The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The editor examines the proposed increase in League of American Wheelmen yearly membership fees and its likely effects.
- Discussion of the controversy around cycling on Sundays.
- The New York correspondent reports fine spring roads, Mrs. Adams and another New York Club member's wife touring by tricycle, and Meet drilling by the Citizens, Ixions and New York clubs; also recaps racing at the Atlantic Athletic Club and Crescent Club meets (Louis Stearns beating Ernie Thompson in the mile handicap) and R. G. Rood's record-breaking two-mile win for the Ixions at the Columbia College games.
- A reader raises the question of free bicycle carriage on the railroads, prompting an editorial correction of the previous week's item on the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's policy, which the editor clarifies covered only lines west of Pittsburgh.
- Miscellany column covering a Boston Herald error about Paul Butler and Willis Farrington, The Wheel's feud with editor J. S. Dean, "Ixion's" ascent of Eagle Rock Hill on a Facile and then a Victor Rotary tricycle, the business manager's new Victor Rotary, a Phillipsburg, N.J. bicycle-riding ban, and the Tufts-Wilmot fancy-riding championship dispute.
- A touring correspondent describes a Port Chester-White Plains-Tarrytown route down the Hudson (including a pilgrimage to the White Plains battlefield on the Washington centennial, 19 April) and urges Boston wheelmen bound for the League's Fourth Annual Meet in New York to take it instead of the Hartford-Meriden-New Haven road.
- New England club notes: an Ipswich local's dig at Sunday-riding wheelmen, the Lawrence Club's growth to forty-plus members and new rooms, the Marblehead Club's second-anniversary moonlight run and dinner, correspondent "Geesee" confirming he'll join the "Down East" tour, and an account of nearly impassable sandy roads around Billerica.
- Four Keokuk (Iowa) Bicycle Club riders — J. G. Delaplaine, G. W. Delaplaine, E. H. Rothbert and D. R. Craig — face two $10,000 damage suits in Carthage, Illinois circuit court after a horse bolted from their bicycles near Elveston, injuring three women in a buggy.
- The Cincinnati Bicycle Club, via captain W. A. Whiting and secretary H. N. Kitchell, offers a $25 reward for the driver of a horse and buggy who ran down a club member near the Ross Lake Tollgate on Spring Grove Avenue on Sunday, 29 April.
- Club briefs: the Chelsea Club's moonlight run to Lynn, the Ramblers' run to Salem, Melvil Dui of the Alpha Tricycle Club (Newton) elected librarian at Columbia College, the Rutland (Vt.) Club's Decoration Day run to Fair Haven, the Pennsylvania Club postponing its road race, the Hawthorne Club's (Salem) election of officers, Baltimore's new cycling code for Druid Hill Park, and Eliot Norton of the Harvard Bicycle Club joining the Crimson's editors.
- Race results from Brooklyn's Polytechnic Athletic Association, Yale College's games at New Haven, the Atlantic Athletic Club meet at Manhattan Athletic Club grounds (Louis Stearns winning the mile), a disputed Philadelphia Fencing and Sparring Club race at Stenton, a 100-mile race at Newcastle, England (G. W. Waller, W. Parkes, W. Tyre and others), and a 20-mile match at the Casino between bicyclist John W. Wilson and horsewoman Miss Lillie Dinsmore.
- Foreign notes: the Bicycle Union's resolution on track measurement, Lowndes's return to the Rudge & Co. works instead of racing a Premier tricycle, a London bicycle and tricycle exhibition timed to the Hampton Court Meet, the Surrey Machinist Company's move into tricycles, and The Cyclist's scathing review of the Wheelman's editorial on the Pope patent dispute.
- Notices of T. S. Miller's "Bicycle Tactics" (Chicago), a club-drill manual, and the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette, issued to promote the Springfield Bicycle Club's three-day tournament.
- The League of American Wheelmen's full directory of its 173 member clubs in alphabetical order with club numbers and locations, compiled by corresponding secretary Fred T. Sholes.
- C.T.C. notices covering new member applications (M. E. Smith of Philadelphia, H. Blake of New York), availability of the new uniform cloth, the still-undecided Boston club tailor, and members sailing 21 July for the Harrogate Meet.
- Short replies to correspondents, including Webster Norris, G. N. Osborne, and John K. Scudder, on items such as a club banner query and back-issue matters.