The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The leading editorial urges foreign bicycle and tricycle manufacturers to exhibit at the new Foreign Exhibition Association's Boston show opening 1 July 1883, then turns to League notes disputing the racing board's new ten-days'-notice rule and its interpretation of racing Rule 1 on unsanctioned races, debating the League Meet's location between New York and Washington, and flagging a Massachusetts membership-count error and C. E. Pratt's new adjustable-pedal patent.
- Detailed review of the British Challenge bicycle imported by Stoddard, Lovering & Co. of Boston: a 52-inch machine weighing 44.5 pounds, featuring Hancock rubber pedals, Harwood's safety step, patent double ball bearings on the front wheel, crescent rims, 60 spokes, and a backbone of elliptical weldless steel.
- Miscellany column: The Wheelman announces a new cover, Rev. Geo. Pentecost and his brother take up bicycling in Brooklyn, and Boston's Capt. Everett and Chelsea's Mr. Bassett describe rival child-seat attachments for their Coventry tricycles; other notes cover A. P. Messenger's new post at R. H. Macy & Co., H. W. Williams succeeding as Massachusetts C.T.C. consul, Adrian Godfrey's 60-inch machine at Bridgeport, and F. S. Pratt's proposed League amendments.
- Letters column: A. J. Wilson of Clapton, London defends double-driving tricycles over the Coventry Rotary for rough touring roads; Julius Wilcox corrects his own earlier statements on Aurora tricycle steering and gearing-down arithmetic; 'Patience' of Louisville corrects the World's account of a Kentucky Bicycle Club race, defending N. G. Crawford against a foul-riding charge from Chicago; and 'A Minority Querist' questions the judging of the Murray-Slee fancy-riding contest at Baltimore's West End Skating Rink.
- Club notes: the Boston Ramblers hold their first run of the season with seven riders on 4 March; the Massachusetts Club widens its wheel-room door for tricycles and adds a bath-room; the Portland Club plans an 18 June tour through Maine to Eastport, Calais and St. Stephen; the Springfield Club elects H. E. Ducker president and plans a September race meeting at Hampden Park; and further items report the Quincy Bicycle Club's new officers and the deaths of Thos. K. Longstreth and Walter T. Underwood.
- New York correspondent 'Chic' reports the League Meet's park question still unsettled, Consul Pitman's visit to the Philadelphia races, the ongoing Sunday Courier lawsuit against the Kings County Wheelmen, and the entry of Rood, Harris and Sanford in the Columbia College two-mile bicycle race at Madison Square Garden.
- Foreign notes: the Bicycle Touring Club is renamed the Cyclists' Touring Club, with E. R. Shipton as secretary-editor at £300 a year; the Australian Cyclists' Union votes to go strictly amateur on Dr. Cortis's recommendation; and the new Columbia tricycle is previewed, with two 50-inch driving wheels, differential gearing, a cradle spring, and black-enamel finish.
- At Philadelphia's Industrial Hall, Dyson wins the five-mile handicap final in 20m 47.5s and Woodside beats Morgan over ten miles; at Baltimore's West End Skating Rink, Murray edges Slee 128-125 in their fancy-riding rematch and Brigham beats Flack for the Junior Order of Wheelmen's amateur title; Gossip notes Prince's practice times (16m 3s for five miles) ahead of a multi-rider race against Wilson, Young, Neilson and Woodside, plus a Conkling-Schimpeler fifty-mile challenge for the Illinois championship.
- The League's Board of Officers and standing committees are listed in full alongside new membership applications from the Missouri, Springfield and Elmira clubs; the spring officers' meeting is set for 27 March at the Lincoln Hotel, Worcester; the Massachusetts clubs' ticket nominates E. K. Hill for chief consul with Clark, Parsons, Ducker and Webber as representatives; and F. S. Pratt proposes constitutional amendments on State Division organization.
- Club fixtures listed from 16 March to 1 July, including the Greenfield Wheel Club's first annual ball, the Columbia College Athletic Association's winter meeting and two-mile bicycle race, the Kings County Wheelmen's annual meeting, the Boston Bicycle Club's 'ladies' night,' the L.A.W. officers' spring meeting at Worcester, and the Chicago Bicycle Club's Ann Arbor-to-Canada tour.
- Brief replies to correspondents including W. C. Nichol of Hamilton, F. T. Sholes and Julius Wilcox, followed by a testimonial letter from Llewellyn H. Johnson, Chief Consul L.A.W. of Orange, N.J., praising the Harrington enamel finish on his Overman-built Yale bicycle.