The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-07
awake AFTER A
WINTERS SLEEP
Cycle Board of Trades First
Meeting of the New
Year.
Good Roads, Park Lights and the
Baggage Bill Will Be
Discussed.
A Bicycle Show Next March-The
Question of Helping the B,us
Ribbon Meet.

Last fall the Cycle Board of Trade went
into its winter sleep. 1t rubbed its eyes
to-day and tomorrow will jump out of
bed and tackle the coming season with its
needs for wheeImen refreshed and rein
vigorated. you must understand that
our catalepsy is only temporary" said
President ]. S. Conweu yesterday. ITO
morrow night we awake and have what [
hope will be a vigorous meeting to take
up matters of interest for the new year"
The meeting Will be held this evening
at VArney's cyclorama. Several impor-
tant matters will come before it. One of
these is the discussion of the question Of
helping out the coming blue-ribbon meet.
This meet will be held at the Velodrome
January 10, when the racing will be for
ribbons instead of trophies of consider
able intrinsic value. The object of the
meet is to raise money to defray the ex-
penses of the local delegates to the League
of American Wheelmen convention, which
will be held in Albany, N. Y, next me- nth.
It is said that there is very little doubt
that the board will vote to give all the as
Bistance it can.
Another subject to be considered is the
question of holding bicycle show in San
Francisco, probably some time in March.
Such shows are devoted 10 exhibiting the
latest models in wheels, and the one next
March will place before the visitors the
latest and best '97 wheels.
Some interesting novelties have been
introduced in various makes for 1897. An
endeaVor Will be made to make the '97
bicycle show the most attractive ever held
here. In Chicago such shows are an an
nual event OF much importance, and are
visited by thousands Of people.
Much effective work is going to be done
this year by the Cycle Board OF Trade and
the local clubs to get the park lighted. A
more vigorous campaign than ever will be
waged. I'VE are going to have the park
lighted this year or die, said a wheeIman
yesterday. The meeting tonight will also
discuss this subject
Charles Freeman Johnson of this City
will address the meeting on the subject of
good roads. Mr.. Johnson has been ap-
pointed a special agent OF inquiry in the
matler of good roads by General Roy
Stone, chief of the United States Depart
ment OF Highways His work will be to
promote the national good-roads move
ment in California. He has just returned
from the East, and his inside pocket is
bullying with letters from prominent rail-
road men. Congressman, bicycle manu-
facturers and others supporting the botter-
roads movement. He also has letters
from prominent members of the League
OF American Wheelmen, which indicates
that the league is not opposed to the
good-roads organization. A resolution
will be introduced at the meeting in
dorsing Mr.. Johnson and the goodroads
movement. Special Agent Johnson will
establish a weekly or monthly publication
here, to be called Highways.
The board has not lost interest in the
Armstrong baggage bill during its winter
somnolency. Nearly every man elected
to the present Legislature is pledged to
the bill, aud on this account the board
has dreamed peacefully instead of being
disturbed by nightmare. However, the
wheelmen will not take it easy N regard
10 that bill until it is passed and the rail-
roads are by law compelled TO carry their
wheels free of charge as baggage. There
is a man at Sacramento now who has &C.
cepted the special charge of the BILL but
the meeting tonight will in all proba-
bility discuss the advisability of sending
a proper lobby to the Capitol at the proper
time, as the Southern Pacific lobby is
always there and never asleep.