The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Karl Kron's prospectus and circular for his proposed road-book describing 5,000 miles of American highways explored on his 46-inch Columbia No. 234, soliciting pledges from at least 1,000 wheelmen at one dollar each and inviting long-distance riders to send route notes.
- A correspondent details cycling routes around Philadelphia and into New Jersey—the Gloucester-to-Swedesboro and Haddonfield/Merchantville pikes—and especially the Lancaster pike out through Ardmore and Bryn Mawr to Berwyn, which he calls the best bicycle road in the country.
- A rider signed "F." recounts buying a 58-inch Singer at Coventry, England, and riding through Kenilworth and Warwick to Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon, praising the macadam roads, the tricycle for touring, and the civility of the British small boy toward wheelmen.
- Short gossip squibs on the coming marriage of Joe Dean of the Kickers' Own, wheelmen now gathering at the Olympian Club's roller-skating rink, the Ixions and Citizens sending experts to the K. C. W. and New Haven receptions, and The Wheel's printer's devil graduating into long breeches.
- Club notes on the newly organized Penn City Wheelmen (Star riders who declined to merge with the Germantown Club), a Yale meeting arranging May races with Harvard, the new Stamford Wheel Club (organized Jan. 10, Pres. Wm. A. Hurlbutt), plus Salem, the Capital club of Washington, and the Missouri Bicycle Club.
- A letter signed "Alakazander" of Lowell protests proposals to bar underage cyclists from the League, arguing that all amateurs should be admitted since the "kids" will work the harder for wheelmen once grown.
- An Albany correspondent ("Fifty-inch") describes a party of five on bikes and trikes riding the snow to Hurst's tavern and fourteen miles on the ice of the canal, urging wheelmen to bring out their stored machines for winter riding.
- "Pequonnock" reports on Bridgeport's Pequonnock Wheel Club—its 24 members, frescoed steam-heated club room, officers G. H. Johnson, E. Stuart Sumner and J. H. Smith, and recent vote to become a League club.
- "Reflex" describes the newly organized Colorado Wheel Club, a strictly League club of twelve, its seventy-mile straightaway run to Sulley covered inside ten hours, and headquarters at H. M. Pope's Columbia Riding School.
- Chief Consul L. M. Wainwright notifies Indiana Division members that the proposed divisional constitution will be mailed for a ratification vote ("Yes" or "No") due to the secretary before February 10, 1884.
- L. A. W. President N. Malon Beckwith appoints Chas. W. Spooner of Bridgeport a second Connecticut representative and H. S. Kidder a representative for New York.
- An editorial tribute to E. M. Gilman of Nashua, N. H.—credited as the state's original wheelman (riding since July 1878) and first captain of the Nashua Wheel Club—who is leaving for a bank position in Wichita, Kansas.
- Editorial paragraphs endorse Karl Kron's road-book canvass, reject A. L. Fennessy's contributed "A Malicious Falsehood," and review the February Outing and The Wheelman, praising editor Chas. E. Pratt over the Wheel World's Henry Sturmey.
- The official applications-for-membership list (No. 52, 39 names), drawn largely from the Yale Bicycle Club of New Haven, published under Article III for member objection.
- The Membership Committee, per chairman S. Terry, declares A. L. Estabrook of New York City expelled from the League for "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" after he failed to reply to written notice.
- Correspondent "Lewee" reports Boston winter ice-riding on Jamaica Pond and the Charles, the Ramblers' contested coming elections, W. W. Stall improving the Star at Smithville, D. J. Canary's new "somersault act," and plans for a five-lap cinder track on Huntington Avenue.