The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Detailed preview of the Third Annual L.A.W. Meet in New York on May 28, 1883 — the storage tents at Fourth Avenue and 59th Street, the numbered-tag system, the four-division parade up Fifth Avenue and the $2.50 Metropolitan Hotel dinner — with notes on H. D. Cory of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club climbing Corey Hill on a 53-inch Rudge and Col. George Pope's election as secretary of the Cunningham Co.
- Front-page illustration captioned "A Modern Elopement," a humorous treatment of eloping by wheel.
- Results of the Polytechnic A.A. of Brooklyn's annual games of May 5th (two-mile handicap won by H. Hall in 8 min. 27 sec. over A. R. Ives) and the Atlantic A.C. games at the M.A.C. grounds (one-mile handicap won by Louis Stearns of New York in 3:38).
- Complete state-by-state tabulation of the L.A.W. annual ballot for Chief Consuls and Representatives, from California to Wyoming, signed by Fred. T. Sholes and Chas. D. Standish, with the Committee on Rights and Privileges noting elected men (Henry Sturmey, D. R. Craig, Henry Huiskamp, Columbus Waterhouse) who had not renewed their membership.
- Club reports including officer elections at the Hawthorne Bicycle Club of Salem (now 35 members, with a cardinal silk flag presented by Lt. Philbrick) and the Meteor Bicycle Club of Detroit, plus the disbanding of the Troy Bicycle Club and moves to reorganize its older members as a Citizens' League Club.
- Some thirty riders of the Lawrence, Lynn, Salem, Marblehead and Beverly clubs dined at the Agawam House in Ipswich on Sunday, April 29th, and were threatened with arrest under the Sunday law but refused to leave, prompting editorial comment on small-town hostility to wheelmen.
- Standing notice for the C.T.C. (founded 1878) as an international body of some ten thousand members, with dues of $2.50 the first year and 85 cents thereafter, membership applications, and notes on the April Gazette, new club badges and the Boston club tailor, followed by New York club gossip (Egan, the Ixions, Peoli's header, the New York Club's new quarters).
- Letter from Frank A. Egan, New York City Consul of the C.T.C., asking riders to avoid Macombs Dam Bridge in crowded hours and to stay off Riverside Drive entirely — where park police now patrol until 8 p.m. to arrest cyclists — lest privileges for the coming Meet be jeopardized.
- Correspondent "Liggins" writes from Springfield on May 7 about the first issues of the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette, a proposed colored lithograph of the tournament park to sell for one dollar, the mooted Prince–Keen $1,000 championship race, and the club's new 60x30-foot ash-finished club-room with life-size wall portraits of Hendee and George H. Nash.
- "Percy" writes from Cambridge on May 5 on Boston's League Meet preparations, George Pope's election as secretary of the Cunningham Co., Stall & Burt's new shop at 509 Tremont Street carrying the Sanspareil and Victor Rotary, Wilmot's challenges, and Julius Wilcox showing his "Little Devil."
- Report of the six-day horse-versus-bicycle race at the Casino, Boston, from April 30, in which horseman Chas. Leroy (relieved by F. M. Ware after dislocating his shoulder) beat bicyclists J. S. Prince and Wm. M. Woodside, 921 miles to 899.
- Note from Charles E. Pratt, dated Boston, May 5, announcing that he positively retires from the staff of The Wheel while promising to contribute to its columns occasionally.
- Editorial distinguishing private Sunday riding from officially called club runs, criticizing the Boston Bicycle Club's announced Sunday run in Connecticut before the League Meet as Sabbath-breaking that harms the cause of cycling.
- Letter from Chas. M. Miller, chairman of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's racing committee, announcing the club has withdrawn its May 30 road race because it could not get permission to race on the Lancaster Pike.
- Circular from Commander N. Malon Beckwith to club captains on forming the May 28 Meet parade, with the two order-blanks (Orders No. 1 and No. 2) for reporting club strength at his 21 West 37th Street and Grand Union Hotel headquarters.
- The Membership Committee (E. K. Hill, Charles P. Shillaber, Henry W. Williams) proposes amendments to Rule 34, adding a grace period and notice before delinquents are dropped, and to the definition of an amateur in Rules 25 and 26.
- W. V. Gilman of Nashua gives notice that he will move to amend Rule 34, inserting "fifty cents" after "dollar" in the third clause.
- N. Malon Beckwith proposes raising the membership fee to one dollar and fifty cents, while W. V. Gilman proposes recasting Rule 33 to define the League badge and the consul, chief-consul and representative emblems and to have the League stop supplying badges.
- Official L.A.W. directory of the Board of Officers (President W. H. Miller of Columbus and others) and standing committees, continuing onto page 8 with new membership applications, renewals for the week ending April 30, and N. Malon Beckwith's full list of New York State consuls.
- Railroad Committee list of the many lines that have agreed to carry bicycles free in baggage cars for first-class ticket holders, with a correction that the Pennsylvania Company's order covers only its lines west of Pittsburgh.
- Official programme for the May 28, 1883 Meet at New York — morning business meeting, afternoon parade and evening banquet — listing the committee chairmen (Beckwith, T. C. Smith, R. Nelson, Egan, Jenkins, Bourne, Bryant) and inviting non-members to send for the 16-page programme.