The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Reports that on 22 March the Kentucky House of Representatives passed, 49 to 20, a bill to prohibit bicycles and tricycles on the highways of Bullitt, Spencer and other counties, and that Col. Albert Pope telegraphed his Louisville agent to retain the state's best constitutional lawyer to fight the bill before the Senate. Also criticizes the L.A.W.'s contract for its official organ the Wheel, notes a Philadelphia petition to reinstate the expelled Mr. Jenkins, and predicts Harvard's faculty athletic committee will force the Harvard Bicycle Club into invitation-only spring races.
- Short news paragraphs: the American C.T.C. division's growing membership and Weston's re-election in England, Aubrey Richardson's appointment as League consul for England, discounted Pennsylvania Railroad fares to the Washington meet, Chas. H. Jenkins building a Louisville cinder track for $4.60, Willis Farrington's fall near Marseilles, France, and a tricyclist's barrel-of-flour wager near Dedham, Mass.; continues with Howell Stewart declining the Washington meet's dinner committee, the Canadian Wheelmen's Association's Toronto meeting, and clubmen's worry that bicycle polo players risk their amateur standing.
- Describes the Pope Manufacturing Company's new $2 spring-clip luggage carrier for the Columbia tricycle, a steel-framed rack strapped to the rear cross-tube and trailers that can carry fifty pounds, and an improved screw-and-leather spring clip fitted to the Expert Columbia to stop the rattling of the ordinary Stanley clip.
- Trade notes on a Starley & Sutton Rover tricycle consigned to the Cunningham Company, Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s Velociman and a 22-pound Rudge racer built for A. D. Claflin of the Massachusetts and Harvard clubs, George Pope's retirement from the Cunningham Company, and Wm. Read & Sons and H. D. Hedger both taking up the Royal Mail bicycle agency in Boston; continues with Gibson & Hart's Lillibridge handlebar agency in Rockford, Ill. and George W. Marble's new adjustable saddle for the St. Nicholas Toy Company of Chicago.
- Long letter by Karl Kron proposing five specific rules to transform the L.A.W. annual parade from a disorderly mob into an orderly procession: a minimum of eight riders per club, the largest clubs placed at the front, riding four to eight abreast, all members in full uniform, and clubs grouped by the similarity of their uniforms.
- Letter from Arthur Penfield defending the Capital Club of Washington DC against the Cycle Club's plagiarism of a Chicago Mirror article, in which 'Capital Club' was systematically replaced by the Cycle Club's own name, misrepresenting the Capital Club's five-year reputation for welcoming visiting wheelmen.
- Cincinnati Bicycle Club spring race results (Kitchell, Meyers, Hodge and Jennings) and previews of a San Francisco horse-versus-bicycle race, the 28 May New Haven college races, and the Springfield September tournament offering $6,000 in prizes; continues with the North Weymouth fair meet, the Capital Club's 17 May Washington races handicapped by Seeley, Wagner and Dr. Schooley, Canadian riders Ross, Holden and Low bound for Springfield, and the international cyclists' camp and race meeting in London, 30 May-3 June.
- Club news from Galion Ohio, the Druid Cyclists of Maryland, Star Club of Lynn MA, the Detroit Bicycle Club's planned tour to Canada, Citizens' Bicycle Club of New York, and the Cleveland Bicycle Club.
- C.T.C. notices: membership dues and application details for U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston, the American division's 21-22 May annual gathering at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. timed to follow the Washington L.A.W. meet, discounted Harrogate Meet steamship fares, and a list of provisionally elected new members from Cleveland, Chicago, Rochester, Philadelphia, Peekskill and Springfield, Mass.
- Notes that Outing's April number, after the paper's earlier criticism of its March issue, is much improved and more broadly devoted to all recreations, singling out Will Carlton's new poem 'The Wheelman's Song.'
- Answers to correspondents including best American amateur records (one mile, 2m 54 1/5s; ten miles, 33m 34s), advice on tandem attachments for open-head machines, and a comparison of two rival bicycle models for Geo. R. Swartwout.
- Calendar of coming events: the Citizens' Bicycle Club's 25 April race meeting in New York, the L.A.W.'s fifth annual meet at Washington (19-20 May), the C.T.C. American division's Poughkeepsie gathering (21-22 May), Yale's 28 May and Harvard's 31 May college races, the Quaker City Bicycle Club's June tournament in Philadelphia, and the Ohio L.A.W. division meet in Cleveland (18-19 August).