The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on New York City's Centennial celebration of George Washington's inauguration, describing the military and industrial parades, banquet for eight hundred 'representative men,' and reproducing the peroration of Bishop Potter's sermon at St. Paul's on national character.
- Reports strong enthusiasm at Hagerstown for the coming L.A.W. Meet, with Chief Consul Mott assisting and the town's elevation promising cool July weather.
- Clarifies amateur-status rules for cyclists belonging to both athletic and cycling clubs, the Racing Board chairman confirming such riders may accept expenses under A.A.U. and N.A.A.A.A. rules without forfeiting amateur standing.
- Reprinted from The Scottish Cyclist, detailed advice on training racing cyclists — winter conditioning, regularity of meals and riding, and a programme of graduated track spurts; to be concluded next week.
- Full patent specification by Leon Baudreau of Chicopee Falls, Mass., for spring-fork connections between wheel-axle and fork-head that absorb road shock and reduce the danger of being thrown over the handlebars.
- Troy, N.Y. correspondence on a tandem safety ride with Will Gardner through Waterford, Cohoes and Lansingburg, the wedding of Herbert P. Cole to Miss Minnie Stewart, and the Troy Bicycle Club's tournament at Bicycle Hall with bicycle drill under Capt. Hanley and fancy riding by Eddie Ellenwood.
- St. Louis correspondent 'Ithuriel' argues the city deserves the League Meet, recalls its $500 surplus turned over to the League, and reports preparations for an illuminated parade under President Lucas of the Cycle Club and the coming Percy Stone–Lumsden race series.
- Account by 'Argus' of the South End Wheelmen's first full-dress bicycle reception at St. George's Hall, Philadelphia, April 25, with sixty couples in the grand march and fancy riding on the Star by T. R. Finley, who descended a flight of stairs awheel.
- Philadelphia notes by 'Westfield' on the new Lansdowne Wheelmen (W. C. Biddle, president), Draper and Taxis covering a 107-mile century run, balls by the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club and South End Wheelmen, and a Pennsylvania B.C. tandem party riding to Wayne.
- Correspondent 'Lyxate' reports growing cycling and extensive road improvement in Jefferson County, a planned tour from Columbus, Ga. through northern Alabama to Chattanooga, and rebukes a 'Bicycling World' writer 'Jack' for slighting Mississippi.
- Reproduces President Luscomb's letter to Chief Consul Albert Mott confirming Hagerstown and July 2–4 for the 1889 L.A.W. Meet under a new policy that visiting wheelmen pay their own way; also Maryland club notes including the Crescent Club's house-opening hop.
- Boston-area notes on the Cambridge Bicycle Club presenting flowers to Interlocuter Tom Hall at a minstrel entertainment, with humorous numbers by F. G. Reynolds and E. W. Emerson, followed by a collation at the Waverley House.
- Brooklyn items by 'Atol' on the Chelsea Cycle Club's annual dinner and election of Charles E. Walker as president, the Kings County Wheelmen sending fifteen men on the Philadelphia century run, and L.I.W. and K.C.W. club runs and racing plans.
- Reports the Rhode Island Wheelmen's all-day run to Boston set for May 20 and previews their cycle and athletic tournament at Narragansett Park on Memorial Day, with word that Will Windle will race again this season.
- Buffalo notes by 'Zo' on rain-spoiled tours, revival of the Buffalos' old drill corps, Chief Consul W. S. Bull's League recruiting, and the club's plan to make the 100-mile Erie run an annual event.
- Hub correspondent 'Jack' recounts meeting H. G. Priest of the Quadrant Cycle Co. of Birmingham at the Boston Bicycle Club, lunching with Col. Pope at the Pope Mfg. Co., and inspecting the new White Cycle safety factory at Westboro, Mass.
- Correspondent 'Snohomish' reports a road scorch to Steilacoom won by Halsted and Thompson, a visit from Ed. Adams of San Francisco (Pacific coast amateur fancy champion), and plans for a 20-mile championship road race in the new State of Washington.
- New Haven notes by 'Elm City' on the club's Fast Day parade and run to Branford Point, heavy demand for Safeties, a Columbia Tandem Trike ridden by Sperry and Welton, and Palmer Freleck riding halfway up a toboggan slide on a 54-inch Expert.
- Calendar of cycling events from May 4 to July 27, 1889, including the Chicago Cycling Exhibit, Stone–Lumsden match races, Harvard Bicycle Club meet, Narragansett Park tournament, and the League Meet at Hagerstown.
- Reports a newly added 100-mile race on May 16, open to both safety and ordinary wheels, with ten entries including Bert Myers of Peoria and Alec Lewis of St. Louis, plus hotel rates and headquarters arrangements at the Palmer House.
- Reprints a Tribune account of a Chicago Battery 'D' women's six-day race where Constable Scanlon thrust his cane into Miss Jessie Oaks' spokes to serve a $600 writ and was beaten from the hall by the crowd led by manager Thomas W. Eck, while Mrs. Eck made off with the box receipts.
- Reports the meeting at the Knickerbocker Cottage, called by A. B. Barkman, to organize a 25-mile handicap road race, naming a permanent committee of seven from the Brooklyn, Kings County, Manhattan and New York clubs and outlining rules barring ex-professionals.
- Letter from 'Psyche' correcting a Nashville American misquotation and debating 'Helen Grey' in the Bicycling World over bicycle versus tricycle for women, arguing the safety bicycle is the logical outcome of efforts for feminine comfort.
- Sterling Elliott of Newton, Mass. replies to 'Psyche,' asserting ladies can learn to balance a bicycle in under an hour with good instruction and machine, and urging women cyclists to reform impractical skirt fashions.
- Miscellaneous notes including Kilkelly the fastest man in Ireland, mileage medals awarded by the New York Bicycle Club to seven 2,000-mile riders of 1888, and F. A. Elwell securing reduced Irish hotel rates for his European tour party.
- Reprints a Cyclist editorial bespeaking a warm English welcome for the Elwell touring party in June, followed by The Wheel's rejoinder to 'Elm City' on the League, the Divisions, and roads improvement.
- Reviews the Capital Cycle Co.'s calendar-format catalogue illustrated by Francois Noije and engraved by the Moss Engraving Co., and lists their 'Psycho' safety models, including the 38-lb. Light Roadster at $140.
- Announces the New York Bicycle Co.'s move from Warren Street to No. 4 East Sixtieth Street at the Fifth Avenue entrance to Central Park, with a larger salesroom, repair shop and A. G. Spalding & Bros. agency.
- Lists four bicycle-related patents dated April 30, 1889 — by J. Kibbe of Amsterdam N.Y. (bicycle), H. P. Chapin of Chicopee Mass. (bicycle step), C. J. Colling of Cincinnati (handle-bar) and C. G. Duryea of Washington D.C. (velocipede), reported by C. A. Snow & Co.
- Profiles A. W. Gump & Co. of Dayton, Ohio, trading since 1879 and now reaching Bermuda, Mexico and South America; quotes a Dayton Board of Trade Journal description of their premises holding over 500 new and used wheels, with Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. as special partners.
- Reviews W. W. Stall of Boston's 1889 catalogue covering Stars, Boston safeties, Psycho, Warwick, Eagle, Columbia and Victor makes, noting Stall sells on installments, rents wheels, teaches, and carries photographic goods and sundries.