The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial endorsing the New York Press campaign for asphalt and Belgian-block pavements to replace cobblestones, and praising the Manhattan Bicycle Club's energetic securing of a new Queen Anne club house on Seventieth Street.
- Circular letters from Secretary Isaac B. Potter and Chief Consul Geo. R. Bidwell appealing to wheelmen to enroll members in the newly formed association to improve the public roads of New York State.
- The club's secretary describes securing 263 West Seventieth Street, a four-story brick Queen Anne house, and the members' vote to incorporate and raise dues to six dollars per quarter.
- Reprinted from the Birmingham Evening News, noting Jefferson County, Alabama's new macadamized roads are drawing foreign capital investment around Birmingham.
- A miscellany of trade and club news: Rowe versus Howell race talk via Hendee, J. Purvis-Bruce at the Ripley Road Club dinner, Wm. Read & Sons importing the Ivel safety, C. F. Berhaus winning the Seventh Regiment two-mile race, and club elections at East Cambridge and Chelsea (Abbott Bassett president).
- Reprinted from Bicycling News, praising the carefully constructed New Rapid Safety and the New Rapid combined saddle and spring.
- Account of the Boston Bicycle Club's musical 'racket' at 36 St. James Avenue with the Longwood Minstrels performing solos, banjo numbers and choruses.
- Boston correspondent 'Cyclometer' on the cycling season opening at the Hub on Easter, the Reservoir gathering of the Massachusetts Club under Lon. Peck, the predicted big Safety year, Charley Howard's departure for the Azores, and anticipation of the Rowe-Howell meetings.
- Chicago correspondent 'Verax' reports the Illinois Club losing a West Side house lease, ex-Chief Consul Blake leaving the John Wilkinson Company for Spalding's retail counter, the L.A.W. Bulletin's misdrawn Columbia lithograph, and the Wells-Greenwood (Star vs. American Rambler) contest details.
- Elizabeth/New Jersey correspondent 'Jonah' on the new Elizabeth Athletic Club Wheelmen (captain S. B. Bowman), the Berry-Caldwell local championship rivalry, training races on the Elizabeth-Newark boulevard, and clergymen receiving tricycles from their congregations.
- Short paragraphs chiding the prominent club man who reads the club copy rather than subscribing, urging support of the paper with dollars as well as kind words.
- An essay arguing cycling is gaining public recognition; the writer recounts converting a middle-aged stranger on a train to buy a rear-driving safety and predicts the tandem and rear-driving safety will grow the sport, especially in the Oranges.
- A column of punning Brooklyn club squibs signed 'A.' touching on Mayor Chapin, the Entertainment Committee, the scorchers' rivalry and the club wheel-room.
- W. C. Marion, Jr. and Thos. Hall of the K.C.W. take the season's first run to Roslyn and back, finding the Jericho Pike fine and host Hamblin at the Mansion House still setting an excellent table.
- Officers elected at the K.C.W. annual meeting (President Franklin W. Loucks, Captain M. L. Bridgman) plus additional officers and trustees, with the annual dinner set for April 14 at Dilliard's; reported by M. H. Leighton.
- Correspondent 'Bl.' on the Graham-Guillotte handicap race in Audubon Park, the Louisiana Cycling Club's annual election (W. H. Renaud, Jr. president; Fairchild's 1,018-mile March), and Southern wheelmen's reluctance to send financial aid to the L.A.W.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Westfield' on the Pennsylvania Club's growth to 156 members, Sunday runs by the Century and Pennsylvania Clubs, and the South End Wheelmen's indoor race meet where E. I. Halsted set the Rink's best amateur time.
- Troy correspondent on the Troy Bicycle Club and Trojan Wheelmen dances, urging the city's two rival clubs to consolidate, and profiling local riders Bert Cole, Will Wylie and Humber agent Will L. Gardner.
- Correspondent 'Independent' on a Brooklyn Bicycle Club spin to Brighton Beach, the new Prospect Tricycle Club at Schwalbach's, the L.I.W. electing Mayor Chapin to honorary membership, and the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's annual election (President Howard Greenman).
- New Haven correspondent reports the city turning to the Rover-type safety, the New Haven Club moving to new rooms in the Yodd block on April 15, Founders' Day on the 25th, and dealers Bennett & Hale's lively spring business with Star, Victor and Singer wheels.
- Correspondent 'Coaster' on the New Jersey Liberty Bill curbing road hogs, the Hudson County Wheelmen's growth to 84 members despite the city's vile streets, a proposed county boulevard from Bayonne to Bergen County, and a coming 10-mile club race.
- Correspondent 'Hen.' on the Wheel Club's winter activity, its new gymnasium and club-room, the wholly rebuilt racing track, and a first race meet planned for mid-June.
- List of forthcoming dates including the K.C.W. annual dinner (April 14), the Rowe-Howell races at Leicester and Wolverhampton, the Baltimore League Meet (June 18-20), and the Canadian Wheelmen's Association meet at Belleville (July 2).
- Under a 'Good Roads' heading, a reprinted editorial from the Knox County Independent (Edina, Mo.) urging farmers, liverymen and engineers to organize a state or county road-improvement association, citing Simpson County, Ky.'s $100,000 road appropriation.
- Report of the Albany Wheelmen's gymnastic and athletic entertainment at the Academy of Music on April 3, assisted by the Troy Bicycle Club, with parallel-bar work, trapeze, club drills and a sparring exhibition between Conner and Duncan.
- Reprinted from the Globe: the Massachusetts Division L.A.W. board tenders a farewell dinner at the Boston Bicycle Club to Charles S. Howard, cycling editor of the Boston Globe, before he sails for the Azores to recuperate.
- The largely attended funeral of Prof. Paul, principal of the Washington, D.C. High School, fatally run over while riding a safety bicycle; the coroner's jury found the horseman guilty of reckless driving.
- A letter from John W. Murray of Estacado, Texas describing the Staked Plains as a high, healthful plateau with the finest natural roads in the world, where he and his son expect to be the pioneer bicyclists.
- Reprinted from Bicycling: J. K. Starley of Starley & Sutton, Coventry, introduces a new oblique-action 'Cyclist' saddle spring and two new wrenches, the 'Victor' (Sansom, Teale & Co.) and the 'Tourist' (Perry & Co.).
- Signed 'Art.', an account of cycle touring through England on a Facile, contrasting the leisurely note-taking cyclist with the hurried rail excursionist and describing the long golden summer evenings and varied road surfaces.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist: a tour of Dresden, its Bruhl Terrace, opera house and bell towers, the Grosse Garten cycling track, and a detailed inspection of the Seidel & Naumann sewing-machine and cycle factory making Coventry-copy 'Saxonia' and 'Dresden' machines.
- Signed 'Free Lance', practical hints for American tourists on English roads, weather, hotels (Cyclist Touring Club houses at about $2.50 a day), tipping servants and safeguarding the machine.
- Report of the C.W.A. board of officers' annual meet at Toronto on March 22, accepting the Ramblers' invitation to hold the 1888 meet at Belleville on July 2, with a reported membership of about 800.
- Reprinted from the St. Louis Spectator: a claimed first ladies' bicycle invented by Arthur Young of St. Louis, and the Missouri Bicycle Club's monthly meeting discussing rearranging its wheel and locker rooms and adding a billiard table.
- Officers elected at the St. Louis Cycle Club annual meeting (President George H. Lucas, Captain E. N. Sanders); the club, organized June 1887, has grown from 34 to over 100 active members and seeks a new location before its Natatorium lease expires.