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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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he vote, several delegates had left the roomin disgust, amongst them L. C. Grover, ofHartford, and L. A. Miller and C. L. King, ofMeriden. The rest of the meeting was in comparison. The Touring Committee reported that pro-gress had been made in marking out with signboards the junctions of country roads andasked for an appropriation of $150 to continue BASSETT BLAMED. CHARGES LIKELY TO BE PREFERRED AGAINST THE SECRETARY OF THE L. A. W. In the course of a very short time, AbbotBassett, Secretary of the L. A. W., is likely tobe called upon to explain certain matters whichmay cause him some embarrassment. For some time past it has circulated, moreor less freely, that Mr. Bassett was the authorof the editorial reflecting upon the officers ofthe New York State Division which appearedin the Bicycling World of January 13 last.This editorial, it will be remembered, wascondemned by the L. A. W. Executive Com-mittee as unwarranted, and likely to provedetrimental to the Division, and also that it
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fact helped frame the Holden bill, whichallowed the selling of pools for a period ofthirty days. Col. Burdett was on his feet in an instant. Do I understand that the gentlemansinsinuation refers to me? he asked. Mr. Post replied in the affirmative. Then, Mr. Chairman, I wish to state righthere that the statement or insinuation is un-qualifiedly false, replied the Colonel, in toneswhich could not be misunderstood. Shortly afterwards it was discovered thatthere was no motion before the house andfurther discussion was shut off. There was another wordy fight when Mr.Post urged the adoption of this resolution: Resolved: That the Connecticut Division, L. A.W ,favors a call for a special meeting either in Clevelandor Chicago, as near after the expiration of sixty daysas possible, to investigate the Good Roads Bureauaccount, together with any other matters that thedelegates of Connecticut Division may see fit andconsider necessary. In advocating this action Mr. Post is reportedto have waxed e

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