The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 18
Articles in this issue
- The opening news column: race meetings at Findlay (Ohio), Pittsfield's Berkshire County Wheelmen, and Martha's Vineyard; a Chicago Times report on Mrs. Frank E. Yates riding twenty-four miles on her tricycle debut; the New York Wheelmen entertaining over eighty Central Park police at a dinner by Caterer Couher; and the scouting parties that dispatched the yellow cur that threw Mr. Denegre on the Riverside.
- A correspondent's letter on the Staten Island Bicycle Club re-organising as the Staten Island Wheelmen, electing officers (Captain R. V. R. Schuyler, Surgeon Dr. F. S. Grant) and describing the island's fine coasting roads and a moonlit run to Peteler's South Beach Pavilion for soft-shell crabs.
- The League's standing official column: instructions for sending membership applications to Cor. Sec. Fred Jenkins, plus the full Board of Officers (President N. M. Beckwith, Treasurer William V. Gilman) and the Standing Committees roster.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman explains that the duplicate red figures stamped on this year's membership cards (a lithographer's error) are void, the true number being the lower-centre figure prefixed by the letter D for the League's fourth year.
- A model by-law clause recommended for clubs wanting a position in League parades or delegate representation, by which the whole club becomes League members with initiation fees paid from the club treasury.
- The weekly published list of new membership applicants (total 43) by division and club—the Cincinnati and Buckeye Bi. Clubs, Buffalo, Utica, Elmira and others—opened to two weeks' confidential objection.
- The weekly published renewal lists (total 193) arranged by state division and club—Peoria, Montreal, Kankakee, New Haven, the Boston Ramblers and the Massachusetts Bi. Club (Albert A. Pope among them).
- A narrative of the Citizens Club's day-trip from New York: thirteen riders crossed by steamer Sea Bird to Red Bank, covered the six-and-a-half miles to Sea Bright in thirty-five minutes, and lunched on the bluff before circling Mr. John Hoey's grounds and sailing home aboard the Plymouth Rock.
- Cor. Sec. Fred Jenkins warns racing men that competing in races not sanctioned by the League risks being barred from authorized races and the championships, several protests having already been made.
- Report on what is claimed as the first road race on tricycles in America, held July 30th under the Boston Bicycle Club over eighteen miles from Cobb's Tavern in Sharon to 53 Union Park; W. W. Stahl won the medal in 1h 30m 50s, ahead of Edmunds, Morris and Dean.
- Before 5,000 spectators at Athletic Park on July 23rd, John S. Prince of New York beat H. W. Higham of Nottingham, England, in the deciding race of their series for the bicycle championship of the world—going to the front in the final mile—with Leland Howard of the Capital Bicycle Club as referee and full quarter-mile splits published for all ten miles.
- A touring narrative of an experimental July 12th ride from Greensburg to Johnstown along the Pennsylvania Railroad's cinder paths through the Conemaugh "Pack-saddle," dining at the Carr House in New Florence and being escorted into town by Geo. M. Davidson Jr. and Prof. Webster Norris of the Cambria Iron Company; signed Tho. V. Stephenson.
- A comic mock-military account (subtitled "July President's Terrible Fight—One Killed and One Sent to Hospital") of how the Citizens and Ixion clubmen—President Egan, "Doctor," Secretary Jenkins and Denegre—staged a night campaign up the Riverside by hub-lamp to shoot the troublesome "yallow dorg" that had earlier unseated Denegre.
- Club notes: the Albion (Mich.) Bi. Club elects officers (President Clark Cady, Captain Ed. F. Woodcock) and adopts a dark-green uniform, and the Manchester (N.H.) Wheelmen's trip to Portsmouth, the beaches and Mt. Agamenticus with the Rockingham Club, where gold medals were presented for a 125-mile Boston round-trip.
- The C.T.C. standing column: membership applications to go to Henry W. Williams during Chief Consul Frank W. Weston's trip to the seventh annual Harrogate Meet, plus notices on the 1884 Harrogate gathering, the new club uniform, and the 1883 Hand-book.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman warns League members that, under the contract between the League and publishers Oliver & Jenkins, the free copy of The Wheel ends with this number, urging prompt payment of dues to division treasurers.
- Reports the result of Mail Vote No. II: fewer than 500 of 2,250 ballots returned, yet all amendments carried—authorising State Divisions and burying the three-foot track in favour of an eighteen-inch measurement to match British records—with amended Constitution Articles 3 and 4 and the racing rules reprinted.
- An address from the newly appointed Connecticut Chief Consul Stephen Terry, filling the vacancy left by the death of S. A. Marsden, seeking help to appoint town consuls, stencil-mark roads and designate wheelmen's hotels, and asking for the name of every cyclist in the state.
- Announcement of the Berkshire County Wheelmen's amateur race program at Pleasure Park, Pittsfield, Mass., on August 15th—eight events from a half-mile to twenty miles plus fancy and consolation races and a $50 county-championship medal—with an evening promenade concert by the Germania Orchestra.
- A detailed touring itinerary signed "D." of a 156-mile route from Port Jervis via Bushkill, Stroudsburg, Lehighton, Tamaqua, Pottsville and the Mahoney Valley to Allentown, with road conditions, the scenery of abandoned anthracite collieries, and hotel notes.
- Mr. H. D. Corey of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club rode up Corey Hill in Brookline on an Apollo (English) tricycle, succeeding where others had failed since W. W. Stall's Victor Rotary ascent two weeks earlier; Corey is also the only person to have mounted the hill on a bicycle.
- A second gossip installment: E. H. Carson of East Rochester rides down Mt. Washington on an American Star bicycle (per the N.Y. Tribune); W. J. Morgan's six-day Chicago tournament; the disputed Racing Board minority report; the Kings County Wheelmen's Sept. 1st record-beating meeting; and notes on garish unattached riders' costumes and Fred Hughes's novel man-versus-horse race offer.