The Bicycling World, Vol 20, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Sterling Cycle Co.'s serialised Bellamy parody, continued from last week, in which Dr. Leet guides the sleeper through a 21st-century Boston of a frozen Chestnut Hill Reservoir, "Keely" carriages and small hickory-wheeled safeties, ending at a factory window where a rusty wire wheel is placarded "A relic of ye olden tyme."
- Proposes the camera as an incontestable judge of close finishes in L. A. W. championship races, answers Henry E. Ducker's plea to admit professionals to the League, explains why the Luscomb-Potter letters were withheld, and quotes the Norwich Bulletin's "A Standing Disgrace" on Connecticut roads.
- Prints the World's letter of 2 December to Dr. W. H. Emery and his reply denying the New York rumour that he and J. R. Dunn will withdraw as candidates for President and First Vice President.
- Contradicts the Providence Journal's report that President Charles H. Luscomb has withdrawn from the re-election contest, stating he is in the field to abide by the February meeting.
- "Toney" profiles Dr. W. G. Kendall of the Boston Bicycle Club, promoter of the first Corey Hill climbing contest and of the union runs, and reports the Chelsea Ramblers' fourth annual party, the Somerville Cycle Club party and the Charlestown Rovers' Sunday ride to fire-ravaged Lynn.
- "Hawkshaw" tells of a South of France lawsuit brought by a wheelman who lost his intended bride when his tailor failed to deliver a cycling uniform, and of a China-San Francisco steamer hand whose ridiculed bone-shaker proved to have an opium-smuggling backbone and saddle.
- "The Stroller" previews stormy meetings of the Chicago and Illinois clubs, the Chicagos' move to South Park quarters, the blackballing of Editor Sam Miles, the wind-spoiled Thanksgiving hare-and-hounds chase and a proposed Winship-Myers series for next spring.
- "Cyc" describes the Penn Wheelmen's first assembly at Reading, with orange-and-black decorations, the Germania Orchestra and President H. C. Boyer; W. I. Wilhelm vows to regain the Lancaster Pike record from Van Wagoner, and Oves and Rohrer defend their sixty-mile pedestrian trip.
- "Nokomis" reports the Louisiana Division grown from 65 to 87 members under Chief Consul Harry H. Hodgson, twelve entries for the Betts fifty-mile medal, the abandoned Thanksgiving Day races and the theft of Bogel's nickel-plated big-rear-wheel machine.
- "Ciclops" credits Bert Myers with a quarter-mile in 15 2-5 seconds on the new Buffalo Home Trainer, reports Swiss rider L. Masi joining the Peoria Bicycle Club, Tom Roe's Thanksgiving stop in the city, and McCulloch's 18 4-5 home-trainer quarter.
- Miscellany running to p.118: the York, Pa., Every Saturday cartoon "All Roads Lead to York," over 1,000 wheels sold in Buffalo, "Salina's" plan for a Syracuse Cycling Club house in the Syracuse House block, Chairman Davol's silence before the Chicago Racing Board meeting, and a mooted New York-Manhattan club merger.
- The Chicago Herald's tourist reached Chicago on 2 December, having left San Francisco 23 September; a knee and ankle injury early in the ride and continuous rain, snow, mud and floods put him some ten days to a fortnight behind schedule.
- Corrects the New York Star's "Bad News for Bicyclers": Secretary Burns of the Park Board explains that cyclists are not excluded from the park roadways, only held to the eight-mile speed limit and barred from coasting.
- "Ali Baba" of Buffalo takes the Buffalo-Rochester road, scene of the late road race, as proof that American road making merely mows the weeds instead of digging out the roots, and asks when the farmer will share the wheelman's demand for a proper road bed.
- "G. T. B." of Great Barrington commends the Housatonic valley's twenty-five miles of hard gravel road without a dismount, and corrects the road book, which gives Pittsfield to Hudson as fifty-six miles when it is under forty-nine.
- Standing head opening the letters department, carrying the editor's note disclaiming responsibility for opinions expressed and reserving the right to expunge improper matter.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull of New York opposes President Luscomb's plan to introduce highway bills in nine States at once, citing the "Liberty Bill" precedent and I. B. Potter's bill drafted over two years for the 20,000-member New York State Roads Improvement Association.
- Henry E. Ducker of Canton, Ohio, endorses Chief Consul Bull's single-championship scheme and urges abolishing the amateur definition as a bar to League membership, so that men like Morgan's touring professionals could be publicly expelled.
- Secretary-Treasurer William D. Kempton answers Guion R. Wilson of Baltimore, recalling the Ohio Division's subscription for a road bill defeated in the Legislature and its decision to build public sentiment before legislating again.
- "Long Island" opposes Luscomb's re-election as League President, blaming him for several hundred New York and Brooklyn withdrawals and quoting Frank Prial's Wheel editorial of 11 January calling him "stiff, angular, unadjustable, irritable and overbearing."
- "No. 2719" of Canton, Ohio, rebuts Charles E. Gates's "Nominating Mr. Mott," showing that the Ohio Division's rolls stood at 831 at the close of J. R. Dunn's Chief Consulate and that Treasurer W. M. Brewster of St. Louis is a Southern officer.
- B. Taylor Bruce of Providence answers Ducker's five arguments for entrance fees, proposing they be refunded to every man who starts and finishes, and citing the death from over-exertion of Ellis B. Freatman of the Dorchester club.
- "Mercury" reports feeling against the L. A. W. among the Ramblers after F. C. McChan failed to win a National Assembly seat; the editor urges them to stay and use their voting strength, and the club's badge is presented to Francis Wilson.
- Standing head of the racing department, with the editor's notice asking those who send in race reports to give competitors' initials, handicaps and times in full in all cases.
- Wilmington Wheel Club races on a mud-soaked Union street ground on Thanksgiving Day drew 600 people; S. Wallis Merrihew won the mile in 4.39, T. E. Jefferis the four-minute class and the one-legged lap, and W. C. Seeds the three-fifths mile in 2.25.
- The Burlington wheelmen's semi-annual rink tournament of 26 November: Robert Southgate of Smithville won the five-mile gold badge, Gus Weber of Burlington the two-mile from Edward Roe of Philadelphia, and William W. Taxis the obstacle race.
- The Manhattan Bicycle Club's second annual races over the Kingsbridge-Yonkers course on Thanksgiving Day: C. E. Clemens won the two-mile handicap in 8 minutes and F. H. Howland the ten-mile in 43 minutes, E. J. Keane making best actual time of 43.15.
- First annual races of the Lawrence Wheelmen, held in favourable conditions on 22 November, with the championship won by R. C. Manly and a smoker in the club rooms in the evening.
- Geo. R. Broadbent lowered the Australian hundred-mile road record to 6h. 57m. last October, F. Tilley finishing about two minutes behind after a fall at 80 miles bent his pedal pin.
- J. H. Draper of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club made 150 1-2 miles in the day, then B. F. McDaniel took the local twenty-four-hour record with 201 1-8 miles, paced by Merrihew, the Crowthers, Bailey, Schell, the Zells and E. O. Snow; "Ariel" adds that South End Wheelmen Kolb and Dimon's claim of 205 miles is confirmed.
- Augusta's wheelmen raced at the Base Ball Park on 28 November in severe cold: Palmer won the mile and half-mile safety, Morrison the mile ordinary in 4.02, Gordon two quarter-mile safeties and Browne the two-mile ordinary handicap in 8.25.
- United States patents granted 19 November 1889: a wrench to H. W. Burleigh of Franklin, N. H., saddles to S. E. Gilbert of Philadelphia and Sidney Pattison of London, two wheels to Jno. B. Lott of Kittanning, Pa., and a screw driver to Chas. G. Teubner of Lexington, Mo.
- M. V. Livingston of Boston has leased the works, adding a 75 h.p. Porter engine, an electric plant for 100 lamps, an enlarged forge shop and seven new machines; Mr. White remains as inventor of the coming Broncho, with Frank E. Peck as General Manager.
- Organised in the old Woodruff & Beach plant on Commerce street, Hartford, with David J. Post as President and Treasurer and H. M. Pope superintendent, both from the Weed Company, to build a $100 Hartford safety ready in January.
- As exclusive United States agents for J. K. Starley & Co., the Chicago house will carry seven models, including the Socket Ball Head Steerer Safety, the New Light and Ladies Rovers, a 38-pound diamond frame and a three-track Sociable of about 75 pounds.
- A new Chicago cycle house, with L. W. Conkling formerly of Spalding Bros. heading the cycle department and racing man F. H. Tuttle with him, to handle machines built by an unnamed leading English house pending Geo. E. Lloyd's return from England.
- League headquarters at 12 Pearl Street, Boston, Abbot Bassett secretary; President Chas. H. Luscomb, Vice Presidents James R. Dunn and Sanford Lawton, Treasurer W. M. Brewster, and the standing committees on membership, improvement of highways, rights and privileges, rules, racing (C. S. Davol) and transportation.
- Chief Consul G. Carleton Brown asks New Jersey residents whose applications were sent from New York business addresses, and are therefore credited to New York, to examine their tickets and notify Secretary G. C. Pennell at Elizabeth.
- Chief Consul W. A. Davis appoints F. W. Gerould in the place of Edwin Oliver as a delegate on the National Board of Officers.
- Secretary-Treasurer William D. Kempton offers the Ohio hand book and map at fifty cents and free circulars on forming a League club and on macadam roads, and prints the certificate circulars Chief Consul M. A. High is sending to League hotels in the State.
- Chief Consul Robt. Holm asks consuls to send him at once the names of repair shops in their cities for insertion in the road book.
- Chief Consul Harry H. Hodgson reports the Louisiana sub-Division at eighty-seven members, thirteen short of the hundred needed to become a Division entitled to a Representative and Vice Consul, and offers to pay the extra fifty cents on each application.
- List 218, 29 names carrying League membership to 11,938, with Division totals from New York (2,092) and Massachusetts (1,576) down to single applicants from Idaho and Washington.