The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 5
Articles in this issue
- F. P. Prial's leaders urge a powerful New York-Brooklyn local organization for better roads and pavements, hail the spread of "Liberty Bills" to Kentucky and Illinois (Myers and Goebel pledging to fight the anti-wheel bill), and call for more women to take up the wheel.
- A second American racing party sailed on the Spain under manager F. C. Dole and trainer T. W. Eck, comprising Stillman G. Whittaker, Horace G. Crocker, W. F. Knapp, W. E. Crist and L. J. Barber, billing themselves the Original American Team to compete in English meets.
- Geo. W. Rouse & Son of Peoria, Ill., write to clarify that they themselves authored the February 22 Kenton Wheel Club testimonial used in Overman Wheel Company (Victor) advertisements, denying it was written by American-cycle makers.
- The Brooklyn and Ilderan bicycle clubs marked their merger into the new Brooklyn Club with a March 22 entertainment at the Brooklyn Bicycle Club house, featuring speeches by presidents Slocum and Greenman and music, recitations and a banjo quartette.
- A detailed account of the Ivel safety, tricycle and tandem machines built by Dan Albone of Biggleswade, England, whose road records (including G. P. Mills's runs) Wm. Read & Sons of Boston will import to America.
- A letter from William Read & Sons to F. P. Prial confirming they have secured sole American control of the Ivel safeties and expect the first lot within ten days.
- Describes a new electric process by the Thomson-Houston Company of Lynn, Mass., for welding two metals together by passing a strong current through copper conductors and clamps, as reported in the Boston Herald.
- A long miscellany of trade and club news: Wm. Read & Sons handling Ivel wheels, the new Scottish Cyclist, the White Cycle Company forming at Milton, Mass., the N.C.U. and L.A.W. condemning road racing, and the Dorchester Bicycle Club's annual dinner.
- Report of the March 23 cycling tournament at the Elite Rink under C. E. Updegraff, where E. I. Halsted of the Harlem Wheelmen won the deciding match race over Samuel H. Crawford of the Pennsylvania Club, with full results of the fifteen events.
- Delegates from the Chicago, Owl, Illinois, Aeolus and Lincoln clubs met March 17 at the Chicago Bicycle Club rooms, electing Edwin Oliver temporary chairman, to form an association for the advancement of cycling in Chicago.
- Correspondence on inter-club bowling between the New York Club and Harlem Wheelmen, with individual scores, and upcoming matches against the Atalanta Wheelmen of Newark and the Kings County Wheelmen.
- Philadelphia letter on the founding of "The Associated Cycling Clubs of Philadelphia" (president W. R. Tucker), club receptions, the Elite Rink races, and the Pope Mfg. Co.'s threat to sue B. B. Craycroft over Ivel patent infringement.
- Western correspondence covering the doubtful Star racing prospects from Smithville, a Bay City Wheelmen moonlight run to San Jose, the road-hog threat to Golden Gate Park, and the Cal. Division's third annual meet set for Stockton on July 4.
- Reprints editorials from The Press and the Jersey City Journal commending the wheelmen of Warren, R.I., who elected two of their own to the Town Council and secured a $3,000 road-improvement appropriation.
- A lady correspondent signing "Mrs. 4,386" recounts a thirty-mile tricycle tour with her husband and urges more New York and Brooklyn ladies to tour the country rather than ride only about the city.
- A sketch of F. A. Leland's sporting-goods and cycling store at 426 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, a Victor agency, recounting his nine years with A. G. Spalding & Bros. and his role founding the Minneapolis Bicycle Club.
- Reports that Kentucky's anti-cycling bill stalled after the state treasurer fled to Canada with a quarter-million dollars, with Harvey Myers and Senator Goebel and Chief Consul Croninger pledging to kill the bill and introduce a Liberty Bill.
- A column of short notes on the Denver Ramblers and Bay City Wheelmen racing rivalry, Crist going abroad, the Rutherford Wheelmen's officer elections, Kluge's ascent of Columbia Hill, and Whittaker's English record plans.
- A set of humorous cycling proverbs ("All is not nickel-plate that glitters," "A loose tire goeth before a fall") signed Arthur Penfield.
- A correspondent in The Cyclist describes fitting a thin U-section steel "scraper" to the front mud-guard of his shell-fork safety to clear mud from the fork crown on clayey roads.