The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 21
Articles in this issue
- The editorial column opens by quoting the Glasgow Journal's endorsement of The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review as the leading cycling paper, alongside a reader's letter ('It Has No Equal') from Island City, Oregon, and editorial paragraphs urging the League of American Wheelmen to support the trade press and commending '5678's' essay on the safety-versus-ordinary question.
- Reprints 'Perseus' of the Philadelphia Sporting Life attacking the L.A.W. Executive Committee for whitewashing its investigation of C. H. Luscomb's political circular favoring Governor Hill, with Secretary Bassett's comment, and notes Vice-President Herbert W. Hayes's trip from Boston to Baltimore.
- Reports that the New York World, which ranks Thomas Stevens with Stanley, has sent him via Zanzibar to explore Central Africa and possibly search for Stanley and Emin Bey.
- Account of the Tioga Cycling Club's annual dinner at the Colonnade Hotel, where President Hollowell awarded mileage prizes to Chas. L. Leisen, R. Dallett and Mr. Zook, with guests from the Philadelphia, Century, South End and Mt. Vernon clubs.
- Prints Willie Windle's letter to editor Prial from West Milbury, Mass., declaring he will positively not race in 1889 after gaining thirteen pounds, while the paper applauds his refusal to over-train.
- Reports the annual meeting of the Elizabeth Wheelmen, listing newly elected officers (President George C. Pennell), the club's 23,947-mile 1888 total led by D. B. Bonnett, and F. C. Gilbert's 24-hour club record of 157 miles.
- Describes the Kings County Wheelmen's ladies' musicale of January 9, with Signor Hartman's orchestra and a long list of attending members and guests.
- Schedule and results of the wheelmen's bowling league (Harlem, New York, Hudson County, Kings County, Atalanta), including a disputed Harlem-Atalanta game at Newark and Kings County's wins over New York and Atalanta.
- Correspondence from 'Nemo' replying to 'Fenton' on the duties of a House Committee and the propriety of visiting strangers introducing themselves at club houses.
- Previews the Athletic Union games at Madison Square Garden, listing entries and handicaps for the two-mile bicycle race (Crist at scratch, Zimmerman, Caldwell and others).
- Trade notes that Bert Owen of Washington sailed on the Britannic to study ladies' bicycles at the Stanley Show, and that L. H. Johnson has become sole U.S. agent for Hillman, Hubert & Cooper.
- Under the 'Roads Improvement' heading, reprints a Boston Herald editorial citing Brookline's fine avenues, Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania, and President Eliot's view that American roads are the worst in any civilized country.
- Reprints New York Times and Elizabeth Daily Journal pieces on a movement in Union County to have roads declared county highways, naming advocates such as Chauncey B. Ripley and engineer Mr. Collingwood.
- Signed 'Marguerite,' a lady cyclist describes a winter Sunday tandem run from Maplewood to Bailey's Hotel, South Natick, with her brother and friends 'Mac' and wife on Columbia and Humber Cripper tandems.
- Signed 'Vortex,' a gossipy column on Reading, Pa., racing men and club politics, mentioning Schwartz, Wilhelm, C. A. Z. Douglas and a rider masquerading as Pittsburg's 'Billy Banker.'
- Signed 'Fenton,' anecdotes on a bicycle-ballet fiasco in Mexico staged by ballet-master Vatet, the new ailment 'bicycling back,' and a correction to The Bicycling World's mis-crediting of G. M. Nisbett's club membership.
- Signed 'Traveler' (continued next week), an American's account of English touring laws requiring lamps and bells, sympathetic policemen in Wolverhampton and Liverpool's Sefton Park, and the absence of toll gates.
- Signed '5678,' a letter rebutting 'Tourist' on the merits of safety versus ordinary bicycles, conceding only exhilaration and hands-off riding to the ordinary and quoting Bicycling News in the safety's favor.
- A column of short trade and club paragraphs, noting the Rudge Company's sale to the Marquis of Lothian, 160 exhibitors at the Stanley Show, Dan Albone of the Ivel, and Elsie Leslie ('Little Lord Fauntleroy') riding her tricycle in Central Park.
- Reports the unveiling at Bathurst Cemetery of a granite memorial by New South Wales cyclists to English champion Herbert Liddel Cortis, who died at Carcoar in 1885.