The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 4, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes ahead of the Third Annual League Meet: New York-area clubs (Citizens', New York, Ixions, Harlem, Kings County, Brooklyn, Hudson County) drilling for the parade, dinner tickets through W. A. Bryant, Dr. Beckwith's supervision, and Pach's $2 souvenir parade photograph.
- "Percy" reports Harry Corey of the Massachusetts Club riding a 33-pound Rudge up the long-unrideable Corey Hill, the settled Massachusetts Division elections, the Harvard Club's amateur racing rules, and Prince going to work for Pope.
- Letter from "Nick L." of Rutland, Vt.: unable to attend the League Meet, the club will instead run to Fair Haven on May 30 and invites all Vermont wheelmen to join.
- "Liggins" on the success of the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette, George Hendee training for the Harvard races against Elliott Norton, the club's proposed ten-mile L.A.W. championship for Springfield, and disappointment at the League election returns.
- Notice from captains Wm. A. Carl (Brooklyn Bi. Club), H. H. Stults (Long Island Wheelmen), and F. J. Smith (Kings Co. Wheelmen) inviting wheelmen to a Decoration Day (May 30) run to Coney Island.
- Witty editorial squibs (the Metropolitan Police parade set for the 28th, Mrs. Adams as the first lady tricyclist in New York on a Coventry Convertible, "Doc" Beckwith drilling the Citizens', Fred C. Hand of Scranton turning agent) followed by the "Owl's" satire on the Western Cyclist masthead and an imagined interview with the Central Park Obelisk recalling Antony and Cleopatra forbidden to ride the Pyramids.
- Account of the Cleveland Bicycle Club's first annual entertainment at the Gatling Gun Armory: singing by Mrs. Ford and Miss Rutherford, recitations by Mrs. Charles G. Smith, an eight-man military drill, and fancy/trick riding by Beckwith, Ely, Sholes, the "Glue Brothers," and W. H. Wetmore.
- Department of club news: a fixtures calendar and closing-of-entries list (including the May 28 L.A.W. Meet and Harvard races), plus reports from the Connecticut, Rutland, Nashville Wheelmen, Brooklyn, and Rochester bicycle clubs covering annual meetings, new uniforms, club-houses, and runs.
- Karl Kron's letter pointing visitors to coasting roads near the Meet (the Fort Lee hill via the 125th Street ferry, the Englewood boulevard, routes through Paterson), recommending New York table d'hote restaurants, urging the elevated railroads to carry bicycles, and advising the "unattached" parade division be arranged by rider experience rather than wheel size.
- Report of the Crescent Athletic Club games of May 12: the one-mile bicycle race won by L. Stearns (L.B.C.) in 3 min. 29 sec. over E. A. Thompson and P. M. Harris, with spills by Robinson, Hall, and Sanford.
- Corresponding Secretary pro tem Fred. T. Sholes's complete alphabetical-by-number roster of the 173 League of American Wheelmen clubs, marking with an asterisk those whose membership status remains uncertain.
- Lead editorial on the League's growth in New York State and the State Division to be organized May 29, with a table ranking states by membership and votes cast (New York 413 members) and praise for Dr. Beckwith as Chief Consul elect.
- Report of the Brunswick Bicycle Club's (New Brunswick, N.J.) third annual meeting: officers elected (President William B. McGinnis, Captain D. H. Merritt) and a banquet at Mrs. H. J. Bradley's cafe with full menu, plus a note on C. K. Monroe's return from Florida.
- Karl Kron's letter praising Burley B. Ayres and President Bates for defending the League and arguing competent officers should be re-elected, advising the Boston Bicycle Club to reroute its Sunday tour to the Meet via Tarrytown to avoid Sabbatarian Connecticut, with the editor's appended rebuttal of the "fourth annual meet" claim.
- Standing matter on the C.T.C. (founded 1878, some ten thousand members): dues, membership applications, the new club uniform cloth at $1.35 per yard, and the Harrogate Meet party sailing on 21st July.
- Official L.A.W. standing department: board of officers, standing and auxiliary committees, the list of railroads carrying bicycles free in baggage cars, and new membership applications from the Albany, Washington, Pequonnock, and Lehigh University clubs.