The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The editor addresses whether bicycling is growing or declining, and examines why active riders sometimes abandon the wheel.
- A letter on unfair discrimination against cyclists.
- A letter correcting an erroneous statement in a prior report of the Capital Club races at Washington, D.C., concerning Mr. Seward Beall.
- Technical observations on bicycle construction methods and materials.
- An account of a bicycle-and-horse encounter that could have ended badly.
- Descriptions of roads and recommended cycling routes near Moorestown, N.J. and Greensburg, Penn.
- Four recent U.S. patents reported for the World by solicitor Henry W. Williams: Lorenzo D. Cox's velocipede for cripples, John Knous's tricycle brake (assigned to Pope Mfg. Co.), the McCalls' depressed-backbone bicycle, and Joseph L. Ellis's lever-and-ratchet velocipede.
- The Troy Bicycle Club's new clubrooms in the basement of Music Hall, with a wheel-room and parlor furnished in ebony and silk, dressing rooms with baths, and walls hung with portraits of famous wheelmen.
- Granger Whitney, Louis L. Dodge, J. Elmer Wood, Charles J. Giddings, and Benjamin Thissell of the Thorndike Club, Beverly, Mass., rode a hundred-mile run from Beverly to Newburyport and back, starting at 4:30 a.m.
- Results from a Massachusetts meeting run under L.A.W. rules: a Newton Club one-mile championship and Three-mile scratch race won by H. D. Corey, a One-mile handicap won by C. F. Haven, a One-mile tricycle race won by W. B. Everett, and a Five-mile handicap won by E. P. Burnham, with E. C. Hodges as referee.
- J. S. Prince of Washington, D.C. beat H. W. Higham of Nottingham, England in a closely fought five-mile world-championship match at Athletic Park, Washington, winning in 18m 47 1/4s; the series continues with a twenty-mile race at Rochester, and preliminary events at the meet included a Capital Club amateur handicap and a fancy-riding exhibition by Rex Smith.
- A July 4th meeting held in Boston on a track laid out using the malls drew fewer wheelmen than the previous year's Worcester meet; also reports Louise Armaindo's planned two-day exhibition race at Lawrence, Kansas for $200 a day, and disputes a Milwaukee fifty-mile record claimed by Woodside against J. S. Prince's existing time.
- Miscellaneous notes: Baltimore dry-goods merchant J. L. Bird breaks his thigh coasting down Mount Washington; the Springfield Bicycle Club arranges bands and halls for its September tournament; forty-seven wheelmen are listed on the Canada tour; and Lillian Whiting of the Chicago Inter-Ocean is quoted on envying men on bicycles.
- Discussion of enforcement of laws prohibiting sidewalk cycling.
- News of the Williamsport, Pa. Wheel Club's founding on 20 June 1883 under president R. W. Gibson; the Lowell Bicycle Club's Sunday run to Salem, Swampscott, Lynn, and Nahant; and the Newton Bicycle Club's 'antique and horrible' costume parade of about forty riders.
- Reviews The Wheelman's July issue, including C. A. Hazlett's article on 'Pedalling on the Piscataqua' and H. B. Hart's history of 'The Bicycle in Philadelphia,' plus Sturmey's Tricyclists' Indispensable for 1883, available through the Overman Wheel Company.
- An overview of the Cyclists' Touring Club (founded 1878 as the B.T.C.), its roughly 10,000 members worldwide and $2.50 first-year dues, applications addressed to chief consul Frank W. Weston of Boston, and a list of new membership applicants from Michigan, New York, Connecticut, and Maryland.