The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 14
Articles in this issue
- May 1880 editorial notes on the imminent departure of the English touring party, a warm welcome for Jesse Howard's return from a world trip, and commentary on the Columbia bicycle delays.
- A history of the Montreal Bicycle Club, the fifth club formed on the North American continent, with details of its rides to the Mountain Park and the 1879 season including a race won by H. S. Tibbs.
- An account of the Centaur Bicycle Club of Philadelphia, founded December 1879 as a social club with strict membership limits, covering its uniform and social character.
- Kol Kron's road-by-road account of wheeling north from West Springfield through Holyoke, Smith's Ferry, Easthampton, Northampton and Hatfield to Greenfield, rating sidewalks, grades and the red-clay track above Ashleyville.
- Club reports including the newly organized Arlington Bicycle Club of Washington, D.C. and Brattleboro Bicycle Club of Vermont, the Boston Bi. Club's exchange of toasts with the Pickwick Bicycling Club of London, a Harvard club dinner at Young's, and the Salem club's reorganization as the Hawthorne Bicycle Club.
- The Secretary of the New York Bicycle Club reports replies to his circulars and estimates 150 to 200 wheelmen will attend the Newport meet, with the proprietor of the Ocean House offering accommodations.
- Race results including the Elizabeth (N.J.) Athletic Club spring games, where W. P. Field won the mile handicap and L. H. Johnson the five-mile scratch, plus two-mile races at the 22d Regiment armory and Columbia College and a one-mile race at Yale's Hamilton Park.
- Letters from Bella Rota on Pittsburgh's new Keystone club and the boys' Challenge Club, Will R. Pitman asking that unattached riders be invited to the Newport meet, and a San Francisco writer on Golden Gate Park riding restrictions and a comic ordeal shipping a bicycle to Reno by the Central Pacific Railroad.
- An interview with Colonel Albert Pope, founder of the Pope Manufacturing Company and the dominant figure in American bicycle production, discussing the industry's growth and future.
- An indignant note on the failure of the Beacon Park Bicycle Track subscription in Boston, which drew only about thirty names after the earlier defeat of the Granite Bridge plan.
- Leader paragraphs on the excursion party about to sail for England and on making the Newport meet a success, followed by the 'More Pioneers' note introducing the Pope interview and a tribute to the Pope Manufacturing Company's promotion of American bicycling.
- An editorial arguing that ten first-year riders make more noise than a hundred veterans, defending Boston's quieter third season of bicycling and pointing to the Decoration Day meet at Newport as the spur to renewed club activity.
- Comment on the Eastern Archery Association's target-colors debate, siding with the old outlined target, plus a report of the first competitive shoot at Jamaica Plain to pick the Boston team for the coming match with New York.
- A letter from Andrew S. Brownell answering Dr. Dwight on the proportional scoring values of the target rings, citing double York Round averages from the London Field to defend his proposed 1-2-3-4-5 values.
- A report of the Eastern Archery Association debate on Mr. Abbott's proposed target amendment, in which Dr. Dwight's motion for solid painted colors in place of outlined rings on a white facing was carried.
- A fixture list including the Boston vs. New York matches on 29 May and 17 June, the Michigan State Tournament at Detroit, the National Association Grand Meeting at Buffalo in July, and the Eastern Association Tournament in Boston in September.
- Description of the new high-specification Special Columbia bicycle, Pope Manufacturing Company's top model for 1880, which would debut at the Newport meet.
- Reviews of the enlarged second edition of Charles E. Pratt's The American Bicycler, a critique of a poorly informed bicycle article in Brentano's Monthly, and notices of The Bostonian and other papers.
- A club song composed by President Bates of the Detroit Bicycle Club, celebrating the joys of wheeling and the fellowship of cyclists.