The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Race schedules for early September are listed, including the Orange Wanderers races at Roseville, the Elmira Club races, the L.A.W. Tour from Niagara Falls, the Ohio Division meet at Massillon, and the Connecticut Club Tournament at Charter Oak Park, Hartford.
- Unheaded leader paragraphs condemn the foolhardy ride over the coping of Cabin John Bridge near Washington, weigh whether the English riders will come to Springfield, rule that Corey's tandem ride with Huntley cannot affect his amateur status since it was no A.C.U. record course, blame Ducker's approach to Bassett for the N.C.U.'s refusal of sanction, mock Harris's 'fourteen hundred members' vote, and call for the abolition of the Racing Board while endorsing the Bellerephon Wheelmen's $200 side-path scheme toward a Boston-to-Philadelphia road.
- The tour management adds the Natural Bridge to the Shenandoah Valley programme, and the hop at the Lake View House, Watkins Glen, becomes an L.A.W. reception with music and a bicycle dance.
- Only thirteen members attend the division meeting at Young's Hotel under Chief Consul Hayes; Sanford Lawton is re-elected secretary-treasurer, standing committees are named (Bassett on racing, Pratt on the legal board), the treasury shows $892.76, and Harris's provision letting each 500-member division count its own votes is carried.
- The Buffalo programme includes the general board meeting at the Genesee House, a parade and twelve races at the Driving Park with the five-mile L.A.W. championship as the feature, W. F. Barber's attempt on the one-mile unicycle record, and the start of the annual L.A.W. Tour from Buffalo to Harper's Ferry via Old Point Comfort and the Luray Caves.
- Short paragraphs note Fenlon and Furnivall's championship rivalry, the 300-foot coping-stone ride at Cabin John Bridge, Rhodes's fast riding stirring the Pope-Victor contest, tours by C. D. Batchelder and Wm. B. Page, the Berkshire County wheelmen joining the A.C.U., trick rider Dan Canary's twins, and Rowe's claimed 2.27 practice mile.
- Correspondent Verax reports the Illinois cyclers growing to thirty-six members with semi-weekly runs, argues for sectional North, South and West side clubs, notes the Chicago Club's rained-out Peoria lark, and says S. G. Whittaker has gone to Indiana after the 10 to 100-mile and 24-hour road records.
- St. Louis mourns racer George Webber's death, prepares its illuminated parade with E. R. Stettinnis as grand marshal and Lindell Gordon leading the flambeau battalion, hears Chief Consul Rogers urge a money-based road-tax bill in the legislature, and fears losing its only track if the Union grounds close.
- Titnam relays Herring of the Ixions' account of the Cleveland meet, including J. R. Rheubottom's mid-tournament wedding and silver-salver present, previews the Orange Wanderers' tournament, reports Woodside going on a Beeston Humber for Spalding, and pans ex-editor George D. Baird's poetry book 'Vindication and other Poems'.
- Hartford urges entries for the Connecticut Bicycle Club tournament of 8 and 9 September, rebukes the pseudonymous 'Charter Oak' for a false report of a split in the Hartford Wheel Club, and describes the park being turned over to the wheelmen with special trains and a tandem brigade in the parade.
- The supplement's racing budget reports F. Wood and Howell sailing for America, the coming Hendee-Rowe meeting at Hartford, English championships won by Fenlon and Wood, and full summaries of race meets at Cleveland, Scranton, Toronto, Albany, Millville and Springfield, where Rhodes and Woodside set five-mile records.
- Thomas Stevens has reached Kurrachee, his first Indian port, in splendid health, with a straight 1,350-mile road through Delhi, Agra and Lucknow to Calcutta ahead on his round-the-world ride.
- The September calendar lists the New York Division meet at Buffalo, the Orange Wanderers races at Roseville, the L.A.W. Tour from Niagara Falls, the Ohio division meet at Massillon, the Elmira Club races, the Connecticut Bicycle Club meeting at Charter Oak Park, the Berkshire County tournament at Pittsfield, and the Harlem Wheelmen races.
- The Idler describes Ducker's dismay and recovered optimism after the N.C.U.-A.C.U.-L.A.W. bombshell threatening the Springfield tournament, Prince and Morgan nearly coming to blows over a newspaper wager, and the record-hungry performances of Ives, Rhodes and Woodside at Morgan's tournament.
- Patents furnished from Henry W. Williams's Boston office include E. G. Latta's velocipede, Thos. O'Brien's tricycle, Fred H. Morse's bicycle handle, Thos. J. Strickland's pedal, the Rices' Star-type velocipede, and a reissue to E. C. F. Otto of Peckham, England.
- Visiting racers pass memorial resolutions on the death of Star rider George Weber with C. E. Tichener in the chair; J. R. Rheubottom is quietly married at the Forest City Hotel, A. B. Rich generously hands H. E. Bidwell the nickel timer from a disputed lap race, and the Cleveland Bicycle Club loses money on an 1,800 three-day attendance.
- Kentuck writes that Louisville has dispensed with tricycles, which suited its asphalt but not its roads, and now eagerly awaits tandems, the plain bicycle having downed every rival despite the city lacking a race track.
- G. P. Mills of the Anfield Club, Liverpool, riding a Beeston Cripper, is smashing the Land's End to John o'Groats tricycle record — 18 hours ahead at Edinburgh — while Marriot, holder at 6 days 15 hours 22 minutes, abandons his own attempt on Mills's bicycle record.
- Trade and personal notes cover Rhodes's five-mile Victor record at Springfield, W. B. Everett & Co.'s twenty-two S.S.S. tricycles, varying reports of the new Victor tricycle, Huntley's coming attempt on McCurdy's 24-hour record with Corey and Kennedy Child on a Rudge Humber tandem, Louise Armaindo training for a six-day ride at Troy, and the New Jersey Division's annual meeting at Millville.
- Pyko's column on wheel-and-camera pursuits overhears tricyclists planning a 'taking' tour on Pond Street, Jamaica Plain, marvels at Farina photographing a lion in the Kalahari and a cannon ball caught in flight, laments pin-holed negatives, and prices an amateur outfit at $30 to $100.