The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The Connecticut Bicycle Club's fundraising exhibition at the Union Armory, Hartford, with club drills by the New Haven Ramblers and Springfield Club, trick riding by Master George H. Nash, and professional feats by Daniel J. Canary and Messrs. Wilmot and Sewell.
- A correspondent recounts riding the eight miles home alongside a neighbor on horseback, finding the horse made surprisingly good company for a wheelman.
- A letter from "Rhys" warning wheelmen against riding in long pantaloons after his trousers caught between the fork and crank, causing a header that required his face to be sewn up in two places.
- A correspondent ("Cerees") joins the running debate over "The Expert" bicycle, faulting its backbone taper, brake and weight while praising the American Club, Clubs, Invincible, Rudge and Sanspareil machines.
- A write-up of the new Pullman "buffet" cars built for the New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railway, describing the sideboard serving coffee, tea and light luncheons, an innovation conceived by George M. Pullman.
- The Capital Club's 20-mile Thanksgiving run to Marlboro' and back, including the climb of "Good Hope" hill and Mr. Grossman's record of 1 hour 43 minutes; signed "Simplex."
- The Keystone Bicycle Club's season-closing Thanksgiving-eve dinner at the Seventh Avenue Hotel, with songs, speeches and a display of trophies worth six to seven hundred dollars; signed "T. L. O."
- A comic poem lamenting the mishaps and bruises suffered while riding a Yankee "Star" bicycle, signed "Other Fellah."
- A St. Louis correspondent's news of the city's four flourishing clubs, a century run beating the state record, the Missouri Club's fall races at the Zoological Gardens, and Thanksgiving runs; signed "Jack Shaw."
- Edward Pettus, captain of the Kings County Wheelmen, rode five and a half miles on the Coney Island Boulevard in nineteen minutes, beating H. Stults's previous record of twenty-two and three-quarter minutes.
- A letter from Edward J. Shirker asking readers for the road record from New York to Tarrytown, citing Howard Conkling's time of 2.24.
- A report on the Plainfield club's election-day run to Orange and a Thanksgiving ride up Johnston's drive, plus its newly elected officers led by President Harold Serrell; signed "R."
- "Rueda" recounts a three-week excursion taking in the Ixions' dinner and road race to Yonkers, New York City's now-free River Side Drive, New Haven, and Fall River.
- George E. Long thanks City Clerk John E. Scott for helping refer Jersey City's anti-bicycle ordinance to the Committee on Streets, with an editorial note criticizing the New Jersey division's inaction.
- L. M. Wainwright argues for holding the next L. A. W. meet in the West—at Indianapolis or Cincinnati—to boost cycling enthusiasm in Indiana and Ohio.
- The Cleveland Bicycle Club's run to Rocky River and ten-mile road race back to its Euclid Avenue headquarters, won by G. H. Potter in 50 minutes.
- Anthon Curtiss and W. I. Wilhelm of the Reading Bi-Club describe a 108-mile Reading-to-Harrisburg round trip over bad roads, against a head-wind and without a lamp; signed W. I. Wilhelm.
- The official weekly list of L. A. W. membership applicants by state division and club, plus newly appointed Missouri consuls E. A. Clifford and M. D. Rees, Jr.
- Notice of the marriage of Capt. F. H. Benton (N. H. Bi. C.) to Lillian Idlewild Armstrong of New Haven at Trinity Church on December 3d.
- The paper's news-and-notes column, reporting the professionals' group photograph, mail-list changes, Dr. Coleman's handle-bar accident at Canandaigua, an upcoming fancy-riding exhibition by Dan Canary, and a Reading Bi-Club Thanksgiving run.
- An editorial settling the dispute over the New Haven track's measurement, printing Civil Engineer Sylvanus Butler's surveyor's certificate confirming the records and demanding a like certificate from the Springfield Club.
- The Scranton Bicycle Club's Thanksgiving-morning road race won by Fillmore, followed by an afternoon run up the Wyoming valley to lunch at Mr. S. B. Vaughn's in Kingston; signed "Polk."
- The New Haven Bicycle Club's Thanksgiving run to the Forbes House, Morris Cove, after a group photograph with Mayor H. G. Lewis at the City Hall; signed W. H. Eel.
- An opinion piece condemning race-fixing and betting among professional riders at the Springfield tournament and urging managers to drop professional races; signed "Mercury."