The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes on John S. Prince's statement, a race meeting and exhibition planned at the American Institute under The Wheel's management, the proliferation of cycling "champions" (Gideon, Hendee, Frye, Prince, Armaindo), and a coming meeting of the L.A.W. Racing Board to standardize handicapping and records.
- News from the Marblehead Club's new headquarters and planned "Ladies' Nights," and the semi-annual election of the Capital Bicycle Club of Washington, which chose Leland Howard president and Max Hansmann sub-captain.
- An essay by "Major C. W. F." arguing there is no absolute "best" wheel, only relative to individual notions, and that cheaper bicycles for the working classes would grow the sport, win road legislation, and improve machines.
- Letters from Cleveland (fancy riders W. H. Wetmore and Beckwith Ely), Philadelphia (the Thanksgiving road race and Twenty-second Street improvements), Boston (John S. Prince explaining his defeat by Frye as due to lack of training), Troy, and Springfield, the last drawing a long editorial reply tracing the championship history of Gideon, Hendee, Frye, and Smith.
- A profile of Wm. M. Woodside, the ten- and fifty-mile Irish champion, recounting his year racing in Ireland on a 24 lb. Sanspareil, his 37 medals, five wins over C. D. Vesey, and his plans to ride in New York and then San Francisco.
- An editorial reviewing legal precedents on wheelmen's right to use the highways, citing favorable verdicts in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New Hampshire courts and the English case Taylor v. Goodwin, ahead of a forthcoming League circular by President Pratt.
- The Pequonnock Wheel Club has secured a riding hall on the main street, with three members voting to join the B.T.C., and plans a fancy-riding, drill, and dancing entertainment to revive local cycling interest.
- A reprinted essay (by Thomas M. Laws, from the British Journal of Photography) on combining bicycling and tricycling with amateur photography, covering portable quarter-plate cameras, knapsacks versus saddle bags, metal-tube tripods, and Warnerke's roller dark slide.
- A humorous gossip column of rhetorical questions about New York wheelmen's lack of winter entertainments, the Ixion club's banjo trio and uniform, the "Star" bicycle, and assorted club personalities such as "Papa" Weston and Capt. Thompson of the Lenox.
- The B.T.C. department listing membership applications and renewals, state and local consuls appointed (New York's Fred. G. Bourne, Rhode Island, Massachusetts), the half-yearly meeting at Liverpool on Dec. 16, and notices from Chief Consul Frank Weston.
- The L.A.W. department giving the board of officers (President W. H. Miller, Vice-President A. S. Parsons, Secretary Fred. T. Sholes) and standing committees, and noting that League candidate lists and notices now appear in The Wheel as official organ.
- An address, with Treasurer W. V. Gilman's appended letter, urging chief consuls to recruit members and collect dues, praising the recruiting efforts of consuls C. D. Standish (Michigan), Fred. S. Pratt (Massachusetts), and C. A. Hazlett (New Hampshire), alongside new League membership applications from the Chicago, Marietta, and Rutland clubs.