The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 20
Articles in this issue
- The editor announces that the L.A.W. annual meet will be held in Boston on 31 May, describes the directors' long deliberations, and reports that telegrams were sent to 3,000 subscribers immediately on the decision.
- An editorial considers the reciprocal duties of the club and its members, arguing that clubs should cultivate social bonds and individual loyalty rather than relying on formal rules alone.
- A report of the League's spring officers' meeting covers routine business, resolutions passed, and the critical vote that settled Boston as the venue for the annual meet.
- A humorous letter from the Detroit club's president recounts how members Lowe, High, Bumps, Twiddle, Condor and Broad stage-managed his portrait astride his wheel, only for a slipping saddle to yield a botched plate showing two shoe-soles, a patched knickerbocker and the top of a bald head.
- W. H. T. offers three technical notes for archers: drawing so the arrow's nock sits under the aiming eye, the steadiness of yew over hardwood-backed or steel bows, and a specification for the perfect self yew target bow, pulling 50 pounds at 28 inches and costing about $75.
- The secretary's combined January and February report praises wonderful 60-yard scores by Walworth and Hyatt, notes that only seven of thirty-six members have paid the $1.00 badge assessment voted at Buffalo, and tabulates York Round scores from F. O. Hyatt, A. W. Havens, Andrew S. Brownell, Frank H. Walworth and Parm. S. DeGraff.
- "Growler" of Chicago salutes "W. H. T." with archery verse and reports the 12 March annual meeting of the Highland Park Archers, at which C. Granville Hammond was elected president and Homer S. Taylor, W. O. Hipwell and Dr. E. B. Weston took the other offices.
- A report of the Highland Park Archers' annual election at the mansion of Henry C. Carvers lists the full slate of officers, headed by president C. Granville Hammond and field captain Dr. Edward B. Weston, and secretary H. S. Taylor solicits York Round matches for April.
- "Manhattan" describes a winter visit to Iowa, where the all-lady Davenport club (organised 1877 and coached by Wm. Woodmansee of Cincinnati's College Hill Archers) has spawned the Griswold College and Nepenthe clubs, with further clubs at Moline and little activity in frozen Chicago.
- A notice states that the Executive Committee of the National Archery Association, sitting at corresponding secretary G. F. E. Pearsall's Brooklyn office, is receiving club applications ahead of the Grand Annual Meeting in Prospect Park in July, open only to member clubs.
- Brooklyn riders meeting at George T. Brown's house form the Kings County Wheelmen; the Hawthorn Club of Salem and the Elgin Club elect officers; the Brockton Bi. Club plans a prize meet with the Brockton Agricultural Society's fair; and "Hind Wheel" reports riding with the Lansing Bi. Club around the Michigan Capitol.
- A Chicago Bicycle Club correspondent recounts defeating a Common Council ordinance that would have restricted riding to between 7 A.M. and 8 P.M. — the frightened-horse accident behind it was traced to a boy's wooden velocipede — and argues against pressing for boulevard access until the bicycle is distinguished from the velocipede.
- "Whele" replies to Mr. Parsons's article, defending sidewalk riding over Brooklyn's barbarous cobblestones and urging wheelmen and the L.A.W. to gather hard data on the extent and cost of good roads radiating from Boston to press the case for road improvement nationwide.
- A reprint from the Kankakee Gazette predicts the bicycle will win the same road rights in the West that it enjoys in the East, and commends the Bicycling World — edited by Louis Harrison and C. E. Pratt — on its change from a fortnightly to a weekly publication.
- A letter dated 15 March from H. H. Walker, Kingman N. Putnam and other officers of the New York, Brooklyn and Yonkers clubs — received too late for the meeting report — invites the League to hold its meet in New York, citing Central Park parade permission, wheel storage and hotel accommodations.