The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 6
Articles in this issue
- The editor discusses turmoil in English wheel associations: the Bicycle Union's push to restore the old amateur rule barring artisans and mechanics, and a rift among tricyclists over continuing road racing following the recent Tricycle Conference.
- Marblehead Bicycle Club elects John W. Richardson sub-captain; Capital Bicycle Club of Washington elects Leland Howard president; the Kings County Wheelmen of Brooklyn hold a reception at Clymer Hall; the Boston Chop Club dines with guests from the Citizens' and Baltimore clubs; and Professor C. H. Stone is elected president of the Missouri Bicycle Club.
- Kentucky Bicycle Club races at Louisville are won by Arthur L. Pope and Charles H. Jenkins, and the League of Chicago Wheelmen's Thanksgiving meet sees wins by Crawford, Mehring and M. D. Hull; also previews the rematch between Frye and Prince at Boston's Institute Fair Building.
- Reader letters: Henry E. Ducker of Springfield criticizes handicap-race scaling; a Marblehead correspondent shares club news; Stephen Terry and W. R. Pitman debate the 'Xtra tricycle's pedal action and proper wheel sizing; a Chicago writer proposes an Illinois L.A.W. division; a phonetically spelled account describes a rough ride to Andover; and a satirical sketch, 'An Incorruptible Amateur,' lampoons a Boston Bicycle Club meeting over the League's amateur rule.
- The newly formed Brooklyn Bicycle Company, run by officers of the Kings County Wheelmen including George T. Brown and George R. Bidwell, has leased Knickerbocker Hall on Clymer Street as a riding school with a billiard parlor.
- Report on the Tricycle Conference at Anderton's Hotel, London, where secretary G. Lacy Hillier presided over a contentious debate on whether to continue road racing; delegates voted to call a further meeting of tricycle clubs for 10 January.
- Miscellany column with verses on the Prince-Frye race, doubts about the genuineness of Frye's win, a reader's question on gearing up tricycles answered by 'London W.,' and notes on new tricycle models from the Overman Wheel Company.
- New Bicycle Touring Club membership applications and renewals, including A. L. Woodman, H. M. Wood and Louis R. Harrison, plus notes that Slims Reeves bought a tricycle and fire destroyed Deardoff, Bean & Leffel's bicycle works in Springfield, Ohio.
- League of American Wheelmen membership rules followed by new applications, including five from the Chicago Bicycle Club (McDonald, Mehring, Kent, Shafer, Yates) and a correction to an earlier Holyoke, Mass. listing.
- Reader queries answered, including a question on the legal rights of self-defense against 'roughs' who damage bicycles, and a Wheeling, W. Va. correspondent's note on a tangent-wheel machine imported for the 1876 Centennial.
- Short paragraphs noting H. L. Cortis's arrival in Melbourne, a proposed New York State L.A.W. division, a 500-mile tour by two Melbourne Bicycle Club members, and the ongoing Cincinnati and City Bicycle Clubs' 24-hour road-riding contest talk.
- Reprints a lawyer's letter to The Wheelman correcting its account of the McKee & Harrington bicycle-patent litigation brought by the Pope Manufacturing Company over the Lallement patent, detailing the Varrecke velocipede evidence and the eventual $300 settlement.
- Notices the December Wheelman, featuring C. W. Reed's prize-winning illustrated sketches and Rev. S. L. Gracey's prize essay, and the enlarged second volume of Archery and Tennis News.