The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 1, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Editorial urging clubs to revive path racing, noting the New York Athletic Club's spring games at the Polo Grounds (May 19) and announced meets by the Long Island Wheelmen, Kings County Wheelmen and New Castle (Pa.) Club.
- Reprints a sketch by a thirteen-year-old girl from The Weekly Scratch Awl describing her morning tricycle runs and a twenty-mile ride, signed 'Mrs. 4,386.'
- Announces the club's May 30 race meet at the Vigo County, Ind., Fair Grounds, listing events and a special gold medal from J. Fred Probst for the most closely contested race.
- Correspondent 'Ralph' reports progress on the Baltimore L.A.W. meet, naming the committee chairmen (A. E. Mealy, S. T. Clark, Albert Mott and others) and noting the Safety-wheel 'craze' in the trade.
- The Overman Wheel Company reports running its factory night and day with two gangs of men to keep up with Victor orders; notes Osmond and Mayes scoring early English victories.
- Column of cycling news items, including Rowe wearing Sullivan's colors, W. M. Woodside defeating F. W. Allard at Coventry, and Harvard fielding four men in the intercollegiate bicycle event.
- Reports Howell beaten by W. (not Fred) Wood in a fifteen-mile match race at North Shields, Wood winning by two lengths in 51m. 27s.
- The ten-mile Birmingham match fell through after Engleheart's training accident; F. W. Allard was summoned from Coventry and Rowe, on his Columbia racer, won by four feet in 36m. 30s.
- The Suffolk Wheel Club of Boston held its third annual meeting and elected officers including president and captain J. Franklin Charnock; member Theo. Waite recounted his winter in Los Angeles.
- Humorous reprint from the Texas Crosby County News in which an editor vows to buy a bicycle for the Plains' cow trails and refuses to lend it.
- W. A. Rowe won his heats in the mile handicap at Leicester on March 31, beating Dubois and Lawrence, but struggled against Jack Lee and T. H. English while reportedly suffering a cold.
- Detailed cable report of Richard Howell beating W. A. Rowe of Lynn by five yards in the five-mile match at Belgrave Road Grounds, Leicester (15m. 37 1-5s.), the first of three races for a £200 stake.
- Plans to convert the three-mile straightaway road from McComb's Dam to Jerome Park into a grand trotting course, backed by Sheriff Grant, Colonel Kipp, Jack Dawson and others via petition to the Park Commissioners.
- The editor's account of a Boston trade tour, visiting the Overman Wheel Company, the Coventry Machinists Company, Wm. Read & Sons, the Springfield Bicycle Company and the Pope Company, with notes on personalities like Photographic Stall, Harry Drummond and Colonel Pope.
- Trick rider Kennedy Childe injured his ribs and head in a fall while riding a mare over the hurdles at Jerome Park, and has retired to seclusion to recover.
- Correspondent 'Cyclometer' reports on muddy Hub weather, new Beacon Street and Massachusetts Avenue boulevards, the closing of cyclists' hotels like the Faneuil House, and Gid. Haynes, Jr.'s farm at Hingham.
- Correspondent 'Cycle' reports the Associated Cycling Clubs' resolution favoring asphalt repaving of Broad Street, George Pavord's home-trainer medal, Century Wheelmen mileage totals, and the Wells-Greenwood hill-climbing contest.
- Correspondent 'Psycho' reports the founding of the Ladies' Cycle Club of Washington, D.C. under Mrs. Harriette Mills, Chief Consul Atwater's L.A.W. membership drive, and the Washington Cycle Club admitting lady members.
- Correspondent 'Coaster' on the Hudson County Wheelmen's mileage medal, local road-reform efforts via the Jersey City Argus, and the committee negotiating waived bicycle charges with the New Jersey Central Railroad.
- Reprints from the Electrical Review a description of a new English portable electric lamp with a pocket secondary battery, suggesting it might be applied to bicycles and tricycles.
- First of a series of sketches of prominent wheelmen, profiling Brooklyn Bicycle Club's Albert B. Barkman ('Bon'), author of the Long Island and New York Road Books, his mileage records, and his post at A. G. Spalding & Bros.
- Notes the Riverside Wheelmen's growth, its club-house at 108th Street and the Boulevard, and a twenty-six-member run to Yonkers; secretary E. E. Britton.
- A. B. Barkman and J. F. Borland of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club made the season's first run to Babylon over rough, muddy roads, joined at dinner by Tom Hall and W. C. Marion of the K.C.W.
- Advocates the weekly summer half holiday and describes the Pope Manufacturing Company's free lithographed early-closing card for shop windows.
- The Cambridge Bicycle Club held the season's last ladies' night on April 12 with a musical programme including songs by F. L. Pratt and violin by Miss Maydelle Cummings.
- Detailed write-up of the firm's new five-floor sporting goods house at 26 West Twenty-third Street, describing its bicycle department stocked with Gormully & Jeffery, Springfield Roadster and Singer machines, under manager E. E. Britton.
- Trade and club news, including Eden Park, Cincinnati opening to wheels, Maine League preparations at Portland, the Pedal Cyclometer's success, and J. B. McCune's Springfield Roadster hill-climbing demonstration in St. Louis.
- Correspondent 'Bi.' describes the five-and-a-half-mile Graham-Guillotte race of April 8, in which Guillotte caught Graham but collapsed before finishing, and ties cycling's fortunes to a city election promising better streets.
- Correspondent 'Westfield' on the Century Wheelmen's new uniform and anniversary dinner, the Pennsylvania Club lecture, the Wells-Greenwood hill-climbing contest, and Kirk Brown's new Rambler Safety agency.
- Correspondent 'Keystone' on the opening of the Pittsburg riding season, F. L. Clark and Seidell at the Sewickley Valley Wheelmen's smoker, club membership figures, and the Bulletin's wheel column edited by C. F. Seidell.
- Correspondent 'Independent' on a thirty-strong Brooklyn club run under Captain Spelman, the L.I.W. stag party programme, two Prospect Park header accidents, and theatre-party arrangements for 'The Corsair.'
- Notes Brooklyn dealer Charles Schwalbach's new thirty-two-page catalogue covering New Mail, Columbia and Ideal wheels and sundries; also Peck & Snyder's New Mail sales and Strong & Green's Club-wheel agency.
- Presents a table of circumference and revolutions per mile for wheels from 36 to 62 inches, tested on a surveyed half-mile course, explaining how a rider can measure distance by counting pedal strokes.