The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Opening news department on preparations for the L.A.W.'s Third Annual Meet in New York (May 28), with travel and barge advice, ticket arrangements through W. A. Bryant, and the full list of headquarters and other hotels (Grand Union, St. Cloud, Astor House, etc.).
- Karl Kron's open letter insisting the 1883 New York gathering is rightly the League's 'fourth' annual Meet (counting from the Newport parade of 1880) and denouncing the Boston-originated mislabelling of it as the 'third'; addressed to the Press Committee chairman.
- Report on the six-day, $2,000 horses-vs-bicycles race at the Casino, Boston, between horseman Charles Leroy and bicyclists John S. Prince and William M. Woodside, with Leroy dislocating his shoulder and being replaced by Francis M. Ware.
- Club department giving the spring fixtures (Albany, Crescent A.C., Harvard Bi. Club, the L.A.W. Meet, Pullman A.C., etc.), closing dates for race entries, and the Mount Vernon Bicycle Club's annual election of officers.
- Review of the May number of The Wheelman magazine, praising 'A Summer Ramble among the Black Hills,' 'The Citizens' Trip to Boston,' the serial 'A Shadow Love,' and Karl Kron's 'Winter Wheeling.'
- Correspondence letter in which Boston rider H. F. Milliken asks the editor to stop using his name in connection with his quarrel with Mr. Dalton until the matter is settled in the courts.
- Correspondent 'Rueda' describes hilly San Francisco riding through Golden Gate Park and a long coast from the Cliff House, on a ride with N. C. Finkler of the local club.
- Chicago correspondent announces a six-day professional bicycle tournament at Battery D Armory (May 21-26), to be refereed and managed by Frank E. Yates, timed to coincide with the World's Railway Exhibition.
- Springfield correspondent 'Liggins' reports on the coming September tournament's Wheelmen's Gazette, the $1,000 solid-gold Pope Challenge Cup for the 20-mile championship, Hendee's fast laps, the Overman Victor Rotary tricycle gift, and a threatened anti-bicycle city ordinance.
- Satirical untitled New York club notes on 'Campanini' Newman and 'Chic,' the Citizens' leasing the 'Dakota,' B. E. Woolf's comic opera 'Pounce & Co.,' the C.T.C. uniform, and the mock 'Anglo Dude Club' petition for League recognition.
- Chief Consul N. Malon Beckwith's call to organize a New York State Division of the L.A.W. at a meeting following the Meet at the Grand Union Hotel, with the editor's endorsement and explanation of the proposed Section 4 amendment.
- Correspondent 'Percy' reports the Boston Tricycle Club's twenty-rider meet and run from Trinity Square, Prince and Woodside training for the Le Roy race, Burnham's ten-mile win at the Casino, and Younge's disputed race time.
- Frank A. Elwell's invitation and detailed itinerary for the Portland Bicycle Club's 'Down East' Maine excursion (June 18-23) via Eastport, Calais, Machias, Campobello and Grand Menan.
- Portland correspondent 'Transport' corrects the photographer's name to J. H. Lamson, reports Maine railroad-cooperation efforts, the Boston & Maine's 25-cent bicycle charge, and claims priority for the Eastern tour over the Chicago club's Canadian tour.
- Standing C.T.C. membership notice under Chief Consul Frank W. Weston, with new applications and notices, including cancellation of Thwing & Co. as Boston C.T.C. tailors and W. H. J. Smith acting as Washington consul during Howell Stewart's absence.
- Official L.A.W. directory listing membership terms and the Board of Officers (President W. H. Miller) together with the standing and auxiliary committees.
- Chief Consul Chas. D. Standish announces new Michigan L.A.W. consuls for Ann Arbor (Junius E. Beal), Big Rapids (Chas. B. Lovejoy) and Detroit (W. H. Elmer).
- List of the many railroads issuing instructions to carry bicycles free in baggage cars, with B. B. Ayers noting that only the Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific have refused.
- Roster of newly enrolled League members from the Northampton, Smithville, Columbia and Pequonnock clubs, plus unattached riders, with one membership correction.
- Open letter in which Fred. T. Sholes declines support for re-election as Corresponding Secretary, citing the growing demands of his private affairs.
- Corresponding Secretary Fred. T. Sholes announces the League's annual meeting in New York on May 28 and the closing of application books on the evening of May 5.
- Official programme for the L.A.W.'s Third Annual Meet at New York (May 28), outlining the business meeting, parade and banquet and listing the Committees of Arrangements and their chairmen (Beckwith, Bourne, Bryant, Egan, Jenkins, etc.).