The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The Central Park Commissioners grant wheelmen the park's west drive for the League parade on May 28th, and the full New York route via Fifth Avenue and Riverside Drive is described; reprints the Cincinnati Times-Star on Prince and Woodside's poorly-attended exhibition (where W. H. Reed beat Prince's ten-mile record) and 'Karl Kron's' protest over the 'third annual meet' billing.
- Club department with fixtures and closing-of-entries notices for the spring races, plus reports from the Walden Ramblers of Concord, the Genesee Bicycle Club, the Columbia County Wheelmen's officer elections, and the new Kentucky Club uniform.
- Account of the Meriden Wheel Club's first annual exhibition and ball at the Opera House before some 450 guests, with fancy riding by Dan Canary and the Wilmot-Alden double act, and Colonel Pope and George Hendee among the visitors.
- Pseudonymous New York city-letter of wheeling gossip touching 'Ye Balloon' Sterry, 'Campanini' Newman, the new Harlem Wheel Club, the Ixions' runs to Riverdale, and a dig at editor Dean's overly English, tricycling paper.
- Editorial rebuking the Bicycling World for puffing a supposed decision against the Lallement patent, arguing the Pope Manufacturing Co. v. Marqua ruling was an uncontested snap judgment, unknown even to plaintiffs' counsel Coburn and Thacher, that will be set aside.
- The L.A.W. Racing Board sanctions the Springfield Bicycle Club's twenty-mile race for a $1,000 Pope Manufacturing cup as the 1883 amateur championship of America, at Springfield on September 18-20; the resolution and its three conditions are printed in full.
- Report on the one-mile bicycle race at the 13th Regiment's athletic meeting in Brooklyn, won amid badly bungled timing by H. J. Hall of the Kings County Wheelmen over Wm. A. Carl, with a fancy-riding exhibition by Hall and Bloodgood.
- Announces a six-day, twelve-hours-a-day championship-of-America bicycle race at the Battery D armory, Chicago, May 21-26, managed by T. W. Eck with Frank Yates as referee and Woodside, Young and Wilson expected to start for a $25 entrance fee.
- Testimonial letter from L.A.W. Chief Consul Llewellyn H. Johnson to Julius Wilcox praising the 44-inch Special Facile after severe hill-climbing, deep-mud and coasting tests around Orange, N.J.
- Standing notice describing the Cyclists' Touring Club (founded 1878 as the B.T.C.), its ten-thousand-strong international membership and dues, with a list of new American applicants for membership.
- Official L.A.W. directory of the Board of Officers and standing committees, with the list of railroads that have agreed to carry bicycles free in baggage cars for ticket-holding members.
- Notice that the L.A.W. Board voted to furnish The Wheel with the list of membership candidates and official League matters, so members can obtain all League news by subscribing.
- Appeal from Finance Committee chairman Richard Nelson urging New York wheelmen to contribute promptly toward the cost of receiving the League of American Wheelmen at its May meet in the city.
- List of new applications for membership in the League of American Wheelmen, forwarded for publication by corresponding secretary Fred. T. Sholes, including Laramie, Massachusetts, Oswego and Troy club men.
- Programme and committees of arrangements for the League's Third Annual Meet in New York on Monday, May 28, 1883 - a morning business meeting, afternoon parade and evening banquet.