The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 14
Articles in this issue
- The Currente Calamo column notes the New York Sunday Courier opening a sports department under William McEwen; the League of Essex County Wheelmen is planning a meeting in Ipswich with dinner at the Agawam House; four bicyclers at the Hampton Beach Hotel highly recommend it; the Capital Bicycle Club successfully secured the B&O Railroad's order to carry bicycles free; and the Beacon Park lessee offers free use of the bicycle track to Boston clubs if they repair it.
- A humorous poem from The Oarsman (by C.C.) describes a slender young man in a blue cap who speeds on his bicycle until a raised stone in the concrete tips him headlong into a building, leaving him with seventeen cuts on his head; he swears off bicycling forever.
- New L.A.W. applications include the Hamilton Bicycle Club of Ontario with 16 new members and the newly formed Boston Ramblers of Boston with 13 members; the full League election results are published state by state, including Maryland (Clymer Whyte elected Chief Consul), Massachusetts (Fred Pratt Chief Consul), New York (Gullen Chief Consul), and Michigan (Standish elected).
- A London Spectator essay, 'How a Literary Man Keeps Well,' describes a writer who gave up smoking and began tricycling three months ago, curing his chronic bilious headaches; 'Dot' in the Tricyclist advises on ladies' riding dress; J.W. Elton of the West Kent Tricycle Club rode an old Excelsior 168 miles from Hammersmith to Doncaster in one day; and Rudge built a new 59-inch racing bicycle weighing 29 lbs. for H.L. Cortis.