The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 2, No 26
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorials note the settlement of the Prial-Neumann litigation over The Wheel, condemn the Madison Square Garden ladies' race and the Stanley-Troy salary dispute, and back Joshua Reynolds's proposal for a ladies' division of the League.
- Report of the first National Assembly meeting at the Grand Union Hotel, electing C. H. Luscomb president over Col. George A. Jessup (58 to 20), with Secretary Bassett reporting 12,100 L.A.W. members and a fifteen-cent per-member assessment voted to stave off insolvency.
- Chairman Charles H. Luscomb's report to the National Assembly defending wheelmen's road rights and explaining ("I fired that gun") his November circular letter urging New York members to vote for the governor who signed the Liberty Bill.
- The Massachusetts Bicycle Club's annual banquet at Young's Hotel, with Col. Pope presiding, announcing a new Cambridge athletic park and a summer reunion at Marblehead; membership now numbers eighty.
- Preview of the A.A.U.'s burlesque opera "Billee Taylor in Black" at the Metropolitan Opera House, listing the cast drawn from New York-area athletic clubs and a 100-piece orchestra under H. J. Tyndale.
- Boston Globe details, reprinted, of a syndicate led by Col. Albert A. Pope building a Cambridge athletic park with a two-lap bicycle track to be superintended by Henry E. Ducker.
- California correspondence on Bay City Wheelmen club runs to Camp Taylor, upcoming Olympic and Oakland race meets, and the Bay City Wheelmen's third annual fancy-dress carnival.
- "Coaster" reports the Hudson County Wheelmen's bowling victory over the Kings County Wheelmen and the upcoming Benedict medal race on Washington's Birthday.
- "Tourist" praises electric railways and asphalt paving, the planned Mount Vernon avenue and Rock Creek park, and the Capital Bicycle Club's Washington's Birthday celebration.
- List of forthcoming cycling and athletic dates, including the Riverside Wheelmen's Fair, Bowling League games, and N.A.A.A.A. games at Madison Square Garden.
- "Ornh Qba" notes the Pope Mfg. Co.'s attempt to establish a Troy agency, criticizes the Troy Times for ignoring cycling, and reminisces about the St. Louis League meet.
- Correspondence reporting the abandoned Louisiana Cycling Club 50-mile race and "Bi." arguing against the one-man-power proxy system in the League presidency contest favoring Luscomb over Jessup.
- "Zo." reports the Buffalo club's tenth-anniversary banquet, Henry E. Ducker's departure for Boston, uncertainty over the year's tournament, and Buffalo's expanding asphalt mileage.
- "Ragde" describes a moonlight Ramblers/Social club run to Brighton, the Cow Boy Marching Club bound for the Inaugural, and sparring among correspondents "Fenton," "Nemo," and "Bragg."
- Schedule of upcoming and played Bowling League games among Atalanta, Kings County, Harlem, New York and Hudson County, with the full New York vs. Harlem scorecard.
- Recent bicycle, tricycle and velocipede patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including Larus F. Carstensen, Edward Thuemler, Wm. E. Smith and Thos. B. Jeffery.
- Descriptions of 1889 models: the New Mail Safety (Wm. Read & Sons), the Swift Safety and Tandem and King of Clubs (Coventry Machinists' Co.), and the American Rambler and Ideal Rambler (Gormully & Jeffery).
- Reprinted from Bicycling News, Violet Lorne reviews ladies' safeties and tricycles at the 1889 Crystal Palace show from Singer, Hillman Herbert & Cooper, Starley Bros., the Ivel Cycle Co. and the Coventry Swift.
- Letter from Joshua Reynolds of Stockport, N.Y., arguing for a semi-independent Ladies' Division of the League with its own lady officers and column, in reply to the Bicycling World.
- "Nvx." weighs the value of the Cyclists' Union of Long Island, urging it to prosecute the "Bath individual" and noting its road-improvement efforts at Cobblestone Hill with Mayor Chapin.
- "Traveler" recounts riding from Wolverhampton through Birmingham to Coventry, visiting the Rudge works, and touring the historic Warwickshire road through Kenilworth, Leamington, Warwick and Stratford-on-Avon.
- Trade-and-club gossip column opening with the comic verse "Old Hanki Panki," W. W. Stall's letter on ladies' bicycles, the American contingent at the Stanley Show, and notes on Tom Eck and Jack Prince.
- The combined Brooklyn bicycle clubs announce a theatre party March 29 at the Brooklyn Park Theatre to see "Pearl of Pekin," with the organizing committee listed.
- Editorial reprinted from the New Orleans Times-Democrat on the cost of bad Southern roads, citing Prof. J. W. Sanborn's traction experiments and the L.A.W.'s road-improvement pamphlet.