The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Editorial urging the L.A.W. Rights and Privileges Committee to fight a bill by Mr. C. Oman to prohibit bicycle riding throughout Kenton County, Kentucky, and to circulate a history of the New York Liberty Bill to Chief Consuls in other states.
- Manager Ducker outlines plans for six three-day racing meetings across the country this fall, on the scale of the old Springfield meets, with about fifteen foreign cracks expected and the American team returning in August.
- Report from Birmingham, Ala., that a gang of sixty-five county convicts under Roadmaster Jack Ware is building a macadamized road from Irondale, set to be one of the finest drives in the South.
- Column of brief news items: club elections (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Citizens and Newton clubs), Rowe's racing in England, the Atlanta Bicycle Club's Piedmont Park spring meet, J. Harry Shurman's Springfield Roadster trip to St. Louis, and Dr. J. H. Cooley elected Mayor of North Plainfield, N.J.
- Correspondent Gadfly proposes a Fourth of July wheeling reunion and parade in New York for Brooklyn, New Jersey and New York clubs, and reports the Harlem Wheelmen's officer election won by E. O. Locke on the compromise ticket.
- Keystone correspondent disputes a Cyclist report that W. A. Rowe rode a fast mile in Pittsburg, and notes the Keystone Bicycle Club's election with Mr. Seidell succeeding the resigning captain H. E. Bidwell.
- Correspondent Ralph details the three-day L.A.W. national meet programme for Baltimore, June 18-20, including the business meeting, parade to Druid Hill, races, a smoker, ladies' runs, a possible editorial race, and a grand Chesapeake excursion to Annapolis and Bay Ridge.
- Philadelphia correspondent reports the Century Club's new gray uniform, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's resolutions on the death of Isaac C. Thompson, and a special 45-inch Star machine built by Strong & Green for John A. Wells to climb Corey Hill.
- Correspondent Bi. describes the Louisiana Club's first country ride of the year over the Shrewsbury route, rumored race meets by the New Orleans and Louisiana clubs, and the annual scorch to Kennerville.
- Correspondent Radge recounts the Denver Ramblers' winter club runs to Platteville and Golden, including young George Kennedy making the round trip on a 48-inch wheel, and argues Denver offers more road variety than Albuquerque.
- Travel article by 'Art' recalling a tour over the famous Ripley Road near Guildford during Guildford Camp, observing thatched villages, hedges, and the brakeless English cyclists encountered around Coventry and the hills.
- A C.T.C. Gazette correspondent's account of a fifty-to-sixty-mile ride from Vigo through Redondela, Pontevedra and Marin, including being followed by children, racing horses, and threading hundreds of fair-bound cattle on the road.
- Correspondent 'Free Lance' describes March weather, the drying winds smoothing the roads, the start of club runs, and the early Easter likely curtailing touring this season.
- English cyclist Oscar Browning's account of his 1883 journey of nearly 1,000 miles from Antwerp to Venice on a 'Cheylesmore' tricycle, crossing the Brenner and the Alps and claiming to be the first man to cross the Alps on a tricycle.
- Letter from correspondent 'R.' praising Miss F. K. Erskine's article on riding a tricycle and proposing that New York and Brooklyn ladies organize a tour up the Hudson, using the day boats to skip bad roads.
- Technical survey gathering correspondents' opinions on rear-driving safeties, covering hill-climbing powers, luggage-carrying and brake power, comparing the 'Quadrant', 'Rover', 'Psycho' and 'Bicyclette' types against the ordinary and the tricycle.
- Reprints facts from a Wheeling editorial titled 'Bookmakers' Amateurs' alleging that bookmakers operate openly at English cycle meets and that amateur riders, including the suspended Allard and Englehardt, are corruptible.
- Trade write-ups noting the new Victor Safety arriving at Spalding's, Gormully & Jeffery's new retail department and lithographic hanger, Toulmin's Buffalo Bicycle Shoe, and offerings from Wm. Read & Sons, Reber & Saich and George W. Rouse & Son.
- Editorial paragraphs on the new Victor catalogue, Bicycling World correspondence about ladies' bicycles, the Brooklyn-Ilderan club reunion, the Keystone Club elections, and assorted club and personal notes.
- Review of the new Victor Safety on view at Spalding's, praising its graceful lines, improved spring fork and ball-bearing rocking beam, with its only criticism being the unnecessary mud guard.