The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 5
Articles in this issue
- The leader argues that leisurely touring, not the eternal cry for pace, yields the most pleasure from the wheel, condemning clubs that 'break up' visiting guests — the Chicago tourists' boast against the Massachusetts Club included. Editorial notes follow on the Wheel Life attack on American records, the Clerkenwell County Court warranty verdict in Cooke v. Lawson over a defective Rudge convertible, and the doubted Webb and Sutton road records.
- Letters spar over a Boston tournament: 'Club Member' answers a Boston Herald squib comparing Boston unfavourably with Springfield, while 'W. G. K.' proposes Beacon Park as the track. 'L. A. W. Member' objects to the League Gazette being printed by outside athletic journals, and 'Modest' defends English makers against 'I. X. L.' on interchangeability.
- The Brooklyn Bicycle Club held a Thanksgiving Day paper chase from the shelter in Prospect Park towards Bath and Fort Hamilton, with Messrs. Spellman and Skinner as hares, Lieut. Slade as master of the hunt and Lieut. Jones as whipper-in; the hares finished twelve minutes ahead uncaught.
- Chief Consul Frank W. Weston reports the finances of the September C.T.C. meet and 'Wheel around the Hub' — $152 from ticket sales against hotel, ambulance and printing costs — crediting Consul Chas. H. Potter of Cleveland, who paid the printing and postage himself, with turning a loss into a $20.25 nucleus for a C.T.C. fund.
- A reprinted Wheel Life article (published by the World 'as a comique') alleging that American short-distance records by Hendee, Dolph and Sanders Sellers owe their speed to lax starting and slow pistol-firers, citing Myers's claims and contrasting Speechly's starting quarter at the Crystal Palace track.
- Frank A. Elwell of Portland, Me. describes a March ride from Hamilton, Bermuda to the great lighthouse on Gibbs' Hill — erected in 1845 at a cost of $28,000 — with encounters including a donkey cart upset and British red-coats from Ireland Island, in anticipation of the coming January tour.
- Elwell passes on F. Lennock Godet's programme for the January bicycle tour of Bermuda, notes that six tricycles can now be hired in Hamilton, and urges intending tourists to book early since the 'Orinoco' has only fifty staterooms.
- The Nemo Wheeling Club of Dorchester, Mass. admits members only as lady-and-gentleman couples with one vote between them, requires C.T.C. membership and uniform, and opposes the tandem; two of its members set the ladies' American twelve-hour tricycle road record, Dorchester to Newburyport, 53 miles in 8h. 38m. on an American Salvo.
- The Maryland Club of Baltimore laid the corner-stone of its new club-house on Mount Royal avenue on Thanksgiving Day, after a parade of some eighty riders with the Lafayette Wheelmen, Whirling Wheelmen, Druids, Monumental and Junior Wheelmen; president Samuel T. Clark deposited the club constitution, and Kemp Bartlett of the Druids retained his racing medal at the Park.
- Short notes opening with a sonnet to 'The Owl' wintering in New Orleans, then covering the Chelsea wheelmen's Spot Pond run, Dr. B. U. Piper's Chicago Bicycle Club paper on the health effects of cycling, a bungled League constitutional mail vote, the Overman Wheel Company's thirty tricycles for the New Orleans exhibition, and H. D. Corey's return from England.
- A humorous monologue in the voice of an ordinary bicycle lamp, which delights in going out quietly on worn Macadam roads, dropping its oil-can miles from any shop, jamming in the fork, and squeaking musically while its rider oils everything but the lamp.
- John S. Prince conceded nineteen miles to Miss Elsie Von Blumen in a hundred-mile match at Baltimore's Apollo Skating Rink and lost, finishing 99 miles and six laps in 7h. 27m.; Charles E. Davies seeks Madison Square Garden for a six-day horses-versus-bicyclists contest, and a Chicago six-day is arranged pitting Woodside and Brooks against Morgan and Louise Armaindo.
- The Hudson County Wheelmen's Jersey City entertainment featured a bicycle ball-room march led by Capt. E. W. Johnson, polo on wheels between Master Thomas Finley and Charles Frazier, and feats by Prof. Harry W. Tufts; also the new Rota Club of Toronto, the Oregon Bicycle Club of Portland, and George E. Bartol's election as president of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club.
- Official C.T.C. department: American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston with the list of State consuls from Connecticut to Wisconsin and a membership application from W. Sheldon Bull of Buffalo, plus Canadian Division notices under chief consul Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- The editor answers readers' queries on Newton's lamp ordinance and the absence of bell requirements, saddle choice (favouring the Lillibridge), the undecided time and place of the next L.A.W. meet, the Otto Bicycle Company's American agents, and whether shortening Hendee's legs would slow him.