The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Club and rider reports from Port of Spain (Trinidad), Springfield (Ohio), Brooklyn, Washington, Cleveland, San Francisco, Chicago, Rochester and St. Louis, including Mayor Burdick's offer of Newport's hospitality to the New York Bi. C. and the Montreal Bicycle Club secretary's first ride on packed snow. Concludes with letters from Harry Etherington of London and 'Cyclino' of Liverpool offering to escort the planned American touring party, plus notice of the New York Athletic Club's Decoration Day bicycle races.
- The pseudonymous New York correspondent endorses renaming the bicycle 'the wheel', recounts a painless header caused by a loafer outside a Port Chester blacksmith shop, proposes that the paper publish an index of bicycling articles in the press, and commends W. H. Rideing's Harper's Magazine account of the Old National Pike from Frederick, Md., to Wheeling.
- Organisation notes on new clubs: the Amherst Bi. C. (President E. G. Rand), the Baltimore Bicycle Club (President S. T. Clarke), the Knickerbocker Bi. C. of Orange, N.J., the pioneer Minneapolis Bi. C. of Minnesota, the San Francisco Bi. C.'s general meeting at Arion Hall, and the newly formed St. Louis Bi. C. under Captain J. G. Blow.
- Personal notes: W. J. Howard of the Detroit Bi. C. joins Mr. Rollins's New York bicycle business, David Stanton sails for England before races at Manhattan Athletic Grounds, Pittsburg wheelman J. S. Hooper joins the Cleveland Bi. C., and Charles E. Pratt is made first honorary member of the New York Bi. C. Followed by unheaded trade notes on the Columbia Riding-school at Albany, English makers Bayliss, Thomas & Co., Cunningham & Co., and Hodgson's 'Velocity' factory at Newton Upper Falls.
- Reviews of Le Sport Velocipedique, the new Paris fortnightly edited by M. Paul Devillers; the fourth Bicycle Annual for 1880 edited by C. W. Nairn and C. J. Fox, Jr.; T. L. De Vinne's wood-cut printing series in Scribner's; and Puck's half-page poem 'The Bicycle Boom', with a list of recent bicycling articles in the general press.
- A mock-heroic ode signed 'Chiron', in which a struggling learner addresses his wheel through the climbing, toppling and faltering of practice until the town recedes and he outruns the horse.
- The official bugle call signals adopted by American bicycle clubs for use on club runs, with musical notation for buglers.
- An editorial urging Boston wheelmen to back Henry W. Lamb of the Driving and Athletic Association, who has secured authority to lay out a three-lap cinder racing path at Beacon Park with club-house facilities, provided enough bicycling members apply at $10 before 10 April.
- News about a planned bicycle touring party of Americans travelling to England, organised by Frank W. Weston of the Boston Bicycle Club.
- Discussion of prospects for a dedicated cycling track at Beacon Park in Boston, which was being agitated for by local wheelmen.
- Archery department: Toledo Archery Club members V. R. Manley and Frank E. Raff are reprinting Horace A. Ford's rare 1859 treatise on archery; the Manhattan Bowmen organise in New York; the New York Archery Club votes to exclude 'rounders'; the Tennis and Archery Club of Elizabeth, N.J., leases the Edgar estate; and Capt. J. K. Hoyt of Brooklyn loses a 90-arrow short-range match to J. O. Blake of Chicago.
- A lady archer signing 'L. L.' continues her confessions, describing how her club remodelled itself for serious target practice, her obsessive training that left the family sewing undone, and her victory in the silver-arrow match on a blustering November day.
- A. N. Drew reports winter trials at the Plimpton Hall Range of a simplified target facing with a single defined centre — gold ringed with red proving more visible than black at forty yards — and argues, citing Maurice Thompson's 'Witchery of Archery', that the heavy coloured rings only detract from the mark.
- Description of Woodman's new automatic bicycle alarm bell, which rings by the motion of the wheel, evaluated as a safety device for alerting pedestrians.
- A letter from Cunningham & Co. correcting the previous number's remarks on the Harvard bicycle, detailing the 1880 machine's new ball bearings to both wheels, open head and hollow fork made by Bayliss, Thomas & Co. of Coventry, and reporting that the 'three weeks' wait' for orders is nearly at an end.
- Summary of the B.T.C.'s half-yearly meeting in London, chaired by S. J. A. Cotterell: Secretary Walter D. Welford reports 1,207 members and consuls in six countries, the club debates founding an American branch, and a motion by Mr. Short to join the Bicycle Union as a club is defeated before a two-hundred-cover supper.