The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Editorial sketching the Maryland L.A.W. meet programme at Hagerstown and arguing, citing the American Athlete and the Lancaster Pike, that the United States must build a network of good public highways for cyclers and carriage drivers.
- Trade and racing notes: Fred Whiteside of the Century Wheelmen scorching the Lancaster Pike, the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s ad, A. E. Schaaf and C. C. Candy drumming up trade in Minneapolis, and the Long Island Cycle Co.'s new Brooklyn agency.
- Club run to Dobb's Ferry on May 5, twenty-five new members admitted, and Fred Menger, F. R. Miller and E. A. Powers leading the club mileage record.
- Ashton Nichols, L.A.W., narrates a Columbia 'Expert' tour with his friend Peter from Cornwall-on-the-Hudson through Lake Mohonk, Walden, Port Jervis and Milford to the Delaware Water Gap.
- L. A. Clarke, Chairman, details arrangements for the G.C.R. '89 from Orange to Philadelphia on June 8, noting it is not a road race and that Mrs. L. A. Newcomb is organizing a ladies' party from the Harlem Wheelmen.
- Notice of the new Warwick Perfection Safety, seen at Halpin & Co.'s Murray Street store, praising its handsome looks and claimed 'non-sensitiveness.'
- Cycling patents reported for The Wheel by C. A. Snow & Co., including T. W. Moore's bicycle, G. Hayes Jr.'s treadle and C. F. Sweet's velocipede saddle, all dated May 7, 1889.
- 'Argus' reports Philadelphia club news: the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's first ladies' run to Wayne, McDaniels and Merrihew entering the Decoration Day road race, and the Century Wheelmen voting against lady members.
- Account of the scorching match on the Lancaster Pike from West Chester, in which Fred Whitesides of the Century Wheelmen hung with the Wilmington trio Dampman, McDaniels and Merrihew, plus George Caryl of the South Ends taking a bad header.
- 'Bay Ridge' on Hagerstown L.A.W. meet preparations (July 2-4), the Hamilton House as headquarters, Potomac Wheelmen officer elections at Cumberland, and Harry G. Tyler's Baltimore Club championship medal.
- California correspondent defends a previous report against 'Eureka,' praises the Bay City Wheelmen's successful hop arranged by F. W. Pierson, and notes Fred Russ Cook appointed official handicapper for the district.
- 'Ithuriel' describes the St. Louis illuminated bicycle parade led by the Missouri Club under Alex Lewis, with the Cycle Club under Captain Sanders, a George-and-Martha-Washington tandem and rough handling of hoodlums.
- 'Spoke' reports the Atalanta Wheelmen's April mileage of 1,375 miles, five new members elected, a planned club-house 'smoker' on May 14 and a muddy Morristown run via Eagle Rock.
- 'Jack' on A. M. Gooch's home-built ordinary, the White Cycle Co. factory at Westboro, a denunciation of racing in tights versus bare knees, night-riding from Melrose to Peebles, and an attack on the Buffalo 'Whip' editor's theft of the 'Pendragon' nom de plume.
- 'Atol' reports the Kings County Wheelmen initiating a baseball league among local cycling clubs, the Cyclists' Union clearing Cobblestone Hill, and the Murphy Brothers' wins at the Titan A.C. games.
- Bicycle races at Audubon Park on May 2 for the Home for Homeless Women, with results of the boys' half-mile (won by Dupre), the mile handicap (Harold Christy) and an extra half-mile dash (B. M. Sprigg).
- Detailed report of the Bay City Wheelmen's race meet at the Haight Street grounds, including the novice race won by E. F. Haas and the half-mile handicap won by Gilmour from Hickinbottom, with Fred Russ Cook as referee.
- Howard L. Perkins resigns his offices in the Rhode Island Wheelmen and State Division; also the R.I.W. spring ladies' run from Sharon to Boston and the closing of the league Wamsutta hotel at North Attleboro.
- Notes on the Troy Bicycle Club bowling badge awarded to John M. Van Arnam, the club's first run of the season to Mechanicville, and reflections on the propriety of organized Sunday runs and races.
- Preview of the Decoration Day handicap over the Irvington-Milburn course May 30, listing prizes from Overman, Spalding, Bidwell and Prial and entries from the Wilmington and Kings County Wheelmen.
- Full official rules for the twenty-five-mile handicap over the Irvington-Milburn course, covering the referee, judges, umpires, competitors, rule of the road and change of machines.
- Programme of the Long Island Wheelmen's second annual meeting at the Brooklyn Athletic Club grounds June 15, with the event list, entry terms via L. H. Wise, and a table of Long Island distances.
- The Cambridge Bicycle Club's annual minstrel show at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, with A. B. Davenport's topical song and Walter E. Stone and W. C. Curtis as end men, John Amee as interlocutor.
- 'Putnam' reports the Kings County Wheelmen's stag entertainment tendered to the L.I.W., featuring boxing bouts (Lutz and Schuster, Steffins and Donoghue), recitations and 'Doc' Gilfillan's 1,300-mile record.
- Practical training hints for the novice road racer who lacks track access, covering pacing, sprint bursts, diet, woolen underclothing, dual gearing for path work and avoiding 'staleness.'
- A Boston Globe tall tale reprinted from the New York Tribune of James Webb, who when the steamer Carlotta sank in the Merrimac River propelled his bicycle sixty feet along the bottom and emerged.
- Calendar of forthcoming race meets and runs from May 10 to July 27, 1889, including the Chicago tournament, the Decoration Day road races, the L.A.W. meet at Hagerstown and N.C.U. championships at Paddington.
- Full entry lists for the Chicago Cycling Exhibit and Tournament events, naming Percy Stone, A. E. Lumsden, Bryson Burroughs, Alfred Barrett of Birmingham and the Omaha contingent.
- Survey of the English season's 'Big Four'—Synyer, Osmond, Illston and Furnivall—their machines and prospects, plus Howell's win at North Shields and the Synyer-Kilkelly accident at Ball's Bridge, Dublin.
- Stillman G. Whittaker, the safety champion, arrives from England and gives an interview on cycling abroad, J. K. Starley, the dominance of the safety, and his hope to ride as an amateur for Gormully & Jeffery.
- A lady cyclist's springtime letter and 'Pioneer's' lengthy account of becoming 'the first lady bicyclist' in Washington, D.C., from her riding-school start on November 13, 1887, to demonstrations and meets.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist: J. K. Starley presents Whittaker a gold medal at the Hare and Hounds Hotel, Keresley, commemorating his 21-mile-126-yard hour record at Bordeaux on a 'Rover' safety.
- Obituary of Stephen Terry of Hartford, first Chief Consul of Connecticut and L.A.W. Vice-President, who died of typhoid pneumonia at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, after taking cold at Los Angeles.
- Hezekiah B. Smith of Smithville, N.J., sets out the patent specification for his steam-tricycle, describing the tubular frame as oil reservoir, the duplex gearing, oil-burner boiler and steering and braking arrangements.
- A comic first-person sketch ('Headers') of a self-made man's disastrous first attempts to mount and ride a nickel-plated bicycle before a gathering crowd of small boys, ending in a crash.
- Reprinted from the London Daily News: G. W. Burston's round-the-world bicycle tour, drawing crowds from Jaffa to Jerusalem, Baalbec and Damascus, and covering 1,641 miles in India in eighteen days.
- List of the Pennsylvania Division committees for 1889—Rights and Privileges, Rules and Regulations, Improvement of Highways and Racing—naming S. A. Boyle, W. D. Supplee, S. H. Murray and Kirk Brown among others.