The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Weekly news column noting the spreading "goat" (safety) craze among dealers, the matching of W. A. Rowe against A. P. Engleheart, Tom Eck's plans for a six-day race at Madison Square Garden, and a multi-colored "American Champion Bicyclists" lithograph from Manager Morgan.
- Editorial urging the L.A.W. Roads Improvement Committee to launch an active good-roads crusade after the new constitution is adopted at Baltimore, citing road-improvement workers in Birmingham, Alabama.
- A letter from R. G. Betts of New Orleans, reprinted from The American, calling on the Louisiana legislature and country press to campaign for permanently improved Southern highways.
- Report of a bowling match at Degenhardt's in which the Harlem Wheelmen beat the New York Bicycle Club by 272 pins, plus Harlem Wheelmen club notes.
- Article reprinted from the London Queen by Miss F. K. Erskine on graceful dress, deportment, mounting and pedalling for lady tricyclists on Cripper-pattern machines.
- Profile of William Byrd Page, champion amateur high jumper, a sickly boy strengthened by bicycling who set records up to 6 ft 4 in and toured Virginia and Pennsylvania awheel.
- The young men of St. John's Church present their rector, Rev. Otis A. Glazebrook, with a Columbia three-track light roadster tricycle at the Elizabeth Wheelmen's club-house.
- "Gentleman John" reports from London's 11th Stanley Show, describing the dominance of safeties over ordinaries, the Golden Era anti-vibration fork, Dan Albone's Ivel safety, and the Pope Manufacturing Company as the lone American exhibitor.
- Annual meeting of the New York and New Jersey Team Road Racing Association at the New York Bicycle Club house, electing W. D. Edwards president and noting the disbanding of the New Jersey Wheelmen.
- Detailed account of the L.A.W. Board of Officers' annual spring meeting at the Grand Union, covering the new constitution referred to the Baltimore convention, the rejection and eventual resignation of John A. Wells, and Frank Reed's bond dispute over Ex-Secretary-Editor Aaron.
- A letter from W. J. "Senator" Morgan, manager of the American team, on fox-hunting in South Wales and the arrival of champion W. A. Rowe of Lynn to train at Torquay for his world-championship match against Richard Howell.
- Report of the Hudson County Wheelmen's entertainment at the Pavonia Rink, Jersey City, featuring trick riding by Thomas R. Finley and W. S. Maltby on Star bicycles and a bicycle-polo game.
- Trade write-up promoting Goetze bicycle hose (made by Theo. Goetze & Co. of Grand Street, New York) and listing the first-class houses stocking them.
- The Essex Bicycle Club of Newark holds its annual meeting and dinner at Davis', recounting its 1879 founding and role in forming the L.A.W., and electing John B. Lunger president.
- Technical description of the new rear-driving Facile Swallow safety with its patent double geared axle, weldless-steel double-Y frame, Abingdon ball head, and a 15-point list of advantages claimed over chain machines.
- Plans for entertaining L.A.W. members at the Baltimore meet on June 18th-20th, including the business meeting, parade and race meet, a ladies' run and a bay steamer excursion to Annapolis and Bay Ridge.
- "Headers" reports California cycling news: Chief Consul Welch declining re-election, the new eight-club California Inter-Club Road Racing Association, and the Bay City Wheelmen's victory in a 25-mile road race over the San Leandro triangle.
- The Ilderan Club votes to join the Brooklyn Bicycle Club in a body, enabling the Brooklyn club to build a new club house, while some Ilderans instead join the Kings County Wheelmen.