The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Report on the Albany Wheelmen's second annual indoor tournament at the Academy of Music, featuring Thomas R. Finley's Star bicycle act, W. S. Maltby's fancy and impersonation riding, and a tug-of-war won by Albany over the Troy Bicycle Club.
- The Massachusetts Division L.A.W. Board met at the Clarendon Hotel under Chief Consul W. H. Emery, discussing finances and a guide-post circular drafted by George A. Perkins to enforce Chapter 162 of the 1887 Act, with Forbes, Bassett and Whitney appointed to consider publishing a road map.
- F. A. Elwell of Portland, Me. announces a three-month cycle tour of Ireland, England, France (World's Fair), Switzerland, Germany and Holland, leaving Boston May 18 on the Cunard steamer Cephalonia, with fifteen of twenty-five places filled.
- The National Cyclists' Union defeated a motion to impose race time limits to curb "loafing tactics"; the Bicycling News canvasses Dick Howell and amateur champion Herbert Synyer, both favouring tactics and waiting over forced pace.
- A meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel organised the Referee's May tournament and sporting-goods exhibition, with backing from the Pope, Warwick, Springfield Bicycle, Western Arms and Jenney & Graham firms to lift Chicago in the racing world.
- Preview of the six-day women's tournament at Madison Square Garden, Feb. 11-16, with entries including Louise Armaindo, Jessie Oaks, Elsa Von Blumen, Hattie Lewis and Lottie Stanley.
- Schedule and results of the wheelmen's bowling league among the New York, Atalanta, Hudson County, Harlem and Kings County clubs, including Harlem's 1,469-1,260 win over Kings County at Mott Haven.
- As reported in The Wheel, the Illinois Club of Chicago leads all 1888 club records with 85,077 miles, ahead of the Century Wheelmen, Forest City Ramblers and Buffalo B. C.
- Mrs. J. T. Morehouse and Miss Jennie Mulford rode their Rover machines down the Essex County Toboggan Club's 1,104-foot chute at Orange, N. J. in about 28 seconds, after which the club withdrew use of the slide.
- A Jersey City correspondent (L. A. W. 7309) writes to The Wheel naming Mrs. Morehouse of Orange Valley and Miss Mulford of Newark as the "fair cyclists of Orange" who coasted the Essex County toboggan slide.
- Citizens of Troy, N. Y. adopt resolutions to draft a city road-improvement bill, alongside a Coaster column from the Hudson County Wheelmen covering Captain E. J. Day, Chief Consul Bidwell's resignation, and New Jersey road-race plans.
- Fenton's Troy column on street paving and the want of lady riders, with club gossip including Al Edmans's and J. R. Knowlson's resignations from the Troy Bicycle Club and a bowling win over the Railroad Y.M.A.
- Preview of the Manhattan Bicycle Club's Feb. 8 reception at the Lexington Avenue Opera House, with a programme featuring W. S. Maltby's Ballet Girl and Dude acts and the "Manhattan Bicycle March" by C. J. Schwab.
- An Alamo, Ind. correspondent reports four wheelmen in Montgomery County and reprints Governor Alvin P. Hovey's message urging gravel and macadamized roads for Indiana.
- Trade and club round-up: Thomas Stevens's arrival in London, the Whitten & Co. name change, Warwick agent A. Kennedy-Child's western trip, Camden Wheelmen officers, and Century Wheelmen mileages compiled by Captain W. T. Fleming.
- A Jan. 9 public meeting of Troy, N. Y. citizens resolves that taxpayers pay half the cost of paving and macadamizing, appointing a committee to push a road-improvement bill.
- A character sketch of artist "Jo" Pennell and his wife, followed by notes on the Morehouse-Mulford toboggan feat and road-improvement arguments from the New York Sun and Philadelphia Times.
- E. J. Shriver's letter to The Wheel arguing, against Fenton, that a bicycle club house exists for members only and no outsider should be entertained except as a member's personal guest.
- A humorous first-person piece by George T. Morey on the headers, pluck and "backbone" involved in learning to ride an ordinary bicycle.
- A history of the Wakefield Bicycle Club from its 1883 founding through its move to the Gould block, listing the fifty-seven-member club's 1889 officers under President Elroy N. Heath.
- Account of the Cambridgeport Cycle Club's season, growing to fifty-five members, its tie with the Dorchesters for the Eastern Road Club Cup, and its move to 555 Main Street (from the Boston Herald).
- Bicycle and velocipede patents reported for The Wheel by C. A. Snow & Co., including Elmer E. Tufts's velocipede pedal and a bicycle whistle by Frederick L. Johnson of Wallingford, Conn.
- Review of Singer & Co.'s 1889 range, including the Royal Singer safety, a ladies' Singer safety, the Apollo safety, the S.S.S. tricycle and the Challenge ordinary, nineteen machines in all.
- Quotes the St. George's Engineering Co.'s 1889 catalogue warning against the "unhealthy craze" for light safeties built to weight by tin-pot firms, with trade notes on Ralph Temple joining the Western Arms and Cartridge Co. of Chicago.