The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Comic verse signed "Mercury" about a beer-loving wheelman who flirts, takes falls in parades, and concedes he is too slow to win a cup.
- Review of the October Outing, opening Volume V, noting contributions by Maurice Thompson ("Browsing and Nibbling"), Charles Richards Dodge, Jay Howe Adams, C. H. Vinton and Thomas J. Kirkpatrick, plus a new outdoor-song feature with Charles E. Pratt's "A Song of the Wheel."
- Letter from Harry J. Jones of Kentish Town, London (Havestock Bicycle Club), reporting his two-year road record for Karl Kron's "Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle," detailing tours across 34 English counties on a 49-inch "Regent."
- Tall tale by "Tertius" of Weedsport, N.Y., who claims that, riding faster than sound, he braked to make his bicycle leap an oncoming freight train at a railroad crossing while the Secretary fell onto a car.
- Comic sketch (from a Pawtucket exchange) about two stacked bicycles outside the Pacific National Bank that lock in "loving embrace" and refuse to come apart while their owners struggle and a policeman looks on.
- Correspondence signed "The Tramp" of Brattleboro on the founding of a Vermont State Division under Chief Consul C. G. Ross, the election of F. E. Du Bois as Secretary-Treasurer and J. W. Drown as representative, plus club squibs from Rutland.
- Report of the Ixion Club's annual fifteen-mile road race from Fifty-ninth Street to Yonkers on election day, won by P. M. Harris ahead of E. S. Robinson and Wm. Da Camera, six minutes off R. G. Rood's record.
- Account of the two-day race meeting at Macon, Georgia, Oct. 28-29, where J. H. Polhill of Macon took the five-mile, one-mile and two-mile events and Josie Wilbourne won the slow race.
- From The Bicycle, describing an Atlanta inventor's dynamo ("damynite") hub lamp that throws a roller against the front tire to power a twenty-candle arc light, with commentary on its usefulness for night riding.
- Humorous first-person essay about borrowing a friend's 54-inch "Challenge" and crashing repeatedly into stones, ditches and sidewalks, tallying $28.50 in damages and ruined trousers.
- Poem celebrating wheelmen speeding over hills and past farmhouses, graveyards and clover fields as "knights of the wheel."
- Unsigned editorial paragraphs denying the rumored death of ex-champion H. L. Cortis (racing in Australia), praising Washington's asphalt streets and growing body of riders, and reporting that the Kangaroo safety bicycle has reached R. V. R. Schuyler's in Barclay Street.
- Column of short news: new clubs at Henderson, Ky. and an Irish branch of the National Cyclists' Union; Hendee's five-mile record attempt at Springfield; Karl Kron's road-book pledges reaching 2,026; English tandem times; and notes on the Kangaroo, Star and Columbia machines.
- Comic poem signed "Secretary" addressed to "Fancy Nancy De Lancy Montrose," warning her against marrying Raymond De Barry, a rider of the American Star.
- From the Huntington News, reporting the formation of the Huntington Bicycle Club with Fred Snare as president, plans to join the League of American Wheelmen, and a first tour to Bellefonte.
- Report of the first annual Omaha Bicycle Club tournament at Athletic Park, where W. Patterson of Toronto won six of eight events and John Nicholson of St. Paul edged champion John Hitchcock in a closely contested five-mile race in 17.05.