The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The leader column welcomes riders eastward to the Boston League Meet and weighs the L.A.W. presidency contest, with Dr. Beckwith backed by New York and Pennsylvania against Mr. Ducker and Burley B. Ayres. Further paragraphs cover highway improvement, suburban hotel-keepers courting wheelmen, the Overman vs. Pope Manufacturing Co. patent suit, and plans for weekly record races at Hampden Park.
- Practical notes for League Meet visitors: wheel storage and checking at the Mechanics Fair building on Huntington Avenue, W. W. Stall's repair corps, banquet tickets at $2.50 from H. W. Hayes, a forty-piece orchestra concert at Music Hall, the Jeffries Oxford Club minstrel show, and Dr. W. G. Kendall's run to Nantasket.
- A satirical column of mock presidential 'booms' from the paper's broken boomlet factory, nominating Karl Kron, H. S. Wood of Philadelphia, and Dr. W. G. Kendall's bull terrier Bess, with jibes at S. T. Clark of Baltimore and G. D. Gideon.
- Harry Corey becomes the first to ride up Locke's Hill, Watertown, on a crank machine, covering the quarter mile in 2.33 on the Rudge Light Roadster given him by Rudge & Co.; Kirke Corey and Burnham fell short on bicycles, though Burnham topped it on his Singer S.S. tricycle.
- A gossip column of short items: C. E. Whitten enters the Corey Hill contest, Rowe and Hendee forswear Sunday riding, Thomas Stevens is refused passage through Russia, 6,000 to 10,000 wheelmen are expected in Boston, and Percy Furnivall and Sanders Sellers pass their physicians' examinations.
- A partial list of exhibitors who have secured space at the Boston Club show, including the Pope Manufacturing Company, Overman Wheel Company, Coventry Machinists' Company, Gormully & Jeffery, S. T. Clark & Co., W. W. Stall, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co., plus a loan exhibition of peculiar machines old and new.
- Titnam's New York letter recounts Harlem Wheelmen member W. G. Adams's bungled disguise robbery at Sweetser, Pembroke & Co., previews the Inter-Club road race with the Elizabeth Wheelmen favored, reports Dr. Beckwith's decision to run again for the League presidency, and notes the Citizens' new quarters and the Ixions' fifty-mile club race at Orange.
- A letter from round-the-world cyclist Thomas Stevens to Outing reports his arrival at Meshed in Persia after twenty days of swollen streams, mud and snow crossing Khorassan, having started from Teheran on 10 March in summer kit.
- A detailed description of the Rudge Safety bicycle made by D. Rudge & Co. of Coventry and imported by Stoddard, Lovering & Co. of Boston, covering its Morgan patent endless chain, improved double ball bearings, thirty-nine pound weight, and $135 list price.
- A. M. Hill reports from Salisbury, N.C. on the three New Orleans tourists' ride to the League Meet, describing impassable wagon roads from Perdido to Evergreen, blistered feet dressed with Pond's Extract, a fifty-cent farmhouse dinner at Rutledge, and an ox-team ferry over a swollen branch.
- Railroad concessions for the League Meet: the Boston and Providence road carries organized clubs from Providence for one dollar return with wheels fifty cents extra, and the Fitchburg Railroad offers graduated per-mile rates for parties of fifteen or more with bicycles carried free.
- A stroll among Boston cycle dealers finds them bewailing the cost of special Meet editions and programmes, though the writer argues judicious advertising repays itself, citing Colonel Pope; he also criticises the Entertainment Committee's hiring of Music Hall for an ordinary band concert.
- The paragraph column opens with 'Song of the Screamer', Pedals' verses on the banished horn, then notes Dan Canary's gold medal presentation at Leicester, Harry Corey's conquest of Locke's Hill, the disqualification of French professionals Vidal and Dubois at Wolverhampton, and Jack Easy's announced retirement from the paper.
- A correspondence letter signed G. O. Easy on the Clarksville road race, where George E. Weber set the fifty-mile bicycle road record of 3h. 3m. 38.75s. on 26 April over roads cleared of vehicles from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- Mansfield, Ohio's two small clubs, the Eerials and Mercury, have combined as the Richland Ramblers with F. L. Casselberry president and A. P. Seiler captain, securing a suite of rooms overlooking Fountain Park with gymnasium, storage and bath rooms.
- The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and the Pennsylvania City Wheelmen of Philadelphia amalgamate under the old Pennsylvania name, electing Isaac Elwell president and C. A. Roberts captain, promising a new club house and adopting a dark gray uniform with a silver keystone cap badge.
- The Racing Board declares Ruben A. Pannett, Fred Russ Cook, S. G. Whittaker, L. J. Martel, C. P. Adams, F. R. Brown and W. F. Knapp professionals; H. E. Bidwell and C. F. Haven are suspended until 30 May, while charges against C. F. Cope and L. O. Miller are withdrawn.
- Chicago notes cover the Chicago Club's routine monthly meeting, the 'Traveller's' criticism of the Owl Club's lager-saloon indiscretion in the new Critic and Umpire weekly, the prospering Cheltenham Beach scheme with $1,000 prizes from Potter Palmer and Malcolm McNeil, and Jack Prince's 1,042-mile seventy-two-hour victory over Schock.
- Jack Prince smashes the records from thirty-five to fifty miles at Minneapolis, paced by Eck, Dengley and Shaw, and takes the seventy-two-hour record at the Washington Rink on his Apollo, beating Schock by about fourteen miles with 1,042.125 miles; he heads next to Woodstock and then Lynn to prepare for the Neilson race.
- Referee John A. Wells publishes the results of the six-month cycle home-trainer contest: N. C. Herring and P. M. Harris of the Ixion Bicycle Club, New York, take the prizes with sworn-certificate miles of 52.4s and 57.75s, ahead of Hartford's Everett E. Arnold, George C. Dresser and J. B. Spencer.
- The Inter-Club Road Racing Association fixes its twenty-five-mile race for Saturday 12 June over an eight-mile course from Irvington via Springfield Avenue and the Valley Road to the Llewellyn Park Hotel, with the Elizabeth Wheelmen erecting signboards and eleven teams already entered.
- The Columbia Prize Cup will be run for at the Lynn races under amateur-only League rules; Hunter, twice a winner and merely suspended until 30 May, seems likely to win it a third time and make it his personal property since his superiors at long distance have been expelled.
- The Brockton City Bicycle Club arranges an eleven-event race meeting at the Fair Grounds for 16 June, open to amateurs, suspected, suspended and expelled flyers alike, with a $1.00 entrance fee per event and entries to D. C. Pierce.
- In his eleventh and final letter Jack Easy concludes his defence of the Sociable against the Tandem, arguing the trade's power over public demand, then answers a Western correspondent with practical instructions for building a race track — drainage, small cracked stone, tamping and rolling — before bidding his readers au revoir.
- Short items: Gormully & Jeffery are shipping thirty bicycles a day, New Orleans tourists Fairfax and Fairchild ride Rudge Light Roadsters, W. C. Boak of LeRoy becomes Royal Mail agent for Western New York, and Chairman Bassett is catching criticism over the makers' amateurs suspensions.
- A practical amateur signing himself Pathfinder offers cycling photographers pointers on exposure tables from the British Journal Photo Almanac, Edwards's pyro-ammonia developer, a pocketable gossamer-rubber focussing cloth, and curing frilling with an alum bath.
- Trade novelties: the new two-track Royal Mail tandem quadricycle seen at Read's, W. B. Everett & Co.'s 'Courier' safety on the Rover pattern with double driving chains and Bown combination crank gear, and the dainty tricycle W. W. Stall has built for his wife.
- Club news including the Crescent Cycle Club of Gloucester's officer elections and Cape Ann championship road race, the Brockton City Club's thirty-mile hare and hounds chase, the Buffalo Bicycle Club's resolution backing Dr. Beckwith's re-election, elections at Middletown, Montclair, St. Paul and Haverhill, and a critical tour of the Citizens' cramped new brown-stone club house on Sixtieth Street.
- A table of Boston hotels for League Meet visitors — from the Brunswick and Vendome down to dollar-a-night houses — giving class, daily rates, location remarks and how close to each a wheel can be ridden, with T. Rothe of 625 Washington Street handling inquiries.
- The three-day League Meet programme for 27-29 May: the Corey Hill climbing contest, runs through the Newtons and to Mattapan and Dedham, the Music Hall concert and minstrel show, the Boston Club tricycle road race from Bailey's, the League business meeting and parade, and races at the Union Grounds.
- Coming events from 22 to 31 May, including the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's two-mile road championship, the Woodstock, Ont. meet, the Boston Club show and League Meet dates, and the opening of the Lynn Cycle Club track with the first Prince-Neilson race on 31 May.
- Acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists provisionally elected C.T.C. membership applicants — among them New Orleans-to-Boston tourists A. M. Hill and J. M. Gore — and announces copies of the 1886 Hand Book at thirty-five cents.