The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 15
Articles in this issue
- With Governor Hill having signed the Ives Bill appropriating six million dollars for New York City pavements over three years, Mayor Grant, Commissioner Gilroy and ex-Commissioner-General Newton debate granite-on-concrete versus asphalt and the damage done by utility excavations.
- The Union County, N.J., Board of Freeholders votes $150,000 in bonds to improve four principal roads, including the routes Rahway-Elizabeth, Elizabeth-New Providence and Plainfield-Elizabeth, with work to be completed within a year.
- A lady correspondent describes the Middlesex Cycle Club's Decoration Day picnic run to Lynnfield Grove on Lake Suntaug (Humphrey's Pond), where thirty-eight, seventeen of them ladies, sat down to dinner despite rain, with baseball, boating and Kodak photography.
- Report (from the Chicago Herald) of the rain-soaked Pullman sixteen-mile road race: F. Bodach of the Aeolus Club crosses first in 1h 1m 13s and takes the prizes, while scratch men Lumsden (56m 15s) and Van Sicklen (57m 49s) make the fastest times; full finisher list given.
- Post-mortem on the Orange 25-mile road race won by W. Murphy on a 27 lb. Victor Road Racer, with Bensinger winning fastest time on a Light Champion and Coningsby praised for his ride on a 47 lb. Victor safety; detailed comparison of 1888 versus 1889 split times.
- Cycling and velocipede patents dated June 4, 1889, reported by patent attorneys C. A. Snow & Co. of Washington, D.C., including bicycles by J. F. Breux of Vineland and S. D. Reynolds of Nevada, Mo., and a velocipede by A. Easthope of Wolverhampton.
- Calendar of forthcoming American and European cycling fixtures from June through October 1889, including the Orange-to-Philadelphia Century Run, the L.A.W. League Meet at Hagerstown, Md., July 2-4, and N.C.U. championships at Paddington, England.
- The New Haven Bicycle Club's annual Decoration Day meet at Elm City Driving Park: Parkington wins the five-mile handicap, the Welter brothers' tandem takes the one-mile safety, and Verhoeff wins the two-mile open; an evening smoker followed.
- Decoration Day tournament of the West End Club at Rochester before 1,500 chilled spectators, with E. O. Rassicoe of Woodstock winning five first prizes; results across handicaps, safety, novice and Monroe County championship events are listed.
- The Rhode Island Wheelmen's rain-spoiled Narragansett Park meet, where Harvard cracks R. H. Davis and E. A. Bailey were barred under L.A.W. suspension; J. P. Clark won the two-mile national championship and the Dorchester team took the team race.
- The annual challenge-cup twenty-mile race on French Avenue between five-man teams from New Bedford and Taunton, won by Taunton 28 points to 27, with Anthony of Taunton fastest in 70m 6s.
- English track results including three new amateur records at the Catford meet (F. J. Osmond's 37s standing quarter) and W. A. Illston lowering the two-mile ordinary record to 5m 12 1-5s at Coventry, plus 'Bicycling News' banter about William Windle racing in England.
- Reprinted from the Providence Sunday Journal, an endorsement of Chief Consul Charles S. Davol's plucky decision as Racing Board Chairman to suspend Davis and Bailey of Harvard on Memorial Day despite the damage to his own club's Narragansett Park tournament.
- The annual York County Meet at Biddeford, where 150 wheelmen paraded before rain-soaked races; Leavitt won the club race, West of Portland the safety race, and Wyer of Fairfield the state race and Pope cup, with G. E. Dow of Portland as referee.
- An over-ambitious 'Pooh-Bah' member of the Winsted Wheel Club who seized the Finance, Press and Race committees and failed to account for funds caused the club to abandon its Decoration Day meet, with talk of expelling him.
- Captain Dietzer's notice for the Buffalo Ramblers' annual century run on June 9, going by Lake Superior Transit Co. steamer to Erie and wheeling back to Buffalo via Westfield, Angola and Silver Creek Hill.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Westfield' on the Associated Cycling Clubs' Decoration Day inter-club run to Devon Inn, the Pennsylvania Club's June run schedule, the Pennsylvania Railroad now carrying cycles free, and the Bailey-Schaeffer race.
- Correspondent 'Argus' describes the large inter-club run to Devon and gives a lap-by-lap account of the Bailey-Schaeffer mile match on the University of Pennsylvania track, won by Bailey by four lengths in 3m 11 4-5s.
- 'Ram Lal' celebrates the Kings County Wheelmen's dominance in the 25-mile Orange road race, scoring the seven K.C.W. men as a team (111 points to 78), quoting riders' remarks, and noting A. B. Rich and E. Valentine's return to the path.
- Correspondent 'Atol' on Brooklyn's strong showing in the 25-mile road race (Borland riding to a finish despite a header and dislocated wrist), the coming Philadelphia Century run, and the K.C.W. and L.I.W. June meets.
- A correspondent ('L. D. A.') reflecting on the strong fraternal spirit among wheelmen, Alabama's drought and dust, an arriving party of Georgia tourists piloted by Mr. Ingram, and asking how a low safety handles in windy weather versus a 48-inch ordinary.
- Decoration Day in Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: a morning bicycle parade of fifty-four wheels and a sixteen-mile road race from Poughkeepsie won by the Van Benschoten brothers, with three-month rider E. Cashin the surprise on a Victor safety.
- From the Boston Herald, Decoration Day outings of Boston's wheelmen (832 counted at Chestnut Hill reservoir), including the Boston Bicycle Club's run to North Weymouth and the Middlesex Club's Lynnfield picnic.
- Correspondent 'Safety' on the postponed Ivorydale-to-Glendale handicap road race (now June 9, Burroughs and Koppes favored), the Cincinnati club championship race, and local gossip of Buckles, Kappes and Colling.
- Correspondent 'Tentoone' on a wet Decoration Day, a seven-mile evening run to Robinstown, and the York Bicycle Club under Capt. Swartz being escorted by the Lancaster club to a reception, presenting a gold medal for the July 4 races.
- Correspondent 'Zo' on the Buffalo clubs' weather-spoiled Decoration Day: the 'Spartan eight' of the Buffalos completing a 100-mile ride from Erie despite rain and headers, while the Zig-Zags and Ramblers struggled or abandoned their trips.
- Correspondent 'Snohomish' on a Tacoma bicycle club delegation's visit to the Queen's Birthday festival at Victoria, B.C., where Karl Thompson won the two-mile British Columbia championship and Prince Wells gave fancy trick riding and a lantern parade.
- Atalanta Wheelmen notes: twenty men under Captain Drabble at the Irvington road race, Mr. Eichhorn selling his Harvard, Wilmington's Edwin Dauchy giving up his ride with stomach trouble, and E. M. Halsey's leading 607-mile May mileage.
- The Peoria Bicycle Club's banquet at Freidrich's Hotel honoring Bert Myers, champion unicycle rider and holder of the world's amateur 24-hour record, for his seven firsts at the Chicago tournament, with his decorated machine on display.
- Correspondent 'H. S. R.' recounts a Decoration Day tour from Meadville, Pa., through Evensburg, Harmonsburg and Shadeland (Powell Bros.' stock farm), including trying to trade away the dog Towser, before mud and rain forced a train home from Albion.
- On Washington Boulevard, F. W. Van Sicklen beat A. P. Jackson by 27 seconds for the diamond Hancock Medal, the last three miles ridden in good time of 9m 1s.
- The Louisiana Cycling Club's inaugural long-distance sealed-handicap race on the asphalt of St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, won by L. J. Frederic, Jr. over twenty-five miles in 1h 39m 13s after Sprigg and Graham faltered.
- A correspondent (L.A.W. No. 11,893) commends Chief Consul Bull's new N.Y. State Division contract obliging League hotel landlords to furnish wheelmen accommodation equal to regular guests at fixed rates, with redress for aggrieved tourists.
- Geo. R. Bidwell, Eastern Representative of the L.A.W. Transportation Committee, reports that the Trunk Line Association has resolved to let member lines carry a bicycle free with a first-class passenger ticket, restoring the position of the past seven years.
- A table of the twelve Hagerstown, Md., hotels and the reduced rates fixed for wheelmen attending the L.A.W. meet, from the Hamilton and Baldwin at $2.00-2.50 down to the American-plan houses at $1.00.
- Maryland notes: the Potomac Wheelmen of Cumberland's well-attended lantern parade under Captain Willison, the rapidly filling Hagerstown hotels, and preparations for President Luscomb's reception at what may be the largest L.A.W. meet ever.
- A long column of trade and club squibs, including the death of English maker William Sutton of Starley & Sutton, the Eastern Trunk Line Association ordering free carriage of cycles, Gormully & Jeffery's Light Champion road-race wins, and Abbot Bassett's limerick on Davol and Davis.
- Preview of the tenth annual L.A.W. meet at Hagerstown, Md., July 2-4: President Luscomb's reception at the Hamilton, runs over Washington County roads, a battlefield excursion to Antietam and South Mountain, the parade, races at the Fair Grounds and a grand 'smoker.'
- Karl Kron's memorial letter on the tenth anniversary of his first ride (and dislocated elbow on No. 234), urging subscriptions to the Washington Square Memorial Arch and advertising his $2 book 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle,' followed by practical advice on touring distances, feeding and clothing.
- A miscellany on cycling's health benefits, the asphalting of West End Avenue, W. L. Welch's plea for a League scheme to transmit tourists' funds safely, and a Southern correspondent's notes on Georgia and Alabama touring, the Atlanta 'Road Congress,' and Pope's banner gift to the Boston Press Cycling Club.