The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 25
Articles in this issue
- A detailed visit to Zacharias & Smith's bicycle business at Oraton Hall, Newark, New Jersey, describing their riding hall, stock of Columbia, Star, Sanspareil, Harvard, Yale, and Shadow bicycles, the Star lamp and luggage carriers they make, a fully equipped repair shop with forge and lathe, and the New Jersey Wheelmen club rooms on the premises.
- A first-person gossip column ribbing fellow wheelmen — touching the Milford Cycle and the Nashville Sunday Journal's cycling notes, a striking cigar-makers' "Boycott the Owl" circular bearing the writer's portrait, the Hackensack Club, an unflattering Wheelman illustration of S. Conant Foster's poem, the K.C.W. club drill, the Boston Ramblers' new black stockings, and a coded hint at Karl Kron's real name.
- An official letter from Chief Consul Edward K. Hill explaining that Massachusetts is entitled to twelve Representatives under the new League rule, describing the representative districts he has established across the State, and urging members to vote in the March election.
- A resolution passed at the Scranton Bicycle Club's annual meeting nominating Col. Geo. Sanderson Jr. for Chief Consul and ten Representatives from across Pennsylvania, reported as endorsed by prominent members statewide.
- The Portland Wheel Club announces that outgoing Chief Consul Charles H. Lamson has declined renomination and unanimously proposes Frank A. Elwell of Portland as nominee for Chief Consul of Maine.
- Alfred Ely Jr. of the Cleveland Bicycle Club announces that the Ohio Division L.A.W. annual meet will be held in Cleveland on August 18–19, 1884, with a new quarter-mile asphaltum track to be built for racing, and solicits lists of Ohio wheelmen from club secretaries.
- C. H. Sanders of Penacook tenders his resignation as Treasurer of the New Hampshire Division L.A.W. upon his appointment as Representative, and an adjacent notice records Chief Consul C. H. Wilkins appointing Fay S. Sargent of Nashua in his place.
- Outgoing Chief Consul C. H. Wilkins declines re-election and seconds the League clubs' nominations, while the Manchester, Rockingham, Star, and Penacook clubs jointly offer a ticket of F. J. Philbrick of Portsmouth for Chief Consul with C. H. Sanders and E. H. Corson as Representatives.
- Racing Board Chairman Geo. D. Gideon announces that Fred Jenkins has resigned as Official Handicapper and Geo. D. Baird of 52 West Twelfth Street, New York has been appointed to the position.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman warns Division officers that annual reports must be completed by May 13 ahead of his departure for the Washington meeting, urging Division Treasurers to keep accounts as current as possible.
- B. B. Ayers reports on Chief Consul J. O. Blake's circular calling Illinois's 116 L.A.W. members to Chicago on Decoration Day, May 30, to organize a State Division, hold a parade, and form a touring party for the Niagara-to-Boston road.
- Brief notes on three clubs: the Citizens Bicycle Club tables Fred Jenkins's resignation pending a League appeal; the Ann Arbor Bicycle Club elects new officers and gains thirteen members to total 32; and the Fostoria Bicycle Touring Club elects officers and votes to join the L.A.W.
- A report from Springfield, Massachusetts, dated March 9, describing how the local bicycle club's board of officers dissolved the old corporation and formed a new club admitting only fifty of the original 120 members, with the remaining seventy planning to start a rival club.
- Railroad Commissioner M. E. Graves announces that the Pennsylvania Railroad has granted L.A.W. members a special round-trip rate of $9.80 from New York to Washington with wheels free, a saving of $5.50, available only on presentation of a League membership ticket.
- A letter signed "Fair Play" challenges the claims of L. H. Johnson's campaign for New Jersey Chief Consul, citing his lapsed League dues in 1882 and his unauthorised persecution of the Citizens' Club, and urging voters to support the ticket headed by Dr. G. Carleton Brown.
- Report on the Seventh Regiment Athletic Association's games held March 15 at the 64th Street Armory, New York, highlighting the two-mile bicycle race won by F. E. Davidson of Company B in 6 minutes 6½ seconds, with J. S. Stearns second.
- A comic narrative from the Maryland Bicycle Club in which a member called Negley recounts a vivid dream, triggered by a heavy Boston supper of pork, beans, and pumpkin pie, in which he is captured by cannibals, sentenced to death by gunpowder keg and circular saw, and finally forced to race a hungry lion on a bicycle around a half-fire, half-ice track.
- The Philadelphia Wheelmen urge support for a competing Pennsylvania ticket headed by Eugene M. Aaron — praised as the State's best parliamentarian — for Chief Consul, with ten Representatives including George D. Gideon, Victor M. Haldeman, and Col. Sanderson, set against the Scranton club's slate.
- The Committee on Rights and Privileges (A. S. Parsons, Chairman, with W. V. Gilman) sets out two rules for the L.A.W. spring elections: voters in multi-Representative Divisions may vote for a candidate only once, and ballots marked "Same as last year" will not be accepted.
- An editorial urging the fifteen thousand riders outside the organization to join the League of American Wheelmen before April, arguing the $1 fee is more than offset by the special Pennsylvania Railroad rates M. E. Graves secured for the Washington meet, with its parade and dinner.
- Shorter editorial paragraphs note President Beckwith's offer of a $75 diamond L.A.W. badge to the member recruiting the most members, announce a new "Coral Reefs of Bermuda" chapter of Karl Kron's "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" (he wheeled 142 miles there in four days with F. A. Elwell), and chide the Washington wheelmen for misreading Rule 10 on parade precedence.
- A printed ballot urging New Jersey members to vote the ticket of Dr. G. Carleton Brown of Elizabeth for Chief Consul, with Representatives Harold Serrell, Dr. Elliott W. Johnson, Walter H. Parsons, G. N. Buzby, and Dr. Edwin Field, endorsed by the Camden, Hudson County, Monmouth County, Elizabeth, and New Jersey Wheelmen clubs.