The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Leader protesting the New York Park Commissioners' humiliating restrictions on wheelmen in Central Park, crediting the Pope Manufacturing Company's lawsuit and Mr. Bourne rather than the League, and demanding the L.A.W. fight the case to the higher courts. Unheaded editorial notes follow on club privacy, the Boston Herald's praise of Boston club life, tricycling prospects for 1885, and the League Gazette debate.
- Chris Wheeler answers W. I. H.'s charge that he started the fuss over the Springfield clubs, and takes the Wheel to task for maligning Springfield Wheelman's Gazette editor Mr. Ducker and the Amateur Athlete.
- William E. Gilman of the Chelsea Bicycle Club proposes that L.A.W. membership run one year from the date of admission and that an official gazette be mailed directly to every member in place of the newspaper 'organ' system.
- The Cunningham Company of Boston assures readers it will not withdraw its Harvard and Yale machines in favour of its new 1885 models, expecting a larger demand than ever.
- Correspondent 'L. H. P.' argues from experience that the L.A.W. Gazette should be published fortnightly, on the first and fifteenth of each month, and that editor and publisher must work in the same location.
- Paragraph department opening with the verse 'A Header', then squibs on Singer's 44-inch Xtraordinary, W. M. Woodside's disputed Chicago records, Hendee's move to a 57-inch Rudge, elections at the Charlestown, Yale College and Golden City (San Francisco) clubs, E. P. Burnham's 3,000-mile year, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s move to Congress street.
- James S. Dodson, C.T.C. consul, surveys the twelve roads centring on Bethlehem, Pa.: the Bethlehem and Allentown turnpike with its eight-cent toll won by the Alpha Club, the slag-built Hellertown road, and the Nazareth, Bath, Mauch Chunk and Salisbury routes, with hotel advice for Rittersville, Allentown and Nazareth.
- A. L. Bricknell, M.I.M.E. (reprinted from the Tricyclist) explains how spring steel stretches and compresses in bending, why a thin wide spring outlasts a thick one, and the gutter-shaped corrugation defect seen in flattened-S tricycle saddle springs at the last Stanley Show.
- Humorous account of two Buffalo club members' moonlight ride out the Military road to Tonawanda under a full moon, covering the ten miles in forty-five minutes, signed 'Z. A. W., 1662'.
- Wm. G. Heberhart, L.A.W. consul, reports that the Facile leads among local wheels, describes the 480-foot hill climbs and 'exciting coasts' around Madison, and announces plans to organise a club by spring.
- The Rutland Bicycle Club's sole century attempt was beaten back by head winds at sixty-two miles; the club now practises at the rink every Thursday, and a visiting professional fancy rider shooting cats with an air gun was mistaken for the New York burglars.
- Judge Blodgett entered a final decree for the Pope Manufacturing Company against J. M. Fairfield for violating his licence, awarding damages, costs and a perpetual injunction.
- Fourteen tourists including George R. Bidwell of New York, F. A. Elwell of Portland (the organiser), Dr. A. G. Coleman and Francis Cushing of Montreal have booked staterooms on the 'Orinoco', sailing 22 January to wheel the coral roads of Bermuda.
- G. W. Harrison beat roller-skater E. L. Maddocks over five miles at the Beverly rink; Cola E. Stone and Phil Hammill were barred from the Chicago Christmas meeting pending amateur-status investigations; the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, announces a forty-eight-hour professional safety championship with Jack Keen entered.
- Club news: a Massachusetts city drill squad will challenge any club in the United States, the Junior Wheelmen elected J. C. Guggenheimer president, and the Lafayette Wheelmen of Baltimore renamed themselves the Baltimore 'Cycle Club with W. S. Bayley as president.
- Corrections to the paper's record tables, including John Brooks' six and seven mile American amateur times and R. Howell's and W. M. Woodside's professional times at Springfield in September 1884.
- American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston: the list of State consuls, provisionally elected applicants from Springfield, Cincinnati, New York and Philadelphia, renewal reminders, and the Canadian Division under Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Brief replies to the Hudson Club, the Star Club of Lynn, and readers asking about the Xmas number, protecting bright parts with vaseline, and wearing trousers on central-geared versus loop-frame tricycles.