The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 19
Articles in this issue
- A visit to Zacharias & Smith's new Oraton Hall riding-school in Newark, where novices are first taught balance on the American Star before graduating to crank machines and the local macadam roads.
- Twelve members of the Citizens Club ride the Orange roads to Mr. Smull's hundred-acre country place at Caldwell for an entertainment of song and feasting before coasting home through Montclair and Orange.
- Standing official-organ directory giving L.A.W. membership-application instructions and the Board of Officers, standing committees, chief consuls, representatives, and division secretaries and treasurers.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman explains that the duplicate red figures lithographed on this year's membership cards are void, the true number being the lower-centre figure prefixed by the letter D.
- List of railroads that have agreed to carry members' bicycles free in baggage cars on presentation of a first-class ticket, with the Pennsylvania and Eastern transportation charges.
- Representative Alfred Ely, Jr. and Chief Consul H. S. Livingston announce the newly appointed consuls for the Northern Division of Ohio, including Cleveland, Painesville, and Warren.
- Published list (No. 32; total 91) of new applicants for League membership grouped by division and club, with Corresponding Secretary Fred Jenkins inviting members to lodge objections.
- H. D. Corey of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club rides his X-traordinary down the carriage road from the Summit House of Mount Washington to the Glen House, beating Corson's record by forty-five minutes.
- Full text of the constitution and rules of the newly organized New Hampshire Division of the L.A.W., presented with a note from the committee of C. A. Hazlett and C. H. Wilkins.
- Foreign news report of the twenty-mile bicycle championship at the Belgrave-road Grounds, Leicester, where holder F. Wood beat ex-champion R. Howell by four lengths with F. Lees third.
- The N.C.U. one-mile bicycle and ten-mile tricycle amateur championships at the Crystal Palace, with H. W. Gaskell taking the closely contested mile final.
- News notes on the Kings County Wheelmen's races, R. V. R. Schuyler's giant 63-inch American Club, Springfield Meet preparations, and Judge Snell's ruling that a bicycle is a carriage with equal road rights.
- C.T.C. column noting the Harrogate annual meet, the redirection of membership applications during Chief Consul Frank W. Weston's absence in England, the new club uniform, and the 1883 hand-book.
- Editorial arguing that local 'county' leagues lack the influence of the L.A.W. and urging the Canadian Wheelmen to join the League as a properly officered division.
- Praise for the race-meeting committee of Geo. R. Bidwell, E. K. Austin, and Chas. Schwalbach ahead of the K.C.W. meeting of September 1st in Brooklyn.
- Report of the informal bicycle races held by the Buckeye Bicycle Club at the Columbus fairgrounds, with gold medals going to Neil, McCune, and Tress.
- The club marks its first anniversary with speeches from charter members and a run through the Park to Belmont mansion, reported by secretary A. H. MacOwen.
- A humorous personal column joking about Pitman's forthcoming 'book,' the late club dog 'Patsey Ixion,' the Springfield lithograph, and offering mock definitions of racing terms.