The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 17
Articles in this issue
- A column of brief anecdotes about personalities on the Chicago-to-Boston tour—President Bates, B. B. Ayers, Geo. Bidwell, Dr. Wassail, Sawyer and others—plus a note on the first issue of the new paper The Bicycle and a Frankfort-to-Albany canal-towpath riding record relayed by Karl Kron.
- The Boston correspondent reports the dull midsummer cycling season, praises night riding and the new Columbia tricycle power gear, recounts being duped by a man impersonating Karl Kron on Brighton Avenue, and notes Boston clubs' plans (Massachusetts, Bostons, Ramblers) to entertain the arriving Chicago tourists; with notes on the new Somerville Cycle Club and John S. Prince.
- A letter from W. B. Everett of Boston correcting a previous report that he fell from his tricycle, explaining that his father-in-law was riding the machine at the time and received no injury.
- Librarian Fuller's full roster of the League of American Wheelmen Chicago tour—riders by division with ages, weights and machines (Experts, Rudges, Royal Mails, etc.)—followed by a day-by-day narrative from Toronto through Oshawa, Coburg, Belleville, Napanee and Kingston, the Thousand Islands, Montreal, Lake Champlain and Lake George to Saratoga.
- Karl Kron prints letters from English road riders H. R. Reynolds, Jr. (48,250 miles in seven years) and E. Tegetmeier, who stress their mileage is practical transport not sport, and describes bicycles being used to parade Yale's victorious crew around a bonfire at the New Haven boat-race celebration of June 26.
- An essay reprinted from The British Journal of Photography arguing that cycling cultivates artistic feeling and draws riders into amateur photography, with detailed practical advice on carrying a quarter-plate camera, lenses and a collapsible metal tripod strapped to the backbone on bicycle and tricycle tours.
- A report from the Sporting Life on the fifty-mile professional championship at the Aylestone Grounds, Leicester, on July 5, where ex-champion F. Wood won in 2h 47m 20s—fifty seconds inside the record—beating Battensby by a yard and Lees third, with Battensby, Lees and Wood shattering the intermediate distance records.
- A letter from G. P. MacGowan giving a detailed road report from New York to New Rochelle via 59th Street, the Boulevard, Riverside and the Harlem River, noting macadam, sand and the Country Club grounds, and putting the distance at about 14 miles from 59th Street.
- Announcement of a large tournament by the Berkshire County Wheelmen at Pittsfield, Mass., on August 14, with a programme of bicycle and foot races—including a five-mile open event (prizes $50 and $25) hoped to attract Hendee and Frazier—and total prizes exceeding $600.
- Karl Kron reports his road-book subscription roll has passed 1,487, then names his fifteen Great Britain subscribers—ten in London, including the Librarian of the British Museum, E. R. Shipton of the C.T.C., and the editors of Wheeling, the Tricycling Journal, the Cyclist and Das Velociped—plus patrons in France, Germany, Holland, Australia and New Zealand.
- Notice that the Riverside Wheelmen of New York organized on July 17, 1884 with twelve members, listing officers including President T. C. Stratton and Captain J. Nightengale.
- A comic poem by Charles Richard Dodge in which a cyclist's sweetheart Daisy accuses him of loving the wheel best, ending in playful reconciliation.
- A Stamford, Conn. correspondent ("Consul") reports that a wagon owner who ran down a local wheelman settled the damages for about fifty dollars—setting a precedent—and describes a 70-mile ride to New York via Tarrytown and a Sunday run to Glen Island ending in a clambake.
- Notice that the annual Pennsylvania Division meet of the League of American Wheelmen will be held in Philadelphia in early September alongside a joint race meeting of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Pennsylvania Bicycle Clubs, organized by a committee under chairman Eugene M. Aaron and secretary Charles M. Miller.