The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The pseudonymous satirist 'Minerva Owl' lampoons the Citizens' Club's planned bicycler bas-relief, mocks Frank Leslie's botched drawing of a Washington lady on a trike, and spins a tall tale about leather-broker Dick Nelson and Treadwater Harris's enormous new shoes.
- A. S. Parsons, reprinting from Outing & The Wheelman, urges the League of American Wheelmen to take up H. H. M.'s scheme of turning cycling toward scientific and literary research—archaeology, geology, geography—offering prizes for the best essays and investigations.
- Correspondent '51' reports that deep snow has cut St. Louis's daily riders to the Friscos' president and 'Sixty,' that a Sanspareil agency has opened, and that the Star men are fitting 25-inch handle bars, lower steps and leg guards to their machines.
- A brief correction clarifying that Mr. Jenkins's $2.50 bill to the New Haven Club was the official handicapper's fee for the two- and ten-mile races, not a charge for services.
- Club notes covering the Kentucky Bicycle Club's newly elected officers under president A. W. Cornwall, the Cheyenne Bicycle Club (largest League club west of the Missouri) and its New Year party, and the Rutland Bicycle Club's planned drill and fancy-riding exhibition with Wilmot and Sewell.
- Editorial miscellany on the handicapper protests, the Detroit Bicycle Club's new officers, Col. A. A. Pope's election as a Weed Sewing Machine Co. director, C. S. Stevens's road feats at Millville, and Karl Kron's canvass for subscribers to 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.'
- Chief Consul Edward K. Hill's informal report on the Massachusetts Division—592 members, 60 consuls, 48 hotels and 131 guide boards—and his plans for a first state hand book and guide to be issued after the June annual meeting.
- Correspondent 'Stamson' jokes about Stamford wheelmen kept off the icy roads, Commodore Smith's fast ice-yacht 'Victor,' rider 'Nell' wobbling among the skaters, and a meeting called to organize a Stamford bicycle club.
- Correspondent 'Parker' on the New York Club, Secretary Adams's appointment as State Representative, the Ixions' loss of Pitman, the Citizens' Club's new grey-and-blue uniform and unfinished clubhouse, and the 'Owl' controversy.
- The official L.A.W. roster—board of officers (President Dr. N. M. Beckwith, Cor. Sec'y Fred Jenkins, Treasurer W. V. Gilman), standing committees, chief consuls and state representatives listed by state.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman's L.A.W. cash statement showing 1883 membership assessments, $1,112.50 in admission fees, officers' salaries and a $424.68 deposit balance against a $2,914.70 total.
- Vermont Chief Consul C. G. Ross announces newly appointed consuls at Barre, Burlington, Rutland, St. Albans, Wallingford and West Randolph.
- Ohio's chief consuls, reported by H. S. Livingston, list new consuls across the Northern Division (Steubenville, Fostoria, Kenton, Akron) and Southern Division (Gallipolis, Lancaster, Delaware, Xenia, Springfield and others).
- Corresponding Secretary Fred Jenkins publishes the latest list of L.A.W. membership applicants by division—New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and others—per Article III of the constitution.
- Secretary E. A. McQueston tabulates New Hampshire's 108 L.A.W. members by club—led by the Rockingham Bicycle Club of Portsmouth (36) and the Manchester Bi. Club (20)—and by town.
- The C.T.C. department under U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston: dues and uniform details, the international club's 10,000-plus membership, the Eighth Annual Meet at Harrogate, Yorkshire in August 1884, a planned Poughkeepsie meet, and lists of new applications and appointments.
- President N. Malon Beckwith fixes February 22 at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, for the spring meeting of the L.A.W. Board of Officers and urges a large attendance.
- An editorial on the League's flourishing state—over 3,400 members, chief consuls in 27 states, ten organized divisions—arguing that active local consuls are the chief source of the League's practical value to touring wheelmen.
- New Boston correspondent 'Lewee' warns amateurs against joining professional roller-polo clubs at risk of expulsion, and reports on the Bostons' new Boylston Street headquarters, the Ramblers' February 19 dinner at Young's Hotel, and the Wilson Brothers' planned Star exhibitions.
- Membership Committee chairman Edward K. Hill reports that the protest against the L.A.W. applications of R. A. Punnett and C. A. Smith of Rochester, N.Y., was not sustained by sufficient evidence.
- Pope Manufacturing Co. publishes a point-by-point rebuttal of an anonymous attack on the Expert Columbia bicycle—defending its backbone (no breakages among nearly 2,000 sold in 1883), forged-steel brake, weight and single ball-bearings—and invites owners of 1883 Expert bent handle-bars to return them for free improved set nuts.