The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 22
Articles in this issue
- A column of short club and trade notes: the Kings County Wheelmen lease the old grounds at Rutledge Street and Bedford Avenue, Col. A. A. Pope sails for England, Schuyler & Duane receive a consignment of Rudge bicycles, and the Edgewater Wheels of Bergen Point, the Capital Bi. Club and the New Orleans Bi. Club report their officers.
- Report of the Fourth of July bicycle races on Boston Common, where W. M. Woodside of the Manhattan Club wins the one- and two-mile amateur events and F. S. Rollinson of New York takes the two-mile professional race in three heats over J. W. Wilson, with Harry Percival winning the tricycle mile.
- Frank W. Winston, Chief Consul U.S.A., invites American wheelmen to join the international Bicycle Touring Club—now over four thousand members—for an annual fee of two shillings and sixpence, with applications sent to Savin Hill, Dorchester, Boston.
- The editors' statement of purpose, promising coverage of club meetings, races, tours, inventions and personal items and inviting correspondents to send news to The Wheel at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- An editorial signed J. W. rebutting the Central Park Commissioners' solicitation of anti-bicycle testimony through the Herald's personal column, arguing that isolated horse-fright incidents cannot justify excluding bicycles given their peaceful use elsewhere and the courts' consistent defence of equal rights of way.
- Reports that the July 15 hearing before Judge Lawrence in 'Wright and two others against the Park Commissioners' was postponed again to August 5, and quotes the Evening Mail urging that bicycles be allowed in Central Park.
- A touring narrative signed 'f. j.' recounting a 268-mile trip from New York through Dutchess County and the Catskill Mountains on Harvard Roadsters with H. H. Walker of the Manhattan Bicycle Club, closing with a log-book of stage mileages and road conditions.
- Forthcoming fixtures: amateur bicycle races at the New England Fair in Worcester on 7 September 1881 with gold, silver and bronze medals, and a two-mile amateur race at the New York Athletic Club championship games on 24 September, entries closing 15 September.
- The paper's standing colophon giving subscription terms ($1.00 a year, 6s. in Europe), its alternate-Wednesday publishing schedule, and its London agency at the Bicycling Times office, Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street.