The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Chief Consul Stephen Terry summons all Connecticut L.A.W. members to meet at the New Haven Bicycle Club rooms in the Masonic Temple on January 22, 1884, to form a State division and elect officers.
- Manager B. B. Ayers lays out the full route and schedule of the Chicago-to-Boston wheel tour (July 15-29, 1884) via Niagara, Toronto, the Thousand Islands, Montreal, Lake George, Saratoga and Boston, with M. E. Graves as conductor and total cost estimated at $75.
- A correspondent signing 'Squibus' urges the L.A.W. to restrict its privileges to members, publish State road directories, impose a 21-year age limit, and amalgamate with the Canadian Wheelmen's Association to become a real political power.
- A Philadelphia tricyclist (L.A.W. No. 462) and his bicycling companion 'Crawford' recount a cold winter ride out the Lancaster pike toward Reading via Berwyn, Collegeville and Pottstown, the writer's Victor tricycle handling the rough frozen roads well.
- The Hermes Bicycle Club of Chicago reports its November 30 semi-annual election (President C. E. Murison) and its autumn mileage medals, won by H. M. Higinbotham and by E. F. Sharp (2,725 miles) and H. D. Higinbotham (2,432 miles).
- A year-in-review of St. Louis cycling reporting growth to over 300 riders, the Missouri Bicycle Club's dominance, a new Missouri L.A.W. division under Richard Garvey, the locally invented Duryea saddle and Senseney bell, and a 105-mile prize run completed by seven riders. (from the Missouri Republican)
- A history of British tricycle racing from 1879 to 1883, tracing falling times and lighter machines through riders such as Rucker, Hillier, Kirsop and Hay, and crediting track racing rather than the road race with the improvements. (from The Northern Athlete)
- A correspondent signing 'Citizens' answers earlier criticism by praising the Expert Columbia bicycle's graceful form, Stanley head and forks, nickel finish, ebonite handles and Columbia ball pedals, citing its safe descent of a rough 500-foot mountain road.
- A report on the opening of the Olympian Club roller-skating rink at the American Institute, attended by some 3,000 including many wheelmen, with a fancy-riding exhibition by D. J. Canary, but marred by chaotic cloak rooms that lost hundreds of coats.
- A letter signed F. H. T. condemning the cloak-room mismanagement and an attendant's abusive language at the Olympian Club opening, warning the skating and wheeling public against the place.
- Elliott W. Johnson reports that the Jersey City Board of Aldermen rescinded its bicycle-riding ban on January 8, 1884, and reprints the new ordinance setting out lamp, speed (10 mph) and right-of-way rules.
- President N. Malon Beckwith appoints eight additional L.A.W. Representatives for New York State, including E. W. Adams, John G. Burch Jr. and Frank A. Egan, with three places still unfilled.
- C.T.C. department under U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston, with a membership renewal notice (75-cent fee), new applications, and word of a spring meet run, dinner and business meeting at Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
- Corresponding Secretary Fred Jenkins publishes L.A.W. applicant list No. 50 (41 names) arranged by State division, inviting objections within two weeks.
- An editorial defending editor Fred Jenkins's charge that the Springfield Bicycle Club 'repudiated its just accounts' over $49 in unpaid Wheel subscriptions, reprinting the club's resolutions demanding a retraction.
- Editorial paragraphs endorsing accident insurance with the Fidelity & Casualty Co., joshing Secretary Sanford's winter rig, the owl emblem, Pitt's new photos and Conant Foster's floating-theatre scheme, and noting the Ixions' New Year's call on State Consul F. G. Bourne.
- A correspondent signing 'Prex' reports the Elmira Bicycle Club's fourth annual election (President Lou H. Brown, Captain H. Starr Kidder) and notes its three tricycles and a Sociable.