The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 7, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Department of New York cycling notes: Central Park's West Drive and Riverside Drive opened to uniformed club members under N. M. Beckwith's badge rules, the Citizens Bicycle Club's Dec. 3 house-warming featuring Robert J. Burdette and round-the-world rider Thomas Stevens, and testimonials for the Duryea saddle.
- Boston correspondent "W. I. H." reports waning club road-riding, the Boston Club's first "Ladies' Night" of the season, the Massachusetts Club's nearly finished new club house, and the disbandment of the Roxbury, Crescent and Ramblers clubs.
- Review of the December Outing magazine, highlighting Maurice Thompson's first "Tangle-Leaf Paper," Kirk Munroe's "A Canoe Camp 'mid Hudson Highlands," and President Bates's article on good common roads.
- Describes T. Hunt Sterry's new 120x65 riding school at Fulton avenue and Orange street, Brooklyn, with locker room, machine shop, and agencies for Columbia, Rudge and British Challenge wheels.
- New York city letter signed "X. Y. Z." on the Park Commissioners revoking wheelmen's passes and limiting Central Park and Riverside Drive to uniformed club members, plus preparations for the Citizens' Dec. 3 "stag racket."
- Technical description of the new 37-pound Rudge Safety, a miniature Rudge driven by a Morgan's patent endless chain with hollow-rim wheels and Rudge ball bearings throughout.
- Comic poem signed "Georgius" about an overweight farm girl who slims at a city boarding-house and marries the nickel-plate-bike rider Augustus Cyrus James Leather.
- Tall-tale sketch signed "Secretary," a mock-epistle to "Tertius" about an unwashed Kangaroo-riding road companion and a fantastical flying-bicycle escape over a cliff.
- Letter from L. B. Graves of the Northampton club describing a 105-mile ride from Northampton to Boston on Nov. 13, joined by S. W. Coe at Ware and ridden largely by lamplight.
- Items reprinted from English papers, including German artisans touring by bicycle, the Stanley Show losing first-class makers' direct exhibits, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s new agencies.
- H. C. Finkler's report to Karl Kron of a cycle tour from Petaluma through Santa Rosa, Cloverdale and Ukiah to the Blue Lakes and Clear Lake country, with companions A. H. Cowen and the Rideout brothers.