The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 14
Articles in this issue
- Correspondent Sidney B. Bowman protests the Berkeley Athletic Club's decision to start twenty handicap riders at once on a 20-foot track, causing a pile-up; the editor replies defending Bidwell and Prial and noting the crash involved Caldwell and Edwards.
- Profiles the eight women entered in the six-day ladies' bicycle race at the Grand Central Rink, Pittsburg, including May Allen, Lottie Stanley, Aggie Harvey and Hilda Snallor, reprinting the Pittsburg Leader's sketch of Manager Troy's riders in knee breeches.
- Dr. Griffin of New York, an unaffiliated pleasure rider, reports 6,004 miles for the year with a month-by-month mileage table and a longest ride of 101 miles on May 28.
- Editorial backing George A. Jessup of Scranton, Pa., for the L.A.W. presidency after Chief Consul Hayes departs for Brazil and Luscomb withdraws, predicting Bidwell's support.
- Reports the New Haven Bicycle Club's variety entertainment at the New Haven Opera House on November 28, with the farce 'A Club Run' and fancy riding by W. S. Maltby, printing the full programme.
- List of cycling patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including velocipede and brake patents to Otto Unzicker, Percy D. Hedderwick and a bicycle frame design to Wm. E. Smith.
- Philadelphia correspondent on Chas. C. Candy of the Overman Wheel Company, a thief posing as 'Rogers from Bradford' at the Philadelphia Bicycle Club, and a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club election-bet dinner at the Colonnade Hotel.
- Correspondent G. C. McNeil of Akron, Ohio, argues from 9,000 miles' experience that the ordinary remains the superior machine for a spirited young rider, conceding the safety is better for record-breaking and old men.
- Calendar of upcoming events including races at Opelika, the Prospect Harriers' handicap, club receptions at Riverside, Somerville and Chelsea, and the Twelfth Regiment games.
- Column of trade and club notes: the Kings County Wheelmen vote to leave the League, Bert Meyers' 289-mile boulevard run, A. Kennedy-Child joining Warwick Cycle, and the Coventry Machinists' Company factory expansion.
- A German correspondent to the Cyclist argues the forthcoming Leipsic exhibition will expose how German machines, built largely from imported English fittings, remain inferior to English cycles.
- Travel narrative by 'Traveler' of a fifty-five-mile ride from Llangollen through Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton, recounting English touring companions' tea-flask trick and the grimy Black Country.
- Reprinted from the Elizabeth Daily Journal, an argument that Union County, N.J., must take road-building out of the district system and macadamize its highways under county control.
- Lillias Campbell Davidson, from the Cyclist, instructs the lady novice on learning to ride the safety with masculine help, mounting and dismounting, and the need for better dress-guards.
- George B. Thayer of Hartford, Conn., writing in the Post, reports continental cycle touring through England, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland costing as little as $1-2 a day.
- Despatch from Portland describing E. Moody Boynton's steam 'bicycle locomotive', built on a single eight-foot driving wheel with an upper guide-rail and claimed to reach 200 miles an hour.
- Summary of the Wilmington Wheel Club's annual meet, with wins by B. F. McDaniel, G. M. Gregg, S. W. Merrihew and Philadelphia's W. W. Taxis.
- Report of a 1,500-metre road match in which Mr. August Lehr on a 54-inch Club racer beat Prince Max of Ysenberg on a trotting horse, 2m. 24 1-5s. to 2m. 27s.