The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 21
Articles in this issue
- L. A. W. No. 18724 thanks the wheelmen met on a six-hundred-mile tour through Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan, rating Ohio's roads very good, Kentucky's rocky and hilly and Michigan's sandy, and praising his 53-inch Columbia Light Roadster.
- A Des Moines exchange reports Judge Stoneman of the Cedar Rapids Superior Court discharging a fifteen-year-old whose bicycle frightened a horse and upset a buggy, ruling that a rider has the same rights in the street as any other vehicle but none on the sidewalk.
- The Massachusetts Division met at Young's Hotel and named Dr. W. G. Kendall, J. B. Seward, Robinson and Sanford Lawton delegates to the National Convention, voted $200 for the Chief Consul's and Secretary-Treasurer's offices, and put W. H. Emery, Geo. A. Perkins and E. H. Kennedy on guide posts.
- Jos. L. Gard of the Denver Ramblers answers "16,827" with a mile-by-mile road report from Ellsworth to Topeka via Brookville, Salina, Abilene, Junction City, Manhattan and St. Marys, warning against the K. P. R. R. track section and the military post east of Junction City.
- L. A. W. 5436 objects to the paper's recurring jocular allusions to "spirits," arguing they offend the League's educated membership and encourage the hoodlumism and artificial stimulants that undercut training.
- The Caviler jokes about Labor Day prizes of bicycle shoes and newspaper subscriptions, recommends the Middlesex Cycling Club for its free theatre tickets, and lampoons the late $2.50 dinner before the Massachusetts Division Board meeting at Young's Hotel, where officers split into "eaters and non-eaters."
- "Linneus" reports the Missouri Bicycle Club's De Soto run, where Hawkins and Alex Lewis both broke backbones and Holm walked six miles to Kimmswick; also Hal Greenwood's banquet at the Cycle Club, the Knights and Ladies of Honor races won by Frank Mehlig and A. R. Gilmore, and Geo. E. Tivy's mishaps in the Bicycling World 100-mile race.
- "Ariel" covers a Germantown tandem tricycle running down a child on Broad street, the postponed State Fair races, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's deferred trip to Orange and Newark, and the row over Wilhelm's Reading Herald slur on the Wilmington Wheel Club's Dampman, McDaniel and Merrihew.
- Chicago's delegation brought thirteen prizes home from Buffalo despite Lumsden's poor condition and Van Sicklen's fall; Tom Roe broke his machine and refused to remount; the Lincoln Cycling Club's Grand Opening and the Chicago Bicycle Club's reception at Jackson Park Pavilion are announced, and the "Rover type" craze is predicted to displace the ordinary.
- "Ramshorn" announces the Terre Haute Bicycle Club's fall tournament for 3 October with "Senator" Morgan's team and the Hollingsworth brothers, the club's move to larger quarters, a planned run to Turkey Run, and the Montgomery County Fair races at Crawfordsville where E. Hulman took the one-mile State championship.
- "Star" describes the Crescent Wheelmen, Cincinnati's six-man "Curbstone Club" of scorchers, Dr. Green's four-minute gait up Gilbert avenue, a quo warranto proceeding against the Walnut Hills, Madisonville and Plainville Turnpike Company, and the Cincinnati Bicycle Club's day at Julius Benckenstein's.
- "Salina" reports the Syracuse Cycling Club home from Buffalo full of praise for the Bisons, a projected clam-bake at Pleasant Beach, "Doodles" adding another header near Niagara Falls, and the club's theatre outing spoiled when the theatre burned down opposite its rooms.
- Editorial paragraphs on Knapp and Crocker dodging an over-attentive admirer at Hartford, W. S. Maltby's projected professional trip to Brazil, Col. Pope's return from abroad, Henry F. Campbell's five ascents of College Hill, Gerry Jones's resignation from the Racing Board, and the Referee's planned six-day race at Battery D, Chicago.
- Full results of the Hartford Wheel Club's two days' racing: Rowe beat Temple by a foot in the one-mile professional, Knapp took both lap races, Ludwig Forster dominated the amateur events, and Davis and Crist set an American Rover-type record of 2.46 and a tandem safety mile of 2.44 1-2.
- The East Hartford Wheel Club's seventh meeting, 29 September, lists eight amateur events from the East Hartford championship to a consolation, with entries closing 25 September at fifty cents to H. E. Bidwell.
- Geo. R. McAuslan reports the track work for the 25 September Rhode Island tournament, the boys' age limit cut from eighteen to sixteen, the New York and New England Railroad route from Boston, and a new numbered-and-coloured cloth system for marking riders.
- The Tioga Cycling Club of Philadelphia will race 29 September at the Tioga Athletic Association's Westmoreland Station grounds, with a 53-inch racing bicycle as first prize in the open mile; entries close 25 September with Capt. Isaac Van Deusen.
- At the Iowa State Fair races of 4-5 September, W. Bryant, John Crosby and D. Meurer of Cedar Falls and Whitmore of Osceola took the honours, and the Cedar Falls Wheelmen won the $95 State Fair trophy cup before a crowd of over 10,000.
- T. D. Brown lists the Peninsular Agricultural and Pomological Society's two days of racing at Wilmington on 11-12 October, including the half-mile and five-mile Peninsula championships and prizes running to a $25 Association cup.
- The United Wheelmen's circular for the 27-30 September Kansas City meet sets out the parade, illuminated parade, Midland banquet and Merriam Park run, with entries in from Will Windle, Colie Bell, Thomas Blackmore, F. W. Mehlig and Harry Rittenhouse.
- "Senator" Morgan, writing for Ralph Temple after the disputed Buffalo championship, challenges W. A. Rowe to one, five and ten-mile races for $1,000, $500 a side, the first at Chicago on 6 October, and encloses $100 with the Bicycling World as stakeholder.
- "Secretary" recounts the Order of the Bushwhackers, the annual August woodland reunion of an old Baltimore club near Druid Hill Park, with Halstead's wagon dinner of fried chicken and deviled crabs and absurd games of stone-throwing, hole-digging and getting through a rail fence.
- "Senator" Morgan answers H. D. Corey and charges referee Howard P. Merrill with favouritism toward Rowe at Buffalo and Hartford, argues that trade travellers and agents should not officiate, offers $100 against any proof of a Temple "combine," and quotes F. P. Prial of the Wheel that the foul claim was not deliberate.
- The League's officers for the year: President T. J. Kirkpatrick of Springfield, Ohio; First Vice President H. W. Hayes, 103 State Street, Boston; Second Vice President W. S. Bull of Buffalo; Treasurer W. M. Brewster, 309 Olive Street, St. Louis.
- Rosters of the national committees - Executive and Finance (Kirkpatrick, Hayes, Bull), Membership (G. Carleton Brown, Charles S. Davol, Frank C. Blodgett), Rights and Privileges (Chas. H. Luscomb, J. S. Dean, A. Moore Berry), Rules and Regulations (Wm. H. Emery, W. W. Share, Henry Crowther), Improvement of Highways (Stephen Terry, Chas. S. Butler, H. S. Livingston), Racing (George S. Atwater, George Collister, W. M. Brewster) and Transportation under Burley B. Ayers.
- Chief Consul George A. Jessup calls a meeting of the Pennsylvania Division Board of Officers for 27 September at the Lochiel House, Harrisburg, with mileage and hotel expenses paid by the Division.
- Robert Holm, Chairman of the Touring Board, invites wheelmen on the Iron Mountain and other lines near St. Louis to join the party leaving 27 September for the Kansas City meet and to book sleepers or chair seats promptly.
- Minutes of the first 1888-9 meeting of the Massachusetts Division Board of Officers, 15 September: Seward, Robinson, Kendall, Howard and Lawton elected delegates to the National Assembly, standing committees named, and $100 each voted to the Secretary-Treasurer's and Chief Consul's offices.
- F. A. Elwell announces the Maine Division's fall race meeting at Waterville on 27 September and urges a full attendance.
- The Maine mail vote elects Dr. George E. Dow of Portland Chief Consul, Charles D. Batchelder of Sanford Vice Consul and James O. Whitemore of Fairfield Representative.
- Chief Consul W. M. Brewster presses attendance at the Division's annual meeting at Kansas City on 27-29 September, adds Walter Williams and W. H. Cameron to the Touring Board, appoints Alex M. Lewis Local Consul for St. Louis, and names the Miami House a League hotel.
- G. R. Bidwell reports for the Uniform Committee that the L. A. W. cloth is giving entire satisfaction and does not fade, and that members may buy it by the yard from Wanamaker & Brown of Philadelphia for their home tailor.
- The Los Angeles Wheelmen, Canton Bi. Club and Elizabeth Wheelmen report their elected State Representatives: J. W. A. Off, Frank C. Meyer, and George C. Pennell with John C. Wetmore.
- List 157 publishes 48 new applicants bringing League membership to 11,391, with the constitutional article on eligibility, the protest procedure, and the blank application form addressed to Abbot Bassett.