The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The columnist's Christmas chat, with notes on the Peguonnock and Ixion clubs, Dr. A. G. Coleman's gift portrait, John Prince's protest over the Keene race, and a renewed call for amateur-only race meets.
- Light notes from Stamford's fourteen would-be club riders, including a 17.5-mile run to Stillwater and Sound Beach and praise for winter wheeling on frozen roads; signed "Stamson."
- An essay urging American drivers, cyclists and pedestrians to keep to the right and observe the rules for turning corners and passing vehicles; signed "S. T."
- C. T. C. renewal notice from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston, with word of a spring meet, dinner and business meeting of C. T. C. members at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
- A Chicago correspondent recounts a delivery-wagon driver who tried to run a wheelman down on State street, only to be aided the next day by that same rider when his horse bolted; signed "X."
- Report of an Albany Bicycle Club moonlight run to Hurst's tavern, the Victor tricycles led by Pres. Shanks on a 56-inch Havard setting a pace the bicycles never headed; signed "Klub Kicker."
- A correspondent argues American clubs should not sink their individuality by wearing the English C. T. C. uniform in the L. A. W. parade, losing the effect of their different club colors.
- A Chicago correspondent details W. M. Woodside's bid to lower the 50-mile record at the Exposition Building (retiring at 35 miles in the cold but beating Stanton's, Prince's and Blard's marks), the Chicago Club's 25-mile race won by N. H. Van Sicklen, and a comic tale of a flyer outpaced by a trotting horse; signed Frank E. Yates.
- Department of short paragraphs covering R. V. R. Schuyler's shooting trip, the Albany Bi. Club's doings, J. G. Burch's marriage, and Mo. Wheel Co. bargains in second-hand machines.
- Editorial arguing wheeling should be promoted for its practical utility as a vehicle rather than merely as sport, and urging the L. A. W. to compile a national road record; signed "J. W."
- The Springfield Bicycle Club votes to incorporate so as to handle its tournament contracts, electing President Ducker and others as incorporators and Sanford Lawton as secretary.
- Surveyor Stockwell Bettes finds the Hampden Park mile track two feet short, jeopardizing last summer's records, with rebuttals from track-master T. D. Leary and an editorial note on a resurvey.
- New-member lists for the New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania Divisions, plus President N. Malon Beckwith's appointment of Capt. A. E. Thompson of Rockford as an additional Illinois representative.
- The Membership Committee declares S. G. Retallack of Belleville, Ontario a professional and expels him from the League; signed chairman S. Terry.
- The Membership Committee rules E. P. Hannaford of Belleville, Ontario not an amateur and refuses him League membership; signed S. Terry.
- The Racing Board expels R. F. Foster of Baltimore from the race track, Mr. Bassett of Boston dissenting; signed chairman Geo. D. Gideon.
- A letter warning that manufacturers' paid riders who refuse money prizes are racing as amateurs, citing the Smith Mfg. Co.'s men at the Philadelphia championship; signed "Will o' Wisp."
- A reprint from the Medical Times and Gazette of Dr. Geo. S. Hull on the therapeutic value of bicycling, judged superior to horseback riding for all-round exercise; signed "Doe."
- Chief Consul L. H. Johnson clarifies the New Jersey Division's role in opposing Jersey City's prohibitory wheeling ordinance, which he reports is now practically dead.
- A correspondent details the grade of a St. Louis hill, 1,144 feet long and rising 108 feet, recently climbed by Mr. Young as a rival to Boston's Corey Hill.
- Editorial congratulating The Wheelman on completing its merger with Outing under President Chas. E. Pratt and Treasurer W. B. Howland, noting the Pope Mfg. Co. owns no stock in the new concern.
- Lieut. William Collins of the Meriden Wheel Club rides a 104-mile century from Meriden to Springfield and back in 15.5 hours over frozen roads, much of it in the dark without a lantern.
- The editor's annual Christmas review of the season's machines, touching the American Club, Expert, Harvard, Sanspareil, American Star and Yale bicycles and the Columbia and Victor tricycles.
- Editorial replies to readers, noting Armaindo and Wallace's whereabouts and answering an inquiry about a second-hand 54-inch Expert.