The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Front-page editorial notes: new subscribers to Karl Kron's "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" (E. R. Shipton, E. Tegetmeier and H. R. Reynolds), a denunciation of paid "amateurs," the Ixions' bronze marriage-lamp for J. L. Burdett, and Karl Kron's 765-mile tour from New York to Washington and back.
- Boston correspondence (June 16) on the still-unpublished L.A.W. official organ promised by Baird & Company, the Ramblers' tour to Portsmouth, and local club affairs including a Harvard track trespass row with the Cambridge Club.
- Frank X. Mudd of Montgomery describes Alabama's bicycling roads and the state's roughly 20 wheelmen, recounting rides to Wetumpka and across to West Point, Ga., and the obstacle of sand beds.
- A humorous mock-elegy, signed "Secretary," mourning the sale of the writer's first bicycle, "Bohunkus."
- The Pope M'f'g Co. announces its new Columbia power-gear for tricycles, supplied on the Columbia tricycle at $180 (without the gear $160, or $25 to retrofit at the Hartford factory).
- "Sartor" (W.C.C. and L.A.W.) describes a 43.5-mile tricycle tour out of Washington through Sligo, Four Corners, Coleville and Ashton into the Sandy Spring Quaker country of Montgomery county, Md.
- Geo. D. Gideon, chairman of the Racing Board, rebuts a Washington correspondent's advice on organizing a meet, noting the League treasury was empty three weeks before the event.
- H. F. Fuller reports the founding of the Dearborn Cycling Club, the Chicago Bi. Club's planned "second great tour," and Canary's win over Wood in a $500 fancy-riding contest at the Casino roller rink.
- Detailed report of the Philadelphia tournament at Jumbo Park (June 17-18), with record rides by E. P. Burnham, Asa Dolph, Frazier and Chickering, the Prince-Woodside professional races, and the sabotage of several racing machines.
- Editorial extolling the quiet multi-day tour with one or two congenial companions over crowded meets and race meetings, urging wheelmen to explore unknown roads.
- "Ariel" recounts the Citizens Club's two-day run over Staten Island and on to Long Branch led by Capt. N. M. Beckwith, the first day's poor turnout, and a rescue dinner ordered by two Kings County wheelmen.
- Club organization and officer-election news from Janesville (Wis.), Mt. Vernon (O.), Northampton, Massillon and Randolph.
- Assorted news notes including J. H. Adams' record Land's End to John o'Groat's run on a Facile safety, Hendee's 2m. 50s. mile record, Richard Garvey of the Missouri Wheel Co., and the Michigan Division meeting.