The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Argues that inventors who hold genuinely useful bicycle patents should keep control of them and form limited stock companies to manufacture the devices themselves, rather than selling out cheaply to large manufacturers who may simply shelve a rival's invention.
- Speculates that racer Frye's listless riding against Prince in a recent championship contest was due to sabotage, reporting an unconfirmed rumor that two Marlboro' men who had bet heavily on Prince had a servant doctor Frye's racing diet.
- Criticizes English reports of Miss Jessie Choice's 113-mile tricycle ride as unsuitable record-chasing for ladies, corrects rumors that the Boston Bicycle Club's sociable race would pair male and female riders, and rebuts correspondent 'Pen Andinck's' charges that League of American Wheelmen officers draw undisclosed salaries and over-regulate race sanctioning.
- Concludes the Chicago Bicycle Club's ten-day cross-Canada tour with lavish receptions at Goderich and Toronto, a rugged descent of Ancaster Mountain into Hamilton, a Lake Ontario steamer crossing to Niagara Falls, and a final banquet in Buffalo, tallying tour expenses at roughly $50 per rider and floating a Buffalo-to-Boston route for next year.
- A letter signed 'Pen Andinck' fires off pointed questions asking why the League of American Wheelmen requires race sanctions, on what authority its corresponding secretary and treasurer draw $250 salaries never voted by the membership, and how the Pope Cup race can be sanctioned despite League rules against machine distinctions.
- Louisville riders Horace Beddo and David Biggs report a precise survey of Mooresville Hill near New Albany, Indiana (7,521 feet long, 690 feet of rise), comparing its climb to Boston's celebrated Corey Hill, which Louisville wheelmen are itching to attempt.
- Reports that C. E. Heath coasted a Victor Rotary tricycle down Mount Washington from the Summit House in 55 minutes, ten minutes faster than the previous record, with Overman Wheel Co.'s A. H. Overman defending the descent's safety after making the first trial run himself.
- Lists new U.S. patents reported by solicitor Henry W. Williams, including John Knous's ball-bearing tricycle pedal assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, Albert Overman and Charles Hadley's two-part tricycle axle for the Overman Wheel Company, and Charles Warner's safety bicycle.
- Rounds up club activity in Essex County, Massachusetts, including the Lawrence club's new cinder track for L.E.C.W. fall races, Prof. Walter O. Faulkner's trick-riding exhibitions in Maine, and Howard Gage's and R. H. Robson's planned trips to England to shop for new machines.
- Describes the Chicago Bicycle Club's successful Waukegan tour with seventeen riders including Brown, Vowell, Ayers, and Calkins, an accident in which attorney Mr. Ide lost an eye on a tricycle in Evanston, and the local rivalry between Expert, Premier, and D. H. F. machines.
- Miscellaneous notes including tricycles debuting in San Francisco, Pierre Lallement's employment at the Pope Manufacturing Company, Milford publishers Nelson and Fisher launching a new paper called The Cycle, Terry's tricycle crossing of the English Channel from Dover to Calais, and the separation of trick riders Mlle. Armaindo and T. W. Eck.
- Covers race results from Baltimore, the Peoria Bicycle Club tournament, and Canton, Pa., plus Wm. M. Woodside's open challenge to John S. Prince for the fifty-mile championship of America and $250 a side, and record rides by F. R. Fry and Alfred Bird.
- Notes League of American Wheelmen appointments -- Alexander's Hotel as the League hotel for Louisville, Ky., and W. S. Howe as chief consul of Iowa -- and minutes of the League of Essex County Wheelmen board meeting at Nahant amending the racing rule and fixing the next meet for Marblehead.
- Lists railroads offering reduced or free bicycle carriage, including the Philadelphia and Reading, the Chicago and Atlantic, and the Louisville and Nashville railroads.
- Roundup of club elections and news, including new officers for the Detroit Club, Baltimore's Lafayette Wheelmen, and Cleveland's Cuyahoga Wheel Club, L. W. Conkling's resignation as Chicago Bicycle Club secretary in favor of Samuel H. Vowell, and the new nine-member Rovers' 'Cycling Club of Delaware, Ohio.
- C.T.C. notices covering the 1884 Harrogate annual meet, the new C.T.C. touring uniform obtainable through Boston agent Henry W. Williams, and instructions for reaching acting chief consul Frank W. Weston in Coventry, England, during the regular consul's absence abroad.
- An 'Answers to Correspondents' column replying to named readers -- including the H. B. Smith Machine Company, 'Match' on the new Warwick hollow-rim felloe, 'O. M. A.' on Kentucky hill-climbing, and John H. Philip on bicycling and kidney health -- alongside a table of B.U. fifty-mile championship record times.
- A calendar of upcoming runs and race meetings through early October 1883, including the Medina (Ohio) tournament, Maryland Bicycle Club runs to Washington and Bel Air, the three-day Springfield Bicycle Club tournament, and the Boston Bicycle Club's hundred-mile road race.