The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 14
Articles in this issue
- News squibs on a new Quincy bicycle club, the League handbook, 100 Staten Island Athletic Club wheelmen, road warnings near Readville; personal items on Col. Pope's Paris trip and Sylvester Baxter's return from Mexico.
- Editorial presents statistics showing only 3 of 42 road accidents since July 21 were caused by bicycles, responding to a Pittsburgh runaway incident and arguing horses are demonstrably far more dangerous on public roads than cyclists.
- Interview with John Y. Culyer, superintendent of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, on the question of bicycle access to park drives; discusses the death of Miss Porter and the policy debate among the park commissioners.
- Club elections and news from the Marlboro' Bicycle Club, the newly formed Mount Vernon Bicycle Club, the Rochester NY Bicycle Club, and the Boston Bicycle Club.
- Marlboro' club race at Riverside Park won by George Frye in 3:30½; Halifax NS championships won by R. McFatridge and John Stairs Jr.; includes Coming Events calendar.
- Advice on stocking supporters from a Massachusetts reader; a detour route around Milton Hill via Granite Street; a road-courtesy incident involving discourteous white-uniformed wheelmen.
- League admission fees, corrections to the Missouri Bicycle Club listing, and membership applications.
- Letters from Chicago (Chicago Bicycle Club policies, 200+ riders on Sundays, new machines), Montreal (season ride statistics, park access restrictions), New Bedford (July 4 run to Fall River), Gloucester MA, Cleveland OH, Newburyport MA (Chelsea Club's Ipswich/Salisbury ride), Peekskill NY, Alton IL, and Winchester MA (bicycle/swill-cart prohibition signs).
- Arthur J. Eddy of Flint MI argues the L.A.W. championship race date should remain September 10, addressing the fairness of scheduling relative to other athletics events and riders' preparation time.
- British cycling news: a steam-tricycle legal ruling, Alexandra Palace tricyclists, Bicycle Union amateur championship at Leicester won by G.L. Hillier (mile in 3m 11¾s), professional championship at Hull won by C.G. Shaw, Berkshire county meet of 124 riders, and Scotland's tricycle championship won by D.D. Bryson.
- G.L. Hillier wins the five-mile race at Surbiton in 15m 39⅞s, defeating Palmer, Liles, and Milner; also covers the Lombard Bicycle Club Ladies' Challenge Cup won by J. Horn.
- Notes on the Manhattan Bicycle Club rescuing a drowning lady, White Mountain tour plans, the Ohio State Fair race, a Grocers' picnic race in Pittsburgh won by O.G. Brown, and express company rates for shipping bicycles.