The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Leader arguing the L.A.W. should erect direction boards rather than danger boards, urging clubs to help the Massachusetts Division distribute its guide-boards; further editorial notes cover Treasurer Terry's dispute with Secretary Aaron over half-year League dues, a hostile North Carolina turnpike law pushed by the lieutenant governor, and an English proposal for an Order of Merit for cycling's unpaid officials.
- Letters from readers: a Buffalo report on the fire that nearly destroyed the L.A.W. meet programme and the Buffalo Bicycle Club renting its first clubhouse; N. H. Van Sicklen's ammonia-filled syringe remedy for attacking dogs; 'Down South' from Spokes in Augusta, Ga. on riding with champion Prince and races at Montgomery; and Karl Kron on cheap county road maps of Massachusetts for wheelmen.
- State-by-state results of the L.A.W. election, naming chief consuls and representatives including Frank A. Elwell (Maine), Henry E. Ducker (Massachusetts), Edward F. Hill (New York), G. Carleton Brown (New Jersey) and Eugene M. Aaron (Pennsylvania).
- Programme for the Cyclists' Touring Club American Division business meeting and reunion at Cleveland, Ohio, 18-19 May, listing the arrangements, reception and hotel committees under Charles H. Potter and Alfred Ely, with a theatre party, park run and Cleveland Bicycle Club spring races.
- Portland notes: Gilbert L. Bailey secures the Kangaroo and Royal Mail agency, Columbia Light Roadsters and Victors are ordered for the Moosehead-Mt. Desert tour, Geo. E. Dunton is appointed L.A.W. consul for Augusta, and the Portland Wheel Club weighs a capitalist's offer to build it a club house.
- One hundred and twenty-five men have pledged for the Big Four Tour and a $60 gold medal is commissioned for its century road race from Cobourg to Kingston, Canada; Boston division participants include captain E. G. Whitney, A. D. Peck, Jr. and H. D. Corey.
- The investigating committee censures ex-Treasurer E. J. Wheeler for abandoning his duties and finds Secretary Sanford grossly negligent over unremitted reports and a withheld $5.00 rebate, recommending the New York Division request Sanford's resignation.
- F. Warner Jones, reprinted from the Tricyclist, gives detailed guidance on fitting rider to machine — weight distribution over the large wheels, pillar and saddle position, crank distance and pedal width — comparing the Rotary, Salvo, Humber, Premier and Kangaroo types.
- Editorial paragraphs on the misprinted election of 'Dr. A. G. Kendall', the N.A.A.A.A. adopting L.A.W. racing rules, H. S. Wood's comprehensive Pennsylvania road book with 110 routes and six maps, a review of Dr. Gordon Stables's health book for riders, and confirmation that Thomas Stevens's round-the-world ride continues under Outing's auspices.
- Foreign notes: an aluminium-alloy bicycle and tricycle shown at London's Sportsman's Exhibition, a 5s. lamp fine for Henry Dreye of Eton, R. Howell taking the ten-mile professional championship at Leicester over F. Wood and F. Lees, John Keen beating three horses over twenty miles at the Crystal Palace, and a 1,500-machine cycle stable opened in London.
- Trade notes: the Pope Manufacturing Company reopens its Boston rink, W. W. Stall converts his back store into a riding school and issues a catalogue offering prizes to Star riders, H. D. Corey travels for Stoddard, Lovering & Co., and Heath & Co. of Minneapolis open a St. Paul branch under S. S. Wolcott.
- Grant Bell beats Charles Frazier in a five-mile rink race at Minneapolis in 17.14 after Frazier sportingly restarts; results from the Keystone Athletic Club at Pittsburg and Manhattan Athletic Club games; plans for a four-lap track in Chicago, the New Haven tournament of 5-6 June, the world one-mile professional championship, and the full course of the Cambridge fifty-mile road race.
- The Massachusetts Club votes to remain with the League; Toronto Club statistics show 162 members and 49 prizes won in 1884; new clubs organize at Moline, Ill. and Yellow Springs, Ohio; the Maverick Wheel Club and Maverick Rifles stage a rink entertainment in East Boston; and Capt. Harrison calls the Boston Club's first tally-ho run to Hotel Wellesley.
- American Division notices under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston: the list of State consuls, provisional membership elections, new consuls for Delaware, Ohio and New Orleans, and a special sleeping car from Boston to the Cleveland annual meeting; Canadian Division applications go to Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Brief editorial replies to readers on racing machine sizing, the racing board's disregard of road records, the poor sand-and-clay road between Buffalo and Niagara, and tricycle recommendations including the Cripper and Ranelagh Club.
- Calendar of coming events from the C.T.C. meeting at Cleveland on 18-19 May through the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September, including the Springfield Bicycle Club spring races, the Cambridge fifty-mile road race, and championship meets at New Haven, Hartford and Pittsfield.