The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editorial commentary on the League of American Wheelmen's spring Board of Officers meeting, arguing that while productive rule-making was accomplished, the proposed abolishment of the annual general membership meeting would be undemocratic and should be resisted.
- Brief notice welcoming Frank J. Poole of the Citizens' Club as the newly appointed Cyclists' Touring Club consul for New York City, urging coordination with Harlem consul Fred W. Styles to grow C.T.C. membership.
- Detailed report of the L.A.W.'s fifth annual Board of Officers meeting at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, covering state-by-state membership figures, the treasurer's report, the Wilmington road rights case, H.S. Wood's touring department recommendations, the contested 55–27 vote to abolish the annual general meeting, the expulsion of D.H. Renton, and the secretary's salary increase to $1,500.
- Regular department of short news items covering the Schock-Woodside six-day contest in Minneapolis, the Auburn bicycle-pedestrian race featuring Elsa von Blumen and Hoagland, Chicago Bicycle Club top 1885 road mileages led by N.H. Van Sicklen at 4,500 miles, and new catalogues from Pope and Coventry Machinists.
- Report on a new 'Pleasure Tricycle' brought to The Wheel's office for inspection, seating seven riders in two back-to-back rows and propelled by oscillating link pedals with no dead-centre crank, which the editors anticipate will prove a valuable auxiliary to social touring.
- Humorous cycling poem (signed '—Wheeling') recounting a rider's comic and bruising attempts to imitate a canary balanced on a unicycle, ending with a vow never to ride one again.
- Boston cycling correspondent's column on early spring riding by Massachusetts Club members under Captain Lonny Peck, Chief Consul Ducker's $5,000 League meet entertainment fund drive, Joe Dean's Rover Safety Bicycle struggles, and home-trainer race notes including R.G. Beazley's 23-second quarter-mile record.
- Chapter 3 of Harry Myrtle's serial fiction, in which Percy Harrington recovers from an assault by the jealous suitor of Ethel Clayton (identified as a Camden tradesman's son reduced to imbecility by drink), while Ethel and her friend Gertie discuss the incident and Ethel begins to reconsider the warnings she received about Percy.
- Account of the King's County Wheelmen and Co. A of the 47th Regiment's armory entertainment in Brooklyn, featuring trick riding by Thomas R. Finley, a one-mile bicycle race won by C.E. Kluge over E. Valentine in 3:45 3/5, sack and three-legged races, and bicycle polo on Stars.
- Notice of a forthcoming novel by Lily Curry to be published by T.B. Peterson & Brothers of Philadelphia, dealing with New York's literary Bohemian life, recommended by the editor to wheelmen seeking leisure reading.
- Regular column of brief cycling news, including the Pennsylvania B.C.'s resolution against makers' amateurism, L.A.W. Racing Board votes banning board-track and against-time records, and details of the American Wheelman fifty-mile road race set for April 24 at Clarksville, Mo., with a prize fund near $1,000 and entrants including L.D. Munger, George Webber, and N.H. Van Sicklen.
- Officer election results and club news from Coldwater (Mich.), Toronto, Cincinnati, Colorado (newly forming an L.A.W. state division), Philadelphia B.C. (G.M. Streeter winning the silver cup with 1,877 miles), and the New Orleans Bicycle Club.