The Bicycling World, Vol 4, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Memorial resolutions adopted by the Stoneham Bicycle Club of Massachusetts on the death of member William K. Barrett, expressing sympathy to his family and ordering the tribute published in the Stoneham Independent and the Bicycling World; signed by the committee of S. C. Batchelder, Geo. A. Osgood, and Charles Poor.
- Editorial urging bicycle clubs to make their local parade appearances smart and well-drilled, arguing that an impressive turn-out in uniform is the most effective advertisement for cycling and for the League.
- Report of the League officers' meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, 27 March 1882: Mr. Atkins was struck from the rolls 4-3 for having taught bicycle riding for pay, then unanimously reinstated on the membership committee's recommendation; Chicago was chosen for the second Annual Meet by a 6-2 vote, and a permanent racing board of Whyte, Johnson, and Hodges was appointed.
- Club notes opening with the 'What is to be' fixture list (Boston Bicycle Club's Fast Day race meeting, Troy and Rochester club events), followed by reports from the Manchester N.H., Branch Missouri, Ariel of Pittsburg, Sparta (Wis.), Hermes of Chicago, and Keystone bicycle clubs, covering officer elections, new memberships, and League Meet preferences.
- Chicago Bicycle Club races in the Exposition building, where Conkling rode two miles without touching the handle-bar (one mile in 3.30); a three-mile race at the Seventh Regiment armory in New York won by J. N. Stearns, Jr.; the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's announcement of three series of championship races for 1882; and the Keen-Howell mile championship matches fixed for Surbiton and Leicester.
- Reader letters including Milwaukee Mites' preparations for the Chicago L.A.W. Meet, muddy spring roads in Moline, the debate on proper frame size for riders of different heights, news from the New Haven Bicycle Club, and Ixion's letter on beach riding at Newport.
- History of notable early bicycles in Chicago from the early 1870s, tracing the first 46-inch Ariel through a succession of imported English machines including a Bown, a Humber, and other models, with descriptions of each machine's distinctive features and the riders who owned them.
- Report of the Kings County Wheelmen's first annual dinner and reception at Weeks's Hotel, Brooklyn, on 17 March, with guests including Alderman Dimon, Hon. George H. Fisher, and Rev. Almon Gunnison, followed by dancing at the Lyceum under a gas-jet 'K. C. W.' sign; club officers named include president Geo. T. Brown and captain John Clark.
- Answers to correspondents, pointing a Newark reader to the Clipper Almanac for 1882 for racing records, plus replies from 'Meteor' and '2061' to Ontari's query on beach riding, recommending the firm sand of Hampton and Nantasket beaches at low tide while warning of rust to unpainted machines.
- Second instalment of a bicycle tour of Ireland by 'One of Them,' riding past Kildare and across an Irish bog to Athy, then on through Carlow and Castlecomer to Kilkenny, with vivid observations on bog dwellings, a chased cow, and eighty-one miles covered in two days.
- League of American Wheelmen membership applications and information on the upcoming Annual Meet, including instructions for joining and the list of newly accepted members.
- Short news paragraphs: Chicago secures the League Meet of 30 May; marine bicycles ride out of Salem harbor after the storm; a six-foot one-wheeled 'unicycle' is to be demonstrated in Pemberton square; I. P. Lord & Co. become Pope Manufacturing Company agents selling on instalments; and George D. Gideon's club is corrected to the Germantown Bicycle Club.
- Reviews of the April number of St. Nicholas magazine, closing Eggleston's 'Hoosier Schoolboy' and Kieffer's 'Drummer Boy's Recollections,' and of the Bicycle Annual and Tricycle Guide for 1882, edited by C. J. Fox, Jr. and published at the Bicycling Times office, London.
- John S. Prince, styling himself Champion of America, accepts Louise Armaindo's proposition with a six-mile start in fifty and offers Rollinson a half-mile start for a $50 sweepstakes at the Institute Fair building, Boston, backing the challenge with a $20 deposit lodged with the editor.