The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Editorial jottings on the coming Election day run, a reprint from the Philadelphia Times on the horse question, President Pratt's pamphlet on the care of bicycles, and Director Lamson's new Luggage Carrier.
- Announces that the L.A.W. Hand-Book is out and lists where members can buy it for thirty cents, including The Wheel at 75 Fulton street and Corresponding Secretary Kingman N. Putnam.
- Reports a mile-heat race at Waverly won by Woodside over Lafon and Bellman under the Essex Bi. club, and a three-mile race at Stenton won by Gideon over Lees, Dyson and Powell after Powell took a header.
- Theatre notes on 'Patience' filling the Standard Theatre, the Hanlon-Lees at the Park Theatre, and 'Olivette' giving way to 'Les Cloches de Corneville' at the Metropolitan Casino.
- Club reports covering the Crescent Bicycle Club of Boston's annual dinner at the Hotel Brunswick, the Germantown club's outing to Atlantic City with fancy riding by 12-year-old Theo. Reath, and officer elections at the Lennox Bi. Club.
- Reprints the circular inviting wheelmen to a run from 791 Fifth avenue to King's Bridge and back on Election day, Nov. 8, with programme, officers under Commander F. C. Bruner, and a photograph by Pach; over 200 riders expected.
- A letter from Will R. Pitman, reprinted from the Sunday Courier, proposes a $100 one-mile match between League champion Louis Frye and two-mile champion Wm. Smith at the Polo grounds, with The Wheel offering to act as stakeholder.
- Notes that Mr. Louis Sledge of the Manhattan Bi. Club has returned from his Western trip.
- Praises the November number of The Century Magazine (formerly Scribner's Monthly), highlighting its line engraving of George Eliot and its Fortuny/Regnault and Venus of Melos illustrations.
- The editorial (signed J. W.) argues for the tricycle's rapid rise in England, supported by extracts from Coventry and other makers' letters on its speed, comfort and growing export trade, including a 67-year-old clergyman who rode 70 miles in a day.
- A Boston letter (signed Handy Andy) on a club-bulletin dispute over an unpaid loan, Stall's mile in 3m. 6s. at Beacon Park, a Massachusetts-Boston inter-club race won by Boston, and President Miller of the Buckeye club giving out at Dedham.
- Correspondence (signed Capt. C. W. F.) defending the bicycle's usefulness against skeptics, likening early hostility toward it to the prejudice once shown the locomotive and calling the machine as delicate an instrument as the watch.
- A letter from Prof. F. S. Rollinson, Champion of America, accepting J. S. Prince's challenge to a one-mile race and proposing an international contest at the Exposition buildings once Keen and Cooper arrive.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents identified by initials (F. S. R., F. A. J., F. K. S. and others), including the distance to the far side of the bridge.
- Reprinted from the Philadelphia Times, it attacks the Central Park Commissioners' ban on bicyclists and the monopolists' failed four-month search for testimony that horses are terrified by the wheel, contrasting New York with Philadelphia and European parks.
- A notice by Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, inviting American wheelmen to join the international Bicycle Touring Club of over four thousand members, detailing the annual fee and silver badge cost.