The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The editor weighs oil, glycerine, vaseline, and dry plumbago as bicycle-bearing lubricants, citing an Æolus ball bearing run 2,500 miles on one application of plumbago, and closes with notes on the L.A.W. dues-increase controversy and a new adjustable saddle patented by ex-Champion City Club captain Mr. Kingsbury of Springfield, Ohio.
- A firsthand report from a special trip to Chicopee, Mass., on the redesigned 1884 Victor tricycle from the Overman Wheel Company, detailing its 48-inch driving wheels, 18-inch steerer, weldless-steel loop frame designed by E. C. Lee of the Boston Bicycle Club, compressed Para-rubber tires, and $160 price.
- A miscellany column covering the Springfield wheelmen's annual ball at City Hall, the Speedwell Brothers' triple-bicycle act booked for Crawford Mason's New York bicycle exhibition, Gump Brothers' second-hand machines, and Chief Consul Hile's poll of Massachusetts L.A.W. consuls on raising annual dues to $1.50.
- Louisville wheelmen meet at the Falls City club rooms, over 150 strong, to oppose a Kentucky Senate bill (backed by Senator Fredericks) that would ban bicycles along with steam threshers from Jefferson County highways as liable to frighten horses; a committee of Stanley, Huber, Newton G. Crawford, and Orville Anderson is appointed to petition the senate.
- Eight recent U.S. bicycle and tricycle patents are reported by solicitor Henry W. Williams of Boston, including William H. Davis's adjustable pedal top-lift, Charles F. Hadley and Albert H. Overman's two-speed tricycle gear (assigned to the Overman Wheel Company), and William N. Stevens's brace for Star bicycles.
- A. H. Overman and "D. B. E. Spoke" defend the tricycle loop frame against "Ixion's" attack; a Galion, Ohio correspondent protests the proposed L.A.W. dues increase; and R. F. Foster apologizes to L.A.W. President Beckwith over the Atwood-protest dispute with Fred Jenkins of The Wheel.
- Club notes including the Notman Company's group photograph of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club (Col. Pope, Pres. Henry W. Williams, Capt. Clarlin), the Newton Bicycle Club's second annual ball with the comedy "Tom Cobb," the Cambridge Bicycle Club's 62 members, and the Wakefield Bicycle Club's carnival featuring Wilmot and Sewell's fancy riding and Burt Pressy on the Star.
- Official C.T.C. notices from U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston of Boston on membership renewals and the seventy-five-cent dues, a planned spring meet and business meeting at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., new membership applications largely from Springfield, Mass., and N. H. Van Sicklen's appointment as state consul for Illinois.
- Short answers to correspondents, including a note to "E. H." that a subscription to the paper does not include L.A.W. membership, and a thank-you to the C. M. C. Club.