The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Leader on the safety bicycle in war: Col. Savile's 1887 Easter trials with the British volunteer force, the resulting Twenty-sixth Middlesex R. V. Cyclist Corps, and why cycle scouts suit British home defence far better than American conditions.
- "Kismet" of the Niagara Falls Bicycle Club promises lady riders places at the front of the August L. A. W. meet parade, reports the C. W. A. chose Ottawa (June 30-July 2) over Niagara, and invites clubs to form an international road-racing team.
- "Hawkshaw" urges the Elizabeth Wheelmen to press their damages suit against the Glaser brothers to the bitter end, mocks non-League men who run to the L. A. W. only in trouble, and reports a Chicago inventor's boy-driven quadricycle for sewing carpets.
- "Star" of Cincinnati takes up Richard T. Ely's April Century article on Sunday labour and its bearing on Sunday riding, notes Chas. Hanauer's gold medal for the largest Three Cities mileage, and welcomes the new Ramblers club under Dan McCarthy.
- "The Stroller" defends the Oak Park Club against complaints from visiting wheelmen, doubts the Chicago Cycling Club's July 4 meet, and previews the Referee and Bearings cycle tournament at the Exposition Building, June 2-7.
- "Nitram" reports the Division championship races moved from Plainfield's dirt track to the New Jersey Athletic Club track at Bergen Point on May 31, the Hudson County Wheelmen's minstrel company engaged for the meet, and A. A. Zimmerman second in the Eastern Championship jumps.
- Weekly miscellany: Trainer Corcoran at Yale, the New Haven Bicycle Club's silver shield for a Harvard-Yale team race on June 9, Pine Tree Wheelmen trial road race times, the Gassler-Brinker match dates, and Tom Eck's proposed Minneapolis athletic garden.
- W. Van Wagoner left the Tremont House, Boston, at noon Sunday for Chicago, some 1,100 miles in ten or eleven days, escorted out over Beacon street by Rhode Island Wheelmen clubmates; postals record 51 miles to Fitchburg and 60 to Shelburne Falls.
- Sterling Elliott's riding hall opened on April 18 before some two hundred guests, with sketches by Mrs. Dr. Southwell and Mrs. Hopkins, Elliott's "Cycle Tutor" learner machine, and a wooden bicycle whittled from fence rails by a Missouri boy; signed Helen Grey.
- A jury sustains the Police Court in Moore et al. vs. Ward, finding Ward guilty of malicious and illegal obstruction of the highway; the suit was begun on Chief Consul Bennett's advice and the New Hampshire Division bears the expense.
- "Ariel" describes the women-only "high tea" at the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club house in Philadelphia, with upwards of three hundred ladies present including the newly organized Fairmount Lady Cyclers, and Mrs. Nelms, Mrs. Detwiler and Mrs. Crowther among those receiving.
- The committee, meeting at the Riverside Wheelmen's house, fixes Saturday, June 14, starting at 4 A. M. from the Continental Hotel, Newark, via Elizabeth, Plainfield, Somerville and Trenton, with a prize to the club carrying most men through the 100 miles.
- Maryland Division officers open communication with President Frank Brown of the Maryland Agricultural and Mechanical Association over a race meet at Pimlico, probably in June; James B. Reed and E. F. LeCato join the Chief Consul on the committee.
- Lewiston and Auburn wheelmen report committee progress for the May 30 State Division meet at the Auburn Board of Trade rooms, with a big dinner at the Lake Auburn Hotel and a banquet at the De Witt.
- Programme for July 4 and 5 at Columbia: parade to the university grounds, division meeting, ten races, a hill-climbing championship on Broadway hill, and a three-day tour from Louisiana under W. P. Laing of St. Louis and John Sanson of Kahoka.
- The second annual Central Pennsylvania meet will be held at Sunbury, Pa., on May 30, with a five-mile run to Selinsgrove, a parade, a five-mile road race and a hill-climbing championship; particulars from Chas. O. Bigony or R. J. Wilson.
- Amateur race meet on Holmes Field, Cambridge, May 10: seven events including interscholastic and intercollegiate handicaps, medals struck from the association's own dies, and entries closing May 3 with W. B. Greenleaf of Weld Hall.
- The Rhode Island Legislative Highway Committee agrees, six votes to two, to report favourably on bills providing for a State Highway Superintendent and state highways.
- Sterling Elliott's illustrated instruction in the pedal mount: saddle set two inches low and well back, weight thrown on the handle bar, the second foot on its pedal before the first reaches bottom, and mounting from the side opposite the chain.
- The Treasury Department, on the Attorney General's advice, rules that bicycle gearings and chains enter under the tariff provision for chains rather than as manufactures of metal, at a much lower rate.
- Chas. Newbourn of 415 Broadway arranges a forty-place wheelmen's excursion leaving New York May 10 by special coach on the B. & O. Short Line, staying at the Ebbitt House, at $16.50 including Pullman return.
- F. A. Elwell reports his party now numbers twenty, with room for ten more, and asks those still corresponding to decide at once so the programme can be closed.
- Road Records' Association acceptances for 1889: M. A. Holbein's 50-mile, 12-hour and 24-hour safety figures, Holbein and Wilson's tandem marks, G. T. Langridge's 12-hour ordinary, and tricycle times by W. Goulding and F. T. Bidlake.
- Two tall tales from a Portland, Me., Globe writer: a Montreal telephone that sulked over Irish home rule and would not talk French, and a Maine wheel that hunted out the only rock in a rockless stretch of Dakota.
- Col. A. A. Pope completes the purchase of the remaining two-thirds of the stock of the Weed Sewing Company of Hartford for $300,000, the transfer to be made in June.
- George C. Poole of Marseilles, Ill., asks whether to ride via Buffalo, Albany and the Hudson or cut east through southern New York, and requests Consuls' names and a road book of New York and northern Ohio.
- Frank G. Lenz of Pittsburg replies that Philadelphia to Chambersburg via Lancaster, York, Hanover and Gettysburg is fairly good, but the remaining 150 miles over the mountains are miserable and dangerous at thirty to forty miles a day.
- Vernon Driskell of Ghent, Ky., gives the pike and dirt route via Lagrange, Campbellsburg, Bedford, Milton and Carrollton, crossing the Ohio at Ghent, and reports the Houghton House at $1.50 a day to L. A. W. touring parties.
- John Harriott of 3 Winter street, Boston, made the three carved Etruscan gold medals, costing $150, for the Memphis Wheelmen's 100-mile road race; the New York Bicycle Co. is now making a specialty of repair work.
- Illustrated notice of the New Era Bicycle Co.'s Chicago safety: a two-piece English telescope-tube frame joined by a riveted and brazed sheet-steel bridge, dust-proof laterally adjustable bearings and the Edwards saddle, 51 1-2 lbs. at $135.
- League offices at 12 Pearl Street, Room 27, Boston, with Abbot Bassett as Secretary.
- National officers for the new League year: President James R. Dunn of New York, Vice-Presidents Dr. W. H. Emery and Geo. R. Bidwell, Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis and Secretary Abbot Bassett.
- National committee rosters: Isaac B. Potter, Albert Mott and Maj. Chas. L. Burdett on Improvement of Highways, Chas. S. Davol's Racing Board, and the Membership, Rights and Privileges, Rules and Regulations, Transportation and Hotel committees.
- Circular No. 22: Chief Consul Wm. H. Emery names Charles W. Pierce and Herman Stursberg, Jr., Representatives, consuls for Chelsea, Florence, Gloucester and Hopkinton, and hotels at No. Attleboro and Westfield.
- Four clubs qualify and file certificates: the Bay State Bicycle Club of Worcester, the Colt Bi. Club of Hartford, the Bergen County Wheelmen of Ridgefield and the Salt Lake Social Wheel Club.
- Chairman W. M. Brewster appoints Amzi T. Dodd of 70 Park Place, Newark, to the National Transportation Committee.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks consuls and dealers for the names of all non-League wheelmen in their towns ahead of a 2,000-copy recruiting pamphlet due early in May.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm appoints J. E. Marrs local consul for Webb City and vicinity.
- Robt. Holm reports Missouri membership at 382 and calls for eighteen more names by May 1 to reach 400 and put "Grand Old Missouri" back in tenth place.
- Chief Consul Jas. B. Green urges immediate renewals and a doubled membership of 250 by April 1891, announces a new hand book, and reports a State meet about the second week in July.
- Secretary-Treasurer G. E. Johnson's statement for the League year: $125.05 received against $13.25 spent, leaving $111.80 in hand, with monthly membership gains and hopes of a hundred names on the books by July 1.
- Chairman Chas. S. Davol names the seven district championship committees, headed by Louis A. Tracy of Hartford, Wm. H. DeGraaf of New York, Geo. D. Gideon of Philadelphia, Geo. Collister of Cleveland, H. H. Hodgson of New Orleans, Robt. L. Thompson of Muscatine and R. A. Smyth of San Francisco.
- Fifteen handicap districts listed with their appointees, among them E. P. Burnham and Henry Goodman for New England, F. P. Prial for New York and New Jersey, C. H. Stone for Missouri and Kansas, and Fred Russ Cook for California and Nevada.
- Territory assigned to National Racing Board members: W. H. DeGraaf the Northeast, Geo. D. Gideon the Middle and South Atlantic states, Geo. Collister the Ohio valley and Southwest, and R. D. Garden the West.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown announces the road book ready about May 1 at 30 cents to Division members from Secretary Geo. C. Pennell of Elizabeth, the edition limited to one thousand copies.
- Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol appoints Harrie Davis of East Providence as consul No. 23.
- Continued report of the Feb. 13 meeting at the Grand Union Hotel: Nisbett's accounts closing with $990.89 in hand, Jenkins's Rights and Privileges report on the $500 Goring dog-bite verdict and the Buffalo collision suit against Homer, Shriver's proposed by-law amendments, and Potter's highway-improvement report.
- List 4, total 318 candidates published under Article III, arranged by division from California, Colorado and Connecticut through Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Utah.
- Post office addresses of the Chief Consuls and Secretary-Treasurers of every State Division from California to Wisconsin, with Joseph Pennell in London as Foreign Marshal.
- Calendar of meets from May to September, including the Pullman road race and New Jersey Division meet at Plainfield on May 30, the New York to Philadelphia century run on June 14, and the L. A. W. annual meet and national championships at Niagara Falls, August 25-27.