The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 24
Articles in this issue
- The editor rebuts a letter from Oliver & Jenkins, publishers of the rival Wheel, over the postal dispute that saw the New York postmaster strip the Wheel of its second-class mailing privilege after E. C. Hodges & Co. protested its underselling of L.A.W. subscriptions; shorter notes follow on the Crescent Bicycle Club's annual dinner and a letter from Papa Weston previewing the new Rucker tandem.
- Review of the Peerless Automatic Alarm bell, invented by E. M. Senseney and made by the Missouri Wheel Company of St. Louis, describing its spring-and-gong mechanism for continuous or silent ringing and its $1.00 nickelled price.
- Trade notes: the Cunningham Company's new catalogue previews a front-steering Rucker tandem with a two-speed gear and the new "Harvard" front-steerer; the Overman Wheel Company introduces a $1.50 Victor bag and a Tricyclists' Wallet; and Stoddard & Lovering take an order for a Celer-et Audax tricycle built by W. Lewis of Wolverhampton.
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club, under Capt. A. D. Claflin, sets out in two divisions on a 100-plus-mile run from Harvard Square through Newton, Natick and Framingham to Newburyport, hoping two riders will beat Midgley's 179-mile record.
- Notice signed by Chief Consul Edward K. Hill announcing the Massachusetts Division L.A.W.'s fall run and business meeting on Saturday, 27 October, starting from Trinity Square, Boston, with dinner at Bailey's Hotel, South Natick.
- Touring the American Exposition, the World visits the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s Columbia display, staffed by John Wilson ("the Boston flyer") and including machines ridden 6,000 miles by H. E. Parkhurst and 4,000 by A. D. Chandler, then Stall & Burt's exhibit of the American Star and Wm. Andrews's 17½-lb Sanspareil racer built for J. T. Ward.
- E. H. Corson of East Rochester, N.H., reprints his circular of step-by-step instructions for learning to fall, balance and mount the American Star bicycle.
- Miscellaneous notes: the Overman Wheel Co. presents Mr. Bassett with lamps and a Victor saddle for his 104¼-mile tricycle ride, Pope Mfg. Co. salesman A. L. Atkins marries Emma A. Moore, A. L. Bartlett (the "Otto man") sails for England, and the New York Citizens' Bicycle Club tours Natick, Salem and Lexington as guests of the Massachusetts Club.
- Race reports from the Canadian championships at Montreal (W. G. Ross), a Cincinnati Wanderers road race, professional and amateur races at Washington's Athletic Park (John Keen, J. S. Prince), the New Haven meet where George M. Hendee lowered several records, a Harvard hare-and-hounds run, and the Worcester Aeolus Wheelmen's races (Thomas Midgley).
- Club notes: the Lawrence Club plans a gymnasium, the Boston Ramblers announce a Thanksgiving reception, the Lowell Club rides ten muddy miles to Medford, the Washington (D.C.) 'Cycle Club elects Amos W. Hart president, and the Salem Bicycle Club elects Frank P. Symonds president.
- Official C.T.C. American Division notices from chief consul Frank W. Weston covering the new C.T.C. uniform and 1883 club handbook, new sterling-silver badges at $2.00, and the 1884 Annual Harrogate Meet, with membership applications held over pending his return from England.
- Calendar of upcoming races: a 72-hour professional race at Chicago's Madison Street Garden, the Maryland Bicycle Club's races at Baltimore, Binghamton, N.Y. races at Whitney Park, a 100-mile race at Washington, D.C., the Massachusetts Division's fall meet to Natick, and a meet at the South Carolina State Fair in Columbia.