The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 21
Articles in this issue
- The editor's front-page chat jokes about F. A. Elwell's invitation to tour "up the Kennebec," a comic valentine caricaturing an "L. A. W. fiend," a daily paper's garbled account of a bicycle drill, and the Capital Club's "C. B. C." cap initials.
- Correspondent "Reflex" reports an unusually mild Colorado winter allowing year-round riding, a thirty-mile Sunday run to Golden and back by Denver C. W. C. members with a visiting Boston wheelman, and the forty-odd Denver riders' weak club spirit.
- Signed "Whomsoeverwill," an enthusiastic "Newsy" surveys the Brooklyn clubs—the Kings County Wheelmen (talk of the Academy of Music for their next dinner), the Brooklyns, Long Islands, and Heights—comparing their riders, quarters, and rivalries.
- Prints the newly organized Connecticut Division (Jan. 22, 1884): its board of officers under Chief Consul Stephen Terry of Hartford, plus the full constitution and rules of the division.
- Short notes—Karl Kron's subscribers rolling in, Chief Consul Livingston declining to run again, the Buckeye Bi. Club dinner, a correction on the Ducker–Fennessy protest, and regret at Charles E. Pratt's resignation from the Boston Bicycle Club.
- Correspondent "Lewee" reports the opening riding season, the Crescent club's revival under Captain George W. Fuller, rumored new clubs at Jamaica Plain, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club group photo, the Ducker–Fennessy $100 squabble, and Harvard's June 7 tournament.
- Describes the new patented Star and tricycle lamp from Messrs. Zacharias & Smith of Newark, N. J., with a 3½-inch bull's-eye lens and stamped one-piece front, said to surpass the King of the Road.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman asks the divisions to settle the roughly $100 in bills for the Consular outfits and stencils the general treasury supplied, noting only feeble responses so far.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman replies to the Camden Club's protest over an increase of dues, listing the financial reports already given and promising an additional statement on April 1, 1884.
- Chairman George D. Gideon announces the Racing Board has by majority vote validated the records made at the New Haven meeting of Oct. 10, 1883, listing bicycle and tricycle marks by Hendee, Palmer, and Burnham.
- The Pequonnock Wheel Club reports electing Calhoun Latham captain (replacing the resigned Dr. C. C. Godfrey), voting a new uniform, and favoring Washington for the next meet even with dues raised to $1.50.
- Club notices: New Haven rescinds its resolution against the Springfield Bicycle Club, Harvard announces its June 7 spring meeting events, and the Citizens' Bicycle Club votes to support the New York State Division officers for re-election.
- The Berkshire County Wheelmen's minutes record the sudden death of their founding member Henry Clinton Brown, with sympathy tendered to his family.
- Comic verse signed "5T." about a St. Louis Star rider who slips and falls in the mud on Chestnut street, to the delight of jeering hackmen and a crowd of two hundred.
- The regular department lists new L. A. W. membership applicants by division—unattached, Indiana, Kentucky, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New York.
- A letter signed "Iada" of Boston asks clubmen who have tried them to give their opinions for or against Norfolk jackets as uniforms.
- Editorial marking the paper's transfer to the 'Cycling Publishing Company, pledging to uphold the League from a newspaper standpoint, expose wrongdoing, and avoid the petty squabbles of wheelmen.
- Reports the Buckeye Bicycle Club's banquet at the Park Hotel with toasts and Captain Waggoner's menu-card drawing, and the election of W. H. Miller president and W. B. Waggoner captain.
- President N. Malon Beckwith appoints C. Julian Wood of Hackensack as an additional Representative for the growing New Jersey State Division.
- The Membership Committee, S. Terry chairman, directs that Stephen Connell of New York city, expelled from an amateur club for non-payment of dues, be re-instated in his L. A. W. membership.
- Arthur H. MacOwen corrects his remark at the opening of H. B. Hart's Park Bicycle Rink, clarifying that the Penn City Wheel Club is not limited to "Star" riders and has no restriction on machines.
- Louisville's Falls City Club wheelmen rally 150 strong against a Kentucky Senate bill to bar bicycles from Jefferson county highways, electing officers and petitioning the Senate against its passage.
- Samuel A. Boyle's letter endorses Representative Parsons and argues the present $1 League fee is the proper figure, with any deficit met by a per capita tax on the subordinate divisions.