The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Department of short news items: Asa Dolph's and George Hendee's form at the Philadelphia tournament, Thomas Stevens's round-the-world tour passing through Laramie and Des Moines, Hull Bros. of Chambersburg patenting a handle-bar bicycle lock, and the Wilkes-Barre Bicycle Club's July 4th races.
- Report on the final day of the Quaker City Club's three-day Philadelphia tournament, dwelling on the track measuring 3 feet 2 inches short of a quarter-mile and detailing the 25-mile race won by George Hendee over Chas. F. Frazier by two yards, plus the five- and ten-mile events.
- Boston correspondence on the Ramblers Bicycle Club's four-day, 105-rider tour to Portsmouth, N.H. under President W. I. Harris, and how Bunker Hill Day (June 17) was spent by the Massachusetts, Boston and Charlestown clubs, with personal notes on local wheelmen.
- Report on the Kings County Wheelmen's second annual races at the new Williamsburg Athletic Club grounds, with William Maxwell taking the two- and three-mile handicaps and Ed Pettus beating H. J. Hall, Jr. by a yard in the 25-mile race.
- B. B. Ayers's schedule of fares for the Chicago Bicycle Club tour to Niagara, Montreal and Boston, followed by M. E. Graves's letter apologising for missing the L.A.W. meet while in Yellowstone and describing wheeling over Dakota and Montana prairie roads.
- Vermont correspondence signed 'The Tramp' reporting the May 6 organisation of the Brattleboro Cycle Club with twelve members and listing its 1884 officers, the interest having been revived by Burt Pressy's and George Nash's rink exhibitions.
- Reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette on Sir Charles Dilke's prophecy that cycling will be the 'future diversion' of town-dwellers, noting the Queen's tricycling, the French government mounting rural postmen on tricycles, and cycling's role in exposing the state of rural roads.
- A comic narrative poem, 'Only an Apple Blossom,' signed 'Secretary,' recounting bike-club captain Michael Spring's bashful courtship of a maiden named Cycle, threaded throughout with cycling puns.
- Letter signed 'P. G. P.' on the Pennsylvania Division L.A.W. annual meeting at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, chaired by new Chief Consul E. M. Aaron, electing Chas. M. Miller Secretary and T. Howard Wright Treasurer and reporting over 600 members.
- Karl Kron forwards George F. Fiske's note from Gottingen describing his 24-hour German record of 328 kilometres (205 miles) ridden between Leipzig and Dresden on a 48-inch Expert Columbia, exceeding the prior 300-km German best.
- Notice from G. Carleton Brown that the New Jersey State Division meet will be held at Red Bank on July 5, with an 11 a.m. business meeting, banquet, parade and moonlight run to Matawan.
- Editorial revisiting Henry E. Ducker's claim to own George Hendee's racing machines and pay his expenses; The Wheel now asserts Ducker paid for his own borrowed mounts and that Hendee is an independent gentleman amateur, while attacking Ducker's standing in the League.
- Editorial leader arguing the Philadelphia tournament, though a racing success, failed financially because rival clubs ran down the Quaker City Club's 'Star' affair and the managers neglected the newspapers.
- Cincinnati correspondence signed 'Nokh' on the Cincinnati Club's 'opening smoke' at its new Dayton St. headquarters, with toasts, glee-club songs from the College Hill Club, and news of Ned Landy breaking his arm in two places.
- Short Cincinnati squibs from 'Nokh': Harry Hall wanting a Rudge, Ned Landy promising to 'boom' things, recruits for the Chicago tour, and a tall snake-and-felloe yarn topping an Eastern paper's story.
- Trade write-up reprinted from the Cyclist on Samuel T. Clarke & Co. of Baltimore importing the Wm. Andrews-built 'American Sanspareil' roadster, detailing its 1884 construction with extra rake, large red tyres and interchangeable handle bars for rough American roads.