The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-08-17
TUESDAY. AUGUST II, 1897.

A CAMDEN paper says that its people
want to know whether Harry Scovel is
to have that third term in. the Assembly ;"
Of course Burlington county has no right
to interfere with Camden's politics, but as
the papers there seem to be taking a very
decided interest in our Senatorial situa-
ton, we may be excused if we suggest
that Camden will make mistake if she
retires Assemblyman Scove1 at this time.
His record in the House will stand the
closest scrutiny from friend or foe. He is
able, honest and fearless qualities that
are valuable even in Camden county.
BEFORE going to Europe for the sum-
mer, President Potter, of the League of
American Wheelmen, wrote a letter in
which he said
The winter will find us knocking at
the doors of twenty State Legislatures
with bills for better roads, bills for cycle
paths and for cycle path protection bills
to require transportation companies to
carry baggage without exacting an extra
fee for this service; bills to punish thieves
who steal bicycles, to forbid hotel keepers
and bucket shop proprietors and beer ped
dlers from hanging fraudulent L. A. W.
signs over their places of business bills
to forbid country villages from causing
he arrest of touring wheelmen for viola
ting local ordinances except in cases
where the corporate boundaries are marked
by conspicuous signs at road crossings
leading into and out of towns; bills to
compel the erection of guide boards at
road crossings. All these and other bills
will need the stalwart support of the L A.
w. and all its friends. They can be
passed only by hard and persistent work
and at the end of strong opposition"
This would seem to indicate that the
business of twenty legislatures is to be
pretty well monopolized in the interests
of wheelmen for just what suits them If
the above is an indication of their desires
one can hardly say the demands are un-
reasonable, but why not go further7 Why
not secure laws compelling wheelmen
to pay some respect to the rights of others
who use the roads3 Every pedestrian is in
duty bound to keep watchful eye as he
crosses road, but there is no reason why
he should be compelled to be on the look
down, passes at gait of ten or fifteen
miles an hour. Not long since a carriage
coming down the South Pemberton road
met party of bicycle riders-four girls
and two youths. They were spread across
the road. As the carriage neared them
they rang their bells and slowly filed
across to the right, the carriage being COM
PEELED to stop for fear of striking the riders,
who calmly took their time, with apparent
ly no thought of anything but themselves
and the chewing gum they were assidu-
ously working. Had the horse struck any
of the party there would have been quite
an indignation meeting followed perhaps
by suit for damages. And we are sorry
to record that such actions are too fast be-
coming the rule and not the exception.
Every daily paper contains accounts OF
accidents to whee1men and pedestrians,
the majority of which are the result OF
carelessness or recklessness on the part OF
the former. The L. A. w. will say, with
propriety, that it is not responsible for this
state of affairs, but with a thorough knowl-
edge of the entire situation it will be very
easy for the men at the head of this organ
ization to do beneficial work for the pub
lie. Secure all the laws necessary for the
comfort of riders, but while knocking at
the doors of the twenty legislatures" put
in additional pleas that will compel wheel
men to respect the rights of those who,
from necessity or choice, do not travel on
hicuc1es