The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Leaders on the Chicago decisions of Judges Gresham and Blodgett in Pope Mfg. Co. vs. Gormully & Jeffery, found for the Chicago firm on every count; on Percy Stone's partial reinstatement as an amateur by the L. A. W. and why Hendee should follow; and a rebuttal of Bicycling News's slurs on W. A. Rowe's records after his defeat by Howell.
- Alfred Schimpf of the Albany (N. Y.) Wheelmen was ridden down in Washington Park by a light buggy whose driver fled down Hudson avenue, the shafts lacerating him; the club voted a $50 reward and retained counsel to find the two men.
- "Gentleman John" announces he will write as "Jack" hereafter, answering jibes from "Comus Kelly," Geo. Lacy Hillier and Bicycling News; he also notes Marriot & Cooper's ladies' rear-driver, Thomas W. Eck's professional troupe arriving, and Joe Pennell's Graphic article on military cycling.
- "Wing-Foot" on the road-improvement fever — Flushing's street-appropriation bill before the Legislature, the Brooklyns' twenty-mile team-selection road race over the Irvington-Millburn course on the 12th, and the state of the great century route from Newark to Trenton and of the Jericho Pike.
- "Ratchet" reports the Elizabeth Wheelmen's meeting and Irvington Hotel rooms, new tracks at Burlington and Camden, Charley Kluge's Woodstock match against Foster and Davies, and the Hudson County road-race team of Kluge, Stenken, Baggott and Gubleman against Kings County's Hall, Valentine, Hall and Wilson.
- "Ariel" corrects the account of Capt. E. W. Burt's header, reports the Century Wheelmen's second annual dinner at the Colonnade Hotel, Jno. A. Wells's three straight climbs of Ford Hill and his tandem record with Halsted over the Lancaster Pike (13 miles in 52 minutes), and a chat with E. M. Aaron.
- "Mentor" describes the United Wheelmen's Sunday run to Parkville and its scandalised Park College faculty, Local Consul De Tar's subscription paper to help clear the League's debt, and the paving of the Southwest boulevard to the State line.
- "Vernon" reports all four dealers ahead of last year's sales, K. J. Hale and Colie Bell in road training, J. Purvis-Bruce due back about 12 July for a 25-mile road race with Bell, and the Mercury Bicycle Club's failed general run for unattached riders.
- Paragraphs on the premature "Champion of the World" line printed under W. A. Rowe's plate, the $2,600 raised in Baltimore for the L. A. W. meet and its tandem and rear-driving-safety races, Kirk Brown's gold medal for a Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington hill climb, and the Buffalo Bicycle Club's new club house.
- Writing from Long Eaton, Derbyshire, Wm. E. Crist accepts Chas. B. Kluge's challenge of 6 April, the races to be run under L. A. W. rules after his return to America in the fall.
- A letter from McDonald Bros. of Jacksonville, Ill., dated 30 April 1888, reporting that their four 1888 Light Champions arrived in good order and that two 50-inch machines were tested over thirty-three miles of the roughest roads to Springfield without a spoke, screw or nut working loose.
- Cabled from London: at the Leicester cycling grounds Woodside, backed by American sports, was beaten over a mile by the local favourite Robb, who fell on the slope with Woodside crashing atop him and wrecking his machine.
- Alex M. Lewis won the eighteen-mile handicap from Manchester to Vandeventer avenue in 1h. 7m. 53s., with E. A. Smith second and Richard Hurck third; E. N. Sanders was run into by his pacemaker A. L. Jordan and rode out of contention.
- Correspondent "1874" disputes the San Francisco Bicycle Club's claimed 26 miles in 1h. 25m., noting Elwell took 1h. 38m. for 25 miles and that his own party covered the same course in 2h. 15m. and rode San Francisco to San Jose and back in 12h. 25m.
- A statement from the Pope Mfg. Co. on the Chicago Circuit Court's decision in its five suits against Gormully & Jeffery: the 1884 license contract was construed for Pope but not enforced, and the Shire, Wallace and Kirkpatrick ball-bearing and hammock-saddle patents were held void as to the claims sued on, with appeals allowed to the Supreme Court.
- Trade column noting the St. Nicolas Manufacturing Co.'s new $105 "National," W. A. Rhodes's quarter mile in 32 seconds on a 52-pound Springfield Roadster and his form against Berlo, W. B. Everett & Co.'s locking stand for rear-driving safeties, and Wm. L. Ross's report of Singer sales up 65 per cent.
- L. B. Gaylor of Stamford, Conn. describes his new machine — effectively an ordinary crank machine reversed, a rear-driver with cranks acting direct on the rear axle without chains or levers — to be marketed this summer by the Eagle Bicycle Mfg. Co. at $125 to $135.
- Mr. Butcher reports heavy demand for the only cyclometers made for safeties and claims his patent of June 16, 1883 covers the dial-plate features of the "Excelsior" now made by Gormully & Jeffery; the editors also mock a customer who demanded a free replacement after a horse car ran over his.
- Notice from U. S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston: dues of $1.00 the first year and 75 cents thereafter, renewals now expired, and the list of provisionally elected applicants entitled to wear the C. T. C. badge and uniform.
- The L. A. W.'s officers for the year: President T. J. Kirkpatrick of Springfield, Ohio; Vice-President H. W. Hayes of Boston; Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis; Secretary-Editor Abbot Bassett, 22 School St., Boston; and an Executive Committee of Kirkpatrick, Hayes and Geo. Bidwell of New York.
- Membership under James R. Dunn of Massillon; Rights and Privileges under C. H. Luscomb; Rules and Regulations under C. S. Butler of Buffalo; the Racing Board chaired by Gerry Jones of Binghamton; Transportation under Burley B. Ayres of Chicago; W. S. Bomberger of Hagerstown as Tourmaster; A. B. Barkman's Bureau of Information; and Joseph Pennell as Foreign Marshal in London.
- President T. J. Kirkpatrick gives notice that the conditions of Art. V. have been met and a constitutional convention will be held at the coming annual meeting, to consider the Committee on Re-organization's report laid before the Board in New York in March.
- The Committee on Spring Meet asks every Massachusetts cycling club to send a postal giving the club's name and location and the addresses of its president, secretary and captain to Wm. H. Emery, M.D., 1177 Tremont street, Boston.
- Wm. H. Emery, J. S. Dean and C. S. Howard ask Massachusetts Division members to report to Dr. Emery any forks or intersections where the newly enacted guide-post law is not being complied with, stating where posts should stand and what directions they should bear.
- Chief Consul A. E. Mealy appoints the Arlington House at Arlington, Md., a League Hotel, at $2.00 a day or 50 cents per meal and lodging on presentation of a membership ticket.
- Gerry Jones, Chairman of the Racing Board, awards the one-mile Bicycle and one-mile Tricycle National Championships to the Maryland Division, to be run at the National Meet.
- N. H. Van Sicklen, Chief Consul, appoints the Dunlap Hotel of Jacksonville, Ill., an L. A. W. Hotel, its regular $2.50 rate cut to $2.00 for League members.
- The Racing Board assigns the five-mile bicycle championship to the California Division, the two-mile to the Long Island Wheelmen at Brooklyn, and the half-mile to the New Castle (Pa.) Bicycle Club; signed Gerry Jones, Chairman.
- President T. J. Kirkpatrick appoints A. E. Mealy of Baltimore, Chief Consul for Maryland, a member of the Racing Board, to assume the duties of the office at once.
- List 138, totalling 122 names (9,508 in all), published under Article III of the Constitution with the two-week protest period and ticket-issue rules, running division by division from California through Wisconsin.