The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 22
Articles in this issue
- A poem by H. E. Randall on coasting a brake-less ordinary down a long hill, drawing a moral about earning the downhill rest through uphill toil.
- Fred Jenkins's brief letter (Feb. 23, 1884) to Secretary Knight L. Clapp resigning from the Citizens' Bicycle Club rather than embarrass its standing as a League club.
- M. E. Graves of the Chicago Club outlines a summer tour from Niagara Falls via Toronto, Kingston, the Thousand Islands, Montreal, Lake George and Saratoga to Boston, with hotel coupons and an accompanying ambulance wagon.
- A correspondent describes the olive-green uniform and doings of the Whirling Wheelmen of Maryland in East Baltimore, including Treasurer Ed. J. Mabbett's wedding to Miss Clarrissa Martenet and a visit from fancy riders Wilmot and Sewell.
- Annual-election and officer reports from the City Bi. Club (Brockton), Passaic Co. Wheelmen, Frankford, Columbia, Rochester, Trumbull, the new Dixie Wheel Club and the Rockford Bi. Club.
- Correspondent 'N. N.' reports the opening of H. B. Hart's new 'Park Rink' riding hall in West Philadelphia near Fairmount Park, attended by Capt. Pope and several local clubs.
- Stenographic report of the L.A.W. Board of Officers' spring meeting at the Grand Union Hotel on Feb. 22, 1884, chaired by President Beckwith with delegates from Connecticut, New York and other states.
- Fred Jenkins's final report as Corresponding Secretary records membership grown to 3,598 (the League's largest ever), twelve new state divisions, and a call to hold the annual meet at Washington over two days.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman shows the balance falling from $1,025 (June 1883) to $385 (Feb. 1884), blames the $1,740 cost of the official organ for a $639 deficiency, and proposes bi-weekly or monthly issues to save $870 a year.
- A letter announcing the Ohio Division meet at Cleveland on August 18-19, 1884, to feature the country's first quarter-mile asphalt track and prizes to draw top amateurs.
- Short correspondence on the Elmira Bi. Club's new Y.M.C.A. headquarters and benefit concert (signed K. S. H.) and the wedding of Cleveland Bicycle Club ex-Treasurer C. W. Norman to Miss Fanny Kieth.
- An editorial notice quoting League Rule 21 on the Chief Consul and representative ballot, with a table of L.A.W. membership by state (3,598 total) and the resulting representative assignments.
- Corresponding Secretary W. V. Gilman's instructions for correctly filling out, signing and returning the L.A.W. voting blank before the polls close at midnight, April 10, 1884.
- Correspondent 'Lewee' reports the Boston Ramblers' first annual dinner at Young's Hotel, Boston wheelmen's dissatisfaction with the officers' decision to expel Jenkins and reinstate Ducker and Fennessy, and assorted club notes.
- An editorial urging wheelmen to insure machines and club property against fire and accident, citing the Peoria Bi. Club's loss of nine bicycles and a tricycle and recommending pooled policies through brokers Chas. E. & W. Peck.
- An editorial welcoming Washington as the site of the Fourth Annual Meet, praising its streets and hotels and endorsing the new two-day business-and-parade format expected to draw at least twelve hundred riders.
- The Membership Committee (Stephen Terry and F. P. Kendall) expels R. F. Foster of Baltimore and Corresponding Secretary Fred Jenkins, acquits Jenkins on the Baltimore protest, and reinstates H. E. Ducker and A. L. Fennessy.
- A poem signed 'Pius Rotator' celebrating the bicycle and tricycle and urging readers to join the L.A.W. or C.T.C.