The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Notes-and-gossip column: Conkling of Chicago rides the country's biggest Yale racer (a 61-inch), Manhattan Bicycle Club secretary Coleman is badly hurt in a night-riding fall, W. Francke of Louisville wins a fancy-riding medal at Harrodsburg, and Meteor Bicycle Club members H.D. Corey and A.H. Stetson ride from Brighton to Manchester-by-the-Sea and back.
- An editorial attacks Pope Manufacturing Company president Col. A.A. Pope's tariff-commission testimony seeking a higher duty on imported bicycles, reports that only 361 of the League of American Wheelmen's 2,500 members voted in the recent election, reviews the McDonnell cyclometer, and covers the Canadian bicycling-championship dispute among Fred Westbrook, Perry Doolittle and J.G. Hay arising from the Montreal Bicycle Club's races.
- Cyclers meeting at C.S. Howard's house on 31 July form the new 'Boston Ramblers' club, adopting a dark-green uniform and electing S.S. McClure president, A.H. Forbush secretary-treasurer, and Howard captain, with fourteen members already enrolled.
- The Detroit Bicycle Club's semi-annual election names L.J. Bates president, A.C. Varney vice-president and captain, E.D. Hutton lieutenant, and W.H. Elmer secretary-treasurer.
- A fixture list of upcoming meets: the League of Ohio Wheelmen's parade and races at Columbus, the Montreal Bicycle Club's annual races, tournaments at Worcester and Buffalo, a fifty-mile Manhattan Athletic Club race at the Polo Grounds, a Springfield Bicycle Club tournament, and a bicycle meet tied to Philadelphia's bicentennial celebration.
- Race reports cover the Olympic Athletic Club's handicap races at Oakland (won by Lowden, Spring and Burkhalter), the Salt Lake Bicycle Club meet where William Jennings takes the one- and ten-mile races, Prince's acceptance of Mlle. Armaindo's fifty-mile relay challenge, the Montreal Bicycle Club's Lachine road handicap won by G.W. Smith in 52 minutes, and upcoming Boston Bicycle Club and Ovid, Mich. races.
- Correspondent 'Scratch Man' reports on the San Francisco Bicycle Club's monthly meeting under president Columbus Waterhouse, new members Schwerin and Fisher, a uniform resolution, the election of Southern Pacific official H.R. Judah as an honorary member, and upcoming Pacific Wheelmen's Association handicap races.
- Baltimore correspondent E.F. LeCato gives a florid account of the Maryland Bicycle Club's clubhouse smoker, with the Vesper Quartet singing, Clymer Whyte reciting 'The Hat,' Mr. Doherty singing 'The Friar,' and Senor Carlo Sanchez at the piano.
- A Philadelphia correspondent signing 'E.P.' reports that Pennsylvania Railroad baggage master Mr. Reynolds carried his and a friend's bicycles to and from Washington free of charge.
- Notes describe the first marine-velocipede race, held during the Columbia Boat Club's regatta between Capital Bicycle Club members H.M. Schooley and Warren Seely (Seely winning by a quarter-length), and criticize the heavy, clumsy Columbia Expert bicycle newly seen in the city.
- Buffalo Bicycle Club corresponding secretary Chas. K. Alley urges the L.A.W. to circularize railroads over bicycle transport charges, citing a one-dollar fee demanded for carrying his wheel from Dunkirk to Buffalo.
- Cleveland correspondent 'Falstaff' previews the Ohio wheelmen's meet at Columbus, naming racers George Lamkin, Asa Dolph and Mr. Wetmore, and complains that only $12 in prizes was offered for the Cleveland Club's own races.
- A Chicago correspondent, 'Steno,' describes the Chicago Bicycle Club's Saturday-afternoon runs from Lake Park, debates uniform colors, and argues that small back wheels ride easier than the heavier Columbia Expert's big back wheel.
- Correspondent 'Middlesex' complains that the Old Colony Railroad charged fifty cents to carry his bicycle to Fall River and seventy-five cents on the return leg from Newport, far above what he considers a fair rate.
- Notes include the New York Sunday Courier launching a sports department under William McEwen, the Capital Bicycle Club's success in securing free bicycle carriage on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and Beacon Park lessee J.H. Trout offering Boston clubs free use of the track if they repair it.
- A comic poem reprinted from The Oarsman describes a young bicyclist thrown headlong by a raised stone in the road, left with seventeen cuts on his head, and swearing off bicycling forever.
- New League of American Wheelmen applications list sixteen members of the Hamilton Bicycle Club of Ontario and fourteen members of the newly formed Boston Ramblers, plus corrections to several previously published members' names.
- Full state-by-state tallies of the League of American Wheelmen's Chief Consul and Representative elections are published, with Massachusetts casting the most ballots (136) and electing Fred S. Pratt, and Maryland, New York, Michigan and Ohio electing Clymer Whyte, W.F. Gullen, Chas. D. Standish and W.H. Miller respectively.
- Reprinted from the London Spectator, a writer describes how giving up smoking and taking up tricycling three months earlier cured his chronic bilious headaches and improved his health.
- Short notes cover 'Dot' in the Tricyclist advising on ladies' riding dress, 'Faed' on teaching ladies to ride sociables, T.R. Marriott's 180-mile Humber tricycle ride, J.W. Elton's 168-mile ride from Hammersmith to Doncaster, and Rudge's new 59-inch racing tricycle built for H.L. Cortis.