Vol 5, No 31
Articles in this issue
- An unheaded italic note in the leader position announcing that the next Gazette will be published on Thursday, the 2nd of November, and that copy intended for insertion in it should be sent in by 5 p.m. on the 31st inst.
- Resolutions from the monthly council meeting at the "Red Lion," Salisbury, on the 16th ult.: a committee of R. E. Phillips and W. Pye English to design and obtain tenders for iron tablets to be fixed outside the various hotel headquarters; the half-yearly General Meeting to be fixed at the October Council Meeting; a petition to be presented with the Bicycle Union's asking the Duke of Cambridge to let cyclists through Richmond Park; and Alfred Bunt of Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, erased from the books as a professional. W. B. Tanner gives notice of proposing W. B. Gurney of Bradford to succeed S. H. Ineson as Hon. Treasurer, and the next council meeting is at "Anderton's Hotel," Fleet Street, on 21st October.
- T. E. Scrutton and A. H. Rolls having been beaten by Elgood, the N.W. man goes through to the final against H. R. Reynolds; H. N. Sharp will supply the time and place to members who wish to watch. A racquet presented by R. G. Francis awaits the second prizeman, but the first prize is some five shillings short of its full value and unpaid subscribers are asked to send their "bob" at once.
- For the closing runs of the season, the W. and S.W. districts set out to rival other divisions in accidents: riding a three-hundredweight sociable through the flooded river road at Barnes, being towed by a friendly van, flying Petersham Hill, and finally abandoning the machine at Ham for repair after watching the Jupiter B.C. races at Ham Common.
- Eight members rode on from the Godstone Meet to East Grinstead for one of the musical evenings that used to be frequent two years ago, piloted by Naylor on his tricycle, whose speed much impressed the bicyclists, and covering the distance in a little over an hour. They stabled their machines in their old resting place in the billiard room and spent the evening in the drawing room with music, songs and punch; present were A. Barker, G. F. Beck, R. G. Francis, J. Kinder, W. E. Naylor, C. Newman, F. M. Williams and W. Wyndham.
- "Rambler's" paragraphs: the only answer to be had from Copsefield on inquiring for the Captain is "The Boss is hunting the nimble bloater"; the N.E. have beaten their own record four times this year and are said to be swearing in special constables after their recent encounter; a birth notice for J. Williams, jun., at Clement Villa, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon; thanks tendered to the S.E. District Captain, whose district has again scored a best on record for attendances; the twenty-four hours' road ride on "Faciles" promoted by Ellis and Co., won by Snook with 214½ miles from Sutton 198 and Cole 189 out of about twenty-six starters, with Pem Coleman making the arrangements; and a sentry's reply to a request for a good place to photograph.
- Two members staying on the Dorsetshire coast left their "bikes" ashore and sailed the three-tonner "Dauntless" across to the Isle of Portland, taking a reef in the mainsail after a green sea came aboard and putting about when the forts began firing and a shot passed close. Landing at Portland Roads with a camera and instantaneous shutter, they were halted by a warder with his rifle at the charge, got past on a passing country girl's whispered tip to say they were going to the barracks, passed gangs of convicts under armed guard, and were told by the officer on duty that they would be arrested if they persisted in photographing. The piece closes with the tale of an escaped convict who swam ashore near Lulworth, stole a bather's clothes, watch, cigar and return ticket and reached Waterloo in comfort.
- Maynard H. Jephson's account of riding to Scotland with W. A. G. Walter, deliberately without a settled route. Leaving Monmouth on Saturday, August 19th they took the wrong road and went by Ross and the Wye to Hereford and over Dinmore to Ludlow and "The Feathers" (59 miles), then by Church Stretton between the Long Mynd and Wenlock Edge to the "George" at Shrewsbury, and by Whitchurch and a wrong turning at Malpas to Chester, where a barber ran after them to return a dropped half-sovereign. A nameless Liverpool temperance hotel, appalling paving as far as Ormskirk and Preston, redeemed by cinder footpaths smooth as a racing track, and Walter's wrenched hind-wheel pin sent him on to Lancaster by train; the last day ran through Carnforth, Milnthorpe, Kendal, Windermere, Ambleside and over Dunmail Raise to Thirlmere under Helvellyn.
- The letters column for this number, given over entirely to Gerard F. Cobb's continued series on bicycling in Switzerland.
- Gerard F. Cobb's continued letter gives the second day, Lucerne to Thun by the Emmenthal, with a table of heights and distances through Malters, Wohlhausen, Entlebuch, Schüpfheim, Escholzmatt, Trubschachen, Langnau and Oppligen, and turn-by-turn directions for a road he says English visitors have often never even heard of. Only one dismount is compulsory in the sixty miles; he recommends Langnau or Schüpfheim as halting places and prices two Langnau lunches at the "Hotel Emmenthal," describes finding the swimming baths locked because "the water would not come till Monday" and bathing in the river instead, records racing a passenger train eight miles to Zäsiwyl and beating his own telegram to the Thunerhof, points out the great old wooden hospital at Bärau, and warns of nineteen level crossings on the route.
- E. H. Pollock of 25, Thurlow Road, Hampstead, N.W., offers a 50-inch "Stassen" roadster with patent eccentric brake, in perfect running order and suitable for a beginner, at £2 or offers.
- A. O. Ward's address is now 22, Forest Road, Edinburgh, and A. C. Smith's is Sutton Lodge, The Ridgeway, Enfield.
- Contributions received with thanks from R. M. Gruggen, M. H. Jephson, W. X. W., "Incognita" and G. R.
- All contributions must be addressed to "The Editor, L.B.C. Gazette, 85, Eastcheap, E.C.," bear the author's name though not necessarily for insertion, and be written on one side of the paper only; for this number they must be received not later than Tuesday, the 31st inst., at 5 p.m.