The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader condemning the L.A.W.'s inaction over a North Carolina law letting a turnpike company bar bicycles from its roads, urging the League to fund a test case since the State's few wheelmen cannot fight it themselves. A following note endorses the Official Gazette editor's proposal to admit professionals to League membership ahead of the Buffalo meet.
- A correspondent signing 'A. M. A. Teur' argues that the arbitrary line between amateur and professional is a farce, citing cricket where both classes play together, and suggests cash with the plate would keep prizes out of the pawnbroker's hands.
- A letter disputing the editor's preference for direction boards over danger signs, arguing a warning at a steep declivity that saves one wheelman's neck is worth more than a hundred direction boards — and asking why not have both.
- A Wyoming L.A.W. officer defends fellow member Mr. Bond's letter to President Beckwith, contending that reduced express rates and League hotels chiefly benefit Eastern members while the 'member from the West' is left holding the animal's tail.
- Karl Kron corrects the paper's claim that the Buffalo-Niagara road is bad, recalling a sixteen-and-a-half-mile run on hard clay via Tonawanda in 1881, while Capt. W. W. Canfield of the Randolph Bicycle Club retorts that the road is unridable and Buffalo meet visitors should take the cars.
- A special paper by 'Faed' on making the C.T.C.'s American division self-governing, proposing a dollar subscription with half retained for American touring work, and quoting Henry Sturmey's local-centres scheme and Mr. Shipton's views; Frank Weston, as chief consul, 'holds the trump card'.
- A visit to the Coventry Machinists' Company's new marble-front store on Columbus Avenue, Boston, where Mr. Gaskell shows off the Ranelagh Club tricycle, followed by a trial of Mr. Lee's seventy-five-pound Quadrant tricycle at Dorchester and a defence of W. G. Kendall's election despite a ballot misprint.
- Trade notes: two instructors are kept busy at the Pope Manufacturing Company's riding rooms, Mr. Stall swears out a warrant against a man who pawned a hired machine, R. Heber Hodgdon partners with R. J. Butman in second-hand machines, and Mr. Atkins devises a saddle-post mounting step and a racing-number clip.
- English news: Wood and Howell arrange a ten-mile match for fifty pounds at Leicester, the N.C.U. declines to disqualify a rider who sued for a withheld prize and disowns a Birmingham jeweller's unauthorised badge, R. Cripps wins the Surrey ten-mile trophy, and Engleheart's fourth place on a Kangaroo safety is hailed as a triumph.
- Henry W. Williams's list of recently issued cycling patents, including A. E. Wallace's epicyclic balance gear assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, G. T. Warwick's velocipede wheel, and John A. Kirke's detachable monocycle 'social attachment' for bicycles.
- The Massachusetts Club plans a four-days' North Shore tour from 17 June via Salem, Gloucester, Newburyport and Portsmouth to Hotel Wentworth, totalling 173 miles for one party and 195 for the 'tough riders' who wheel the whole way home.
- 'Spokes' relates the airs that spur professional racers: John S. Prince pedals fastest to 'Yankee Doodle', Harry Higham to 'Marching through Georgia', Irishman W. M. Woodside to 'Wearing of the Green', and W. J. Morgan to the 'March of the Men of Harlech'.
- News paragraphs: Elliot C. Lee receives a Quadrant tricycle, President Beckwith names a committee under Burley B. Ayers to frame L.A.W. touring rules, the Rideout brothers swim three streams and survive a snowstorm on a 369-mile Yosemite trip, and Carver tricycles fetch $72.50 to $90 at auction.
- Club elections and events: new officers for the Middletown (Conn.) Wheel Club, Berkshire County Wheelmen, Dayton (Ohio) Bicycle Club and Cheyenne (Wyo.) Club, a Cheyenne hop honouring the Laramie Bicycle Club, and anniversary dinners of the Charlestown and Springfield clubs.
- The Memphis Cycle Club's three-day tournament sees S. G. Whittaker and P. W. Stone take most prizes and America's first ladies' tricycle race, while Woodside protests being barred from the ten-mile professional purse; also Yale's spring contests won by L. B. Hamilton, Prince and Morgan beating horses at Augusta, and F. L. Dean's college two-mile record of 6m. 39 4-5s.
- Official American Division column under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston listing State consuls, a special sleeping car from Boston to the annual meeting at Cleveland on 18-19 May, provisional membership elections, the Canadian Division's call for consuls, and Abbot Bassett's sign-board fund reaching $62.25.
- Brief replies to readers, noting the Downer Kerosene Company's petroleum lubricants, that no riding is allowed on Boston Common, and that no preparation exists to touch up nickel.
- Calendar of coming events, from the Capital Club races at Washington on 22 May and the Springfield Bicycle Club's Decoration Day meeting to the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo on 2-3 July and the C.W.A. meet at Woodstock, Ontario.