The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 13, No 21
Articles in this issue
- The Wheel's road improvement campaign achieves its first victory in Alabama, where $200,000 has been appropriated for Jefferson County roads, with C.R. Zacharias of the Western Union Telegraph Co. and L.D. Aylett of the Georgia Pacific Railway credited with rallying wheelmen and horsemen in Birmingham.
- Charles S. Luscomb of the Long Island Wheelmen has been appointed Park Commissioner of Brooklyn, attending his first commissioners' meeting on February 14.
- The Citizens' Club held its annual dinner at Mazetti's with sixty members including Colonel Pope and Thomas Stevens, toastmaster George Wilson presiding and Simeon Ford delivering the evening's highlight speech on 'The Ladies.'
- The Pennsylvania Division's plans to attack John A. Wells' private character at the upcoming League Board meeting are criticized by the editor, who argues that Wells' obstructive conduct at the January 1887 Philadelphia meeting is sufficient grounds to deny him League membership.
- Philadelphia's cycling season opens with a six-day professional race at the Elite Rink on Twenty-third and Chestnut streets (February 20-25) and a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club open house on Washington's Birthday; the Pennsylvania Division L.A.W. meeting voted $300 toward a new state road-book and pledged to prosecute all assault cases in Pennsylvania.
- The editor responds to 'Ralph's' charges by arguing that the League's important reorganization work under the new constitution cannot be done effectively at the festive June Baltimore meet, proposing a separate constitutional convention in May with Baltimore kept as a pleasure event.
- Scribner's Sons and Sampson, Low & Co. are preparing Vol. II of Thomas Stevens' 'Around the World on a Bicycle' for April publication, containing new material on his Afghanistan, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese experiences not previously published in Outing.
- Regular column reporting that Rowe and Howell are matched for a race at $1,000 a side, that League membership increased only 18% in 1887 compared to 92% and 101% in prior years, and various items including Crist's prospective English path racing tour, road conditions in Cape Vincent N.Y., and Philadelphia road-assailant Carnell reportedly fleeing town.
- Eyewitness feature ('Free Lance') at the 1888 Stanley Show at the Westminster Aquarium, reporting encounters with Lacy Hillier, Ralph Temple, and Edge; noting that American exhibitors Outing and Pope Manufacturing Co. were not yet ready; and describing Dan Albone's Ivel Safety on which G.P. Mills rode 295 miles in 24 hours and the Mills-Tingey tandem covering 298.5 miles.
- Summary coverage of the 1888 Stanley Show with 146 exhibitors and 800 cycles, highlighting the Coventry Machinists' 'Hansom Cab Coolie Cycle' built for the Emperor of Morocco at a cost of £200, Singer & Co.'s war cycles and tandem safeties, the Rudge Bicyclette's improved rear-axle ball bearings, New Rapids' Palmer toe-clip, and Hillman, Hubert & Cooper's tandem safety bicycle.
- Harry B. Guilford, a pharmacy student and officer of the Albany Bicycle Club, was arrested at 3:30 a.m. in full dress after the club's reception when detectives caught him robbing his former employer Dr. Nellis's store; over $1,200 worth of instruments, cocaine, and drugs were found in his room.
- The Boston Bicycle Club's tenth annual dinner at Parker House was presided over by President E.C. Hodges with C.P. Donohoe as toastmaster; Frank Weston spoke on the club's growth into the largest cycling club in the country and H.W. Hayes called for League support, with cornetist Tom Henry providing entertainment.
- The Smith National Cycle Manufacturing Co. unveiled a new ladies' bicycle and tandem at their Washington, D.C. factory on February 4, featuring a low U-shaped frame with a 30-inch rear wheel geared to the equivalent of a 54-inch wheel, demonstrated to Washington society ladies including Misses Tegeler, Wise, Smith, Bordley, and King.
- The Hudson County Wheelmen of Jersey City announce their cycling entertainment at Pavonia Rink on March 2, featuring W.S. Maltby in fancy riding and half-mile and one-mile races; new officers elected include President Dr. E.W. Johnson and Captain E.P. Baggot.
- The Wheel had a stand at the London Stanley Show, with Pope Manufacturing Co. posting a copy of The Wheel on their door when their exhibit hadn't arrived; Maryland League men are angered by a League official who pre-emptively communicated that the Baltimore annual meeting would be a general jollification with no business meeting.
- The Kings County Wheelmen opened their new four-story clubhouse at 1225 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn on February 16 with a dinner hosted by Charles Cooper, the building featuring a 72-foot wheelroom for 150 bicycles, bowling alleys, billiard room, gymnasium, and bachelor apartments, all electrically lit.
- The N.C.U. passes a radical motion (38 to 24, moved by Mr. Sturmey) disqualifying amateurs who race on public roads without local authority sanction for one year and permanently for a second offense, contrasted with the League of American Wheelmen's more moderate resolution against road racing.
- Elliot Mason of 12 Warren Street, New York, has issued a new mileage card for recording daily, monthly, and annual cycling mileages, recommended for club secretaries tracking club mileage.