The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The editor defends his criticism of the L.A.W.'s inaction over the North Carolina wheelmen's rights case, welcomes the Official Gazette's assurance that the League will now fight it, and rebukes the compilers of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey road book for a cowardly attack on the C.T.C. printed in its pages.
- Report on the annual business meeting of the American Division of the Cyclists' Touring Club, including the treasurer's report of finances and a letter from consul Weston on the Division's progress.
- Daisie describes how the wheel restored her health, praises the courteous freemasonry of wheelmen on the road, and laments the ladies' stabling problem in Boston, where women cannot join the Massachusetts or Boston clubs and must hire livery space for their machines.
- Cole Day reports the Capital Bicycle Club's obstacle run around Washington for H. S. (Bert) Owen's birthday, with some fifty riders including nearly twenty Stars tackling curbs, footpaths and a six-foot gulley, followed by a collation, polo on Stars and a ring tournament at Star Park.
- Letters on the Rights of Wheelmen from C.E.G., urging the L.A.W. and its consuls to protect isolated divisions and improve roads, and on The Niagara Road, weighing the contradictory published accounts of the route between Buffalo and Niagara.
- Review of the Universal Club bicycle manufactured by the Coventry Machinists Company and priced at one hundred and five dollars, covering its construction, bearings, and suitability as a club machine.
- Trade notes cover Singer & Co.'s new narrow-tread Speedycycle pattern coming to W. B. Everett & Co., C. H. Lamson's cyclometer patent, Koch Bros.' new Peoria warehouse, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s appointment as American agents for Marriott & Cooper.
- English news includes Howell beating Lees in the run-off of the twenty-mile professional championship, the metropolitan tricyclists' meet at Barnes Common mustering 444 machines, new machines from Bayliss, Thomas & Co. and Starley, and the John Keen testimonial fund and Alexandra Palace benefit races.
- The editor's touring and club notes cover a visit to the Pope Manufacturing works, W.W. Stall's tandem rides, and personal items from around the cycling world.
- The editor's running pen column opens with the poem 'A Rum Ditty' and continues with short notes on Thos. Midgley, the Canadian Wheelman, League of Essex County, and other cycling miscellany.
- Results from the Cleveland Club's fourth annual spring races, the Philadelphia A.C. games, Ann Arbor students' sports and Princeton college sports, with announcements of the Ixion and Buffalo Ramblers' fifty-mile road races and the new Chicago and Philadelphia tracks.
- Club news from Avondale OH, Kokomo IN, Canal Dover OH, Westfield MA, the Potomac Tricycle Club, Marblehead, and the Cleveland reception for visiting wheelmen.
- News from the American Division of the C.T.C. covers new applications for membership, consul appointments, and the state consul list for the season.
- The editor replies to reader queries on equipment, routes, club matters, and editorial policy.
- Calendar of forthcoming bicycle races, club runs, and cycling events from 29 May through the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September, including the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo and the Big Four tour.