The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 26
Articles in this issue
- The leader answers John A. Wells's attack over what constitutes an "ordinary road wheel," and tabulates the stock gears and crank lengths actually catalogued for the Veloce, Victor, Swift, Singer, Rambler, Ivel and Humber.
- Denies the Boston Herald's report that the club is about to disband; a chief officer calls the announcement premature and hopes new life can be infused into the club in the spring.
- Henry E. Ducker of Buffalo defends altering the novice rule at the Buffalo meet, argues the League's racing rules are too weak to enforce, and explains that Abbot Bassett is too busy with League work to referee.
- Geo. W. Schoenhut (No. 385) of Wichita offers to race No. 3,507 a hundred miles or more for a $100 solid gold medal, over either the Wichita–Salina or the McPherson–Arkansas City roads.
- "Hawkshaw" on a Nashville circuit court ruling that Forepaugh's parading elephant was no nuisance per se — a lesson for the road hog — plus C. A. Sheehan's illustrated Sunday World article on club houses and Mr. Coyne's $3,000 damages settlement.
- "Star" of Cincinnati warns riders against stimulants, reports the new twenty-two-member Veloce Club and its officers, and describes H. W. Longley of the Cincinnati Bicycle Club using the wheel daily for business in a split rubber coat.
- "The Stroller" on the Fort Dearborns voting to consolidate with the Chicagos as the Chicago Cycling Club, Van Sicklen's slow recovery from his Buffalo accident, and Carlson's candidacy for County Surveyor.
- "Ratchet" regrets the Alphabetical Association's postponed fall road race and previews Election-day events by the Elizabeth Wheelmen, Kings County Wheelmen and Hudson County Wheelmen; also corrects the course of the Orange Wanderers' ten-mile race.
- "Salina" describes lengthening evenings in the Syracuse club rooms, the billiard room's revenue, the moustache craze among the members, and the vote to take two adjoining rooms.
- The merged Chicago Cycling Club — Chicago Bicycle Club plus Fort Dearborn Cycling Club — has 200 members, over $2,500 in assets and two club houses, but forfeits its League standing; Lumsden beat Percy Stone at Quincy.
- Synyer beat Osmond in their one-mile match in a slow 3m. 35 4-5s. after Osmond sportingly waived his right to a race spoiled by a broken spoke, to Wheeling's delight at the defeat of Hillier's protege.
- Results of the Danvers Cycle Club meeting on a heavy track: J. Ogden of Middleton won the mile novice, E. A. Bailey of Somerville the mile handicap and two-mile, and H. Robson of Salem the mile county championship.
- A. H. Meyer and H. C. Jones deny reports that the Richmond track will be in poor shape and announce the meet is put back to Oct. 29 and 30, with lodging obtainable at 50 cents a night.
- Thirty-five entries — Windle, Halsted, Kenneth Brown, Van Benschoten and Davis of Harvard among them — for the Berkeley Oval meet, with special trains from Grand Central and 155th Street and a cycling route via Macomb's Dam bridge.
- "Ariel" reports the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's first five-mile challenge-cup race, won by J. W. Draper after Fuller and Kohler collided, and the Sporting Life gold medal put up for a 100-mile Election-day road race from the General Wayne Hotel.
- Notices the Eastman Dry Plate Co.'s new Kodak, which takes a hundred pictures with no glass plates to break or carry and at last makes photography practical for the touring cyclist.
- No. 5043 describes the first appearance of the bicycle on the Gibson County fair programme, with prizes for graceful riding judged by ten local ladies and a half-mile speed contest won by Frank Watts.
- Review of S. Golder's Iliffe & Son volume on riding a Marlboro' tandem through Norway with H. J. Leake, illustrated by Geo. Moore, which puts the cost of travel at about $1.75 a day.
- Review of Geo. L. Hillier and T. H. S. Walker's handbook — the first training book since Cortis — covering choice of wheel and gear, footgear, and road as against path racing, printed in English and French under one cover.
- Review of Thomas Stevens's second Scribner volume: his winter at Teheran, arrest at Furrah and escort to Herat, the 2,400-mile forced return to Constantinople, and his "warm" reception in China; faulted only for carrying no maps.
- L. A. W. 968 recounts Adams Express paying for repairs after his Humber tandem tricycle was buckled in transit from Philadelphia to Washington, then praises the 44-lb "Salvo" lady's bicycle he bought his wife from H. S. Owen.
- Gormully & Jeffery as the trade's largest leather-sundries maker, the Overman Wheel Co.'s $25 tangent-spoked children's tricycle, Miss Pauline Hall's loan of Singer's only lady's bicycle in the country, and the Harvard–Technology team road-race challenge.
- Admits No. 210, the Chattanooga Cycle Club of Chattanooga, Tenn., G. A. Wilkinson secretary-treasurer.
- L. B. Waldron appointed Consul at Bristol in place of Rev. S. H. Day, notified by Chief Consul C. S. Davol.
- Roy Antibus elected to represent the Richland Ramblers of Mansfield on the Ohio State Board of Officers.
- J. C. Carrol announces that the Virginia Division's third annual meet will be held Oct. 29 and 30 instead of the 22d and 23d.
- Chief Consul Ed. H. Croninger lists twelve new local consuls for Kentucky, including Kinney Lowe at Newport, T. H. Tarr at Lexington and A. J. Lamb at Louisville.
- Minutes of the third annual meet at Topeka: racing and touring committees chosen, the next meet voted to Ottawa, dues held at $1, and the Secretary told to fight a Topeka ordinance barring cyclers from a bridge; 150 members and $95.78 in the treasury.
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol names the Division's Finance, Rights and Privileges, Touring and Rules committees, with the Racing Committee deferred.
- The by-laws adopted on reorganising the New York State Division: $1.50 annual dues, the duties of Chief Consul, Vice Consul and Secretary-Treasurer, six electoral districts, and four standing committees.
- List 162 — 66 new applicants, bringing the League to 11,700 — led by fourteen Tennessee men from the Chattanooga Cycle Club, with the blank application form and fees.
- Reprinted from the New York World of Oct. 22: John Schoefer of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club is the first to ride an ordinary — a 51-inch Columbia Light Roadster — from foot to top of the mile-long Eagle Rock Hill near Orange, N. J.