The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Front-page run of short news paragraphs: the disbanded Oshkosh (Wis.) Bi. Club, L.A.W. election and Big Four tour notes, Prince and Morgan reconciling with Morgan as manager, Annie Sylvester riding a stripped-down wheel, a St. Louis letter on the runaway popularity of the Kangaroo, and the Scranton (Pa.) Bi. Club race meeting.
- Karl Kron's touring description of the roads north from Kingsbridge through Riverdale, Yonkers, Tarrytown, Tappan and the Palisades to Fort Lee, past landmarks like Jay Gould's Lyndehurst and Washington Irving's Sunnyside, to be reprinted as the eighth chapter of his book "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle."
- Humorous account of the Maryland Bicycle Club's third annual banquet at the Carrollton Hotel, with toasts and responses by Captain E. R. Jones, Chief Consul James Thompson, Treasurer E. P. Hayden, B. B. Lynch and secretary A. C. Kenly.
- Comic limericks signed "Noeb" needling racing professionals such as "Spokes," Prince, Armaindo, Eck and Woodside, addressed to papers in Washington, Cincinnati, Chicago and Galveston.
- Will S. Maltby of Boston publicly challenges trick-rider D. J. Canary, or any unicyclist in the world, to a fancy-riding contest for $100 a side, open thirty days from March 25, 1885.
- Humorous essay signed "Norb" cataloguing the trials of a club secretary — kickers, buglers, the catalogue-hoarding member, the talker and the silent member — with a mock constitution for the "Kicker's Club of Spokington."
- Report of the K.C.W.'s fourth annual meeting at its new club house, 159 Clymer street, re-electing Robt. F. Hibson president and resolving to support E. F. Hill of Peekskill for chief consul of the New York State Division.
- The Randolph Bicycle Club's annual meeting elects Wm. L. Rathbone president, votes $5 to the Bartholdi Statue Pedestal Fund, and strikes its compulsory L.A.W.-membership clause.
- The Citizens club's annual meeting elects Rev. Thos. McKee Brown president, Knight L. Clapp secretary and Simeon Ford captain.
- Boston correspondence on League affairs — the disputed half-year dues, Springfield's Ducker-led state ticket eclipsing Boston, the opening of the Massachusetts Club's new house, and the Boston Club's planned season of road runs and races.
- Short Boston news items: rumors of W. B. Everett resigning as Boston Club treasurer, the $1,500 Columbia cup to be run for at Yale, professionals Neilson and Young, and the Massachusetts Club's new "Breaking-up Club."
- The completed three-day programme of the Springfield Bicycle Club's September tournament, including the one-mile professional sweepstake championship of the world with a $500 purse and $100 entrance fee.
- Column on the roller-skating craze and its threat to cycling amateurism, covering rink managers' Chicago protective league, the six-day Skinner-Donovan rink race for $1,000 a side, and exhibition riders like W. D. Wilmot and Crawford Mason (Speedwell).