The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 21
Articles in this issue
- A humorous after-dinner poem by James Clarence Harvey pledging the wheel and pressing wheelmen's claim to ride in the parks, reprinted from the Wheelman.
- Short New York notes ahead of the Springfield meet: Frank A. Egan's special excursion train, the Ixions' plans with Jim Burdette, the Manchester Bi. Club hill-climb won by Capt. C. H. Wilkins, and the Maryland Club championship race.
- Standing official matter: membership-application instructions to Cor. Sec'y Fred Jenkins, plus the League's directory of officers, standing committees, chief consuls, representatives, and division secretaries and treasurers.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman explains the duplicated red figures the lithographers mistakenly stamped on this year's membership cards, directing members to the true number preceded by 'D' in the lower centre.
- List of the many railroads that have agreed to carry bicycles free in baggage cars at owner's risk for first-class ticket holders, with the per-mile charges set by the Pennsylvania and Eastern roads.
- The weekly published list of applicants for League membership (Nos. 4014 onward), arranged by state division and club, continued onto the following page.
- List of League members renewing for the year ending May 30, 1884, by division and club, including Brooklyn's Touring Wheelmen and the Massachusetts and Pennsylvania divisions.
- Open letter from W. L. Howe, the newly appointed Iowa Chief Consul, soliciting names of riders and prospective consuls so a state division of the L.A.W. can be formed.
- Greeting from the Executive Committee of the League of Ohio Wheelmen announcing its third-anniversary meet at Columbus on a new one-fifth-mile track built by the Buckeye Bicycle Club at the Base Ball Park.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'N. N.' reports the new Pennsylvania State Division arranging a grand meet for September 29th, combined with the Germantown and Pennsylvania clubs' joint fall race meeting and Col. Sanderson chairing.
- Brief item, from the Cyclist, noting Jack Keen covered only 16 miles 990 yards in his hour record attempt at Surbiton and is now off to New York to race Prince.
- Officials named for the Kings County Wheelmen's races of September 1st (referee Fred Jenkins, judges including Dr. N. M. Beckwith), with where the medals may be viewed; entries close August 29th.
- Letter from Edward J. Shriver disputing the reported one-hour-fifteen-minute time for Mr. Corey's eight-mile descent of Mt. Washington from the summit to the Glen House.
- Results of bicycle races at Peoria, Canton (Pa.), Springfield, Findlay (Ohio), Ballston Spa, and the Buckeye Bi. Club's club races at Recreation Park, Columbus.
- Letter signed 'Buff.' introducing the fifty-nine-strong Buffalo Bicycle Club as it joins the League and announcing its third annual tournament on September 13th with $450 in prizes.
- Officers (Chief Consul E. K. Hill, Treasurer C. P. Shillaber, Secretary F. P. Kendall), standing committees, and the full text of the rules/by-laws of the Massachusetts Division.
- Untitled humorous New York club notes on the Citizens and Ixions: the 'club liar,' the new club-house corner-stone box, President Egan's conversion to a tricycle, and the $15 cost of the Springfield trip.
- Lead editorial protesting that judges at the Medina, Ohio races barred a New Jersey League member's 'Star' bicycle from the mile event, arguing Star riders are entitled to equal protection under Racing Rule 4.
- Fred Jenkins announces that League stencil outfits, route slips, hotel and consul certificates, and membership blanks are on hand and subject to consuls' orders through the Division Secretaries.
- Memorial resolutions of the Nashville Bicycle Club on the death of member Julian Eakin Spence, who died of fever on August 9th; the club will wear a mourning emblem for one month.
- Anecdote of a Staten Island Wheelman crowded into the gutter by a malicious driver, who was arrested by a deputy sheriff and fined ten dollars by the justice.