The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 15
Articles in this issue
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club gave a complimentary breakfast at the Woodlawn Hotel, Auburndale, on the morning of 9 August for founding member H. E. Parkhurst before his two-year trip to Germany, riding out and back as an escort. A letter read at the gathering praised Parkhurst's touring and racing record and his influence on the club.
- The editor advocates for lighter English-style bicycles (30 lb machines) over heavy American roadsters, criticizes slang like 'pants' and 'gent' as unworthy of wheelmen, and reports on a petition to the tariff commission seeking reduced bicycle import duties.
- Club news covers the newly organized Ottawa Bicycle Club (Mothersill president, Bayley captain), the Champion City (Springfield, Ohio) club's drill team, Belleville's reorganization amid a proposed local bicycling ban, Woonsocket's first annual club dinner, and Montreal's July race results led by H. S. Tibbs's mileage. Also noted: new clubs at Cottage City and in West Philadelphia (the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club), and the Crescent and Providence clubs dropping their League of American Wheelmen membership.
- Coming-events listings for Rochester, Columbus, Montreal, Worcester, Buffalo, New York, Boston, and Springfield lead into race reports: Frank Marshall's wins at the Ovid, Mich. meet; H. L. Cortis's sub-hour twenty-mile ride and the Bicycle Union's five- and fifty-mile championships (won by Whatton and Keith-Falconer) at Crystal Palace; French races at Toulouse; and a proposed Prince-Armaindo match and a Napanee-to-Kingston, Ontario bicycle-versus-horse road race.
- Signed 'Capital P.,' this letter rebuts circus rider Albin's Cyclist account of his Washington, D.C. visit, disputing his claimed feats with the Capital Bicycle Club and calling his story exaggeration.
- A Scranton club member ('F. C. H.') recounts a bicycle tour from Port Jervis through Milford and Bushkill to the Delaware Water Gap and back, with companions Kolp, Rockwell, and Pentecost, praising the hard shell-rock roads near Bushkill.
- Writing as 'Meteor' from Boston, the correspondent proposes reorganizing the League of American Wheelmen into state-level sub-leagues, each headed by a 'chief consul,' to better serve individual wheelmen.
- 'Club Doctor' reports on the ten-member Rutland Bicycle Club, including a fifty-three-and-a-half-mile day's ride and a run to Lake Bomoseen and Fair Haven with a visiting Boston Bicycle Club rider.
- A Canandaigua, N.Y. correspondent ('a. g. c.') clarifies that the Lamson badge is not the official League of American Wheelmen badge and criticizes the League's rule requiring a club's entire membership to join together.
- W. E. Parmenter, Jr. of Arlington, Mass. logs road conditions mile by mile from Arlington through Winchester, Burlington, Billerica, Lowell, Tyngsborough, and Nashua to Francestown and Manchester, N.H.
- Signed 'Geesee' of Marblehead, the letter protests that the League of American Wheelmen's committee on rights and privileges disqualified the Marblehead Bicycle Club's ten member-signed ballot supporting Mr. Hodges for chief consul.
- Correspondent '869' recommends the St. James and Eagle House hotels over the Brunswick in Lawrence, reports the Essex County Wheelmen's planned run to Salem and Nahant, and describes a trial ride on a Royal Salvo tricycle.
- The Ixion Bicycle Club's Will R. Pitman and Bugler Oliver make a night run from New York to Riverdale and a forty-mile trip to Pleasantville, amid a boom in evening boulevard riding centered on the Atlanta Casino and Lion Park.
- Explains League of American Wheelmen membership procedures and lists new applications from the Columbia, Fremont, Cleveland, Massachusetts, and Brantford bicycle clubs, with corrections to a prior week's membership listing.
- Signed 'London W.,' this column compares front- and rear-steering tricycles, recommends Hillier's saddle-cleaning method and Harrington's enamel finish, and endorses the Devon brake for Mr. Clark of the Boston Bicycle Club and Alpha Tricycle Club.
- Personal notes include H. L. Cortis's marriage on 3 August before sailing for Australia, John Harrington's return to England, 'Dot' the Tricyclist's seventy-mile sociable ride, and Vice-President Parsons summering at Menauhant. Also reported: the Kings County Wheelmen's forty members, the Boston Ramblers' new dark-green uniforms, a Chicago Bicycle Club run to South Park, Frank Weston's letter from the steamer Samaria, and a Poughkeepsie-to-Boston ride by Emons and Swartz.