The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 13
Articles in this issue
- The editorial protests the League's unlimited delegation of power to a small clique of officers -- often only about ten of a roughly hundred-member board attend spring and fall meetings to legislate for thousands -- and urges use of Rule 13's mail-ballot procedure instead; a closing note praises the Lawrence Club for honoring riders such as Midgley (a nonstop Worcester-to-Boston ride) and Corey (a 190-mile ride) who add to a club's reputation on the road.
- Citizens' Bicycle Club member Knight L. Clapp rebuts an anonymous 'member of the L. A. W.' who had attacked the club over the Montclair Hill accident, calling the New Jersey Division's denial that its wheelmen -- including chief consul L. H. Johnson -- coast the hill an 'unmitigated and malicious falsehood.'
- An illustrated, detailed description -- said to be the first given by any cycling paper -- of the English-made Crypto-Dynamic two-speed gear for tricycles, manufactured by the Crypto 'Cycle Company and controlled in America by the Cunningham Company of Boston.
- C.T.C. Gazette editor Ernest R. Shipton continues his critique of cyclometers and indicators (Stanton's, the M.D.R., McDonnell's odometer, Underwood's odometer), scoring each against six desiderata of reliability, compactness, and accurate mileage recording, and previews the new 'Butcher Cyclometer.'
- Report on the Boston Bicycle Club's reception for lady friends marking the opening of its new club-house at 87 Boylston Street, describing the parlor, reading room and billiard room, with about 250 guests attending and music by the Germania orchestra.
- Recent U.S. cycling patents reported for The World by solicitor Henry W. Williams, including George D. Foote's detachable handle, Nelson Merrill's tricycle, Chas. M. Schaffer's eight-foot-wheel unicycle, John W. Fry's adjustable bicycle stand, and Andrew J. Philbrick's pedal slipper assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company.
- Karl Kron solicits postal-card pledges of a dollar apiece for his forthcoming guide 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' describing 5,000 miles he personally explored on his 46-inch Columbia No. 234 and planned chapters on long-distance routes, transportation lines, and the L.A.W.
- The San Francisco Bicycle Club's annual meeting and banquet at the Hardie House elected Columbus Waterhouse president, with toasts on Pacific Coast bicycling; also notes the Oakland Bicycle Club's annual 'feed' and cyclists enjoying Lake Merritt.
- A miscellany of squibs and the verse 'The Small Boy' (from Rugby Monthly), covering items such as the new Harvard cinder track's construction, a Northampton Bicycle Club 100-mile run to Hartford, John Keen's losing race against a horseman at Surbiton, and rumors of an aluminum bicycle.
- Club news including the new Amateur 'Cyclists' Association of New Haven, Conn.; officer elections at the Columbia Bicycle Club of North Attleboro, Mass.; the Troy Bicycle Club's reception at Harmony Hall; and the newly organized Stamford (Conn.) Wheel Club.
- A new Connecticut state division of the L.A.W. is formed with 275 members represented; the Canadian Wheelmen's Association reports 427 members across clubs including Montreal, the Toronto Wanderers, and Forest City of London; and A. L. Estabrook of New York is expelled from the League.
- C.T.C. notices from U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, on renewal dues and a planned spring meet at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., plus new membership applications from Ohio, New York, and Pennsylvania and a consul appointment for Hudson, N.Y.
- Answers to correspondents cover topics from reselling worn rubber tires and a subscriber's billing query to the lack of a U.S. agent for the Monarch bicycle (about $160 to import) and a repeated explanation of the Warwick rim's sheet-steel, double-thickness construction.