The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Front-page budget of brief items: the Citizens' Club banquet and Jack Keen testimonial fund, the Prince-Woodside match races at New Orleans, Duryea saddle testimonials from T. W. Eck and W. J. Morgan, Dr. Richardson's new Society of Cyclists, and an editorial lamenting the L.A.W.'s lost 'goaheadness.'
- Chicago letter signed 'Josh' on the slow race at the Le Grand Rink, Hammill's reinstatement by the Racing Board, the Big Four Tour preparations, and the new Spalding bicycle built by Hillman, Herbert & Cooper of Coventry for A. G. Spalding & Bro.
- Boston letter from 'Lewee' urging the League Board to reinstate the expelled Fred Jenkins, with reports of the Boston Bicycle Club's eighth-birthday dinner at Parker's, the Cambridge Club's minstrel show, and the Massachusetts Club's officer election in its new house.
- Karl Kron's comic letter blaming a printer's delay to his 'X. M. Miles' road-book prospectus for the fall of Khartoum and General Gordon, replying to critic 'Pedibus,' and tallying his subscriptions at 2,433 names.
- Thomas Stevens's satirical essay proposing that American doctors be paid, like the 'heathen Chinee,' only to keep patients well by prescribing wheeling, and predicting a cycling boom in China.
- Short story reprinted from the Wheeling Annual in which Dr. Marsh rides his bicycle some sixteen miles to deliver his uncle's mislaid sermon to the Ethical Congress at Ambluston in time, winning the old vicar the Deanery of Aylcester.
- Road report by J. D. Talbot of the Rock City Bicycle Club, made to Karl Kron, on the Nashville and Rock City clubs' July 4, 1884 run from Nashville to Eldorado Springs over Paradise Ridge.
- Club notes, chiefly the New York Bicycle Club's annual meeting, which elected Howard Conkling captain and Edwin W. Adams secretary and referred the lease renewal and a uniform change to committee.