The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 20
Articles in this issue
- The editor backs the Essex County Wheelmen's push to stop sidewalk riding in Beverly and Manchester, citing a cyclist who ordered an elderly woman off the walk, and recounts ordering off a bell-and-calliope rider who scattered Sunday strollers on a smooth macadam street.
- Full programme for the Springfield Bicycle Club's 18-20 September tournament: camp and fireworks schedules, $300 gold-medal races for the one-mile tricycle and ten-mile bicycle championships of the United States, and profiles of racing men including A. D. Claflin, Charles H. Jenkins of Louisville, W. W. Stall and L. H. Johnson.
- Gossipy pre-tournament notes welcoming wheelmen to Springfield, plugging the paper's special issue, previewing the 3 October Brockton races, and noting Cortis's 20-mile record of 59m 20⅝ s and the C.T.C.'s American branch under 'Papa' Weston.
- The New York correspondent surveys bicycling's growing popularity in the city, describes the Kings County Wheelmen's meet and dinner and clubs (Citizens, Ixions, New Yorks) mustering for Springfield, and re-litigates the disputed Midgley-Corey-Pettus race finish.
- Turn-by-turn directions from Albany through Greenbush, East Greenbush, Schodack Centre, Kinderhook, Stuyvesant Falls, Stockport and Hudson to Poughkeepsie via Staatsburg and Hyde Park, supplied by H. R. Bryan, captain of the Hudson Bicycle Club.
- Third installment of the Maine-and-New-Brunswick tour: the party, led by Manager Elwell and Chief Consul Hill, weathers a three-day rainstorm at Calais before riding on toward Lubec and Eastport.
- Dr. E. M. Ferris of Brookline, riding on Harvard Street with his mother and sister, was run down by two men in a buggy; one, later identified as Gerry Brown of Lynn, Mass., was arrested on a Brookline warrant for assault and battery.
- 'Chanticleer' reports Chas. Liles's win in the twenty-five-mile championship over Sutton and Gaskell, Wood's repeat victory over Howell at Harrogate, A. Bird of Birmingham's new 24-hour tricycle record of 222 miles, and F. R. Fry's new 100-mile record of 5h. 50m. 5⅛s.
- Items translated for American readers: Russian ambassador Prince Orloff buys a tricycle from Clement & Co., a French inventor's parallelogram gearing eases pedaling on wheels up to 78 inches, and M. Jumin unveils a tricycle as fast as a bicycle.
- Local items signed 'B. B. A.': Capt. Ed. Brown's bicycle is nearly impounded by an over-zealous Pinkerton watchman before Pinkerton's detectives sort it out, and a Star bicycle trial spin draws 8,000 spectators to Grenier's Madison Street Garden track.
- The St. Louis correspondent 'Rob Roy' reports M. B. C. members switching to Victor Rotary tricycles, the Eclipse Wheelmen's new gray-and-blue uniform, and seven St. Louis riders entering the Peoria fair's Expert race.
- Recommended cycling route from Boston via Milton Lower Mills, Quincy, Braintree and Randolph to Brockton for the 3 October races, vouched for by F. H. Johnson of the Brockton Bicycle Club.
- H. F. Fuller of Chicago endorses knee breeches over long trousers, W. B. Everett of Boston details a blouse-and-skirt tricycling costume for ladies, and 'Holmes' of the Brockton Bicycle Club clarifies that the Star-bicycle race at the 3 October Brockton meet is not restricted to Star riders.
- Race results from Ovid, Mich. (C. H. Smith), Mercer, Pa. (Grundy and Robinson) and Lawrence and Neosho Falls, Kan., where Louise Armaindo beat T. W. Eck; also previews the New Haven Bicycle Club's fourth annual tournament of 10 October.
- C.T.C. department: membership and dues for the club (founded 1878 as the B.T.C.), notice of the 1884 Harrogate meet, the new C.T.C. touring uniform, and the club handbook available from secretary E. R. Shipton in London.
- Club-run and race calendar through 10 October: the Springfield tournament's three days, Albany Bicycle Club races (26 September), the Germantown and Pennsylvania Clubs' Philadelphia meet (29 September), the Brockton races (3 October) and the New Haven Bicycle Club's fall tournament (10 October).