The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The leader "The Tariff" argues for removing the thirty-five per cent duty on imported bicycles and tricycles to cut prices and force American makers to compete; further notes weigh L.A.W. proposals to amalgamate the secretary offices, the League's habit of waiting for meet invitations, and the new Massachusetts act arising from Dalton v. Milliken on Lord's Day riding.
- "Dwight" argues from eighteen machines' experience that laced (tangent) spokes beat direct spokes for lightness and strength, citing a 31-pound Rudge ridden 2,000 miles; A. G. Coleman of Canandaigua, N.Y., endorses the Bermuda trip, his new Kangaroo, and Buffalo as the next League meet.
- Detailed examination of the new Rudge safety bicycle at Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s warerooms, comparing it with Hillman's Kangaroo: a 36-inch geared driving wheel, 16-inch rear wheel, Morgan's patent endless chain, 37 pounds, priced at $135.
- An electrical engineer describes Ayrton & Perry's electric tricycle for the C.T.C. Gazette: ten accumulators from the Electrical Power Storage Company drive a 36-pound motor giving eight miles an hour for eight hours, with two five-candle incandescent lamps.
- Election-day run of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club through New Jersey under Capt. Elliot, joined by the Mercury Wheelmen, Heights Wheelmen, Bedford Wanderers and Capt. Mead's Essex Wheelmen — nearly fifty riders touring Orange to dinner at the Mansion House, Montclair.
- Messrs. Cripps and Wilson, having lost their tandem record to Smith and Brown, rode again on 23 October and reclaimed the best on record, with splits given mile by mile.
- Table comparing best amateur bicycle records (Sellers, English, Hillier, Falconer, Waller) with American trotting-horse times (Maud S., Monroe Chief, Capt. McGowan), showing riders must speed up to catch the horse records up to twenty miles.
- Twenty-four-hour go-as-you-please run of the Chicago Bicycle Club called by Capt. W. G. E. Peirce: N. H. Van Sicklen covered 143 1/2 miles on an Expert through the city's parks, crediting his Wilkinson adjustable saddle, while the Ruhling brothers and others retired saddle-sore.
- The N.C.U. and C.T.C.'s joint instructions for obtaining, erecting and painting the free annealed-iron danger boards for dangerous hills — white ground, vermillion "dangerous", nine feet up an oak post — with nearly five hundred already placed in England.
- The twenty-four-hour tricycle record duel between M. Rousset, the 49-year-old president of the Veloce Club Bordelais, and M. Daniel ("Baby") of Pau; Rousset, paced by Charles Terront and M. Maillot, rode 339 kilometres on his Coventry Rotary on 4 October to retake the record.
- List of new American cycling patents furnished by Henry W. Williams of Boston, including Chas. S. Leddell's bicycles, Joseph S. Murray's ball bearings (part-assigned to the Cunningham Company), and two velocipede patents assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Satirical dream-sketch (from Wheel World) of cycling in 1983: 7 3/4-pound aluminium "Cobweb" racers, a covered cinder track from Land's End to John-o'-Groat's ridden in under two days, and an old rider lamenting that the craze for pace has doomed the sport.
- Notes column opening with Ninon Neckar's poem "An Autumn Ride up the Wissahickon", then short paragraphs on Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s new Congress Street quarters, Wm. Read & Son's Kangaroos, the new Southern 'Cycler of Memphis, and T. Sedgwick Steele's resignation from the Connecticut Club presidency.
- P. M. Harris wins the Ixion Bicycle Club's fifteen-mile road race to Yonkers; Star riders take eleven of thirteen prizes at the Rochester Bicycle Club's fifth annual meeting (Charles Smith winning the Coleman and Curtis medals); William Patterson defeats Louise Armaindo in a 100-mile race at Omaha after her machine breaks.
- The Plainfield (N.J.) Bicycle Club opens its new rooms over Stillman Music Hall and awards mileage medals (D. M. Runyon, 3,008 miles in six months); Rutland, Vt. bulletins election returns by wire; the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club elects Frederick McOwen president.
- Directory of the C.T.C.'s American division under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, listing state consuls from Connecticut to Wisconsin, new appointments in Warren, Ohio and Leadville, Col., and the Canadian division under Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Answers to readers' queries, including a correction that the danger sign-boards originated with the National 'Cyclists Union rather than the C.T.C., an acknowledgment to Hon. Sec. Fred C. Dray of London, and advice on enamel and veteran riders' records.