The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Front-page chatty column on the Ixion Club (member weddings, Secretary Ben G. Sanford's marriage and the Albany state meet) and a complaint that the new racing rules wrongly time races from the pistol's "report" rather than its "flash."
- Boston correspondence announcing the city's coming September 25-27 cycling tournament ($3,500 in prizes, a Prince-Howell world-championship match), the Cottage City "tricycle war," and the League's feud with the Spirit and Clipper sporting papers.
- "Bee" reports the Hamilton County Fair bicycle races of Aug. 22 with event-by-event results, naming winners such as H. S. Rogers, Myers, Nepper, N. L. Pierson and G. K. Brady, plus Harry Ellard's fancy-riding exhibition.
- Karl Kron reprints a letter from Baltimore agents A. Schumacher & Co. (Allan Line and North German Lloyd) agreeing to carry a bicycle free for each passenger to Halifax and Bremen, tied to his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle."
- A humorous "Uno Hoo" feature, "Leaves from the Log of a Ten Thousand Miler," recounting learning to ride near Salt Lake City and a header off a bridge into a dry canal, mock-testing Newton's law of falling bodies.
- A turn-by-turn 4 3/4-mile road route furnished by A. B. Barkman, from the Flatbush entrance of Prospect Park through Flatbush and Flatlands avenue to East New York avenue and Atlantic avenue.
- Continued installment of "A Quiet Summer Jaunt," a Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath touring narrative featuring a comic frog wrestling match and an encounter with the legendary canal mule near Hancock.
- Editorial on English amateur A. H. Robinson, who won the U.S. 25-mile championship medal at Springfield then pawned it to a steamship company for his wine bill; the Racing Board asks the N.C.U. to rule him off the track.
- Fred A. Coleman's travel letter on a voyage aboard the steamer "Breakwater" to Rehoboth Beach and a wheeling tour of Delaware's fruit farms, beaches and wood paths, including the verses "To 'Jo.'"
- News department noting upcoming Boston, Hartford, Albany and Philadelphia races, English amateur Gaskell's arrival, Karl Kron's 1,830 book subscriptions, Richard Garvey leaving the Missouri Wheel Co., a Kansas City wheelmen meeting, and Rev. Sylvanus Stall's 590-mile clergymen's bicycle tour.
- "Georgius" of Toronto reports Canadians at the Buffalo races (W. Hurst's fancy riding, C. F. Lavender's broken arm), the Woodstock and Toronto club tournaments, and the Toronto Wanderers' giant 68-member club photograph.
- Letter from W. M. Woodside, Champion of Ireland, denying reports that he would adopt a "Royal Mail" and affirming the Rudge as his favorite mount after testing most makes.