The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 3
Articles in this issue
- A New York causerie opening the issue, noting the Ixions' club reception featuring humorist Jas. S. Burdett and J. J. Peoli's water colors, a "milk" anecdote from the recent tricycle road-race involving Pitman and Ned Burnham, and rumors of Capt. Will R. Pitman's marriage.
- G. Smith of the Merry Rovers wins the Premier firm's 100-mile road trial of the new "Kangaroo" safety bicycle from near Twyford to Norman's Cross in 7h 11m 10s, smashing Appleyard's 1878 record of 7h 15m 18s.
- At a record evening on the Crystal Palace path on September 25, W. Brown and J. S. Smith beat the tandem records and G. Lacy Hillier lowered the five-mile amateur and professional records to 14m 18s; reprinted from the Cyclist.
- Martin Rudy opens a bicycle riding school on the third floor of Locher's bank building, Centre Square, Lancaster, Pa., stocking a Victor tricycle and the Facile bicycle; reprinted from The New Era.
- Eleven-year-old cyclist Fred Dennison chases down James Hutchinson, who absconded with the boy's silver watch and chain after offering to time him around the block; a policeman arrests Hutchinson at Seventieth street and First avenue.
- Fred C. Dunn of the Philadelphia Chestnut Hill Bicycle Club, riding overland from New York, is treed by a farmer's dog on a sandy road near Charlestown; from an Exchange.
- A letter from Harold Serrell reporting that the N. J. Division L. A. W. has published a three-section colored road map of the state, printed by Smith & Stroup of Philadelphia and sold at 50 cents per section.
- A review of S. Conant Foster's richly illustrated quarto volume of bicycle poems "Wheel Songs," praising pieces such as "Benedicite," "Si Plunkitt" and "In Memoriam"; from Outing.
- A humorous city letter collecting the witticisms of wealthy St. Louis wheelmen, classed as dudes, semi-dudes and "toughs," with anecdotes of headers and the "torrid climb" of the Manchester hill.
- The newly formed Orange (Mass.) Wheel Club of twenty members elects Warren M. King president and C. H. Shepard captain; long-distance riders Winchell and Shepard rode from Orange to Boston in a day.
- A humorous bicycling tale signed "Squibbs" about the narrator and his dandified club-mate Wilky on his nickeled "Club," whose double courtship of two Misses Nickerson is exposed at a church bazaar.
- An editorial promoting a winter cycling tour over Bermuda's 150 miles of roads, organized by F. A. Elwell of Portland, Me., who toured the islands with Karl Kron, at a cost of $65 to $90.
- A notice to City Consuls and members, signed Chief Consul's representative Charles H. Potter, directing all Cyclists' Touring Club membership applications to State Consuls per a resolution adopted at Sharon, Mass.
- A combative editorial from the Spirit of the Times rebutting the L. A. W. Racing Board's defense of the "report of pistol" timing rule and its acceptance of the disputed short-track Jumbo Park (Philadelphia) records, offering a $500 Harvard Law School arbitration wager.
- News notes including Hendee's 2.42 4-5 mile at Springfield, the Kangaroo eclipsing the Facile, the organization of the Bergen Bicycle Club of Norway, and Karl Kron's subscription tally for "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle" reaching 1,989.