The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Leader editorial celebrating the rapid recent growth of American cycling clubs and their costly new clubhouses (with a jab at Kentucky's law against Sunday riding), followed by notes predicting continued growth in tricycle sales, criticism of the League's shortfall in its $500 treasury relief subscription, and regret at having to miss the June Philadelphia meet.
- News item about the Devon Inn fourteen miles from Philadelphia on the Lancaster pike, whose proprietors have sent wheelmen an invitation letter extolling the recently rebuilt stone premises in Queen Anne style as a convenient stopping point for road rides out of the city.
- The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club formally endorses the Fairmount Park Commissioners' new seven-mile-an-hour speed limit for bicycles and resolves to help enforce the regulation among its members.
- Report on Woodside and Morgan's attempted transcontinental bicycle journey from New York's City Hall toward San Francisco, begun 1 May under flags reading "San Francisco," tracking their progress through Newark and Elizabeth to Lancaster, Pennsylvania (166 miles) en route to Baltimore.
- Short letter from a Canandaigua, N.Y. correspondent apologizing for a long silence and assuring readers that wheeling activity in the district remains alive.
- Full program for the Cyclists' Touring Club American division's annual gathering at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. on 21-22 May, covering the business meeting and banquet at the Morgan House and a run to Vassar College.
- Review of the Royal Mail bicycle sold by William Read & Sons, describing the English machine's tangential spokes, Bown's Aeolus bearings and Andrews head, alongside the cheaper Oxford model and a new Humber-pattern Royal Mail tricycle.
- Trade column noting new catalogues from Stoddard, Lovering & Co. and Stall & Burt (who now also sell Columbia machines), the Cunningham Co.'s Salvo and Meteor sociable tricycles and tandem race prizes at the Ramblers' 30 May meeting, and Thos. B. Jeffery's new Chicago partnership with R. P. Gormully; also reports booming demand for the Ideal bicycle and pioneer dealer Richard Garvey of St. Louis selling his brokerage to deal in wheels exclusively through the Missouri Wheel Company.
- Correspondence signed A. L. Fennessy of Springfield, Mass., decrying dissension within the League of American Wheelmen and calling on the expelled Mr. Jenkins to step down for the League's own good.
- Correspondence signed W. V. Gilman of Nashua, N.H., defending former League president Johnson against attacks in the rival Wheel bulletin and mocking that paper's claim that a new ticket-mailing deadline meant late applicants could no longer vote.
- Miscellany column opening with the verse "Maiden of Beverly" and including notes on Louisville, Ky. wheelmen raising $700 to test a bicycle-prohibition bill's legality, Indiana University's planned summer cycling tour of England and the Continent, and a paralyzed Salem city weigher who took up tricycling and now rides it to his office daily.
- Second instalment of C. Vernon Boys's Royal Institution lecture on tricycle mechanics, illustrated by Mr. Burstow's curious five-wheeled "Centrecycle" (whose rider can raise or lower any wheel at will) and by table models showing which wheel arrangements can and cannot roll freely round a curve.
- Report that the Nashville city council rejected a petition to prohibit bicycles from the public streets, after city attorney J. C. Bradford and the board of public works, chaired by T. A. Atchison, advised against it.
- Correspondent "Eph." describes foul cycling weather, a naming dispute between two rival clubs both claiming the St. Louis Bicycle Club name, and an eight-rider fifty-mile run to De Soto that ends with a campfire prank involving a drawing of a crying Chinese baby, giving one rider a nightmare of a runaway bicycle careering down a hill into the river before he wakes with his feet in a companion's stomach.
- A member signing as "Radical" proposes renaming the League of Essex County Wheelmen "Essex County 'Cyclists" and opening membership to women and professionals, citing the 6,000-member National Cyclists' Union of the United Kingdom as precedent.
- Notes on the Springfield Bicycle Club's plan to cinder-surface the Hampden Park track for the September tournament, praise for unattached riders respecting the Harvard Bicycle Club's track (unlike a club caught practising there before dawn) and criticism of the too-tight Manhattan Club track chosen for the intercollegiate championships, plus English results including R. Howell's professional one-mile championship win over Duncan and DeCivry.
- Reports the Ramblers' circular for a four-day June tour, new officers elected at the Kankakee, Rockford, Toronto and Amesbury bicycle clubs, and a Lowell Skating Rink exhibition featuring Burt Pressey and Fred Lester's bicycle polo match and trick riding on American Stars.
- Details the American division's dues, the Poughkeepsie annual meet program (21-22 May) at the Morgan House, new membership applications, and appointed consuls for York, Pa., Niagara Falls and Canandaigua, N.Y.
- Schedule of upcoming events including the Capital Bicycle Club races at Washington (17 May), the L.A.W.'s fifth annual meet at Washington (19-20 May), the C.T.C. American branch meet at Poughkeepsie (21-22 May) and the Harvard Bicycle Club races (31 May), through later dates such as the Niagara-to-Boston tour (13 July) and the Ohio division L.A.W. meet at Cleveland (18-19 August).