The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The editor proposes that 'Bicycle and Camera' could become as engaging a pairing as 'Canoe and Camera,' urging riders to carry plates and tripod on the wheel, and floats a reader's idea for a Boston 'cyclists' lunch club modeled on the Papyrus Club.
- Miscellany including falling used-machine prices, the Boston Bicycle Club's new house facing the Public Garden, an English subscription for an A. R. Starley monument (versus Pierre Lallement), Henry K. Shauck's patented Dayton, Ohio tricycle, a banquet for Prof. D. J. Canary by the Star Bicycle Club of Lynn, and 'Karl Kron's' canal-mule mishap.
- Letters cover Fred Jenkins's disputed $100 referee fee from the Springfield Bicycle Club and its president Ducker, a Chicago lawsuit of Brown v. Gee over a buggy-bicycle collision, the L.A.W.'s suspension of W. J. Smith and John A. Green protested by 'Amadeus', a proposed cyclists' dinner club, Harvard B.C. president Eliot Norton on the age of racing men, and a New Jersey division letter on the Citizens' Club's Montclair hill accident.
- Reports the dispute over whether the Hampden Park and New Haven mile tracks meet League length requirements, centered on surveyor Stockwell Bettes's certificate finding the Springfield track two feet short and track-keeper T. D. Leary's rebuttal.
- John N. Pearsons of the Manchester Bicycle Club rode 120 miles from Manchester to Boston and back on a 56-inch Standard Columbia, guided partway through Cambridge and Newton by Theodore Rothe of the Boston Club, and was later feted at a supper at Hotel Windsor, Manchester, where Secretary Smith presented him a silver medal.
- The Boston Bicycle Club is leaving its Union Park clubhouse for a new house at 87 Boylston Street, the former residence of Moses Kimball, with plans for a gymnasium room and a cycling library.
- Miscellany including a comic Irish-dialect 'Boycycle' poem from the Nashville Journal, L.A.W. Massachusetts division secretary Kendall's resignation in favor of Geo. W. Brooks, Harwood's adjustable safety step, the Carrier and Krao tandem-style machines, E. N. Bowen's new saddle, and J. E. Alden's ten-thousand-mile Standard Columbia.
- Covers the Chicago club's Christmas race meeting where W. M. Woodside and W. J. Morgan will attempt professional records, a Woodside-Morgan 'blood race' at Janesville, Wisconsin, St. Louis club races among Lueders, Stone, and Greenwood, and the Cincinnati Wanderers' planned sand-bag race entertainment.
- Club news roundup: the new Harrisburg (Penn.) 'Cycling Club and Chester Bicycle Club, the Randolph Bicycle Club's renaming, the Springfield Bicycle Club's incorporation, the Citizens' Bicycle Club's new clubhouse and vote against joining the Cyclists' Touring Club, and the Yale Club's officer elections.