The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 5, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Front-page editorial squibs noting Jay Gould's son riding an old Standard Columbia, the Citizens' blue and Ixions' gray uniforms side by side, the Citizens adopting a club cat named "Mack," a dozen resignations from Philadelphia's American Star Club, and predictions for the coming racing season.
- B. B. Ayres announces the Chicago Bicycle Club's July 1884 tour from Niagara Falls to Boston, routed via Toronto, the Thousand Islands, Montreal, Lake Champlain and the Connecticut valley, and asks The Wheel to publicise it.
- A Woodstown correspondent praises South Jersey roads around Salem, Bridgeton and Millville, reports Updegraff's new riding school and the appointment of Consul George M. Andrews, and offers Karl Kron a hundred-mile run.
- Secretary H. G. Rouse describes the Peoria Bicycle Club's elegant new rooms at 213-215 S. Adams St., opened with a reception on November 15th, with a riding hall, club and reading room, glee club and first-class gymnasium.
- A comic poem reprinted from the Wheel World contrasting a brilliant nickel-plated trike of summer with the winter chore of cleaning it, recommending enamel (from Eld's, Adamson's or Welsh's) as a duller but lasting alternative.
- Manchester Bicycle Club members Pearsons, Parker and Sheriff (joined by Frank Moses and Archie Jenness) attempt a 24-hour distance run along the New Hampshire coast; after Parker and Sheriff broke down, Pearsons rode 130 miles for the largest state 24-hour record.
- Phil Moore disputes "Hannah C.'s" claim that the Expert Columbia's forks beat every English make, defending Rudge, Singer, Humber and Surrey Machinist Co. work and praising his lighter 60-inch Invincible over his old 56-inch Expert.
- A touring sketch signed "Stamson" follows a fifty-inch Columbia run through Fairfield County over the Mianus River to Putnam's Hill, down into Greenwich and out to the waterfront at "the Point."
- The official L.A.W. department giving the membership application procedure and full directory of the Board of Officers, standing committees, chief consuls, representatives and division secretaries, plus lists of railroads carrying bicycles free and their transportation charges.
- List No. 45 of 23 new L.A.W. applicants grouped by club and division, including the New Haven Ramblers, Hermes and Rockford clubs and the Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania divisions.
- The Ixion club's midnight 24-hour distance attempt on poor roads near Red Bank, N.J., where Will R. Pitman rode 153 miles after Everett, DaCamara and Saffer broke down, helped by Monmouth Wheelman host Dr. Marsden and trainer Jack Keene.
- Reports the organization of the sixteen-member Mansfield Wheel Club, Ohio, on November 1st under president Rolla Taylor, and its planned loan exhibition and fair opening January 17th, 1884.
- The C.T.C. department carrying notices from U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston, details of the 1884 Harrogate annual meet, new consul appointments for Marietta, Scranton, Newburyport and Bethlehem, and membership applications.
- An editorial presenting a state-by-state table of L.A.W. membership totaling 3,130 (New York 654, Massachusetts 556, Pennsylvania 473) and explaining how state divisions affect a state's entitled representation on the Board of Officers.
- An essay by H. F. Fuller of the Chicago Bi. Club arguing that cyclers form a superior order of men and detailing the wheel's health, speed and economy advantages over the horse, citing medical testimony from the Lancet and other journals.
- A review of the December Wheelman (Mt. Agamenticus, President Bates's tale, Karl Kron on Springfield roads, Dr. Blackham on the tricycle) announcing its merger with Outing into Outing and the Wheelman, a new corporation under Charles E. Pratt with S. S. McClure as clerk.
- Brief editorial replies to readers and League members on dues, meeting locations, road widths, record corrections, applications and address changes.
- A news column reporting the Kings County Wheelmen's moonlight parade, E. A. Thompson's retirement through heart disease, Albert Trego's Washington wedding, F. O. Swallow's 41-mile non-dismount ride, the Springfield club's $15 assessment to clear a $1,600 deficit, and the new Pine Tree Bicycle Club of Bangor.