The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 5
Articles in this issue
- The editorial urges League of American Wheelmen consuls to secure permission from town authorities or property owners before marking guide-boards and hazard signs with Mr. Lamson's new League stencil, and adds a note defending both John S. Prince and Lewis Frye's good faith in their disputed Thanksgiving-night race.
- Asks club secretaries nationwide to send membership statistics for the League's upcoming January special number, and reports the newly formed College Hill Branch Club of five members, led by president Sam Goodman, secretary-treasurer Louis E. Aiken and captain N. L. Pierson.
- A blow-by-blow account of professional champion John S. Prince's ten-mile handicap race against ex-League champion Lewis T. Frye at the New England Institute building on Thanksgiving night, won by Frye by about a yard, plus the amateur two-mile heats won by George Hendee of Springfield ahead of Burnham and Frye, and notes on Prince's rematch challenge to Frye.
- Correspondent "G. W. H." describes an early snowstorm ending the Poughkeepsie riding season, a near-mishap when cyclists Fitchett and Noel startled Rev. Mr. Hamlin's carriage horse near Hyde Park, and C. I. Round's departure for a bicycling tour of England.
- "Geesee" reports the Marblehead Club's stalled new clubhouse and the "Wicked Four's" season-closing run to Boston for dinner at the St. Nicholas dining hall, plus praise for the Lawrence Club's successful exhibition ball.
- "Fifty-inch" describes the Albany club's new indoor winter riding floor at 457 Broadway and a bicycle exhibition given for a National Guard battalion's calisthenics drill.
- Julius Wilcox of New York argues the technical merits of safety bicycles, comparing the 'Xtra's continuous-propulsion mechanism and the Facile's foot-travel efficiency against the ordinary high-wheeler, and contends safer machines deserve fuller consideration.
- "Chic" recounts New York and Ixion Club wheelmen's snowbound rail trip to Washington for the L.A.W. meet, the Capital Club's Riggs House banquet, the fifteen-mile Capitol parade, and fancy riding by Harry Tufts, Burt Pressey and Rex Smith.
- The Bicycle Union's executive recognizes the Australian Cyclists' Union as that country's governing cycling body, and recommends powers to suspend or disqualify riders who race for advertisement or undisclosed money prizes.
- Translated notes from French cycling papers include a biography of the Italian monocyclist Scuri, a Bauge court's three-month sentence for a man who threw a pickaxe at a passing cyclist, and word of racer Terront's homecoming dinner after military service.
- A short reprinted verse from the Cyclist about a bicyclist and a tricyclist who fall in love after his crash, marry, and trade their machines for a tandem "sociable" tricycle.
- League notices list new membership applicants including three from the Worcester Æolus Wheelmen, announce Fred Jenkins's appointment to the Racing Committee, and carry Treasurer W. V. Gilman's appeal to chief consuls C. D. Standish, Fred S. Pratt and Charles A. Hazlett plus an open letter urging unaffiliated Massachusetts wheelmen to join the new state division.
- "Ixion" muses on tricycle saddles replacing cushioned seats, the divided riding skirt debated among New Jersey women cyclists, tricycles buckling under cornering strain, and the need for a practical variable gear for hill-climbing.
- Miscellany including a verse from "Juvenis" on riding the 'Xtra, gossip that Prince misjudged his pacing against Frye, anticipation of a mile race between Ahl and League champion Hendee, and Alfred Ely Jr.'s application to the Bicycle Touring Club.
- Clippings from other cycling papers, including "Dot" writing in the Tricyclist on a proposed ladies' riding costume for the Bicycle Touring Club, and the Cyclist defending manufacturers who publicize record rides made on their machines by ordinary riders.
- A comic verse parodying Poe's "The Bells," imagining pedestrians' alarm and envy at the silent, nickel-plated bicycle and its tinkling bell.
- Miscellaneous newsy squibs, including Harvard College Bicycle Club's ninety-three members, the new Halcyon Wheel Club of Nashua, Capt. Binford of the Pawtucket Club colliding with a hose carriage, and renewed talk of an even-terms Prince-Frye rematch.