The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Answers a reader's query about the American Sanspareil Roadster and recommends ammonia and whiting for cleaning nickel plate; W.H.G. of Woonsocket asks about a League whistle/bugle code for parades; and reports that Herbert Du Bois, bugler of the Hudson (N.Y.) Bicycle Club, broke his leg after losing control of an oversized bicycle with a faulty brake on a descent.
- 'A Protest' condemns the L.A.W. elections committee's plan to discard ballots from members who joined after 15 June; 'An Adverse Decision' reports Judge Lawrence's Supreme Court ruling upholding the Central Park commissioners' bicycle ban; 'In Re Brakes' urges every rider to fit a proper steel front-wheel lever brake; and 'Records' sets the certification standard (two watches, a track measured two feet from the curb) the paper will require before recognizing a claimed record.
- Reports the founding of the Medina (N.Y.) Bicycle Club under president C.F. Hurd and the Crescent Bicycle Club of Lynn, Mass. under president S.W. Gulliver, plus a new club organized in Newark, Ohio; also notes the Champion City (Springfield, Ohio) club's plan to stage a bicycle opera and the election of A.M. Crothers as its president.
- Announces coming amateur races at Ridgewood Park (Sons of St. George picnic), the League of Ohio Wheelmen's Columbus parade and championship races, the Montreal Bicycle Club's 2 September meet, and the Worcester New England Fair races on 5 September; reports in detail F. Moore's wins in both the one-mile (2m 47.5s) and twenty-five-mile (1h 24m 19s) Bicycle Union Championships at Aston Lower Grounds, Birmingham, judged by H.L. Cortis.
- Letters from the Marietta (Pa.) Bicycle Club describing a run to York and the Susquehanna bridge to Wrightsville; from the Montreal Bicycle Club's 'Club DawG,' reporting 27 runs by 317 riders totaling 265.5 miles for the season; and 'A Suggestion' from a Poughkeepsie reader warning that soft-soldered cyclometer pinions rust and should be checked.
- The third installment of a White Mountains tour describes exploring the Ellis River valley from Jackson and ascending Mt. Washington from the Glen House via Crystal Cascade and Tuckerman's Ravine, reaching the Summit House in three hours ten minutes and being rewarded with a striking display of aurora borealis.
- Kol Kron recounts a supplementary Long Island tour from Flushing through Little Neck, the Jericho turnpike, Babylon, Islip, Sayville and Yaphank, including a ride on 7 September 1881 ('the hottest day... since 1874') that covered over fifty miles in extreme heat.
- Describes a weekend run with the Boston Bicycle Club over the Blue Hill range to 'Cobb's' farmhouse in South Canton, with a hearty supper and a Sunday return joined by riders including Turner and Ruggles of the Massachusetts Club.
- Full report that Judge Lawrence, sitting in Supreme Court chambers, upheld the park commissioners' ordinance banning bicycles from Central Park in the habeas corpus case brought by William M. Wright and others, ruling that the commissioners' broad statutory authority left no basis for the courts to interfere absent fraud or collusion.
- Prints Cincinnati Bicycle Club secretary H.S. Livingston's sardonic letter declining, on behalf of the club, parade chairman Amor Smith Jr.'s invitation to ride in Cincinnati's Exposition procession, citing the poor condition of the city's streets.
- Reprints the Philadelphia Ledger's account of Judge Lawrence's ruling for the park commissioners, contrasting Central Park's continued bicycle ban with Fairmount Park's admission of bicycles in Philadelphia; also notes L.A.W. consuls Wilkins and Chase's wheel trip from Manchester, N.H. to Portsmouth, escorted by the Rockingham Bicycle Club.
- League of American Wheelmen department: invites amateur wheelmen to join via corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam; lists new and additional member applications from the Albany, Germantown, Nashua, Montreal, Madison and Keystone Bicycle Clubs and unattached riders, with name corrections; and lists New York State road routes (e.g. Auburn to Rochester, Poughkeepsie to Fishkill Landing) available to touring members.
- Frank W. Weston, the 'father of bicycling in America,' sails for Liverpool on the Samaria to attend the Bicycle Touring Club's meet at Harrogate; fifty Boston Bicycle Club members and dozens of associates give him a rowdy send-off at the Cunard wharf, with a speech from Capt. Hodges and a comic 'Ballad of Boston' sung by President Pratt.
- Gossip column of personal items: S.T. Clark of the Maryland Bicycle Club visits Boston, Baron Adolphe Rothschild orders a Fleet double-driving tricycle, W.H. Edmands and S.M. Turner ride ninety miles from Roxbury to Gloucester and back, and a Westminster, Md. obstruction suit between Col. W.P. Maulsby and R.F. Foster is dismissed, prompting a $10,000 malicious-prosecution countersuit.
- Reviews the August Century (a Wagner portrait and profile, plus articles on Surrey, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Zuni delegation's Eastern trip), Our Little Ones and St. Nicholas for August, and T. Sedgwick Steele's illustrated Maine-woods travel book 'Paddle and Portage,' published by Estes & Lauriat.