The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 11
Articles in this issue
- An untitled lead humor column recalling Victor C. Place's early three-minute mile and his training in Arizona, the Springfield club songs of a year ago, and assorted bicycle-club jokes about shower baths and a moonlight courtship on the Riverside Drive.
- Boston correspondence attacking false and "peculiar" trade advertisements, returning to the paid-amateur question (singling out Frazier of the Star, with rumors about Hendee and Burnham), warning of an importation of English amateurs, and reporting the sparsely attended Massachusetts Division L.A.W. meet at Newton.
- Percy Bettison and Prince Wells of the Fall City Bicycle Club ride from Louisville toward Slickaway and back attempting 150 miles in 24 hours, until Wells's Royal Premier backbone breaks 72 miles out and rain ends the trip at 120 1/2 miles.
- The Maryland Bicycle Club's annual election of officers (Samuel T. Clark president) and reunion banquet at Rennert's, including Captain King's report on club records and the after-dinner "Old Canvas Back" duck story.
- Geo. P. Macgowan's four-day wheel tour from Middlebury, Vt., via Lake George, Ticonderoga, the Saratoga battlefields and Troy to Amsterdam, N.Y., ending at Madison Barracks, Sacketts Harbor.
- A letter (signed 273S) from a board member agreeing that the wholesale admission of any wheelmen, including the professional Woodside, to the L.A.W. Washington parade was a mistake, while opposing restricting it to members only.
- An invitation from Chas. E. Titchener and Fred Lyon to the Binghamton Bicycle Club's second annual meet and races on June 26, 1884, urging N.Y. State Division members to gather at centrally located Binghamton.
- Trade notes on George Bidwell's expanding business and demand for the Perfection Bicycle Alarm, E. I. Horsman's Star sales, R. V. R. Schuyler's American Club bicycle, and T. Hunt Sterry untangling A. G. Carter's old dealings.
- A coming-events race calendar followed by reports from clubs including the Kings County Wheelmen, Manchester, Hempstead Wheelmen, Brooklyn Wanderers, Amesbury, Wilkes-Barre, Lancaster, Citizens, and the Staten Island Wheelmen's Decoration Day run (signed Ariel).
- Short news items: Kings County race entries closing, the coolly received "Official Gazette," Hendee's reported 15 1/2-second final spurt against Frazier at New Haven, Hutchinson's compact wheelmen's camera, and the Detroit Club's Canada tour.
- An editorial criticizing the L.A.W. for hastily awarding its official-organ contract to a general athletic journal of poor appearance, predicting member desertions and another relief fund before January.
- A correspondent ("A Friend of The League") offers seven suggestions for holding the next L.A.W. meet at Washington, including the League bearing its own costs, more short races, and a torchlight procession and grand ball in place of a banquet.
- A survey by "Salem Scribe" of Salem's three clubs—the veteran Hawthornes, the younger Lafayettes, and the active league club the Salems—with their memberships, rooms, exhibition earnings and newly elected officers.
- A second gossip block: the Olympian Club's Coney Island roller rink, the Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet at Toronto, a Manchester Bicycle Club run to Milford and Nashua, words of subscriber encouragement, and a humorous piece on the bicyclist's enemy, the telegraph wire.
- The late Dr. David P. Holton's eccentric "I, Bi, Tri" system of numerals, reading providential meaning into the letters of "O-hi-o" and proposing names like I-cycle, Bi-cycle, Tri-cycle and Four-cycle for wheeled vehicles.