The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Editorial noting cycling's growth abroad (the Tricycling Journal counted 433 'cyclists passing along the London-Sevenoaks road in one afternoon) and in Boston, condemning the dangerous state of the Columbus Avenue asphalt, and praising E. C. Hodges and W. V. Burt of Stall & Burt for funding cyclist Mr. Dalton's lawsuit against a man who ran him down.
- Correspondent "Reform" forwards a private letter from a newly elected Western-state League officer denouncing the L.A.W.'s ruling "ring," warning that distrust of League leadership is pushing wheelmen toward the rival Cyclists' Touring Club, and vowing to fight Fred Jenkins and his allies at the Washington meet.
- Karl Kron urges the League, meeting in Washington, to formally honor Secretary of the Treasury Charles J. Folger, Attorney-General Benjamin Harris Brewster, and Congressmen Charles R. Skinner and T. B. Reed for the 9 April "Bermuda case" ruling letting returning American cyclists bring bicycles through customs as personal property, and announces his forthcoming book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle."
- Eliot Norton denies a report in The Wheel, attributed to "Lewee," that he rode a mile in 2m. 49s., calling the claim absurd and impossible and asking correspondents to stop publishing fabricated times for amateurs in training.
- Wm. M. Woodside and Wm. J. Morgan announce they are abandoning their planned seventy-day bicycle ride from New York to San Francisco after the exhibitions meant to fund the trip fell through.
- Lists recent U.S. Patent Office grants reported by solicitor Henry W. Williams, including velocipede attachments to Dappand and Wolff of St. Louis, a unicycle to Chas. M. Schaffer of Lanesville, Ky., an adjustable step to G. F. Harwood of Worcester, a treadle to Peter Gendron of Toledo, and a Star-style velocipede to William A. Lorenz of Hartford.
- Massachusetts Bicycle Club president Henry W. Williams circulates Massachusetts's public-statute rules on keeping right when meeting and passing left, reminding club members that the passing rule is routinely violated by riders travelling in pairs.
- Correspondent "X. C." reports Manchester's cycling boom (eight new wheels this season, a rival to the Penacook "Jumbo"), the New Hampshire L.A.W. division's strong start with a new thirteen-member club at Concord under Rev. H. F. Bedinger, and Messrs. Sheriff and Kennard's sixty-eight-mile round trip to Lowell.
- Misses Annie Sylvester and May Arlington give bicyclists, press, and other guests a fancy-riding exhibition at Battery D, Sylvester on a 52-inch Expert and Arlington on a 54-inch, reprinted from the Chicago Am. Sports.
- Previews the L.A.W.'s fifth annual meet in Washington, 19-20 May, detailing the parade route, the one/three/ten/twenty-five-mile bicycle races and one-mile tricycle race with named officials (referee N. M. Beckwith; judges Abbot Bassett, George Sanderson Jr., Al Trego, Eugene M. Aarons, A. W. Houck), and Col. Staples' silver championship cup made by the Meriden Company.
- Reports on the Missouri Wheel Company's continuing improvements to the Duryea saddle, including a new model made to fit the Star bicycle.
- Describes a Rover tricycle (Starley & Sutton, side-chain drive, 46-inch wheels) loaned by the Cunningham Company, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s newly arrived Singer & Co. British Challenge Light Roadster with tangential spokes and an AEolus rear hub; also notes F. Lillibridge will demonstrate his safety handle-bar at Washington and Stall & Burt has perfected a new Star saddle.
- Miscellany column: secretary Louis Lueders will represent the Missouri Wheel Company at the Washington meet; the new Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette (Henry E. Ducker, editor) is welcomed; John J. Tuthill nearly drowns after riding his bicycle off a New Suffolk wharf and tangling his feet in the spokes; the N. A. A. A. A. amateur rule is quoted; and Corey and Midgley test a 44-inch Traveller tricycle on Boston-area hills.
- Continuation of C. Vernon Boys' Royal Institution lecture, covering the Coventry Rotary and Cheylesmore tricycle designs, clutch- and differential-gear methods of double driving (including the "Cheylesmore" friction-grip clutch and Starley's bevel gear), the Omnicycle and Merlin cranks-free drives, and the advantages of the Humber twin-driving-wheel pattern.
- Covers an American Institute indoor-tournament proposal, the Boston Ramblers' $500 prize list for their 30 May meet, the Cincinnati Wanderers' spring road races (won by Clough Anderson, E. Muhlhauser, and W. Galway), the Yale Bicycle Club's new track and 28 May meeting with Hendee, Burnham, and Frazier entered, a Chicago roller-skating challenge to L. W. Conkling, and the Dixie Wheel Club's ten-mile Louisville road race.
- Club-news roundup: the Massachusetts Club admits twenty-nine new members and elects E. W. Pope captain; the Kings County Wheelmen incorporate; the Boston Ramblers choose L.A.W. meet delegates; the Connecticut Club (Hartford) re-elects T. Sedgwick Steele president; the Rockingham, Cayuga, Marietta and Schenectady clubs name new officers; the Springfield Bicycle Club marks its third anniversary at Hotel Warwick; and the Berkshire County Wheelmen expel two members for unpaid dues.
- Recommends Chinn & Smith's new Wheelman's Hand-book of Essex County (twenty cents) and notes a Lynn, Mass. patent-medicine firm's companion road map of the county.
- American Division dues and membership details (chief consul Frank W. Weston); the annual gathering set for Poughkeepsie, 21-22 May, with a business meeting/dinner and a twenty-mile suburban run; the eighth annual Harrogate Meet (4 August) with reduced transatlantic steamship fares; and Canadian Division contact information (Horace S. Tibbs, Montreal).
- Answers to Correspondents fields questions on pronouncing "Sans Pareil," hollow versus solid fork/backbone strength, the League uniform rule, and saddle recommendations (the Duryea and Overman long-distance saddles).
- Lists upcoming dates: Capital Club races (17 May, Washington), the L.A.W.'s fifth annual meet (19-20 May, Washington), the C.T.C. American-division meet (21-22 May, Poughkeepsie), the Illinois state-division meeting and Boston Ramblers' race meet (30 May), Harvard Bicycle Club races (31 May), the Quaker City Bicycle Club tournament (17-19 June, Philadelphia), and the Kennebec tourists' start from Boston (29 June).