The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Editorial defending The Bicycling World against charges of stirring up 'petty personal quarrels' with The Wheel, and reviewing the League of American Wheelmen's expulsion of former corresponding secretary Fred Jenkins over the costly contract for the League's official organ.
- Minutes of the L.A.W. board of officers' spring meeting at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, on 22 February: treasurer W. V. Gilman reports a growing deficit blamed on the costly official-organ contract, the racing board debates the New Haven and Springfield track records and the Foster/Jenkins/Ducker-Fennessy expulsion cases, and the board votes to hold the 1884 annual meet in Washington.
- News from Cleveland previewing the Ohio State Meet planned for 18-19 August with a new quarter-mile asphalt track, and reporting the marriage of C. W. Norman of the Cleveland Bicycle Club to Fanny Kieth on 19 February.
- Account of the Springfield Bicycle Club's third annual concert, exhibition and ball at Springfield City Hall on 22 February, drawing nearly 2,000 guests for a costume parade of historic machines and a professional trick-riding contest between Daniel J. Canary and Harry W. Tufts, won by Canary.
- Report on the first annual dinner of the Boston Ramblers Bicycle Club at Young's Hotel on 19 February, with toasts answered by club presidents Hodges (Boston), Norton (Harvard), Robinson (Crescent) and Hayes (Cambridge), and by press guests J. S. Dean of The Bicycling World and W. B. Howland of Outing.
- C. E. Duryea's practical advice for winter riders on keeping the feet, body and hands warm, including paper insoles, a folded-newspaper 'athlete's overcoat,' and swinging the arms to keep blood circulating.
- Describes an English inventor, Mr. Terry, whose tricycle converts into a boat; he rode it from London to Dover and then paddled across the English Channel to Andreselles, France, before continuing on to Paris.
- Reprinted from Wheel World: urges cyclists to learn their own dietary needs, favoring eggs, bread and butter, tea and bacon sandwiches over cheese or heavy meat suppers, and warning against alcohol and eating too soon after a hard ride.
- Results of a two-mile bicycle handicap at the Manhattan A.C.'s winter games in New York, won by P. M. Harris.
- Includes a letter from S. T. Hathaway of Muncie, Indiana describing his 1882 tandem bicycle, reputedly the first built in the country, and a reprinted confidential circular proposing incorporation of 'The 'Cycling Publishing Company' to buy the Wheel from Oliver & Jenkins.
- Miscellaneous notes including a Cleveland stock company formed to build a quarter-mile bicycle track, the incorporation of the Butcher Cyclometer Company in Boston, and gossip on club runs and L.A.W. officers.
- Club news roundup covering the newly formed Dixie Wheel Club of Louisville, officer elections at the Stoneham, Lowell and Falls City clubs, and successful exhibitions by the Ariel Wheel Club of Poughkeepsie and the Citizens' Bicycle Club.
- Reviews the 1884 'Tricyclist's Vade Mecum' from Cordingly & Sharpe of London, the C.T.C.'s monthly Gazette for February, and the March issue of Outing and the Wheelman.
- Notices for the American branch of the Cyclists' Touring Club under U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston of Boston, covering membership renewal deadlines, new applications, and a planned spring meet at Poughkeepsie, New York.