The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Editors C. W. Fourdrinier and J. S. Dean call Judge Montgomery's one-month, $200 sentence on Chase for killing Prof. Paul trivial, attack the New York and New Jersey Road Racing Association for letting Kings County and Hudson County change team personnel in the run-off of their Decoration Day tie, and ridicule the Orange Wanderers' ruling that Johnson alone, not the Johnson-Wolcott tandem, won their club race.
- Full official list for the Ramblers' World's Tournament: Henry E. Ducker general director, Howard P. Merrill referee, Geo. M. Hendee starter, judges T. J. Kirkpatrick, Geo. R. Bidwell, W. S. Bull, Chas. H. Potter, Harry H. Hodgson, C. H. Luscomb, Thos. Stevens and Chas. A. Pyne, with the Ramblers Bicycle Club of Buffalo supplying clerks, scorers, umpires and police.
- "Mercury" reports the Ramblers' World's Tournament track nearing completion and bills posted through neighbouring towns, N. G. Armstrong holding number 161 in the Ramblers' raffle for an American Light Champion, the Ramblers taking first prize for drilling at the Aurora Fair, and the Buffalo Club giving the Ladies' Bicycle Club use of its club house and gymnasium from 9 to 12 daily.
- "Ratchet" corrects the World on the Kings County-Hudson County run-off teams, Harry J. Hall, Jr. having replaced W. C. Marion and Eldridge replaced Baggott, and notes the Burkhalter and Sanger tandem trip to the Adirondacks, the Hudson County Wheelmen's run to Eagle Rock for the Wells-Greenwood climb, and a Royal Salvo ladies' bicycle drawing crowds in a Newark window.
- "Linneus" reports Klipstein and the Little Nicol Base Ball Club back from Lake Maxinkuckee, ex-Captain Walter Wylie and Captain E. N. Sanders both down with typhoid, E. A. Smith on course to win the Missouri Club mileage cup outright, and Hal Greenwood leaving for New Jersey for his second hill-climbing series against John A. Wells.
- "Ariel" records Wm. H. Dotter's removal from Hagerstown to Philadelphia with an honorary membership and a rousing sendoff from the Hagerstown club, the scattering of the seven Ariel Wheel Club men who rode to the Maryland Division meet a year before, and large Pennsylvania and Century club delegations wheeling to Camp Adam Slemmer at Norristown.
- "Wing Foot" calls 1888 the monumental year for records, with Long Island roads rideable far into the summer, and notes the Kings County Wheelmen's run to Pompton, thirty-four Brooklyn Bi. Club men bound for Massapequa, the Manhattan Bi. Club's anniversary reception at its new West 70th Street house, and the Huntington Bi. Club's 3 August race meeting.
- "Mentor" announces a two-day September tournament run by the United Wheelmen with the Exposition management on a new fast track, a committee of L. S. C. Ladish, J. A. De Tar and Harry G. Stuart, an effort to bring the Missouri Division annual meeting to the city, and a newly formed drill corps.
- "Bi." reports the Louisiana Liberty Bill killed in the Judiciary Committee as "useless legislation" and shelved for two years, the twenty-four-hour fever breaking out again with J. W. Dodge attacking the local 166-mile record on the 21st, and the State sub-division recommending Harry H. Hodgson for another term as Chief Consul.
- "The Jottist" congratulates President C. A. Underwood of the Jamaica Plain Cycle Club on a daughter, and reports the Hyde Park Club's tournament at the Readville trotting track on 25 August, the Cambridgeport Club cruising on the Fleur de Lis at Digby, N. S., the $600 Holyoke-Northampton path nearly finished with $100 from Pope and Overman, and excursion fares to the Cottage City meet.
- Paragraph news: Fred Wood denies Rowe's charge of foul language in their match races, Morgan and the American team sail from Liverpool on the Urania on 11 August, Geo. Hendee is reinstated an amateur only on promising to quit the path, Howell receives a gold medal from Geo. Woodcock of the Rudge Co., and the Prince of Wales opens Hyde Park to cyclists.
- The "Senator" describes watching Emperor Frederick III's funeral cortege at Potsdam with Woodside, Temple and the Barnett brothers, then travelling to Frankfort to see Henerich Kleye's fifteen hundred wheels in stock and on to Heidelberg Castle with a guide who spoke sixteen languages.
- "Achorne" of San Francisco reports that after the orderly California Division meet at Stockton on the Fourth, wheelmen made sleep impossible on the returning boats and tore down fences, overturned signs and broke windows in the town, one being jailed, and urges the decent nine-tenths to formulate rules expelling the boisterous tenth.
- Edw. H. Bacon writes from San Francisco that conduct on the boats and cars at one o'clock on the morning of the 5th was disgraceful, that some hotels now refuse bicyclers' custom and shorts are thought "off color," and blames the League-hotel custom for concentrating wheelmen until they dominate office, hall and dining room.
- L. A. W. 3579 of Baltimore, Md., reads that Karl Kron is ten thousand dollars behind on X. M. Miles on a Bicycle and urges every League member to buy a copy, calling him a pioneer of touring who is getting no more than his due.
- Captain Geo. W. Nellis, Jr. of the Fort Dayton Wheelmen rebuts the World's 13 July "New York and Long Island Notes": Wilson was not fouled in the three-mile event, Hall left the track of his own accord while a protest against him was being decided, and no application for an entrance-fee refund was ever made.
- At Long Eaton on 10 July, with Eck pushing off, W. F. Knapp rode the quarter-mile in 37 seconds to beat Duncan's record by 1 4-5s., and H. G. Crocker then did 35 4-5s. - three seconds inside the best English figure and within 3-5s. of Rowe's Springfield best.
- F. M. Dampman of the Wilmington Wheel Club covered twenty miles of the Lancaster Pike in 1h. 14m. 50 3-5s., beating Merrihew's record by 36 2-5s. while paced by Leisen and Merrihew; Wells and Middleton's tandem tricycle attempt failed after the repairer left the bearings too tight.
- In the Louisiana Cycling Club's third handicap, eleven miles from Lee Circle to West End via Carrollton for President Renaud's medal, scratch man R. G. Betts led from White Bridge and won by 500 yards in 55.15 from Joy and M. S. Graham, both of whom fell twice.
- L. H. Johnson and H. A. Wolcott's Humber tandem won the Orange Wanderers' five-mile Central avenue handicap of 16 July in a corrected 17.47 from Walters on a 45-inch pony Star and Amzi Dodd, provoking protests that a "team" should not have started and that Wolcott was not a club member.
- Over 130 wheelmen from thirteen clubs gathered at the Flushing Athletic Club grounds, where E. A. Powers of the Riverside Wheelmen won the one-mile novice in 3.20 2-5 from Alden, and the Long Island Wheelmen's team of Kreger, Schumacher and Wise took the nine-lap relay in 6.40 1-5.
- At the 15 July meeting in the Missouri club house Chief Consul Brewster presided over nominations - W. M. Brewster for Chief Consul, F. A. Suda for Vice Consul, Boswell, Case and Stuart as Representatives - with "Linneus" arguing A. M. Lewis is the right man for Vice Consul; Representative W. H. Cameron of St. Joseph declines renomination.
- S. F. Booth, Jr. and G. G. Cox of the B. C. W. ride Rudge Light Roadsters the 65 5-8 miles from Raymond to the Stoneman House by Lapella's ranch, Gambetta's mill, Grub Gulch, Grant's Springs and Wowona, logging every grade on a Butcher cyclometer and finding Inspiration Point a disappointment.
- Trade paragraphs on Lampleigh's new triple shackle spring saddles for the Coventry Machinists' Co., a New Zealand subscription won by Gormully & Jeffery's catalogue, Judge Hilton's Columbia Light Roadster tricycle, Carter's Anti-Pedal Slipper, the Overman Wheel Co. doubling its Chicopee Falls factory, and the Pope Mfg. Co. renting Columbia Racers to first-class racing men.
- Sterling Elliott's machine for the Sterling Cycle Co. of Newton, Mass. uses 34-inch second-growth hickory wheels with rock-elm hubs and 140 rivets holding the rubber tire, a hickory frame instead of steel tubing, ratchet-and-pawl double driving without a balance gear, two steering wheels and a lockable equalized rim brake; twenty-one sold since February.
- Fixture list from the Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock hill-climbing contest of 28 July and the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City through the Buffalo national, State and world's professional championships of 4-8 September, the Bicycling World's 100-mile Erie-to-Buffalo road race on 7 September, and the Hartford Wheel Club tournament.
- Silhouette cartoon strip showing a wheelman cleaning his ordinary, packing his trunk, training on the road and crating the machine at the depot beneath a "Tickets to Buffalo" sign.
- Chief Consul Wm. H. Brewster appoints C. H. Appier Local Consul for Hannibal, Mo., in place of the resigned A. C. Miller.
- Index to the election laws, nominations and representative allotments already printed, running from the California laws and States' representative numbers of 29 June through the Rhode Island, New Jersey and Indiana laws of 13 July to the Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Tennessee nominations of 20 July.
- Secretary-Treasurer J. G. Carpenter's List No. 2 of Pennsylvania League hotels with day, meal and lodging rates from Alden Station to York, plus eleven new Local Consuls including F. W. Bailey at Erie, and fourteen towns from Avoca to West Chester still wanting one.
- The Kentucky Division met at Covington on 4 July under Chief Consul Croninger, appointed C. F. Johnson, J. Adams and A. J. Lamb a nominating committee, voted a committee of five to revise the Kentucky Road Book, and chose Danville for the next meeting; Sec.-Treas. T. J. Willison's report shows a $75.13 balance.
- Chief Consul H. W. Hayes tells Division members they must show their membership tickets to obtain the reduced fare and free transportation of wheels on the O. C. R. R. from 1 to 6 August.
- Chief Consul Geo. A. Jessup names a committee to receive nominations for Chief Consul, Vice Consul, Secretary-Treasurer and twelve Representatives, closing 4 August, when voting blanks will go to every member of the Division.
- L. A. W. 1471 nominates Jeff D. Herndon of Clarksville for Secretary-Treasurer of the Tennessee Division.
- Chief Consul James R. Dunn appoints E. R. Eastman of Ottawa, O., Representative in charge of the 5th District of the Ohio Division.
- Chief Consul A. E. Mealy appoints nine Local Consuls, among them J. H. Cunningham at Westminster, William L. Conley at Tennallytown, Frank Keating at Centreville and C. H. McClenahan at Port Deposit.
- Secretary-Treasurer David J. Post's semi-annual report, with receipts from Bassett's dues remittances, Road Book sales and Travellers Insurance Co. and Weed Sewing Machine Co. advertisements set against payments for Road Book maps and binding, leaving $177.09 deposited with the Connecticut River Banking Co., Hartford.
- List 149 - 118 new applicants, bringing League membership to 10,744 - arranged by Division and club from California and Colorado through Michigan, New York and Ohio to West Virginia, with the Constitution's membership article and the application blank.