The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 23
Articles in this issue
- A roundup of cycling news: the professional races coming to Coney Island's Sea Beach board track with Fred Jenkins as referee, Fred A. Coleman of the Manhattan Club injured in a moonlight fall, Chief Consul Frank W. Weston sailing on the Samaria for the B.T.C. meet at Harrogate, and Mlle. Louise Armaindo's showing against J. W. Morgan and T. W. Eck at a Philadelphia meeting.
- A detailed report of the Westminster, Maryland trial of bicyclist R. F. Foster, charged by Col. William P. Maulsby with obstructing the street after Maulsby's horse took fright; Justice Crapster dismissed the case and Foster then filed a $10,000 damages suit against Maulsby.
- The Cincinnati Bicycle Club declines, in a pointedly sarcastic letter from secretary H. S. Livingston, an invitation to join the Queen City Exposition parade, blaming Cincinnati's impassable streets and contrasting the city unfavourably with Springfield, Dayton, and Hamilton.
- An editorial on the Foster trial, affirming the bicycle's equal legal right to the highway and the gratuitous bad publicity earned by Col. Maulsby, while urging wheelmen to ride with care and courtesy when passing teams.
- Three reader letters: 'L'Allegro' of Louisville reports a Kentucky Bi. Club benefit honouring Charles H. Jenkins, with fancy-riding prizes to Wm. Franke and Jenkins; A. G. Rowler protests the flimsily soldered clamp of the McDonnell cyclometer and awaits the new Excelsior; and F. A. Jackson corrects the record on the founding date of the N. H. Touring Club.
- A humorous first-person account of a Germantown Bicycle Club run from Philadelphia to Long Branch, New Jersey over the July 4th weekend, following 'Jarge' and 'Jidd' through Jersey sand roads, a rendezvous with Essex, N.Y. and Staten Island riders at Red Bank, and a Fourth of July parade through Elberon.
- Notebook chips from an American wheelman touring England (signed 'Gould'): bicycle races at Birmingham where Powell won the mile in 2m. 46½s., visits to the Singer & Co. and Bayliss, Thomas & Co. works at Coventry, and admiring observations on English roads, weather, and the crooked streets of London.
- A League of American Wheelmen notice listing some forty New York State touring routes—Auburn to Rochester, Syracuse to Skaneateles, Watertown to the Thousand Islands and more—obtainable on application to Director W. F. Gullen of Brooklyn.
- A letter from Mlle. Louise Armaindo, Champion Bicyclenne of the World, challenging John S. Prince or any man in America to a long-distance endurance race with a five-miles-in-fifty handicap, disputing Prince's claim to have exhausted her in a recent Norwalk race.
- A race calendar: amateur races at the Sea Beach Hotel, Coney Island on Aug. 11–12; the League of Ohio Wheelmen parade and races at Columbus on Aug. 28–29 (prizes including a diamond badge and a nickel-plated Columbia); Montreal Bicycle Club races Sept. 2; a 50-mile Manhattan Athletic Club race Sept. 9; and New England Fair races at Worcester Sept. 5.
- An official notice from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston inviting American wheelmen to join the international B.T.C. (over 4,000 members), with membership fees and application instructions, plus a note on loaning badges to members who have not yet received theirs.