The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 17
Articles in this issue
- The Wheel's leading editorial pronounces the 1888 L.A.W. meet at Baltimore an emphatic success despite heat and bad streets, and criticises the convention's decision to adopt the new constitution as a whole rather than section by section, faulting Dr. Emery's tactics against E. J. Shriver's call for detailed debate.
- Datelined Baltimore, the start of The Wheel editor's multi-day narrative of the L.A.W. meet, describing the train journey on the Congressional Limited and the Sunday-night scene around the Carrollton, the League headquarters, where Gormully, Bidwell, Overman and other trade men gathered.
- Reports a Sunday sermon by Rev. A. B. Dixon at the Emanuel Baptist Church, Baltimore, to some two hundred wheelmen, and prints the address comparing the bicycle and the Christian life ('bicycles don't develop dudes').
- Prints in full the new constitution of the League of American Wheelmen adopted at Baltimore by a vote of 891 to 271, covering divisions, sub-divisions, membership, the national assembly and committees.
- The Stroller reports on the combined-clubs 'century' run from Newark to Philadelphia, Orange Wanderers fixtures, and extensive road-macadamizing work ordered by the Orange, East Orange and Montclair councils.
- Short news items including a new race track near The Hague, the Bath 50-mile road race won by C. A. Smith, a paragraph defending W. A. Rowe's world records against Lacy Hillier and Wheeling, and the London B.C. 100-mile road race won by F. H. Williams in record time.
- Part II of Free Lance's touring sketch awheel through the Isle of Wight, from Freshwater Bay and the Needles to Yarmouth, Carisbrooke Castle, Newport and West Cowes.
- Keystone's correspondence on the Beaver Valley Wheelmen hill-climbing contest won by Craig of Beaver Falls over W. D. Banker, the tandem safety bicycle, and a claimed 102-mile run by A. C. Banker and F. G. Lenz to New Castle and back.
- English and Irish race results, including Herbert Synyer at Long Eaton and an international meeting at Balls Bridge, Dublin, where Ralph Temple beat Fred Wood and Woodside and P. P. Kilkelly won the 5-mile Irish championship.
- Recounts how Harry Shurman of Lynn, Mass., rode up and down Eagle Rock Hill in Orange, N.J., twelve times without a dismount on a Springfield Roadster on June 17, beating John A. Wells's six-trip record set on a Pony Star.
- Reprinted account of the forty-three wheelmen who left the Continental Hotel at 4.15 a.m. for the century run to Philadelphia en route to the Baltimore League meet, listing the nineteen clubs of New Jersey and New York represented.
- Reprinted from the Buffalo Times, notes on the coming September tournament at Buffalo and its championship races, naming entrants Richard Howell, William A. Rowe, William Woodside and J. Dubois.
- Reprinted from the Syracuse Herald, news of the Syracuse Cycling Club delegates to the Baltimore meet, the new English Road Records Association, and the club's lantern parade, with The Wheel's own account of the eleven men who completed the century to Philadelphia.
- Reprints from Grocott's Penny Mail an account of S. White, P. Pope, W. Pope, A. J. Munks and F. Cock riding about 400 miles from Kimberley to Grahamstown on Sanspareils and a Kangaroo, praising the Colonial Roadster for rough roads.
- Describes the Citizens' Club spread on June 18 marking its sixth anniversary, with entertainment by 'Jim' Burdette, Springmeyer and others, noting the club's membership of about 140 and flourishing finances.
- Park City's correspondence on Bridgeport's July 4 celebration and marine parade, the Pequonnock, Rambling Wheelmen and Park City Cyclers clubs, and George G. Prentiss's new 62-inch New Mail.
- Gad-Fly's column on the Harlem Wheelmen, including the Decoration Day road-race trip, new officers Bingham, Parker and Kellogg, and Irvie Halsted's half-mile Pennsylvania championship at the Lancaster games.