The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The editor responds to a reported attempt to strip The Bicycling World of its position as official organ of the League of American Wheelmen, recounting the League's 1880 Newport appointment and the 1882 board vote that gave a rival paper equal privileges, and sets out terms for keeping the post at the League's 28 May New York meeting.
- A Dunkirk, N.Y. club correspondent (signed "D. B. G.") reports members lost to marriage and four-wheelers, notes Capt. Smith's L.A.W. consulship and his cradle-spring 54-inch Harvard, and records member E. N. Bowen's ride from Fredonia toward the League Meet in New York via Buffalo, Batavia, and Rochester.
- A detailed technical description of the Pope Manufacturing Company's Columbia Tricycle, a double-driver, front-steering machine with 50-inch wheels geared down to 46 1/2 inches, a compensating differential gear, weldless-steel loop frame, and a lever-operated disc brake.
- A New York correspondent (signed "Chic.") previews arrangements for the League of American Wheelmen's Fourth Annual Meet on 28 May, describing the Albany Club's boat trip to Tarrytown to meet the Ixions and the Capital Club of Washington, and corrects a race report to give P. M. Harris third place at the Atlantic Club games.
- About sixty riders from the Germantown, Philadelphia, Haverford College, and Pennsylvania Bicycle Clubs gathered at the Pennsylvania Club's new Philadelphia rooms for the season's last club social, with talk turning to the coming League of American Wheelmen parade in New York.
- Two reader letters: F. C. Stokes of Moorestown, N.J. asks for information on the wheeling roads around Falmouth, Mass., and W. O. Owen, captain of the Laramie Bicycle Club in Wyoming, reports on the club's condition and a new race-track under construction.
- A column of short pen notes ahead of the League Meet in New York on 28 May, including Richard Garvey's plan to headquarter at the Grand Central Hotel, Thomas Midgley's ride from Worcester to the Cattle Fair Hotel in Brighton, and the Springfield Bicycle Club's offer of a $200 League ten-mile championship medal.
- Race reports from the St. Louis tournament of the Eurota and Missouri Bicycle Clubs (winners including C. H. Jenkins and Percy Stone), college games at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, and W. M. Woodside's professional ten-mile record set against Frederick Ware's horses at Boston's Casino track.
- Club news roundup: the Dunkirk (N.Y.) Bicycle Club elects Dr. Geo. E. Blackham president, the Chelsea and Rockford (Ill.) clubs report new officers, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club arranges Fall River Line travel to the League Meet, and Ex-Secretary Dean and "Papa" Weston set a new Beacon Park-to-Bicycle-Corner tricycle road record on a Royal Salvo.
- League of American Wheelmen official notices: new membership applications from the Portland, Dayton, and Cleveland clubs, Chief Consul Chas. Standish's call for a Michigan state-division meeting at Detroit, and B. B. Ayers' notice that the Lehigh Valley, Toledo, Ann Arbor and Grand Trunk railroads will carry bicycles free of charge.
- C.T.C. notices: new member applications from F. Alcott Pratt of Concord, Mass. and James and Robert Tait of Norfolk, Va., Fred. Binford's appointment as consul for Pawtucket, R.I., and notice of the Harrogate meet on 6 August for members touring Europe.
- A calendar of club runs and races through early June — including Boston, Tremont, Newton, Roxbury, and Essex County Wheelmen fixtures and the New Jersey Wheelmen's state-division meeting at Orange — plus entry-closing dates for League and N.A.A.A.A. championship races and the Springfield Bicycle Club's announcement of its September tournament offering the $1,000 Pope Challenge Cup.