Of the last National Assembly of the
L. \. w. ito provide ways and means for
the help of such divisions and consulates n
the league may, from time to time re-
vice in the few months of its existence. In
March last the committee formulated rules
and conditions governing loans and pre-
pared application forms which require offl-
GERS of q borrowing division to set forth
fully all facts which ought to be considered
In passing upon the application. This APP
plicatfon land in some cases a written
guaranty is executed and placed before the
loan committee for it's action. Thus far
only one application has been rejected, and
loans aSgreSating several thousand dollars
have been made to seven divisions. The
national body of the league holds a lien
upon all future membership fees coming
from borrowing divisions and thus each
loan Is well secured.
L. A. W. members during 1898 will have
an advantage not heretofore provided, in
the form OF reduced subscription prices to
many popular periodicals, magazines and
papers. Favorable CLUB rates have al
ready been granted by many publications.
and a full printed list with stated discounts
and subscription blanks will shortly be sent
10 the officers of the several state divisions
To show that the league is being recoS-
nlZed as leading factor in the matter of
asltating good roads. it is only necessary
TO state that at the recent meeting of th,,
Maryland state grange the matter was
brought up and the organization decided to
support the league in it's commendabie
WORK In this direction. Chief Consul Con-
way w. Sans was present at the meeting
ana read the draft of proposed bill, which
VIII De introduced in the coming legislature
Ior enactment The grange was deeply in
teresleo In the project, and promised its
hearty support.