The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 15
Articles in this issue
- The editor discusses the flood of record claims arriving from all parts of the country, and jokes that the man with the largest record has the most vivid imagination.
- The editorial leader argues that bicycling has bred a distinctive literature and urges clubs to have a member write up each run — route, difficulties and scenery — so the accounts can be compiled into club histories, rather than appointing a formal club historian.
- Alfred D. Chandler concludes his touring series with Derbyshire's Chatsworth, Haddon and Hardwick Halls, the Doncaster St. Leger races (won by Count de Lagrange's Rayon D'or, with Pierre Lorillard's Parole beaten), York and Wales, recounts the steamer Baltic striking the rocks at the South Stack light, and closes with advice on costs (about four dollars a day), clothing and maps.
- Club news from New England and beyond covers runs, race preparation, and election of new officers in several prominent clubs.
- A report on the Boston Bicycle Club's annual dinner, hailed as one of the finest social gatherings in the club's history, with toasts and speeches noted.
- A light verse in which a rash rider crashes over a little white dog belonging to a blue-eyed girl, and the ensuing conversation leads to blushes, a wedding, and a little rival for the wheel.
- The archery editorial takes up a California agitation, started by 'Scrub Shot' in Pacific Life and seconded by George W. Kinney in the Olympian, to mark arrow weights in grains instead of the English shillings-and-pence scale.
- President A. G. Constable and Secretary G. F. E. Pearsall report preparations for the National Archery Association's annual meet at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, in July, with membership expected to grow from sixteen to fifty clubs; particulars of the Brooklyn Archery Club's members and officers follow.
- A letter signed 'Tyro' of Boston blames archery clubs' want of vitality on their mixed elements — those who shoot, those who flirt, and those who do neither — leaving only three or four earnest members to climb the ladder.
- 'Capt. Jack' rejoins the target-scoring wrangle, calculating string-measurement averages for each colour to show Mr. Brownell's new system is no improvement on the old gold-counts-nine valuation.
- Archery gossip and verse: milder days tempt archers outdoors, the Pacific archers and their monthly the Olympian are praised, the Chieftain's Badge Fund still needs half-dollars, and a correspondent mends a broken arrow with Stratena cement.
- A satirical 'special correspondent' report from Athens, read by H. S. Kempton at the Boston Club dinner, describes tablets unearthed at Corinth recording a council debate of about 350-300 B.C. in which Pelopidas defends his 80-dactyli two-wheeler against the astynomi's ban.
- A Providence correspondent reports E. G. Thurber's ice rides to Rocky Point and East Greenwich, Mr. Handy's removal of his riding school and salesroom to Union Hall on Broad street with a drill by the Hermes Club, and local clubs' preference for New York or Boston over Washington for the League Meet.
- A wheelman signing 'A. B. H.' of Kankakee, Illinois, laments riding alone on rutted prairie roads since his fellow riders left town, but still finds his wheel an immense satisfaction and cheers the bicycle's growing recognition.
- Bearing on the League Meet question, six New York clubs representing some five hundred riders petition the Park Commissioners for leave to ride the eastern driveway of Central Park in the morning and evening and the Riverside drive at all hours, signed by C. K. Munroe and others.