The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Unsigned leaders dismissing the controversy 'Chris. Wheeler' stirred over a paragraph by 'W. I. H.', apologizing to the 'Cyclist and Athlete', and arguing for Buffalo on July 3d and 4th as the 1885 L.A.W. meet to coincide with the Big Four tour and holiday railroad rates.
- Boston correspondent 'Lewee' returns after illness to report a bright New England trade outlook, the failures of Washington agents W. C. Scribner and Thomas Harrison, the Pope Manufacturing Company's busy Hartford factory, and the Boston Ramblers' dispute with F. E. Bryant over club funds.
- Short Boston club notes: Edward P. Burnham of Newton's 3,000-mile 1884 record, C. F. Joy and S. C. Miller joining the Bermuda tour, the Massachusetts Club's new house, and Colonel Albert A. Pope's $100 (and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s $50) toward the Buffalo meet entertainment fund.
- A jocular letter signed 'Tertius' of Weedsport, N.Y., announcing that the dead Cayuga Bicycle Club has been succeeded by the lavishly furnished Weedsport Bicycle Club, whose mock rule-book imposes fines and decapitation for various grades of lying.
- New York letter signed X.Y.Z. on the dull post-Christmas season, the booming Ixion Club under President Frank Egan, the Citizens' Club janitor 'Morris', Central Park riding restrictions, and several New Yorkers booked for the Bermuda trip.
- H. D. Duncan (from the Wheeling Annual) traces French cycling from its pre-1870 velocipede era to the present, praising the Veloce Club Bordelais of 400 members under President M. Rousset and noting the near-monopoly of Rudge & Co. of Coventry over the French market.
- Race report (from the Mirror of American Sports) of the Hermes Bicycle Club's cold Christmas Day meet, with N. H. Van Sicklen of Chicago winning the one- and five-mile dashes, Howard Page the two-mile handicap, and John S. Prince beating Woodside in a $100-a-side match by under six feet in 53:09.
- Baltimore Christmas receptions: the Baltimore Cycle Club (formerly Lafayette Wheelmen) hosted 300 guests at 648 Druid Hill Avenue where President W. S. Bayley gave A. M. Snyder a gold medal for 2,013 miles, and the Maryland Bicycle Club entertained at 10 North Avenue.
- Report (from The Referee) of the CTC general meeting of some 500 at the Cannon Street Hotel, London, chaired by N. F. Duncan: the rejection of patron/president changes, passage of A. J. Hills's county-consul motion, and the defeat of J. B. Marsh's bid for an elected executive council.
- Editorial notes on the new New Orleans paper The Bicycle South, Louise Armaindo's endorsement of the Duryea saddle, Karl Kron's forthcoming book, the Bicycling World's price, and the disputed Woodside and Sellers records.
- Colonel W. R. Newton, a 55-year-old American biologist newly arrived in England to lecture on evolution, died of a fractured skull after his tricycle collided with a hansom cab in Aldersgate Street, City, London (from Bicycling News).
- Opening-day report (from the 'Cyclist) of the Westminster Aquarium six-day safety race with ten starters; after numerous spills, J. Birt and S. Vale (both on Rudges) led with 107 miles 6 laps, Birt first on time, with J. Keen praised for careful riding.
- Clippings and squibs from other papers: an Illinois slow race among Ed. F. Brown, Burley B. Ayers and J. S. Gibson; Rudge & Co.'s five-pound silver tricycle for the American Midgets at Coventry; the disqualifications of Phil. Hammill and Colar E. Stone; and Prince's challenge letter to Howell.
- A comic verse in which a reckless 'cycler kills a dog, breaks his own head, is nursed and married by a maiden, then jumps in the river and drowns himself, envying the dog's turned-up toes.
- New York theatre notes for early January 1885: the 25th Annual Charity Ball at the Metropolitan Opera House on Jan. 6, plus current attractions such as 'Love on Crutches' at Daly's, 'The Private Secretary' at the Madison Square, and Lawrence Barrett succeeding Ristori at the Star.