The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Editorial column of quips and notes on the L.A.W. Meet, recording the new League corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam, the newly-formed Brunswick (N.J.) Bicycle Club, F. A. Coleman's lost Fourth Regiment badge, and the Manhattan Bicycle Club's monthly meeting voting to send its 43 members into the League and to join the Bicycle Touring Club.
- C. P. Shillaber reports the May 29 run of about fifty League consuls from Boston to Waltham, where an informal meeting chaired by Mr. Dean debated securing discounted hotel rates for L.A.W. members, with input from editor Fred Jenkins, Dr. Coleman of Canandaigua, H. B. Colby of Waltham, and Gale Sherman of Lima, Ohio.
- A correspondent ('C. W. L.') argues the English 'Matchless' is doomed by its oil-perishable india-rubber front-bearing pad, and instead describes his custom-built 'Special American Centaur' for American roads, with elliptical weldless steel backbone, double ball bearings, detachable cranks, and gunmetal hubs on 72 and 24 spokes.
- Editorial statement of purpose by proprietor Fred Jenkins and associate editor Julius Wilcox, promising coverage of club meetings, races, tours, and inventions, and inviting correspondence to The Wheel at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- Editorial signed 'J. W.' on the New York Park Board's refusal of Commissioner Wales's proposal to open Central Park to bicycles, arguing the wheel must be treated in law as a carriage rather than begging admittance through hat-in-hand petitions.
- Report on the L.A.W. annual Meet at Boston, with clubs arriving by train after Saturday's rain and Monday's parade led by Commander C. K. Munroe of the New York Club, followed by a division-by-division roster of clubs from Boston (26 men) and Massachusetts (38 men) to delegations from Baltimore, Milwaukee, Louisville, and Montreal; marked 'To be Continued.'
- Results of four amateur races at Beacon Park on May 28, 1881: Lewis T. Frye of Marlboro won the quarter-mile (47½s) and half-mile (1m 42s), while Wm. M. Woodside of the Manhattan Bi. C. took both the one-mile (3m 36¾s) and two-mile (6m 52½s), the latter beating Sewall of Waltham and Faulkner of the Star Club.
- Notice from U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, inviting American wheelmen to join the international Bicycle Touring Club (over 4,000 members) for an annual fee of 2s. 6d. plus a silver badge, with a $2.50 remittance sent to him direct.
- Publication notice giving The Wheel's subscription ($1.25 a year, 7s. in Europe) and advertising terms, payable to Fred Jenkins at 75 Fulton Street, New York, and naming C. J. Fox, Jr. of the Bicycling Times office, Fleet Street, as the paper's London agency.