The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 25
Articles in this issue
- The leader columns call the Racing Board's makers' amateur suspensions a farce given the Lynn club's readiness to accept all racing men, welcome the L.A.W. touring department as the wisest step the League has made, protest the Massachusetts Division's reported $500 meet appropriation and ladies in the League parade, demand action against screamer-blowing boys and the Waltham hoodlums who stoned cyclists, and announce a new tricycling-photography department.
- Wheeling argues that Humber & Co. openly paying Furnivall and G. L. Hillier's way to the Springfield tournament would be unobjectionable, prompting the editors to ask what then constitutes a makers' amateur; Bicycling News predicts the Springfield 'Barnument' will prove a frost with President Ducker shaking in his shoes.
- A. M. Hill of New Orleans details the tour he, Capt. Chas. Fairchild and H. W. Fairfax will start on 25 April, riding light roadsters via Mobile, Macon, Columbia, Raleigh, Richmond, Washington, Philadelphia and New York, hoping to reach Boston by 25-28 May for the L.A.W. meet.
- Eleven well-known wheelmen are expelled from the L.A.W. and declared professionals, including A. O. McGarrett, W. A. Rhodes, F. F. Ives, E. P. Burnham, W. A. Rowe, George M. Hendee, A. A. McCurdy, W. H. Huntley, William A. Taylor and Asa S. Wendell.
- W. N. Winans, D. Edgar Hunter, John Williams, L. D. Munger, John Illston and F. D. Palmer are suspended from the track until 30 May for violation of rule H.
- The Racing Board dismisses the cases of C. E. Kluge, Joe Powell, George E. Webber, C. O. Danforth, A. B. Rich and L. Porter, restoring their amateur standing.
- A mock-biblical satire signed Don Caesar recounts the Philadelphia consul election in the camp of 'Moses the Parliamentary, Aaron and the Gideonites', with the noble Reed labouring five hours to make peace between the consul's right-hand abider and the dissenting committee.
- The League Meet Reception Committee is announced under chairman E. G. Whitney, its members including J. S. Dean, E. C. Hodges, A. A. Pope, T. W. Higginson, Charles E. Pratt, C. R. Overman, W. B. Everett, H. D. Corey, Abbot Bassett and some forty other Boston-area wheelmen.
- The reorganised Waltham Cycle Club, managed by Orel E. Davis, Geo. F. Walters and E. J. Williams, closes its season with a skating-rink entertainment: Prof. G. L. Hutchinson gives a fancy-riding exhibition, William Page and E. J. Williams contest an obstacle race, and the Associates defeat the Actives at burlesque polo before nearly one hundred visiting cyclers from the Cambridge, Suffolk, Massachusetts, Boston and other clubs.
- Patent solicitor Henry W. Williams of Boston lists new cycle patents, including Wm. H. Hale's bicycle saddle, James Hudson's tubular wheel rims from Birmingham, Stephen Martin's safety bicycle, Charles E. Duryea's tandem central front-steering tricycle from St. Louis, and Hosea W. Libbey's umbrella-like hood attachment.
- A gossip column reports Frasier and Hurd's 23-second home-trainer quarter at the Waltham Club, an Apollo racer shipped by W. B. Everett & Co. to Jack Prince, the forthcoming Columbia Safety, Col. Pope building a house for his twin physician sisters, Elsa von Blumen coming to Boston, and the Kings County Wheelmen's road-race team headed by A. B. Rich and E. W. Valentine.
- The Boscobel Bicycle Club of Lynn holds a twelve-mile handicap road race from Hotel Boscobel around Salem Common and back, won from scratch by W. L. Lewis in 57 3/4 minutes ahead of Samuel Truesdale, with Robert Herron refereeing.
- Correspondent Philo reports Yank Adams' Sporting Journal bidding for Illinois cycling patronage against the Mirror, the Chicago Club's monthly meeting under R. P. Gormully and its dispute over admitting ladies as associate members, Gormully & Jeffery running overtime with 150 hands, and a proposed $1,000-a-side six-day race between Schock and Prince at Minneapolis.
- The Stroller's column complains that League meeting reports are padded by stenographers, airs rumours of a stupendous New York Athletic Club-style clubhouse scheme by the Boston Club, describes the club's comic failure to elect a bugler under Captain Tombs, and asks whether the meet's Finance Committee — four chairmen having resigned, leaving Chief Ducker himself — will ever settle the races.
- The Pope Manufacturing Company's patent-infringement attachment on the Overman Wheel Company is dissolved after Commissioner Hallett accepts the bondsmen, removing the keeper who had occupied Overman's store and works for two months and letting the firm resume business.
- A squib column ranging over screamer-blowing cyclers, the provident cyclist's dishonest for-sale advertisement, the exhausted first edition of the Rudge 'Agent's Guide', the new royal purple L.A.W. colors from Burley Ayers, Capt. Haynes' 113-mile three-day Suffolk Wheel Club tour round Cape Ann, Mr. Van Leisen's Swiss steam tricycle, St. Louis's planned Chinese lantern parade, and Dr. Kendall's likely appointment as Eastern touring marshal.
- World staff visit Lynn to inspect the new three-lap track — twenty feet wide with a 409-foot finishing straight and screened blue gravel surface, built under engineer C. Gay and contractor H. S. Tuttle with a 2,000-seat grand stand — and find champion W. A. Rowe in splendid condition though a trifle overweight.
- Notes report over five hundred wheelmen passing the Boscobel on Sunday, twenty-five Lynn Cycle Club members joining the League, Rowe having two Columbia racers built at Hartford with Asa Wendall again looking after him, three lady members joining the club, and Lynn's grim determination to accept the expelled men's entries at the track opening.
- The new photography department opens with Woll's Wheel World advice on keeping developing solution at ten per cent and salt-tasting prints for washing, plus remedies reproduced from the Tricycling Journal for chemical and light fog on gelatine plates.
- Races during the League Meet in Boston will likely be held 20 May on the Boston Union Athletic Company grounds at Dartmouth street and Huntington avenue, with some events possibly open only to the 'suspends' and the one-mile bicycle and tricycle championships restricted to straight amateurs.
- The report that Gideon Haynes, Jr. was arrested for sidewalk riding in Malden is corrected: Capt. Haynes and ten Suffolk Wheel Club men had merely stopped at the public pump when a plain-clothes officer hauled him to the station-house, and Haynes intends to test the law over the arbitrary treatment.
- Karl Kron sends the first 544 pages of the long-delayed 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle'; the reviewers mock his elaborate stocking histories but praise the 'Statistics from the Veterans' and judge the book well worth its price for every wheelman.
- Trade notes cover the Radial's arrival at Messrs. Read's, Springfield tandems at Everett & Co., the Coventry Machinists Company's new ladies' tricycle, Pope's forthcoming safety wheel and Rowe's two new racers, Stall's fifty-page catalogue led by the 1886 Star, and the Overman Wheel Company's adoption of the Barton burner lamp.
- Club news includes the Troy Bicycle Club buying the Coliseum building for $13,462, the Leominster club's whist tournament won by Chase and Cook, officer elections at St. John N.B., Canandaigua, Norwalk, Chelsea (president Abbot Bassett) and Melrose, the Boston Club's Tricycle Division reorganising under captain C. P. Donahoe, and the Oregon Bicycle Club's first tournament raising $40 toward a track.
- The fixtures calendar lists Somerville Cycle Club Sunday runs, the St. Louis American Wheelmen fifty-mile road race on 26 April, the Boston Club's cycle exhibition in the Mechanics Fair Building during the L.A.W. Meet, the League parade on 29 May, and the Lynn Cycle Club opening its new track on 31 May with the first Prince-Neilson race.
- C.T.C. notices from acting chief consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland list provisionally elected applicants including Miss G. F. Penniman of Boston and several New Yorkers, and appoint Orman B. Humphrey consul for Bangor, Maine.