The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The editor's opening column of paragraphs notes Frank Weston's appointment as Bicycle Touring Club chief consul for the United States, a proposed horse dinner at Boston's Parker House, and a comic verse on Sarah Bernhardt's cane, and quotes the Chicago News Boys' Appeal on how English inns are reviving under bicycle traffic.
- An editorial note on the paper's race reporting explains that accounts have been condensed for space, asks readers and correspondents to send in results of any races omitted, and observes that the racing season is nearly over though racing remains a valuable advertisement for the pastime.
- The leader traces the rise of tricycling, noting the Finchley and London Tricycle Clubs' joint committee and the new Tricycle Association in England while only a dozen or so machines exist in the United States; a second note urges wheelmen to mark President Hayes's Thanksgiving proclamation of 25 November by riding to places of worship.
- Ixion continues his New Hampshire excursions from Newport in Sullivan County, riding toward Mount Ascutney, dashing through the covered toll-bridge over the Connecticut River despite its $2.00 fine for speed, and lunching with a hospitable old resident at the hotel-less Vermont village of Ascutneyville.
- Four bicyclers ride the forty-five miles from Springfield, Ohio to Columbus in about five hours of riding, speeding over hard macadam pike through Harmony and Vienna, sampling fresh cider at a roadside mill, dining at the Mantel House in West Jefferson, and cursing the rutted last fifteen miles of the national pike.
- Castor of the Capital Bicycle Club describes a club run past the White House grounds during a Marine Band concert and a forty-odd-mile ride to Baltimore, marred by a Mr. Conn ordering the uniformed riders to eat outside his tent, and ending with a good dinner and entertainment at the Howard House.
- Culled from October's English exchanges: the Cyclist on the Finchley and London clubs' move to define an amateur tricyclist, a 355-mile nine-days' tricycle tour in the South of England, a Coventry fireman who reached a blaze by bicycle in thigh-deep boots, the Bicycling News on 'Dufferdom', and the Bicycling Times' quarrel with its rival.
- Knick O'Bocker reports the Mercury Club's Sunday run to Yonkers, John Stearns's unbeaten 2.40 round trip, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's move into Mr. Wright's old quarters at 77 Clinton street, plans for a Thanksgiving run to King's Bridge with a $1.00 turkey dinner at 791 5th avenue, and H. H. Walker's sprained arm from fancy riding.
- The Crescent Bicycle Club announces a riding exhibition with squad drill and a slow race at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gymnasium; Orange, N.J. members of the Essex Bi. C. organize the fourteen-member 'Orange Wanderers' under Lieutenant L. H. Johnson; and the San Francisco Bi. C. adopts a grizzly-bear badge, with Governor George C. Perkins an honorary member.
- Hind-Wheel writes from Detroit on delayed Invincible orders plaguing club president L. J. Bates and champion N. B. Conger, and on the Genesee Club of Flint, whose members Wood and Coe are wheeling to Buffalo through Canada; C. W. Fourdrinier reports Albany's new thirteen-rider club and the sandy, hilly roads on the west side of the Hudson.
- 'Open all Night' recounts a package-delivery ride from Providence through six-inch sand to East Taunton and back via the Pawtucket road, notes that Capt. Richmond is about to open a riding rink as Providence Club headquarters, and reports the club's moonlight run to Pawtucket with an oyster supper at Dispeau's.
- A reprint from the London Telegraph recalls Mr. Justice Lush's ruling that a bicycle is legally a carriage, describes the modern tricycle as an armchair on wheels for the elderly, cites Mr. Cortis's amateur feat of ten miles in under thirty minutes, and celebrates a fortnight's tour from Birmingham to Dover and the Franco-German battlefields.
- Answering an Albany reader's query on the daily cost of a bicycle tour through England, the writer advises that expenses depend on habits, that country inns stock more luxuries than American ones, and that joining the Bicycle Touring Club secures tariffs as low as or lower than regular rates.
- The Archery Field editorial reviews autumn shooting by the leading English clubs: Mr. Everett takes the West Berks challenge bugle on the Royal Toxophilite Society's grounds, the Beddington Park and Waterloo archers hold prize meetings, Miss E. Carter wins the Vale of White Horse goose, and the Royal Toxophilites try a new average-value-per-hit prize.
- A poem by Nathan D. Urner, reprinted from Scribner's, picturing a lawn archery meeting of alternating men and maids in Watteau-like costumes, with whistling shafts, a heaped luncheon, and Cupid led through fresh paces.
- An open match on 25 November between Frank C. Havens of San Francisco and Will H. Thompson of Crawfordsville, Ind. invites all archers to shoot 96 arrows at 60 yards; a Pacific Life article defends the old 1-3-5-7-9 scoring against Creedmoor-style reform and white targets; and Loftus beats Collins of Sacramento's Sherwood Foresters at the single York round.
- Archery gossip: Frank E. Roff of the Ford's 'Theory of Archery' partnership visits Massachusetts; Billy Lynch of Carson, Nev. routs a burglar with a twenty-seven-inch Spaulding arrow; I. P. Allen shoots 126-548 at the double York round; and two young ladies near Pittsburg pin a three-foot snake beneath their target.
- The editor welcomes the Olympian of San Francisco, a monthly whose November number ranges from base-ball and archery to a small corner for bicycling, and acknowledges receipt of the December Atlantic Monthly from Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
- Kol Kron details road-book routes from Hartford to Meriden via Quaker Lane, Corbin's Corner, New Britain and Berlin — ending in a mile of perfect wheeling through a shaded glen — and a rainy repeat of Hartford to Springfield by the sand plains, the canal towpath from Windsor Locks, and the turnpike to the South End bridge.
- Notes the death of long-road rider J. G. Blow of the St. Louis Bi. C., Mr. Sanborn of Marblehead's collision with a team, Charles R. Percival's jolly opening of his bicycle and tricycle rooms at 96 Worcester street with a scrub race won by Capt. Taylor of the Harvard Bi. C., Fred T. Merrill's all-night endurance win in San Francisco, and Herman C. Eggers's reinstatement as an amateur.
- Promising fuller trade coverage, the editor warns that much imported British wheel-goods stock is 'trash', while excepting the proven Bayliss, Thomas & Co. 'Excelsiors' and Surrey Machinists' 'Invincibles' — sold here by Cunningham & Co. as the Harvard and Yale — and Singer & Co.'s 'Challenges'.
- Corresponding secretary Albert S. Parsons publishes proposed League of American Wheelmen members, headed by twenty applicants of the Milwaukee Bi. C.; Jo. Pennell lists new consuls for Eastern Pennsylvania; and treasurer Hugh L. Willoughby announces the League badges, $2.00 in solid silver or $1.00 nickel-plated.
- A column of squibs and puns: advice to remount 'like a veteran recruit' after a header, bicycle men treading gingerly at seaside resorts, a bad boy taunting a Germantown clubman as the dog-catcher, anonymous Orphic postal cards from Hartford, and a Windsor Locks rider forced to carry his wheel.