The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editor and proprietor F. P. Prial announces that, his contract with the Cycling Publishing Company having expired, he has ceased publishing The Wheel and Recreation and now launches this first number of his own paper, to appear every Friday from 23 Park Row, New York.
- Reports the passage by the New Jersey Senate of the "Liberty Bill" (introduced by Mr. Miller) declaring bicycles and tricycles to be carriages entitled to use the public roads, reprinting the full text of the act and noting Chief Counsel Cooley's confidence it will become law.
- Quotes English papers on W. A. Rowe's arrival in England, including The Cyclist's interview with Rowe on his career and his opinions of English riders (Howell, Furnivall, Windle), the articles of agreement for his match with Richard Howell, and his and Woodside's training plans under "Senator" Morgan.
- Brief note that the Brooklyn Club, the oldest cycling organization, has arranged to build a new club house.
- Notice that the Overman Wheel Co.'s twenty-eight-page Victor catalogue, with descriptions and illustrations of the Victor wheels and cycling sundries, is now ready for distribution.
- Describes a mock trial "Daisy B. Nosejammer vs. Bunny Daisy" staged before three hundred wheelmen at the Long Island Wheelmen club, with Chas. Luscomb as judge, plus the club's "Ladies' Night" entertainment programme.
- Review of Joseph and Elizabeth Robins Pennell's new illustrated book "Our Sentimental Journey" (Longmans), a cycling journey through France and Italy modelled on Sterne, praising the sketches and noting its price of 6 shillings.
- Reports that French-Canadian brothers Jean and Baptiste LeFeur left Liverpool for Brazil to explore the Amazon with a convertible quadricycle/tricycle and folding canvas canoes, akin to King's water-cycle.
- The paper's weekly news column with paragraphs on club doings (Brooklyn, Melrose, Harlem, Elmira), Rowe v. Howell, the Australian mile record by R. Davis at Adelaide, the Holyoke-Northampton cinder path, English Roads Improvement Association, the K. C. W. and L. I. W. new houses, and clerical riders in Cleveland and St. Louis.
- Trade write-up of the new 64-page Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. (Chicago) catalogue, reprinting its introduction and describing the American Champion, Light Champion, Challenge, Safety, Light Safety, Rambler, Ideal and other wheels with prices.
- Detailed account of the proposed Holyoke-Northampton cinder path and how the similar ten-mile path was built by the Binghamton Club, urging a chain of side-paths for wheelmen through the Connecticut valley.
- A letter by M. T. Thompson of E. Rockport, Ohio, reprinted from Farm and Garden, arguing the federal surplus should be pro-rated among the states to build good country roads rather than reducing tobacco and whiskey revenue.
- Reprints Karl Kron's announcement of a 130-page pamphlet advertising "X. M. Miles on a Bi." and his proposal for a supplementary volume "My Second Ten Thousand," offering subscribers manuscript pages and boyhood portraits.
- Account of the Universal Cycling Club of Brooklyn's annual reception held at "Rivers'," with Edward Drew sounding the bugle, Philip Finn leading the grand march, and the floor and reception committees named.
- Correspondence signed "Keystone" reporting on Jno. M. Stout's trick-riding exhibition, Banker Bros.' orders for safeties, "Duquesne's" Bicycling World remarks on representatives Bidwell and Murray, a coming cycle store, and the new Pennsylvania division road-book.
- A letter from Julius Wilcox of New York correcting the paper's Stanley Show notes on the Facile patent light wheel, explaining its single-piece hollow flat-topped rim and threadless spokes.
- An essay signed "Daisie," reprinted from the Manhattan Club's programme, commending tricycling to women as the best outdoor exercise and citing her friend Maud's recovery from nervous prostration through riding.
- A dialect sketch in which Uncle Eph, the aged janitor of the fictional Hillendale Cycling Club, puzzles with his wife Tildy over the President's overheard remark that the club erred in renting too costly a house amid member resignations.
- Reprinted account of a trial ride on a sociable tricycle powered by a mineral-oil gas motor with electric ignition, patented worldwide and handled for English and American sale by Mr. Turner of Brussels.
- Describes a rocking-chair-driven tricycle patented by Hermanus T. Erie of Curacao, detailing its segmental gear, fly-wheel, clutch and brake mechanism and a freight-carrying variant.