The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Standing notice asking subscribers to report address changes and correspondents to sign their contributions, write on one side of the sheet and send copy by Monday morning, with subscription and payment terms for The 'Cycling Publishing Company.
- The editorial answers E. M. Aaron of the Official Gazette over the proposed "consolidated office" and paid League secretary, reproduces a facsimile letter, faults the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette and Amateur Athlete for inaccurate amateur and professional record tables, and urges support for Karl Kron's road-book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle."
- Boston correspondent "W. I. H." reports the Somerville Bicycle Club's first dance, Frank Stinson's move to Chicago as resident manager of the Ashton Valve Co., Hutchinson's fancy-riding exhibition, and the late Ramblers Club's dispute with Fred E. Bryant over $50 of withheld advertising money.
- New York correspondent "X. Y. Z." on Central Park drive privileges and badge disputes with C.T.C. and League men, wheelmen's preference for a Buffalo meet near the Big Four tour, and the Citizens' Club's second annual race meeting.
- A humorous poem reprinted from Truth for the People (signed "Zachary Y.") praising buggy riding behind a trotting mare over the bicycle, tricycle and steamboat.
- Short notes on the Elizabeth Wheelmen's fund-raising entertainment, Morgan's sprained ankle cancelling a four-cornered race, disputed Hendee, Clark and Johnson record times, Geo. R. Bidwell & Co.'s recovery from fire, and Duryea Saddle testimonials from H. S. Ward and Harold R. Lewis.
- A letter (signed "Where is B?", Buffalo) arguing the L.A.W. by-laws let the Board of Officers fix the meeting date, urging a July Buffalo meet tied to "Another Big Tour," and naming wheelmen expected to attend, including Maynard, Pierce and Georgius of the Toronto Wanderers.
- The Memphis Bicycle Club proposes a two- or three-day spring racing tournament on a half-mile track near Memphis with several hundred dollars in prizes; secretary W. L. Surprise invites Southern wheelmen to take part.
- A comic poem (signed "Secretary.") in which Tertius Rowes buys a "byke" and woos Smyantha, only to crash into a stony gully at her direction and end with her darning his tattered stockings.
- Club notes: the Indianapolis Bi. Club's January trip to New Orleans, a history of the Elizabeth Wheelmen and Dr. G. Carleton Brown's New Jersey Division work, and the demise of the English Tricycle Union (chaired by Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson) and birth of "The Society of Cyclists."
- A reply letter from E. M. Aaron, editor of the L.A.W. Gazette, arguing the new Secretary-Editor's duties are far heavier than when Fred Jenkins held the office and that a monthly journal cannot serve as the League's medium of intercommunication.
- Karl Kron reports on the 46th week of subscription canvassing for "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" (2,173 names, 827 still needed), a hectograph appeal to English tradesmen, a rainy bicycle tour back from Springfield, and a first trial of the Duryea saddle.
- W. M. Woodside lowered many professional bicycle records on the Exposition Building gallery track in Chicago, timed by George E. Lloyd and Sam Vowell; an editor's note refuses to accept them because the curves were only marked, not solid.
- Exchange items on Hendee's unnoticed three-quarter-mile record, doubts over the Midgets' "smallest tricycle," the Eck/Armaindo/Morgan horse-race hoax in Missouri, sending American amateurs to England, distrust of post-card records, and the collapse of the proposed Woodside/Brooks vs. Morgan/Armaindo six-day team race.
- Louis B. Graves sends in a poem by Edward Fuller of Skowhegan, read at the banquet given to the "Kennebec Tourists" on July 31, 1884.
- The poem itself, composed and read by Edward Fuller of Skowhegan, retelling a Manitou legend of a wavelet that becomes the Kennebec river and journeys down to the sea.
- F. M. S. Jenkins, Captain of the Ottawa Bicycle Club, reports for Karl Kron on roads, hotels and scenery along the Lower St. Lawrence south shore, from Longueuil through Sorel, Quebec, Bic, Rimouski and Little Metis to Matane.