The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The Citizens Club unpacks the largest bicycle in America, a fully nickeled 62-inch Expert built for 6-foot-2 Commander Beckwith to head the League parade, alongside notes on E. M. Gilman's California trip and committee progress on the New York League Meet.
- Reproduces Chief Consul Frank W. Weston's circular acknowledging C.T.C. membership applications, explaining the ten-day delay safeguard against fraud, the silver-badge rules, and the consular system being built across the United States.
- A humorous letter from H. C. Ogden of Middletown, N.Y., passed on by Treasurer Gilman, about L.A.W. membership tickets mistakenly mailed to member Low, who had sailed for Europe, sending them on a circuitous trip 'across the pond.'
- Fixtures and entry-closing dates for League and club events, plus a San Francisco Bicycle Club run report and officer-election news from the Watford, Wheeling, Missouri, Troy, Milwaukee, Albany and Brooklyn clubs.
- An opinion piece signed 'T. Ol.' defending bicycle racing against the claims that danger is its only fascination and that training and racing injure the rider's health, closing with a vivid description of a handicap-race finish.
- A touring narrative signed 'Nick L.' of three Rutland Bicycle Club members (Captain Knapp, Geo. Tuttle and the writer) riding from Rutland, Vt., through Castleton and Salem to Hoosick Falls and North Adams.
- A burlesque tale of Estelle O'Houllihan and her dry-goods-clerk cyclist suitor St. James Simpson, with his B.T.C. badge and his William goat, set in storm-swept Castle O'Houllihan.
- A reprinted notice of Dr. Coleman and his nephew Chester C. Hayes of Canandaigua, N.Y., giving comic and fancy bicycle riding at a Santa Barbara Amateur Dramatic Club entertainment.
- Boston correspondence signed 'Percy' on rain-spoiled Fast Day club runs, Wilmot's Casino exhibition, Prince and Woodside's western racing trip, and the clubs preparing to attend the New York League Meet.
- Editorial preview of the Springfield Bicycle Club's three-day camp and race meeting at Hampden Park, Sept. 18-20, with professional and college-amateur races and a $1,000 cup for the twenty-mile championship of America.
- Cleveland correspondence signed 'Namalos' on the club's growth to thirty members, its new dark-green uniform, three tricycle owners, and members' large new mounts for the season.
- A letter signed 'League Consul' attacking the inactive New Jersey Chief Consul and urging New Jersey wheelmen to elect a popular, energetic L.A.W. representative.
- An untitled correspondence signed 'Solitaire' describing the hospitality of Washington's Capital Club, its prettily decorated soiree dance of some five hundred guests, and Rex Smith's fancy riding.
- Report (from the Chicago Sporting Journal) of L. W. Conkling's challenge race against Henry Schempler at Chicago's Exposition Building, won by Schempler in 3h 28m 4s after Conkling withdrew, beating Louise Armaindo's Coney Island record.
- Foreign note on the first 10-mile professional championship of England, decided March 26, won by R. Howell over F. Wood and F. Lees in 33 min. 34 sec.
- Report of the 50-mile Professional Championship of the World at the Leicestershire Cricket Grounds on March 24, won by the Frenchman F. De Civry over Lees and Mac in cold, rain and hail.
- Report of the second heat of the Cincinnati Club's tournament at Power Hall, with results in the ten-mile, Enquirer medal, boys', two-mile, mile and fat men's handicap races.
- The C.T.C.'s official-organ standing matter describing the international club and its dues, with the week's membership applications, renewals and appointments.
- The League's official department listing its Board of Officers, standing and auxiliary committees, railroads carrying bicycles free, the appeal for funds for the New York reception, and new membership applications and renewals.
- The official programme for the League's Third Annual Meet in New York on Monday, May 28, 1883 (morning business meeting, afternoon parade, evening banquet), with the chairmen of the arrangements committees.