The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Editor F. P. Prial rebuts an attack signed 'Perseus' in the Sporting Life over The Wheel's discussion of bicycle patents, then runs short leaders welcoming the New York press's push for asphalt pavements, warning cyclists to behave on the railroads now the Trunk Line Association carries wheels free, and cautioning buyers against second-hand machines with effaced serial numbers.
- Wide-ranging news column on clubs and riders, including the Louisville Cycle Club's St. John's Day parade, Charles Schwalbach's silver cup for the Kings County Wheelmen, the founding of the Women's Wheel and Athletic Club of Buffalo, the death of H. F. Griffin of Goy Ltd. in London, and the controversy over Chairman Davol's suspension of Davis and Bailey from the intercollegiate race.
- Roster of the roughly ninety entrants in the New York-to-Philadelphia century run, listed by club (Citizens, Brooklyn, Bloomfield, Manhattan, Kings County Wheelmen, Orange, Essex, Trenton and others), with marks distinguishing century-makers and survivors of both runs.
- First-person account of the New York-to-Philadelphia run via Newark, Westfield, Plainfield, New Brunswick and Trenton; forty-six of about ninety starters finished, Miss Kate Welch of the Wissahickon Wheelmen completing the distance on a tandem with her brother Warren, while Mr. Gessleman of Germantown broke his backbone in a fall at Orange.
- Capt. C. Newbourg of the Prospect Wheelmen, Brooklyn, an employee of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, announces special cars from New York to Hagerstown, Md., for the tenth annual L. A. W. Meet, with bookings via 415 Broadway.
- Shipboard letter signed 'Tam O'Shanter' on the thirty-strong party organised by Frank Elwell of Portland, Me., aboard the Cunard steamer Cephalonia, noting fellow passengers James Russell Lowell, Harvard law professor Dr. M. M. Bigelow and Quadrant Tricycle Co.'s H. G. Priest, and recounting the meals, deck games and crew antics of the Atlantic crossing.
- Dispatch from Cork reporting that the Cephalonia reached Queenstown and the Elwell party was taken off by tender, met by Irish cyclists and by J. Pennell and A. J. Wilson ('Faed') from London, then took rail to Youghal to keep engagements.
- 'Faed' continues the tour diary from Youghal through Dungarvan, Waterford, New Ross and Enniscorthy to Gorey, with receptions by local bicycle clubs and C.T.C. Chief Consul R. E. Brenan, a detour to the Mount Melleray monastery, and a visit to Charles Parnell's residence in company with Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Mecredy of Dublin on a tandem.
- Account of the Boston Press Cycling Club's mud-plagued inaugural run to Wakefield, where the half-dozen riders dined with Capt. Robinson of the Wakefield Bicycle Club and were photographed by A. H. Binders of the Middlesex Club.
- 'Ithuriel' reports the Missouri Bicycle Club's monthly meeting defeating a move to repeal its Sunday rule, and the club's theatrical resolution to cancel its subscription to The Wheel over the correspondent's 'bow-legged' description of member Brown, plus a note on the Lumsden-Stone race.
- Correspondent 'Argus' describes the Philadelphia reception of the century run: about seventy Century Wheelmen rode out to Holmesburg to meet the party, escorted them down asphalt-paved Broad Street and to the Continental Hotel, with cheers for tandem-riding Miss Welch and her brother of the Wissahickon Wheelmen.
- 'Bay Ridge' reports Baltimore-area club news ahead of the Hagerstown meet, including the Crescent Club's tobacco-decorated 'smoker', the Clark Cycle Company's wire 'Hagerstown' souvenir pins, Joel Gutman & Co.'s sporting window display, and a flood of hotel applications.
- 'Snohomish' previews the Tacoma race meet of July 3, listing its short-race programme under the McCoy committee, and recounts the Tacoma Bicycle Club's baseball defeat by the Rod and Gun Club and the favourable Victoria, B.C., notices for Prince Wells's fancy riding and Karl Thompson's championship win.
- Notes on the Washington Cycle Club hosting twenty-five Baltimore Cycle Club riders on a run to Cabin John Bridge, the Capital club's planned moonlight excursion to Marshall Hall, and the organisation of a new 'Columbia' club.
- Report that Madison Avenue will be paved with asphalt up to 59th Street, giving New York and Brooklyn wheelmen a smooth route from the 23rd Street ferry to Central Park.
- 'Tentoonh' describes Witmer's Bridge over the Conestoga and a hill-climbing contest of June 6 at Potts' Tavern won by Reist on an ordinary over Griel, Rose and the Star riders, and previews the Lancaster Bicycle Club tournament of July 4.
- 'Spark' reports nine Atalanta Wheelmen rode the Great Century Run under Lieut. Rummell, eight new members elected, and a rain-thinned moonlight run to Caldwell led by Captain Drabble.
- Calendar of forthcoming American and European race meets and runs, including the Massachusetts Division meet at Squantum (June 17), the Kings County Wheelmen's meet at Washington Park (June 28-29), the League Meet at Hagerstown (July 2-4), and N.C.U. championships at Paddington, England.
- Summary of the Los Angeles meet of May 30, where local riders swept all prizes and three California state records fell, W. S. Wing taking the one-mile and five-mile state championships and J. R. Tufts the safety and novice events at Agricultural Park.
- Chief Consul Dr. W. H. Emery's programme for the June 17 Massachusetts Division meet, with three handicaps, club-championship medals, and a picnic arrangement under which each wheelman supplies his own lunch carried by wagon.
- Notes on the Wolverhampton (Molineux) meeting, a ten-mile Fred Wood v. Dick Howell match at Sunderland, Illston's record attempts, Mr. Loosley of Brighton's two-ounce miniature cycle, and a destructive fire at cycle agent Hale's premises in Littlehampton.
- Official Division notices from Chief Consul W. S. Bull, including the circular to League hotels on honouring membership tickets, the Trunk Line Association resolution carrying bicycles free over its member railroads, and List No. 2 of appointed consuls and hotels.
- The League Racing Board, on Chairman Davol's charge, declares champion amateur Willie Windle a professional after he admitted his trainer-cousin Asa Windle took $100 from a bicycle concern for expenses; Windle's own letter says his father received $125 and that he will not race again.
- The Hartford Wheel Club votes a strictly amateur tournament for September 4-5 under a committee chaired by L. A. Tracy, with the Connecticut League of American Wheelmen accepting an invitation to hold a meet during the event.
- Chairman Davol clarifies Rule 26 (race officers may not compete at a meeting they officiate) and the Racing Board's ruling that 'bicycle' in a race definition means 'ordinary', so safeties cannot enter unless races are classified as such.
- Preview of the Tennessee Division meet at Nashville on the 18th, detailing the parade line of march, recommended dress, and a four-day, 201-mile League tour through Shelbyville, Fayetteville, Murfreesboro and Lebanon.
- Programme for the Missouri Division meet at Sedalia, the 'Queen City of the Prairie', with a reception run to McAllister Springs, a parade and division meeting, nine races and a banquet at Sicklen's Hotel.
- Survey of Hagerstown's hotel capacity for the tenth annual League Meet (Hamilton, Baldwin, City, Franklin and Seminary among them), with the Pope Mfg. Co., Overman Wheel Co. and Clark Cycle Co. already booking display rooms and attendance estimated at 1,800-2,000.
- Detailed railroad routes and certificate procedure for reaching the Hagerstown League Meet, with timetables from New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Washington and special emphasis on the wheel-carrying B. & O. and Western Maryland railroads.
- 'Ram Lal' reports Kings County Wheelmen affairs: renewed road-hog posts on the Bath road path, Chas. Murphy's win at the Manhattan A. C. games, the relay team against Berkeley, and the K.C.W. and Brooklyn finishers of the century run.
- Lady correspondent 'Psyche' advises on the pedal mount in motion and stresses the value of a reliable front-wheel brake, recounting how its instant use saved her from a bad fall when her skirt caught in the chain of a borrowed wheel.
- Reprinted from Bicycling News, an argument that average tourists and road-riders, unlike racing scorchers, ride more easily and climb hills better when seated well over the pedals rather than far back behind the crank-axle.
- A trade write-up cast as a chance call on Manager Irving of the N. Y. Bicycle Co.'s new uptown shop at No. 4 East 60th Street, reporting booming trade, the firm's 'special brew' enamel and repair facilities, and the Victors' ten firsts on Decoration Day.
- Miscellany including a selected patent (W. Goulden of Clapton's velocipede spring), the new Goat Cycle Club of Boston, Hal Greenwood's hill-climbing challenge, and the sensation caused in Ireland by J. B. Dunlop's pneumatic bicycle, on which the previously winless Hume swept the Belfast Queen's College sports.
- Describes the popular ride from the Boston suburbs via Beacon Street and Newton Centre to Highlandville, where the Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co.'s factory under President J. B. McCune employs about 125 men and uses Pratt & Whitney machinery.