The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Leader columns urging President Beckwith to appoint a committee to redraft the L.A.W. constitution and defending ball bearings against an Amateur Athlete contributor's case for plain bearings, with shorter notes on electrical tricycles, the Lancet's cycling-health scare, and the Wheeling versus Wheel Life publishing war between Harry Etherington and Iliffe and Sturmey.
- Letters on the American interchangeable system's superiority to English threads (signed I. X. L. and Veteran), a Mexican-style army saddle proposed by a lieutenant, Club Member questioning whether Boston has a track fit to rival Springfield, Hartford, and New Haven tournaments, and a humorous 'Curiosity' piece from Washington.
- Ixion recounts progressing from a 150-pound Cheylesmore Sociable and a Rucker single to a 44-inch Humber Tandem, praising its hill-climbing, steadiness with a lady rider, and superiority over side-by-side sociables, with a footnote from C. W. Nairn's moonlight Brighton-to-London Tandem ride.
- The Ramblers' Bicycle Club settles into its new club house remodelled by owner D. K. Ferguson, with gymnasium and reading rooms; members' exploits include the first bicycle descent of Mount Washington and climbs of Corey Hill.
- At the Manchester Bicycle Club's hill-climbing contest of 15 November, Lieutenant Moses Sheriff won the silver medal presented by C. H. Wilkins, covering the quarter-mile Park-Street Hill in 1m. 25s.; only two of six starters finished.
- A twenty-foot memorial to James Starley, 'father of the 'cycle industry', was unveiled at Coventry on 8 November by the mayor before some eight thousand spectators, funded by subscriptions from workmen in the trade.
- A highway-defect tort case in which the plaintiff fell into a cellar-window opening while stepping back for a passing velocipede; Judge Holmes of the Supreme Court rules that not every use of a velocipede on the sidewalk is unlawful.
- A column of short items opening with the parody poem 'How they Brought the Good News from Surrey to Kent', plus a Thanksgiving meditation and notes on the Riverside Drive opening to New York wheelmen, Robert Todd's denial of 'Doodle' Robinson's claims, and the Cunningham Company's new factory.
- A. B. Rich wins the one- and three-mile bicycle races at the Seventh Regiment Games in New York; at Denver's Exposition Race Track H. G. Kennedy beats F. E. Kimball in a five-mile amateur race, and the Bay City Wheelmen announce a 10 January tournament at San Francisco's Mechanics' Pavilion.
- Club news including the Kings County Wheelmen of Brooklyn planning a $10,000 two-story club-house, the Massillon club entertaining Cleveland, Worcester Aeolus Wheelmen electing F. W. Blacker president, and the Citizens' Club's 3 December house-warming featuring Thomas Stevens, fresh from his San Francisco-to-Boston ride.
- The Maryland Bicycle Club lays the corner-stone of its $12,000 three-story club house at Reservoir street and Mt. Royal avenue in Baltimore on Thanksgiving day, with a club parade through Druid Hill park and Mayor Latrobe among the guests; Samuel T. Clark is president and Frank E. Davis the architect.
- American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston listing the State consuls, provisionally elected members B. F. Wade and R. W. Piper of Chicago, Canadian Division contact Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal, and Abbot Bassett's sign-board fund reaching $43.25.
- Editors' replies to readers on duty-free machine imports, the Butcher cyclometer, curing head play with a raw-hide washer, Humber sizing versus the adjustable Traveller, Royal Mail, and Cruiser, and Miss Erskine's 'Tricycling for Ladies' recommended to a lady rider.