| Show WHEELMEN IN POLITICAL ARENA AREMA Asked for Bread and arid Got a Stone Slone but Will Do So No More THE COUNCIL UNFRIENDLY No In iii the Iho or Cu ii lit I I ilie ii It Some SOllie So iii C ol II f Ilio Iho i ii C CLatter Latter LuCIer Hard lie rd The association tion will carry Ito case alii to the polls Fifteen of ot the most mott mo t ardent In Inthe Inthe inthe the association which line liaa for tor Its 1111 object tile the securing of ot cycle eyel path and better otter treatment for tor wheelmen mot met last uv ov In III Dr and decided nut not to ask n k the mayor IU or and city council for tor any ony more arnie Improvement It waa M unanimously decided to wait walt until the fall tall election Ol and then titOn to work for tor candidates lutell who are arc known to tu favor Cavor cycling measures Among mong those present were President Iro C L I 1 Retry Assistant A Secretary H If S SAnderson SAnderson Anderson Charles J N Y Charles Dowse Dowe Justice Dana Dami Smith Q G A Charles 8 S Wilkes Dr 15 E I W M Key or and lintl O a Cou Coulam Coulam lam live of ot the members spoke somewhat at nt length ulion Ilon their efforts to 10 gout recognition from ruin the tue council and til nt n t times their well wro very Vel bitter Not t only was wan It decided to tight fight for Cor rights at It the next but hut butto hutto butto to oppose e with nil all the lie strength of oC jOO 00 members of ut the association the tInny of any councilman who hns huts not the till cycle ccle lath movement urged by b the wheelmen Charles J 3 was the first speaker of the thu evening and It was he ho hosho who sho advanced d tho the proposition which received rc such luch favor tavor front from tho the meeting Mr Ir oll was wall of ot the opinion that the association should come out In full foiL force at nt tho the polls next fall and anti vote for Cor formen Cormell or ormen men mell who will benefit the tho tim wheelmen lie He wild saId that the Idea of or chanting tile the wheelmen to ride upon tho the streets In addition to the 3 poll tax was all nil wrong strong and und that poll 1011 tax collected should be put upon the tho After Artor saying Haying that it aae time limo for Cor or tho the wheel wheat latIn to lo cOllie come out and tight tho the proposition Ion tion and not go near the city elt council again Mr Ir lIf son moved that thai nt It the election the wheelmen work wor for tor their own candidates and I nd light II ht those who them This fhi motion mollon were was un unanimously carried after atler several other speakers had talked upon It ItO Ita 0 O A followed Mr I nail and said that he was heartily In with the tile proposition advanced bv by tho tIn I speaker Mr Ir said that lint be lie hud had hind had a talk lalk with Councilman who bad liati told him that U It would be A for the he Council to pass the th ordinance desired by the Ih wheelmen wh b be lIe liCe the Mayor would veto It Mr Ir said aiti that he had heard In Iii nn tin way w y that several other othel mem macin members leers bers nn 01 ot the Council had ball said that thu Mayor would veto any ordinance favor favorIn In lag ng the lie wheelmen anti and Stoma from the time con of ot opinion on the subject Mr Mm II concluded that the Mayor Ma or ind said tin III so o to the councilman who wh him II H S 8 has Ims hll Just Ju t returned from rom a 1 trip trill to California l nail and he tola tom the wheelmen what fine fiOt paths there thoro were werl In Sacramento Upon Ullon lave Ino lI he discovered that these paths ero built hullt by the city with no extra eCtra upon the wheelmen and ho hf see tec l wit It be he done clone In III Salt Snit as us well sell lIls as In Sacramento He lie also sam that he lIe was wan tired of It discussing and arguing tho the question with the tho pres present ent eat City Council became because It hind had made which had bind never nee been kept lie He was Wag RII In favor of ot throwing over thu whole thing until the thu next election when wile tho tilt wheelmen with their friends could light It U out oUI to certain victory Victor av n a athe the polls X N Y V was of ot the th opinion that the association could not lIot retain Its lis dignity and go on asking tIm the CIt Council for tor concessions con which would navel neve bu LIe made mallo lEe Ire fe thought It would bu lil better het to open the tye yee of the thu council councilmen un men at nt the tho next election President Ire C U LI I Herry DeEr nerr was the last Il t 1 After Afler liik It U us RS his hll opinion that thai the tho present administration did II II nut not ontO lole to do Iu anything for tor the wheelmen wh he stated It an as a n positive fact that when cyclists have appeared at nt tho the Council meetings they thoy have net act nobly been Insulted I 1 pay 11 mon more taxes than limn most of ot the said laId Mr Ir Berr Jut hut that Quilt cuts no Ice bee In my Iii caSe cne If It a n big bl man happens to come collie In there thero Is 18 a u general to lo show nil all kinds ot of courtesy I hut a ii recognized wheelman lb 11 11 II II is 19 jeered the i moment he hI appears through the door I J lIa e also brim been told by 11 several of the councilmen councilman that the lie cyde cyle c de ordinance would never go HO through that tho the Mayor would veto It If It It passed the tho Council TIle The wheelmen have hao their rights In Ira other oIlier stales stolaR anti and we WI van can get tet them here heli New ew York lisa has just donated to construct con cycle cle throughout the various counties of ot If the flute providing that each county count subscribes a CI like Amount mount to that distributed to It I will my 1 this much that tin titer re are several members of ot the th Council who ho have worked for tor us but hul there are It others who would not listen to us I will put tie the motion made by b Mr Ir that wo we Ignore the th pr Present nt administration and Ind Distend lI of or further trying tring tr to Induce the City Council to lo pass the bicycle or fight It out at the lIe next elec dee election election tion lion The motion carried After tIr fter deciding to withdraw th the as Indorsement of oC the proposed new he bicycle ordinance which lies has boen changed sluice It left the hands of ot the members member a 1 committee of ot Charles J 3 Dana DaM Smith N Y V Charles Wilkes and H JJ S Anderson was wan appointed app to formulate plane Illan fur for the annotation a in inthe Inthe inthe the election u |
