The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Louis H. Schneider reports the Washington Cycle Club's preparations for the League annual meet, listing the parade, storage, finance, correspondence, and banquet committee chairmen with their addresses and urging early correspondence.
- W. H. Miller, Representative of the Ohio Division, urges members to answer officers' letters—a quarter ignored his Consul circulars—and reminds Consuls of their Rule 8 duty to report roads, hotels, and local information.
- The Plainfield Bicycle Club, through Secretary Robinson Pound, protests that its name was used without authority to endorse a ticket for Chief Consul and Representatives from New Jersey.
- The Greenfield Wheel Club's G. H. Kaulback protests the Boston Bicycle Clubs' nominations of Massachusetts Representatives and appeals for support of its approved Representative, H. O. Edgerton.
- President N. Malon Beckwith appoints Aubrey Richardson of 25 Manchester Square, London, as Chief Consul for the L. A. W. in England.
- Charles D. Standish of Detroit declines to serve again as Chief Consul of Michigan, citing business demands while pledging continued aid to the League.
- The Membership Committee, through Chairman Stephen Terry, reports that inquiries via the Cyclists' Touring Club cleared John Brooks of Blossburg, Pa., and recommends his admission to the L. A. W.
- W. V. Gilman announces eleven new L. A. W. Consuls in Pennsylvania—Clarion, Montrose, Lock Haven, Landisville, Franklin, Lebanon, Harrisburg, Bristol, Phoenixville, Danville, and Mansfield—appointments expiring July 1, 1884.
- Chief Consul George Sanderson of Pennsylvania designates the United States Hotel at Easton, Pa., a League hotel at $2.50 a day for wheelmen.
- Racing Board chairman Geo. D. Gideon warns that W. O. Faulkner and A. E. Davidson of Lynn, Mass., have been declared professionals on protests received through Mr. Bassett.
- The captain of the Essex Bicycle Club, Newark, corrects The Wheel, insisting Essex is League club No. 4 with fifteen (soon forty) League members and compulsory League membership.
- W. V. Gilman publishes Chief Consul W. L. Howe's Iowa Consul appointments at Albia, Winterset, Muscatine, Burlington, Ottumwa, Marshalltown, and Des Moines.
- A dream-sketch signed "Secretary" imagines a Washington meet split into rival League and non-League parades that collide on the Capitol hill and dissolve into chaos.
- Correspondent "Berretta" reviews the Stanley Bicycle Club's annual London show: lighter Humber-type machines, the Coventry Machinists' Imperial Club tricycle, and M. D. Rucker & Co.'s novel Tandem bicycle.
- Chief Consul Stephen Terry nominates a Connecticut League ticket headed by N. P. Tyler for Chief Consul, with Representatives Rust, Benton, Terry, Spooner, and Hurlbut.
- Edward A. Caner proposes the L. A. W. adopt a uniform code of bugle and whistle signals for clubs and individual wheelmen to help prevent accidents.
- Anna Babetta Huss describes the Ladies' Tricycle Club of New York, organized February 16, 1884, with Mrs. Fred G. Bourne as President and ten active members.
- Boston correspondent "Lewee" reports the Cambridge Bicycle Club minstrels at Union Hall, rising L. A. W. interest, and racing men Corey, Claflin, Ahl, and Burnham training for the season.
- Editorial previewing the Citizens Bicycle Club's April 25 indoor meeting at the American Institute and recounting the club's growth to seventy-five members and its part in the 1883 League Meet.
- Valedictory editorial closing Volume V, announcing the decision not to renew the L. A. W. official-organ contract after June 1, and plans to enlarge The Wheel as a one-dollar subscription paper.