The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 22
Articles in this issue
- A short guide advises lady tricyclists to keep their outward dress as close to ordinary attire as possible, but to replace linen underclothing with a flannel vest and breeches cut like a man's for health and comfort, following the skirt style described earlier by correspondent 'Dot'.
- Beacon Park announces its bicycle practice track is open for the season with season tickets at $5, and Philadelphia advertises an L.A.W.-sanctioned grand wheelmen's meet and race programme for 26 October in Fairmount Park as part of the city's bicentennial celebration.
- The editorial urges the League's officers, meeting in Boston on 13 October, to standardize race-track measurement against English distance records, secure free rail carriage of members' machines, and appoint a special committee to seek a reduced import tariff on foreign bicycles and tricycles.
- Club notes cover the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's regular Wednesday/Saturday runs, the Milwaukee Bicycle Club electing new officers under D.G. Rogers Jr. with membership nearing one hundred, the League of Chicago Wheelmen's organizational meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel on 7 October, and the Leominster (Mass.) Bicycle Club's officers R.G. Morse (president/captain) and C.A. Joslin (secretary/treasurer), organized 22 April 1882.
- Coming-events notices list meets at Montreal, Stenton (Philadelphia), Pullman IL, and the 26 October Philadelphia bicentennial races; reports cover St. Thomas, Ontario (F. Westbrook of Brantford won the mile and five-mile), Franklin, PA (Louise Armaindo beat T.W. Eck in the professional five-mile match; George Grundy won the amateur mile for the Keystone Bicycle Club), the Waukegan Fair (Conkling swept the mile and five-mile handicaps for the Chicago Bicycle Club), and New York's Manhattan Athletic Club games (W.H. Austin beat E.A. Thompson in the two-mile handicap).
- A New York correspondent signed 'Chic.' recounts the muddy Waverly, NJ races, where Place swept most events but stood aside in the mile handicap to let Thompson of the Lennox club win, and reports rumors that the Manhattan Bicycle Club has disbanded.
- A New Hampshire correspondent signed 'Telzah' surveys the state's wheelmen after a Rockingham Bicycle Club (Portsmouth) gathering, praising the coast-road wheeling, the Nashua Wheel Club's headquarters, and New Hampshire riders' showing in the Boston Club's 100-mile run, while defending local bicycle-agent club officers against a rival club's advice.
- Chicago correspondent 'Steno' describes John M. Fairfield's new spoke-flange design, the Chicago Bicycle Club's debate over switching its uniform from gray to black, and T.B. Jeffery's repair of Charles Kudner of Detroit's Premier bicycle with a reinforced axle and new bearings.
- A technical guide signed 'G.F.M.' explains how play in head, wheel, and pedal bearings causes wear and loss of power, and how to adjust ball-bearing wheels and headsets so they turn freely without shake.
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club set a club record with a 118-mile day run from Boston to Newburyport and back against a stiff headwind, completed by Williams, Griffiths, Philbrick, and Wilmot.
- The Canadian Wheelmen's Association was organized in Toronto by delegates from Montreal, Brantford, Aylmer, St. Thomas, London, Hamilton, and St. Catharines, with Boustead elected president and Dr. Clark as secretary.
- Membership rules and dues are explained, new applications are listed from the Albany, Scranton, Boston Ramblers, Missouri, Norwich, and Maryland bicycle clubs, and H.B. Hart of Philadelphia writes proposing that L.A.W. races be held at the 26 October Fairmount Park bicentennial meet.
- A miscellany signed 'London W.' answers a reader's query about Belva Lockwood's tricycle, corrects the Boston Sunday Budget's arithmetic on Nixon's John o' Groats-to-Land's End tricycle ride, criticizes a Kentucky turnpike president's threat to prosecute cyclists, and compares gearing on Lowndes's and Marriott's machines in the fifty-mile tricycle road championship.
- Short news squibs report the Humber tricycle imported for Carter of Newton, W.B. Everett's appointment as Boston League consul, Lewis T. Frye's plan to defend his League mile championship, V.C. Place's new 57-inch Yale racer, and the New Haven Bicycle Club's third annual fall races at Hamilton Park.