The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Continuation of the L.A.W. touring column by A. B. Barkman advising cyclists on clothing and luggage for a two-week bicycle tour, recommending jersey suits from Holmes & Co. of Boston and detailing how to pack two waterproof rubber-cloth bundles onto the machine using Lamson and Z. & S. luggage carriers, with guidance on overhauling bearings, brakes, and tires before departure.
- C. D. Schmitt of Woodstock, Va., reports a cycling trip with C. L. Kneisley from Staunton through Lexington to Natural Bridge, correcting K. Kron's account of the road conditions and finding the eight-and-a-half-mile mountain road to the bridge mostly ridable in dry weather, with cyclometers showing 37 miles from Staunton to Lexington and 15 more to the bridge.
- Cross-continent rider Geo. W. Nellis, Jr., writes from San Francisco before sailing home via Panama on the 'San Bias', praising the courteous reception from the Golden Gate Wheelmen, the Bay City Wheelmen, and the large cycle establishment of Osborn & Alexander on Market Street.
- The Rhode Island Division's Second Annual Excursion and Run will wheel from Trinity Square through Brighton, Newton, and Brookline to South Natick on September 5, with breakfast at Hotel Brighton, lunch at the Woodlawn Hotel, and dinner at Bailey's Hotel about twenty miles from the start.
- The New York State Division annual meeting at Cooperstown, September 23–24, is expected to be the most enjoyable ever held, with round-trip fares from New York City not to exceed $10 including sleeping car; members should apply to Chief Consul Bidwell at 313 West 58th Street for transportation arrangements.
- Calendar of upcoming cycle race meets and events from September 5 through October 1, spanning Lynn, Hartford, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New Orleans, North Attleboro, Albany, Cooperstown, Pittsburg, and Detroit.
- Programme for the Lynn Cycle Track Association's September 5 meet, listing events including a one-mile novice bicycle race, three-mile amateur and professional handicaps, a one-mile boys' race, a tandem tricycle road-machine event, and a consolation race, with prizes including a silver watch, French opera glasses, and cash purses up to $35.
- Report on the two-day Worcester, Mass., tournament (Aug. 25–26) on a wet, windy track where W. A. Rowe defeated Horace Crocker in the professional mile final in 2:57 4-5 and W. W. Windle of Millbury excelled in amateur events, though the Boston Globe questioned whether Rowe rode his best as considerable money changed hands on the result.
- The third annual Williamsport, Pa., Club race meet at Old Oaks Park drew 3,000–4,000 spectators; W. E. Crist of Washington dominated with five firsts including the quarter-mile, L.A.W. half-mile championship (1:21 2-5), two-mile lap, and two-mile handicap (6:13), while a fancy riding exhibition by five-year-old Master Cadman delighted the crowd.
- Brief items covering Howell's probable visit to America to race W. A. Rowe, F. J. Osmond's outstanding form at the Crystal Palace Gainsborough meeting (mile handicap heat in 2:36 4-5), F. W. Allard and E. Oxborrow's new professional tandem records from two to ten miles at Coventry, and the American team (Temple and Lees) competing at Grimsby with Temple winning the half mile in 1:25 2-5.
- A reader signing as 'A Standard Rider' defends the Standard Columbia Bicycle as the finest and most reliable American high-grade wheel after eight years, noting it outsells all other makes and offering a maintenance tip that a leather insert in the oval-worn top head bearing eliminates the machine's common rattle.
- Feature profiles of Harry H. Hodgson, Louisiana Division Chief Consul and Southern agent for Remington typewriters, who organized a celebrated bicycle lantern parade for Mardi Gras 1887 and rebuilt Division membership above the previous year's total, and Col. E. C. Fenner, carriage and cycle dealer who handles approximately two-thirds of the Southwest's cycle trade and chairs the Division Racing Board.
- Regular department with short items on Colonel Pope vacationing at Yellowstone Park, George Nellis planning to ride a Columbia in the Boston-Chicago road race, the Lynn Cycle Track Association's $2,000 insolvency, Prof. James Ricalton and his wife tandeming 100 miles a day in England, and the Nassau Wheelmen's meet at the Brooklyn A.C. grounds on September 5.
- Column previewing the September 15 Louisiana Division race meet with 6,000 personal invitations sent and expectations of 2,500 in attendance, noting Capt. R. G. Betts's new Southern 24-hour record of 166½ miles on asphalt and shell roads with W. W. Crane pacing fifty-four miles, and reporting that Atlanta visitor R. Lee Cooney trained on New Orleans roads ahead of a nineteen-mile home road race.
- Report on bicycle races at the Gentlemen's Driving Park, Philadelphia, August 27, where Louis J. Kolb of the University of Pennsylvania won the three-mile event in 8:17 and W. J. Wilhelm took the half-mile in 1:24 1-5, while in a five-mile horse-vs.-bicycle contest M. Leroy's horse beat five cyclists including Kolb, Bailey, and Crawford, the horse finishing in 15:9¾.
- Karl Kron of Washington Square, N.Y., rebuts a correspondent's claim that his book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle' does injustice to Kentucky, quoting from the seventeenth chapter's praise of the Blue Grass region and arguing that critics mistake the 535 pages of fine-type appendix and indexes for the main text of 373 brevier pages.
- Reprinted from the Cycling Journal, instructions for building a compact darkroom table for amateur photographers from a cheap wooden washstand fitted with a galvanized-iron basin, side compartments partitioned for new plates and developing dishes, and a shelf above for the water-barrel, lamp, and bottles, coated with Brunswick black to repel solutions.
- Lively narrative by C. H. K. of a bicycle ride from Newark in which his Star bicycle's small wheel drops into a hidden hole just as he reads 'Prepare to meet thy God' on a roadside stone, and he then meets a group of tramps at a spring whose apparent leader demonstrates an apparently original proof for trisecting any angle, before recovering from a sprained knee at the City Hotel in New Brunswick.
- About 2,000 spectators attended the Milville Club's August 30 meet; W. J. Wilhelm of Reading swept the half-mile dash (1:24 1-5), two-mile lap race (6:07 1-5), and one-mile scratch (2:55), while L. J. Kolb of Philadelphia won the quarter-mile dash after dead-heating with H. B. Schwartz of Reading and Schwartz's machine breaking near the tape in the rematch.