The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 11, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Regular short-news department covering Pierre Lallement's financial distress after leaving Pope Mfg. Co., Rowe's open challenge to Richard Howell for a race in America, the San Francisco Bicycle Club's committee to welcome Thomas Stevens on his return from Yokohama, Boston clubs' Thanksgiving Day ride schedules, Percy Stone's Texas fair competitions, and a notice of the Pennells' new illustrated book on their Italian tandem tour.
- Editorial rebuttal of the British Bicycling News (Hillier/Harmsworth), which dismissed American professional road records by Rowe and others as unverified; the editor argues that professional riders' stock-in-trade is their reputed pace and that shared skepticism between cycling press and public on both sides of the Atlantic is fully warranted.
- Second-day narrative of a bicycle tour through the Wye Valley and Forest of Dean, England, tracing the strenuous climb to Symonds Yat (502 ft), descents through Bicknor Church and the Forest of Dean, a famished stop at Severn Bridge Cottage Inn, and return to Bristol; total expenses for two days came to under 16 shillings each.
- Correspondent covers H. D. Corey's return from inspecting English machines for Stoddard, Lovering & Co., D. Rudge & Co.'s decision to cease racing-wheel subsidies on American tracks, New York State L.A.W. division camp plans for Cooperstown at $25 per camper, the Hudson County Palisades boulevard adopted by the governor, and a witty anecdote about interviewing the Statue of Liberty on the American craze for record-breaking.
- Elizabeth Wheelmen's October mileage report with individual scores: D. B. Bonnett led with 4,341 miles and the club total reached approximately 3,530 miles, falling short of the 70,000-mile annual goal but still some 20,000–25,000 miles ahead of the prior year's 38,000-mile total.
- Romantic poem reprinted from Cassell's Family Magazine tracing a city clerk's nightly bicycle rides through Knightsbridge and Brompton to court a maiden at Sheen, ending in their marriage and a symbolic farewell to his bicycle bell.
- Letter from F. L. Bingham withdrawing the Harlem Wheelmen's Nov. 29 Stag party invitation due to interior renovations, and announcing a weekly 'At Home' entertainment series for all cycling clubs and unattached wheelmen every Saturday evening starting December 4.
- Reports that Minneapolis is overrun with professional bicycle racers: Woodside and Morgan are matched for 100 miles at the Washington Rink for $100 a side, while Schock and Morgan have signed articles for a six-day 142-hour race beginning December 10 for $2,000 or $1,000 a side and the World's Championship.