The Bicycling World, Vol 4, No 22
Articles in this issue
- International cycling news and observations from Britain and Europe, covering recent race results, new machines, and developments in the English cycling press.
- Editorial on the Second Annual Meet of the League of American Wheelmen, awarded to Chicago: it urges the Chicago and Ariel Bicycle Clubs to aim for discipline and respectable appearance rather than numbers, and calls on the wheelmen of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri and Ohio to volunteer money as well as men.
- Opens with 'What Is To Be' fixtures (a Rochester Bicycle Club exhibition, a New York and Brooklyn wheelmen's reception) and a notice about the revised Bicycle Club Directory, followed by club reports from Chelsea, the new Hackensack N.J. club, the Detroit Bicycle Club, the Nail City club of Wheeling W.Va., Brockton's City Bicycle Club, and the Chicago Bicycle Club, which elected Dr. Charles C. Pruyne president.
- Reader letters from Troy N.Y. (secretary L. J. Thiessen on the Trojan club's prospects), San Diego in Duval County Texas, and Scranton Pa., plus a vivid Hackensack account of one lone rider's two-year campaign to found a seven-member club, and a note recommending beach riding on the firm sand at Hampton Beach, N.H.
- The 25-mile championship race of the Chicago Bicycle Club, held 25 March at the Exposition Building: L. W. Conkling beat T. S. Miller by a few feet in one hour forty minutes after Miller cramped within fifty feet of the finish; B. B. Ayers, starting seven minutes late, finished in 1:50 and Vernon Calkins retired on the sixth mile.
- Enthusiastic survey of American clergymen who are active wheelmen, naming Revs. H. D. Weston, G. W. Short, O. P. Gifford, and several others, arguing that bicycling is well suited to men of the cloth as healthful and economical.
- Poem by John Preston True: a club captain named Fred is killed in a track race when a golden-haired two-year-old girl runs onto the course and he wheels aside into the iron pillars rather than strike her.
- Second instalment of a memoir of an 1874 English tour with Charlie Evitt, starting from Peckham Rye: headers taken near Surbiton and Godalming, the long walk up Mouse Hill past the Devil's Punch Bowl, then on through Petersfield to Portsmouth and Gosport (with a visit to Nelson's flagship the Victory), Chichester, and Arundel.
- Third instalment of a bicycle tour of Ireland, tracing the route from Callan through the Slievenaman mountains to Clonmel on the River Suir, with descriptions of mountain scenery, roadside hospitality, and the challenges of Irish hill roads on a high-wheeler.
- League of American Wheelmen new member applications and notices, listing clubs and individuals recently accepted into the League.
- Short news paragraphs: the New York Central Park test case submitted to Judge Lawrence, L.A.W. recording secretary S. T. Clark sailing for Europe, Capt. Blatchford of the Amherst Bicycle Club planning a 150-mile one-day ride, and the April Fool 'unicycle exhibition' hoax that drew crowds of wheelmen to Pemberton Square.
- Publisher's appeal explaining that the Bicycling World is financially independent of the bicycle trade and must depend entirely on paid circulation, urging every bicycler who values the sport to take up a full subscription.
- Review of the April number of the children's monthly Our Little Ones and the Nursery (Russell Publishing Co., Boston), praising the triple frontispiece for 'The Moon is a Lady' and the illustrated verses 'Dandelions' and 'Signs of the Seasons'.
- Listing of the week's Boston theatre bills: 'The World' at the Boston Theatre, 'False Friend' at the Boston Museum, Salsbury's Troubadours at the Globe, 'Muldoon's Picnic' at the Howard Athenaeum, and 'Lights o' London' at the Park Theatre.