The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 19
Articles in this issue
- The editor speculates on coming improvements to cycling—lever-drive systems, ice-tires, winter velocipedes, and steam power—while asserting editorial neutrality toward all bicycle makes and joking that a header hurts the same regardless of who manufactured the machine.
- A roundup of cycling news covering the L.A.W.'s proposed touring department (Hurley B. Myers of Chicago mentioned for chief officer), Lt. A.D. Peck's election as Massachusetts Club captain, the Springfield B.C.'s upcoming anniversary ball on the 22nd, cyclists planning a Bermuda tour, and Albany wheelmen taking up bobsledding on Madison Avenue as a winter substitute for cycling.
- Opening chapter of a serial romance written for The Wheel by Harry Myrtle, in which professional cyclist Ethel Clayton objects to riding against Percy Harrington (substituted for the drunken Signor Alberti) at a Philadelphia skating rink, then races him in a thrilling match that ends with Ethel falling injured on the final lap and Harrington springing to her rescue.
- Reports on the Massachusetts L.A.W. Board of Officers meeting at the New Marlboro Hotel—chaired by Chief Consul Henry E. Ducker—appointing reception (Col. A.A. Pope, chairman), entertainment, transportation, and race committees for the upcoming Boston League meet; also covers the Boston Bicycle Club's 8th anniversary reception and the Massachusetts Club's contested annual election, in which Lt. A.D. Peck defeated W.S. Slocum for captain 85–41 and Col. T.W. Higginson was elected president.
- Short Boston-area notes: Gaskell issues a new Coventry Machinist Co. catalogue; an upcoming home-trainer race at the Massachusetts Club; the Brockton Club ball on Thursday; E.P. Howe's lever-drive tricycle with a novel air brake exhibited at Northboro; and Pope Manufacturing Co. expanding its salesroom on Washington Street, Boston.
- The Overman Wheel Co. of Boston announces its removal to new warehouse premises at 182 Columbus Avenue on February 15th, where it will welcome friends and the public.
- Preview of a bicycle and athletic tournament at the 47th Regiment armory, Brooklyn, on February 22nd, featuring military drill by Company A, the Kings County Wheelmen's bicycle drill, a one-mile amateur race, fancy riding by T.R. Finley, trick riding by the Wilmots, bicycle polo, and squad drill with new movements by Captain Pettus, organized by Schwalbach, Bridgman, and Knox.
- W.T. Fleming and Samuel Matheys of the Penn. City Wheelmen have arrived in Bermuda ahead of F.A. Elwell's cycling party of twenty-six (including five ladies), who will sail on the Trinidad; readers are urged to apply promptly to Quebec S.S. Co. agents A.E. Outerbridge & Co., 51 Broadway, New York.
- Club correspondence covering the New York Bicycle Club's annual meeting at 1770 Broadway with newly elected Captain J.B. Ray and a committee exploring a team road race with the Harlem Wheelmen; the Ottumwa Bicycle Club election of President C.M. Woolworth; and the formation of the Tennessee L.A.W. division with W.L. Surprise as Chief Consul.
- Full listing of the League of American Wheelmen board officers from The Bulletin of the 5th instant: President Dr. N.M. Beckwith (New York), Vice-President Stephen Terry (Hartford), Treasurer F.P. Kendall (Worcester), Secretary-Editor E.M. Aaron (Philadelphia), and standing committees for Membership (E.F. Hill), Racing (Abbott Bassett), Rules and Regulations (E.M. Aaron), and Rights and Privileges (Charles E. Pratt).
- An excerpt from Thomas Stevens in Outing in which he describes sewing Turkish liras as cloth-covered buttons (worth about £14, or $68) onto his knee-breeches as a concealed safeguard against brigands on his bicycle journey through Asia.