The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 6, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Detailed description of the new brick-and-terra-cotta clubhouse of the Citizens Bicycle Club of New York on West Fifty-eighth Street, designed by member George Martin Huss, with its 20x60-ft wheel room, lockers and convertible maple floor; signed by secretary Knight L. Clapp, the seventy-five-member club expects to occupy it by May 1 and to debut its grey Norfolk-jacket uniform at its April 25 race meeting.
- A signed personal column blending comic sketches — the Citizens' 'Mack,' the 'club philosopher,' and a tall tale of a sail-rigged Rucker Tandem racing 183 miles to Kansas City — with the writer's defense of the 'L. A. W. for L. A. W. only' membership policy and his opposition to courting Washington's Capital Club.
- New York State Division representatives, led by Frank A. Egan and signed by N. Malon Beckwith and a dozen others, authorize forwarding $100 from the state treasury to the national L.A.W. treasury — which held only $78.44 on April 1, 1884 — to help fund the May 20 Washington championship races, urging other divisions to give in proportion to their membership.
- Racing Board chairman George D. Gideon notifies The Wheel that the records made at the Springfield meet of September 18-20, 1883, have been voted valid by the board.
- The Racing Board grants professionals Woodside and Morgan a special sanction to hold amateur races under League rules, revocable on any infringement; signed G. D. Gideon, chairman.
- Acting Corresponding Secretary W. V. Gilman publishes the latest list of L.A.W. membership applicants (numbers 837 to 1033) by state and club — New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio and others — with the usual two-week window for objections.
- Zacharias & Smith of Oraton Hall, Newark, announce an April 21 exhibition by Master Finley of the Smithville works, who performs fancy Star feats — including balancing and riding side-saddle on one wheel — alongside fancy roller skating by Professor Jones of Newark.
- The Wheel reports the guarantee fund for the League's Washington championship expenses has grown from $80 to $212 — with pledges from Frank A. Egan, Fred Jenkins, N. Malon Beckwith and the New York State Division ($100) — and appeals for further contributions of any size before May 1, 1884.
- The Cycling Publishing Company reprints its 1883 contract to supply The Wheel to L.A.W. members at fifty cents each, then announces it is voluntarily canceling further charges on new applications — citing the League's tight finances and an earlier bad-faith Post Office complaint by the Bicycling World — and will bill only two cents per week per new member until June 1.
- The Committee on Rights and Privileges, chaired by Albert S. Parsons, reports the L.A.W.'s annual mail election of 1,755 votes cast nationwide — electing Chief Consuls including N. M. Beckwith (New York, 254), M. D. Currier (Massachusetts, 196) and T. J. Kirkpatrick (Ohio, 148) — with full state-by-state tallies and an accounting of the 45 rejected ballots.