The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 1
Articles in this issue
- The editors apologize for the poor quality of the stenographic report of the L.A.W. fall officers' meeting held 20 October at Hotel Vendome, Boston, explaining that the enlarged issue is devoted almost entirely to that report, which they and Vice-President A.S. Parsons have had to correct from memory.
- Verbatim record of the L.A.W. Board of Officers meeting at Hotel Vendome, Boston, chaired by President W.H. Miller with sixteen members present: officer elections for California (Columbus Waterhouse), Illinois (H.G. Rouse), Indiana (Harry Bates), Massachusetts (H.W. Williams, C.K. Ferry) and the District of Columbia (Philip T. Dodge, C.E. Hawley); the treasurer's semi-annual report showing $1,717.88 in receipts; a long debate led by ex-president C.E. Pratt and Parsons over the definition of a professional 'teacher' under the amateur rule; and business on League badges, savings-bank deposits, route slips and consular certificates before Parsons moved the meeting's adjournment.
- Club notes: the Chelsea Bicycle Club orders a run to Washington under Capt. Francis W. Whiting; the Falls City (Louisville) Club's officers are listed; new Chelsea and Boston Tricycle Clubs are formed; the Crescent Bicycle Club presents a banner to ex-Capt. F.B. Carpenter; the Hawthorne Bicycle Club of Salem runs to Rowley; the King's County Wheelmen and Brooklyn Bicycle Club run together to Orange, N.J.; and the Bicycle Touring Club's American Branch holds its annual parade to Yonkers under F.G. Bourne.
- Race results: at Dayton, Ohio, Fred Kohnle and S.S. Mott trade wins racing for the Dayton Bicycle Club's silver pitcher, Kohnle taking the deciding heat; E.L. Armstrong wins a mile race at the New York College A.A. games; at Point Jervis, N.J., Mlle. Louise Armaindo races a trotting horse and W.J. Morgan beats T.W. Eck; Hamilton, Ontario holds its club championship; C.E. Liles beats H.W. Gaskell and N.J. Lowndes for the English tricycle five-mile championship at Crystal Palace; and W.M. Woodside wins the Irish fifty-mile championship at Phoenix Park, Dublin.
- The Aeolus Wheel Club of Worcester reclaims the long-distance record: members Midgley and Arnold (later joined by a relief rider) ride 179 miles in 23h.54m. out of South Framingham through Brighton, Cambridge, Natick and Jamaica Plain, with Arnold forced to quit after a bad fall in Malden the previous evening.
- League recruitment notice followed by two resignation letters over the amateur-professional dispute — W.F. Gullen from the New York membership committee and L.H. Johnson as New Jersey chief consul — plus notice that the New Marlboro' Hotel, Boston, has been reappointed the League hotel with a 20 per cent member discount.
- Miscellany column: the Cunningham Company receives three National tricycles; F.W. Weston visits New York for a Bicycle Touring Club run; amateur races are set for Kenoza Driving Park, Haverhill; the Aeolus Wheel Club leads the century-run tally at 179 miles; the Tremont Bicycle Club's members praise their British Challenge machines after a 154-mile run; Capt. Hazlett and Pres. Philbrick of the Rockingham Bicycle Club ride a Newburyport-Brookline century; and the Olympian Club's roller-skating rink opens with a bicycle drill by the Crescent Bicycle Club and fancy riding by Harry W. Tufts.
- Correspondent 'London W.' praises ex-Secretary Putnam's conduct in the amateur-rule dispute and the Bicycle Touring Club's recognized definition of an amateur, and recounts a test ride of a central-driving Coventry Rotary tricycle that handled ten miles of macadam with ease.
- T.G. Stacy, writing to the Atlanta Constitution, disputes the claim that Pierre Lallement built America's first velocipede in 1865, describing a four-wheeled, hand-cranked velocipede he and his cousin Bob Stacy built around 1852 in Liberty County, Georgia.
- A correspondent signed 'h.' describes a machine built in Bethlehem, Pa. three years earlier with a spoke design similar to 'Steno's' Chicago invention, screwing directly into the rim through a slotted hub-flange; followed by a note on a newly patented ice velocipede propelled by a spiral shaft acting like a ship's propeller.
- An Englishwoman, among the first lady riders in South London, advises beginner lady tricyclists on saddle versus seat, dress material and length, boots and gloves; followed by correspondents' notes on gearing tricycles down for hilly districts, press quotes on a bicentennial bicycle meet and the falling mile record (Wood, Howell), and notice of the Capital Bicycle Club's planned Thanksgiving tournament in Washington, D.C. for the Garfield Monument Fund.