The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Reports two concessions won for wheelmen: Central Vermont Railroad will carry bicycles in baggage cars at 50 cents for distances under fifty miles, and the Iron Steamboat Co. of New York (secured by Manhattan Bicycle Club secretary Charles A. Sheehan) will carry wheels free on its Long Branch and Coney Island routes.
- Brief notice of George B. Thayer's 244-page book published by the Hartford Evening Post Association, describing his 4,239-mile transcontinental wheel tour from Hartford, Connecticut, to San Francisco, passing through twenty-three states and territories over seven months.
- Reports the New York Club's July mileage of 13,015 miles, more than double the 5,472 recorded in July 1886, with Joseph M. McFadden leading at 1,475 miles for the season and 473 for the month; E. J. Shriver and J. O. Jiminis each rode century days of over 100 miles.
- Letter announcing the newly formed Riverside Wheelmen, headquartered at 108th Street and Western Boulevard with about twenty members; officers include President J. L. Miller, Vice-President C. Dorr, Secretary-Treasurer E. A. Powers, and Captain A. F. Menge.
- Lively correspondent account by 'Fossil' of the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. meet at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, describing the clam-bake at Katama, Friday afternoon races (track poor, time over four minutes), Dr. Tucker's entertainment, the grand reception at the Sea View hotel, and a day-trip to Nantucket.
- New Jersey cycling column by 'Jonah' covering a tandem excursion from Red Bank along the Rumson road and the Ocean Avenue from Sandy Hook to Deal at Long Branch, the growth of the Manhattan Bicycle Club to forty members, and details of the programme for the Roseville track tournament on August 20 featuring champion Rowe.
- Boston-area cycling column by 'Stylus' detailing Dr. Bogman and wife's tandem tour from Providence along the North Shore to Gloucester and Cape Ann, the Massachusetts Club's new road officers A. D. Peck Jr. (Captain) and J. E. Trippett, and practical travel tips for wheelmen using the Boston–Gloucester boat service.
- Report on Louisiana Division cycling: the Racing Board has fixed September 15 for annual races at Audubon Park on a steam-rolled horse track with 6,000 invited guests; A. M. Hill covered 159 miles in 24 hours on July 16; the new Louisiana Cycling Club elected R. G. Betts Captain and held its first moonlight run to West End.
- Cincinnati cycling column noting the Newport Bicycle Club's reception at its new rink headquarters on August 6 and the Central Wheelmen's races at the Carthage fair grounds on August 16, with comment on the summer drought keeping riders off the roads and the Cincinnati Enquirer's new cycling coverage.
- Miscellany column noting Fred Wood returning from Australia, A. B. Rich's 2:30 4/5 trial mile at Roseville, Gormully & Jeffery team riders Knapp and Whitaker training at Roseville for the Cleveland Tournament where Rowe, Crocker, Neitson, Powers, and Rich compete; also W. J. Morgan's quarter-mile in 33¼ seconds at Long Eaton, and the League intervening in a Nebraska wheelman's Supreme Court case.
- Account of the Newport Bicycle Club's banquet at the Newport Rink—marred by L. Buchanan's speech airing internal grievances and the controversy over professional rider K. Lowe's L.A.W. membership admission aided by Cincinnati's Galway—followed by criticism of Cincinnati cyclists who meddle in Kentucky club affairs.
- Lyrical account by 'Free Lance' of a 38-mile early-morning tandem ride from the Crystal Palace through Kent via Bromley, Farnborough, Sevenoaks, Otford (with its St. Thomas's well and Archbishop Becket ruins), Shoreham, and Eynesford, evoking hop gardens, raspberry fields, fruit pickers, and the road back through Orpington.
- G. W. Nellis Jr. continues his transcontinental bicycle narrative riding through the Wasatch Mountains from Evanston into Utah, visiting Salt Lake City and its Mormon Tabernacle, then west across the Salt Lake desert with a harrowing midnight encounter with a coyote in a cattle shed near Ombey, and reaching Tacoma after battling a terrific storm over railroad ties.
- Minneapolis cycling column by L.B.G. reporting hot dry weather suppressing club runs, First Lieutenant Paul Achard of the Mercury Club departing for Portland and San Francisco to recover his health, a proposed 25-mile road race at Lake Harriet on August 18 under Minneapolis Club auspices, and the Minnesota L.A.W. Division paper folding after six months with the St. Paul Herald named official organ.