The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 17
Articles in this issue
- News items: Milwaukee Bicycle Club has 70 members, Salt Lake City club formed with 22 members, Worcester and Hingham races upcoming, bicycle exhibit at Mechanics' Institute Fair, railroads offering free bicycle transport to the Worcester New England Fair; personal items on Mrs. Belva Lockwood, L.H. Johnson (amateur champion), and club visitors.
- Frank W. Weston, Chief Consul USA, invites American wheelmen to join the international Bicycle Touring Club (4,000+ members), giving membership details, fees (62½ cents annual), and noting missing membership tickets.
- Two editorials: bicyclists should use their political votes to elect road commissioners who will improve public highways; detailed answer to a Poughkeepsie reader on amateur bicycle race rules, starting procedures, and foul-riding definitions.
- A Brooklyn clergyman narrates an Albany-to-Boston bicycle tour of 182½ miles over four days, describing road conditions through Rhinecliff, Hudson, Kinderhook, Pittsfield, Washington Mountain, Chester, Westfield, and Springfield.
- Southbridge MA Bicycle Club formed with 11 members (first run to Webster, clam-bake at Union Point); Natick Bicycle Club formed August 12 (O.H. Burleigh president); Missouri Bicycle Club first meeting in St. Louis with full roster of 18 members (Richard Garvey president).
- New League membership applications including Fort Edward Bicycle Club, Montreal Bicycle Club additions, and Detroit; Richard Garvey appointed Missouri director.
- Coming Events calendar; Keen vs. De Civry 10-mile Wolverhampton race (De Civry wins, Keen retires at 4 miles with injured wrist); Marlboro' second club race (Arthur Curtis first in 3:31); Martha's Vineyard final won by E.M. Bent; Chatham NY Von Blumen beats horse 'Dan' in two heats; AEolus Club Worcester races (Speirs and Higgens winners); Caledonian Club Boston three-mile (Kaulback first); Dayton OH tournament details.
- Inquiry on tricycling by ladies answered; call for American Star bicycle rider experiences; two correspondents advise on touring costume; J. Warren Smith of Essex Bicycle Club reports 2,100 miles from May to September; Captain Johnson reports 2,100 miles with a single day of 104 miles; queries on the Yale Light Roadster.
- Montreal (K.K.) weekend run to Sault au Recollet, St. Vincent de Paul, and Terrebonne with five novice riders; Chicago Notes (Dean/Runnion stopped by a Texas steer, club bylaws revision, French 'L'Oisel Bréveté' bicycle examined, Secretary Ayers praises Minnesota prairie roads).
- RELYCLE reports Cleveland Bicycle Club members' track times improving (from 5:52 to 4:20), a 30-mile club ride to Elyria, and a visit from Herbert Kitchell and Capt. Reed who had ridden from Cincinnati to Sandusky in five days.
- New Harvard Roadsters received; Capt. A.J. Kolp's Lancaster County tour log covering Harrisburg to Marietta via towpath and turnpike roads; planned 50-mile excursion from Honesdale to Port Jervis by towpath.
- Milwaukee Bicycle Club evening at Schlitz Park with Clauder's concert; director invited to Jefferson and Janesville county fairs; Weller and Chapman return from Montana/Dakota/Minnesota tour; Meinecke receives a full-nickelled 53-inch D.H.F. Premier.
- E.A. Durrell of the Portland Bicycle Club is deliberately run down by a wagon driver near Old Orchard Beach ME; his bicycle is destroyed and he is injured; the club intends to pursue legal action against the driver.
- Reviews of Scribner's and St. Nicholas September numbers and the Russell Publishing Company's 'Our Little Ones'; also reviews Henry Sturmey's Bicyclists' Hand-Book (Indispensable) for 1881, noting new coverage of 'peculiar bicycles' including the American Star.
- The captain of a Portsmouth NH club recounts his first day learning to ride an American Star bicycle without a teacher, describing the mounting challenge, the backward-dismount technique discovered near a tree, and an evening exhibition for the club that ended in bruises but triumph.