Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-02-26
WHEELMEN
ShOald Start Local ORGANIZATIONS
Facts for Farmers.

today. Said a prominent Cincinnati
wheelman last week:
This will do away with the neces-
sary heavy expense OF maintaining a
club, and looks more to the establish
ment of working bodies with members
In each. ward and precinct of the city
to care for the daily needs of the
wheelmen, and to promulgate good
roads work rather than the encourage
ment of a life of idleness and practical
uselessness hanging about club-rooms.
No wheelman in the city of Cincinnati
should fail to recognize the positive
merit underlying the establishment of
these organizations, and 1t is earnestly
expected that before the spring opens
numebr OF wheelmen will signify
their desire to form one or more of
these organizatlons,a ,as the needs of the
case may demand. The present Gin
cinnaH Consulate, l.. A. W., is some
what in the same line, but, owing to
the large territory embraced by the
consulate, to wit, covering the entire
county of Hamilton, 1t is absolutely
necessary that smaller bodies should
be organized, more centralized with
men who are better, known to each
other, Tor the carrying on of this work
and 1t will give those in authority
here in league matters great pleasure
in at once taking up this scheme IL
they receive proper encouragement.
They should not wait to be called up
on, but send in the names of 20 or
more men whom they desire to form
into consulate or local organization,
and the rest will be taken care of for
them. This work will necessarily have
to be done absolutely without consid-
Grafton, and 1t is unreasonable to ex-
pect that men of ability will devote
their time to these matters IL they are
required to personally solicit and beg
men to join them. =. The -wheelmen
must themselves get in line and the
outside material to work upon will
quickly respond"
Join the L. A. w. "In union there
is strength" .... -"f
An Englishman has just invented a
bicycle brake which should certainly
answer the demands of the extremist
in this line. 1t consists of an ordin-
ary front wheel plunger brake which
acutates back wheel brake as WELL
The brake rod has contrivance which
depresses a horseshoe bell crank piv-
oted to the bottom head lug, and from
here the power is transmitted by
wire and lever to the plunger of the
back wheel brake, located underneath
the crank bracket. If desired, this
brake can be adjusted so as to touch
the tire first, the front brake then only
acting as an emergency brake.
Wheelmen desiring to join the L. A.
W. can secure entry blanks and full in
formation by dropping a postal card to
Secretary Treasurer Walter H. Chubb,
81 Bell ave, Cleveland, O.. or address
ing Cycle Editor. Enquirer.
\ For the benefit of the many inquiries
rs to the list of cash prizes offered by
the Ohio Division l.. A. w. for new
members, 1t is in order to once more
state that the terms of the contest are
as follows: $50 to the highest mum
ber of applications sent in from Feb.
l until July /, 1899. $25 to second.
$15 to third. $40 to fourth.
Applications must be forwarded to
Abbot Bassett, Secretary of l.. A. W.,
Boston, Mass. The same will etabulat-
ed when published in the L. A. w. Bull
letin.
Highways which are rendered i'm
passable by ordinary ralns-and there
are many Of them-are not fit to be
called roads.
Otto Dorner, in the February Forum
has we'll written article in favor OF
state aid for good roads. He gives the
L. A.. w. due credit for its good WORK
for better highways. Among Other
things he says:
THE average farmer resents any
interference with his road-buildinf
methods, which he considers peculiar
ly his own affair. No reform, there
fore. can be forced upon him, and any
successful plan of road improvement
must leave it optional with him tS
avail himself OF its provisions. ThC
Initiative must be left in his hands
The state aid system seems to have
solved the problem to the farmers sat
isfaction This system has been adopt
ed in several states, but 1t is most sue
cessfully in Operations in New Jersey
where 1t was introduced through tn,
combined efforts of the League of Am
erican Wheelmen and the leader
among the farmers. This system dl
yldes the cost OF road improvement be
tween the state. county and the abut
ting property owners. improvement
/ ara' mo do orIu ,,n.o., = e.tAt.a -