The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 22, No 59
Articles in this issue
- Report confirming the final dissolution of the National Cycle Board of Trade after years of internal disagreement.
- Announcement that the Wanamaker department store chain has arranged to sell Orient brand bicycles through its retail outlets.
- Coverage of the court ruling in the Palmer versus Huss tire patent case and its implications for the pneumatic tire industry.
- Exposure of a fraudulent operation advertising non-existent model bicycles to deceive customers and dealers.
- Discussion of the prospects for exporting American-made motor vehicles to European markets.
- Comparison of fast freight and express delivery services for shipping bicycles, examining cost and reliability differences.
- The Commerce in Foreign Markets column argues that American export trade is growing on the strength of a 50 per cent manufacturing advantage, yet is held back by inferior trading knowledge, an unwillingness to adapt to foreign commercial customs, and a lack of organised merchant facilities abroad.
- Report on congressional petitions for lower domestic parcels post rates and an increased weight limit of 11 pounds, citing the wide disparity between British and American postal merchandise charges as evidence that express companies impose extortionate rates on domestic shippers.
- Circuit court of appeals ruling arising from the Rouse, Hazard and Company bankruptcy in Peoria establishes that the federal bankruptcy act's three-month limit on priority wage claims overrides more generous Illinois state statutes, leaving workers with overdue wages older than three months ranked equal to common creditors.
- General interest column leading with the argument that the current economic recovery represents a healthy expansion rather than a speculative boom, followed by a note on the rapid and irreversible displacement of wrought iron by steel across manufacturing industries.
- Summary of recently filed bicycle and motor vehicle patents.
- Technical discussion of gearing mechanisms and the relationship between gear ratio and achievable cycling speed.
- Description of experimental three-cylinder gasoline motor designs being developed for motor carriages.
- Racing and club news from the cycling community.
- Speculation continues over champion Jimmy Michael's double career as cyclist and aspiring jockey as he arrives in New Orleans with trainer Al Weinig and receives a jockey's badge from Secretary Clark, while his late father-in-law's solicitors, Aberman, Wales, produce a March 1896 marriage certificate to settle rumors that the Welshman was unmarried.
- A roundup of racing items: Frenchman Rigal sets a new motocycle hour record of 30 miles 2,136 yards; Henri Fournier seeks a rematch after his motor tandem's driving belt broke; Jack Prince arranges a southern indoor circuit through Atlanta, Savannah and Jacksonville for February; Frank Kramer turns "outlaw" by racing at unsanctioned Madison Square Garden meets; and German tracks report 236 race meets and $58,018.75 in cash prizes during 1898.