The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Abbot Bassett's leader columns argue that tricycle design still awaits its perfect form and back the bicycle-handle steering of the Greyhound type, note the racing board's new average-time record rule, condemn foot-path riding, and answer a horse owner who called bicyclists snobs.
- Letters report the Buffalo Club raising its dues from $5 to $10 as it seeks new quarters, S. H. Day's transfer from Cape Cod to East Greenwich, R.I., and T. T. Gilmer of the Charlotte (N.C.) Bicycle Club on the visit of professionals Prince and Morgan and an excursion to Columbia, S.C.
- The Manufacture department describes the Humber Automatic Steerer tricycle made by Humber & Co. of Nottingham and imported by L. H. Johnson of East Orange, N.J., detailing its spring-and-wedge-collar steering, 40 or 44-inch driving wheels, and $195 price.
- Promotes the Quadrant tricycle, for which J. A. R. Underwood of Dorchester is sole United States agent, reprinting a letter from "Faed" (A. J. Wilson) who rode it 1,400 miles in seven weeks including 154 miles in sixteen hours; also notes the Ranelagh Club's sell-out and the new Butcher cyclometer.
- "Spokes" reports the nomadic professionals Prince and Morgan drawing large crowds in Charlotte and Columbia, and details the Wilmington and Coast Road Company closing its eight-mile road to wheelmen, a move J. R. Wilson of the Wilmington Club blames on politics.
- "Spectator" describes St. Louis wheelmen training at the Fair grounds amphitheatre dodging the rifle bullets of Buffalo Bill's Wild West cowboys, Cola Stone's one-wheel riding astonishing the Indians, and the city's three dealers including the E. C. Meacham Arms Company.
- "By the Way" urges the trade to promote cycling's health benefits to dyspeptics using "Health Upon Wheels", argues that novices need expert help choosing a properly sized machine, and recounts a glorious club tandem run with Gaskell.
- Fred Russ Cook of San Francisco claims the American long-distance record with 207 1/2 miles in twenty-four hours on his Victor bicycle, riding from San Francisco through Gilroy, Milbrae and San Jose to Belmont, supported by George H. Strong.
- The day-by-day timetable of the Clerical Wheelmen's Tour through Canada, a 621-mile circuit from Niagara Falls via Hamilton, London, Goderich, Toronto and Kingston in August, projected by Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster, Penn., with all cycling clergymen invited.
- Reprinted from the Providence Bulletin, a description of carriage painter Mason S. Peck's patented ten-circle "Decicyle", a machine of two eight-foot wheels with a self-balancing cradle seat slung between them, driven by cranks and ratchet wheels.
- English notes: Fred Wood proposes N.C.U. amateur-versus-professional contests, Mrs. Allen of Birmingham plans another long ride, Isaac W. Boothroyd rides Brighton to Greenwich on a Facile without dismount, and R. Howell wins the twenty-mile safety championship at Leicester after his match with James falls through.
- Karl Kron's touring chapter, to be reprinted in "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle", takes Pemberton Square as Boston's cycling hub and details his rides to Providence and Bristol, over Cumberland Hill to Woonsocket and Worcester, and the 103-mile route from West Springfield to Boston.
- Opens with Fred E. Smith's Burns parody "A Wheel's a Wheel for a' That", then short items on Lawrence Land's collision with drunken buggy drivers in West Medford, Webber's coasting crash on Beacon Hill, and Henry E. Ducker declining to run a proposed travelling "world's Olympians" tournament.
- Results from the New Orleans Club races where E. P. Baird starred and Lieut. A. P. Keaghey won the ring tournament, Prince and Morgan's races at Columbia and Charlotte, F. L. Dean's college two-mile record of 6.28 at Harvard, and the Louisville Wheel Club's coming spring meeting.
- New officers elected at the Rockingham Club of Portsmouth, N.H., the Beaver Falls (Penn.) Club captained by Thos. Midgley, the East Hartford, Connecticut, Middletown and Philadelphia clubs, plus the Providence and Pawtucket clubs' planned runs to Newport.
- Stoddard, Lovering & Co. ship Rudge racers to F. L. Dean of Harvard, C. H. Potter of Cleveland and Percy Stone of St. Louis; W. B. Everett & Co. secure Peck & Snyder as New York agents; and W. W. Stall calls for early Decoration Day hire orders.
- American Division notices under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston: the full list of State consuls, new appointments including a consul for Montana, membership applications, and the special sleeping car to the annual meeting at Cleveland, Ohio.
- The editor's brief replies to reader queries, advising against kerosene as a lubricant, noting the League cannot reinstate a professional ball player, and telling a novice to gear down two teeth.
- The racing and touring calendar from the Capital Club races of 22 May through the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo in July to the Springfield, Mass. tournament of 8-10 September, including the Big Four Tour and the Down East tour.