The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Weekly leader on the L. A. W. presidency race (J. R. Dunn of Massillon against Luscomb and Mott), the clash between California Division racing chairman Doane and national chairman Davol over suspending riders from "Senator" Morgan's five-mile amateur race, the Maryland Division's "Let Us Have Less Mud!" appeal in the Baltimore Herald, and a Newcastle-on-Tyne cash prize for road menders.
- "Toney" reports Massachusetts wheelmen backing Dr. Emery for a Vice-Presidency, Charles S. Davol's refusal to stand for 2nd Vice-President, "Alley" Wilton's move to Providence, the Melrose Cycle Club's second annual assembly, and opens a series of club-captain biographies with H. W. Robinson of the Charlestown Rovers.
- "Occasional" records the Social Wheel Club's five-mile road race postponed by a four-inch snowfall, the club's inaugural hop at Martine's academy, asks what became of Bob Gerwing, and argues the West deserves the 1890 League meet rather than Niagara Falls.
- "Salina" describes the city's first asphalt pavement on James street and the lantern parade and safety coasting races planned to open it, plus a new Syracuse Driving Park Association half-mile track and the quiet Knickerbocker Cycling Club.
- "Hawkshaw" argues at length that admitting non-riding "social members" ruins a wheel club, predicts "My Maryland" will be the campaign tune, notes Henry George, Jr. joining the New York Bicycle Club, and reports rain has spared "Record" on the Tarrytown course for five Sundays.
- "Nostaw" praises a local physician's anonymous "Carriage and Bicycle" newspaper article on Connecticut's poor roads, and reports the Rambling Wheelmen's football team under H. S. Hudson, a projected New Haven run, and Bridgeport Bicycle Club smokers for the winter.
- "Star" of Cincinnati argues only L. A. W. members should join the Ohio Division meet parade, blames the Tyron Bill's failure on public indifference rather than politics, and bids for the February officers' meeting.
- "Kay Bee" reports eight men training on the track, weekly hare and hounds runs, the fall handicap road race of 15 miles from Mt. Auburn through the Newtons, and challenges issued to the Yale and Technology cycling clubs.
- "Nitram" covers the Division Board of Officers meeting at the Hudson County Wheelmen's club house where new By-Laws were adopted and Lunger and Benedict were named to study a road book of maps, the death of Mrs. C. W. Higgins, and the Plainfield Bicycle Club's fall games and tug-of-war with the Elizabeth Wheelmen.
- "A. H. K." laments Southern cyclists' silence, reports a failed attempt to form a club, and describes riding with Alf Brent to Harrodsburg across High Bridge, 286 feet above the Kentucky River.
- "Sikler" describes five riders circling the dusty city with racing men Kelly and Sullivan, three miles of new brick pavement, the Lincoln Wheel Club's move to 432 South Eleventh street, and a 65-mile club run to Omaha with two tandem safeties.
- "Cyc" corrects a newspaper report of a Dauphin-to-Harrisburg road race, explaining Wheel Club members merely rode against Stone and Gerhardt's 39-minute and the Fry brothers' 37-minute tandem times, and defends Chayne and Cook's disputed 33-minute run of 1886.
- "Judge" reports the Turnpike Commissioners restoring the road, the Star Club's theatre party at "Kajanka" and its growth from twenty to forty members towards a club house, and the return of Joseph Bressler from four months abroad.
- Paragraph column on A. H. Overman's twelve-day return voyage from Europe, the Niagara Falls Bicycle Club's new quarters, Ralph Temple's postcard from the Eiffel Tower, the failed 72-hour professional race at Toronto, the West End Bicycle Club team's victory supper at Robert Leadley's, and vitrified fire brick as pavement.
- Portrait engraving and follow-up to last week's "Missing," reporting no authentic news of Robinson since his disappearance from Lake City, Minn. on Sept. 6th, clues now being traced in Wisconsin, and a reward offered for his body, effects or information.
- The Springfield News reports that the bicyclist Webb, supposed drowned in the Connecticut River after a header from the north-end bridge, is alive in a Western town and has written to his sister in Holyoke; he is said to have "disappeared" four times before.
- Tom Roe's sprained ankle, snow three to five inches deep and six days to cover 170 miles have put him fifty miles behind schedule crossing Colorado; Chicago Herald man G. K. Barrett met him at Trinidad, Colo., and Kansas City and Chicago wheelmen will escort him in around the 14th.
- Between 50 and 60 Rhode Island wheelmen filled the parquet at the Gaiety Opera House for 'Rag Baby,' where 'Old Sport' entered on a bicycle claiming 16 miles in 16 hours and the orchestra worked a bicycle whistle and bell into a galop; Howard L. Perkins and Nelson H. Gibbs arranged it.
- The Medford Cycle Club's opening night at the Opera House on October 30th drew 230 pupils to Prof. W. S. Stokell's class and 200 dancers afterwards, confounding the club's croakers; Newcomb and Perry originated the scheme, which runs each Friday until a closing ball on January 3.
- Judge Barnard's full decision in Goring vs. Kennedy, holding that Kennedy harboured the dog that threw T. E. Goring from his wheel and had notice of its vicious propensity after it assaulted Walker, and awarding $500 for the injury to plaintiff and his machine.
- J. R. Wilson, Jr. of Clarksville, Tenn. answers D. W. Barker's October 25th article, arguing the Sabbath's moral law continues under the New Testament and that a man confined to business all week still has no right to take riding time from God.
- Creditors meeting at the Court of Insolvency in Boston unanimously elected lawyer E. S. Mansfield of 42 Court street assignee; he will solicit bids before the twentieth for the whole plant at the Highlandville factory.
- Standing letters department, with the editor's note disclaiming responsibility for opinions expressed and reserving the right to expunge improper matter.
- E. J. Shriver closes his controversy with Mr. Mott, objecting on four grounds to funding highways from the Congressional surplus — unconstitutional, impracticable, inexpedient, and certain to drag the League into the free-trade/protection quarrel — and objects to Mott's hint at lobbying.
- A. W. Mabbett, Secretary of League Club 234, rebuts the "Berkshire and the Hudson" slur on North Adams Local Consul John Kane, insisting Kane owns and rides a wheel, that the Berkshire Rovers have cosy headquarters and weekly runs, and blaming a recently reinstated "jockeying wheelman" for the story.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull of Buffalo proposes seven By-Law amendments: a Racing Board in each State Division, the annual L. A. W. meet no earlier than September 15th with National championships confined to State Division champions, clubs and Divisions free to pay competitors' expenses, and residence rules barring non-League colours.
- George H. Brown, No. 23,910, reports that he and Paul W. Adams, soaked riding from Quincy toward Rockland, were refused a warm room and food at the Cushing House at Hingham and given only hot coffee, and warns members against the hotel.
- Review of Robert P. Scott of Baltimore's 305-page Lippincott book, praising Part First on the application of power, anti-vibration, saddle springs, gearing and rear-driving safeties, and Part Two's hundred pages of absurd cycle inventions, many first printed in the World.
- The paper asks competitors for the Adam's mileage medal to send in figures, and prints Albert Beers of Everett, Mass.'s October cyclometer log totalling 1,852 miles, certified by Joseph Butcher of the Butcher Cyclometer Co. as run on a New Mail Safety.
- Standing racing department, with the editor's notice that reports must give competitors' initials, handicaps and full times in all cases.
- Telegram from "Ariel" reporting W. Van Wagoner broke the Lancaster Pike record of 48.10, riding the fifteen and one-quarter miles from Paoli to Fifty-second street in 47m. 41 4-5s.
- Election Day results over the Irvington-Milburn course: T. J. Hall, Jr. won the Kings County Wheelmen's 25-mile handicap in 1.33.34 4-5; J. Sheffield the Brooklyn Bicycle Club ten-mile; W. T. Shannon the Prospect Wheelmen championship; plus handicaps for the Elizabeth and Atalanta Wheelmen and a Benedict medal mile to E. T. McLoughlan.
- At the O'Rielly Zouaves' indoor games at the Park rink, October 31st, unknown Harry Wade — riding an ordinary against safeties after only four months' riding — took the one and two mile races, the latter in 7.45 on an eleven-lap track.
- New York Bicycle Club and Riverside Wheelmen results from the Sun: J. Van Buren won the five-mile handicap off seven minutes, and W. C. Barker took both the one-mile novice and the five-mile scratch road race championship from twenty-one starters in 18.48.
- At the Harvard A. A. fall handicap, Tweedy beat P. W. Davis by half a length in the two-mile ordinary in 6.04 1-5, and in the two-mile safety R. H. Davis beat Bailey by a foot with a home-stretch spurt; reported by Kay Bee.
- J. H. Barham and H. J. Slack took the 24-hour Tennessee road record, riding safeties geared to 57 and 60 inches from Nashville by Lebanon, Murfreesboro and Shelbyville and back via Eagleville, Triune and Nolensville — 139 miles in nineteen hours twenty minutes, sixteen hours twenty riding.
- W. C. Goulding beat G. P. Mills' fifty-mile tricycle road record on Oct. 15, covering Hitchen to Peterborough in 2h. 50m. 20 sec. on a Muswell geared to 60 inches.
- A 19-mile match road race between Napoleon Bedard of the E. Providence Bi. Club and Henry Scott of the Sydenham Bi. Club; Scott, delayed by a wheel accident, changed machines, caught Bedard two miles from home and won by four minutes in 1h. 21 3-4m.
- Town championship road race of October 29 from the top of Ragtown hill on the Lancaster pike to Mountville and return, won by Samuel Arnold in 27 1-2 minutes from Oberlin, Fornwalt, Fissel and McLaughlin.
- A. J. Sheen of the Cardiff United Cycle Club cut the standing quarter-mile safety record by 2 2-5 seconds at the Sophia Gardens track on Oct. 19, and later lowered the flying quarter by 1 3-5 second to 32 1-5 seconds, timed by Pembroke Coleman.
- William Murphy of the Kings County Wheelmen established a three-mile safety record of 10m. 9s. and a five-mile safety record of 16m. 45s. on the Queens track, within a minute of Al Banker's five-mile ordinary record.
- League officers listed: President Chas. H. Luscomb of New York, First Vice President James R. Dunn of Massillon, Ohio, Second Vice President Sanford Lawton of Springfield, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett of 12 Pearl Street, Boston.
- Committee rosters for Membership (Mealy, Casselberry), Rights and Privileges (Berry, Perkins, Potter), Rules and Regulations (Emery, Davis, Brockway), Improvement of Highways (Butler, Share, Beal), Racing (Davol, Atwater, Hodgson, Collister, Smyth) and Transportation (Brewster).
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints Chas. Barney Local Consul for Joplin and F. B. Quisenberry for Sedalia, and lists seventeen appointed League headquarters hotels from Kirksville's Hotel Steele to Mrs. Smith's at Oakfield with their member rates.
- Robt. Holm reports the road reports compiled with help from W. P. Grath and G. E. Wetzel; as the riding season is nearly over the book will be issued early in the spring rather than now.
- Chas. S. Davol, Chairman of the L. A. W. Racing Board, suspends Fred Hood and S. G. Spier of San Francisco from the race track pending investigation of their amateur standing, and warns amateurs not to compete with them.
- Chief Consul J. B. Green names the Iowa Division's Touring, Racing, Rights and Privileges, and Improvement of Highways committees, including H. L. Chase of Cedar Falls, John W. Garrett of Des Moines and R. L. Thompson of Muscatine.
- J. B. Green's list of Iowa Local Consuls for thirty-three towns from Algona and Cedar Rapids to Winterset and What Cheer.
- List 214, 55 names bringing the League to 11,675, quoting Article III of the Constitution on eligibility, protest and ticket issue, with candidates grouped by Division from California to Rhode Island.