The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editorial news column: a Boston-invented bicycle whistle, the New York court ban on riding in Central Park, Samuel A. Miles's Cincinnati tournament featuring champions John S. Prince and Irishman W. M. Woodside, the contested Massachusetts L.A.W. election (Hill vs. Ducker), and the Francke–Jenkins fancy-riding challenge at Louisville.
- Letter from C. D. Snedeker of New Brunswick withdrawing his name as a candidate for New Jersey Representative to the L.A.W., as he could not give the office proper attention.
- Report of the April 3 meeting of over a hundred wheelmen at the Citizens Bicycle Club rooms to organize the L.A.W. Annual Meet in New York on May 28; sub-committees were appointed under Beckwith, Bourne, Nelson and Jenkins, and clubs subscribed funds (Citizens and New York $300 each, Ixion, Mt. Vernon and Kings County $100 each).
- Readers' letters, including an Albany club report ('Klub Kicker') on a new navy-blue uniform and snow-bound spring riding, F. L. Rosemond of Cambridge, Ohio defending the Standard against the Star, a Rutland, Vermont note ('Nick L.') proposing a Lake Sunapee camp, and a Philadelphia writer ('Ninon Neckar') debating the date of the League Meet.
- Washington social column signed 'Oliver' featuring the sketch 'He Would Be a Rex' about a friend battered while 'practicing the one wheel act,' an account of the Capital Bicycle Club's wheel ball with 300 guests, members (Hansmann, Owen, the Stewarts) sailing for England, and new Maryland Club officers.
- Santa Barbara, California travel letter signed 'Rueda' on riding the Pacific coast from Los Angeles, the rarity of modern bicycles there, dusty country roads, and endorsing New York for the L.A.W. Meet.
- Letter from H. E. Ducker, president of the Springfield Bicycle Club, defending his claim that George Hendee—not Rex Smith—first mounted and rode the single wheel unassisted, and praising twelve-year-old member George Nash.
- Boston correspondent 'Percy' on the Massachusetts Club opening its season, the disputed Prince vs. the 'Four' race and the bets declared off by referee Merrill, Hendee's quiet visit, Frye's rumored return, and Springfield's planned September tournament.
- Springfield writer 'Liggins' details the club's planned three-day September tournament (a roughly $10,000 guarantee fund and a $1,000 amateur prize from a Boston maker) and condemns the mismanaged Prince–Four race witnessed at the Boston Institute.
- Untitled New York editorial notes: Newman's joke 'side header' dismount, the Ixion's run to Col. Orm's Hotel at Riverdale, Secretary Adams reviving the New York Club in print, Judge Davis's 'N. B.' (no bicycles) Central Park ruling, Prof. Dudley A. Sargent of Harvard on cycling as exercise, and Barnum's lithograph of the Elliott family on a bicycle chariot.
- Editorial reviewing American court decisions upholding bicyclers' road rights (Stewart vs. Adams before Chief Justice Brigham, the earlier Ladd vs. Allen in New Hampshire, and the Foster suit at Baltimore) and lamenting that no case has yet reached the highest courts for a binding ruling.
- Full report of the L.A.W. Board of Officers' spring meeting at Worcester on March 27: committee reports, $50 voted toward member J. Fred. Adams's legal costs, the guide-board stencil scheme, Treasurer Gilman's financial statement and membership figures, constitution and racing-rule amendments creating State Divisions, and the unanimous choice of New York for the Annual Meet.
- Notice from H. S. Livingston, president of the League of Ohio Wheelmen, urging Ohio members to charter a special train to the New York Meet.
- Appeal from Finance Committee chairman Richard Nelson asking New York-area clubmen and unattached riders to remit funds promptly for the reception of the L.A.W. Meet on May 28.
- C.T.C. notice that the American branch has adopted the Norfolk jacket and Boston-shape cap (in place of the English jacket and polo cap) and arranged with the Lamoille Mills of Fairfax, Vermont to produce all-wool club cloth at $1.35 a yard.