The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Leader paragraphs defending decorous Sunday riding against a Bulletin correspondent, noting the tandem tricycle's rise while the tandem bicycle is abandoned, doubting Outing's push for the metric system, approving the racing board's protest that forced the Genesee Club of Rochester to cut its League race prizes, and criticising a boating re-row rule invoked at Boston.
- Correspondence from J. Parke Street urging a decent concrete-paved road from Boston to West Roxbury Park, contrasting the fine macadam of Walnut Avenue with the mud hole of Harrison Avenue between Northampton and Dudley streets.
- A. B. Rapalje, tournament committee secretary, reports the Genesee Club has reduced the prizes in its five-mile L.A.W. members' race of 17 September to gold medals of $50, $35 and $20 to comply with Rule G of the racing rules.
- A Brockton correspondent answers 'Daisie', defending Mrs. Allen's long-distance riding as nothing unwomanly and arguing that what applies to a woman breaking records ought in justice to apply to a man.
- List of new bicycle and tricycle patents furnished by Boston solicitor Henry W. Williams, including several by E. G. Latta of Friendship, N.Y. assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, John G. Blount's auxiliary safety wheel, and a Lamplugh saddle.
- Despatches claiming new records: at Corning, N.Y., W. M. Woodside beat John Brooks in a five-mile race in American record time, and at Washington's Athletic Park Brooks won a twenty-mile match from Woodside in 1.02.21, while H. W. Higham's record tricycle bid ended when his chain broke.
- A full table of American and English amateur and professional bicycle, tricycle and tandem records from the quarter-mile to twenty miles, expected to fall at the Hartford and Springfield tournaments, noting Fred Russ Cook's accepted quarter-mile figure and Van Sicklen's Chicago rides under examination.
- A Pilgrim's Progress parody in which the writer tours by wheel from the City of Destruction toward the Celestial City with League consul Mr. Smooth-it-away, satirising the L.A.W.'s good intentions at the Slough of Despond, membership tickets at the Wicket Gate, and figures like Karl Kron and Burley Ayers; continues on later pages.
- News squibs: Papa Weston retires ill as C.T.C. chief consul with C. H. Potter of Cleveland acting; a review of John S. Webber Jr.'s 'In and Around Cape Ann'; Southern wheelmen who rode 1,000 miles toward Springfield after crossing the Allegheny and Blue Ridge mountains; the Clerical Wheelmen's tour disbanding at Niagara Falls; and a track spill at Springfield involving Rowe, Cook, Weber and Powell.
- Prospect Park commissioners, after a child's death, require Brooklyn cyclists to register, prove riding ability and wear numbered badges to use the park, Eastern Parkway or the Coney Island Boulevard; wheelmen grumble that horse-drivers face no such test. Reprinted from the Tribune.
- G. S. Low wins a two-mile handicap at the Montreal Lacrosse Grounds; John V. Stevenson promotes a 'Royal Rollicking Road Race' from Uniontown, Pa. to Wheeling, W.Va.; New York State championships set for Brooklyn; and meeting announcements from the New Jersey division, the League of Essex County Wheelmen at Danvers, Canton (Ohio) and Providence.
- Official C.T.C. column under acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland, giving the list of state consuls, provisionally elected members in Kansas City and Cleveland, and new New Jersey town consuls appointed by state consul L. H. Johnson.
- Brief editorial replies to readers Burt Lucas, whose author is behindhand, and A. C. D. L., whose article was published the previous week.
- Race calendar from 27 August to 10 October 1885, including the Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament at Hartford, the Springfield tournament with its ten-mile championship, the New York division meet at Brooklyn, and meetings at Millville, Binghamton, Rochester, Canton, St. Louis and Omaha.