The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 12
Articles in this issue
- A gossip column noting that amateur champion Wm. J. Smith of the Bristol Bicycle Club has returned to Europe, that eight Methodist clergymen were lately seen learning to ride at a Boston riding-school, and previewing the wheelmen's reception rescheduled for April 13th after the failed ball.
- James Revell, bicycling editor of the Sunday Courier, collected about $125 from New York wheelmen for a ball at Standard Hall (Broadway and 42nd St.) on February 20th, then absconded with the funds, leaving over a hundred carriages of uniformed wheelmen and their ladies turned away in the rain.
- Reprinted from the N.Y. Herald, an account of the indignation meeting at the Thirty-fourth Street Riding Hall where wheelmen led by chairman Randolph Hurry and editor Fred. Jenkins censured Revell, resolved to proceed legally against him, and set a new reception for April 13th.
- Capt. C.W.F. gives a cyclist's guide to Kentucky's macadamized Blue Grass pikes, tracing the Frankfort pike from Louisville through Simpsonville, Shelbyville, Clayvillage, Hardinsville and Bridgeport, with road surfaces, grades and hotels, promising the next day's route in a future number.
- The masthead colophon: The Wheel is published fortnightly by editor and publisher Fred. Jenkins (associate editor Julius Wilcox) at 187 Broadway, New York, at one dollar a year, six shillings in Europe.
- An editorial by J.W. on the Revell ball scandal, arguing that wheelmen as a class are law-abiding and gentlemanly and that knaves like Revell or the 'bogus Lacy Hillier' are rare exceptions by which the class should not be judged.
- J.W. surveys the rapid progress of English tricycling shown at the Stanley Show, citing 20 clubs, big 1881 mileage records (one rider's disputed 12,635 miles), royal patrons from Queen Victoria to Princess Mary of Teck and the Khedive of Egypt, and predicting the trike will suit aging riders and America's poor roads.
- Correspondent 'Handy Andy' reports the annual meetings and dinners of the Boston Bicycle Club (Pratt, Dean and Hodges re-elected) and the Massachusetts club (Shillaber elected captain after Pope declined), and mocks Boston wheelmen affecting Oscar Wilde's aesthetic 'too, too' poses.
- 'DIG.' reports the Manhattan Athletic Club's third annual winter meeting at Madison Square Garden, where Louis Stearns won the mile handicap in 4m 50s after Camacho collided with Tallmadge on the narrow track, breaking spokes and spraining a knee; also notes Hart's Columbia Riding School.
- Editor Fred. Jenkins publicly thanks Mr. Elliott Mason for the use of his hall for the February 25th indignation meeting, an acknowledgement overlooked in the excitement of the meeting itself.
- Club notes report the Syracuse Bicycle Club's new officers (President C.W. Barden, Captain Eugene McCarthy) and Quaker City items, including Germantown's ex-Captain Pennell illustrating 'Rambles Through Old Philadelphia' for The Century and Philadelphia riders joining the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium for spring training.