The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Department of short news items: a half-mile race won by O. G. Brown at the Grocers' picnic near Pittsburg, the Pope Manufacturing Company prize competition, an Ohio State Fair bicycle race at Columbus, Col. A. A. Pope sailing for Europe on the City of Richmond, J. T. Joslin proposed for L.A.W. consul, the Central Park roads debate, and the New Jersey Agricultural Society races at Waverly.
- A Pittsburg wheelman (signed T. L. O.) praises the city's club and roads, describes a thirty-mile run along the Monongahela to McKeesport, and recounts a comic failed attempt to use his L.A.W. membership ticket as a railroad pass.
- Boston column (signed Juvenis) covering Excelsior Cyclometer maintenance, the Boston Club's steamer trip to Gloucester and hot-weather wheel run home via Beverly, Lynn and Cambridge, and jabs at exaggerated League figures published in The Cyclist of June 15th.
- Editorial standing note declaring the managers' intention to make The Wheel a lively paper covering club meetings, races, tours and inventions, and inviting readers to send news items and correspondence to the editor at 75 Fulton Street.
- Satirical editorial (signed J. W.) on the New York Park Commission's drawn-out hearings against bicycles in Central Park, mocking the parade of livery-stable and horsey witnesses and arguing the Commission is prolonging the case to keep wheels out of the park indefinitely.
- Letter datelined Harmar, Ohio, July 21 (signed Capt. C. W. F.) on the fine gravel and clay riding around Marietta and Harmar, advice to buy a machine "all bright" before plating, and a query on ball versus cone bearings for the back wheel.
- Calendar of upcoming bicycle races and entry deadlines: the New England Fair at Worcester, the joint New York and Manhattan Athletic Club meeting at Mott Haven, the New Jersey State Fair at Waverly, and the New York Athletic Club championship games.
- The Pope Manufacturing Company announces prizes for the best article on the uses of the bicycle (4,000–8,000 words, deadline 15 September 1881) and the best series of bicycling sketches, each prize a full nickelled ball-bearing Columbia bicycle, with judges John Boyle O'Reilly, Rev. H. D. Weston and W. F. Halsall.
- Third instalment of a 1,030-mile tour narrative from Lima, Ohio, to Boston (continued from page 166): a broken axle forces a train to Cleveland, then the riders push on through Willoughby and Mentor, where the writer calls on Gen. Garfield, and across the Western Reserve to the Pennsylvania line.
- Standing publication notice giving The Wheel's alternate-Wednesday schedule, the $1.00-a-year subscription price, remittance instructions to Fred. Jenkins at 75 Fulton Street, and the London agency at the Bicycling Times office, Fleet Street.