The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 15
Articles in this issue
- A letter from Abbot Bassett, Chairman of the L. A. W. Racing Board, defending the suspension of Chicago amateur Phil. Hammill, who was reported to have paced professional W. M. Woodside during a fifty-mile record trial.
- Editorial, reprinted from the Mirror of American Sports, laying out the full Bassett-Blake-Sholes correspondence and arguing that Illinois Chief Consul J. O. Blake and Chicago wheelmen showed Hammill never paced Woodside and was wrongly barred from the Hermes Club's Christmas races.
- Boston correspondence on winter riding, the Pope Manufacturing Company's new breech-loading bicycle lantern with an eleven-match magazine, and recent officer elections at the Lynn Cycle and Peabody Bicycle clubs.
- Reports the organization of the Big Four Tour, naming Burley B. Ayers as manager with Fred. G. Bourne, Fred. Jenkins and others as officers, and a planning meeting set at Buffalo's Genesee House on January 19.
- Day-by-day account of a six-days', eight-hours-a-day professional safety race won by Birt of Northampton on a Rudge Safety with 630 miles 5 laps, ahead of Vale, Weston, Hawker and others.
- A New York correspondent's account of New Year's Day club calls, centring on the Ixion Club's flower-decorated reception attended by over seventy-five wheelmen.
- Buffalo correspondent urging the L. A. W. to set its July meet on the 2d and 3d rather than the 4th (a military-parade day that would debar racers like Dan Milley), and describing the Bull & Haynes showroom and workshops on Main and Chippewa Streets.
- Short news items, including Karl Kron's canvass for subscribers to his "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," Duryea saddle testimonials, and F. A. Elwell's fifteen-strong Bermuda winter-wheeling party.
- Warren S. Locke's report, for Karl Kron's road book, on cycling roads around Mexico City, riding a "52" Expert over cobblestones out to Chapultepec Castle, Tacubaya and San Angel.
- Describes a steam bicycle, an eighteen-pound benzine-fired reciprocating engine fitted to a Star, invented by L. D. Copeland of Phoenix, Arizona and demonstrated at the Mechanics' Pavilion.
- Brief notes on current New York theatre productions, including "Adonis" at the Bijou Opera House and "The Private Secretary" at the Madison Square Theatre.