The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The editor surveys sharply rising dues at Boston-area clubs — the Boston Club's raised from $4 to $12 a year as it builds an addition, the Massachusetts Club matching it while incorporating a $10,000 stock company for a clubhouse, and the Boston Ramblers following suit — then argues for macadamized roads on the European and Canadian model. Shorter notes follow on a bearing-wear test of Overman's "Bown's Æolus" hub (dry plumbago vs. sperm oil lubrication), the Wheel's resignation as the C.T.C.'s American organ, and calls to tighten the League's definition of an amateur.
- Henry W. Williams declines a Massachusetts chief-consulship nomination; "Citron" muses on non-League squabbling over the Montclair affair; a reader (signed "L.A.W. 1692") corrects Wilcox's 1882 gearing tables and E. G. Latta cites Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (1877) as proof of an early tandem bicycle; a Washington correspondent's "That Resolution" protests the L.A.W. rule barring the Capital Club from the Meet parade; another traces the Wheel's rise and resignation as the C.T.C.'s American "organ" since a Yonkers, N.Y. meeting in May 1882; and W. V. Gilman writes from Nashua, N.H. on the Massachusetts League-membership count.
- Detailed review of a new bicycle lamp patented and made by Zacharias & Smith of Newark, N.J., praising its solder-free joints, side-opening spring-catch door, ventilated reservoir and choice of beveled or bull's-eye lens, plus the firm's new Star luggage carrier and tool bag.
- Recent U.S. bicycle patents reported by solicitor Henry W. Williams: saddles from James A. Lamplugh (Birmingham), Charles E. Duryea (St. Louis) and Freeman Lillibridge (Cedar Rapids); velocipedes from John W. Woodruff, Arthur M. Allen, and Emmit G. and Adrian C. Latta of Friendship, N.Y.; and a saddle spring from Oliver M. Mitchell of Providence.
- Montreal Bicycle Club news signed "Krank": the riding school has reopened for the season, Messrs. Lane, Miller, Ross, Davis & Tibbs have ordered a Centaur four-in-hand tandem, Lane & Hill will ride a Rucker tandem, two new sociables (a Premier and a Cheylesmore) have been ordered, and the club now numbers over five hundred members.
- The Massachusetts Club votes to organize a $10,000 stock company to buy land near Trinity Square (a site found on Newbury Street) and build a three-story Boston clubhouse; the full Articles of Association are reproduced.
- Miscellany opening with "An Incident," a comic ballad (reprinted from Bicycling News, signed H. Wandsworth Shortpharlow) about a club captain and his hon. sec. spilling in the Vale of Aylesbury, followed by notes on the John Wilkinson Company's order for a hundred Experts, a Hawthorne Bicycle Club (Salem) visit to Boston, a new two-speed gear said to infringe "Handy's gear," and improvements to Burley's saddle, the Utto spoke and Harrington's saddle clip.
- "Pennsylvania Nominations" names Eugene M. Aaron for chief consul and ten representatives including Geo. D. Gideon and Frederick McOwen; "To the L. A. W." describes the Washington 'Cycle Club's preparations for the League Meet, listing committee chairmen Capt. Jas. I. Brereton (parade), W. D. Doremus (storage), Wm. C. Scribner (finance), Rev. L. H. Schneider (correspondence), Amos W. Hart (transportation) and Howell Stewart (hotels and banquet).
- Roundup of League division elections: New Jersey's ballot backing E. W. Johnson, Serrell, Wood, Buzby and Snedeker against a rival ticket headed by Dr. G. Carleton Brown of Elizabeth; Ohio's ticket led by T. J. Kirkpatrick; New Hampshire's F. J. Philbrick, backed by outgoing consul C. H. Wilkins; Maryland's L. S. King/A. E. Mealy ticket; and Connecticut's Mr. Terry declining re-election, plus doubts the League can secure trophies for all the planned Washington championship races.
- The Cincinnati Bicycle Club's first spring race meeting at Power Hall (6 March): the one-mile won by Joseph Kitchell (3m. 49s.), the slow race by Harry Ellard, the half-mile hurdle by John Barclay, fancy riding by Harry Ellard, and the five-mile by Mr. Brady (19m. 24s.).
- Club news from around the country: the Boston Tricycle Club's second annual meeting (C. L. Hovey elected captain); new clubs and officers at Galesburg, Ill., Randolph, N.Y., and Binghamton and Columbia, N.C.; the Rutland Bicycle Club incorporating with $6,000 capital; the Boston Bicycle Club's new gymnasium; the Harvard Bicycle Club's spring meet moved to 31 May; the New Jersey Wheelmen's annual meeting (Walter H. Parsons, president); and exhibitions planned by the Lowell and Greenfield Bicycle Clubs featuring Dan Canary and George Nash.
- American-division C.T.C. notice giving dues ($1 the first year, 75 cents after) under U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, announcing the annual gathering at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on 21–22 May (business meeting and dinner, then a twenty-mile run), and listing new membership applicants from Cincinnati, Springfield, Schenectady and Poughkeepsie.
- Reviews of "The Cycling Annual" (edited by C. J. Fox for the Cycling Times, covering the Tricycle Union, 1883 racing and club directories) and the "Cyclists' Record Book," a ruled touring-log book by C. D. Batchelder of Lancaster, N.H., sold in cloth (30 cents) or roan (40 cents).
- "Answers to Correspondents" replies to a reader signed "L.E.E." on describing a bicycle joint, how the hind wheel turns on its centres, obtaining an oil-feeder from the Overman Wheel Company, and recommending pure sperm oil as the best lubricant.