The Bicycling World, Vol 4, No 25
Articles in this issue
- Relays a complaint from a correspondent of Turf, Field and Farm alleging that Mr. Gideon was treated most shabbily in a recent five-mile handicap race, with the conduct of Mr. Dean and others involved in the handicapping process called into question.
- Reports club formations and officer elections across North America, including the new Atlantic Bicycle Club in Salem, Mass. (14 members under President Clarence H. Millett), the St. Thomas Bicycle Club in Ontario (12 members, blue uniform), and the Toronto Bicycle Club's annual meeting electing Alderman Jas. B. Bonstead as president, with 35 active members planning to attend the L.A.W. Meet in Chicago.
- Announcements of coming club runs: the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's 29 April run to Mattapan via Columbus Avenue and Jamaica Plain, and the Boston Bicycle Club's 30 April fixture to Taft's Tavern, West Roxbury, with rendezvous at 2.30 p.m.; also a notice that the Bicycle Club Directory will shortly be republished, requesting particulars from club secretaries.
- The Correspondence section publishes reader letters on League of American Wheelmen reform; "Cyclos" proposes restructuring the L.A.W. with elected state directors and an annual congress of state commanders to give distant members a voice, while "F.M." of Boston argues the League's amateur rule is logically incoherent in barring salaried bicycle teachers while permitting racers who compete for goods of equivalent monetary value.
- A graduating Amherst College student recounts riding his bicycle "Pixie" from Amherst to Boston in a single day on 6 June — 125 miles via Belchertown, Ware, Worcester, and Framingham — then back the next day for 200 miles in under two days, walking the hills between Belchertown and Ware and taking the trip's only "header" on the return.
- A.G. Coleman, captain of the Canandaigua Bicycle Club, reports on the Rochester Bicycle Club's City Hall exhibition of 13 April: the Punnett brothers' trick riding (one rode nearly around the room standing on his head on the saddle), paired figures by Messrs. Curtis and Perkins on 54-inch wheels, a twenty-man drill corps trained by W.F. Curtis, and president Will H. Reid demonstrating his American Star bicycle.
- The League of Ohio Wheelmen's executive committee met in Columbus on 15 April, electing C.J. Krag corresponding secretary and fixing the second annual meet for 28-29 August at Columbus, with races for about $500 in prizes on a new half-mile cement-and-sand track costing $1,200 to $1,500 — claimed as the largest and fastest bicycle-only track in the United States.
- Reports on the signed agreement between professionals Fred S. Rollinson of New York and John S. Prince of Boston for a $200-a-side ten-mile straightaway bicycle championship race at Boston's Institute Fair Building on the evening of 29 April 1882, ridden under Wolverhampton rules with the editor of the Bicycling World named as stakeholder.
- The fourth installment of "A Tour through Ireland — How Irishmen Ride" describes a 30-mile muddy bicycle ride from Tralee through bog roads to the ferry at Tarbert, a crossing of the River Shannon to Kilrush, and an evening arrival at the Atlantic seaside resort of Kilkee; the following day the riders are rerouted via Kilfenora and Corofin toward Longford after a 50-to-60-mile journey in torrential rain.
- Quotes the Germantown Telegraph's advocacy of hard roads, free for all, throughout Pennsylvania, to be administered by a separate State department under a general superintendent.
- Prints new L.A.W. membership applications forwarded by Corresponding Secretary Kingman N. Putnam, including additional Boston Bicycle Club members and unattached riders from London, Des Moines, Chicago, and Greenville, Pa., along with corrections to names misprinted in the issues of 14 and 21 April.
- A miscellaneous notes column covering a new bicycle club formed in East Rochester, N.H. (15 members); the Grand Pacific Hotel selected as L.A.W. Meet headquarters in Chicago with 800 wheelmen expected in the parade; Baltimore park commissioners permitting trial bicycling in Druid Hill Park; the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's 40-mile Lexington excursion; and a photograph received from champion bicyclienne Louise Armaindo.
- St. Louis cycling notes reporting that Russell Young and Prof. Stone of Washington University were elected to the Missouri Bicycle Club, twenty new bicycles ordered for the club, President Garvey planning to exhibit a marine bicycle at the Crevecoeur Lake regatta and ride a Royal Salvo tricycle at the Missouri Gymnasium performance, and Capt. Stone and Arthur Young entering the twenty-mile race at Louisville.
- Reviews "Bicycle Tour in England and Wales" by A.D. Chandler (A. Williams & Co., Boston), a narrative of cycling through Southern England embellished with seventeen albertype illustrations and road maps; also notices the May issue of The Century magazine and a Canadian court ruling affirming that bicycles have equal road rights with other vehicles.