The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on the recent professional races between Prince and Lewis T. Frye of Marlborough, defending Frye's sportsmanship against rumors the contest was 'fixed' and judging him the faster man over ten miles.
- Editorial rebutting a rival New York paper's charge that the Bicycling World misled the League of American Wheelmen's Board of Officers into adopting a three-foot track-measurement standard, defending the new rule as a step toward standardizing American race-track conditions.
- Editorial proposing amendments to Articles 2 and 3 of the L.A.W. constitution to add 'tricycling'/'tricycle' alongside 'bicycling'/'bicycle,' prompted by the Bicycle Touring Club's own move to rename itself to recognize three-wheel riders.
- Club notes on the newly formed Washington Amateur Wheel Club (captain Jay A. Kennicott), the Providence Bicycle Club splitting its secretary/treasurer office between E. G. Farmer Jr. and Albert G. Carpenter, the new Eureka Bicycle Club of East St. Louis, a change of secretary at the Springfield Bicycle Club, and the Bay State Wheel Club's planned five-mile championship on the Institute Fair track.
- Reader letters covering a Capital Bicycle Club prize dispute and Ixions/Citizens' club gossip from New York; a Chicago Bicycle Club 'Social Smoke' with Rev. Dr. Edwards' and John M. Fairfield's English touring tales; a dispute over the Wheelman magazine's pedal-crank history; a long-distance road-record proposal from 'Aeolus' of Worcester; winter and ice-riding accounts (including a Tremont Bicycle Club race on the frozen Neponset River); and dueling views on whether the Prince-Frye race was genuine.
- An account of a sidewalk-bicycling dispute in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where residents' dueling petitions to the selectmen over large bicycles endangering pedestrians ended with the proposed ban rescinded.
- A reflection on a mayors' conference on permanent roads held at Springfield, Illinois, arguing good roads are as vital to commerce as good wheels, with anecdotes of mud-bound Illinois farm transport and French military highways.
- A survey, reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette, comparing bicycles and tricycles, praising the tricycle's accessibility to women and less athletic riders and noting England's hundred-plus makers and hundreds of thousands of cyclists.
- A letter reprinted from the Cyclist, signed 'Ab Initio,' criticizing the L.A.W. council for admitting riding instructors to amateur status despite the Tricycle Association's demise, plus a note on a Newport, Isle of Wight man fined for striking a boy tricyclist.
- The League of American Wheelmen department explains membership fees and procedure and lists new applicants by club, including Marblehead, Mt. Vernon, Springfield, Maryland, Chicago, Connecticut, Newton, New Haven, Greenfield, Pequonnock, Halcyon Wheel and Citizens' clubs, plus unattached wheelmen.
- Notice of B.T.C. membership terms under chief consul Frank W. Weston, a list of new applicants (A. D. Wheeler, F. C. Stokes, J. C. Speirs), and the club's repair shops in Boston, Worcester and Salem.
- A New Year's miscellany of light verse and well-wishes to Ex-President Pratt, publisher E. C. Hodges, the League's officers, racing and long-distance men, the clubs, manufacturers, and B.T.C. founder 'Papa' Weston, signed 'London W.'
- A description of the road-marking stencil adopted by the League of American Wheelmen's Massachusetts division, explaining its three danger/caution/direction symbols for guide-boards.
- Miscellaneous notes: Capt. C. A. Hazlett of the Rockingham Bicycle Club's 3,650 miles for the year, a $250 subscription backing Lewis T. Frye against Prince, the Overman Wheel Company's new Harrington's-enamel tubing finishes, New Hampshire's full L.A.W. membership renewal, and an appeal for the Starley Memorial Fund.
- A reader Q&A department answering questions on a disputed race foul, League news, long-distance saddles and adjustable steps, and thanking a Baltimore correspondent for a set of cards.
- A technical review, reprinted from the Tricyclist and signed by H. Sturmey, describing the construction, steering mechanism, weight and price of Bayliss, Thomas & Co.'s 'Coventry Rotary' tricycle.