The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 24
Articles in this issue
- A column of brief club and trade notes: the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's March 25 club-house reception for 500 wheelmen, the Citizens Club race meeting and annual election, the five light roadsters now on the market (Rudge, Royal Mail, Expert, Spaulding and Victor), Fred. G. Bourne's appointment as secretary of the Singer Manufacturing Co. at $25,000 a year, and the Ixion Club's club-house and lawn-tennis plans.
- Reports the Edinburgh Centre of the National Cyclists' Union suspending tricyclist H. J. Webb for a year and his withdrawal of the Land's End to John o'Groat's record claim, alongside Chairman Bassett's statement on the A. H. Robinson case and the disputed L.A.W. 25-mile championship medal.
- An editorial deploring two knee-breeched wheelmen who swore, chewed and spat tobacco, and trod on a lady's dress aboard a crowded elevated-railway car, to the disgust of the other passengers.
- A profile praising the Orange (Mass.) Bicycle Club's gymnasium, its rapidly grown library of thirty-five to forty volumes and maps, and its stock of wheel and daily papers, with the club claiming to be the foremost outside the largest city clubs.
- Karl Kron's detailed touring account of the macadam roads from Port Chester and White Plains through Tarrytown and down Broadway to King's Bridge, centred on the Vincent House as the great 25-mile landmark, to be reprinted as part of chapter eight of his book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle.'
- Obituary of S. Conant Foster, the 'poet wheelman' who died of pneumonia at thirty-one; an early Gotham rider who helped organize the Mercury Club, suggested the title of The Wheel and contributed to it from its infancy, and authored the collection 'Wheel Songs.'
- Boston correspondent 'Lewee' reports the Crescent Bicycle Club's farewell disbandment dinner at Young's Hotel under President Harry P. Robinson, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's new club-house furnishings (including a Sandham cycle painting given by Col. Pope), Cambridge and Dorchester club elections, and a planned Boston-to-South Natick tandem race.
- Reports the L.A.W. New York State ticket advanced by the Cortland Wheelmen, with Edward F. Hill of Peekskill for Chief Consul and a slate of eighteen representatives endorsed by the Buffalo, Citizens, Ixion and Kings County Wheelmen clubs, urging a full vote on April 10.
- Claims Col. Pope suggested the Century magazine's profitable illustrated war series, drawing on the Massachusetts Loyal Legion commandery's photograph collection, a move credited with driving the magazine's circulation to record levels yet never acknowledged by its publishers.
- A humorous mock-elegy signed 'W.' to a departing club companion, 'the Doctor,' celebrated as the best of chums on sandy roads, a peerless hill-climber and machine-mender, and captain of his club.
- A jocular letter signed 'Rhys' disputing a claim that the bicycle 'Bohunkus' was bought from the secretary, insisting he purchased it directly from 'La Secretaire' and that it still serves faithfully as the club bugler's mount.
- A correspondent reports the Northampton (Mass.) Bicycle Club's successful first annual ball on March 4th, attended by about 200 including Mayor Cook and wheelmen from Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield, with a roster of the club's thirty-two members.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Jeems' surveys the city's five bicycle clubs and their quarters, H. B. Hart's bi-weekly trade paper, and the new Gideon and Powell 'Philadelphia 'Cycling Bureau' at 1539 Race Street showing the Victor and Rudge, while warning clergy-riders against coasting bad hills after Rev. Mr. James's fall.