The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Editorial gossip column covering the field officers appointed for the Waverly games (W. B. Curtis of the Spirit of the Times as referee and starter), the Albany 'Championship of the State of New York' denounced as an advertising hoax for letting professional F. S. Rollinson compete against amateurs, and the slow progress of the Central Park bicycle test case (Wright, Foster and Walker).
- Brief notes that Capt. A. M. Hill, Secretary R. P. Randall and Lieut. C. H. Genslinger of the New Orleans Club are visiting New York for two or three weeks, the club having grown to seventy-odd members and building a six-lap track, and that C. J. Howard and Fred. Jenkins of the Manhattan Bi. Club are rusticating on Long Island.
- Club correspondence and newly elected officers from Germantown (a Newport collision between F. W. Corse and John Thomas), Marlboro', the newly organized Mount Vernon Bicycle Club under Wm. Gilbert Clark, Rochester (H. G. Danforth, president), and San Francisco, which is weighing an appearance at the Sacramento State Fair.
- Correspondence signed S. S. and L. C. P. praising the extensive macadam roads of Orange, New Jersey as among the finest cycling country in the United States, describing the forty-five-member Essex Bi. Club of Newark and proposing a race against the Manhattan Bi. Club should Central Park be opened to wheelmen.
- Boston letter signed 'Handy Andy' ridiculing the New York Park Commissioners' horse-fright testimony in the Central Park case, reporting Alden's strong ten-mile ride (41:18¼) on a soft, windy track, the Boston Club's plan to recruit a hundred non-cyclist members, and 'Billy' Everett's rough tour to Lake George.
- Editorial statement of the paper's purpose — to report club meetings, races, tours, runs, inventions and personal items — inviting correspondence and news, noting it goes to press the Saturday preceding publication, and directing contributions to the editor at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- Editorial signed J. W. commending the Boston club's rule of expelling and publicly naming members who refuse to pay their dues, arguing that delinquency is a form of dishonesty and that publishing such expulsions is just and warns other clubs of these 'hangers-on,' with two specific cases cited.
- Account reprinted from the Christian Advocate of Dr. Arthur Edwards, editor of the North-Western Christian Advocate, and his thirteen-year-old son Arthur Robin sailing to Glasgow with new Singer 'Extraordinary Challenge' bicycles to tour Scotland, England and France ahead of the London Methodist Ecumenical Conference, riding between historic sites from Stirling and Edinburgh to Coventry, Oxford and Paris.
- Report of Weygant v. Joslin tried before Justice Bushfield of Newburgh: though the plaintiff's horse was frightened by Joslin's bicycle and ran away, the court found no cause of action, holding a bicyclist has as good a right to the road as a horseman, and Joslin now plans to sue Weygant for his own damages.
- Calendar of upcoming amateur bicycle races and entry deadlines, including the Morris County Agricultural Society races at Morristown, the New England Fair at Worcester, the four-event New Jersey State Fair programme at Waverly (including the Championship of New Jersey), and the New York Athletic Club championship games at Mott Haven on September 24.
- Fourth installment of the 'By Bicycle to Boston' touring serial, describing crowds of curious onlookers and their endless questions, a detour around a demolished bridge in Elk Creek Valley near Erie, the climb to Lake Chautauqua (850 feet above Lake Erie), and the ride from Buffalo to Niagara Falls with travelling man Jas. Lansing of Utica, ending in a confrontation with a Clifton House omnibus driver.
- House notice giving the paper's subscription terms ($1.00 a year, 6s. European, payable in advance) and remittance instructions to Fred. Jenkins at 75 Fulton Street, New York, with the London agency at the Bicycling Times office on Whitefriars Street, Fleet Street.