The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 24
Articles in this issue
- The New York Sun's name for Attorney-General Benjamin Harris Brewster's ruling that a bicycle accompanying its owner counts as a personal effect exempt from import duty; the editorial argues a bicycle is as much a rider's personal effect as his clothing, calling the decision 'a welcome one to ’cyclists returning from England.'
- Report that friends of expelled L.A.W. corresponding secretary Mr. Jenkins — George Sanderson Jr., Geo. D. Gideon and Ewing L. Miller of Pennsylvania, and Albert Trego, Yates Penniman and Victor M. Haldeman of Maryland — have appealed his expulsion to the full board of officers under Rule 13, triggering a mail vote.
- Explains the English custom of 'invitation races' ahead of the Harvard Bicycle Club's race meeting and hopes the experiment succeeds in America; the unheaded notes that follow criticize the League's official-organ arrangement, report R. F. Foster of Baltimore's circular urging clubs to block Mr. Jenkins's reinstatement, and remark on race entry fees, English road conditions, and a snowstorm that scuttled Fast Day riding plans.
- Recounts how customs officers seized bicycles belonging to Karl Kron and F. A. Elwell on their return from Bermuda aboard the steamer Orinoco, charging Elwell's English-made wheel full duty, and reprints the correspondence between Elwell, Rep. T. B. Reed, Treasury Secretary Charles J. Folger and Attorney-General Benjamin Harris Brewster that finally ruled the bicycle duty-free as a personal effect.
- A Louisville Courier-Journal item mocking the Kentucky legislature, including Gov. Meriwether's claim that a horse frightened by a bicycle caused a fatal wagon accident, for passing a bill banning bicycles from the roads of Jefferson and other counties.
- Report on the Newton Bicycle Club's second-anniversary dinner at the Hunnewell House, Newton, with Mayor Kimball and Bicycling World editor J. S. Dean as guests and C. L. Clark as toastmaster; toasts included 'The Press' (answered by H. D. Corey, Secretary Aubin's comic verses, and H. M. Saben's 'Chunks of Wisdom') and 'The Ladies' (H. Page, urging admission of women tricyclists), with speeches by Capt. J. C. Ellms and D. N. C. Hyams.
- Edwin W. Adams's letter to the Wheel rebuts 'The Owl's' attack on the New York Bicycle Club's standing, defending the club's earlier opposition to the Wheel becoming the League's official organ.
- At the Newton Club dinner H. M. Saben jokes that racing men should always 'look up the pole' of a track before a race, blaming badly measured and marked bicycle-track poles for a year's lost records and suggesting the L.A.W. mount an expedition to find them, like the search for the North Pole.
- Summary of a paper read in Brooklyn by Alexander R. Black contrasting America's suspicion of 'sport' with England's embrace of it, citing the Rev. George F. Pentecost's praise of the bicycle and predicting a bright future for the machine.
- The paper's squib column, opening with the comic verse 'Cycle Mania' about a rider named William Hale who wobbles to his death, followed by short items on A. H. Overman's new tricycle, a Frank Weston-Robert Heebner bicycle-vs-foot race, a proposed Riverside Drive cyclorama, and New York's rule allowing only uniformed bicyclers on Riverside Drive.
- Lists the bicycle-carriage charges of the Boston-area railroads — Boston & Albany, Boston & Maine, Old Colony, Eastern, Boston & Lowell and Boston & Providence — plus the Fall River, Norwich, Providence and Stonington sound lines between New York and Boston.
- A correspondent signing '4074, L.A.W.' urges clubs to run notices in local papers so country people understand cyclists better, recounting a farmer who unhitched his horse and abandoned his wagon at the sight of an approaching club run.
- Newton G. Crawford of Louisville describes the fight against the anti-bicycle bill in Frankfort — attorney John Rodman's argument winning a unanimous committee vote, only for Sen. W. H. Frederick to push it through as a local bill, passing the Senate 13-7 — and reports the Louisville Kentucky Club's new clubrooms on Green Street with dues raised to $12 a year.
- Stephen Terry, correspondent for the Connecticut Bicycle Club, hopes clubs that rode in the Springfield parade without winning prizes face no L.A.W. censure, noting his own club declined the first-prize money it was awarded.
- 'Cyclos' praises President Bates's plan for an official gazette over an 'organ,' proposes electing Bates League president, and criticizes the Citizens' Club of New York for tabling the resignation of a member expelled from the League.
- Two letters — one signed 'H.' explaining the purpose of publishing candidates' names, the other signed 'Chandos' — argue the League must either fund a gazette sent to every member or abandon the official-organ scheme entirely, rejecting half-measures.
- Henry E. Ducker argues that concentrating all L.A.W. championship races at the Washington meet on 20 May unfairly excludes distant riders, and urges the League to award individual championship races to enterprising clubs in cities like Louisville, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Chicago instead.
- Notes E. H. Corson of East Rochester's rubber 'Tourists' Delight' drinking tube and planned wheel store, Horace Beddo's new catalogue, Charles E. Pratt's Pope Manufacturing-published booklet 'What and Why,' and Harvey and Harrison's enlarged bicycle-repair shop.
- Reports a six-day San Francisco match pitting Louise Armaindo and John S. Prince on bicycles against Charles M. Anderson on horseback, an Oakland Trotting Park bicycle-vs-trotting-horse contest, the L.A.W.'s 20 May championship race schedule with entries to Abbot Bassett, a 75-mile Warrnambool, Victoria road race won by E. White, and M. Baby's new 24-hour French tricycle record; closes with notice that the Harvard Club's invitation-race letters go out around 1 May via F. Winthrop White.
- Club-by-club roundup covering the Manchester Bicycle Club's new tandem and bal masque, the newly formed Rome Bicycle Club, Newton Bicycle Club officer elections, the Montreal, Chicago, New York, Lawrence, Missouri, Milwaukee, Mount Vernon and Brooklyn Bicycle Clubs' annual meetings, the Boston Ramblers' clubhouse opening, the Laramie (Wyoming) Club's annual ball, and the Cincinnati Bicycle Club rescuing its wheels from Power Hall during a city riot.
- American-division C.T.C. notices: membership dues, the annual gathering at Poughkeepsie on 21-22 May timed to follow the L.A.W. meet, the eighth annual Harrogate Meet with reduced transatlantic steamship rates, and a list of provisionally elected membership applicants.
- Editor's replies to correspondents A. A. Hathaway, L. N. Jksunofsky, E. W. Adams and S. T. H. of Muncie on club matters, a misprinted note, and submitted photographs.
- Calendar of coming events: the Citizens' Bicycle Club race meeting in New York, the L.A.W.'s fifth annual meet in Washington, the C.T.C.'s Poughkeepsie meet, Yale College Bicycle Club races, the Illinois State division formation meeting in Chicago, the League of Essex County Wheelmen's Salem meet, and Harvard Bicycle Club races in Cambridge.