The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 13, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The editor discusses New York wheelmen's apathy about a parade following the Liberty Bill passage, laments Outing magazine losing its cycling editor, condemns English race-fixing tactics (damp sheets used against a London rider), and offers detailed suggestions for improving the upcoming Election Day road race on the Orange roads.
- Full results of the Second Semi-Annual meet of the Dakota Wheelmen held September 28–30 at Mitchell, Dakota, with professional events won by Grant Bell and Perry Stone and amateur races dominated by F. Montelius, run on a quarter-mile track before a large attendance with prizes from Overman Wheel Co. and Pope Mfg. Co.
- Results of the New Castle Club's meet at Wheelmen's Park on September 28, where P.J. Berlo of Boston won the one-mile open in a dead-heat retrial and W.I. Wilhelm took the quarter-mile open, though a soft track and threatening weather limited most events to two starters.
- Letter from the Overman Wheel Co. (Boston, Oct. 4) announcing a ten-day road-record campaign starting October 7 on the accurately surveyed Clarksville Belt Road in Missouri, open to all comers, chosen because the course cannot be shortened and its distance is a matter of public record.
- Account of the Detroit Club's annual race meet on October 3, with Bert Brown of the Toronto Wanderers winning the half-mile novice, two-mile handicap, 3:20 class, and 3:10 class, while Fred Foster took the one-mile open in 3:23 2-5; second-day races were postponed indefinitely by rain.
- Calendar listing upcoming cycle events: East Road Club road race (October 8), Ladies' North Shore Tricycle Tour (October 6–9), Columbia Bicycle Club races at North Attleboro (October 16), LAW Board of Officers fall meet at the Grand Union Hotel (October 17), and the N.Y.–N.J. Team Road Race (November 8).
- Report on efforts to form a bowling league among New York-area wheel clubs, noting the K.C.W.'s withdrawal due to other winter schemes, plans for the Harlem Wheelmen's new rooms with billiard and pool tables opening by the 14th, and a pool tournament planned for November.
- Vivid description of the Kings County Wheelmen's nighttime lantern parade through Brooklyn, with riders bearing Japanese lanterns and colored lights led by R.W. Creuzbaur and G.R. Neville from Brevoort Place down Bedford Avenue to the club rooms at 159 Clymer Street, including four ladies on tricycles; reprinted from the N.Y. World.
- Account of the surprise reception given by the Rutherford Wheelmen's Association to Eugene A. Edgar, an original organizer returning after nearly two years in Europe, featuring a banquet, banjo solos, sparring matches between Gus Morgan and S.C. Kipp and between Frank Burgess and G.R. Collerd, and speeches by President Higbie and guests.
- Report on the field trial at Hanwell of 'The Scout,' a safety bicycle by Messrs. Wilkins & Co. designed for military scouting, geared to 52 inches and weighing 35 lbs., which rider Heasman swam across a 50-foot Grand Junction Canal canal using inflatable rubber bags, then traversed ploughed fields, railway lines, and copses over four miles in about 35 minutes.
- Weekly miscellany: W.F. Knapp married Essie Williams of Lynn; W.C. Goulding and C.W. Brown raised the 24-hour tandem road record to 259 miles; the 1,000-mile road race collapsed after Pope and Overman withdrew their teams; and the American trio of Temple, Woodside, and Morgan won 52 of 75 races in Britain, with Temple clocking under 2m. 43s. for twelve consecutive mile races.
- Correspondent L.B.G. reports the disputed half-mile rematch between Colie Bell and Hale at Lake Harriet (no referee, result contested), relays Burley Ayres's verdict that no good road route exists between Minneapolis and Chicago, and comments skeptically on F.E. Dingley's claimed record-breaking 100-mile ride at Lynn on September 22.
- Correspondent 'Alert' urges Brooklyn wheelmen to press for improved Boulevard access, previews the Election Day inter-club road race with K.C.W. favorites H.J. Hall Jr. and Stenken facing a strong crank-wheel challenge from Rich, and reports the Kings County Wheelmen's lantern parade rescheduled for October 5.
- Correspondent 'Skib' disputes the prediction that the Maryland Club will win the Citizens' Cup on October 7, noting the Rambler Club and the quietly-training Centaurs as dark horses, and announces the Baltimore Cycle Club's annual fall tour after their club championship race on the 8th, visiting Philadelphia, New York, Albany, and Boston.
- Correspondent 'Bi.' reports a post-equinoctial quiet in New Orleans cycling, with shell roads flooded by backed-up lake water and a Louisiana Cycling Club run to West End blocked at the toll gate, while A.M. Hill and Chief Consul Hodgson pledge $100 toward a dedicated bicycle track if $200 more can be raised.
- Letter from C.H.K. of Dayton, Ohio, arguing that the term 'road-hog' applies equally to cyclists who refuse to dismount for frightened horses or who harass street-car passengers, illustrated with anecdotes of wheelmen causing a buggy shaft to break and a bell-cord prank on a street-car.
- Brief review of W.D. Welford's 379-page photographic reference compiled for the Birmingham Photographic Society and edited by Henry Sturmey, published by Iliffe & Son of London at fifty cents; described as 'the most complete of its kind that has yet appeared,' covering cameras, lenses, shutters, and darkroom processes in ten sections.
- Contrasting notices of Karl Kron's 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle': the Saturday Review (London, Sept. 30) devotes a full page of praise calling it 'almost indispensable' for American road travelers, while the Philadelphia Press dismisses it in eight lines as 'the most ridiculous book of the season' full of 'rank egotism and nonsense.'
- Description of Detroit inventor Fred F. Campau's marine velocipede with 14-foot double paddle wheels, claimed capable of 40 miles per hour and a two-and-a-half-day Atlantic crossing for 15–20 passengers, with a public trial promised within two weeks; sourced from Bicycling News with editorial skepticism implied.
- Letter from subscriber C.S. Wise of Marysville, Perry County, Pa., recounting how a sample copy of The Wheel led him to buy a Columbia bicycle, and explaining that as an isolated wheelman with no club nearby he considers the paper indispensable to his cycling life.