The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Weekly column of notes: R. Howell wins the professional 1-mile championship at Wolverhampton beating Keen and Cooper, New York wheelmen court arrest in Central Park to test the bicycle ordinance, and the Boston 4th of July races on the Common are detailed.
- Farewell editorial by the outgoing editor Louis Harrison marking a change of editorship at The Bicycling World; introduces his successor William E. Gilman, president of the Chelsea Bicycle Club, and thanks contributors including Chas. E. Pratt and J. S. Dean.
- Article by L.A.W. President Bates arguing for structural reform of the League's annual meeting; advocates for a delegated congress rather than a mass membership gathering to conduct League business more efficiently.
- Race reports from Wolverhampton (Howell's mile in 2:51 2-5), Louisville, where Owen W. Thomas and Charles H. Jenkins win at the Masonic Jubilee, G. D. Gideon's 108-mile Philadelphia to Jersey City ride, Meriden, Ct., and the Boston vs Massachusetts inter-club ten-mile team race at Beacon Park won by Massachusetts.
- Fifth instalment in the tricycle series, signed C. E. P., on the Triocycle made by the Pope Manufacturing Company: three equal-sized ball-bearing wheels carrying three riders, priced at $250, already seen on the streets of Boston, Providence and Buffalo and suited to club excursions.
- League of American Wheelmen membership applications; list of new members from clubs across the country.
- Article about Irwin Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, and his involvement with bicycling or the cycling community.
- Club news including the Vesper Boat Club tournament at Lowell where Mr. Chandler of the Providence Bicycle Club rides the length of the rink on his front wheel, the Essex Bi. Club run to Madison, the Chelsea club's Independence Day parade invitation, and Chicago Notes on the Chicago and Ariel clubs' monthly race series.
- Fifth instalment of the touring series signed Ixion: Brown, Jones and Smith ride from Orange through Montclair, Verona and Caldwell to Franklin over the Orange Mountains, with a thirty-mile-an-hour coast and Jones's narrow escape from a farm team.
- Humorous piece reprinted from Puck on Wheels declaring bicycling an "immoral and inferior sport", mocking knickerbockers and polo caps, stone-throwing natives, and horses reduced to maniacal terror by the wheel.