The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The editor argues that the League's fourth annual Meet has softened New York opinion of cyclists and moved Central Park closer to opening its gates to wheelmen, and announces that The Wheel, not The Bicycling World, will become the League's new official organ.
- Full report of the League of American Wheelmen's fourth annual meet in New York: the officers' meeting that elected N. M. Beckwith president, the treasurer's annual report, the parade of over 700 riders up Fifth Avenue and through Central Park, and the banquet at the Metropolitan Hotel addressed by General Viele and Col. Albert A. Pope.
- The second annual meet of the League of Essex County Wheelmen draws one hundred and fifty-two machines to Lynn, Mass., under the Star and Eagle Bicycle Clubs, electing M. D. Currier of Lawrence as president.
- Describes the Humber tricycle, built by Humber, Marriott and Cooper of Beeston, Nottingham, and its double-driving, double front-steering gear mechanism, noting road-race wins by Hillier and Marriott.
- New York dealer Julius Wilcox rebuts a Boston correspondent's claim that big-wheeled bicycles are back in fashion, arguing riders should choose the smallest Facile they can comfortably manage rather than chase an oversized front wheel.
- Signing as "President Bates," a correspondent defends an earlier account of a fifteen-mile Rocky Mountain coast, citing confirmed rides by W. O. Owen and the Laramie Bicycle Club as proof the region's granite roads can be coasted at over thirty miles an hour.
- E. I. Thomas of Wesleyan University asks readers for details on the road from Hartford, Conn., to Worcester via Springfield ahead of a planned late-June ride to Portsmouth, N.H.
- Former Cunningham, Heath & Co. riding instructor Charles A. Booth is arrested near Lathrop, Cal., after absconding to San Francisco with $2,000 and a diamond ring belonging to his fiancee's uncle, James Gardner, and is also confronted by a previously deserted woman, Mrs. Weeden.
- B. B. Ayers finalizes the Chicago Bicycle Club's twelve-day July tour through Detroit, Leamington, St. Thomas, London, Goderich, Stratford, Brantford, Hamilton, and Niagara to Buffalo, with Perry Doolittle of Aylmer and Chief Consul Chas. D. Standish guiding the party.
- The correspondent "Chanticleer" reports H. W. Gaskell's upset win over champion Moore at the Surrey spring race meeting, previews the coming amateur championships, and notes injuries sidelining racers J. F. Griffith and F. L. Adam.
- Roundup of club news including the Harvard Bicycle Club electing Eliot Norton president, the newly formed Trojan Wheelmen of Troy, N.Y., the Kings County Wheelmen naming C. D. Loucks secretary, and the Chicago Club's move into new rooms.
- Race results from Yale, Lehigh, and Staten Island meets, John S. Prince's open challenge to Woodside and Higham, Louise Armaindo's win over Morgan and Woodside in Chicago's six-day race, and C. A. Reed's win for Columbia in the intercollegiate two-mile at the New York Polo Grounds.
- Miscellany including Hugh Willoughby's collision with a horse team near Saratoga, Fred Coleman's first bicycle crossing of the Brooklyn Bridge, and news that L.A.W. English representatives E. K. Shipton and Henry Sturmey have resigned over the amateur question.
- Comic verse by "Pensive Pennsy" recounting a cyclist's mishap tipping his wheel onto a roadside pump after a thirty-mile ride.
- League business notices: the Massachusetts Division calls a Boston members' meeting to adopt by-laws, the New York State division organizes under secretary B. G. Sanford, new League hotels are named in Michigan, and railroad baggage rates for bicycles are listed.
- Calendar of race meets and club runs through late June, plus notice of the Springfield Bicycle Club's planned three-day September tournament offering the $1,000 Pope Challenge Cup.