The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 18
Articles in this issue
- The lead editorial attacks the League's inconsistent race-sanctioning rules, citing the Genesee Bicycle Club barring the Star bicycle and the Springfield Pope Cup dispute; trailing notes cover a Vermont roads item, a Staten Island wheelman assaulted by a drunken driver, and a wire strung across a Cambridge sidewalk to injure cyclists.
- Reader letters signed Telzah, Stella, and Kicker: a defense of southeastern New Hampshire's roads via the Rockingham Bicycle Club's route map, a jab about Corson's Star-riding nicknamed the "Kangaroo," a gripe about duplicate League-organ subscriptions, and a rebuttal of President Bates's criticism of the American Star's safety.
- J. W. M. Brown of Long Sutton, England rode 255¼ miles in 24 hours on 16 August, starting on a 55-inch Invincible and finishing on a 55-inch Sandringham after his own machine broke spokes.
- F. Lees of Sheffield, paced by Howell on a 54-inch Humber, covered twenty miles inside the hour on 18 August, breaking every professional and amateur record from ten to twenty miles.
- A reader asks fellow wheelmen for route information from Boston via Brattleboro to Wilmington, Vt., then via Bennington to Albany, N.Y. and on to New York City, for a subscriber planning the trip.
- Trade notes on a new, lighter Harwood Safety Step for the Sanspareil, M. D. Rucker Jr.'s shift toward front-steering tricycles, D. Rudge & Co.'s new spring-steel tire clips, and a new Rucker double-wheel machine praised by Col. Pope and Weston.
- Preview of the foreign-manufactures exhibition at Boston's Mechanics' building, where English firms represented by Stoddard, Lovering & Co. will show Rudge, American Rudge, British Challenge, and Extraordinary bicycles alongside National, Apollo, and Coventry Convertible tricycles.
- Account of the down-east bicycle tour organized by Frank A. Elwell of Portland, Maine: 35 wheelmen from as far as Wisconsin and Nova Scotia toured Maine and New Brunswick, featuring "Karl Kron's" solitary ride to Calais and a mid-tour accident near Robbinston.
- Miscellany column: Vice-President Miller's visit, James P. Burbank's forthcoming Wheelmen's Annual, thirteen-year-old Fred Carter's abandoned Mount Washington tricycle coast, and updated arrangements for the Springfield tournament (post delivery tents, program changes, Star bicycle not barred).
- Kings County Wheelmen races at Williamsburg, N.Y. (Edward Pettus, H. D. Corey of Boston, and Thomas Midgley of Worcester in the 25-mile event, with Corey's protest letter), plus results from Carthage, Ohio; Cottage City; Ashland, Ohio; and Montreal.
- Club-officer roundup for the Akron (Ohio) Club, the Paliqinoque Club of Danbury, N.Y., the Monmouth (N.J.) Wheelmen, the Whirling Wheelmen of East Baltimore, Md., plus a San Francisco Bicycle Club tournament committee and new clubs in Fremont, Ohio and Peoria, Ill.
- L. A. W. news: the fall meeting set for Springfield, 20 September; the Essex County Wheelmen's fall meet at Marblehead with a Lawrence race meeting planned; and a Transportation note on Boston-area railroads' bicycle-carriage rates.
- C.T.C. notices: the 1884 Harrogate annual meet, the new club uniform and handbook available from London secretary E. Shipton, membership applications during the U.S. chief consul's absence, and new members H. F. Fuller (Chicago), Dan'l K. Trimmer (York, Pa.), and Stephen Terry (Hartford, Conn.).
- Answers to correspondents, including tire-cement advice for a reader with stripped rubber and an apology to E. A. Griffith of Baltimore for missing the Oriole festivities.
- Calendar of club runs and race meetings from 7 September to 6 October 1883, including the Maryland Bicycle Club's Oriole Park games, the Springfield Bicycle Club's three-day tournament, and regular Boston and Tremont Bicycle Club runs.