The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 1
Articles in this issue
- A signed poem by James Clarence Harvey celebrating the rumble of the rolling rubber tire as the wheelman's sweetest music, through rain, spring blossom, and autumn roads.
- The editor's lead column marking The Wheel's enlargement to eight pages and 32 columns (384 running inches) and its new heading picturing Weston on a Sociable, the barring of tricycles and non-uniformed riders from Riverside Drive, the Cincinnati mob that gutted Kittredge & Co.'s cycle store, the Nashville magistrates rebuffed by L.A.W. legal opinions, and banter over the identity of 'Ixion.'
- A letter from Karl Kron urging that clubs mustering fewer than eight uniformed men be barred from the L.A.W. annual parade at Washington on May 20, arguing fragmentary 'mob' contingents spoil the spectacle; he closes noting his bicycle nears its 10,000-mile record.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman's full L.A.W. cash statement to April 1, 1884, showing $3,120.70 turnover but only $78.44 on deposit at Nashua, blaming the costly organ contract (printing the 'Cycling Publishing Co.'s refusal to cut its rate) and pledging to carry the League through the year financially.
- President N. Malon Beckwith forwards a letter from E. P. Barker, Secretary of New York's Department of Public Parks, demanding wheelmen obey the printed rules, show permits at the gates, ride in uniform, and accept that no tricycles will be admitted to Central Park or the Riverside Drive.
- Treasurer Lou H. Brown's financial report for the New York State Division, showing $662 in receipts, a $254.85 balance at F. G. Hall's Bank in Elmira, and total membership grown to 700.
- Secretary C. J. Krag circulates the Ohio Division voting ticket, with the Nominating Committee's slate headed by T. J. Kirkpatrick of Springfield for Chief Consul plus seven Representatives, urging members to vote it solid.
- President N. Malon Beckwith appoints Official Handicapper George D. Baird, of 52 W. 12th Street, New York, to fill the vacancy on the L.A.W. Racing Board.
- Chief Consul H. S. Livingston lists newly appointed Ohio Representative Consuls for the Northern and Southern Divisions, naming towns from Sidney and Youngstown to Dayton and Coshocton.
- Racing Board chairman Geo. D. Gideon announces that Chas. E. Whitten of Lynn, Mass., protested for transgressing the racing rules, has been reinstated.
- Secretary Victor M. Haldeman's first annual report of the Pennsylvania Division, organized June 15, 1883, recording growth from 228 to 550 members under Chief Consul Col. George Sanderson, Jr., and Treasurer Frederick McOwen.
- Secretary A. P. Seiler reports the Mansfield Wheel Club's Loan Exposition in Ohio a grand success, with Overman's Victor tricycle and the Sanspareil, Harvard, Rudge, Facile and Star machines shown, 5,000 tickets sold in three days, and the exhibition extended a week to assure its May 28 meet.
- Howell Stewart asks The Wheel to correct its listing of him as chairman of a Washington Cycle Club League committee, noting he belongs to the Capital Club and resigned from the League weeks ago.
- An editorial contrasting Gilman's near-empty national balance ($78.44) with the New York State Division's $254.85, arguing the 50 per cent retained by Divisions is unjust; the non-League editor offers to be one of fifty men to give $10 toward restoring the treasury for the Washington championship meet.
- Corresponding Secretary W. V. Gilman notes the demand for copies of the Constitution and Rules has been met by sending several hundred to Division Secretaries and officers, asking holders to place them within reach of all members.
- The official Article III list of 36 applicants for L.A.W. membership, arranged by state Division (New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Connecticut, Kentucky and unattached), with instructions on membership cards good until May 30, 1885.
- Boston correspondent 'Lewee' reports keen interest in the Massachusetts L.A.W. state election (a Massachusetts/Ramblers ticket headed by M. D. Currier of Lawrence against a Springfield ticket with Ducker), the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's move to incorporate and build a clubhouse near Trinity Square, a sparring with the Bicycling World, and club notes from Cambridge, Wakefield and the Ramblers.