The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett regrets that editor Shipton has closed the C.T.C. Gazette's correspondence on safety bicycles, defends the L.A.W. racing board's deliberately simple gold championship medal, and notes protests at Springfield, Ohio and Scranton against riders whose expenses were allegedly paid by cycle dealers.
- 'Stone' of St. Louis attacks the new L.A.W. rule against disposing of prizes, citing a Victor bicycle he won and an $8 nickel timer he 'carefully lost', and argues that valuable prizes are what draw racing men to meets, so the rule will kill good race meetings.
- 'Daisie' rebuts correspondent 'Noah Count', protesting she never urged women toward Dr. Mary Walker-style reform costume but rather inconspicuous dress, and cites English tricyclists Miss Erskine, Mrs. Philpot and Jessie Choice in urging sisters to adapt their clothing sensibly to riding.
- Faed's first London letter as foreign correspondent reports brisk trade since the Stanley and Speedwell shows, the sensational dissolution of Humber, Marriott & Cooper into two rival firms, Singer's move into light racers, the boom in Quadrant tricycles, and Lucas winning the patent verdict for the King of the Road lamp.
- The Ohio division's annual meet at Springfield, Ohio, on 20 and 21 July found the division flourishing with 550 members and 92 new applications; Paul A. Staley of Springfield was elected to the combined secretary-treasurer office.
- Over one hundred bicyclers paraded at Scranton on 23 July under Chief Consul Aaron of Philadelphia; T. Howard Wright was re-elected secretary-treasurer, membership stands at 924, and a dark blue flag was adopted for League parades.
- The Michigan division's annual meet at Coldwater on 16 July included a spin around A. C. Fisk's Maple Park track and a visit to the Lewis Art Gallery; F. T. Burnham was elected secretary-treasurer, the Western Cyclist of Ovid was made the League paper, and next year's meet goes to Grand Rapids.
- Review of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's breezy little book recounting their August 1884 ride from London to Canterbury on a Coventry Rotary tandem along Chaucer's pilgrim route, to be published in America by Scribner & Co.
- Foreign notes: John A. Williamson's pamphlet on cyclists' legal rights, Furnival's N.C.U. one-mile tricycle championship and Gatehouse's record-breaking twenty-five-mile ride at Crystal Palace, Lennox's John O'Groat's record of 6 days 16 hours, and Thomas Stevens' letter from Constantinople on his ride across Europe.
- The Manufacture department describes Gormully & Jeffery's new American Safety of Chicago, with lever-and-crank pedal mechanism, twenty-inch rear wheel, butt-ended spokes and crescent steel rims, reported to be selling rapidly in this 'Safety season'.
- An essay on liberty arguing that American freedom guarantees license but not protection from encroachment, applied to sidewalk-hogging traders, reckless drivers and promenaders, and concluding that wheelmen should likewise keep to the street and leave the sidewalk to pedestrians.
- Capt. Ewing L. Miller of the Philadelphia Bicycle Club writes to P. S. Attick, proprietor of the Bryn Mawr Hotel, asking him to refuse entertainment to any wheelman who presents himself at table in shirt sleeves or otherwise unbecoming dress.
- Reviews attempts to propel tricycles by secondary electric batteries and describes a gas-engine design with compressing pumps on the frame and ignition by electric sparks as in the Eteve engine, credited to the Scientific American.
- News squibs: the Massachusetts division L.A.W. meets at the Bay State House, Worcester, on 5 August; next season's Big Four tour is planned through Canada and down the Saguenay; Phil Hammill of the Chicago Bicycle Club wins $70 damages after being run down by a buggy; and Rowe's friends refused Whittaker water in the Dorchester road race.
- Race results from Chicago (George Weber takes the fifteen-mile L.A.W. championship; professional races with J. S. Prince and W. M. Woodside), the Pennsylvania division meet at Scranton, the Pine Tree Wheel Club at Bangor, the Michigan division at Coldwater, and the Ohio division at Springfield, plus the Dorchester fifty-mile road race won by W. A. Rowe of Lynn in 3h 47m 37s.
- New clubs organize: a Lynn club under Captain Robert J. Herow planning a two weeks' New Hampshire trip, the Kennebec County Wheelmen of Augusta, Maine, under G. E. Dunton, and the Hoosac Wheelmen of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., under Danforth Geer.
- Standing notice of the C.T.C. American Division under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, with membership dues and the list of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory and the Canadian division.