The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Editorial paragraphs jab at George Lacy Hillier and the Bicycling News over Rowe's American records, and back "The Stroller" in condemning sidewalk-riding wheel-hogs in Newark, Orange and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
- The Louisiana House Judiciary Committee returned Representative Shields's bicycle-rights bill (House Bill No. 283) as useless legislation; The Wheel reprints the Sporting South's editorial urging reconsideration.
- Racers Crist and Barber arrive in New York aboard the Etruria from England; Crist rates Coventry the fastest track, Synyer the speediest and Osmond the pluckiest rider, and expects Rowe to reverse results at Buffalo.
- The Brooklyn Bicycle Club's parade through Brooklyn drew only thirty-six men from the L.I.W. and K.C.W.; Captain Spelman led sixty Brooklyn Club men, with the Kings County Wheelmen, Long Island Wheelmen and Universal Cycling Club following.
- The Boston Bicycle Club ran to Great Head, Winthrop, under Captain Kendall to honor ex-Captain Whitney before his departure to sheep-raising on a New Mexico ranch.
- The Massachusetts Division L.A.W. board met at the Point of Pines; Chief Consul H. W. Hayes presided over amendments redistricting representation and set the annual meeting for Cottage City, August 2-4.
- The New Jersey Athletic Club opened its quarter-mile cinder track at Bergen Point on July 4 with races arranged by Wetmore and Chester; Pendleton, Kreger, Caldwell and Kluge featured in the events.
- The fifth annual Indiana Division L.A.W. tour, led by Chief Consul J. Fred Probst, runs from Indianapolis via Cincinnati to Louisville, Kentucky, about 300 miles, with a test run on the Lexington Pike.
- Advice to lady riders on handle height, seat, mounting and skirt length, recommending the side mount; reprinted from the Washington Sport.
- Short paragraphs of cycling news: Kilkelly's Irish grass record, Singer & Co.'s coming ladies' bicycle, Temple's injury at Amsterdam, the New York Club's June mileage, and Wheeling's reprint of the Rowe record letters.
- Members of the Citizens' Bicycle Club and New York Athletic Club gave a farewell dinner at the Cafe Savarin to W. J. S. Yuengling, departing to manage the original Yuengling brewery at Pottsville, Pa.
- A promoter describes the Fair Association's September tournament at Buffalo, with one fifty-cent admission covering both the fair and the cycling tournament, plus reduced railroad and hotel rates; also corrects a Baltimore report that mixed up the Pennsylvania and B. & O. railroads.
- Reports the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's July 4 races at the Queen's track—Schoefer winning the club championship and the 2-mile handicap—and the club's ninth-anniversary parade through Brooklyn on June 30.
- By "The Stroller," condemning sidewalk-riding wheelmen and reprinting a Trenton State Gazette account of a bicycle frightening a horse that severely injured Miss Mary McKeever; also notes F. C. Gilbert's 157-mile 24-hour club record.
- Correspondent "Bi." reports the Judiciary Committee's defeat of Louisiana's Liberty Bill, efforts by Chief Consul Hodgson's men to secure a recommitment, and the Louisiana Cycling Club's Renaud medal race.
- Correspondent "Cycle" pushes Philadelphia for the 1889 League meet, reports the near-fizzle New York-Philadelphia century, the Pennsylvania and Century Wheelmen summer tours, and the mix-up that scratched the Brown-Garrigues 25-mile road race.
- Correspondent "Verax" describes the cold-then-hot Chicago weather, G. & J. Co.'s Tom Roe and Horace Bell suffering on the trip home from Baltimore, the Illinois-only meet at Springfield, and the Lincoln Cycling Club's new club house.
- Correspondent "Keystone" criticizes the Pittsburg Cycling and Athletic Club's arrangements and abrupt race postponement, notes McCune, Windle and trainer Daniels arriving for the New Castle races, and defends Abbot Bassett against the Bulletin's attack.
- Profile of W. H. Morrow of Ada, Ohio, who lost his left arm at Chancellorsville in 1862, rides an American Safety and covered 3,250 miles last year, completing the full L.A.W. Ohio tour run.
- Barkman and "Jack" Schoefer of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club tour from Port Jervis to Dingman's Ferry, visiting Sawkill and Raymondskill Falls and righting an upset country couple's buggy along the way.
- Describes the elegant medal made by Pedersen and Buckingham of New York for H. R. Winship, winner of the Chicago-Pullman road race on Decoration Day, featuring a jeweled eagle over a cycling figure.
- Round-up of July 4 race meets: the East Hartford Wheel Club races (Wakefield, Hills), the Boston Common municipal races where Caldwell and Berlo were hurt, plus events at New Bedford, Hyde Park, Chelsea, Lynn and other towns.
- In the first U.S. hill-climbing championship trial near St. Louis, Hal Greenwood beat John A. Wells (whose pedal staff broke) up Kimmswick Hill; the contest moves next to Eagle Rock Hill, Orange, N.J., on July 28.
- Reprinted essay on road-making, advocating broken-stone macadam and a general road tax in place of the old "cowpath" labor law.
- Department covering the Ohio Division meet programme at Toledo, an attack on the Pittsburg Bulletin scribe for assailing secretary-editor Bassett, and a defense over the Maryland Division lottery-drawing scheme at the Baltimore meet.
- Profile of seventeen-year-old William W. Windle of Millbury, Mass., who beat Foster and Kluge and won the mile L.A.W. championship at Baltimore, training with cousin Asa Windle for the Buffalo tournament; reprinted from the Boston Herald.
- An innkeeper near Philadelphia who removed his pump handle to keep wheelmen from drinking writes in to defend himself, calling the riders impecunious hoodlums; the editor remains unconvinced.
- Describes the Thomson Electric Welding Co. of Lynn, holding Prof. Elihu Thomson's patents for welding metals by electric current and pressure, which The Wheel expects to benefit cycle manufacture.