The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Short news items covering the opening tournament season (Berkshire County, Ohio Division, Buffalo, Hartford, Boston Ramblers), tricycle rentals at Martha's Vineyard, Geo. D. Gideon's newborn son, Karl Kron on soliciting subscriptions, Frazier's 53-lb American Star at Philadelphia, and Joe Pennell settling in London.
- Boston correspondent reports Chief Consul Currier's planned September 5 Massachusetts wheelmen's reunion and the rival Boston Ramblers tournament, the Boston Bicycle Club's tricycle road race from South Natick won by Edward P. Burnham of the Newton Bicycle Club in 1 hr 14 min 40 sec (a new record), and the poorly-attended Stevens vs. C. J. Young 24-hour race on the Union Grounds, abandoned after 20 hours.
- Correspondent 'Bee' notes slack club attendance, the new Brighton Bicycle Club's rooms on Freeman Avenue, the Wanderers' second annual encampment on the East Fork of the Little Miami River, the theft of Harry Hall's 52-inch Expert from the Cincinnati Bicycle Club, and a humorous 'Funny to See' list.
- Report on the sixth amateur fifty-mile championship at the Crystal Palace track, won by F. R. Fry of Clifton B.C. in 2 hr 51 min 16.6 sec, a bare yard ahead of C. S. Wadey of Eastbourne, with F. J. Nicolas of Beckenham third after a phenomenal late spurt; includes a full mile-by-mile leaders' table.
- Joseph G. Dalton of the Boston Bicycle Club, writing for the statistical chapter of Karl Kron's road-book, recounts his cycling career from 1877 (among the first three to use the English modern bicycle in Boston) through 8,695 total miles on machines including a Paragon, Ariel, Club roadster, and Xtraordinary safety.
- Notice describing and pricing three group photographs of the Chicago tour party available for purchase: a group of nine taken by J. S. Hulett of Napanee, Ontario, a larger group at the United States Hotel in Saratoga, and a cottage group at Round Island supplied by Frank H. Taylor of the Germantown Cycling Club.
- Leading editorial arguing that, with American records now approaching English ones, the single-timekeeper scoring and unstandardised track measurement used in England (as with Cortis's and Lees's twenty-mile-in-the-hour records) should not be accepted above marks made by American riders.
- Manchester, New Hampshire correspondent 'X-C' reports quiet club runs, Lieut. Moses Sheriff's 695-mile tour into Canada meeting the Niagara-to-Boston party at Montreal, C. H. Wilkins's coastal ride from Hampton Beach to Rockport, C. F. Sawtelle's 85-mile run to Charlestown and back, and the local adoption of drab duck helmets.
- Notice of 'Wheel Songs' by poet-wheelman S. Conant Foster, an illustrated quarto volume of cycling verse (much reprinted from Outing and The Wheel) published by White, Stokes & Allen of New York at $1.75.
- Humorous touring narrative of two Baltimore wheelmen riding from Hagerstown toward Cumberland via the old National Pike and the C&O Canal towpath from June 20, 1884, featuring mountain scenery, a tall-tale sea-serpent encountered at Fairview, and a bear sighting on day two (to be continued).
- Correspondent 'P.' argues wheelmen are as clannish as anyone, laments the many unattached riders around the Oranges, New Jersey, and praises the district's continuous macadam roads and a 100-wheel Chinese-lantern parade through Orange and Newark.
- Reports plans for the $300,000 Elite Roller Skating Rink to be built on Peter A. Hegeman's Eighth-avenue estate (the Manhattan Athletic Club ground), seating 6,000 and including bicycle courses, archery courts and bowling alleys.