The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial addressing the contested distinction between professional and amateur cyclists, urging the League of American Wheelmen to stand firm against reinstating riders who transgressed the amateur rule, while suggesting leniency or a six-month probation for beginners whose violations stemmed from excusable ignorance.
- Opens with 'The Lake George Region' by Kol Kron, covering his 425-mile August tour through four states from Hartford up the Connecticut valley via Agawam and Springfield, including a forty-two-mile day along canal roads that ended with a train from Springfield home through rain and darkness.
- Account by E. F. Peavey of Farmington, N.H. of a solo tour begun 7 September on a 52-inch wheel toward the White Mountains nearly one hundred miles away, with views of the Green Mountains, ending with a train from Fabyan's to Rochester, N.H. through the Crawford Notch after his ankle began to pain him.
- Hermann H. Koop, Jr., captain of the Bremen Bicycle Club in Germany, reports the club's first run on 28 August: five members rode the Chaussee from the Osterdeich via Ottersberg to Rotenburg and back, sixty miles by cyclometer against a terrific head wind, with English consul Mr. Stokes accepting the club presidency.
- Club news reporting the organization of the Nameless Bicycle Club of South Boston, the Pickwick Bicycle Club of Reading, Mass., and the Streator Bicycle Club of Illinois, plus the Philadelphia Bicycle Club's new whistle code; also plans for weekly handicap races with Messrs. Stall, Dean, and Dalton handicapping, Louis Harrison in active training, and Billy Bernhardt coached by John Shillington Prince.
- League of American Wheelmen department with membership instructions (fees payable to treasurer Dillwyn Wistar of Philadelphia, applications to corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam of New York) and new applications from the Wilkesbarre Bi. Club, the Nashua Wheel Club, and unattached riders from Manchester, Boston, Willimantic, West Chester, Ottawa, and Bethlehem.
- Coming events at Philadelphia and the National Fair in Washington, D.C., plus results: the Waverly Park, N.J. tournament; the Missouri one-mile championship at St. Louis won by G. G. Bain in 3:20½ over Fred Beckers and Arthur Young; club races at Marlboro', Mass. (Geo. E. Frye), Marshall, Mich. (L. H. Cramton), Indianapolis (A. R. Hopkins), and the Dayton, Ohio tournament won by J. L. Pease of Columbus.
- Letters including 'Bluenose' on Halifax Bicycle Club runs — a thirty-two-mile ride to Hubbard's Cove via the Lakeside Hotel and notes on tricycling and the Columbia — Alfred R. Pratt of the Abington Bicycle Club correcting a Sunday Herald report of the Weymouth fair race, and 'Cyclum's' Milwaukee Miscellany on the rained-out Jefferson Fair races.
- Reader queries and notes: a Marblehead bicyclist asks why corduroy suits are discouraged for long rides, and 'C. H. L.' urges every wheelman to give his bicycle a distinctive pet name, with the editor recalling christening his own wheel 'Emma' after boys shouted 'Whoa, Emma!'
- Short book notices praising Our Little Ones, the Russell Publishing Company's serial for small children closing its first volume, and listing the latest Franklin Square Library issues from Harper & Brothers, including works by Mrs. Newman, James Grant, and B. H. Buxton.
- Editorial jottings recommending P. T. Bartlett's ten-cent booklet 'Over the Wheel,' congratulating The Wheel on entering its second volume, a limerick about a bicycler named Cholmondeley, complaints about race managers awarding prizes below advertised value, and previews of the Atlanta Cotton Exposition tournament and the Washington bicycle tournament at the National Fair.
- Personal paragraphs noting Capt. Hodges's canoe-mounting claim, a postal from Frank Cragin at Wheeling, W. Va., a visit to America by Capt. Llewellyn Winter of the Hyperion Bicycle Club of London, and the Gilman brothers of Nashua winning a silver buglet at the Oak Park fair.