The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Editorial describing an incident in which a driver deliberately blocked the road to prevent the editor and C. C. Weston from passing on bicycles while loading bricks, citing the Boston city ordinance that limits street obstruction to six minutes and imposes fines of $5–$50; argues that wheelmen should enforce their legal right to use public streets.
- Correspondence from J. Fred. Adams of Haverhill describing the route from Salem to Haverhill (via Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton, Ipswich, and Groveland) as excellent cycling with only one hill to walk, covering 28 miles in 2h. 50m., and inviting county wheelmen to join the League of Essex County Wheelmen's summer meeting.
- Novices' Column presenting reader responses to Dr. Gordon Stables' cycling comfort questions, covering shoes (Oxford shoes with eyelet ventilation holes), stockings (thick worsted), underclothing (flannel next to the skin with elastic straps to stockings), headgear (stiff straw hat preferred), and drinks (milk, water, or tea but not beer or spirits).
- Account of William Collins of the Meriden, Conn., Club completing a 155-mile straightaway run from Meriden to Nashua, N.H., covering 153 miles within 24 hours — believed to be the best American record for a 24-hour straightaway — with a detailed road description from Hartford through Springfield, Worcester, and Ayer Junction.
- Account of the first century run by Albany Bicycle Club members on July 19th: Capt. Scattergood, Ross, Emmett, and Rush rode from Albany through Troy, Waterford, Schuylerville and Salem, completing 109 miles; Rush alone continued through rain and darkness to Albany by 2:40 a.m., the route verified by cyclometer.
- Full narrative of the Niagara-to-Boston bicycle tour: sixty-five Chicago cyclists rode through Canada from Toronto to Brighton and across to Boston, escorted by local clubs into the city at the reservoir; includes a day-by-day synopsis of the route from July 13 through July 25, with descriptions of entertainments at Toronto, Belleville, Kingston, Montreal, and Plattsburg.
- C. F. A. Beckers, Arthur Young, and J. S. Rogers of St. Louis became the first cyclists to coast down Mt. Washington on ordinary bicycles; Beckers descended in 49 minutes to the base (a new record), the party suffered a combined 31 involuntary dismounts and considerable bruising, and all three swore they would not attempt it again.
- Julius Wilcox reports that Thomas P. Campbell of Howard, Kansas carries his two-year-old son on the handlebars of his 40-inch Special Facile for rides of up to twelve miles over hilly roads, claiming the child to be the youngest bicycle rider on record.
- Humorous account by a St. Louis club member of nine wheelmen travelling to Evansville, Indiana, for the Fourth of July: races on a ten-lap track, fireworks, Tommy's arrest for setting off firecrackers, a Fourth of July exhibition, and a steamboat trip to Newburg — all told with irreverent wit.
- Reproduction of the complete set of bicycle club bugle calls and signals originally published by the World several years previously, with musical notation for nineteen calls — including Attention, Care of Wheels, Mount, Single File, Ride at Ease, Disband, and Ride in Form — and explanatory notes for each.
- Short miscellaneous notes including updates on the Boston Club tricycle race, the disadvantages of oil on tricycle chains attracting dust, an announcement of a prize for the best Novices' Column article, and mention of a forthcoming Joseph Pennell illustrated tricycling article in the September Century.
- Race results and announcements including the Providence Bicycle Club's first annual meeting at Narragansett Park, a horse-versus-bicycle race in Buffalo won by the horse, results from the Boston Union Athletic Grounds, and the N.C.U. fifty-mile championship won by F. R. Fry at Crystal Palace.
- Club news covering the Boston Ramblers drill squad exhibition at Cottage City, the Holyoke Bicycle Club's new third-floor headquarters and twenty members, and the Boston Club's Wednesday 'Smoker' evenings with musical entertainment during August.
- Calendar of forthcoming bicycle events from August 2 through October listing race meetings in Providence, Pittsfield, Louisville, Cleveland, Buffalo, Hartford, Albany, Philadelphia, Springfield, and New Haven.