The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The leader regrets that wheelmen's interest in the League Meet centres on the parade rather than the business meeting, arguing the spring Board of Officers meeting in New York is the League's most fruitful; a Springfield Republican clip notes the custom of making the newly elected president — probably Mr. Ducker — chief marshal of the parade.
- Answering Daisie's query, 'Medica' describes her experience on a Beeston Humber Cripper, defending the rear mount over the axle, praising the rider's position and brake handle, comparing its lightness with the lady's Humber, and urging sister cyclists to give the bar-steerer a fair trial.
- G. R. J. asks why the Expert Columbia roadster is so closely built, recounting a sixty-mile cross-country ride on his 55-inch Expert beside a companion's Victor in which the scant half-inch of wheel clearance left him caked in mud; a short follow-up note headed 'Thanks' from the same writer acknowledges 'Kom's' solution to an earlier query.
- 'Inquirer' thanks Messrs. Dodson and Chase for their 5 February letters on the American Star bicycle covering hill-climbing, speed, vibration and brake power, but notes neither explains why the Star is so seldom heard of as a touring or safety machine in ordinary hands over give-and-take roads.
- Quotes 'Violet Lorne' of the Bicycling News on handle-bar steering tricycles for ladies, with a dig at M'lle Armaindo, the American 'bicycless' seeking a six days' contest with a male professional; continues with her dinner-party anecdote of a bride who declared tricycling for women not nice, and Daisie's rejoinder about fear of Mrs. Grundy.
- Second instalment of the humorous illustrated series reprinted from Funny Folks' Annual, depicting comic visions of the cycling craze's future and noting that feminine cycling enthusiasts press reluctant male relations and friends into service as escorts.
- An English clip from the News contrasts London skaters making do with puddles like the quarter-mile Eagle Pond at Snaresbrook with Boston cyclists who rejected an organized skating party at Jamaica Pond because the pond is only a mile long.
- The Memphis Cycle Club elects W. L. Surprise president, S. Wade Hampton, Jr. secretary-treasurer, C. J. Sherer captain and S. M. Mallalieu first lieutenant; an Appeal clip recounts how the club beat an anti-bicycle ordinance in the courts, rode the principal streets, built a quarter-mile track at Cycle Club Park and gave the first race meeting in the South.
- Signed '5678', an essay on the tricycle's continuing evolution analysing the 244 single roadster tricycles in the 'Indispensable' — average 45.71-inch drivers, 46.86-inch gearing and 82.72 pounds, with Hayfork and loop frames prevailing — and predicting light central-geared double-drivers of 65 to 75 pounds will win over ladies and timid riders.
- Opening with a verse in praise of the wheel, 'Chipper' answers readers' queries on the Facile safety: easy to learn without falls, enormous brake power backed by back-pedalling, no wobbling at speed, safe on muddy roads, and best in the 44-inch size — recommending Latta's geared wheel and Singer's Challenge Safety to lovers of rotary motion (continues on page 11).
- Under the Manufacture department, describes a successful child's seat made by the Quadrant Tricycle Company and imported by J. A. R. Underwood of Dorchester, Mass., which attaches to the bar-steering No. 8 Quadrant tricycle and places the child under the rider's eye, clear of vibration.
- Geo. D. Gideon, American representative of the Surrey Machinists' Co., previews the season's Invincible machines: a new automatic-steering three-track tricycle with grip brake, a sub-70-pound two-track ladies' machine, a light Kangaroo-pattern safety, a 19-pound 56-inch bicycle and a two-track tandem ridable by two ladies; a following note reports 'Whit' Whittaker's collision with a post while racing at the Globe Rink, St. Louis.
- A cycling poem titled Snowed Up recalls winter evenings by the fire with a cycling friend, looking back on competitive racing days when they started from scratch and lapped the track, presented as part of the regular Currente Calamo column.
- An association of New York clubs for semi-annual team road races gains the New York Bicycle Club; Company A, 47th Regiment and the King's County Wheelmen plan a Brooklyn armory tournament; a six-day world professional championship is set for the Chicago Exposition Building; W. A. Hoagland meets Miss Elsa Von Blumen at the Princess Rink, Auburn, and a $1,000 fifty-mile amateur road race is fixed for the Clarksville, Mo. belt road.
- At the New York Club's annual meeting Capt. Howard Conkling retires and Lieut. J. B. Ray is promoted captain, with Edward J. Shriver secretary and R. R. Haydock treasurer; further notes cover the Hoosac Wheelmen's ball at Hoosick Falls, elections at Cleveland, the Long Island Wheelmen, the Springfield and Philadelphia clubs, the Maverick Wheel Club of East Boston and the San Francisco Bicycle Club consolidation.
- Official C.T.C. notices from C. H. Potter, acting chief consul, Cleveland, Ohio: dues and application procedure, the list of State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, provisional elections of applicants including W. G. Kendall of Boston, and the appointment of Frank J. Pool as consul for New York City.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents including E. D. F. on mailing times, a club subscription rate of one dollar a year, an acknowledged error to A. C. R., and thanks to H. R. Lewis and W. L. Surprise of Memphis.