The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 11, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Opening news column covering Thomas Stevens' completion of his round-the-world bicycle tour, E.M. Aaron's resignation as Secretary-Editor of the League of American Wheelmen, the Rowe–Hendee controversy over fitness at Newark, and Charles Stuart Nairn's arrival from England.
- Editor comments on the League's management and welcomes the American Wheelman's agreement with The Wheel's views on the Bulletin's cost, noting Aaron's confirmed resignation as Secretary-Editor and anticipating progressive action at the upcoming executive meeting.
- Thomas E. Stevens arrived in San Francisco from Yokohama after completing his bicycle trip around the world, recounting rough treatment by peasants in China and a warm welcome in Japan, where his arrival had been telegraphed in advance to the native press.
- The Pope Manufacturing Company is moving into a new building at the corner of Franklin and Arch streets, Boston, with the second floor devoted to offices and upper floors to sales department and machine shop.
- The Nashville Bicycle Club has leased the entire third floor of the Allen block on Church Street for three years, fitted out with a parlor, billiard room, reading desk stocked with cycling periodicals, and a wheel room, with an Overman wheel suspended as a sign over the entrance.
- A formal trade notice from R. Philip Gormully announces the incorporation of The Gormully and Jeffery Mfg. Co., which has purchased the entire plant of the co-partnership, with Gormully as President and Treasurer, Michael J. Naghton as Vice-President, and Thomas B. Jeffery as Secretary and Manager.
- Criticises the N.C.U.'s inconsistent treatment of amateur racer J.E. Fenlon, suspended on suspicion of having a manufacturer pay his German race-trip expenses even though N.C.U. official Robert Todd simultaneously paid Fenlon's own railway fares to the championship meeting.
- London correspondent Harry Hewitt Griffin surveys the pre-Stanley Show British cycle market, tracing the history of dwarf-safety bicycles from the Kangaroo through the Rover, and reporting on new machines from the Facile Company, Dan Albone's Ivel Safety, the Cunard Cycle Co. (capital $125,000), Hillman Herbert & Cooper's £105 prize offer, and Rudge's Royal Crescent tandem.
- Boston importers Stoddard, Lovering & Co. preview their 1887 Rudge lineup—Light Roadster, Roadster, Bicyclette, Crescent Tricycle, Humber Tandem, and Crescent Tandem—noting improvements based on correspondence with experienced riders rather than novelty for advertising purposes.
- Correspondent reports on a farewell racing event for professionals at a Minneapolis rink in twenty-degrees-below-zero cold, with Bell winning the 20-mile star-wheel race in 1:08, Schroeter taking the 5-mile amateur race in 16:45, and Bates beating Steele in the 2-mile professional Star bicycle event.
- Brooklyn correspondent covers the Kings County Wheelmen's pool tournament and plans for new quarters near Bedford and Fulton avenues, E.K. Austin's switch from a 34-lb light roadster to a Star bicycle, and the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's 1886 statistics: 65 members, 55,743 total miles, led by A.B. Barkman with 8,086 miles on a Victor.
- Reports on the Long Island Wheelmen's annual meeting electing new officers following consolidation with the Bedford Cycling Club, plans for a four-storey club house on Bedford Avenue with a clock-tower facade, and social events at the Brooklyn Bicycle Club including pool tournaments and winter entertainments.
- "An Old Member" traces the history of the League of American Wheelmen's official organs from The Wheel (1883) through the Bulletin (established at Buffalo in 1885), estimating the Bulletin costs roughly $3,000 a year, and questioning whether the League should continue as a publisher or revert to a simple monthly circular.
- First instalment of a touring narrative about a cycling trip to Canada in summer 1882 on a 48-inch Standard Columbia and a 52-inch American Sanspareil, including a train collision in West Hartford, Vermont, customs difficulties freeing a polished bicycle in Montreal, and sightseeing at Notre Dame Cathedral and the Lachine Rapids.
- Chief Consul H.W. Hayes presided over the Massachusetts Division meeting at the Quincy House, with delegates from the Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, and Springfield clubs voting to appropriate $100 for the Chief Consul's office and favouring a proposed Division meet at Martha's Vineyard next summer.
- Programme for the League of American Wheelmen annual meet in St. Louis on May 20–21, including a Board of Officers meeting, steamer excursion down the Missouri River to Montesano with a grand ball, parade to Forest Park, League races, and a road race over the Clarksville Belt road.
- Brief listing of new cycling-related patents including Nil. Brown of Emporia, Kansas (Swing Bicycle), W.S. Evans of Clyde, Ohio (Bulletin Boards), and A.P. Merrill of Fall River, Massachusetts (Wheel for Velocipedes).