The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Official directory of the L. A. W. listing the Board of Officers (President Dr. N. M. Beckwith), standing committees, chief consuls and representatives by state, and the New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Michigan State Divisions, with membership-assessment and bicycle-club notices.
- Lists the railroads (Baltimore & Ohio, Grand Trunk, Pennsylvania and many others) carrying bicycles free in baggage cars, the transportation charges on the Pennsylvania and Boston & Maine lines, and notes that the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western has cancelled its free-carriage order.
- Published list of new applicants for League membership from the Southbridge, Moorestown, New York, Citizens, Connecticut and Detroit bicycle clubs and unattached riders, inviting members to object within two weeks.
- List of members renewing their League membership for the week ending June 3, 1883, including the Connecticut Bicycle Club of Hartford and the Alpha Bi. Club of Bethlehem, Pa.
- Fred T. Sholes's third-anniversary report giving League statistics: 925 communications answered, 2,131 total members and 172 clubs, with 35 percent membership growth, broken down by state and province.
- Proposed amendments submitted to the Board of Officers by mail vote at President Beckwith's request, revising Rules 22, 27, 33 and 34 on membership tickets, dues, badges and the League emblem; the $1.50 dues increase has been withdrawn.
- Reports that the Park Commissioners, on the Citizens' Bicycle Club's application in the League's name, opened Central Park's West Drive to L. A. W. members between midnight and 9 a.m., with riding rules and the pass procedure through President Beckwith and Secretary Barker.
- Fred Jenkins's Racing Board report on sanctioned race meetings, the proposed 18-inch track-measurement standard, and the Springfield Bicycle Club's offer of championship medals, with notes on the September Springfield tournament and Bertie Le Franc's challenge.
- Springfield correspondent 'A. Lester' on Prince making the city his headquarters, the club's handsomely decorated new club-rooms with a life-size portrait of Hendee, and Hendee, Elwell, Foulds and others training on the track for the $1,000 cup.
- 'Rueda' describes bicycling in southern California, the smooth roads around Los Angeles, being hosted by the L. A. B. C. on Harvard machines, and a quail hunt by wheel near Pomona.
- Untitled New York gossip column noting Central Park's opening, Secretary Sanford and City Consul Pitman, the Ixions, and city clubs thinning as members leave for the country and Coney Island.
- U. S. branch C. T. C. column covering new applications and appointments, club tailors, the new club uniform and its prices, the 1883 hand-book, and the seventh annual Harrogate Meet on 6 August.
- Editorial arguing against forming a new New England cycling association, holding that existing clubs, county leagues, State divisions, the C. T. C. and the League already meet wheelmen's needs.
- Club-news department with the fixtures calendar, closing of entries for the Kings County Wheelmen's meet, and reports on the annual meetings of the Marietta (Pa.) and Charlestown bicycle clubs.
- Race report on the New York Athletic Club games at Mott Haven on June 9, with Chas. A. Reed winning the one-mile and R. G. Rood the three-mile bicycle races.
- Joseph P. Angell of Pine Bluff reprints a St. Louis account of wheelman Russell Gardner halted at gunpoint by horseman John Bardenheier, and reflects on the hostility wheelmen face from horsemen.
- John S. Prince accepts Higham's challenge for the International Championship, agreeing to ride twenty-, ten- and five-mile races, best two of three, for $250 a side.
- A humorous parody of Bryant's 'Thanatopsis' urging the reader to ride a Columbia cycle and sign the long roll of the League.
- Reprint from the New York Herald (Feb. 2, 1880) recounting seventeen riders led by Wentworth Rollins making a midnight dash through Central Park, with mishaps including a rider pitched into a tub of mortar.
- A humorous romantic sketch in which St. James Simpson, condemned to ride with 'the great unwashed,' collapses at the feet of Estelle O'Houlihan on Riverside Drive.
- Department of short notes: The Wheel becoming the League's official organ, a new Janesville (Wis.) club, F. P. Kendall's bereavement, John S. Prince planning to teach riding in New York, and the Press Committee's report.