The Bicycling World, Vol 4, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Poem describing an early-morning bicycle ride through pastoral countryside, evoking the sights of cows in meadows, birdsong, and farm scenes glimpsed before the world is fully awake. Signed 'F. W. B.' of Worcester, Mass.
- Tongue-in-cheek mock biography of 'C. A. T. Telzah' — C. A. Hazlett of Portsmouth NH spelled backwards — lampooning the marine-bicycle promoter's many roles as L.A.W. director, roller-skating champion, bank teller and inventor, and his claimed 7,000-mile road-riding record.
- Readers from Willimantic CT, Haverhill MA ('869') and F. C. Hand of Scranton PA answer 'T. C.' of Poughkeepsie with unanimous praise for the Burley adjustable skeleton saddle, one asking in turn for riders' opinions of the Pope Manufacturing Company's new Expert.
- Two-part editorial: first defending the League's ruling that a paid teacher of bicycle riding is a professional, arguing no line can be drawn between riding-school instructors and race trainers; second noting the N.A.A.A.A.'s iron-clad amateur rule would exclude all who competed in Boston's winter races, including Union Athletic Club member Mr. Ethier.
- Fixtures ('What Is To Be') for Louisville and St. Louis races and Boston Bicycle Club April runs, followed by club news: officer elections at Melrose, Brooklyn and Portland ME, and the formation of the Maryland Bicycle Club in Baltimore (organised 14 March) with a clubhouse near Druid Hill Park.
- Letters from 'Pumpernickel' of Bremen on German riding and press hostility, an Albany secretary on a marine bicycle for the Hudson, 'Practical' demanding an apology from 'F. M.' over a professionalism slur, a note on the spring bicycle-buying boom outstripping makers' supply, 'Ellsworth' on a Newburyport-to-Ipswich run, and 'Scribe' of Milwaukee on John M. Fairfield's new cyclometer.
- Appeal signed 'Steno' of Chicago urging Western wheelmen to repay the League's choice of Chicago for the May Meet by joining the L.A.W. at once rather than waiting for benefits, predicting Western clubs on big wheels will present a handsome military front in the parade.
- Fourth instalment ('How Irishmen Ride, By One of Them'): the pair ride from Macroom through Inchygeelagh and Keim-an-eigh to Glengariff, rest a Sunday by Bantry Bay, then push on via Kenmare to Killarney — the lakes, Mucross Abbey and the Gap of Dunloe — before a weary night halt at Tralee.
- Short news items: the Kentucky Bicycle Club's new Louisville track, a Columbia sold to a customs official in Tientsin, Elsa Von Blumen's 850⅔-mile week in Detroit, the proposed Prince–Rollinson stake race at the Institute Fair on 29 April, Mlle. Armaindo's $500 challenge to doubters of her 72-hour ride, and St. Louis's first imported Royal Salvo tricycle.
- League of American Wheelmen department: membership applications (Lancaster, Falls City, Centaur and other clubs), notice of Alfred Ely Jr. as acting Pennsylvania director, Kingman N. Putnam's notices to Eastern clubs on delegates and railroad rates for the Chicago Meet on 30 May, and a demand for overdue Massachusetts consuls' reports.
- Foreign notes: the Speedwell Bicycle Club's show at Bingley Hall, Birmingham; the Bicycle Union and Tricycle Association amalgamating; the 20 May Hampton meet; Howell's tricycle challenge to Fred Cooper; the English 100-mile professional championship with Waller, Keen and DeCivry; and a new cyclists' union in Australia.