The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Editorial criticising the L.A.W.'s newly adopted constitution as undemocratic, printed with supporting letters from Edward A. Bradford (Long Island Wheelmen) and E. J. Shriver (New York Bicycle Club) protesting that representatives are reduced to puppets and the Bulletin closed to dissent.
- Editorial urging New York's Governor Hill, who vetoed a prison-funding bill, to adopt Assemblyman Yates' suggestion of employing state-prison convicts on road building and repair.
- Detailed three-day report of the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. meet at Cottage City, August 2-4, reprinted from Boston dailies, covering Chief Consul Hayes's business meeting, the parade led by Captain Robinson, the races, and the ball at the Casino.
- The Stroller's New Jersey column reporting the Orange Wanderers' grievance over Division representation, Kilgour's spill at Passaic, the Wells-Greenwood Eagle Rock hill-climbing dispute, and the serious accident to D. B. Bassett on Eagle Rock.
- Washington correspondent's notes on the District Division L.A.W. officer election (George S. Atwater re-elected Chief Consul), the sale of the Smith National Cycle depot to George S. Atwater & Co., and talk of bidding for the 1889 League meet.
- New Orleans letter reporting John W. Dodge of the New Orleans Bicycle Club raising the Southern 24-hour record to 178 miles on a 52-inch American Champion, plus a century by Betts and Jay and Chief Consul Hodgson's birthday spread.
- Profile of Detroit cyclist Clarence H. Smith, pioneer member of the Detroit Bicycle Club, fancy and unicycle rider, and Gormully & Jeffery agent, recalling his promotion of his luggage carrier at Baltimore.
- Racing department listing fixtures, Buffalo Tournament railroad rates, hotel and entry details and prize money, plus the Huntington Bicycle Club races, the Binghamton tournament won largely by Windle, and a card of races held at Moscow, Russia.
- Mile-by-mile table of American professional W. F. Knapp of Denver's long-distance ride at Leicester, England, July 17, where he beat Fred Lees's 100-mile record by 41m. 15s. and set new world's records from miles 52 to 61.
- Announcement of the New Jersey Athletic Club's series of one- and two-mile open races at Bergen Point on four Saturdays (August 18, 25, September 1 and 8), explaining the fastest-winning-time scoring system.
- Reports of English professional racing including Knapp, Crocker, English and Lee at Belgrave Road, and Ralph Temple of Chicago defeating Howell and Wood in the 20-mile championship at Leicester and again at Birmingham.
- Tabulated July mileage records of the Williamsport Wheel Club members (Wheeler, Ed Gohl, Hough and others) and accounts of their century runs and planned tours toward Buffalo for the International meet.
- Account, reprinted from the Omaha Daily World, of touring cyclist Warner S. Doane of the Dorchester Bicycle Club riding from Denver toward Boston on a 50-inch Apollo, walking 117 miles of bad road and taking fifty-six headers.
- Humorous installment of a touring narrative by 'Coaster' describing days four to seven riding Stars and a Springfield Roadster from Hudson through Albany, Saratoga, Glens Falls and Lake George over miserable sandy roads.
- Touring sketch by 'One of the Caps' recounting two club captains' ride out of Buffalo along the Lake Road through Silver Creek and Fredonia to Westfield, praising Buffalo's asphalt streets over Washington's.
- Brief note that John A. Wells climbed Eagle Rock in 9m. 30 2-5s. on Wednesday, well short of Greenwood's 7m. 37s., before the same officials.
- Text of a resolution unanimously adopted by the District of Columbia Division L.A.W. asking the District Commissioners to repeal the police regulation requiring bicycles and tricycles to carry bells and lights.
- Trade-news notices of a new solid-rubber square pedal from French & Co. of Coventry, the corrosion-resistant 'Hope' plating from M. M. Vivian & Co. of Birmingham, an electric cycle lamp from Samuel Miller & Co., and claims about aluminium production.
- Reprinted Chicago Tribune speculation that aluminium turned out cheaply at the Krupp works will revolutionize the world, including its use in railway cars, ships and even bicycle wheels.
- Trade items on caterers S. & J. Davis of Newark, A. Kennedy-Childe joining the Thompson Electric Welding Co., and Arthur W. Preyer representing the Traders' and Travelers' Insurance Company's wheelmen policies.
- Comic narrative by Thomas Stevens of his disastrous attempt to meet Karl Kron ('K. K.') in upper New York to collect Kron's 150-page gift advertising pamphlet, losing an ear and ten dollars to a goat and an Irishman.
- Editorial reprinting The Wheel's earlier coverage of the Thompson electric welding process to prove the paper beat the Boston Bicycling World by a month in cycling news-gathering.
- Miscellaneous editorial paragraphs jabbing at the Vermont Bicycle and Bicycling World, noting club news, the Illinois Division election of Davis as Chief Consul, and Mrs. Tom Eck's suit for divorce.
- Reprint of an editorial from the Crosby County News of Estacado, Texas, urging boys and young men to buy a bicycle as a tireless 'horse' and form a club rather than loaf about town.
- Personal-and-paragraph gossip column noting Nick Kaufman's illness, Isaac B. Potter's tour, the marriage of Bicycling World co-editor J. S. Dean at Bradford, Karl Kron's ride to West Springfield, and Elmer E. Junken's 2,000-mile ride from Abilene to Boston.
- Reprint from The Cyclist relaying 'Senator' Morgan's report that Mills's Tariff (Free Trade) Bill passed the U.S. Congress, which may eventually let English cycles enter America free of the 35 per cent duty.