The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Reports that a federal circuit court in Cincinnati (Judge Baxter) invalidated Pope Manufacturing Company's reissued Lallement patents in Pope Mfg. Co. v. Marqua, vindicating the paper's earlier stand against Pope's claimed bicycle-manufacturing monopoly. Trade notes describe the Cunningham Company's improved Harvard bicycle (detachable handle-bar, reworked head and bearings) and the Overman Wheel Company's new method of compressing solid rubber tires onto its Victor tricycle rims.
- In a Baltimore suit, T. W. Lawford sued Dr. Pennington for $21 over the broken steering head of a 52-inch Arab bicycle hired for a month's tour; despite machinist N. T. Slee's testimony that the machine had been nearly new, the magistrate ruled for the defendant.
- A technical defense of the H. B. Smith Machine Company's American Star of Smithville, N.J., detailing its treadle-and-drum mechanism, new square-seated rim and tire, and rider testimony (including a 'Reformed Crank Rider') that the machine is safe from headers and resists tipping backward on hills.
- Baltimore's park commissioners voted to admit bicycles to Druid Hill Park between 3 p.m. and dusk after a petition from the Maryland Bicycle Club, restoring privileges lost the previous season when a horse-and-buggy accident had been wrongly blamed on cyclists.
- Will R. Pitman, captain of the Ixion Bicycle Club of New York City, invites wheelmen attending the L.A.W. Meet to stay over Sunday, 27 May for a ride to Yonkers with New York riders and urges New York State men to help launch the new State Division.
- The Kings County Wheelmen held their second annual dinner at the Brooklyn Bicycle Company's rooms on 13 April, with speeches by President Hibson, Alderman Dimon, James C. Eadie, Lieutenant Drake, Geo. N. Fisher, Chief Consul Beckwith and Fred Jenkins of the Wheel.
- Members of the Boston Tricycle Club and Massachusetts Bicycle Club met at the Boston Bicycle Club's clubhouse on 11 April and arranged the state's first tricycle run, for 25 April from Trinity Square to the Chestnut Hill reservoir.
- Covers a bicyclers' race night at the Casino, Boston on 14 April, where Fuller won the three-mile race and Faulkner the half-mile after a header, plans for the Springfield L.A.W. meet's professional, college and championship race days, and results of G. W. Waller's six-day tournament at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
- Albert S. Parsons writes to dispute the paper's claim that League officers amended the Constitution at their Worcester meeting and to defend Massachusetts's League membership figures; the editor replies distinguishing constitution from rules amendments.
- Club notes report the Brockton City Club's new seal-brown uniform, the Harvard Club's new 'Hon. Sec.' title, officers elected for the Marshall (Mich.) Club and the newly organized Genesee Bicycle Club of Rochester, N.Y., continuing with Maryland, Albany, Boston, Roxbury, Montreal, Hudson County Wheelmen, Watford, Wheeling and Troy club news.
- Miscellaneous notes cover the L.A.W. election vote count, an announced book on 'Bicycle Club Drills,' R. de Clairmont's claim to be the pioneer Pacific Coast rider after importing a machine from Paris in 1876, Samuel T. Clark & Co.'s new Boston agency for the Sanspareil bicycle, and the arrest of a fraudster who had posed as a Boston and Yale club member.
- An English correspondent reports on Easter racing, including Howell's defeat by De Civry and Jack Keen's mile championship at Wolverhampton, and on the growing popularity of tricycling among English wheelmen such as Hillier, Cortis, Goodman and Gaskell ahead of new one-mile and ten-mile tricycle championships.
- Lists dozens of proposed new League of American Wheelmen members from clubs including the Los Angeles, Pequonnock, Alpha (Bethlehem, Pa.), Lehigh University, Helena, Germantown, Ixion, Rochester and American Star bicycle clubs, plus a railroad committee notice that the Grand Rapids and Indiana, Vandalia, and Cleveland, Tuscarawas Valley and Wheeling lines will carry bicycles free.
- Records new C.T.C. applications from H. D. Corey and Dr. H. W. Hoopes of Baltimore, a renewal from W. V. Burt, appointed club tailors (C. H. Thwing & Co.) and hatters (Bent & Bush), and a description of the U.S. branch's Norfolk-jacket touring uniform.