The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Unsigned leaders quoting The Ironmonger on retail cycle agents' small margins; a correspondent's letter calling the Rudge Triplet 2:18 1-5 mile and S. G. Whittaker's 1:09 2-5 half-mile road records into doubt as downhill flying-start feats; and a warning against the dangerous fourteen-lap Palace Rink board track at Brooklyn's Nautilus Boat Club games.
- Surveys New Jersey press opinion on the proposed county road-improvement law, with the Sussex Herald and Plainfield Times opposed and the Bound Brook Chronicle, Warren Republican and Elizabeth Daily Journal in favour, as Union County farmers approve Senator Miller's bill.
- A brief Trenton dispatch of Feb. 26 reporting that the County Road bill has passed the New Jersey Senate.
- The Harlem Wheelmen's committee (Messrs. Newcome, Raisbeck and Emanuel) announce an entertainment and reception for March 13 at West End Hall, 125th Street, tickets $1.
- At Indianapolis a careless wheelman ran into Supreme Court Judges Coffee and Berkshire leaving the Capitol grounds, badly spraining Judge Coffee's wrist; the rider was not arrested.
- Previews the National Amateur Athletic games at Madison Square Garden, listing over fifty entries for the third-mile bicycle handicap including Davis, Kingsland, Banker, C. M. Murphy and Zimmerman.
- Chief Consul Geo. R. Bidwell calls an adjourned meeting of the New York State Division Board of Officers for March 4 at the New York Bicycle Club house to consider by-law amendments.
- The Indiana Supreme Court, Chief-Justice Elliott delivering the opinion, held that a man who rudely rode a bicycle into a pedestrian on a sidewalk was liable for assault and battery, since bicycles are vehicles and sidewalks are for footmen.
- Describes the Scranton Bicycle Club's first grand reception at its new Washington Avenue club house designed by Architect Duckworth, with President George A. Jessup receiving nearly a thousand guests, and lists club officers and out-of-town guests.
- Reports the eleventh annual dinner of the Boston Bicycle Club at Parker's, with President Hodges yielding to Town Club President W. B. Everett and speeches from F. W. Weston, J. S. Dean, Ex-Commodore Savage and others; full attendance list given.
- Recounts the Harlem Wheelmen's progressive euchre party of Feb. 23 organised by Messrs. Newcome, Raisbeck, Emanuel and Robus, lists the candidates for club office (T. A. Raisbeck for President), and notes a coming reception at West End Hall on March 13.
- Notes the formation of the Alcazar Bicycle Club at St. Augustine, with President L. Brinkerhoffe and Captain E. K. Knowlton, and its first dinner held the 19th inst.
- Describes the Buffalo Bicycle Club's tenth-anniversary banquet at the Genesee with guest Dr. George E. Blackham of Dunkirk and Prof. A. C. Richardson as toastmaster, listing the toasts and respondents.
- A long column of trade and racing notes: Lehr the German champion, Bob Cripps, S. G. Whittaker's possible amateur reinstatement, George Hendee at the Stanley Show, the Capital Cycle Co.'s Psycho agency clash with Pope Mfg. Co., the Gormully & Jeffery 1889 catalogue, and condemnation of the New York six-day women's race as a fake.
- St. Louis correspondent "Ithuriel" on a farmer's hostile bill in the Missouri Legislature forcing wheelmen to dismount for horses, the road-improvement bill, the Stone-Lumsden race series, and the Missouri Bicycle Club's coming election with A. Moore Berry favoured for president.
- From the Nashville American: praises Murfreesboro as the South's best wheeling town, profiles rider Jesse Sparks Jr., notes a planned awheel trip to Washington, and Jo Combs's new Gormully & Jeffery American safety for ladies.
- Troy correspondent recounts a misprinted earlier paragraph, the Troy Bicycle Club's seventh and eighth socials and bowling matches against Coon & Co.'s collar shop, praises new L.A.W. President C. H. Luscomb, and prefers The Wheel to the official Bulletin.
- Philadelphia correspondent "Argus" on the tandem "goat" fever among the Century Wheelmen, Fairmount Park improvements, and a comic account of a Glee Club ghost-hunt at the Century's haunted new brown-stone clubhouse.
- Long Island correspondent "Nyx" on the Long Island Wheelmen's season-opening run to Coney Island under Captain Teller, K. C. W. election prospects (Bridgman and Marion), a ladies' reception and dance, and the club's 1,884-mile January total; also Bidwell's account of the L.A.W. uniform contract going to Browning, King & Co.
- An extended trade write-up of the Psycho cycles imported by the Capital Cycle Company of Washington, D.C., designed by H. S. Owen, detailing seven dropped- and straight-frame safety and tandem models with weights, gearing and prices from $100 to $200.
- Trade note previewing the Special Premier safety and Premier tandem safety imported by L. H. Johnson of Orange, N. J., describing the 30-28 safety with weldless steel forks and the 90-pound tandem priced at $200.
- Reports the text of a bill in the Missouri Legislature requiring cyclists outside city limits to dismount 100 yards before meeting horses or mules and remain so until passed, with fines of $10 to $100 plus liability for frightened animals.
- Lists the bowling league games to be played and the scores already recorded among the New York, Hudson County, Kings County, Harlem and Atalanta club teams.
- A list of cycle patents dated Feb. 26 reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including Albert H. Overman's velocipede, Herbert S. Owen's bicycle, Gustav A. Schubert's driving mechanism, Hezekiah B. Smith's steam tricycle and Chas. Sprake's ice velocipede.
- A letter signed "Pony" replying to W. W. Stall on ladies' cycling, favouring the light "bike" over the tricycle for women and predicting a great increase in lady riders, but agreeing with Stall in preferring the three-wheeled tricycle for tandem use.
- Calendar of forthcoming cycling fixtures from Feb. 27 to March 27, 1889, including the Riverside Wheelmen's Fair, the N.A.A.A.A. games at Madison Square Garden, bowling league matches and the Brooklyn Club's theatre party.