The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial answering Mr. H. S. Wood's aggressive note in the Pennsylvania Road Book, denying that the World is the C.T.C. organ and arguing the 5,000-strong L.A.W. has nothing to fear from the C.T.C.'s American branch; a closing note reports Joseph and Elizabeth Pennell's forthcoming illustrated book 'A Canterbury Pilgrimage'.
- Frank H. Clark of Cheyenne, Wyoming answers the Wheel's charge that he is a mere 'kicker', arguing the L.A.W. is under contract with its members to perform the duties in its constitution rather than devote itself to half-day cinder-path events.
- H. S. Wood defends his Pennsylvania Road Book paragraph, quoting Chief Consul Frank W. Weston's C.T.C. 'creed' and proclaiming a rival L.A.W. creed: the C.T.C. may remain in America as a guest, but any attempt to govern touring here means 'war to the knife'.
- Reminiscences of the Boston Bicycle Club's early days on the Devonshire street stairs, contrasted with its new palatial Back Bay club house, with tributes to the chop-supper fellowship of Hodges, Huston, Donahoe, Robinson, Harrison and Tombs.
- The Ramblers' Bicycle Club's fifty-mile road race to Corfu and return, won by Frank White of Rome on a 56-inch Columbia Expert in 3.57.10 ahead of Gideon Haynes, Jr. of Boston; also the Buffalo Club's first meeting at its new club house and the forthcoming L.A.W. meet programme.
- A Utah correspondent reports the club's growth to twenty-five members, a Decoration Day race meet on the new $1,000 cinder track at Washington Square, a run to the Penitentiary to visit friends jailed for polygamy, and hospitality at Brigham Young's old Forest Farm.
- 'Spokes' writes from Nashville of touring with champion John S. Prince: hospitality from the Charlotte (N.C.) club, secretary J. Thomas's send-off feast in Atlanta, and Capt. Clark H. Horn laying a five-lap track on the Chattanooga ball ground for an improvised day's racing.
- The full entry lists for the Big Four tour's Chicago, New York and Boston divisions, each limited to twenty-five riders, with the steamer Norseman engaged to cross Lake Ontario to Cobourg and a clock-work baggage and hotel system arranged.
- 'Daisie' writes from Ocean Spray in Winthrop on the storm-damaged beach road and runs to Beachmont, Revere Beach and the Point of Pines, then advises lady tricyclists on gearing — heavy riders should gear up, small riders down — and eyes the new Cripper tricycle.
- A Novices' Column primer classifying tricycle frames — two-track (Royal Mail), loop (Victor), T-frame (Rudge, Apollo, Club), Quadrant, Humber, Coventry Rotary and Cheylesmore — and explaining single ball bearings and their adjustment; signed L. E. E.
- The programme for the Canadian Wheelmen's Association's third annual meet at Woodstock, Ontario on 1 July: thirteen races with prizes up to a $125 gold stop watch, Canadian champions Ross, Lavander and Clarke competing, and special trains laid on to Buffalo for the L.A.W. meet.
- B. B. Ayers details Michigan Central Railroad arrangements for Chicago wheelmen travelling to the Buffalo L.A.W. meet, including the 1 July limited express carrying the Big Four party and Chicago Bicycle Club, with three-dollar sleeper berths.
- A humorous Philadelphia North American sketch of beginners in Mr. Titus's riding school who fixate on the post they are about to hit, ending with a plan to paint a white stripe around the floor.
- Short notes: railroad rates for Boston wheelmen to the Buffalo meet; Sam Berry, Jr. and E. J. Runyon of the Elizabeth Wheelmen riding 105¾ miles in twenty-four hours; the bicycle wedding of Charles Zacharias and Mrs. Adelaide Marsh of Newark; S. T. Clark & Co.'s closing-out sale; and J. S. Dean's arrival in England.
- T. J. Kirkpatrick replies to 'M. D.'s' criticism of his saddle, explaining that riders divide into those wanting saddles low behind or low in front and offering a higher back spring to any customer who requests it.
- English news: P. H. Waters wins the annual hundred-mile London-to-Bath road race in 7.33.43; Sanders Sellers takes a five-mile scratch race at Barrow; Nixon challenges to a Land's End to John O'Groat's tricycle race; and Thomas Stevens reports from Munich on his round-the-world ride.
- Results from the Indiana Division L.A.W. meet at Indianapolis (Van Sicklen, Knapp, Hollingsworth and Woodside among the winners), races at Salt Lake City, Montreal and New York, and the Nashville tournament where John S. Prince beat W. J. Morgan and defeated the trotting horse Robert Fulford over five miles.
- The Marblehead Club's farewell supper for Charles W. Fiske, a new twenty-member club at Chicopee under president F. L. Huckley, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's run to Auburndale joined by Col. A. A. Pope, and new Meriden (Conn.) Wheel Club officers led by T. S. Rust.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents C. E. Johnson and S. A. Miles.
- The racing and touring calendar from 20 June onward: the C.W.A. meet at Woodstock, the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo on 2-3 July, the Big Four tour and its hundred-mile Cobourg-to-Kingston road race, and tournaments at Utica, Springfield and Pittsfield.