The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The editor's opening column praises W. R. Pitman's tricycle wins (N.Y. State championship and the Boston Club 100-mile race), reports Miss Anna Babetta Huss of the Ladies' Tricycle Club touring the world by tricycle and reaching Germany, and urges Gen. Viele of the Park Board to admit tricycles to Central Park in return for tricyclists' votes.
- Detailed report of the Boston Bicycle Club's second annual 100-mile road race, won by George Webber on a Star bicycle in 9h. 20m., with J. E. Wood second and W. R. Pitman awarded the tricycle time medal in 11h. 30m. on a 48-inch Columbia despite his late start; gives split times at Dey Street, Beverly and the Rowley turning point.
- Geo. P. MacGowan recounts a multi-day bicycle tour down the Hudson from Troy and Albany through Hudson City, Poughkeepsie and Cornwall, with thrilling coasts near Hyde Park, a night climb of Storm King, and a visit to Washington's headquarters at Newburgh.
- Signed 'Bek,' a report of Cincinnati Bicycle Club runs to Miamitown and Venice, with photographs by H. N. Kitchell, marksmanship by Sandy Livingston, J. F. Landy's tricycling, and notes on the club's officer election and a planned race meeting at Chester Park or Carthage Fair Grounds.
- A Baltimore rider ('Mil' and Rhys) describes a moonlit evening run out the Pimlico road through Mt. Washington, Lake Roland and Govanstown, admiring the silvered lake valley and amusing onlookers with their lit hub lamps.
- Signed 'P.,' an anonymous rider traces fifteen years from a wooden velocipede at age fifteen, through a swindling riding-school raffle, to taking up a 52-inch Harvard bicycle that markedly improved his health, riding daily at eight to nine miles an hour.
- 'H. S. W.' logs a 100-mile solo run from Jersey City to Philadelphia via Newark, Somerville, Trenton, Burlington and Camden on a 58-inch Light Rudge, completed in 15 hours total despite heavy showers that slowed him below Trenton.
- F. G. King of Corry, Pa. narrates a ride to Findlay's Lake and on to Erie and back, with hat-raising coasts and a comic roadside encounter with John Cleary, who declares himself 'sanctified' on meeting genuine bicyclers and boasts of his prizefighter son Mike Cleary.
- Sec'y Chas. Townsend reports the first annual race meeting of the Cayuga Bicycle Club at the Weedsport Driving Park on Sept. 10, with wins by J. R. Rheubottom and George S. Morley of the Clyde club despite intense heat and a dusty track.
- Note on the organization of the Burlington (Wis.) Wheel Club on September 22, 1884 with 24 members and headquarters at the Skating Rink, listing its newly elected officers under President Jos. Auld.
- Signed 'Georgius,' Toronto cycling news: the Toronto Bicycle Club's 200-mile ride home from the Ottawa races, the Wanderers' fancy-drill contests at Hamilton and Lindsay (W. Hurst winning a $30 gold medal), accidents to Davies and Campbell at the Industrial Exhibition track, and an improved Zacharias & Smith Star lamp.
- Editorial drawing lessons from the Boston 100-mile race, where a tricycle covered the distance in 11½ hours, and arguing tricycling depends on better American roads; it also criticizes the Cyclists' Touring Club for taking American dues while leaving no funds in this country for danger boards.
- Report of the Cleveland Bicycle Club's annual dinner at the Stillman on October 1, where Lieut. Pugh presented W. H. Wetmore a chain and charm, and an entirely new slate of officers was elected under President F. B. Stedman with Captain H. R. Payne.
- H. F. Fuller's day-by-day account of a wheel tour up the Kennebec valley from Augusta through Waterville, Skowhegan, Bingham and The Forks, with hops, brass bands, a moonlit visit to Moxey Falls, and 151 miles ridden, crediting organizer F. A. Elwell.
- Signed 'Tertius,' a comic tall tale of a runaway coast so fast the riders slice a cow in two, the wind blows companion Quintz bald, and their ball bearings are ground to steel dust, offered as proof of an earlier correspondent's veracity.
- Report of the second day (September 24th) of the New Haven races, where the judges reversed the five-mile finish on a foul to give G. M. Hendee first over Sellers, William Wait took the three-mile State championship, and R. Chambers won the twenty-mile scratch, followed by an evening club-drill and fancy-riding entertainment.
- A column of trade and racing notes: the New York Athletic Club's plan to drop wheel storage, Prince's 2m. 39s. record on a Duryea saddle prompting Howell and Sellers to order one each, Gaskell sailing for England with eighteen prizes, the Bull & Haynes 'American' saddle, Western tournaments at Omaha, Rockford and Kansas City, and Brooks turning professional for a race with Woodside.