The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editorial defending The Wheel's modest 5,000 circulation against the Bicycling World's boast of 13,250, arguing the World merely mails to L.A.W. members while The Wheel reaches new readers through lists from dealers like Lincoln Holland & Co. of Worcester and Banker Brothers of Pittsburg.
- Reports that George R. Bidwell, Chief Consul of the New York State Division of the L.A.W., is withdrawing from all League work to focus on his cycling business at 4 East Sixtieth Street; includes Bidwell's own letter to editor F. P. Prial confirming his resignation.
- Results of the second day of the Melbourne meet (November 24), with C. Barlow of Tasmania winning the half-mile scratch and R. Davis of South Australia taking the five-mile bicycling championship.
- President Kirkpatrick's notice calling the annual National Assembly of the L.A.W. for February 18, 1889 at the Grand Union Hotel, New York, with detailed proxy rules and a credentials committee chaired by W. H. Emery of Boston.
- Text of the bill introduced by the Hon. W. H. Keyser into the Pennsylvania Legislature defining cyclists' rights on the same lines as the New York State Liberty Bill.
- Report of the A.A.U. winter games at Madison Square Garden, where the two-mile bicycle race was won by W. G. Class of Brooklyn B.C. ahead of E. A. Powers of Riverside Wheelmen, with A. A. Zimmerman and W. E. Crist among the starters.
- Account of a "stag" reception given by the Kings County Wheelmen to the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, featuring a tenpins match won by the K.C.W. and a musical programme; also notes Billy O'Brien's plan for a female bicycle race at Madison Square Garden beginning February 11.
- Collected correspondence columns of club and trade news from Troy, Washington, Wilmington, Reading, San Francisco and other cities, covering club resignations, road-paving agitation, mileage records, and the California Racing Board's 1889 championships.
- Regular New York gossip column reporting on the A.A.U. bicycle race result, the New York bowling team's move to Degenhardt's alleys, a planned Seventh Regiment burlesque with a bicycle drill, and a reply to "Nemo"; includes the Jersey City and Hudson County Wheelmen "smoker" notes and the bowling-league scores.
- A lady's account, signed "Pony," of a tandem trip with her husband to New Haven and the ascent of East Rock via the English drive.
- Schedule of games to be played and results of games already played among the Harlem, Hudson County, Kings County, New York and Atalanta club bowling teams.
- Survey of road-improvement activity, noting the Rural New Yorker's roads number with papers by Henry Stewart and F. Hodgman, and a bill introduced January 10 by Assemblyman Connelly to pave the Grand Boulevard with asphalt between Fifty-ninth and 110th Streets.
- Outline of the Roads Improvement Bill to be submitted by the State Division, L.A.W., through Counselor Isaac B. Potter, providing for a State Roads Commission.
- Stamford correspondent "Slamson's" reflection on the value of good roads, citing a wealthy dyspeptic neighbor and a petition to macadamize Strawberry-hill road.
- L.A.W. communication from Representative Joshua Reynolds of Stockport endorsing the Troy Telegram's road campaign and describing the New York State Roads Improvement Association and Isaac B. Potter's legislative work.
- Description, with cuts, of a patented internally-geared combination and lever/crank safety designs by George Kibbe of Amsterdam, N.Y.
- Account of the dinner the H. B. Smith Machine Company's employees gave at the Smithville Opera House to celebrate William H. Kelley's election as president, including C. C. Stewart's address and the presentation of a gold watch.
- Report on seven young New York society men, led by broker John C. Furman, who appeared in knee breeches and tailless dress coats at a dance given by Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Sloane at 642 Fifth Avenue.
- Review of the Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co.'s forty-four-page catalogue, detailing its Springfield Roadster models including the No. 7 Volant Safety at $115.
- Note on Wolverhampton's growing cycle-making industry, reporting that its makers will show mainly lighter safeties and tricycles for 1889, including chainless safeties and Humber & Co.'s juvenile machines.
- Weekly miscellany of trade and club notes, including the St. Nicholas Toy Company's $24 girls' safety, George Hendee's likely return to racing, club mileage records (Rhode Island Wheelmen, Illinois Club), and reviews of the Eagle Bicycle Company's catalogue.