The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 4
Articles in this issue
- A column of short editorial observations and witty remarks on cycling matters, club news, and seasonal riding conditions.
- Discussion of bicycle riding schools and their role in training new cyclists in American cities.
- News and notes about racing and riding at the Beacon Park track in Boston.
- A cycling story or anecdote from Baltimore, describing local wheeling life and characters.
- An essay arguing that the bicycle promotes healthful outdoor activity and social fellowship among its devotees.
- A touring account of a long-distance bicycle journey from Lima, Ohio, to Boston, describing roads and experiences along the way.
- A gossip column of New York wheeling items, urging the L.A.W. to appoint Rawson Underhill of the Staten Island Athletic Club and Manhattan Bi. Club as consul for Staten Island, and noting F. G. Bourne's Thanksgiving-day race against Mr. Comacho.
- Reports from bicycle clubs around the country including Ann Arbor, New Britain, New Haven, and others on their activities and membership.
- The Crescent Bicycle Club of Boston hosts seventeen members of the Providence Bicycle Club the day after Thanksgiving, the Boston and Providence Railroad carrying the visitors and their wheels on dollar round-trip tickets for a day of riding and festivity.
- A mock-Biblical humorous sketch about a party of young wheelmen who ride out to a tavern near the steep hill of Milton and feast on beefsteak and coffee, swearing one another to secrecy afterward.
- A piece on the unusual sport of riding bicycles on frozen surfaces during winter months.
- Personal paragraphs including the publishers' notice that this number is the last sent to lapsed subscribers, and Charles E. Allen of the Grand Rapids Bi. C. winning a five-mile race at Plainwell, Michigan, on a heavy track in 18.23.
- An Archery Field editorial, following "Captain Jack's" discussion of archery weapons, on keeping an impartial dividing line between the paper's reading columns and dealers' testimonials and puffery.
- The ancient English club's last extra target of the season, shot at the single York on 4 November, with its annual dinner in Archer's Hall, ten pounds voted toward the funeral of forty-seven-year servant James Rowley, and a subscription opened to celebrate the society's centenary.
- A letter from A. G. Whitman of Melrose, Massachusetts, proposing an interchange of experience among archers on the home manufacture of bows and arrows, and asking what native arrow-woods rival the English deal.
- A letter on the choice of a bow and outfit for the amateur archer, taking up "Captain Jack's" account of the bows used at the Eastern Archery Association tournament held at Boston in September.
- Club reports including the Robin Hood Archers, organized with thirty-eight members at Miss Brown's residence on 86th Street, New York, with Mr. Campbell as president, plus Brooklyn and New York notes.
- A column of archery notes: Mr. Badger's new take-apart steel bow, the New York Archery Club's fifty members and new forty-yard range at Excelsior Hall, the Ascham Archers' Brooklyn hall, and a winter-practice proposal.
- Short reviews and notices of new publications of interest to cyclists and archers.
- Official notices from the League of American Wheelmen listing new member applications and consul appointments.
- A full record of the Philadelphia and Germantown bicycle clubs' successful fight against the Haddonfield Turnpike Company of New Jersey, which had closed its toll-gates to bicycles: attorney S. H. Grey's correspondence, the directors' resolution admitting riders free, and the L.A.W. board's vote to pay the fifty-dollar legal fee.
- A description of the L.A.W. one-mile championship medal, a gold bar and pendant set with a diamond and enamelled "Champion", made in New York and held ready after not being raced for at Providence.
- A poem signed "Abel Elder" in praise of the wheel, celebrating the "greater wheel and lesser wheel" that warm an old rider's heart even in November.
- A letter from Cunningham & Co. of Boston defending the originality of their "Harvard" and "Yale" bicycles, built to their specifications by Bayliss & Thomas, against the suggestion that they differ from the English "Excelsior" and "Invincible" in name only.