The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 13, No 5
Articles in this issue
- F. P. Prial opens with a note on the L.A.W. Racing Board's failed attempt to prohibit road racing, then reports on W. W. Stall's successful ladies' tricycle tour around Cape Ann and the North Shore, covering 100 miles with 19 tandems, 2 sociables, and 5 singles, with Mr. and Mrs. Bassett, the Harlem Wheelmen's Kaesbeck and daughter, and the Misses Kirkwood among the participants.
- G. P. Mills and R. Tingley set a new 24-hour tandem road record of 301½ miles on October 3rd, riding an 'Ivel' tandem weighing 65 pounds, covering 81½ miles in the last half-hour at a terrific pace and appearing none the worse afterward.
- The third annual road races of the Dorchester Bicycle Club were held on October 18, with Doane winning the 15-mile club championship in 57 minutes; several riders including Longstreet, Gould, Hayward, and Swan took headers, Swan cutting a bad gash over his left eye in the handicap, and E. H. Galloupe of Hyde Park won the special 2-mile open race in 8 minutes.
- F. C. Patch won the Wakefield Bicycle Club's third annual ten-mile road race in 41m. 50s., earning permanent possession of the medal for his third consecutive year of victory; J. E. Coombs finished a close second and boys under thirteen raced two miles for silver medals in the evening.
- Notice of the Elizabeth Wheelmen's lantern parade scheduled for Saturday evening, October 29, with a detailed route through Elizabeth, N.J. streets from the club house on East Broad to a moonlight run to Waverly, with lady riders invited to leave the line at the club house.
- The New York Bicycle Club raised $102 for the L.A.W. Liberty Bill fund, subscribed by 40 members including F. P. Prial, J. B. Roy, and H. Harriman, with Treasurer Roy forwarding the check to Chief Consul Bidwell.
- Correspondent 'Alert' discusses the failed L.A.W. board attempt to prohibit road racing and argues for state home rule; previews the upcoming inter-club road race with entries from Brooklyn, Kings County, Ilderan, Harlem, Elizabeth, Union County, and Hudson County clubs, noting Wilson of Kings County and Kluge with an eye on a record among the riders to watch.
- Correspondent 'Art' covers autumn cycling runs around Stamford and the Nutmeg hills, reports on the Clapham Radical and Liberal Cycling Club of London with Sir Charles Dilke as vice-president, notes the marriage of Geo. F. Ruoff of Washington and Elbert Richards's new Facile 44-inch bicycle.
- Minneapolis correspondent L. B. G. laments three consecutive rainy Sundays spoiling wheeling, reports on trick-rider Prince Wells performing at the Comique variety theatre, notes J. Purvis Bruce's overcoat mix-up with a St. Paul alderman, and describes the Springfield Roadster and New Mail exhibit at the Minneapolis Exposition.
- An editorial quoting 'The Owl' in the L.A.W. Bulletin criticizes New York wheelmen for contributing an average of less than fifteen cents per man toward the $800 needed by the State Division to repay its Liberty Bill campaign debt, noting the New York Club alone provided $100 of the $290 raised.
- The regular short-items column covers Charley Stenken's rumoured 30-pound Star for the Inter-Club race, Morgan Marshall's broken arm in Central Park, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Smith's new tandem records from 21 to 25 miles at Crystal Palace on October 8, the Springfield Bicycle Company's large 1888 orders, Samuel Sterling of Bridgeport departing for New Orleans by wheel, and the Allegheny County Cyclers' Association elections in Pittsburgh.
- Biographical sketch of Arthur E. Preyer, born in London in 1866, who rose from the bicycle department of E. I. Horsman's establishment to near-sole manager of George R. Bidwell's New York cycling store, earning the nickname 'King Arthur' among wheelmen for his affable manner and reliable promises.
- Humorous tale by Thomas Stevens of novice cyclist Mr. Kerlum, who deems himself an expert after two weeks at a riding school, buys a new nickeled wheel, and meets a fatal end hurtling down Breakneck Hill on the Yonkers road with a defective brake, crashing into a culvert and being found by a Spuyten-Duyvil dairyman who notifies the coroner.
- A correspondent lists 9 advantages of the ordinary (high-wheel) bicycle—including easier cleaning, better lamp stability, and more instinctive steering—against 18 advantages of the rear-driving safety bicycle, including absolute hill safety, easier mounting and dismounting, and superior power utilisation; reprinted from The Cyclist.
- Reprinted from the Cleveland World, a Washington correspondent describes seeing a woman ride a novel spokeless bicycle in which the rider sits inside the felloe supported by internal friction wheels with a semi-circular guiding rod, drawing admiring exclamations from two athletic young women on the sidewalk.
- Thomas Stevens, writing for the Sunday Tribune, draws on his round-the-world bicycle tour to compare Asian roads: praising British India's 1,600-mile Grand Trunk Road (surfaced with self-renewing kunkah), Japan's excellent mountain highways complete with road tunnels lit by kerosene lamps, condemning China's primitive sandstone-slab paths, and describing Turkey's new macadam military roads built by forced labour under European engineers.
- Official notice signed by Captain Charles H. Luscomb calling all L.I.W. members to assemble in full uniform at Fulton Street on Saturday, October 29 at 3 P.M. to parade to Prospect Park for a club photograph and then formally open their new clubhouse, described as the finest cycling club house in the country.