The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Wheel news miscellany: Thanksgiving athletic meets, the Bicycling World entering its fourth volume, J. P. Burbank's forthcoming "Wheelman's Annual for '82," Schuyler & Duane named U.S. agents for the Coventry Machinist's Company, and a proposed $100 mile race for first-class men such as Frye, Smith, and Gideon.
- Notes on individual wheelmen: a correction that Mr. Wallace (not Francis K. Grain) resigned from the Manhattan Bi. Club, C. H. Genslinger elected president of the New Orleans Bi. Club, Geo. D. Gideon's new 58-in. Harvard light roadster, and Rev. Arthur Edwards's 1,200-mile European wheel tour.
- Account (from the Courier) of a Brooklyn mob's assault on Kings County Wheelmen captain Alexander Schwalbach, and Judge Fisher's decision convicting Henry Folger and affirming that bicyclers hold equal right of way with carriages and horsemen.
- Chief Consul Frank W. Weston invites American wheelmen to join the international B.T.C., with lists of new applications, renewals (including Col. Albert A. Pope), and members awaiting tickets and badges held up by customs.
- Review of the December Lippincott's Magazine, highlighting John C. Carpenter's "Fishing in Virginia Waters," Felix L. Oswald's "Through the Ardennes," and the number's short stories and poems.
- Third installment of an editorial (signed J. W.) surveying tricycle design—frame types, single vs. double driving, front vs. rear steering, wheel sizes, brakes, and seats—across makes such as the Coventry Rotary, Challenge, Humber, and Defiance.
- Profile of Boston's Cunningham Company, the country's oldest bicycle concern, which introduced the bicycle to America in 1877 and imports the "Harvard," "Yale," and "Shadow" machines.
- Second letter (signed Action) faulting the L. A. W. for leaving some ninety towns without Consuls and issuing a worthless hand-book, contrasting it with the English B.T.C.'s 3,356 members, 700 hotel headquarters, and 410 Consuls.
- A letter from "Billy Bunker" of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., describing the village's new eight-member club of uniformed Columbia riders and the comic unintentional dismounts among its members.
- Letter from John S. Prince of Boston disputing Prof. F. S. Rollinson's claim to the one-mile championship of America and challenging him to a stakes race before Keen and Cooper arrive.
- Department listing current New York theatre attractions, including "Patience" at Booth's and the Standard, "Esmeralda" at the Madison Square, and "Rip Van Winkle" at the Grand Opera House.