The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Untitled leader paragraphs for 17 July 1885 on midsummer riding, a reliable lamp loaned by the Pope Manufacturing Company, a new King of the Road-pattern lamp with side lenses seen at Stoddard, Lovering & Co., the distinction between a lamp and a lantern, and the scarcity of good bells; continuing overleaf with calls for a livelier L.A.W. Rights and Privileges committee, an argument against Boston hosting the next League meet in favour of Saratoga, and support for Singer & Co.'s proposal that makers stamp certified weights on their machines.
- Correspondence from New York praising the first number of the L.A.W. Bulletin and its editor, and mocking the editor of the Wheel for his attacks on the committee on the League organ, questioning his cost estimates to Messrs. Baird Bros. and his 'Cyclists' Publishing Company'.
- W. T. Damon, secretary of the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen, defends Charles H. Metz against the charge of professionalism arising from an 1881 charity race at the Utica Driving Park held alongside Elsa Von Blumen's exhibition against horses; the editor replies that chairman Hill of the membership committee holds documentary proof and that Metz's case belongs before the racing board.
- 'Daisie' argues that cyclists should name their wheels as they do horses and yachts, quotes Mrs. Philpot's kilted riding-dress with divided skirts and the uniform recommended by the C.T.C. ladies' committee, and commends twenty-five-cent goggles against the glare of white roads.
- Daily bulletins from the tour through Cobourg, Belleville and Kingston to the Thousand Islands, with a full report of the 100-mile road race won by C. E. Stone of St. Louis in 8h 28m ahead of L. D. Munger and G. E. Weber, after H. N. VanSicklen's machine was kicked by a horse and H. D. Corey withdrew; at Round Island, H. S. Wollison of Pittsfield won the half-mile race and Geo. R. Bidwell the fat men's race.
- Municipal-court arguments in the case of the City v. John Topping, charged with riding a bicycle on Virginia street contrary to ordinance: H. M. Russell for the defence contends the streets belong to the State and the ordinance is void, Solicitor O'Keeffe answers for the city with talk of steam bicycles and buffalo-riding, and the judge reserves his decision while advising riders to seek repeal.
- Reflections prompted by the downfall of the Cunningham Company, the pioneer American house, recalling how Frank Weston abandoned an architect's career under N. J. Bradlee to enter the trade, the Hanlon Brothers' velocipede exhibitions on Boston Common, and the slotted-crank patent later held by the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Trade notes on the Patton cradle spring made by Zacharias & Smith of Newark for the Star machine, fast Philadelphia rider A. G. Powell's delight in the 'Genuine Humber' tandem geared to fifty-eight inches, and a unanimous testimonial to Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s Rudge signed by twenty-two members of the Big Four Tour.
- Foreign notes: Mrs. Allen of England attempting the 24-hour ladies' tricycle record of 200 miles, English makers adopting American names such as Singer's Springfield tandem, an Australian race for a lady's bracelet, and Faed's argument in the Wheel World that Hendee's quarter- and half-mile records deserve world status despite the N.C.U.'s track-measurement rules.
- A London letter on the English path: Cambridge student George Gatehouse, 'untainted by the makers', orders a Cripper for the long-distance championships, while eighteen-year-old Webber wins the five-mile championship at Newcastle in 14m 22s, with notes on Illston, Sellers, Cripps, the ailing English, U. W. Laing of Scotland, Chambers, and Hillier, editor of the Tricyclist.
- An English correspondent answers the prejudice against the 'Quadrant' tricycle, reporting favourable verdicts from every cycle repairer consulted and describing his sixty-five-pound machine's large central steering wheel set about 39 inches forward, which he finds the safest and steadiest arrangement at speed and a splendid hill-climber.
- A courtship poem, 'De Gustibus non Disputandem', in which a bike rider and a trike-riding neighbour resolve to ride through life on a tandem, followed by short items: Capt. T. S. Miller of Chicago's volume of club songs, a proposed wheel stable in Pemberton Square, Col. Albert A. Pope's portrait among 'Men of Mark', and George W. Baker's 454 miles in nine days from St. Louis toward Boston.
- Results of the Bartholomew County Wheelmen's races at Columbus, Ind., where professional John Brooks beat W. M. Woodside and Prince Wells set unicycle records, followed by the Dorchester Club's fifty-mile open road race announced for 25 July with entries to Dr. W. G. Kendall, the Cote des Neiges uphill race won by W. A. Murray, John S. Prince's absence from Springfield, and the Boston Club's tricycle road race course for 3 August.
- Club formation and activity news: the Florence Cycle Club founded with eighteen members; the Missouri Bicycle Club planning a new fifteen-thousand-dollar club-house; new officers elected at the Wakefield Club.
- Official column of the C.T.C. American Division under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, listing the State consuls, provisional membership elections, and consul appointments for Albany, Ottumwa, and the State of Iowa.