The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Two editorials: 'Some Suggestions' argues that L.A.W. members who lapse should be required to formally resign and have the fact published rather than being quietly dropped, and that Rule 36 be amended so any board-adopted rule change must be ratified by a full mail vote of the membership; 'The 1883 Meet Again' pushes for holding the Annual Meet in a New England city such as New Haven (or, failing that, Washington) purely to maximize the size of the wheelmen's parade, citing club-membership counts for New England, New York State and Washington.
- A New York correspondent signing 'Chic' describes the Ixion Bicycle Club's theatre outing to 'Black Flag' at Niblo's and its vote to join the League, while disputing the editor's preference for New Haven over New York as the 1883 Meet site; 'A Sure Preventative against Headers and Falls' (by 'President Bates') is a tongue-in-cheek proposal to fine club members ten cents per fall; and 'From "The Few"' (signed 'Pilkins' of Sidney, Ohio) defends local wheelmen's character against a legislator's remarks used to help kill Ohio's anti-bicycle Green bill.
- Christchurch, New Zealand, 26 December 1882: results of the Pioneer Bicycle Club's Interprovincial Bicycle Meeting, including H. Hobday's maiden handicap, F. R. Dunsford's one-mile New Zealand championship, and H. Langdown's scratch wins in the five- and ten-mile handicaps; Cincinnati, 8 February: the third heat of the club's long-distance championship at Power Hall, led by Wright, Landy and Kitchell, in which Reed fell after his pedal pin snapped.
- Fixture notices for the Springfield, Hermes, Maryland, Greenfield and Kings County Wheelmen clubs, followed by reports from the Buckeye Bicycle Club of Columbus (third annual meeting and officer elections), the newly renamed Greenfield Wheel Club, the Marietta (Pa.) Wheel Club's new black-and-silver uniform, the Springfield Bicycle Club's new quarters ahead of its 22 February ball, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's 1882 riding-record tally (67 members, 64,550 total miles), and the Chelsea Bicycle Club's fourth annual dinner at the Parker House.
- A comic song by S. Conant Foster, sung to the tune of 'The Old Oaken Bucket,' complaining about a neighbor's bicycle bugle disturbing the peace and calling on the League and 'Colonel Pope' to suppress or tax the offending horn.
- Part I of a special report on the Stanley Bicycle Club's annual London exhibition, noting a general trend toward lighter machines, with detailed notice of Humber, Marriott & Cooper's racers and tricycles (including C. E. Liles' championship-winning racer), Singer & Co.'s new Apollo tricycle and convertible tandem Sociable, and M. D. Rucker's racers and roadsters built for Walter Cornell and other named riders.
- League of American Wheelmen department: membership admission terms and the Racing Board roster (S. A. Marsden, chairman; Fred Jenkins; Geo. D. Gideon; Geo. H. Strong; Frank E. Yates; Abbot Bassett); new membership applications from the Maryland, Citizens', Kings County, Auburn, Lowell, Ixion, Middletown and Springfield Bicycle Clubs; and B. B. Ayers' resignation from the Racing Board in favor of Frank E. Yates.
- B.T.C. department listing new membership applications and renewals payable to chief consul Frank W. Weston, the appointment of F. A. Jackson as Connecticut state consul with new consuls for Hartford and Bridgeport, and a report of the Connecticut membership meeting held at New Haven on 7 February under Chief Consul Weston.
- A 'To Correspondents' column answering reader questions from Binghamton, Toronto, Cambridge, Los Angeles, Lowell, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, including a note that Karl Kron has done considerable riding on the Erie Canal tow-path and advice to ignore a proposed anti-bicycle ordinance in Los Angeles.
- Miscellany including the Troy Bicycle Club's weekly drill, London outfitter Goy's new telephone subscription, the Coventry Machinists' Company's royal warrant as bicycle and tricycle makers to the Prince of Wales, a planned Battle Creek, Michigan meet, Fairmount Park's 1882 visitor statistics, and a correction from the Montreal Bicycle Club on its membership; continuing with notes on the Marblehead Bicycle Club's new headquarters, Cincinnati wheelmen taking to boating on flooded roads, J. V. Wright's fall in Power Hall, Senator Dexter's opposition to Ohio's Green bill, plans for the Washington's Birthday races, Prince's challenge to match Lewis T. Frye against John Keen, the tangled Prince/Young/Wilson match negotiations, and the Massachusetts and Harvard College Bicycle Clubs' dinners.
- Technical description, signed 'The Tricyclist,' of the newly completed Orbicycle, a reversed-Humber-pattern tricycle whose backbone drops direct from the axle to the steering-wheel head, with two large enclosed 'orbs' housing the treadle-crank, bevel-wheel drive and balance gear, offered in rear-steering or clutch-driven single-drive forms.