The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 21
Articles in this issue
- The editorial praises Massachusetts and New Hampshire wheelmen for organizing state leagues under Chief Consul F. S. Pratt, citing the earlier League of Ohio Wheelmen as a precedent, and presses L.A.W. officials and consuls to report their work more openly. It criticizes the League for having no published list of consuls or headquarters hotels, no route sign-boards, and no reduced railroad rates two years after its founding, while pledging the Bicycling World's continued support as the League's "official organ."
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club announces a moonlight run and supper at the Woodland Park Hotel on 26 September, while Secretary Arthur H. MacOwen describes the new Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's dark-brown corduroy uniform, blue-and-old-gold colors, and officers (President E. W. Aaron, Treasurer W. H. O'Keefe, Captain C. M. Miller), plus its plan to turn out in white shirts at the Philadelphia bicentennial meet in October.
- Reports the Maryland Bicycle Club's first annual meet at Baltimore's Newington Park (won chiefly by A. B. Harrison, Jere Lord, and V. C. Place), the Albany Club's races at Island Park (Cole, Gallien, Burch, and club champion A. H. Scattergood), and the Springfield Grand Bicycle Tournament, where Frank Moore of Birmingham, England beat Place and A. D. Claflin to break the American five-mile record in 15m 47⅜s and J. S. Prince won a 20-mile professional relay against Mellen and Harrison. Also notes races at Smithville, N.J. (Burns v. W. J. Smith of Bristol), Burlington, Kan. (C. L. Severy), Newton Highlands and Tonawanda, N.Y., and F. Wood's record five-mile win over R. Howell at Leicester, England.
- Correspondents write on the coming Philadelphia bicentennial meet in Fairmount Park, a Manchester-to-Portsmouth, N.H. touring route via Epping and Exeter, and the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada's new policy — won by Capt. W. J. McIntosh of the London, Ont. club — of checking bicycles free as ordinary baggage. Other letters cover V. C. Place's denial of involvement in a proposed race against the horse "Ben Hamilton," a disputed Poughkeepsie race won by Bostwick over Ostrander, and the League of Essex County Wheelmen's third meet at Marblehead with fifty-five members from seven Massachusetts clubs.
- Sets out League of American Wheelmen admission procedures — a $1 fee (50 cents if an entire club joins) payable to Corresponding Secretary Kingman N. Putnam at 54 Wall Street, New York — and offers the League Hand-Book of members, directors, and consuls for fifteen cents postpaid.
- A correspondent signing "London W." debates saddle-versus-seat tricycle design with "Ixion," argues for a 55- or 56-inch wheel over the larger machines favored by racers like Prince and Moore, and reports on the Bicycle Touring Club's 6,300-plus membership and A. H. Overman's demonstration of Harrington's enamel finish at Springfield.
- Personal notes celebrate the Springfield tournament: Frank Moore sailed for England with one, two, five through ten mile records; nearly 13,000 spectators witnessed the races at Hampden Park; Gideon retired from racing on physician's advice; the Columbia Bicycle Club of Attleboro' won the club drill prize; the L.A.W. board meeting is announced for Boston on 13 October; and John Hawkins rode a sociable tricycle 191 miles in just under 24 hours.
- Reviews the Century's October number, closing its first year with Frank B. Carpenter's account of Lincoln's nomination and Smalley's paper on the "New Northwest," notes St. Nicholas concluding Mrs. Dodge's "Donald and Dorothy," and praises Parker & Tilton's illustrated "Art Exhibit of Fashion" pamphlet supplied by Fairfield & Taylor of Chicago.
- Answers reader questions, including road information for F. Alcott Pratt of Concord, Mass. toward New Bedford, rear-wheel bearing advice for G. W. H. of Poughkeepsie, English import-cost estimates for J. E. F. of Richmond, Ind., and confirmation that "Sturmey's Indispensable" for 1882 is available to C. S. Greenbaum of Laramie, Wyo. for 55 cents postpaid.