The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 24
Articles in this issue
- A road-improvement bill, drafted largely through the Elizabeth Daily Journal and presented at a meeting chaired by City Attorney Bergen, would let New Jersey county freeholders take over and macadamize public roads as 'County Roads' funded by tax or bonds.
- The Capital Bicycle Club of Washington marked its tenth anniversary with a banquet in its own rooms, with Dr. Henry M. Schooley as toastmaster, an annual address from absent president Edson B. Olds, and comic toasts including Col. Thos. P. Borden's 'Burnt Cork.'
- E. Moody Boynton's ball-bearing 'bicycle locomotive,' built by the Bicycle Equipment Company, was trial-run at the Portland (Me.) Locomotive Works and is claimed capable of 100 miles an hour hauling four cars of eighty-eight passengers each.
- Newton F. Waters (B.B.C.), W. J. Masterson (U.C.C.) and Harry R. Wickes won the Brooklyn Wheelmen's annual race to be first to Babylon, struggling over the muddy Jamaica road and reaching Babylon at 2:30 before taking the train home in a westerly gale; signed 'Roxy.'
- A trade write-up of the firm's new top-floor bicycle department at 26 W. 23d St., New York, managed by A. C. Banker of the Pittsburg 'Banker brothers'; as General Eastern Agents for Gormully & Jeffery it will push American cycles, the Rambler and Ideal Rambler safeties, plus Victor, Singer and Springfield Roadster wheels.
- Fenton's New York column answers Edward J. Shriver's discourteous letter, mocks the feuding Western correspondents of the Bicycling World, reports the New York vs. Atalanta bowling match, and urges unattached riders to join one of the city's six clubs.
- Correspondent 'Coaster' reports the Hudson County Wheelmen's 26,566-mile total led by W. E. Eldridge (2,488), and their 1,403-1,154 bowling win over the Harlem Wheelmen refereed by Dr. H. A. Benedict.
- Correspondent 'Ragde' reports the Denver Ramblers' Sunday runs and 300-plus-mile January totals, the as-yet-unformed Colorado L.A.W. division, and a planned $5-share cycle-track association to build a racing track.
- Correspondent 'Peeping Tom' covers the Lumsden-Stone race negotiations between Brewster and Garden, the May tournament with a possible Ducker management offer, the Chicago Club vacating its Adams Street rooms, and House transferring the Star agency to the Western Arms and Cartridge Company with Tom Roe and Ralph Temple.
- Harry H. Hodgson, V.P. of the New Orleans Bicycle Club, describes the Mardi Gras carnival (Feb. 28-Mar. 5), gives railway and hotel rates, and invites wheelmen to bring their mounts for runs and tours during Carnival week.
- Fourteen Citizens' Bicycle Club cyclometer records reported to Captain Fontaine total 30,193 miles, led by P. Harvard Reilly with 6,700.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs adopted resolutions thanking Governor James A. Beaver for criticizing Pennsylvania's road laws in his message to the General Assembly and for officially recognizing the bicycle as a vehicle.
- A sharply critical piece on Wm. Woodside's London interview in Wheeling, where he decried Temple and Morgan while whitewashing Rowe over the 'Down East' fake-race scandal; the writer disputes Woodside's account of Rowe's agreement to throw the races.
- The Rhode Island Division L.A.W., chaired by Chief Consul Chas. S. Davol, met in Providence to cut annual dues from $1.50 to $1, plan an August/September steamer run to Newport, and establish a one-mile tricycle state championship.
- The Executive Committee of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island, meeting at the Kings County Wheelmen's rooms, elected its Rights and Privileges and Road Improvements committees, signed by Secretary Bert. M. Cole.
- A. B. Barkman of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club has compiled 'A Concise Treatise on Riding, Touring, Training and Racing,' obtainable from A. G. Spalding & Bros.
- A two-mile handicap will be held at Madison Square Garden on March 2 with diamond ring, diamond scarf pin and gold medal prizes, entries closing February 20 with the N.A.A.A.A. secretary.
- A New Orleans correspondent reports rain-locked roads, the Louisiana Cycling Club mileage of R. G. Betts (5,316) and C. M. Fairchild (4,640), the club's new Prytania Street quarters, and L.A.W. election speculation around Bidwell, Luscomb and Jessup; signed 'Bi.'
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Westfield' notes the new Columbia safety praised by Columbia representative H. H. Hart, Captain DeCato's visit, the Century Wheelmen's $17,000 purchase at 1606 North Broad Street, and the Pennsylvania Club's second smoker.
- Correspondent 'Delaware' reports the Wilmington Wheel Club's new quarters and reception, the club's strong 1888 mileage (averaging 2,684 miles), challenges to its road-race quartette including from A. C. Banker's Brooklyn men, and Delaware road-improvement and street-paving plans.
- Correspondent 'Ornh Qua' covers the Trojan Wheelmen's reception at Harmony Hall, the Troy Bicycle Club's fifth soiree at Bicycle Hall, Charles E. Wilson's election as a yacht-club vice-commodore, and Will Gardner's wheel-buying habits.
- Responding to a correspondent's complaint about the New York Club fielding short bowling teams, the editor speculates on the club's decline and argues that no New York bicycle club has the income to run a first-class club house on business principles.
- Alderman Ketcham's resolution in the Newark Common Council creates a sub-committee to find an inexpensive paving plan, favoring trap-block borders with telford or macadam centres.
- An Evening Sun editorial on whether New York should create a separate street-paving office with low-rate bonds, endorsing Mayor Grant—'a famous roadster as well as a diligent Mayor'—in favor of a bill sent to Albany.
- A detailed technical description of a new lever-and-clutch rear-driving safety with two-way silent ratchet, 32-inch driving and 30-inch front wheels, mud guards, and a complete price of $135 including saddle and tool bag.
- A correspondence and commentary department debating ordinary versus safety bicycles, with a letter signed 'A Subscriber' favoring the safety and an unsigned 'G. A. S.' analysis arguing the safety's ease of learning comes from eliminating the fore-and-aft balance; includes a selected list of patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co.
- A trade write-up of the Coventry firm (formerly Starley & Sutton) seeking American agents for its 1889 line of Rover safeties—Light, Popular, Universal, Socket-Steering, Spring-Frame, Ladies' and Rational Rovers—plus the Meteor ordinaries, with assorted trade notes on Gormully, Warwick and St. Nicholas wheels.
- A satirical 'Perseus' piece from Sporting Life proposing that American wheelmen form a 'White Cap' organization to threaten negligent road supervisors, nominating Dun of Ohio for Chief Capper and Luscomb for Letter-writer-in-chief.
- English cycle agents have formed a protective union with an executive body aiming to drive middle-men and private agents—such as schoolmasters selling direct from makers—out of the cycle trade.