The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 12, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial comments on L.A.W. election candidacies, endorsing George R. Bidwell for the Executive Committee while crediting outgoing committeeman John C. Gulick; also rebukes a Vermont Bicycle item ridiculing the late Cola Stone, and praises the New York State Division's new road-book committee (Barkman, DeGraaf, Bull).
- A letter from the New York Club reports 3,395 miles ridden by members up to May 1, 1887, led by F. M. Davies at 365 miles, with a full individual mileage table; notes that racing men including 'Alley' Pringle of the Ixion Club are practising at the Manhattan Grounds.
- Reports that letters from Mr. Potter and Mr. Bidwell clarify the situation in Albany: the Judiciary Committee has decided to report the wheelmen's park-access bill favourably without a hearing, despite earlier interference from one Park Commissioner.
- Trade miscellany column: testimonials for the Gormully & Jeffery 'American Light Champion' from riders in Chicago and Indianapolis; notes on the Chickasaw Bicycle Co. of Memphis, a stolen Expert Columbia in Springfield Mass., and a tip on using cylinder oil in bicycle heads.
- Wide-ranging news shorts covering the New Haven Bicycle Club's 84 members, the American Team astonishing Aberdeen Scotland, Woodside's five-race contract with Howell, a two-mile handicap at Madison Square Garden (won by E. I. Halstead of the Harlem Wheelmen), W. B. Page's world high-jump record of 6 ft. ¾ in. at Wilmington, and bicycles carried free on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley railway.
- New Jersey correspondent 'Jonah' previews the coming 25-mile inter-club road race with ten teams from Jersey, New York and Brooklyn; profiles Union County contender Ed Moore and discusses the Atalanta Wheelmen's club house plans in Newark and their prize mileage programme.
- Reviews the newly completed New York State Division Road Book compiled by A. B. Barkman: 202 pages covering 14,000 miles of road from Quebec to Staunton Va. and Bar Harbor to Cleveland, with five-grade road and surface classifications, 15 pages of index listing 1,641 cities, and several district maps.
- Decoration Day plans for Pittsburgh-area clubs: the Allegheny Cyclers will attend races at Beaver Falls, the Pittsburg Wheelmen will ride to Wheeling via the National Pike, and the Keystones plan a two-day tour to Buffalo; Seward H. Murray of the Sewickley Valley Wheelmen is re-appointed L.A.W. Representative.
- Reports on the Baltimore 'Cycle Club's full-dress final reception on Friday April 29th at their Madison Avenue clubhouse, attended by upwards of twenty couples; president C. W. Abbott praised the ladies for making the social season the most successful in club history, and negotiations are under way for a new, more central club house.
- Brief Baltimore correspondence covering the Cycle Club's German dance supper; includes a letter from Chief-Consul J. Kemp Bartlett Jr. supporting the proposal for Maryland Division runs on public holidays rather than Sundays.
- Philadelphia columnist 'Dixie' covers E. M. Aaron's resignation from the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, racer Keene's impressive win at Wilmington, the Century Wheelmen's first annual dinner at the Colonnade Hotel with 70 members, and the growing interest in tandem tricycles among Philadelphia riders.
- Reports the sixth annual meeting and dinner of the Brunswick Bicycle Club held May 3rd at Dean's; officers elected include President D. H. Merritt and Captain J. L. Merritt; the club now numbers forty members after passing an associate membership amendment.
- Advance extract from the New York State Road Book covering the Brooklyn and New York City riding districts: details routes from all Brooklyn ferries to Prospect Park, notes on the Boulevard, Central Park access rules, and day-trip routes to Yonkers, Tarrytown and along Long Island Sound.
- Charles Richards Dodge of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club describes hiring a French tricycle for six francs and riding 25 miles around Paris on April 24th, taking in Surenes, the Bois de Boulogne, St. Cloud, Sevres and Versailles, with vivid observations on French roads, cycling customs and Parisian street life.
- Editorial response to L.A.W. member No. 2,747's complaint in the Bulletin that cycle papers scooped the League's official organ on election results; The Wheel defends its record of constructive criticism, citing its role in exposing the Aaron-Wells scandal and its long advocacy for strengthening State Divisions.
- Brief notice reporting that the magazine Outing has been sold to Mr. Poulteney Bigelow for a consideration understood to be close to thirty-five thousand dollars.