The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial weighs the triangular fight for the L.A.W. Presidency between George A. Jessup, Herbert W. Hayes and Charles H. Luscomb, criticises Wheeling's essay against "loafing" on the racing path, and revisits the tariff-on-cycles question and the exposure of Morgan's American Team.
- One hundred and seventy-four Brooklyn wheelmen, prompted by the Cyclists' Union of Long Island, answer the Brooklyn World's question by unanimously calling for the macadamizing of Bedford Avenue over "Cobblestone Hill" between Butler Street and Eastern Parkway.
- The L.A.W. Executive Committee may demand Chairman Charles H. Luscomb's resignation for issuing his political circular backing Governor Hill without consulting his Rights and Privileges Committee colleagues.
- F. P. Prial forwards to the New York Clipper, with a $50 check, W. S. Maltby's challenge to any cyclist for a fancy and scientific cycle-riding contest for $500 a side and the world championship.
- A letter from E. A. Powers, Captain of the Riverside Wheelmen, describes carriages and a child-driven team forcing his single-file party into an embankment on the West Drive near Ninety-sixth Street, breaking wheels and bruising riders.
- Wm. Van Wagoner of Newport made seven round trips of Eagle Rock on a 39-inch Star safety and J. V. L. Pierson of the Bloomfield Cyclers four mounts on a Light Champion, though the times are not accepted as records owing to the lack of a stop-watch.
- A summary of the Rutherford Wheelmen's meet on the town common, with F. N. Burgess winning several handicap and scratch events and A. P. Jackson walking over the five-mile for the Hancock medal.
- G. P. Mills lowered the English 50-mile tricycle road record by over nine minutes to 2h. 53m. 25s., a mark beaten only once on any cycle (by Albone and Tingey's tandem bicycle).
- Full details of the Sporting Life's Election Day 100-mile road race on the Lancaster Pike, won by Frank M. Dampman (7h. 20m. 17s.) by one second over B. Frank McDaniels, breaking the American competition record by about four minutes.
- Barron '91 won the Harvard Bicycle Club's nine-mile annual fall road race; the club has accepted a challenge from the M.I.T. Bicycle Club for a five-man road race on November 31.
- The tight-rope performer Klondin describes how he had a grooved-wheel bicycle built to his direction and rehearsed his rope-riding act in view of a large audience with little practice.
- A list of forthcoming race meets, receptions and entertainments, including the Columbus, Ga., tournament and the Chestnut Hill Reservoir and Harvard-vs-Institute of Technology road races.
- C. V. Boys, writing in the Cyclist, gives a formula and worked example for how steeply racing-path corners of 165- and 140-foot radius should be banked to balance centrifugal force at twenty-five miles an hour.
- The Records Committee accepts new English path records, including F. J. Osmond's bicycle marks at Crystal Palace and tandem-bicycle figures by D. Albone and E. E. Glover at Paddington.
- Philadelphia correspondent "Westfield" reports Woodside's departure for Ireland, a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club entertainment, and a Paoli-to-Fifty-second-Street record attempt by Leisen, Lehman and Supplee.
- Details of a handicap bicycle race open to all amateurs to be run around the lower basin at Chestnut Hill Reservoir on November 24, with entries closing through Charles P. Daniels at the Boston Y.M.C.A. gymnasium.
- The Wilmington Wheel Club plans a January reception for its road racers F. M. Dampman, B. F. McDaniel and S. Wallis Merrihew, and reports its members' season mileages and a victory over a turnpike company over illegal tolls.
- A column of brief trade and club paragraphs, including A. H. Overman's saddle patent, the 1889 Stanley show, Woodside's Springfield bicycles, "Tommy" Burnet's Eagle Rock climb, and L. H. Porter's roads article.
- "Nemo" recounts a bicycle tournament at Aumale, France, run as a straightaway street race around barrels at each end, with prizes of francs and "diplomas of honor" awarded amid speeches at the town hall.
- Correspondent "H. D. F." rebuts A. B. K.'s claim that the ordinary is the safest bicycle, arguing that the safety and especially a moderate-sized Star are safer road machines.
- Edward J. Shriver, President of the New York Bicycle Club, writes to correct reports that anti-card men were "routed," explaining the club voted to permit card playing but prohibit all gambling.
- Correspondent "Rapid" reports the Denver Ramblers' near-50,000-mile season, their century runs through snow on the "Divide," and their fondness for the paper-chase game of hound-and-deer.
- Bicycle and saddle patents dated November, reported by C. A. Snow & Co., to Wm. E. Smith, Chas. W. Sponsel and A. H. Overman.
- A trade write-up praising the Irvings' management of the New York Bicycle Company at 8 Warren Street and its absorption of the Manhattan Wheel Exchange (Wetmore & Chester) to specialise in taking old mounts in part payment.
- "Lynn Bee" describes the Lynn Cycle Club's smoker, with piano solos by Edward J. Phelan, songs, cribbage and pool, and an ice-cream-eating contest won by S. S. Merrill.
- Assorted notes including the N.C.U. suspension of English amateurs Hill and Thompson, the new Farringdon ordinary by Ellis & Co., L. H. Johnson's Ladies' Rover bicycles, and Manhattan Bicycle Club fixtures.