The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Editorials answering Ralph Temple's published account of the Temple-Rowe "fake," dismissing the proposed American Road Record Association suggested by the Bicycling World and Sporting Life, and defending the cycling press's liberal use of "the scissors."
- The annual meeting of the National Assembly, L.A.W., will be held in New York on February 20, 1889.
- The League's Executive Committee meets in New York December 27, with President Kirkpatrick, Hayes and Bull present, to consider the Luscomb circular and the Bicycling World official-organ contract.
- A 2-mile handicap at the Manhattan Athletic Club games December 15 was won in the final by G. F. Brown after Brown, Schumacher and Kellew fell on a corner; Kingsland was hampered by his racing wheel cutting the soft track.
- Wet weather thinned the Twelfth Regiment games at the Sixty-second Street Armory; in the 2-mile bicycle final E. I. Halsted (N.Y.A.C., scratch) won after Schumacher's pedal caught Findlay's wheel, felling both, in a handicap framed by F. P. Prial.
- Describes the Pope Manufacturing Company's Columbia Bicycle Calendar and Stand for 1889, a 365-leaf desk pad on a gilded pressed-pulp stand, now in its fourth year with quotations touching typewriting and stenography.
- The Rover Cycle Club of Charlestown held its third annual dinner at Young's Hotel, with speeches from Captain Robinson, Chief Consul W. H. Emery, ex-Chief Consul Hayes and Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett, who read an original poem.
- At Melbourne meetings on the Adelaide Oval, J. W. Busst rode a mile in 2m. 30 2-5s. (bettering Osmond) and T. W. Busst set a 3-mile amateur record, all on Humber machines; the editor reminds The Cyclist that Rowe's American mile of 2m. 29 4-5s. stands.
- The Massachusetts Division L.A.W. board banqueted ex-Chief Consul H. W. Hayes at Young's Hotel before his departure to Brazil, with speeches by E. C. Pratt, President Emery, Col. A. A. Pope and others, and a poem by Abbot Bassett.
- A letter from W. A. Jackson, Jr. of Lapeer, Mich., a partly paralytic rider of an "Otto" trike, asking where to obtain toe clips, with an editor's note urging some firm to import or make them.
- The first Warwick bicycle seen in New York was exhibited by W. Halpin & Co., New York State agents, in the vestibule of the Twelfth Regiment Armory.
- A 100-mile championship-of-America race opens at the Palace Rink, Brooklyn, on Christmas Day, with Lottie Stanley, Lulu Hart, May Allan, Helen Baldwin and Jessie Woods, the riders from the recent Pittsburg six-day race.
- A theatre party of nearly a hundred wheelmen promoted by "Doc" Benedict of the Hudson County Wheelmen saw Hoyt's "Tin Soldier" at the Jersey City Academy of Music, with members of the Elizabeth, Atalanta and Bloomfield clubs.
- A technical description of Humber's 1889 safeties, roadsters, ladies' patterns, racers and tricycles, noting diamond-frame construction, anti-vibrators and the unusual driving-gear height on the No. 5 Special Light Roadster.
- The first annual meeting at Y.M.C.A. Hall, Brooklyn, reported 227 members; E. K. Austin was elected President, and the full Constitution and By-Laws of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island are reproduced.
- Cycling patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including velocipede and tricycle patents to Thomas O'Brien, Peter A. Snyder and Cyrus Yingst, and a bicycle frame to John M. Starley of Coventry.
- Correspondence signed "Vortex" describing club dissension at Reading, Pa., over rulings and a new constitution, and prospects for a quarter-mile track to be built by the Berks County Agricultural Society.
- Club correspondence: New Orleans notes on the Louisiana Cycling Club, Ed. Shields' birthday caning and J. C. Henriques' accident; Jersey City notes (signed "Coaster") on the demise of the N.Y. & N.J. road-record association and a New Jersey theatre party with topical verses on the Tin Soldier.
- Ralph Temple's long letter from Chicago giving his account of the "fake" Rowe v. Temple match races at Lynn and Hartford, blaming Morgan, William Woodside and the track conditions, with an extended Bicycling News editor's note defending Temple's bona fide records.
- A satirical essay by Thomas Stevens on the encroachment of the safety bicycle on the ordinary, imagining the social shame and remorse felt by a rider who deserts the high wheel for a safety.
- A German-language cycling poem signed Otto Buhm ("Der Radfahrer"), for which the editor offers a prize for the best translation.
- A toast delivered at a Nottingham Boulevarde Cycling Club dinner sketching champion Herbert Synyer's racing career from 1882, totalling ninety-three prizes worth £620 over four years, reprinted from The Cyclist.
- A November 29 race meet on the asphalted streets of St. Augustine, with Davies winning the five-mile road race and side-saddle race and Knowlton taking the one-mile, several riders taking headers, one fall caused by a dog.
- Dr. B. W. Richardson exhibited to the Society of Cyclists a Surrey Machinists' Company tandem tricycle adapted for police use, fitted with a dispatch box, detachable ambulance and a proposed lethal apparatus for dispatching injured animals.