The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes criticising the Beacon Park Association and the League Meet committee for slow prize awards, flagging a Washington three-mile race whose last mile (2:47) reportedly beat the American and English records, and announcing a ten-day Hudson-Catskill tour by H. H. Walker, H. A. Harley and the editor.
- Readers' letters: C. F. P. of Farmdale, Ky. praises G. W. Pressey's front-small-wheel American Star bicycle seen en route to the Boston parade, while Capt. C. W. Fowler describes hot-weather riding near Frankfort, Ky. and the coming Louisville races.
- Special supplement listing the L. A. W. officers for 1881-'82 — President Charles E. Pratt of Boston, Commander C. K. Munroe, Corresponding Secretary K. N. Putnam — and the appointed state and Canadian consuls, city by city.
- Report of the L. A. W. annual business meeting in Boston, with President Pratt's address and the election of officers (Pratt re-elected president by 548 votes, J. M. Fairfield vice-president, C. K. Munroe commander over E. C. Hodges, S. T. Clark recording secretary, Dillwyn Wistar treasurer), followed by the dinner and trick-riding exhibition for over 400 guests at Music Hall.
- The Capital Bicycle Club's annual races in Iowa Circle, Washington before 6,000-7,000 spectators, with wins by H. M. Schooley (one mile), George Cook (club quarter- and one-mile), J. McK. Borden (five miles, 18:42¾) and H. Stewart (three-mile open, third mile in 2:47).
- Notice from U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston inviting American wheelmen to join the international Bicycle Touring Club (over 4,000 members), detailing the 2s 6d annual fee and silver club badge.
- Mr. Gideon of the Germantown Bi. C., on a 56-inch Special Columbia, recounts the roughly 100-mile ride from Philadelphia to Jersey City in just over 15 hours, during which consul A. Powell's D. H. F. Special Challenge broke its perch near Hopewell.
- Trade review (reprinted from The Cyclist) of 'The Grand' roadster built by Settle & Co. of Fleet Works, Coventry, praising its ball-bearing pedals and weldless steel forks and backbone; a 50-inch weighs 10 lb and costs £17 10s.
- Report (from the Courier) of a Philadelphia three-mile race among Field, Merchant, Gideon and Lees, won on a technicality by Field after Gideon passed him at the finish, time 10:30.
- Editorial statement of the paper's aims — to report club meetings, races, tours and the latest inventions — inviting correspondence to the editor at 75 Fulton Street.
- Editorial (signed J. W.) answering The World's fear that the L. A. W. might split: it praises the Boston Meet but argues the country is too large for one general meet and that regional associations under the L. A. W. umbrella would strengthen rather than break the League.
- Boston correspondent reflects on the League Meet's success, the good impression made by the Star machine in the parade, his own count of 850-plus wheels in line, and an inter-club ten-mile race set for Beacon Park.
- 'The Scribe' describes the Manhattan Bicycle Club's final club run of the season — nine men under Capt. P. Fred. Bruner travelling by Elevated R.R. and rail to a convivial overnight at the Mansion House, Orange, N.J.
- First instalment of 'Blaine' and Bob's 1,030-mile tour from Lima, Ohio to Boston on Standard Columbia bicycles, recounting their muddy, rain-plagued start through West Cairo and on toward Findlay and Tiffin.
- Calendar of upcoming races — the Elizabeth Athletic Club (June 30) and the Williamsburg and Manhattan Athletic Clubs and Dunkirk, N.Y. (July 4) — with entry fees and secretaries.
- The Wheel's subscription and advertising particulars ($1.25 a year, 7s European), with remittances to Fred Jenkins at 75 Fulton Street and a London agency at the Bicycling Times office.