The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Editorial recapping the harmonious L.A.W. annual meeting in Washington, crediting new officers Aaron, Alley and Terry and thanking the Capital Bicycle Club, the Washington 'Cycle Club and Overman Wheel Company's agent Mr. Scribner for their hospitality, while airing suspicion that a rumored contract awarding the League organ to 'an irresponsible New York firm' might prove true. Also reprints Justice Curran's Kingston, Jamaica ruling awarding cyclist G. E. Burke damages after a faulty streetcar rail spilled his bicycle on Orange Street.
- Letter from Newton G. Crawford of Louisville printing Senator James R. W. Smith's telegram announcing that Kentucky's anti-bicycle bill died when the Legislature adjourned without acting on his motion to reconsider, the fight having cost Louisville wheelmen under $100 of a $700 fund raised to test the bill's constitutionality.
- Letter from Edward K. Hill, chief consul of the Massachusetts Division, rebutting a slur in the Wheel's 'Owl' column by explaining that Massachusetts had spent its treasury on practical consul and road work, contrasting it with the Pennsylvania Division, which gave $50 of its $67 to Frank A. Egan's relief appeal but otherwise did little active work.
- Report on the Cyclists' Touring Club's American-branch annual meeting at Poughkeepsie, hosted by the Ariel Wheel Club, where Dr. A. G. Coleman of Canandaigua was elected chief consul for New York and Boston (via a 6 October 'wheel around the Hub') was chosen for the next grand tour. Describes the Wednesday banquet at the Morgan House and Thursday's parade past Vassar College and the Hudson River State Hospital.
- Report, signed by secretary John S. Rogers, that the Missouri State Division voted unanimously to disband and reorganize as the independent Association of Missouri Wheelmen under president E. M. Senseney, on the conviction that the L.A.W. is of no practical use so far west and had failed to act on the Kentucky trouble.
- Announcement of the Detroit Bicycle Club's week-long tour through western Ontario in July, running from Detroit along Lake Erie to St. Thomas, London, Bayfield, Goderich and Sarnia before returning by steamer down the St. Clair River, at a cost of about $15 per rider; applications go to secretary Leon C. Fink.
- Miscellany column opening with the comic dialect poem 'A Phonetic Phantasy' (reprinted from the Bicycling Times), followed by notes on Canary and Warren Wood's signed fancy-riding match, the Cunningham Company's bicycles seized by customs for alleged undervaluation, and a Citizens' Bicycle Club race dispute between Theodore Roberts and Annin of Brooklyn. Continues on to the N.C.U.-Tricycle Union championship quarrel, Alfred E. King's wedding, Col. Albert Pope's return from Mexico, and Jo. Pennell's planned European tricycle tour with his wife.
- Follow-up column of stray items from the L.A.W. Washington meet: the Capital Club's map of the asphalt streets, an exciting bicycle-polo match between the Washington and Smithville teams, President Arthur's White House reception for the Springfield Club, and police stopping Dan Canary from riding his single wheel down the Capitol steps after Rex Smith, Will Robertson and Capt. H. S. Owen had already done so. Also notes the Capital Club's record 70 wheelmen in the parade line and about $500 banked for the League from the race meeting.
- Racing roundup: L. B. Hamilton of Yale wins the two-mile intercollegiate race at Mott Haven; Prince beats Higham, Woodside and Morgan for Washington's ten-mile professional championship; and Welle beats Lewis, Bean and Gard in a Louisville ten-mile road race after Lewis takes a header near the finish. Also lists the officials for the Boston Ramblers' race meeting and previews the Binghamton Bicycle Club's upcoming second annual meet.
- Club news roundup covering the newly organized Winged Wheel Club of Elkhart, Indiana; the Chicago Bicycle Club's plans, under chief consul J. O. Blake, for an Illinois State division parade of about 250 wheelmen; the Lancaster, Pennsylvania club's reorganization under President E. P. Day; and new officers at clubs in Concord, New Hampshire, New Britain, Connecticut, Chattanooga, Tennessee (the Crescent Club) and Cheyenne, Wyoming.
- Answers to Correspondents column responding to readers A. J. Clare, H. S. Tibbs, A. H. Overman, H. B. Donly, E. R. W. (explaining the 'Kangaroo' nickname for the Star bicycle) and the Missouri Wheel Company.
- Calendar of upcoming cycling fixtures into July, including the Illinois State division meet in Chicago, the Boston Ramblers' race meeting, the Harvard Bicycle Club races, the Quaker City Bicycle Club's Philadelphia tournament, the Niagara-to-Boston tour, and the Canadian Wheelmen's Association's annual meet in Toronto.