The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Standing official front matter giving the full roster of L.A.W. officers, standing committees, chief consuls and representatives, with notices on the annual membership assessment, railroads carrying bicycles free, and how clubs may join the League as a body.
- Publication No. 28, dated July 13, 1883, listing 172 new membership applicants across the New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire divisions, together with the week's L.A.W. renewals.
- Minutes of the Massachusetts Division meeting at Boston on June 6, 1883, chaired by Chief Consul E. K. Hill, at which the division by-laws were debated article by article and Frank P. Kendall (Secretary) and Thomas P. Shillaber (Treasurer) were elected.
- Report of the New Hampshire Wheelmen's meeting at Hotel Windsor, Manchester on July 3, 1883, adopting a new constitution, electing E. A. McQueston Secretary and C. H. Sanders Treasurer, and appointing League hotels and consuls.
- Open letter from Chief Consul N. Malon Beckwith urging New York consuls to complete and return their descriptive route slips and to work actively through the riding season or give up their posts to more energetic men.
- Account of a two-day press excursion of about 150 newspapermen over the newly opened New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, running via Haverstraw and Kingston up the Kaaterskill Railroad to the Hotel Kaaterskill in the Catskills, praising passenger agent Henry Monett and the road's smooth, solid construction.
- W. J. Morgan of Oshkosh corrects the scores of the six-hour bicycle handicap at Milwaukee's Exposition Building (June 28–30): Morgan 103 miles 7 laps, Wm. M. Woodside 102 miles 2 laps, and Louise Armaindo 101 miles.
- A letter signed R. F. F. disputes the official return of the ten-mile Maryland championship at Druid Hill Park (June 23), explaining that two timers in buggies were ordered off the course on the last lap, and defending the times of winner J. D. Flack and E. E. Williams over C. R. Evans.
- "A Cycler" of Washington, D.C. asks readers for route information for a proposed autumn run to Springfield, Mass., and whether the "Atlantic Special" machine described by Sturmey has been imported into the United States.
- Washington Police Court report of Judge Snell trying Thomas D. Chapman for driving his team into bicyclers on 9th Street and injuring Frank R. Lane; the judge ruled that a bicycle is a carriage with equal rights to the streets and that a vehicle in front must not obstruct a bicycle that has indicated its course.
- Chief Consul L. H. Johnson announces an official New Jersey Division state badge (the League badge with an engraved gold band, $4 extra), new consuls at Hoboken, Morristown and Vineland, and the organization of the Elizabeth Wheelmen with seven L.A.W. members.
- Standing C.T.C. department covering membership dues and applications, new appointments, the new club uniform, the 1883 hand-book, and the Seventh Annual North of England Meet at Harrogate on August 6.
- Lead editorial pressing tardy members to renew, reporting a League membership of about 2,100 with roughly 600 dues paid and 684 new applicants for 1883–84, and noting the paper will now be sent only to members in good standing.
- Editorial obituary of S. A. Marsden — captain of the New Haven Bicycle Club, Chief Consul of Connecticut and a founding L.A.W. member who helped organize the League at Newport in 1880 — who died of typhus fever at New Haven on July 8 after a ten-day illness.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents (C. C. Woolworth, L. J. Berger, Abbott Bassett and others), including a warning to Consul L. L. Atwood that circus races are not sanctioned and racing men should avoid them.
- Club department carrying race fixtures and reports from Manchester (newly elected officers), the Albany Club's July 4 trip to Cobleskill, the Pennsylvania club's election of Fred McOwen as Vice-President, and the Meriden Wheel Club's annual election.
- A first-person narrative of a Fourth-of-July wheeling tour across Long Island (Hempstead, Islip, Patchogue, Greenport) with companions "the Jedge," Captain Allen and "Andy," dwelling on the good roads, lavish suppers and pretty Long Island girls.
- Humorous club chatter — Burdette the humorist joining the Ixions, W. E. Montelius joining the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, Mason's new Singer "Sociable," and quips on the new bicycle-as-carriage ruling.
- News miscellany — only 172 applications this week, conflicting reported times for the Boston mile open handicap, the new New Hampshire Division, Marsden's death, road-mapping around Baltimore under Consul L. S. King, and Capital Club members sailing for the Harrogate Meet.