The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Short editorial notes on New York Park Commission politics, the Boston Bicycle Club's winter socials, a rebuke of the Bicycling World editor over his open letter attacking the L.A.W. and the Pope Manufacturing Co., and word that W. H. Miller has appointed Fred T. Sholes of Cleveland as the League's corresponding secretary.
- Announces the Kings County Wheelmen's second annual reception at Knickerbocker Hall, Brooklyn, on 4 December 1882, arranged by Alex Schiralbach, J. H. Lephant, and Frank J. Smith, with a stage party setting out from the New York headquarters at 4 East 59th Street.
- Three letters: a Washington writer on corrosion of nickel-plated bicycles and the case for silver-plating; a Philadelphia correspondent on the city's cycling revival, the new Quaker City club, and a Thanksgiving Day inter-club road race over the Lancaster Pike; and S. A. Auty of Millergate, Bradford, forwarding a B.T.C. Council resolution thanking The Wheel and other papers.
- A long essay reprinted from The Wheelman examining the League of American Wheelmen's origin, constitution, and scope since its founding on 31 May 1880, arguing its remit is protecting wheelmen's rights to public highways and parks rather than acting as an insurance or legal-aid society. Continued on page 3.
- An editorial praising the new monthly The Wheelman for encouraging cycling literature and urging wheelmen to submit descriptive papers, fiction, poetry, and anecdote rather than confining writing to technical notes and club reports.
- A preview of the December Century Magazine, noting E. V. Smalley on the Supreme Court, Frank H. Cushing's first account of living among the Zuni, Henry James Jr.'s 'The Point of View', Mary Hallock Foote's 'The Led-Horse Claim', and poems by the late Sidney Lanier.
- A humorous narrative reprinted from the Morning Journal of five wheelmen, one a Mercury Club member, riding at midnight from Fifth Avenue and 59th Street along the Southern Boulevard and through the forbidden Central Park, evading a sleeping policeman before escaping; the editor suspects it echoes an earlier New York Herald piece.
- The Bicycle Touring Club's uniform committee report, adopting an exclusive small dark-grey check cloth chosen from 40 woven patterns and specifying the jacket, knickerbockers or knee-breeches, polo cap, helmet, hand-knit grey stockings, and flannel shirt, with optional waistcoat, gaiters, and gloves.
- A letter from L.A.W. vice-president Albert S. Parsons defending himself over delays in delivering the stenographic report of the League board's Boston meeting, citing the reporter's bereavement and editor Fred Jenkins's absence in Philadelphia, with a Bicycling World editor's note exonerating him. Continued on page 6.
- Rochester Bicycle Club news from secretary W. J. Curtis: a fire in rooms below the club gymnasium caused smoke and water damage but spared the club, a Thanksgiving Day run is planned, and four members can now ride on their front wheels.
- A column of pointed rhetorical questions about who will attend the Washington meet, who will fill the L.A.W. corresponding secretary post, when the Prince-Frye contest will come off, and whether English editor Sturmey is unduly insular in favouring British makers.
- Reports the Columbia Riding School's formal opening before about three hundred spectators, with trick and fancy riding by Gus Wells, Ford Mason, Mr. Canary of New Haven, and Mr. Atkins of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, who won the slow race.
- The League's standing notice listing its board of officers and standing committees and recording the board's 20 October vote that lists of membership candidates and special league notices be furnished to The Wheel as well as the official organ.
- The B.T.C.'s membership notice directing applications to Chief Consul Frank Weston of Savin Hill, Boston (fees $2.50 including silver badge), with the latest names forwarded for membership.