The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The editor's opening paragraph column notes bicyclers with hub lights in the Garfield torchlight parade at Orange, N.J., offers Latin mottoes for young bicycle clubs, runs a 'Fact' list on the L.A.W. badge and the Pratt pitcher, and debates where blame lies after a Brooklyn boy's bicycle frightened horses and a lady rider was killed.
- A poem celebrates the solitary pleasures of cycling by moonlight, describing the quiet country roads, sounds of the night, and the feeling of freedom after dark; signed 'Tommy B.' and reprinted from the Bicycling News.
- An editorial surveys college wheelmen — Harvard's club of over ninety members, Columbia's ranking next, clubs at Princeton, Amherst, and the University of Michigan, and riders at Yale in the New Haven Bi. C. — and urges intercollegiate bicycle racing on the English inter-university model.
- An editorial on club uniforms recommends woollen over cotton, snug knee-breeches with long stockings, low shoes, and a felt helmet rather than the 'pill-box' polo cap, favouring blue, gray, brown, or green and uniformity in small details like gloves, neckties, and buttons.
- A letter from 'Kol Kron' of Washington Square, N.Y. proposes a local place-index to the paper's touring letters as the seed of an 'American Road Book' for wheelmen; the editor replies that a trial showed such an index would swell to gazetteer proportions and has been deferred.
- 'Kol Kron' recounts a July tour from New London by steamer to Greenport and home through Long Island via Mattatuck, Riverhead, Yaphank, Patchogue, Babylon, and Cold Spring Harbor, rating the Jamaica-to-Jericho turnpike and the Flushing macadam as the island's best stretches.
- Capt. C. W. Fowler describes riding fifty-inch Standards with Mr. R. S. Allen from the Kentucky Military Institute to Crab Orchard Springs and back — 118 miles via Alton, Lawrenceburg, Harrodsburg, and Danville — with astonished roadside commentary from the Bluegrass natives.
- A member of the Star Bi. Club of Lynn reports a party of five riding about eighteen miles through Saugus, Wakefield, and Melrose over hard, smooth roads, and notes that a man who tipped club riders off their wheels in an Irish village was fined $5.00 and costs in court.
- Club reports cover a moonlight run of the Ariel Bi. C. down Chicago's Grand and Drexel boulevards, the Brooklyn Bi. C.'s new headquarters at 77 Clinton street, the newly organized Chillicothe Bi. C. of Ohio under President A. Dump, and the Cincinnati Bi. C.'s ten-lap track in Power Hall.
- The Boston and Massachusetts bicycle clubs open joint club-rooms at No. 40 Providence street, Park square, with a house-warming at which President A. S. Parsons presented Charles E. Pratt with a silver pitcher from the Newport meet; the committee comprised Hodges, Weston, Dean, Shillaber, Parsons, and Harrison.
- Charles E. Pratt's letter of thanks for the massive ice pitcher bought by twenty-five-cent subscriptions from wheelmen at the League of American Wheelmen's founding meet at Newport, finally presented by 'Cor. Sec. L. A. W.' Parsons at the new Boston-Massachusetts headquarters.
- An Archery Field editorial weighs indoor winter practice: halls limit ranges to twenty to fifty yards, lighting is troublesome, and some liken it to 'shooting through a tube,' yet covered ranges keep nerve and muscle in training through the Northern winter.
- The paper recalls Walter Burnham's fifty-cent subscription toward an emblem for the best single York round made before 1 July 1881, acknowledging contributions now standing at four, from Burnham, the editor, A. S. Brownell, and E. B. Weston.
- Edward B. Weston of Highland Park, Ill. welcomes the paper's move to weekly issue, endorses its 'Club Idea' leader, and corrects the record on top scores, noting J. R. Adams of Chicago's 46-262 at 80 yards beats Maurice Thompson's celebrated 45-261.
- 'Jersey Blue' responds to Captain Jack's piece on archery weapons, defending open mention of makers, describing his struggles with a rawhide Express-Taffy bow from Sutton, and arguing manufacturers should guarantee bows against breakage in legitimate use.
- Archers seeking Boston winter-practice quarters are asked to send names to the Archery Field; the Ascham Archers' twenty members shoot year-round on a 260-by-600-foot reserve at the Union Base Ball grounds in Brooklyn; and the Merrie Bowmen of Eaton, Ohio cite Col. R. Williams's 632-point American round in challenging the Wabash Merry Bowmen.
- Archery paragraphs note that Dr. James Dwight of the Hawthorne Archers is a lawn-tennis champion at Beacon Park, endorse Dr. Weston's suggestion of a Western Archery Association, and appeal to club secretaries for correct lists of clubs and officers.
- Trade notes describe A. J. Philbrick's 'No Name' bicycles and his new three-rider machine, Cunningham & Co.'s Harrington cradle spring, the Pope Manufacturing Company's $12.50 price cut on Special Columbias, the folding 'Acme Bicycle Stand,' and William M. Wright's fingerless 'Wright Glove' gauntlet.
- Letters report six bicycle owners in Richmond, Va., pioneer Martin Rudy's police run-in at Lancaster, Pa., Percy Kemble's 92-mile day ride from Charleston, W.Va. to Kanawha Falls and Hawk's Nest, a Pottsville, Pa. trio offering road-book notes, and a Knoxville, Tenn. beginner mastering his 52-inch Standard Columbia named 'Garfield.'
- Knick O'Bocker's gossip column notes Howard Conkling's 5.50 wheel run to Tarrytown and back, Theo. E. Neergaard of the Mercury Bi. Club marrying Miss Currier, the Lenox club's Saturday medal races between the Stearns brothers and Capt. Ames, and Mercury president Pierre Noel joining the Seventh Regiment.
- League of American Wheelmen business: membership applications forwarded by Cor. Sec. Albert S. Parsons, new consuls for New York State including Downing Vaux and Fred. B. Hubbard, notice that badges await a new die, and word that the fall league race is deferred until next May.
- A humor column of cycling jokes and verse gathered from the Bicycling News, Norristown Herald, London Punch, and Brockton Advance, closing with an Irish dialogue between Pat and Biddy from the St. Mary's College Miscellany.