The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 3
Articles in this issue
- An editorial account of the great March 1888 blizzard that tied up New York from Sunday to Thursday, halting mails and street-cars and forcing the paper to press without its usual news; describes an eighty-mile-an-hour wind, waist-deep snow and a five-hour, four-mile crawl down-town on the 'L' railroad.
- Reprinted from Wheeling, the captain of the Formosa rides his 'Rover' safety ashore at the Bananas Island near Sierra Leone, astonishing the colonists who flee to the bush, on sandy roads too hot to ride between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.
- From The Cyclist, American professional champion W. A. Rowe and English champion Dick Howell each give their views on each other ahead of their coming series of races, Howell training under Bob Sims at the Belgrave Road Grounds in Leicester.
- A lengthy instructive article reprinted from the C.T.C. Gazette collecting experienced wheelmen's opinions on rear-driving 'Dwarf' safeties (Rover, Quadrant, Psycho, Ivel, Bicyclette), covering preferable wheel size, steering and safety; marked 'to be continued.'
- Report of the Northampton Wheel Club's fourth annual concert and ball at City Hall on March 8, with Maltby's trick-riding exhibition and L. L. Campbell and Miss Spear leading the grand march, called the most successful ball the club has held.
- A descriptive sketch, signed 'Free Lance,' of a tiny Sussex village ('Our Village') beneath the South Downs, its White Horse Inn, village shops, expelled Capuchin monks and church, written for the benefit of American wheelers.
- W. A. Rowe makes his first appearance at St. George's Hall, New Castle, on March 1, winning a five-mile side race against Woodside by twenty yards on the last few laps.
- John W. Murray of Estacado, Texas, editor of the Crosby County News and county attorney, writes wanting a wheel paper as he plans to organise a bicycle club on the level, obstacle-free Texas prairie.
- A news miscellany covering the American racing team's planned August sailing on the Cunard line, Samuel T. Clark's incorporation of the Clark Cycle Co. and his large New Rapid order from the St. George's Engineering Co., the Cambridgeport Cycle Club's annual election, and Philadelphia and Surrey race results.