The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Short editorial notes covering the upcoming L.A.W. Meet in Boston, items about club members travelling to Mexico, and humorous observations on bicycling life.
- Comparison of large English bicycle meets — especially the 1,800-rider Hampton Court gathering — with the forthcoming L.A.W. parade in Boston, urging American clubs to drill carefully for the event.
- Editorial discussing the prospects and challenges of staging a Stanley-style bicycle show in America, noting the limited variety of locally manufactured machines compared to England's two hundred factories.
- Extended review of Henry Sturmey's 'Tricyclists' Indispensable Annual,' covering the relative merits of tricycles versus bicycles for touring, the variety of designs available, and practical advice for prospective buyers.
- Comic sketch in Irish dialect narrating a servant woman's alarmed first encounter with a bicycle being delivered to her employer's household.
- Official report on arrangements for the L.A.W. Meet including negotiated railroad fares from New York, hotel accommodations for up to 875 men, and machine storage at the Technology gymnasium.
- Official programme for the League of American Wheelmen's Boston Meet, listing race events at Beacon Park on 28 May and the parade, business meeting, and dinner on 30 May.
- Letter from 'Kol Kron' advising the railroad committee on securing baggage-car guarantees for bicycle transport, calling for music in the parade, and proposing a ride to Portsmouth before the Meet.
- Mock-archaic verse signed 'L. H——s' on a hidden stone during a downhill coast bringing a bicycler to a tragic end under the grass.
- News from clubs in Rockingham (N.H.), Milwaukee, Springfield, New Orleans, Amherst, Boston, and Harvard, including election of officers, planned runs, and the Harvard hare-and-hounds race.
- Correspondence from 'Telzah' describing techniques for performing the bicycle stand-still feat and announcing plans to exhibit Urch's marine bicycle on the water in Boston during the Meet.
- Letter from Erie, Pennsylvania reporting the slow but steady growth of bicycling there, with a club of seventeen members now uniformed in L.A.W. colors after initial community skepticism.
- Correspondent describes a rain-soaked, mud-mired bicycle ride from Washington, Missouri, navigating impassable rock and dirt roads before being rescued by a small boy and eventually reaching the railroad.
- Announcement of a meeting and run of League Consuls on Sunday 29 May, starting from Trinity Church square to Waltham via Chestnut Hill Reservoir, with names to be sent to J. S. Dean, consul for the Boston Bicycle Club.
- League of American Wheelmen department with joining instructions and new membership applications from clubs including East Boston, Amherst College, Syracuse, Portland, Baltimore, Boston, Milwaukee, Germantown, Massachusetts, and others.