The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 23
Articles in this issue
- The editor invites all cyclists, League members or not, to join the Boston parade on 30 May, and reports on the preparatory meeting of thirty to forty representative cyclists from around New England.
- An editorial surveying the growing literature of wheeling, praising Alfred D. Chandler's narrative of an English bicycle tour, Hawley's "Comparative Study of the Bicycle", Miss Madeline's first story, and correspondents such as L. J. Bates of Detroit.
- The second training paper covers exercise: track-work schedules for the quarter-mile to two-mile distances, warnings against hard road work, rub-downs and regular sleep, and the pedalling-imitation house exercise used by the French champion Charles Terront.
- "Capital P." of Washington, D.C. urges the Bicycling World or the Boston clubs to mount a bicycle and tricycle exhibition alongside the L. A. W. Meet, estimating $150 to $250 in costs and pledging the Capital Club toward a $5-to-$10 per-club subscription.
- Charles E. Pratt describes England's band-driven Otto and George W. Pressey's lever-driven American Star of Hammonton, N.J., arguing that neither is properly a bicycle; a postscript answers "Ixion" on front-steering tricycles and brakes such as the Coventry Machinists' Cheylesmore Club.
- The new Hope Wheel Club of Providence (H. F. Lippitt, president) is announced, with reports from the Stoneham, Middlesex of Malden, Providence, Milwaukee (Lemuel Ellsworth elected president), Brooklyn, Erie, and Hartford clubs.
- Some sixty bicyclers gathered in Trinity Square on Fast Day; the Crescents ran to the Blue Bell Inn at East Milton while the Boston and Massachusetts club men toured through Brookline, Jamaica Plain, and Dorchester, Billy Bernhardt winning an impromptu scrub race.
- A song for the Essex club by "Ixion" of Newark, with a companion verse, "The Bugle's Song", on the meanings of the club bugler's calls.
- A rejoinder, signed c. e. p., to Hawley's recent paper on safety bicycles, disputing the claims made for Singer & Co.'s 'Xtraordinary Challenge and defending the ordinary bicycle for touring and practical road work.
- League notices and membership applications forwarded by corresponding secretary Albert S. Parsons, including the Middlesex Bicycle Club of Malden, the Kings County Wheelmen of Brooklyn, the Massachusetts, Waltham, Erie, Boston, and Crescent clubs, and the Mass. Agricultural College Wheel Club of Amherst.
- "P. R. W." defends the old 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 target valuation against Mr. Brownell's proposed system, showing that it exactly expresses measurement of each ring's distance from the target's edge.
- "Linn" answers "Friar Tuck" and "Locksley" with devices for fixing a point of aim at 100 yards — imagining stacked targets or gauging the draw with the thumb — and diagnoses why arrows fly to the left.
- Edward B. Weston touches on bicyclers' versus archers' enthusiasm, target valuation, the N.A.A.'s members-only Brooklyn meeting in July, and indoor shooting at Mr. Wilkinson's Chicago range, where J. D. Blake scored 218 with 30 arrows at 30 yards.
- "C. C. A." tabulates every colour-to-colour comparison to show that the old target valuation agrees with string measurement far more closely than Mr. Brownell's proposed system.
- A. G. Whitman of Melrose recounts his first shots of spring, pinning a dead leaf at fifty yards with his last two arrows before an astonished onlooker.
- Notice of the association's annual business meeting at the Revere House, Boston, on 27 April, with corresponding secretary John Worcester citing the constitutional rule on society representatives.
- The National Archery Association's executive committee, in session at secretary G. F. E. Pearsall's Brooklyn office, invites club applications ahead of the Grand Annual Meeting at Prospect Park during the second week of July.
- A poem in praise of the writer's bicycle as a staunch companion through fine roads, lightning storms, and the daily ride to and from work.
- Letters from Chicago (club dues raised; racer George H. Craig credited with a 2:55 mile at Grand Rapids Driving Park), Milwaukee (Captain Hathaway's new 58-inch Harvard and a club dinner at bugler C. H. Moses's home), and "Phil" of the snowbound Keystone Bi. Club of Pittsburg.
- "D. D. G." of Franklin, Pa. facetiously proposes a life and accident association for bicyclers, paying $25 weekly indemnity for wheel-caused injuries and $10,000 insurance to members' widows.
- President Charles E. Pratt announces the resignation of L. A. W. treasurer Hugh L. Willoughby and appoints Dillwyn Wistar of 233 North 10th Street, Philadelphia, treasurer pro tem.