The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Editorial miscellany noting the Hartford Wheel Club's secretary Elmer M. White, the addition of Julius Wilcox as associate editor, a rebuke of The Bicycling World over the L.A.W. Meet's move to Boston, and the proposal to restrict Central Park riding to proficient wheelmen.
- Biographical sketch (from the New York Courier) of English amateur champion Herbert Liddell Cortis of the Wanderers Bi. Club, recounting his championship wins for the Bicycle Union, his defeat of professional John Keen, his record of 19 miles 1,420 yards in the hour, and his retirement to handicapping.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, a technical account of Nahum Salaman's new 'Matchless' bicycle for the Bicycle and Tricycle Supply Association at 27 Holborn Viaduct, London, stressing its extensive use of india-rubber rings, cushions and buffers to deaden vibration in springs, forks, handlebars and bearings.
- Club news and officer-election results from the Albany, Arlington (Washington D.C.), Brattleboro, Brooklyn, Lenox, Manhattan, Montreal and New York clubs and the Oakland (California) club, covering new uniforms, L.A.W. Boston Meet plans, and Montreal's projected Blue Bonnets race meeting.
- Editorial statement of the new paper's aims to report club meetings, races, tours, runs and the latest inventions, inviting correspondence addressed to the editor at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- Signed editorial by Julius Wilcox of Brooklyn arguing that, having lost the L.A.W. Meet to Boston through the obstructive Park Commissioners, wheelmen should assert their legal right to use public highways and parks and bring the question before the L.A.W.
- A long letter from Capt. C. W. F. of Farmdale, Ky. specifying his ideal custom 53-inch bicycle (red rubbers, Centaur hollow fluted forks, Arab Cradle Spring, double ball bearings), arguing for hollow forks over solid, and offering tips on cold-weather exercise and trouser bands for riding.
- Column by 'Mercury' on New York riding conditions, the 59th-to-90th-street training ground and its record (14m. 32s.), a scheme to badge expert riders for Central Park access, and the want of a good combined lamp and cyclometer.
- Signed 'X.Y.Z.' account of the Manhattan Club's first run of the season, taking a special Ninth Avenue Elevated car to Newark, joining the Essex Club for a ride to Orange, and being entertained by Secretary Burrill at the Mansion House.
- Calendar notice that entries close May 31 for a three-mile bicycle race at the Young America Cricket Club games at Stenton, Philadelphia, fee fifty cents to W. T. Wilcox.