The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editorial praising Republican Assemblyman Yates of New York for a bill to employ prison labor on building and repairing roads, noting Governor Hill's support and a cause for the Roads Improvement Association.
- Messrs. Brown, Storms and another Kings County Wheelmen were assaulted by a buggy driver, Richard R. Sears of Wm. K. Grace & Co., in Prospect Park; the paper urges C. H. Luscomb of the Rights and Privileges Committee to act.
- Race summary of the international tournament at Scheveningen near the Hague, July 7-8, where Dutchman P. Scheltema Beduin of Amsterdam beat English cracks and W. M. Woodside and Ralph Temple featured in the professional events.
- Chief Consul Geo. R. Bidwell's circular calling the New York State Division L.A.W. annual meeting at Buffalo September 4-5, tied to Henry E. Ducker's World's Bicycle Tournament with $5,000 in prizes under the Buffalo International Fair Association.
- Rival circulars from the San Francisco Bicycle Club (nominating Harrison Houseworth) and the Bay City Wheelmen (nominating Edwin Mohrig) dispute Chief Consul Welch's handling of proxies at the California Division convention of June 16.
- Account of Tracy, Minn.'s persecution of wheelmen, including the arrest and fining of watchmaker E. S. Bugbee, with the full text of the town's anti-velocipede Ordinance No. 33; also notes the Caledonian sports 5-mile race.
- 'The Stroller' reports on the upcoming Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock hill-climb and the Orange Wanderers' 5-mile handicap road race won by the Johnson-Wolcott tandem, plus touring and racing notes from the Oranges and Hudson County.
- Lists the officials for the Buffalo meet (Director Henry E. Ducker, referee Howard P. Merrill, starter George M. Hendee) and reprints a sentimental letter from Albert Schaaf enclosing wild-flowers from the ruined Springfield track; W. A. Rowe takes F. L. Alley as trainer.
- 'Ragde' and 'Keystone' on Colorado hill-climbing (Glencoe, Guy and Dory Hills), the Denver Ramblers' officer elections and 17,000-mile yearly mileage, and the Bankers' plans for the Buffalo meet on a Marlborough tandem trike.
- 'Jonah' reports the New Orleans Louisiana Cycling Club's Renaud medal road race won by Captain R. G. Betts, and the New Jersey Athletic Club's plans for a Labor Day carnival of cycling races at Bergen Point, plus a re-run of the Orange Wanderers' 5-mile handicap.
- Miscellany including Irving Halsted's Cape May track records, George Woodcock's gold medal to Richard Howell, Willie Wood's denial of Rowe's charges, the Binghamton Wheel Club race programme, Humber & Co.'s new Coventry factory, and 'American Amateurs Abroad' from Wheeling.
- Obituary of the 22-year-old Philadelphia racing man and Pennsylvania Bicycle Club member, head of E. K. Tryon Jr. & Co.'s bicycle department, who died July 8 of galloping consumption; an undefeated bicycle and tricycle racer.
- Reprint of the London Standard's leader on the Scheveningen meeting as proof that wheeling has become a sport for all countries, praising Dutch rider Scheltema and the spread of cycling and C.T.C. branches across Europe.
- Violet Lorne's advice (from Bicycling News) on learning the lady's safety bicycle on a 'Sanspareil' built by Andrews of Birmingham, plus a Cyclist extract on how a lady should sit the front seat of a Humber tandem.
- Description of a chain-geared rear-driving railroad tricycle built by H. G. Kennedy of Denver for Dr. Mayfield, surgeon of the Union Pacific Railway at Boulder, reprinted from the Denver Republican.
- Report of the Ohio Division meeting at Toledo July 23, with Chief Consul J. R. Dunn presiding, T. J. Kirkpatrick on League finances, Secretary Frank C. Meyer's membership figures (831), and excursions to Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Detroit.
- Announcement of a bicycle meet at Richmond October 23-24 under the Virginia Agricultural, Mechanical and Tobacco Exposition, with Virginia Division L.A.W. championships and $1,000 in medals and cash prizes.
- Poem (signed L. E. X., 2465) mourning the lost wheeling correspondent 'Tandemon' / 'Daisie', the 'Goddess of the Wheel.'
- The committee under Chief Consul Cooley nominates the New Jersey Division ticket: Dr. J. H. Cooley for Chief-Consul, Dr. G. C. Brown Vice-Consul, R. Pound Secretary-Treasurer, and six Representatives.
- The paper prints Wm. Young's letter denying that he intentionally fouled E. I. Halsted of the Harlem Wheelmen in the 2-mile Cape May race, attributing the collision to his foot slipping the pedal.
- 'Coaster' narrates a tour by three Hudson County Wheelmen (Eveland, Benedict and Merseles) from Jersey City through Poughkeepsie, Staatsburg and on to Hudson, with stops at Vassar College and Mrs. Lochte's boarding-house.
- 'One of the Caps' continues a touring narrative from Ithaca and Cornell through Seneca Falls, Geneva, Canandaigua, Avon and Le Roy to Buffalo, battling wind and rain on a Veloce Columbia.
- Reprint (from The Cyclist) of Dr. B. Ward Richardson's paper to the English Society of Cyclists at Saffron Walden on the history and four classes of cyclists, the reduction in machine weight, and the dangers of racing men overstraining their bodies.
- Instructional piece (from the C.T.C. Gazette) on mounting loop-frame and bicycle-steering tricycles, pedalling and saddle height for lady riders.
- Editorial miscellany including the Glen Cove Wheelmen's letter, praise of 'Free Lance's' Ockham sketch, the withdrawal of J. R. Dunn from Ohio League politics through ill-health, and many short trade and racing notes.
- Calendar of forthcoming meets and race meetings from July 28 (Greenwood-Wells Eagle Rock contest) through the October 23-24 Richmond, Va. tournament, including the Buffalo and Hartford tournaments.
- Note that, largely through T. L. Wilson of the Kings County Wheelmen, the Orange Athletic Club has decided to permit all cyclists to train at Roseville.
- 'Free Lance' sketch of a cycling outing to the country inn 'The Hautboy and Fiddle' near Ripley and to the old Ockham church on the Earl of Lovelace's estate.