The Bicycling World, Vol 1, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Late May 1880 editorial notes on the departure of the English touring party, Topeka Kansas's anti-bicycle ordinance, and a planned White Mountains bicycle excursion.
- The second part of a Connecticut Valley touring narrative, describing the route south from Springfield through West Springfield with road notes and route directions.
- News of the English touring party's departure and details of a planned three-week bicycle vacation through Portland and the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
- A history and membership roll of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, covering its formation and riding in the Prospect Park area.
- A clergyman defends bicycle riding on Sundays as healthful exercise for the body which is the temple of the Lord, arguing it is a moral duty to maintain physical health.
- A Philadelphia letter signed "Mercury" on the city's four clubs (Philadelphia, Germantown, Centaur and Pegasus), the Camden and Haddonfield Turnpike shutting its gates against cyclists, and a riding-school exhibition at the Chestnut Street rink featuring C. Cope and D. Mears.
- A Portsmouth, N.H. letter signed "Telzah" reporting the organization of the Rockingham Bicycle Club, a toll-gatherer's ruling that "the bicycle is a wheelbarrow," and Major Urch's marine bicycle, a catamaran-propeller craft trialled on the Piscataqua river.
- Organization and officer notes for the Chelsea, Elgin, Lenox (New York City), Louisville, Montreal, Pittsfield and Rockingham (Portsmouth, N.H.) bicycle clubs, including uniforms, membership counts and elected officers.
- Results of the one-mile and five-mile bicycle races at the Elizabeth Athletic Club spring games (won by W. P. Field and L. H. Johnson), an inter-scholastic mile on the Manhattan grounds won by W. S. Clark, and Boston's plans for Fourth of July bicycle races with $225 in prizes.
- Notes on bicycle maker A. M. Gooch, hotel accommodations for the Newport meet, Captain Hodges's return to Boston from the Pacific coast, the Boston Driving and Athletic Association's new officers, and a road accident to Warren J. Smith of the Essex Club at Orange.
- An editorial establishing the historical record of which American bicycle clubs were founded first, settling claims of seniority among the major clubs.
- Foreign notes: R. Meech's ten-mile handicap win at Southampton, H. L. Cortis's ten-mile scratch win for the Surrey Bi. C., Keen's five-mile victory at Leicester, Higham's 556 miles in the Wolverhampton six-days' contest, the growth of French Veloce clubs, and the toe-rests versus legs-over-handles debate.
- An interview with R. H. Hodgson, bicycle manufacturer and proprietor of the Newton factory, on the state of bicycle production in America.
- A satirical piece describing a one-sided enthusiast who sees everything through the lens of cycling, to the amusement of his non-cycling friends.
- An editorial prompted by Harvard student Jessie C. Wright's coasting crash on Chestnut Hill avenue, proposing simple road rules for wheelmen: never lose command of the wheel and never descend a hill too fast to dismount.
- How the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, led by Captain Charles Koop, won repeal of the old anti-velocipede ordinance: the Law Committee's report to the Common Council (given in full), the aldermen's debate over Bedford avenue, and new access to the Prospect Park drives.
- An article signed "Amateur" urging the Eastern Archery Association to shun the cash prizes offered at the National Association's Chicago tournament, lest archery be degraded to the level of pedestrianism and horse-racing.
- Practical advice signed "Ranger" for beginners forming small archery parties: selecting bows, arrows, targets and tripods, laying out a range, and the York round adopted by the Eastern Archery Association.
- A letter from a member of the N.A.C. objecting to money prizes at the National Archery Association's July tournament as the first step toward professionalism, urging medals instead.
- Full prize list of the North Side Archery Club's first field day on the South Lawn of Lincoln Park, Chicago, on 15 May: Mrs. Adams swept the ladies' events and J. Wilkinson took the gentlemen's best gross score, with prizes from E. I. Horsman and A. G. Spalding & Bros.
- James Dwight answers A. S. Brownell on scoring methods, testing an 80-yard score by measuring each arrow's distance from the centre to show the old scoring method tracks measurement more closely than the new.
- Model articles of association by A. S. Brownell for forming an archery club, covering officers, meetings, membership, dues and amendments.
- Reviews of the June magazines: Mark Twain's "A Telephonic Conversation" in the Atlantic Monthly, Lippincott's on lawn tennis, Scribner's on William Blake and Thackeray, the new Chicago monthly "Indoors and Out," the Physician and Patient, and bicycle notes from St. Mary's College Miscellany.
- A letter from the Weed Sewing Machine Co. of Hartford explaining the delays in delivering Columbia bicycles for the Pope Mfg. Co., citing new steel shapes, twenty-seven sizes across three models, and a promised flood of machines within four weeks.