The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 13
Articles in this issue
- Editorial paragraphs on the 1889 trade outlook for safeties versus ordinaries and second-hand tall wheels, the fifteen-man pile-up in the mile handicap at Berkeley Oval on Election Day, and a protest against advertising club receptions as "full dress" affairs.
- Backs Wallis Stamson's appeal to the National Roads Improvement Committee, asking what the committee is doing and urging it to collect road-construction literature and lobby legislatures.
- Report of the Eagle Rock hill-climbing on Sunday, where J. Harry Shurman rode a Springfield Roadster up the Newark hill twenty-four times, taking the records from the fourth to twenty-fourth trip, with Fred Coningsby on a Victor beating the crank record over four ascents; trips timed by F. P. Prial and F. H. Campbell of The Wheel.
- Account of the 21-mile team road race from Myerstown to Reading on November 3, won on time by Wilhelm but taken on points by the Wilmington team (19 of 36), with telephone bulletins relayed by superintendent John Crawford.
- Reading rider W. I. Wilhelm writes in to defend his 48m. 10s. Paoli-to-Fifty-second-Street record on the Lancaster Pike, made on a Star, against doubts raised by Philadelphia critics.
- Ten Republican members of the Poughkeepsie Bicycle Club won an election wager and were drawn in a wagon by the ten losing Democrats from the club rooms to the Post Office, followed by a banquet for twenty-four.
- Editor's account of a weekend trip to Springfield, inspecting the Warwick Cycle Mfg. Co. factory on the Connecticut and meeting president George T. Warwick, treasurer George K. Tapley and secretary Fred R. Swan, with a detailed description of the company's 1889 ordinary, safety and tandem.
- Continued tour of Boston firms—the Pope Manufacturing Co. offices (Col. Pope, E. W. Pope, calendars and the "World" typewriter), the League and Bicycling World offices (Fourdrinier and Abbott Bassett), Wm. Read & Son, and the Overman, Coventry Machinists' and Springfield Bicycle companies on Columbus Avenue, with Hendee in charge of the Springfield store.
- Notice of the C. U.'s literary and musical entertainment at Y. M. C. A. Hall, Brooklyn, on December 17, followed by "Professor" Will R. Pitman's reminiscences of teaching early Boston riders—including Col. Pope and Charley Pratt—and the naming of the Columbia bicycle.
- List of forthcoming race meets, club receptions and entertainments through February 1889, including the Columbus tournament, Brooklyn handicaps, and the Long Island Cyclists' Union entertainment.
- Reprinted from the St. Louis Spectator, condemning C. H. Luscomb's circular as L.A.W. Rights and Privileges chairman urging Governor Hill's re-election, calling it an outrage of using national office to sway a local election.
- Column of brief trade and club paragraphs—the Crystal Palace Stanley Show, F. J. Osmond's bronchitis, a Crawfordsville road race won by John Alfrey, a typo correction on Coningsby's gear, the Banker Brothers' Pittsburg business, Will Windle's form, and a planned ladies' six-day race at Pittsburg.
- Reprinted from Sporting Life, doubting C. H. Luscomb could control more than 1,000 votes for the League presidency and protesting against "ring rule" in the League.
- A tricyclist upset by a rubbish heap left in the road at Tynemouth, England, won damages against the town corporation totalling about £9 18s.
- The Universals' 10-mile road race postponed from Election Day to Thanksgiving, plus a club run to Hempstead where Wm. Hustleton played out and trained it home, signed "Hustler."
- A touring correspondent (signed Vet.) complains about poor road-making, jobbery in Stamford's macadam and sewer debt, praises Westport and Fairfield, and calls for circulars on road-bettering.
- A Suffern, N. Y. correspondent ("A Rider of the Wheel") notes the growth of cycling locally, praising lady riders Miss Emily A. Cox of Jersey City Heights and the wife of veteran rider H. B. Thompson.
- Reprints a satirical Cyclist ballad by "Will Wagtale" on the Temple-Rowe championship swindle, told as a confession by the manager of "Morgan's marionnettes."
- The Scranton Bicycle Club will hold a week-long fair from November 26 in the Armory Building to raise funds for a new club house on Washington Avenue, managed by R. H. McKune.
- Describes the Sterling Cycle Company's new wooden-framed safety (39 lbs, $90, 24-inch front and 30-inch rear wheels) by inventor Sterling Elliott, of Boston and Newton, Mass., alongside the firm's quadricycle and carrier cycle.
- The 1889 Stanley Show will fill the central aisle of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham with nearly a thousand cycles, with special railway arrangements for exhibitors and crowds.
- At a Society of Cyclists meeting the American artist Jo. Pennell demolished two papers—one on "Geological Fields for Cyclists" and Edwin Chadwick's "Tricycles for the Police"—though Chadwick's suggestions were judged sound.