The record-union., 1898-02-21

the committee formulated rules and
conditions governing loans and prepared
application forms which requires Off
GERS OF borrowing division to set forth
fully all facts which ought to be con-
siGered in passing upon the application.
This application (and in some cases a
written guaranty is executed and
placed before the Loan Committee for
its action. Thus far only one applica-
ton has been rejected, and loans .aggre-
eating several thousand dollars have
been made to seven divisions The ma
upon all future membership fees COM
ing from borrowing divisions and thus
each loan is well secured.
The Executive Committee of the
League of American Wheelmen has ar
ranged for the purchase of a large sup
ply of maps from the Geological Sur
vey Department of the United States
Government, and will dispose of these
maps among State Divisions where they
can be used to facilitate touring and
encourage the recruiting work of di-
vision officers. These maps are of the
finest quality, being made at great cost
from accurate Government surveys.
They show all roads and streets, town
ard county lines. and even the location
OF houses and other buildings, and are
therefore splendidly adapted to the
wants Of touring cyclists. These maps
are being mounted on muslin and fold
ed in convenient form for the pocket.
and viii be ready for general distribu-
| ton by February
New York Tribune: Discussion has
been renewed recently regarding the use
of the asphalt strips which have been
placed on some of the streets of this
city. with the primary purpose of pro-
viding smooth going for bicycles 1t is
equally true that wheelmen have no eX-
elusive right to them, for they can have
no exclusive right to any part OF
public highway. AS a rule, these strips
have been placed near the curbstone, or
/ in the gutter, as road engineers would
say. Hence they are especially liable
to be obstructed by vehicles drawn by
| horses, and when vehicle of this kind
/ is moving slowly or is drawn up at the
curb, the people on bicycles have to
make a detour over rough pavement to
/ get around the obstruction. On this
account the strips or ribbons of asphalt
/ have by no means been as serviceable
as they might have been under other
conditions. Last year experiments
We're made in two different parts of the
city in placing the strips nearer to the
middle of the street. This was done in
One hundred and thirty eighth street
and Westchester avenue, in what is now
the Borough of The Bronx, and likewise
! for short distances in Broadway and
| IGIeenpoint avenue, in Brooklyn. In all
these cases the strips We're laid near the
lcartracks and far enough from the
oGrbs to allow the free passage of all or
binary vehicles without trenching on the
asphalt The result proved that this
arrangement was an Improvement on
the method first adopted, the most con-
spcuous examples of which are to be
| seen in Madison avenue and Hudson
street, Manhattan, and Bushwick ave-
nue.. Brooklyn In a street without
cartracks it is a question whether two
strips of the ordinary width should be
| laid on each side of the middle of the
| carria geway, or whether one strip twice
as wide should be placed exactly in the
middle.