Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-05-06

to race meets will be accepted. Profess
sional fees are 81, and amateurs $3.50.
unless they are members of the League
in which case the fee Is but so cnts.
Irurder to secure this lighter fee 1t is
advisable that every amateur first join
the League and then register No
saving will be affected the first year.
but the rider will have the advantage
of League membership. and in future
years will save 81 on the cost Racing
men in Ohio should write to w. H.
Chubb, 81 Bell avenue, Cleveland, for
application blanks. and register with
j. W. Brigham, oil Columbia building,
Louisville, Ky.
Harry A Gibson, the Cincinnati flyer
who Joined the outlaws last winter,
has applied to the L. A. w. racing
board for reinstatement.
The Toledo consulate was the first
in Ohio to apply to the chief consul for
a charter.
Copies of the Ohio Division constitu-
tion and bylaws and of the list of
state and local officials can be secured
by sending stamp to w. H. Chubb,
secretary, 81 Bell avenue, Cleveland.
Under new constitutional ruling of
the l.. A. W., memberships which have
elapsed may be renewed without the
payment of a fine. The remittance
of back dues is all that is necessary,
and the membership card bearing the
same number will be issued.
With the opening of the riding sea-
son the number of applications for
membership in the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen is increasing.
Toledo will endeavor to secure the
National Meet of the L. A. w. for 1902.
Al exposition will be held there that
year, and the progressive wheelmen of
the city desire that their organization
shall have its annual meeting during
the progress of the show.
Under the arrangement between the
customs officials of Canada and the l..
A. W., the wheelmen's organization
has been compelled to pay the maxi
mum duty for several wheels taken in
to Canada, presumably by tourists
and not returned over the border
Under this arrangement members are
allowed to take their wheels into Can
ada without payment of duty upon
showing their membership cards. A
record of them is kept by the officials
and when the tourist returns to this
country the entry is. closed. 1t was in
daseS wnere the membership card was
used and The wheel not returned thai
the League. under the agreement, was
compelled to pay the duty. The samt
arrangement is in, effect for this year
however, and large number of wheel
men are expected to take advantage o
| 1t.
The l.. IA. w. is Supporting bills in
several States for the creation of high
way commissions, in whose charge th5
work of highway improvement shall be
vested The League is advocating thest
measures ~ecause it believes that each
state should have a commission com
posed of experts in road building, thai
The roads may be built and repaired
scientifically. Several of these bills
are laws, but the League will keep up
the fight until all the states are so sup
piled. Under present arrangements
most of the states have their small
amount of road building done under
the supervision of the state engineer
and i'm others there is no such thing as
state roads. 1t is expected that the for
nation of these commissions will not
only put road building upon a proper
basis, but will result in more activity
in extending the actual work.