The Bicycling World, Vol 11, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Leader asking what shall be done with the inadequate L.A.W. amateur rule, printing in full the revised amateur definitions of the N.C.U. of England and the N.A.A.A.A. of America; following editorial notes take up a proposal to handicap light racing machines against roadsters and a Birmingham, Alabama ordinance prohibiting bicycles on the streets.
- Letters include 'The Professionals' by Spokes advocating a place for professionals in the L.A.W.; a comparison of the C.T.C. and L.A.W. organisations; 'Another' C.T.C. letter by Vindex; 'The Hygienic Saddle' by M.D.; and 'Another Feminine Point of View' by Morrill defending the tandem over the sociable.
- The editor's column traces the history of the tricycle in America, from the Coventry Rotaries brought over by Waltham wheelmen and James Starley's pioneering work to the Hartford-invented lever machine that became the Overman Wheel Company's Victor tricycle, closing with cheers for the new Victor bicycle's records.
- Holiday notes on a rain-quieted day: only thirteen men, led by Captain C. P. Shillaber and President H. W. Williams, started the Massachusetts Club's four days' run to Portsmouth; the League of Essex County Wheelmen met at Lynn as guests of the Lynn Cycle Club with a forty-strong parade and a run to Nahant; and the Massachusetts Club's tricycle division made its first all-day run to Lexington, piloted by Albert S. Parsons.
- The Capital Bicycle Club of Washington announces a thirty-day August-September tour arranged by H. S. Owen: about thirty members sail from Baltimore on the steamer D. H. Miller to Boston, ride to New Bedford for Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, then wheel from Portland to Boston and on to the Springfield meet before returning via New Haven and New York.
- 'Daisie' writes from the unopened seaside resort of Ocean Spray, crediting her tricycle with saving her from ennui, contrasting it with the slavery of keeping a pony phaeton, and complaining of rowdy men who crowd lady riders off the road on Sundays and holidays.
- Writing from Bradford, England, the correspondent defends the C.T.C. against charges of anglomania, describing how its handbook supplied a vetted hotel, an official tailor, and penny-stamp route slips, and promises reports from the trade centres of Birmingham and Coventry.
- New England L.A.W. members are offered round-trip rates to the Buffalo meet over the Fitchburg and West Shore roads, including transport of wheels: Boston or Providence to Niagara Falls and return for $12, Worcester or Fitchburg $11, with tickets from agents in each city.
- Review of the Apollo Light Roadster manufactured by Singer and Co. of Coventry and imported by W.B. Everett and Co. of Boston, covering its Warwick rims, ball bearings, adjustable spokes, and spring saddle.
- Review of the Buffer Saddle manufactured by Lamplugh and Brown and imported by Stoddard, Lovering and Co., describing its three-point tension adjustment and cylindrical rubber rear support.
- Trade notes report the suspension of the Cunningham Company after its affair with the United States authorities, Latta Bros.' new Express and Pilot catalogue, the Pope Manufacturing Company's offer of a Columbia Light Roadster to the Boscobel fifty-mile road race winner, Bull & Bowen's Buffalo catalogue-cum-road-book, and J. S. Murray's new repair shop on Sudbury street, Boston.
- English notes: Lawrence Fletcher beat Nixon's tricycle record to John O'Groats in 8 days 5 hours 20 minutes; E. Oxborrow took the John O'Groats record on a Facile in 6 days 23 hours 10 minutes despite his wheel going to pieces; Marriott & Cooper challenge any tandem against their Humber for one hundred pounds; and Battensby of Newcastle is matched against Grose of Northampton on Safety bicycles at the Crystal Palace.
- The editor's running pen column opens with the memorial poem 'The Cross' by the late S. Conant Foster and continues with short miscellaneous notes including the Buffalo Club's badge design.
- Reports include the Kings County Wheelmen's meeting at the Williamsburg Athletic Grounds, Brooklyn, where A. B. Rich took the three-mile L.A.W. championship and Geo. Weber the ten-mile; Baltimore Wheelmen races; San Jose Club races with F. R. Cook's disputed 37-3/4s quarter; the Nonantum Cycling Club's first road race won by William H. Huntley; the Wilkes Barre Club's fifth-anniversary road race; and the programme of the postponed Chicago Bicycle Track Association meet.
- Club notes on officer elections at the Wheeling Wheelmen, the Orange Wanderers, the Capital Club of Washington, the St. Paul Club, and Chicago's Dearborn Cycling Club; the formation of the Missouri Division of the L.A.W. at St. Louis under Chief Consul E. M. Senseney; the Detroit Club's second annual tour to the Buffalo meet; and Kaufman of Rochester's fifteen-mile unicycle ride to Charlotte.
- The C.T.C. American Division column of Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, gives dues, the full list of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, the Canadian chief consul Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal, and the provisional election of applicant Rev. Sylvanus Stall of Lancaster, Penn.
- Brief editorial replies to W. J. M., John S. Prince, and C. H. Townsend, followed by an answer to 'Enquirer' ruling that a half-distance record attempt stands if the distance and timing are substantiated.
- Calendar of forthcoming events, including the L.A.W. annual meet at Buffalo on 2-3 July, the Big Four tour from Buffalo and its hundred-mile Cobourg-to-Kingston road race, Independence Day races across Massachusetts, and the Springfield tournament of 8-10 September with its ten-mile championship.