The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 25
Articles in this issue
- A miscellaneous notes column recommending the Peabody House in Yonkers as the only League hotel in the vicinity, noting that Volume I is drawing to a close, and detailing the New Jersey State Agricultural Society's fair programme (lawn tennis, lacrosse, archery, and the bicycling tournament on September 21st), with free bicycle transport arranged by Benj. Haines.
- Club news reports of newly formed clubs in Frankford, Pa. (organized August 11th under President Joseph Dyson), Honesdale, Pa. (S.L.G. Atkinson president), Marlboro (semi-annual officers elected under Captain Arthur Curtis), the Rochester Bicycle Club (new officers including President H.G. Danforth, 40+ members, a tournament under discussion), and the new St. Louis club formed July 24th with Richard Garvey as president.
- Two reader letters: an account signed 'H.A.H.' of transporting a bicycle by rail from Providence to Yankton, Dakota, with advice on avoiding the express department and greasing machines with tallow; and a letter signed 'Juvenis' from Boston, dated August 28th, denying being an aspirant for an essay prize and calling out plagiarism of the writer 'Ixion' in the August issue of Cycling.
- An official notice from Frank W. Weston, Chief Consul, U.S.A. (of the Bicycle Touring Club), asking members who have forwarded membership applications but not yet received their tickets and badges to communicate with him at once, as the non-arrival suggests a mis-carriage in the mail.
- Editorial statement of purpose for The Wheel, explaining its intention to cover club meetings, races, tours, excursions, inventions, and personal items of interest to bicyclers, and inviting correspondence addressed to the Editor at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- A substantial editorial essay signed J.W. arguing that 'unattached' riders owe a moral and practical debt to the clubs, the social element, and the cycling press that developed the wheel from the 1869 boneshaker and improved roads, machines, and the sport's standing, urging them to join clubs and become paying subscribers.
- Race calendar of upcoming amateur bicycle races, including the Staten Island Athletic Club games at West New Brighton, the New England Fair at Worcester, Mass. (September 6), the New York and Manhattan Athletic Club meet at Mott-Haven, the Baltimore County fair at Timonium, Md., the Canadian championship on the Montreal Lacrosse Grounds (September 21), and the New Jersey State Fair races at Waverly, N.J.
- Results from recent races: at Avon Springs on the 20th, Williams and Punnett of the Rochester Bicycle Club won the quarter-mile (time 1:55) and the fancy/slow races; at the Geneseo tournament on the 28th, Barross of Attica took the mile heats, Smith of Rochester second, with Punnett again winning fancy and slow riding and Booth of Geneseo taking the Livingstone County championship.
- Part V of a serialised account of a 1,030-mile bicycle tour from Lima, Ohio to Boston, covering the ride from Niagara Falls through Lockport and Rochester (guided out by Mr. Punnett of the Rochester Bicycle Club), then along the Erie Canal tow-path to Clyde, Syracuse, Oneida, Utica, and Little Falls, including a vivid header into a thistle patch and a visit to the E. Remington & Sons firearms works at Ilion.
- Brief editorial replies to reader queries: D.B. Landis asks about small-front-wheel bicycles (the Star) versus the Standard Columbia; H.F.H. is advised that pure Signal oil gives a brilliant lamp light; and C.M.M. is thanked for notes that appear in this issue.
- Short personal items: Treasurer Minor and Captain F. Bruner return from Watch Hill; Mr. J. Frank Burrill offers two medals ($50 and $20) for a 25-, 50-, or 100-mile race if Essex Bicycle Club's L.H. Johnson will compete; and M.C. Smith, W. Cunningham, and Geo. F. Brown of the Yonkers Bicycle Club are touring in England until October.