The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial reports his appointment as the League's official handicapper and J. S. Dean's place on the Rights and Privileges Committee, argues for State handicappers and railed tracks (after the English mob upset Rowe and broke Whittaker's collar bone at Leicester), and suggests Chicago for the 1889 L.A.W. meet.
- Full report of the C.W.A.'s sixth annual meet at Belleville, Ont., July 2, covering the Meyer's Hill climb won by Bert Brown, the business meeting and membership figures, the election of W. P. Way as president, the parade of fourteen clubs, and race results headed by Fred Foster's Canadian championships.
- The C.W.A. board, meeting at the Kyle House, re-elects H. B. Donly secretary-treasurer and Clarence R. Fitch chairman of the Racing Board; prizes are awarded by Mrs. Corby, including a long-distance prize to John Dean of Three Rivers and a drill cup to Capt. Orr's Wanderers.
- William Lingham wins the C.W.A. meet's 25-mile road race at Belleville in 1h. 34m. 59s., with M. F. Johnson second and C. R. Fitch third; E. P. Baird took a bad header.
- Rain repeatedly postponed the July 4 races at New Castle; W. I. Wilhelm won the hill-climb and E. Irving Halsted the half-mile Pennsylvania championship before the meet was abandoned, and Windle was hurt in an accident the evening before.
- Nashville cyclists Jo. Northern, Jas. Lillie, Ed. D. Fisher and C. R. Vanderford rode 108 miles in twelve hours over the Nashville Bicycle Club's proposed straight-away century route via Lebanon, Murfreesboro and Eagleville.
- A correspondent ('Roxy') describes the new Brooklyn club's Fourth of July run to Babylon by ten members including Capt. William Finn, recounting Goodstein's broken backbone and Dennison's ditch tumble.
- 'Wanamaker' reports Halsted winning a Highland A. C. handicap and a record 5.5-mile dash on the Lancaster Pike from Bryn Mawr, where Halsted on a Columbia beat Louis A. Hill and John G. Fuller's Ivel tandem in 15m. 15s.
- 'The Stroller' covers the Orange Wanderers' Fourth of July run to Staten Island, a Newark party's trip toward Portland, the upcoming Irvington-Milburn team-cup run-off, and congratulates the editor on his handicapper appointment.
- At Danvers, the case of David A. Fuller, charged with assault for running into John W. Porter with his tricycle on the sidewalk, raises the question of riders' rights on sidewalks.
- Detailed account of the Fort Dayton Wheelmen's first annual meet and bicycle tournament at Herkimer on the Fourth, with the parade led by Capt. G. W. Nellis, parade prizes, races (Metz, Nellis, Hammes), and an evening banquet at Fox Opera House.
- Preview of the inter-club championship tie run-off over the Irvington-Milburn course between the Hudson County Wheelmen (Kluge, Stenken, Baggot, Gubleman) and Kings County Wheelmen (T. J. Hall, Beasley, H. J. Hall Jr., Wilson).
- Capt. E. A. Powers reports the club's growth to forty members, a July 4 run from Long Branch to the Atlantic Highlands, June runs, and lists the year's officers under president James Miller.
- Report of the Illinois Division L.A.W. annual meet at Springfield July 3-4, with races won by B. Myers, Geo. Thorne and others, a Fourth of July parade, and a banquet at the Leland Hotel with toasts and songs.
- At Washington, Joseph M. Chase is found guilty of manslaughter for driving recklessly over Prof. A. E. Paul and his bicycle, causing his death on March 31.
- Reprints a New York Times editorial condemning the shameful condition of Brooklyn's pavements, especially the asphalt streets leading to the park, and the city's failure to repair them.
- The weekly miscellany column: Rowe riding a three-wheeler, J. S. Dean sailing for England, English road records by Williams and Pellant, the Memphis road races, American professionals Temple and Woodside racing in Holland, the abandoned Louisiana Liberty Bill, Buffalo tournament preparations, and Whittaker's broken collar bone at Leicester.
- 'Bi.' reports the death of Louisiana's Liberty Bill in committee, the Louisiana Cycling Club's busy meeting and Carrollton run, the Canal Street Shell Road improvement work, and Chief Consul Hodgson's appointment to the Racing Board.
- 'L. G. B.' clarifies the arrest of Rev. J. H. Lang at Tracy for bicycling, argues for Minnesota's elevation from sub-division to full division, backs T. M. Slosson for chief consul, and praises The Wheel's L.A.W. meet report.
- 'Keystone' reports the first field meeting of the Pittsburg Cycle and Athletic Club on the 7th, where W. I. Wilhelm and Fox Kahler raced the Bankers and F. G. Lenz, with detailed race results and the verdict that 'New Castle's day is over.'
- Account of the Buffalo Bicycle Club's twenty-five-mile run to Corfu, a near-disaster when a frightened horse upset its buggy and deposited its driver in a ditch (the wheelmen took up a $5 collection for her), dinner, parade and a ballgame lost 13-6 to the Corfu club.
- A reprint from the Rochester Democrat describing how cyclist Henry Emrich, riding onto the sidewalk past Minge's meat market on Jefferson Avenue, was caught and badly injured beneath the eye on a hanging meat hook.
- 'One of the Caps' narrates two Pennsylvania Bicycle Club members' touring start from Elmira through Horseheads, Havana and Watkins toward Ithaca, beset by missing signboards, a frisky colt that smashed a wheel, and fifty-eight hard miles.
- List of upcoming events from the July 14 Irvington-Milburn team run-off through the Ohio, Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey Division meets to the Grand International Tournament at Buffalo, Sept. 4-8.
- A correspondent (L.A.W. No. 1614) requests advice on the best wheeling route from Chicago to Detroit; the editor also corrects a notice (Humber & Co., not Singer & Co., will introduce a ladies' bicycle) and reports a Harvard faculty study on athletics showing eighty-four of 1,021 students use wheels.
- A signed letter from E. J. Shriver attacking the L.A.W.'s new constitution, attributed to C. H. Luscomb, for adopting a 'rule of the minority' that excludes most wheelmen from voting and lets division boards rather than the membership elect the national assembly.
- 'The Traveler' asks whether the spread of ridable streets is killing club life and the club run, and whether the L.A.W.'s annual meets have grown too cumbersome and should be held only every few years like the Knights Templar.
- A miscellany rebutting English papers (Bicycling News, Sewing Machine and Cycle News, G. Lacy Hillier) on women's cycling and Rowe's records, plus J. B. Kaercher's gold-medal challenge to climb 'Murder Lane' Hill at Sewickley, trade notes on New Mails, Read & Sons and Swift, and J. S. Dean's sailing for England.
- Fred E. von Meerbeke describes 147 miles of his vacation tour from New York through Newburgh, Port Jervis and Milford to Bushkill Falls, meeting New York B.C. men Patterson and Monell en route; followed by a note ('Electric Lamps for Cycles') dismissing electric cycle lamps as impractical.
- The Buffalo Bicycle Club reaches its 150 membership limit, the Rambler and new Zigzag clubs are growing fast, and the Ladies' Club's nineteen members elect officers under president Mrs. Ella J. Shepard.
- A reprint from Wheeling decrying race crowds that rush the track, recounting how the Leicester mob brought down Fred Wood and badly hurt Whittaker, who broke his collar bone and shoulder blade; opens with a note on the curious Osmond-Synyer handicap match.
- Bicyclist Henry Campbell rode a Star Safety up Providence's College Hill four times without dismount on July 6, a local hill-climbing record; surrounded by trade and travel notes including C. C. Hopkins's 1,008-mile ride from Denver to Columbus.