The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The editor urges manufacturers to spend the winter improving saddle shapes and spring attachment for next season, then weighs in on Lewis T. Frye's acceptance of John S. Prince's ten-mile match challenge and whether the League of American Wheelmen should sanction the race.
- Club notes: the Harvard Bi. Club elects Geo. B. Morison president; the Victor Bi. Club banquets and reorganizes in honor of departing member V. C. Place; the Pequonnock Wheel Club of Bridgeport, Conn. elects officers; the Providence Bicycle Club holds its Third Annual Dinner at 'What Cheer Cottage' with speeches from Boston's Capt. Hodges and the Bicycle Touring Club's Chief Consul Weston; and the Boston Ramblers elect W. P. Haskell first lieutenant.
- Race reports from Weldon, N.C. (Mlle. Louise Armaindo beats T. W. Eck in mile and half-mile races), Columbia, S.C. (Gilmer of the Charlotte Club wins both events at the State Fair meet), Paris (Medinger narrowly beats Charles Terront at Longchamps), and Williamstown, Mass. and New York athletic-club games; includes Lewis T. Frye's published letter accepting John S. Prince's $100-cup, ten-mile challenge match.
- Letters from readers in Toronto (a Thanksgiving Day club run to Highland Creek and Whitby), Kankakee, Ill. and Chicago (state auxiliary leagues, a bicycle ball at the Chicago Bicycle Club's new rooms), New York (the Ixions' new captain and the Kings County Wheelmen's split), and Montreal (mileage reports and races), plus a phonetic-spelling 'A Random Ramble' travelogue from Boston through Marlboro and back.
- A miscellany signed 'London W.' airing the rivalry between the Bicycle Touring Club and the League of American Wheelmen, a table of bicycle 'rake' measurements taken at the Boston Bicycle Club house, and notes on the now-defunct Suffolk Club.
- Boston city engineer Mr. McClintock's after-dinner speech at the Chelsea Review Club's annual dinner at the Parker House argues that road-building traces the rise and fall of civilizations and praises the bicycle as an instrument for exposing bad roads.
- Dr. Wynter Blyth, medical officer of health for Marylebone, London, writing in the Sanitary Record, recommends a nitrogenous diet of meat, eggs and milk for long rides and warns that beer brings on depression while tea does not.
- A reprinted Vanity Fair item reports the Faure Accumulator Company's experiments powering tricycles by electricity at Brighton, noting the storage battery's weight as the chief obstacle to adoption.
- League notices plus two letters: J. D. Miller of the Montreal Bicycle Club protests against relaxing L.A.W. membership eligibility rules, and Burley B. Ayers accepts his appointment to the League's racing board.
- A. G. Coleman of Canandaigua, N.Y. recounts a bicycle tour with Rochester Bicycle Club members that took in the Buffalo Bicycle Club's tournament, Chicago, the Kansas State Fair at Topeka, Santa Fe, the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Pike's Peak, and Denver.
- Miscellaneous club and trade notes, including announcements of the Thanksgiving-night bicycle tournament at Boston's Institute Fair Building and the Garfield Monument Fund benefit bicycle meet in Washington, D.C.