The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Editorial survey of the 1883 trade season: the Pope Manufacturing Company's new Columbia tricycle ($180), the H. B. Smith American Star, Clark & Co.'s Sanspareil light roadster, Cunningham's Harvard, Yale and Shadow, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s British Challenge and new American Rudge, with dealers hampered by the wreck of the 'Glamorgan'. Further editorial notes back New York for the L.A.W. Annual Meet, urge flannel and all-wool dress for the opening season, and weigh Chief Consul Pratt's proposed League amendments.
- 'Cyclos' argues machine weight should suit the rider and vows his next mount will weigh under forty pounds ready to ride; Julius Wilcox corrects his earlier paper and dissects Starley's balance gear and the Cheylesmore clutch; 'Smada' defends the New York Club's activity; R. F. F. exposes the 'snide' Murray-Slee fancy-riding contest in Baltimore; 'Lydia P.' urges H. E. Ducker of the Springfield Bicycle Club for Massachusetts chief consul over trade candidate E. K. Hill; and 'Woodstock' reports Philadelphia riders petitioning for the League Meet in New York.
- At the Institute building, Boston, on 17 March, champion John S. Prince beats relays Wilson, Young, Neilson and Woodside over twenty miles in 1h 7m 47.5s, about six seconds inside the American record, and later challenges any four riders for $800; Coleman wins the five-mile, Wilson beats Harrison in a five-mile challenge, Smith of the Ixions takes the Columbia College two-mile, and at Power Hall, Cincinnati, Wright wins the ten-mile and Galway the Enquirer medal.
- The Ovid (Mich.) Bicycle Club plans a spring meet and a new 'cycling monthly edited by Charles S. Reeves; the Milford (Mass.) Wheel Club organizes with eleven members; the Maryland Bicycle Club banquets at Guy's Hotel, Baltimore, on 14 March and elects E. A. Griffith president; officers are elected at Champion City, East Bridgewater, Cincinnati Wanderers and Scranton; and the Newton Club backs the Springfield slate headed by H. E. Ducker.
- Roads are fast improving and Massachusetts is flooded with League election tickets; the Sparkbrook Manufacturing Company of Coventry buys the National tricycle business from the National Arms and Ammunition Company of Birmingham; H. B. Hart of Philadelphia opens a Baltimore agency; the Springfield Club nominates H. E. Ducker for chief consul; and the editor, swamped with manuscripts, begs correspondents for brevity.
- C. R. Evans, E. E. Williams and Frank Fisher, rivals for the Maryland ten-mile championship, run an impromptu ten-mile race by lamplight on the new asphalt of Eutaw Place, Baltimore, starting at 9.02 P.M.; Evans wins in 40m 28.5s with Williams second by five feet.
- In Stewart v. Adams, Judge Brigham instructs the jury that bicycle owners have equal rights in the streets with owners of other vehicles, bound to reasonable care like drivers of horses and carriages; the jury returns a verdict for the defendant.
- Foreign notes: the Cyclists' Touring Club vote confirms the name change (3,419 cast, 2,677 for); the London Bicycle Club and London Tricycle Club will race the hundred miles from Bath to London; Charles Terront lies ill while Civry trains his brother Jules; a Pesth advertisement for bicycle-riding girls leads to a curious kidnapping case; and racing is held in the square of Saint Mark, Venice.
- League of American Wheelmen official department: membership applications and the board of officers under President W. H. Miller; C. J. Wood nominates Henry Stewart, Jr. of Hackensack for New Jersey chief consul; the League of Ohio Wheelmen backs Washington for the Meet and H. S. Livingston for chief consul; Edward F. Tolman reports the Massachusetts sign boards ready; F. P. Kendall shows Massachusetts membership up to 477; and N. Malon Beckwith's proposed amendments are printed.
- C.T.C. official column listing American membership applications (headed by F. D. Livermore of Providence) and renewals, with the appointment of Henry W. Williams of Boston as state consul for Massachusetts in place of J. S. Dean, resigned.
- Calendar from 26 March to 1 July: the spring meeting of L.A.W. officers at Worcester on 27 March, the Kings County Wheelmen's annual dinner on 30 March, April annual meetings for the Lawrence, Milwaukee, Haverhill, Brooklyn and Missouri clubs, the Harvard Bicycle Club race meeting at Beacon Park on 23 May, and the Annual L.A.W. Meet on 30 May.
- Replies to correspondents (Julius Wilcox and others crowded out by the overrun of copy), and a testimonial letter from Henry E. Ducker, president of the Springfield Bicycle Club, praising the Overman Wheel Company's Harrington's Enamel on his new Sanspareil roadster.