The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial previews the coming Buffalo meet and races, urges Brooklyn wheelmen toward a local roads-improvement organization, and backs 'Billie' Rowe to reclaim his place as the fastest racing cyclist in the world.
- The Minneapolis Wheelmen's first annual meet at Minnehaha Driving Park, August 24, where Colie Bell won four races, W. W. Hefflefinger took the novice and a one-mile amateur, and Grant Bell beat F. E. Dingley in the professional event.
- A 'stag' racket at the Wilmington Wheel Club house, August 23, with toasts by W. F. Kurtz, S. Wallis Merrihew and others, attended by some seventy-five wheelmen and guests.
- News of the marriage of E. T. Pettengill of Washington, D.C., a founding L.A.W. man and former Chief Consul of the District, to Miss Addie S. Clarke.
- The full four-day entry and handicap lists for the Buffalo international tournament (September 4-8), naming Crocker, Knapp, Eck, Rowe, Temple, Woodside, Dubois, Jack Lee, Windle, Midgley and many more across professional and amateur, bicycle, tandem and rover events.
- Under 'The Race Path,' the final list of events and prizes for the Hartford Wheel Club tournament at Charter Oak Park, September 12-13, with $2,500 in purses and prizes including a Columbia Light Roadster from the Weed Sewing Machine Company.
- W. F. Knapp, on a Humber paced by Crocker and Oxborrow, set world's records from twenty-six to fifty miles at Coventry on August 16, beating both his own marks and Ives' Springfield times.
- The Hyde Park Bicycle Club's first tournament at Norfolk Trotting Park, Readville, Mass., where the Rambler Bicycle Club beat Hyde Park in the team race and Benson, Jenkins and Drummond took the open events.
- Programme for the New Jersey Division L.A.W. annual meet at Orange, September 21-22, hosted by the Orange Wanderers, featuring State championship handicaps and a novelty safety-tandem race.
- The St. Johns (Mich.) Bicycle Club's first race meet, August 17, where rain softened the track; George H. Smith of Flint won the open and five-mile scratch and M. D. Hubbard the club championship.
- Ralph Temple's views on path training, given at the Brooklyn club rooms, arguing that road work and hill-climbing harm a path racer and that the key is a well-sustained spurt practiced on the path alone.
- The international meeting at Wolverhampton, August 6-8, where Fred Wood beat Temple in the five-mile professional championship final and Howell won the one-mile, with Oxborrow taking the safety handicap.
- Ralph Temple of Chicago, on a 53-inch Humber, beat Crocker, Jack Lee, Howell, Wood, Whittaker and Knapp in the 20-mile championship at Belgrave Road Grounds, finishing in 1h 9m 16s.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, an account of Temple's 20-mile championship win at Belgrave Road that established him as the fastest rider in the world, plus short notes on Howell v. Crocker at Wolverhampton and Temple's lap-race win at Aylestone.
- Some fifty ladies and gentlemen from Malden, Melrose and neighboring towns formed the Middlesex Cycle Club for tricycle touring, electing J. Morris Gorrie president.
- Under 'News from Cycling Centres,' 'Nyx' reports growing support among Brooklyn clubs for a local Long Island league to build a cinder path to Jamaica, and grumbles about a hostile resident who knocks wheelmen off near Bath; followed by Universal Cycling Club notes.
- 'Westfield' surveys Philadelphia cycling: the favourite runs out the Lancaster Pike through Bryn Mawr to Berwyn, the city's nine clubs and some 600 members, prominent riders, and the trade led by H. B. Hart.
- 'Westfield's' Philadelphia club notes: a 'Chariot Race' engraving presented to the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club by the Hudson County Wheelmen, John A. Wells forsaking the Star for a Rambler, and Captain Bradley of the South End Wheelmen's serious fall.
- 'Free Lance' recounts a wheel run from London through Dartford to Rochester, Gad's Hill and the 'Bull Inn,' tracing the scenes of Dickens and the Pickwick Club, ending at the 'Leather Bottle' at Cobham.
- Results of the Pennsylvania Division election, returning Geo. W. Jessup of Scranton as Chief Consul and W. R. Tucker of Philadelphia as Vice Consul, with representative vote tallies.
- A letter from Karl Kron recommending the west-bank Connecticut River roads from Northampton to Hartford for an autumn tour and describing his own ride from West Springfield to Stamford.
- A comic tale signed Thomas Stevens in which a New York wheelman named Jones courts a girl, buys a tandem bicycle, and is thrown out when she mishears 'bicycle' as something improper, leaving him desperate to sell the machine.
- A touring sketch of the Niagara shore road for visitors to the Buffalo meet, recalling the oldest house in Buffalo, the War of 1812 fighting at Black Rock, the steamboat Walk-in-the-Water, and Major Noah's proposed City of Refuge on Grand Island.
- Through Henry E. Ducker's efforts, the B. & A. R. R. issued a new rule carrying bicycles in baggage cars at twenty-five cents for twenty-five miles or less and a half-cent per mile beyond.
- A miscellany under 'From New York to Buffalo' covering West Shore Railroad excursion arrangements, California and Minnesota L.A.W. election returns, record attempts, and a budget of short notes on riders, clubs and road news from around the country.
- A letter signed 'S.' arguing that the ladies' bicycle will make the safety universal and the high wheel obsolete, urging every wheelman to provide a partner with a ladies' machine.
- Notes on the long-awaited safety boom reaching New Jersey, the first ladies' Royal Salvo safeties sold in Newark to the Misses Mulford, the Union County road race, and gossip on local riders and track preparations at Roseville.
- Signed 'A.E.S.,' a history of wheeling in Passaic from the 1884 club through the Passaic County Wheeling and Athletic Association, with notes on local roads and the prospect of lady riders in 1889.
- The entries received to date for the Bicycling World 100-mile road race (Nisbett, Kahler, Dampman, Merrihew and others), followed by a letter from H. E. Raymond arguing Brooklyn should form a local organization and build a cinder path to Jamaica.
- Signed '5,678,' a reflective essay on why cycling has not grown faster in the Oranges despite nearly a hundred miles of macadam, covering Wanderers club history, the favourite runs, and the heavy mileage ridden by Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Porter and Mrs. Douglas.
- A column of brief items: Louisville Cycle Club elections, a gold-headed cane for W. A. Rowe from the Woodstock A.A.A., the Zigzag Bicycle Club of Buffalo's fair preparations, and trade notes on the Psycho tandem safety and the American bicycle check.
- A portrait and biographical sketch of Edwin Oliver, president of the Lincoln Cycling Club of Chicago and general manager of Gormully & Jeffery, who with Frederick Jenkins once published The Wheel.
- By 'Senator' Morgan, a narrative of the American bicycle team's eighteen-month tour of Britain and the Continent—Woodside, Temple and Morgan—culminating in Temple's half-mile, ten- and twenty-mile world's championships and the team's August 10 sailing home on the Aurania.
- Signed 'Old Timer,' a survey of the season on the path in Canada: Fred Foster still the Dominion's fastest, his 5-mile record of 14m 52s at Woodstock, and the standing of the Montreal, Toronto and Wanderers clubs.
- Signed 'Psycho,' a portrait of Washington as a wheelman's paradise of concrete avenues and short country runs, its Capital and Washington cycle clubs, and the world's only ladies' bicycle club, founded through Mrs. Harriett Mills.
- Signed 'Jonah,' the second heats of the New Jersey Athletic Club's one- and two-mile open races at Bergen Point, where Caldwell set a one-mile track record of 3m 1s and Bowman beat Baggot at two miles in 6m 17 4-5s.
- A history of wheeling in Lancaster from the first bicycles seen in 1878, through the rise and fall of early clubs, to the present Lancaster Bicycle Club's June 1888 tournament and prosperous new rooms on East King Street.
- Signed 'H.G.,' an account of the August 27 meeting at J. D. Huggins' residence that organized 'The Cyclists' Union of Long Island,' with H. E. Raymond chairing the committee to draft a constitution.
- Signed 'N.H.G.,' notes on the Providence cycling boom of about 500 riders, brisk trade at Whittier & Co. and Campbell & Co., and the runs and races of the Rhode Island Wheelmen under Captain J. L. Spiers.
- Signed 'Westfield,' a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club party's run along the Delaware canal tow-path from Trenton to Easton (fifty-two miles), with comic incidents involving Kohler, Longaker and others bound for a Pike County vacation.
- A Lititz, Pa. letter ('A Suit Against a Horse-Hog') recounting how horse dealer Joseph Baker struck wheelman Samuel Reed with a whip while coasting Kissel Hill, and was made to pay all costs of the assault-and-battery suit.
- Under 'Buffalo,' Manager Ducker's arrangements for the Erie-to-Buffalo 100-mile road race of September 8—feeding riders en route and giving cold baths—together with the order and route of the grand wheelmen's parade at Buffalo on September 5.
- By 'The Stroller,' New Jersey notes on the rescheduled Division meet at Orange (September 21-22), Newark street macadamizing, the Trenton sidewalk-riding dispute, and items on the Elizabeth Wheelmen and Hudson County Wheelmen.
- Signed 'Bk. Be.,' an account of the Detroit Bicycle Club's annual bath run across the Canada roads to Kingsville and Lake Erie, with thirty-odd riders, head winds, and Barstow's stories.
- Reprinted from The American Athlete, praising The Wheel for exposing the wire-pullers' 'ring' in the L.A.W. and mocking Dr. Emery's attempt to deny its existence.
- Signed 'E.A.B.,' an editorial questioning under which constitution the L.A.W. now operates after the new charter was forced through by proxy votes at Baltimore, and disputing the claim that national work can simply pass to the State divisions.