The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The editor remarks on a Brooklyn club's internal quarrel over 'toughness,' defends Dr. J.H. Cooley's appointment as Racing Board Chairman against 'London W.'s' attack, and argues the League should regulate road racing on the same amateur-professional terms as path racing.
- New Jersey correspondent 'Jonah' reports summer heat keeping riders off the road, praises Ed Baggot, Charley Stenken, and Harry Hall for their Roseville Fourth of July performances, defends wheeling against tennis and baseball as the superior sport, and conveys sad news that Augustus Weber—promising younger brother of the late star rider George Weber—had his legs crushed in a Burlington foundry.
- A compendium of brief items covering Tom Stevens's reinstatement by the Racing Board, Dutch champion Kiderlen's feats at the Jubilee Tournament (including the last lap of a two-mile tricycle race in 51 2-5s.), passage of New York's 'Bicycle Bill,' Mecredy's new tricycle records at Alexandra Park, and Howell's win over Temple at Leicester on July 9.
- Boston correspondent 'Stylus' reports post-Fourth quiet among local riders, recounts Billy Rowe's refusal to start against an excessive handicap for McCurdy at the Lynn races, describes the formation of a new Massachusetts Bicycle Club under President W.T. Slocum, and details the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. programme for the Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, outing in August.
- A Kentucky correspondent argues cyclists are unjustly held liable when horses shy at passing bicycles, citing a Mansfield, Ohio, fatality where the rider was briefly arrested despite giving half the road, and contrasting the double standard with railway engineers and brass bands whose noise also frightens horses without legal consequence.
- Correspondents 'Norb' and 'Bon' describe wheelmen's three-day Fourth of July excursions to Patchogue, Babylon, Far Rockaway, and Roslyn; report the Brooklyn Club's tour to Flushing and Bayside with dinner at Crocheron's Hotel; note the Kentucky Division's new 59-route road handbook and upcoming Latonia track races; and narrate the disastrous Long Island Railroad return where bicycles, left in a box car with milk cans, arrived damaged.
- Reports detailed plans for an illuminated bicycle parade through Minneapolis with division leaders from the Mercury Bicycle Club, Minneapolis Bicycle Club, and Star Bicycle Club; and covers E.A. Savage's road record ride from Minneapolis to St. Paul—fifteen and a quarter miles in fifty-nine minutes—on July 7.
- Full results of the New Castle B.C.'s Fourth of July summer meeting, where H.B. Schwartz of Reading won the hill-climbing contest (2:05 2-5) and dominated the afternoon programme including the one-mile open (2:52 2-5) and two-mile open (6:25 1-5); races timed using an electrical apparatus designed by members H.B. Cubbison and C.L. White.
- Covers the International Jubilee Tournament at Alexandra Palace, June 23–24, where Kiderlen of Holland won the two-mile tricycle final in 6:41, W. Illston took the amateur half-mile in 1:18 3-5, and Temple finished third in the professional mile handicap; also reports Mecredy's new tricycle quarter-mile record (1:24) and J.B. King's amateur distance records from 21 to 25 miles at Alexandra Park on June 27.
- A letter from 'Senator' in London, dated June 26, reports that Temple has beaten every professional in Britain and that the Wheelman's Record published an unfair libel that will be retracted; Temple returns in November while Senator and Woodside remain through winter; autumn plans include Berlin, Austria, Norway, Holland, and France.
- Results of the Rutherford wheelmen's Independence Day meet before 3,000 spectators, where A.P. Jackson won the five-mile scratch in 24:30 and E.W. Dean, Jr. took both the two-mile handicap from scratch (8:45) and the one-mile scratch.
- Detailed schedule for the Massachusetts Division L.A.W.'s sixth annual meet at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, August 4–6, with round-trip rail fares of $2.50 including wheel transport; events include a clambake at Katama, a wheel parade, races on the three-lap Ocean Park course (half-mile novice, one-mile open and handicap, one-mile tricycle), a reception and ball hosted by the Martha's Vineyard club, and a Saturday sail.
- Practical touring advice by F. Freeman, reprinted from Bicycling News, on cycling through France, Switzerland, and Italy: carrying £10 in sovereigns and Bank of England notes, obtaining a French passport (cost 2s.), using dark goggles on dusty white roads, taking tyre cement and Rudge clips, and carrying Cadbury's or Menier's chocolate against hunger between widely-spaced villages.
- A feature reprinted from the London Daily News on Coventry's booming cycle industry: thirteen factories employing up to 700 men in day-and-night shifts, one works producing 600 machines a week; describes the manufacture of ball-bearings and hollow tube rims, extraordinary demand for the safety bicycle this season, and H.J. Lawson of Rudge & Co.'s claim to have invented the safety bicycle at the 1877 Stanley Show.
- Correspondent 'Independent' narrates the Ilderan Wheelmen's July 9–12 tour from New York to Niagara Falls and Toronto via West Shore Railway sleeper 'Texarkana': a boisterous overnight pillow-fight on the train, a walk under the Falls in bathing suits guided by Captain W.G. Cannon of the Niagara Wheelmen, a cross-border ride into Canada to the Whirlpool Rapids, and a three-hour sail on the Chicora to Toronto where the Wanderers hosted them at the Walker House and Hanlan's Island.
- A special dispatch to the Boston Herald reports the arrival in Washington of Captain A.D. Peck, Jr. and James W. Burr of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, who rode from Boston through Providence (pausing for the Harvard–Yale boat race), across Long Island, and into New York on the Fourth of July, before finishing the journey by rail from Philadelphia.
- Results of the July 4 bicycle races at Brookline: W.K. Corey won the two-mile in 7:49½ and the one-mile senior in 3:45 1-5; Fred Crane was second in the senior mile and won the one-mile junior in 4:28 1-5 over Stearns; George Taylor took the slow-bicycle 100-yard event.
- Account of Hal Greenwood's victory over Percy Stone in the ninety-mile St. Louis–De Soto road contest on July 11: Greenwood on a Star overhauled Stone's Crank on the steep hill sections beyond Maxville, pulled decisively clear on the 'Corker' hill, and completed the round trip in eleven hours forty-two minutes; Stone, who descended Bulltown hill among loose stones without a fall, collapsed on the return leg.
- Thomas Stevens visits Karl Kron at Mason's Warren Street depot, finds him boxing 6,000 copies of 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' and endorses the 908-page encyclopedic work representing four years of Yale-graduate labor and nearly $6,000 in costs, predicting Kron will succeed in selling the 30,000 copies needed to turn a profit.
- Karl Kron reports from Washington Square that 4,131 copies of 'X. M. Miles on a Bi.' have been dispatched since June 1—804 in the previous week alone—to Philadelphia, Buffalo, Portland, Worcester, and other cities; he plans to add Cleveland, Hartford, and Connecticut towns, and invites subscribers to serve as volunteer depositories.
- Pope Manufacturing Company corrects The Wheel's account of the patent proceedings against Gormully & Jeffery, clarifying that Pope never withdrew injunction motions, that defendants' counsel sought the postponement, and that the cases are set for final autumn hearing at early precedence as a concession to Pope—not to Gormully.
- Miscellany noting William Read & Sons' New Mail communication, the New York Club's plans for a new house at 58th Street and Eighth Avenue (initiation fee $10, annual dues $25), Dr. J. Leonard Corning's enthusiasm after taking up cycling with instructor T.A. Smily, Kluge training at Roseville on a Crank wheel, and George Hendee preparing to challenge champion Rowe at Worcester Agricultural Park with trainer Harry Cornish.