The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-30
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
THE BROOKE BILL-THE TOUR
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Some Advice to Riders Generally
-Cleanliness-Cood Road and
Path Movement.

Friday evening last President Nip
pert of the California Associated Cy-
cling Clubs called to a conference with
him in San Francisco all the heads OF
standing committees and several OH
GERS of the association to consult con-
corning the whole policy of the asso-
CATION; how to augment the member
ship list; how to conserve cycling inter-
ests; how to settle the unhappy issue
concerning the racing rule now before
the Board of Governors; how to afford
greater benefits to unattached members,
and so on. It was long and very in
teresting conference, and was largely
attended. 1t viii surely result in good
for the association, and it proved that
President Nippert is going to be the
right man for the Office. 1t was gener-
ally agreed that the recently passed
but now under deration-amend-
ment to the association laws which re-
peals all rules and laws requiring resi-
dence of club members in the jusisdic-
ton of the club for racing purposes,
should be reconsidered and defeated;
that it is not warranted by simple JUS
tice; that a modified rule may be adopt
ed that will be just, will require riders
to be association members, retain the
local rider rule and which it is hoped
will smooth troubled waters between
certain clubs most closely related to
the legislation. Every officer at the
conference signed a petition to the
Legislature praying for the passage of
Assembly bill 1872, the bicycle license
wheelway bill of Mr.. Brooke.
The Brooke bill, Assembly bill 1872,
to permit communities to license wheels,
the whole sum'to go to path construc-
ton, is a good bill. The great mass OF
cyclists favor it for special reasons:
first it has proved successful wherever
tried; second because all cyclists need
mileage for riding, and road conditions
in California are poor and long VIII be;
third because the tax will be so light
as not to be felt, especially as II is 10
DE a sum less the tax on the wheel
as personal property; fourth, rew
wheelmen have now to bear the whole
cost of wheelways; fifth, the benefits
and pleasures of path extension that
may be secured under the bill, thou
sand fold compensate for the few cents
annually one will have to pay; sixth,
the wheel path is the pioneer of good
roads; seventh, the wheel path is safer
than the road, as well as hundred
times faster; eighth, the tax is permis-
s.ve not obliga tory-that is to say, a
community not wishing it need not
have it; ninth, it viii not be necessary,
probably, to employ the law more than
two years, for the sum that can be
raised under it in this county, for in
stance, in two years, will build 100
miles Of path well laid and surfaced;
tenth, country jewellers want their
paths to shorten time between farm and
town and give their families dustless,
mudless sidewalks between homes, at
all seasons.
Some say the novice is known by the
cleanliness of his bicycle, and that the
old hands revel in never cleaning their
machines. This is only partly true, and
the real fact is that cycler who is an
enthusiast with but little spare time
rather uses his few hours to ride than
beautify his bike, but he knows the
value of cleanliness in the hidden parts.