The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 18
Articles in this issue
- An end-of-year editorial bidding farewell to old "Dick Hyde" and greeting "Henry Jekyll," then jeering at the editor of the Bicycling World for recycling stale L.A.W. presidential-candidate names (Hayes, Jessup, John C. Gulick, J. R. Dunn, C. S. Luscomb) that The Wheel had already printed.
- On December 11 Phillips' "Triplet" cycle, ridden by S. G. Whittaker, E. Oxborrow and J. Lee, covered a half-mile on the Meriden Road in 1m 9 4-5s, timed by S. Golder, S. G. Wootton and F. W. Allard on Rudge & Co.'s machine.
- A friendly bowling match on the New York Club's Sixth Avenue alleys saw the New York Bicycle Club beat the Harlem Wheelmen 1,443 to 1,371, with de Goicouria's 193 the top score.
- A 100-mile race at the Palace Rink, Brooklyn on Christmas Day among Lottie Stanley, Aggie Harvey, Jessie Wood, Helen Baldwin and Lulu Hart, won by Stanley with 87 miles ahead of Wood's 77.
- The South End Wheelmen of Philadelphia marked their second anniversary and opened their new clubhouse at 1726 South Broad Street, awarding mileage medals headed by J. R. Lincoln Edwards's 6,474 miles.
- A patented ice-and-snow runner attachment for bicycle and tricycle wheels, invented by Herman H. Hulikamp of New Knoxville, Ohio, that clamps metal shoes to the wheels so the machine can be ridden on frozen ground.
- "Vortex" reports from the Reading (Pa.) Bicycle Club on a run to Adamstown, the new club quarters, the leasing of the Fair Ground Hotel to B. F. Fleishman, and teasing of "Ariel" of the Wilmington club over a possible road race.
- "Fenton" muses on a former Brooklyn club president turned librettist ("Prince Henri"), the wretched state of the Boulevard, W. E. Findlay's collar-bone broken by Schumacher, and the New Yorks' bowling win over the Harlem Wheelmen.
- "Westfield" reports from Philadelphia on C. L. Leisen's unpaid Eagle Rock hill-climb medal, the South End Wheelmen housewarming, Strong & Green becoming the Strong & Green Cycling Co. with John A. Wells joining, and a Pennsylvania Bicycle Club theatre party for "Erminie."
- "Delaware" reports the death of pioneer cycler Charles W. Todd, Calvin Bertolette's shipboard bicycle club near Nice, and a record-setting duel to Middletown between V. R. Pyle and McDaniel of the Wilmington Wheel Club.
- A profile of Frank M. Dampman of Honeybrook, Pa., winner of the Buffalo 100-mile road race, tracing his career from an 1882 boneshaker through Mustang, Columbia, Star, Rudge and Victor mounts to the American century record in the Sporting Life race.
- A special meeting at the Colonnade Hotel under Chief Consul George A. Jessup, with Kirk Brown as secretary pro tem, voted to instruct state delegates to nominate Jessup for the L.A.W. presidency and discussed the forthcoming road book.
- The five lady members of the Harlem Wheelmen plan a New Year's Day Christmas tree giving each member a present (with unclaimed gifts auctioned) plus a clubhouse reception open to other cycling clubs.
- A membership table showing the New York State Division (under Chief Consul Bidwell) gaining 160 members in 1888 while the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey divisions all lost ground.
- A review of Thomas Redman of Bradford's spring front-fork anti-vibration device fitted to his "Hero" safety, and its planned fusion with Wesley Clegg's "Firefly" patent ahead of the Stanley Show.
- Lamplugh and Brown's two new saddles for next season: an open-backed Buffer top on a triple combination spring, and the "No. 50" ladies' saddle with a front strap to prevent dress-catching while mounting.
- A note on the forthcoming illustrated description of the new Eagle bicycle, plus a preview of the Springfield Bicycle Manufacturing Company's short-base "Volant" rear-driving safety and a new tangent-spoked roadster (No. 5).
- A travelogue of "the scribe's" December trip to Baltimore and Washington, visiting the Clark Cycle Company on Hanover Street, the Maryland Club, Chief Consul Mott, and Washington dealers Atwater, Bert Owen, Harry Higham and the Smith Cycle Company.
- Trade and club squibs: Spalding & Bros. expansion, the Pope Mfg. Co.'s 1889 line including the Columbia Light Roadster safety, the Marblehead Bicycle Club burned out on Christmas night, H. L. Kingsland's wins at Columbus, Ga., and the first bicycle polo game at Newport, R.I.
- A patent reported by C. A. Snow & Co. for Thos. B. Jeffery of Ravenswood, Ill., covering a velocipede with a torsion-spring suspending rod connecting the steering head to the neck, dated December 25.
- The New York Bicycle Co. will open a branch at No. 4 East Sixtieth Street by the Central Park entrance around February 1, 1889, with a repair shop, rental wheels, Spalding sporting goods and amateur photographic supplies.