The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Annual meetings and officer elections reported from clubs in London (Ontario), Marblehead, Zanesville, Quebec, Johnstown PA (Mountain), Philadelphia, Toledo, Nashua, New Bedford, and Saratoga, with Boston and Roxbury clubs announcing rides and travel arrangements to the L.A.W. Chicago Meet on May 30.
- Louisville races of April 22 and 24 featured Will Francke and Orville Anderson in a contested ten-mile championship won by Anderson in 36:45; Miss Elsa Von Blumen raced and beat five horses at Detroit's Recreation Park; and A.G. Powell won the one-mile scratch at Germantown Bicycle Club's races in Stenton, PA.
- Letters include a Scranton account of a 32-mile club run to Honesdale featuring a horse-frightening buggy accident; Chicago notes on L.A.W. Meet preparations under Vice-President Fairfield; competing letters from Lawrence and Haverhill defending the Essex County meet at Lawrence on May 30; a Kankakee wheelman's dispatch on impassable Illinois prairie roads; and a New York correspondent challenging American bicycle manufacturers on price and quality.
- California cyclists have formed the Pacific Wheelmen association to unite riders for touring, racing, and drill; the San Francisco Club made a run of 35 miles to Menlo Park with sixteen men under Capt. Butler, while Oakland arranged a grand meet and Capt. Butler's subsequent multi-day tour covered 57 miles on its first day.
- The Marine Bicycle Company of Portsmouth, NH forwarded three standard boats to Chicago to compete in a race on Lake Michigan during the L.A.W. League meet; the invitation arrived too late to finish semi-racer models under construction, so the contest will be run on heavier craft built for strength rather than speed.
- The Secretary of the Interior wrote to the Commissioner of Patents regarding Section 4,887 of the Revised Statutes, which requires that any US patent granted for an invention already patented abroad must expire no later than the foreign patent, and in no case may be enforced beyond seventeen years.
- Reports N.A.A.A.A. president A.H. Curtis's proposal to hold the two- and five-mile bicycle championships jointly at the Polo Grounds on June 10; publishes President Charles E. Pratt's formal resignation letter dated May 8; and provides Kingman N. Putnam's travel instructions for a special Pullman car via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Chicago at 20 percent reduced fares.
- Miscellaneous notes mention Claflin's new Rudge racer, Chelsea Bicycle Club's annual meeting, Wilmot covering nearly 72 miles in a single day's road ride, details of the first annual meet of the American branch of the Bicycle Touring Club (run to Yonkers on May 27), and correspondence secretary Kingman Putnam's intention to decline re-election.