The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 10
Articles in this issue
- A circular from secretary Isaac B. Potter inviting readers to join the association formed to improve New York's public roads through publicity and legislation.
- Report on the world-championship match series at Wolverhampton and the Belgrave Grounds, where Richard Howell of England beat William A. Rowe of America at one mile and five miles, with extracts from The Cyclist, The Sporting Life and Wheeling.
- S. G. Whittaker's letter from Birmingham and Long Eaton describing the American professional team (Rowe, Eck, Crist, Temple, Woody) training in England, plus notes on Fred Wood's return from Australia and Jack Illston's reinstatement.
- Secretary L. A. Clarke details the route, captains and organization of the inter-club century run from Newark through Plainfield and Trenton to Philadelphia en route to the Baltimore League meet.
- Account of the Capital Bicycle Club's first dramatic entertainment at the National Rifles' Armory in Washington, featuring a Hamlet ghost scene and Hub Smith's operetta 'A New Year's Reception,' with full programme.
- Reprints a Yonkers Statesman item on cyclist Philip Romaine of the Citizens' Club, fined for thrashing E. W. Stanton, who had forced him off the road at Getty Square.
- Description of the Manhattan Bicycle Club's new house at 263 West Seventieth Street, New York, detailing its wheel-room, parlors, billiard room and seventy-member roster.
- Correspondent 'Okni Qua' reports Troy, N.Y. wheeling gossip, including A. M. Sweet's old riding hall, Will Wyley's Rudge agency and Le Grand Spicer's marriage.
- Captain Fleming of the Century Wheelmen resigns; Wells and Halsted break the Lancaster Pike tandem record; Thomas Hare made L.A.W. consul; reports on the Norristown runs and Cassatt's Hill climbing.
- E. I. Halsted of the Harlem Wheelmen climbs Cassatt's Hill and sets a record, prompting The Wheel to back him in a $25-medal hill-climbing challenge against Philadelphia champion John A. Wells.
- Correspondent 'Cyclometer' on Sunday riding at Chestnut Hill, brushes between Billy Rhodes, Peter Berlo and young Porter, the new Elliott Quadricycle, and renewed doubts over Rowe's form.
- Correspondent 'Headers' previews the California Inter-Club road race over the San Leandro course, the Bay City Wheelmen's medals to Elwell, Adcock and Plummer, and mocks an exaggerated S.F. Bicycle Club run report.
- Correspondent 'Independent' covers Brooklyn Bicycle Club tours to Patchogue, the upcoming L.I.W. race meet, club pool and billiard tournaments, and the L.I.W. and K.C.W. theatre party.
- President Wm. M. Frisbie injures his ankle on a Columbia Veloce; dealers Bennett & Hale are swindled by bicycle thief David Bassett, who pawned a hired Victor in Bridgeport.
- The Waiontha Bicycle Club elects officers led by president E. A. Hinds, and agent S. F. Cole reports a 'boom' in Springfield Roadster sales locally.
- Correspondent 'The Owl' denounces new Brooklyn Park Commissioner Charles H. Luscomb (captain of the Long Island Wheelmen) for a parks report disparaging bicycles as dangerous to children.
- List of upcoming cycling fixtures from May through September 1888, including the Rowe vs. Howell ten-mile race, the Baltimore League meet and the Buffalo Grand International Tournament.
- Description of the Eagle, a crank-action rear-driving safety invented by L. B. Gaylor of Stamford, to be made by the newly organized Eagle Bicycle Manufacturing Company.
- Trade and club paragraphs on the Ivel cycles, the Queens Amateur Athletic Club medals, the St. Louis Wheel Company road race, the Charles S. Willis lawsuit, and Howell's physical statistics.
- Report on the U.S. Circuit Court (Northern District of Illinois) dismissing all of the Pope Manufacturing Company's patent and license suits against R. Philip Gormully and the Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Company.
- Correspondent 'Westfield' on the Century Bicycle Club's second annual dinner at the Colonnade Hotel (with full menu and toasts), Cassatt's and Conshohocken Hill climbs, and the mean hotel-keeper Shaw.
- Correspondent 'Sub' reports improving roads and a growing wheel population at Leavenworth, naming fast rider Ned Jewett and new purchases by Max Pickarts and Will Gautier.
- Further trade notes on the Buffalo tournament dates, Howard A. Smith & Co.'s corduroy caps, Charlie Schwalbach's advertising wagon, A. G. Spalding & Bros.' Victor sales, and the Forest City Ramblers of Cleveland.
- Reprint from the Elizabeth Herald on the agitation to extend macadamized roads from Rahway through Linden to Elizabeth, N.J., and resistance from some property owners.
- Correspondent '5678' weighs the safety-bicycle craze against the ordinary, judging the Rover-type safety ideal for middle-aged and timid riders but preferring a light roadster ordinary himself.
- Reprint from the Baltimore Sun: George W. Leimbach fined for trying to run down Centaur Cycle Club rider C. Henry Eisenbrandt on Eastern Avenue hill, the justice ruling the law protects cyclists.