The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 18
Articles in this issue
- A column of short notes: the end of the Chicago tour and Boston's welcome, the Cunningham Co.'s customs dispute, the death of Capital Bicycle Club secretary Chas. A. Caldwell, Ohio and Berkshire race meetings, and trade items on Missouri Wheel Co. Star saddles and Pope Mfg.'s new swinging spring.
- The Boston correspondent covers the Chicago tourists' entertainment at the Hub, the daring and (he warns) reckless coasting of Mount Washington by three St. Louis wheelmen, Beckers, Rogers and Young, and the Pope Mfg. Co. v. Overman Wheel Co. tricycle-patent hearing.
- A short letter from Charles Townsend asking readers to describe Boston's notorious hill-climbers' challenge, Corey Hill, for cyclists who know nothing of it.
- Karl Kron warns that an impostor is posing as him and possibly collecting money in his name, then gives a precise description of himself and his nickeled 46-inch Expert Columbia so readers can recognise the genuine "Karl Kron."
- Race report of the second contest for the Belgrave Road Grounds championship in England, where F. Wood of Leicester beat holder R. Howell, Battensby and Lees before nearly 10,000 spectators, with a full mile-by-mile time table.
- A letter signed "Jonah" of the Elizabeth Wheelmen argues that since cyclists ride Prospect Park's paths without friction, New York's commissioners have no good reason to bar them from Central Park, and proposes admitting L.A.W. members on pain of League discipline for any abuse.
- Karl Kron reports pledged subscriptions for his road book nearing 1,550 and outlines his plan to have the highest-priced hotel in each town stock it, marking establishments that offer comfort rather than cut-rate lodging.
- H. S. Brunot of Greensburg, Pa., charges that L.A.W. officers were chosen by a "race between United States mails"—clubs mailing out pre-printed ballots—and urges a fixed voting day and public announcement of all candidates.
- An editorial holding that the L.A.W.'s switch from The Wheel to the Amateur Athlete's weekly Gazette was a mistake, since the official news barely fills eight pages and should appear monthly, leaving current news to journals like The Wheel.
- H. F. Fuller finishes his account of the Niagara-to-Boston tour, describing the rowdy Mechanicville welcome, the reception committees at Fitchburg, Leominster and Clinton, the Mass. Bi. Club dinner at Wellesley, and the gold watch presented to organizer B. B. Ayers at the Vendome.
- Karl Kron prints W. W. Darnell's day-by-day log of an 1883 thousand-mile tour from Cumberland, Md., through the Shenandoah Valley, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania mountains on a 50-inch Expert Columbia, closing with a 102-mile final day.
- Chas. A. Reed protests the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association's plan to run the bicycle race in heats, arguing a two-mile race is too exhausting to repeat in a day and that heats reward tactics over speed; he proposes a separate Inter-collegiate Bicycle Association instead.
- A short essay reprinted from Wheeling defending the cyclist's "soberness"—the constant watchfulness demanded by stones, holes, gutters, pedestrians and horses, and the solitary, reflective pleasures of riding in Indian file.