The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Editorial news miscellany noting that the Central Park case comes up for trial this month, that the ten-mile records were lowered at Boston by both amateurs and professionals, and that the Pope Manufacturing Company will bring out its "Expert Columbia" in mid-February.
- Handy Andy's notes on the Boston racers — Vesey and "Jack" Keen ride 56-inch machines, Frye a 58-inch Harvard and Cory a 53½-inch Yale — with banter about Keen, Prince and the crowd of about 1,200 spectators.
- A. C. Rowler's New York city-letter arguing that the city should host the next L.A.W. national meet if the Central Park case is decided in wheelmen's favour, dismissing the claims of Philadelphia and Washington.
- A brief notice praising The Hague's British Operatic Minstrels Company performing ballads and operatic selections at the Casino.
- Concluding installment of a serialized adventure tale in which the narrator, Miss Harland and Mrs. Joyce fight off three night-time intruders, killing the treacherous courier before Jack returns too late to help.
- Club column reporting the New Orleans Bicycle Club's annual meeting, its new constitution and by-laws, and a full slate of officers including President Theo. S. Weber and Captain A. M. Hill, with ninety members on the roll.
- The paper's masthead and colophon giving its alternate-Wednesday publishing schedule, subscription rates ($1 a year, six shillings in Europe) and staff — Fred Jenkins editor and publisher, Julius Wilcox associate editor, at 187 Broadway, New York.
- Editorial (signed J. W.) replying to "An Enthusiast" in the Bicycling World and tallying English maker and machine figures from Sturmey's "Indispensable" to argue that cycling is now firmly established in England as a guide to American prospects.
- Detailed report of the Boston races in which Lewis T. Frye beat Cuthbert Vesey in a ten-mile race (lowering the American record to 35m 44½s) and John Keen defeated John S. Prince in the professional ten-mile event, with mile-by-mile time tables for both.
- Handy Andy's Boston correspondence forecasting the coming 19 January rematch races, debating the Prince/Keen/Rollinson "Champion of America" question, and describing the Boston Bicycle Club's successful New Year's reception.