The Velocipedist, Vol 1, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader on the velocipede's history, citing the Galaxy and Scientific American on a Norfolk, Conn. boy's 1823 wooden two-wheeler (related by I. I. Pease), water veloces, and rival patent claims by Witty, Hanlon and Stephen Wm. Smith (assignee of McKenzie's cantering horse).
- Quotes the Toronto Leader on magistrate Mr. McNab declining to summons John Dixon for sidewalk velocipeding, citing the precedent of wheelbarrows and newspaper carts.
- A Herald piece mocking city aldermen for treating a horseless wheeled vehicle as preposterous and threatening twenty-five-dollar fines.
- Standing department inviting questions on velocipeding and kindred subjects for reply in the journal.
- Boston Telegraph report of Alonzo S. Briggs of New York performing on a Pickering & Davis hollow-pipe machine in State Street and touring to Newton, Brighton and Gloucester.
- At Southampton Petty Sessions, toll collector Edward Andrews is summoned for charging twopence to cross the Northam Bridge with a velocipede classed as a wheelbarrow; case adjourned.
- A whimsical piece on the unsettled natural-history classification of the velocipede, prompted by an English toll-bridge collector charging it as a wheelbarrow.
- Hartford Courant report that Austin T. Ashmead is the first prosecuted under the chief-of-police order against sidewalk riding, defended by Hon. W. W. Eaton.
- A German-dialect comic poem signed 'Shinks,' recounting his disastrous attempts to ride a felocibade at Dreadway Hall and naming public men like Greeley, Raymond and Beecher.