The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The lead editorial argues that tricycling is winning American women to cycling and urges wheelmen to help introduce their sisters, wives and sweethearts to the sport.
- New-club notices: the Millville (N.J.) Bicycle Club organizes with fourteen members under president Herschel Mulford, and Brooklyn wheelmen form the Long Island Wheelmen under president F. J. Drake.
- J. N. Stearns Jr. wins the two-mile race at the New York Seventh Regiment games in 6m 41s, ahead of C. F. Thomas, with previews of Thanksgiving Day races in Chicago and Prince's twenty-mile match with Morgan.
- Seven reader letters: Stephen Terry (Hartford, Conn.) debates 'Xtraordinary versus Facile safety-bicycle mechanics; a road report on riding from Boston to Andover and Topsfield; 'Ene Gue' of Marinette, Wisconsin describes a new rider and the Pioneer Club's losses ('Badgerdom Wheels'); 'Patsy' of Bellevue, Michigan argues for cheaper bicycles; 'Chic' sends a New York letter on Washington-meet preparations; League president W. W. Bates ('Please Don't') urges state bodies be called 'divisions' rather than 'leagues'; and J. Park Street proposes Japanese-style sandals for cyclists' feet.
- A 'Hilarious' squib reprints exuberant quotations on the joys of bicycling (including one from 'Papa Weston'), followed by 'Bugle Calls IV: Philadelphia Before the Meet,' a verse by Ninon Neckar about a night ride to George's Hill.
- 'London W.'s' column notes the Thanksgiving riding lull, praises the growing Bicycle Touring Club, criticizes both the L.A.W.'s looser amateur rule and a rival body's stricter one, cites the Montreal Club's protest, and reports a rumored visit by English champion H. O. Duncan to race Prince.
- Buckeye Bicycle Club members C. J. Krag, J. W. Wray, F. W. Flowers and L. T. Tress of Columbus, Ohio make a century run to Chillicothe and back; Wray and Flowers cover 102.5 miles in the day.
- A tall-tale account, reprinted from a Carson, Nevada paper, of mock trick-riding 'combats' staged by Hume Yerington and Ernest Hall on the Capitol square ('the meet,' 'the flying leap,' 'the lock,' 'the exchange'); a brief follow-up reports a buggy of men attacking St. Thomas, Ontario club riders on the road, injuring one.
- An extract from a private letter, signed J. Park Street, recounting a novice's often disastrous first outings on a new tricycle around Milton and Quincy, Massachusetts.
- An English writer argues for direct-action over lever-geared bicycles, citing Stassen's 1874-75 machines, and the piece closes with a Detroit Post and Tribune anecdote about blacksmith George Scott's home-built bicycle in Chillicothe, Ohio decades earlier.
- League of American Wheelmen notices: admission-fee instructions, a correction to a published membership list (J. A. Steen of Ripley, Ohio), and the appointment of Fred T. Sholes of Cleveland as corresponding secretary in place of Kingman N. Putnam.
- Massachusetts Division officers, chaired by Chief Consul Pratt, meet at Boston's New Marlboro Hotel to plan membership drives, petition the League for funds, adopt standard 'fish-tail' guide boards, and appoint Pratt, Clark and Hill to draft a constitution.
- Miscellany column: the Prince-Frye race result, the Citizens' Bicycle Club's new New York quarters, the Bicycle Touring Club's thanks to the cycling press, Cape Town's cycling club, Fairfield & Taylor's Chicago bicycle business sold to A. G. Spalding and R. P. Gormully, Harry W. Tufts's trip to the Washington meet, Frank W. Weston's plans for a fifty-strong English cycling tour, and a mock 'dirge' for the abandoned 791 Fifth Avenue New York clubhouse.
- Squibs on the Rational Dress Society's cycling-costume prize (with Mrs. E. M. King's description of her own tricycling dress), a Philadelphia Press defense of bicyclists after a horse-and-buggy mishap, a Lancet correspondent's medical endorsement of tricycling for the nerves, 'R. M. E.'s' account of Alpine and Continental bicycle tours by West Kent Club members, an old distance riddle, and a lamp-oil recipe.
- Replies to correspondents (T. W. Eck, Burt Miller, L. W. S. of Washington, J. N. R. of Millville) plus two 'Pioneer Bicycles' letters: S. Conant Foster on Wm. M. Wright's 1873 imported bicycle, and 'London W.' on machines imported for the 1876 Centennial and later sold to Cunningham, Heath & Co.
- Reviews of the December Century Magazine (Cushing's 'My Adventures in Zuni,' Henry James's 'Point of View'), Our Little Ones for December, and Henry Sturmey's Complete Guide to Bicycling.