The Bicycling World, Vol 17, No 4
Articles in this issue
- U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston's C.T.C. department: renewal deadline passed, four provisionally elected applicants (W. H. Mealy of Catasauqua, W. E. Coombe of Omaha, I. E. Small of York, A. F. Snyder of Lehighton), plus new hotel and consul appointments from Minneapolis's West Hotel to Frank A. Elwell as State Consul for Maine.
- Cabled from London: at Birmingham Rowe took the one-mile bicycle championship in 2m 45s and Temple the one-mile handicap in 2m 44s.
- Turn-by-turn road directions the Philadelphia clubs will use to reach the League meet, via Broad street, Point Breeze road, Chester and Lancaster Pike to Wilmington, then Ex-Chief Consul Palmer's Wilmington route through Middletown, Warwick, Cecilton, Galena and Fairlee to Tolchester Beach and the Baltimore steamer.
- "Mentor" reports the United Wheelmen, Topeka and Ottawa Wheelmen and St. Joseph Ruralists accepting Leavenworth County Wheelmen's Fourth of July invitation, quotes Otto Wulfekuhler on Leavenworth's macadam drives, Fort Leavenworth and Sheridan's Drive, and notes E. E. Menges & Co.'s fire and Representative H. P. Stuart's coasting header.
- "Wing-Foot" on Brooklyn clubs preparing for the twenty-five-mile Decoration Day road race, F. W. Lincoln of the Mercury Wheel Club cutting Brooklyn-to-Flushing to twelve miles, the fourteen-member Brooklyn Ladies' Tricycle Club, and the Long Island Railroad's new 15c/25c bicycle rates won through F. W. Nichols.
- "Vernon" on the Minneapolis Driving Park's possible cyclers' track, Secretary-Treasurer Chas. Barwick's inquiry, disappointment at Rowe losing to Howell in England, new M.B.C. member C. L. Stacy on a 48-inch, and George Bartlett's header into a wagon.
- "Ariel" on Reading men joining Kirk Brown's hill-climbing medal contest, the Pennsylvania Club's toll-free season on Montgomery avenue and its Wayne supper, Century Wheelmen mileage of 14,876 1/2 miles, and Merrihew and Dampman lowering the Lancaster pike ten-mile record to 1h 15m 28 1/5s.
- "Ratchet" on W. B. Banker and the Passaic County Wheelmen's new clubhouse, macadamizing William street in East Orange, the Orange Y.M.C.A. Cycling Club and Orange Wanderers' Decoration Day runs, and Mr. Sayre restoring the Newark-Irvington stage line for road-race spectators.
- "Duquesne" reports the Allegheny City Y.M.C.A. grounds opening without a bicycle track, a Beaver Valley Wheelmen Decoration Day meet, Lenz and Wright climbing 18th street and McGowin and Seidell Sylvan avenue, and Mr. Corbit's smash with a road hog on the Perrysville grades.
- "The Jottist" on snow drifts still lying in the Berkshire Hills, the Rutland (Vt.) Bicycle Club disbanding over bad roads and matrimony, Alfred Hale and Victor Kuhn's $50 twenty-five-mile match over the McCurdy course, and two Cambridge riders fined $3 in Newton for riding on sidewalks.
- Paragraph budget: Henry E. Ducker leaving Gies & Co. to manage the Buffalo Tournament and inviting Hillier to referee, 70 entries for the Pullman Chicago road race, the Connecticut Road Book selling fast, Gormully & Jeffery's Duryea saddle suit dismissed against Pope, and the death of Geo. F. Crawford of the Kankakee Bicycle Club.
- "Jack" writes from the Anchor Inn at Ripley, quoting G. Lacy Hillier on nineteen-year-old Freddy Osmond's mile-record prospects and on Woodside, and on "bounders" being better on the road than in public houses; also Jack Keen's pedal-for-safeties, Salvation Army water cycles and a call for amateur road racing over the Bicycling World course.
- Official summary of the century: rendezvous at Newark the evening of June 15th, start 4 A.M. via Cranford, Westfield, Plainfield, Bound Brook, Somerville, Pennington and Trenton to Bristol and the Continental Hotel, under Captains Clark, Martin and Crozer, with Fuller of the Brooklyn Bi. Club and Murphy of the K.C.W. as buglers.
- Illustrated historical guide to Baltimore ahead of the June 18-20 meet, walking readers from Barnum's City Hotel past Battle Monument, the Holliday Street Theatre, Washington's Monument and Fort McHenry, and noting the city's firsts — the first American railway journey to Ellicott's Mills, the first telegraph message and the first balloon ascension.
- Rhapsodic account of Baltimore's roughly hundred miles of oyster-shell roads and the routes radiating from "Boundary" (North) avenue — the York road to Towson and Loch Raven, the Reisterstown Pike ladies' run through Druid Hill Park, Pikesville, Arlington and the mile shell-road coast to Ellicott City — mapped out by Captain Fred. Pope.
- The Baltimore and Ohio is the only trunk line running solid through trains from the West, carrying wheels free with their owners and offering the only stopover at Washington; connections listed from Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati.
- Timetabled party routes to the Baltimore meet from Chicago, St. Louis, Peoria, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New Orleans, with contacts W. S. Bombarger of Hagerstown and Local Chairman J. T. Chism for Shenandoah Valley and Southern riders.
- B. and O. excursion tickets at $1.20 round trip for L.A.W. members on June 21st, good to return the 23d, with Chief Consul Atwater of the District Division providing committees to escort visitors to the Capitol.
- William A. Rhodes writes that after the Baltimore meet he will race P. Berlo or Emerson's unknown on road wheels once round the Chestnut Hill reservoir track for $100 to $350 a side, with trainer Charles Daniels ready to post the deposit.
- Portrait sketch of the World's correspondent, formerly "Jay Pheobe" and "Gentleman John": born at sea off Cape Horn aboard the Great Victoria, of Scottish and Mississippi planter parentage, a ten-year cyclist and member of the Ripley Road Club, L.A.W. and C.T.C.
- Programme for June 19: one-mile L.A.W. bicycle and tricycle championships, half-mile novice dash, two-mile safety handicap, one-mile tandem tricycle handicap, three-mile bicycle handicap and lap races, a three-quarter-mile steeplechase and a consolation; $1 entry to Secretary H. W. Barrington, closing June 11.
- Figures from the American Athlete give the celebrated hill as 2,039 feet long, averaging one foot in 12.45 with a steepest pitch of one in 7.99, and the editor asks Ratchet for Eagle Rock's grade and Linneus for Kimmswick's so a comparative table can be published.
- July 4th meet at the Fair Grounds on the Ramblers' new quarter-mile track, the only one west of Cleveland, with ten events including a one-mile State championship; 50 cents entry to Secretary-Treasurer Alonzo J. Lee, closing June 28.
- At North Shields on May 21 Temple of America shot away on the last lap to beat Wood of England easily in a ten-mile race, timed at 30m 1 2-5s.
- Wood won the ten-mile Birmingham race in 31 minutes from Temple and Knapp in a field of ten, and all the Americans won heats in the one-mile handicap.
- Rowe beat Scottish champion J. D. Lumsden over five miles at Edinburgh on May 7th, drawing away in the last mile to finish some thirty yards clear in 17m 46 1-2s.
- The backer of the bicycle unknown left $25 forfeit at the Herald office for a road race with Berlo or Rhodes, naming Wednesday to meet Berlo and Monday to meet Rhodes or his backer Daniels.
- An L.A.W. member (17,994) gives the Common Council's accepted figures from the May 7 Hillside avenue contract — macadamizing $1.09, paving gutters 75 cents, excavating 30 cents, curbing 35 cents — plus broken stone at $1.48 per gross ton, and invites comparable figures from other localities.
- Charles Richards Dodge argues the agricultural press has woken to road improvement, urges co-operation with the country's 7,500,000 farmers, deprecates schemes to spend the U.S. treasury surplus on roads, and proposes each L.A.W. State division appoint a standing editorial committee.
- Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. reply to a Pope advertisement, insisting their attorneys notified only manufacturers and importers rather than intimidating agents and dealers, and that the Jeffery-Copeland interference decision has no bearing on the validity of the patent.
- Resolutions adopted by the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club of Philadelphia on May 11 mourning member Chas. B. Gehl and directing that a copy be sent to his family and published in the Bicycling World and American Athlete.
- L. H. Johnson of Orange, N. J., has imported a large invoice of Special Sparkbrook bicycles, with a cut and specification promised shortly, and "Pedal and Path," the transcontinental bicycle-trip story, is recommended at 25 cents.
- Calendar from May 29 to September, listing the Irvington team race, Pullman road race at Chicago, Massachusetts and Maine Division meets on May 30, the Rowe-English match at North Shields, the June 18-20 League Meet at Baltimore, the Wells-Greenwood hill-climbs at Kimmswick and Eagle Rock, and the Buffalo Tournament.
- Secretary Abbot Bassett's List 140 — 105 names, total 9,773 — of L.A.W. candidates by division and club, from the California and Colorado Divisions through Maryland's eighteen new Baltimore-area members to Pennsylvania's Allegheny Cyclers and Kittanning Bi. Club.
- Chairmen for the June 18-20 Baltimore meet — A. E. Mealy general, W. H. Beatty finance, Geo. S. Hagerty reception, Albert Mott entertainment, Sam'l T. Clark races, F. W. Pope tours and runs — with League rates at the Carrollton, Rennert, Eutaw House and Guy's Hotel.
- Explains By-laws Art. V, Sect. 9 on how a cycle club qualifies as a League club by requiring every active member to join, gives a model by-law paying L.A.W. fees from the club treasury, and sets out the certificate the secretary must file with Abbot Bassett.