The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Editorial printing Col. Albert A. Pope's letter denying he urged the Tariff Commission to raise the duty on bicycles — he in fact filed for a reduction on steel, bicycles and tricycles. The editor welcomes the accord but renews his criticism of the Pope Manufacturing Company's patent monopoly, answering the New York Wheel's charge of impugned motives.
- Boston Bi. Club September fixtures including the annual twenty-mile club race at Beacon Park and the Springfield trip; Rutland Bi. Club's annual run to the Springfield tournament; new officers at the Dubuque Bi. Club; the Cazenovia (N.Y.) club, whose captain C. M. Knowlton rode 104 miles in a day on the Genesee Valley turnpike; the newly formed Laramie Bi. Club (thirteen members, including humorist Bill Nye), the first club in Wyoming Territory; and the Meriden (Conn.) Wheel Club under Captain T. S. Rust.
- Coming events (Polo Grounds fifty-mile, Maryland Bicycle Club races at Newington Park, the Springfield tournament) and results: L.A.W.-sanctioned races at Wellington, Ohio; the L.O.W. meet races at Columbus, where Frank Lamkin of Medway took the state championship mile in 3m 22s and Lewis Pease the five-mile; John S. Prince's 25-mile Polo Grounds defeat of Mlle. Louise Armaindo in 1h 38m 15s; the Montreal Bicycle Club annual meeting; and notes on Prince accepting W. J. Morgan's 100-mile challenge, C. D. Vesey's Crystal Palace cup win, and Boston Bicycle Club championship entries.
- Correspondence: Fred Jenkins rebuts "Gifford's" claim that the Coney Island races were a failure, defending W. J. Morgan's 13.5 miles-per-hour average over thirty-six hours and explaining the amateur races were properly L.A.W.-sanctioned but postponed for want of entries.
- Correspondence reporting the Springfield Bicycle Club's preparations for its first annual tournament on 20 September, praising the hard, smooth outdoor mile track and inviting wheelmen; six members made a thirty-six-mile run despite the drought.
- A Dorchester rider recounts a 103.75-mile day ride on 26 August from Dorchester through Salem to Newburyport and back, with breakfast at the Essex House and dinner at the Merrimac House, completed 4 a.m. to 9.35 p.m. by cyclometer measure.
- Albert S. Parsons, chairman of the L.A.W. committee on rights and privileges, explains why ballots from the Worcester, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and Marblehead clubs were rejected in the League election, arguing Rule 21 requires individual member ballots rather than club-secretary proxies or petitions.
- A road report of an 18 August ride from Boston to Portsmouth, N.H., via Malden, Peabody, Ipswich, Newburyport, Amesbury, Seabrook and Hampton — thirteen hours against a fresh northwest wind, with notes on which stretches are ridable.
- "Falstaff" reports on the Columbus meet of the League of Ohio Wheelmen, censuring the Champion City Club of Springfield's threatened withdrawal over prizes; notes Cleveland's rotten wood pavements being replaced with cobble-stones, Capt. Sholes's planned Girard-to-Buffalo ride, and commends a member's riding log with a sample month's tally of 629 miles.
- Henry H. Wheeler of Boston gives turn-by-turn road descriptions of two Massachusetts routes: Boston to Worcester (42-43 miles via Watertown, Wayland, Marlboro' and Shrewsbury, with a dangerous descent on the old road) and Boston to Andover (about 25 miles via Stoneham and North Reading).
- Account of the second annual League of Ohio Wheelmen meet at Columbus, 28-29 August: H. S. Livingston of Cincinnati elected president; a parade of 124 wheelmen from clubs including the Buckeye, Springfield, Cincinnati and Cleveland clubs; W. H. Wetmore's prize-winning trick riding (propelling his machine backwards seventy feet); Cincinnati's club-drill banner; and a banquet with toasts from L.A.W. President W. H. Miller and Col. A. A. Pope.
- Biographical sketch, with portrait, of professional champion John S. Prince: born Langley Green, England, 27 November 1857, a brass founder claiming first honors in 130 events and three successive Wolverhampton handicaps; since arriving in America in September 1881 he has beaten F. S. Rollinson, lost narrowly to John Keen, defeated Mlle. Armaindo at the Polo Grounds, and accepted W. J. Morgan's hundred-mile championship challenge.
- League of American Wheelmen department: membership terms and hand-book notices, with corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam's list of applications — additions from the Hudson Bi. Club of Hudson, N.Y., one unattached rider, and a correction to the Boston Ramblers list.
- "London W." muses on the Wheelman's list of contributors, the "Archer up" silk jockey cap for racing, a shoemaker for proper racing slippers, A. Nixon's forthcoming John-o'-Groat's to Land's End tricycle ride over Ion Keith-Falconer's route, the Cyclist's new 150-mile record threshold, W. R. Pitman's amateur status dispute between the B.T.C. and L.A.W., and a new adjustable step to be used on the 1883 Harvard.
- Paragraph notes: Worcester's meet with two hundred wheelmen on dress parade and Frank Moore of Birmingham sweeping the races; R. H. Stahl of the Boston Ramblers injures his wrist; Capt. C. F. Hurd of Medina, N.Y., rides 106.5 miles in a day to Silver Lake and back; James A. R. Underwood's compound arm fracture; Dr. Herbert L. Cortis's farewell dinner before sailing for Australia; and three Capital Bicycle Club men touring the Shenandoah Valley with a camera.
- Brief replies to correspondents, including "Kol Kron," C. S. Greenbaum of Laramie awaiting Sturmey's Indispensable, a query on Overman Wheel Company enamel, and rulings on what conduct would make a rider a professional.