The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Four members of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club—A. B. Barkman, W. E. Fuller, F. M. Demarest, and C. F. Ackerson—recount Part I of their 300-mile tour, taking the New York, Susquehanna & Western R.R. to the Delaware Water Gap and riding through Bushkill and Dingmans Ferry along the scenic Delaware River valley to a late-night arrival at the Bellevue.
- The four Brooklyn cyclists introduce themselves by name and respond in humorous Q&A to bystanders' questions about their machines, speeds, and 300-mile itinerary from the Water Gap back to New York via Poughkeepsie, Albany, Morristown, and Orange.
- Programme for the third annual tour of lady tricyclists along the Massachusetts north shore, organized by Tourmaster W. W. Stall, covering Salem, Gloucester, Cape Ann, Magnolia, and Nahant over four days (Oct. 6–9), supported by a mechanic's wagon carrying spare machines and tools.
- Messrs. Sheffield and Bradley of the Ilderan Club recount their 375-mile fortnight's tour from Newark through the Delaware Water Gap, Milford, Poughkeepsie, Albany, Saratoga, Lake George, and Vermont, cut short when Sheffield sprained his ankle badly coasting into Granville.
- Correspondent 'Free Lance' visits an elderly English sporting gentleman on the Sussex South Downs whose home, Cob Court, houses a museum-like collection of cycles from boneshaker to racing tricycle, each machine named by the Patriarch after the hill where he had his worst crash on it.
- The Marlin's Fire Arms Company of New Haven has spent three years developing a new 65-pound three-track tricycle with a novel bearing system claimed to surpass ball bearings, adjustable track width, a central chain drive geared to 60 inches, and a clutch arrangement to prevent veering when a wheel strikes a stone.
- Regular department column with brief items covering Crist's 2:38 practice mile at Roseville, L. J. Kolb's mile-and-a-half championship win at the Manhattan Athletic Club in 4:32 4-5, George W. Nellis Jr.'s transcontinental trip gold medal from the Herkimer Agricultural Fair, a Citizens' Club run to Yonkers attended by globe-girdler Thomas Stevens, and the Clermont Hotel's poor treatment of wheelmen on Riverside Drive.
- Correspondent L. B. G. reports on cycling at the Minnesota State Fair week, including a failed L.A.W. quorum meeting, a lantern parade of 25 riders alongside the Knight Templars' Drill, and Friday amateur races at Lake Harriet where Colie Bell won the one-mile in 2:57 and the three-mile in 9:41, and E. J. Hale took the five-mile in 17m. 30s.
- Full results for the Orange Wanderers' meet at Roseville, N.J., before nearly a thousand spectators: W. E. Crist set a new track record of 2:38 1-5 for the one-mile scratch, C. A. Stenken finished in 2:41, and H. L. Burdick of Albany edged Crist by twenty-five yards to win the two-mile.
- Third annual meet of the East Hartford Wheel Club drew delegations from Hartford, Springfield, Holyoke, New Britain, and Waterbury; H. B. Arnold of New Britain won the one-mile open and one-mile lap, Charles Snow the novice mile and 3:20 class, and E. B. Smith of Springfield the two-mile handicap, amid eleven headers—including a double somersault by Haradon—with no serious injuries.
- Correspondent 'Bi.' reports on the Louisiana Division L.A.W. race meet in New Orleans on September 15 before 3,000 spectators (two-thirds ladies): R. G. Betts won the Louisiana Cycling Club one-mile championship, A. M. Hill took the state title in 3:13 in a thrilling finish over Guillotte, and the New Orleans Bicycle Club defeated the Louisiana Cycling Club 187 to 72 points in the team race.
- Annual races of the Columbia Bicycle Club at the North Attleboro Fair grounds saw P. J. Berlo of Boston dominate multiple amateur events, while L. D. Hunger of Detroit from 110 yards won the $100 professional handicap, upsetting favorite W. A. Rowe who could not navigate the soft track turns; the Lynn Cycle Club beat the Columbia Bicycle Club 13 to 2 in the team race.
- Well-attended R.I. Division tournament at Narragansett Park on September 20 featured professionals W. A. Rowe of Lynn and S. G. Whittaker of Chicago; Rowe won the one-mile professional handicap from scratch in 2:52 and dominated the three-mile lap race, while G. P. Hutchins of Providence won the novice mile in a meeting-best amateur time of 3:12.
- Upcoming race and event calendar for late September and October 1887, listing meets at Cooperstown N.Y. (Sept. 23–24), Pittsburg (Sept. 29), Missouri, Detroit, Poughkeepsie (Oct. 1), Woodstock Va. (Oct. 4–5), the Boston–Chicago Road Race (Oct. 6), and the Ladies' North Shore Tour (Oct. 6–9).
- Reader C. H. K. explains that bicycle lamps fail not because the wick moves but because cold air extinguishes the vapor—exactly as blowing out a candle—and recommends keeping the wick higher when riding, redesigning lamp air inlets to prevent direct draughts below the flame, and switching to lighter lamps to avoid the braking effect of heavy hub-mounted fixtures.
- Interview with Alexander R. Schaap, Pope Manufacturing Co.'s Richmond agent, who describes the modest state of cycling in the South: only about 200 bicycles in a city of 80,000, climate-induced indolence, poor roads outside Richmond, and white dealers deliberately refusing to sell machines to Black customers to protect their trade with white buyers.
- Correspondent 'Alert' condemns the deteriorating Coney Island Boulevard as an eleven-mile struggle and proposes macadamizing one of its flanking side roads for exclusive wheelman use; also reports growing interest in the upcoming Election Day road race on the Irvington–Milburn course organized by the Kings County Wheelmen.