The Bicycling World, Vol 5, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Editorial asking whether a rider injured by a defective bicycle can recover damages from the maker, prompted by English complaints about breaking backbones raised in the Cyclist; it weighs implied warranty against latent defects and urges riders to choose mounts with circumspection and makers to use the best material.
- The new Tremont Bicycle Club of Boston elects C. J. Upham president and M. L. Brown captain; the Scranton Bicycle Club's first entertainment at the Armory features fancy riding by Prof. Kaufman of Rochester with the Binghamton Club as guests; and the Providence Bicycle Club visits the Boston Club at Cobb's Tavern, beating the Boston nine at base ball before a run to the city under Capt. Hodges.
- At the Cleveland Bicycle Club's fall meeting at Perkins' track George Collister won the five-mile championship medal and T. S. Beckwith's 3m 26 1/2s consolation mile was the best ever made in Cleveland; at the Philadelphia bi-centennial races of 26 October, before about 3,000 people, V. C. Place won the two-mile handicap in 6.50 and the five-mile in 16.58 1/2, with acrobatic fancy riding by Burt Pressey on a Star.
- President Bates argues the League's machinery is far too feeble for a whole continent and proposes a complete reorganization on the model of American political institutions: a national representative L.A.W. like Congress, with State and provincial divisions controlling races, records, road statistics and legal questions within their territories.
- A correspondent signing 'Officer' of Worcester rebuts the suggestion that the Pope Manufacturing Company ran the Massachusetts Bicycle Club and dictated the amendment of the amateur rule, noting only four club members attended the officers' meeting and predicting strict enforcement of the old rule would have driven whole clubs from the League.
- Correspondent '569' warns buyers of Harrington cradle springs to insist on a warrant after a dealer refused to replace his broken spring, praises the Premier spring as steadier on bad roads, and reports the League of Essex County Wheelmen's final meet of the season at Beverly on 13 October and the Lawrence club's coming exhibition and ball.
- 'Steno' reports the Pullman Athletic Association races on the Lake Calumet island grounds, where Crawford of the Hermes Club won the two-mile and Philbrick of the Chicago Bicycle Club the five-mile handicap; plans for Thanksgiving Day races and an Illinois State League; and Chicago riders' unanimous preference for small back wheels, the writer favouring a 16-inch trailer.
- Capt. T. S. Webb, D. B. Smith and Natt M. Cogswell of the Lawrence (Mass.) Bicycle Club break the American club long-distance record with 169 1/4 miles in 23h 18m, starting from Young's Hotel, Boston, and riding via South Framingham, Gloucester, Salem and Lynn without any previous training.
- Nine members of the Rockingham Bicycle Club ride to the Dover Point House on 25 October at the invitation of Capt. Hazlett, celebrating his completion of 10,000 miles with supper, songs and a moonlight return, joined by three members of the Dover club.
- Narrative of the bi-centennial meet in which 483 wheelmen — including the Capital Club of Washington under Capt. Fowler, the Maryland Club of Baltimore, the Germantown Club and the Star Club of Smithville — paraded ten miles through Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill; in the evening about one hundred riders with lamps alight rode eight miles to Bryn Mawr.
- Thirteen tricycles, including the American Roadster, the Ladies' Sociable, the Ladies' Single Victoria and the Youth's Machine, tour the principal streets of New Haven on 23 October before an immense crowd, finishing on Howard Avenue after two hours; 'Lady Tricyclist' predicts hundreds of women riders.
- Dr. B. W. Richardson, writing in the Cyclist, declares tricycling easier than walking or horseback riding once the art is mastered, saying he can ride forty miles on a tricycle with less fatigue than walking ten or riding twenty on horseback.
- C. H. Larrette of Bell's Life rides one hundred miles from Spalding to the Marble Arch via Peterborough, Buckden and Hitchin in 16 hours (riding time 11h 5m, about nine miles an hour), finishing quite fresh despite having practically no power in his left arm; a following note reports A. Nixon of the London Tricycle Club plans a Paris-to-Venice tricycle ride.
- Farmer Thomas Hines sues Henry Campbell before Judge Charles H. Borden at Red Bank, N.J., after Miss Mary Hines's team took fright at Campbell's bicycle near Tinton Falls and wrecked the carriage; the judge awards Hines $35 damages, and the case will likely go to the Supreme Court as a test case.
- Dr. G. F. Harwood of Worcester furnishes cuts of three patterns of his safety step — No. 1 for the Standard and Harvard, No. 2 for the Expert and Challenge, and No. 3 for the old-pattern Harvard — obtainable from the Cunningham Company of Boston and Hill & Tolman of Worcester.
- League department listing membership applications from the Star Wheel Club of East Rochester, N.H., the Hermes Bicycle Club of Chicago and the Boston Ramblers; Kingman N. Putnam resigns as chairman of the membership committee after the board overrules its decision, and renews his resignation as corresponding secretary over the abolition of the amateur rule.
- Editor William E. Gilman protests that priority of publication of the officers' meeting report was given to a New York paper over the official organ in violation of League Rule 37, recounting the Pope Manufacturing Company's hostility to the Bicycling World, its manoeuvres against Capt. Hodges, and Vice-President Parsons's part in the stenographic-report affair.
- 'London W.' fills his gossip column with banter aimed at 'c. c.' and 'Chic', jibes at Brother Pitman's election to League office, a defence of riding English machines when they can be had as cheap as American ones, and agreement with Moore's criticism that Americans prize a bright machine over a good one.
- Editorial paragraphs looking ahead to the 29 November Washington meet for the Garfield Monument Fund, to be reviewed by President Arthur and General Sherman; the death of Clinton D. Miller of Akron from concussion nine days after a fall avoiding a little girl on the Fountain Park track; Gormully & Co.'s challenge to the Pope 'Lallement' patent monopoly; and a deflation of Frank Moore's boasts given his one-yard win over young Hendee at Springfield.