The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 17
Articles in this issue
- Ahead of the Hagerstown meeting of L.A.W. Chief Consuls, The Wheel argues that State official organs serve the League better than the Bicycling World Company's exclusive contract, and that branch State tailoring (per the Massachusetts Division's resolution) would spread the official uniform more cheaply and widely.
- The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company's circular of June 10 announces that bicycles, velocipedes and tricycles will be carried free at owner's risk on its lines, the Atlantic City R.R., Central Railroad of N.J. and Lehigh Valley R.R., with a 25-cent charge for Philadelphia transfers.
- The weekly miscellany of club, race and trade items, covering the death of W. F. Bartlett of the Harlem Bicycle Company, George Hendee's forthcoming article on training, and a notable century on a Royal Singer safety by W. S. Doane of Dorchester.
- The Paris correspondent of Bicycling News reports that professional De Civry was arrested outside the Rudge depot on May 25 for tampering with cash accounts and held at the Mazas prison awaiting trial, his downfall blamed on gambling losses at Monaco and Paris.
- An appeal is expected against the act ordering the proposed boulevard in Monmouth County, N.J., with a bill likely to give control to the Park Commissioners rather than the Board of Chosen Freeholders, the projected million-dollar cost possibly still insufficient.
- French actress Mme. Jane Hading, in a two-column piece for the New York World, criticises American street pavements and telegraph poles while marvelling that so energetic a nation spares no cash for decent roads.
- Four events at Huntington: F. G. Brown of N.J.A.C. won the half-mile dash and the mile open, while Wm. Murphy of the Kings County Wheelmen took the 2-mile handicap; officials included judges E. R. Aitken, Thos. Lloyd and C. B. Scudder.
- A long letter signed 'Tam O'Shanter' recounting the Elwell party's wet week-long tour of Ireland from Queenstown through Youghal, Dungarvan, Waterford, Enniscorthy and Rathdrum to Dublin, with thanks to 'Jack' White of the C.T.C. and notes on Jo Pennell and A. J. Wilson ('Faed') joining at Cork.
- A 'Faed' (special correspondent) account of the tourists' rainy ride via Glendalough to Dublin, the Shelbourne Hotel banquet and its toast-list, then the crossing to Liverpool and run from Chester through Lichfield, Birmingham, Coventry and Kenilworth to Stratford-on-Avon.
- The Stanley Cycling Club gave a dinner to the visiting American cyclists at the Inns of Court Hotel, attended by some sixty riders, with plans laid for the Ripley Club excursion next day (from the European edition of the N.Y. Herald).
- A note praising Philips' Cyclists' Maps of the English counties, which mark main roads, dangerous hills, repair shops and C.T.C. Consuls' residences at a shilling each, urging American map publishers to follow suit.
- Calendar of forthcoming American race meets and runs, including the Kings County Wheelmen's annual meet at Washington Park, the L.A.W. Meet at Hagerstown July 2-4 and the C.W.A. Annual Meet at St. Catharines, with European cycling fixtures appended.
- Rain wrecked the L.I.W. meet at the Brooklyn Athletic Club grounds but races were run in the mud; the Kings County Wheelmen carried off nearly all prizes and newcomer F. B. Hesse won three, with full event-by-event results given.
- Programme of morning and afternoon races at McGrann's Park on July 4, including two Pennsylvania State L.A.W. championships and a Lancaster County championship, with entries closing July 1 through H. M. Griel.
- Foreign results including Arthur Du Cros winning the 5-mile bicycle championship of Ireland, P. T. Pyne's win in the Bath Road Club 25-mile race, and West the one-legged champion taking the mile professional handicap at Coventry.
- At the Bellahouston and Cathkin Cycling Clubs' meet on May 30, J. E. Young set Scotch safety records from a quarter-mile to three miles, and M. Bruce set new ordinary records for the standing and flying quarter-mile.
- A participant's narrative of the New York-to-Philadelphia century run, from the 4:30 a.m. start through Newark and Elizabeth, the side-path riding from New Brunswick, the Trenton Court House photograph and rousing receptions, arguing its 46 finishers were fresher than the Buffalo Ramblers' 'Spartan Eight'.
- Follow-up corrections: R. F. Hibson did not finish but 'trained' from Westfield to Trenton, Mr. Uhl of Newark did finish, and a gold memento pin is to be presented to Miss Welch of Germantown for her plucky ride.
- Monthly meeting report: the club adopted W. S. Jenkins's resolution disapproving fast riding and coasting on crowded asphalt streets, and unanimously endorsed W. S. Bull for election as Chief Consul of the New York State Division.
- The East End Gymnastic Club rejected the proposed amalgamation with the Keystone Club after a stormy debate, attributed to internal differences within the Gymnastic Club.
- A joint meeting of the Bridgeport Wheel Club and Rambler Wheelmen on June 14, under Consul C. E. Moore, fixed the Connecticut Division L.A.W. meet for Bridgeport on Monday, July 8, and appointed subscription and entertainment committees.
- The Troy Bicycle Club's June 6 parade drew delegations from the Albany Bicycle Club and Albany Wheelmen, followed by a dinner for about 200 with Orange S. Ingram as master of ceremonies and music from the R.P.I. Banjo Club.
- The Harvard Bicycle Club's seven-mile handicap around Chestnut Hill reservoir on June 15, won by Barron '91 over Holmes, Spencer and Rodeman, with a close finish between scratch men Greenleaf and Davis after Davis waited for Greenleaf to remount.
- The June 9 race for the Batson medal over a dusty three-mile course, won by W. C. Grevot (fifty-second start) in 13m 25s ahead of B. M. Sprigg, A. B. Harris and L. J. Frederic, who tumbled into the dust.
- Brief replies to readers' queries, noting that the Eagle is a high-grade wheel and that the road-race winner rode a Victor while the fastest time was made on a Champion.
- Official-organ listing of the Division officers (Chief Consul W. S. Bull, Vice-Consul M. L. Bridgman, Secretary-Treasurer Geo. M. Nesbett) and List No. 3 of consuls and recommended hotels for Albany, Lewiston, Salamanca, Schenectady, Yonkers and other places.
- Captain W. C. Marion Jr. announces the K.C.W. annual lantern parade for the evening of June 27, assembling at Bedford Avenue and Brevoort Place, and invites all local clubs and 'unattached' riders to join.
- Alderman Walton Storm writes to confirm he has secured the asphalting of Madison Avenue from 32nd to 58th Street, the resolution passing the Board of Aldermen on June 4 and signed by the Mayor on June 11, with only two steep hills left unpaved.
- The Union County Board of Freeholders resolved to grade and pave with Telford or Macadam all county roads between Elizabeth, Rahway, New Providence and Plainfield to sixteen feet wide, an action welcomed by the Westfield Standard.
- New Orleans wheelmen are preparing a grand race meet for about September 14, headed by the 5-mile L.A.W. championship of the United States, with the full programme of events listed and entries opening August 1 through Ridgley P. Randall.
- A lady's letter signed 'Pioneer' (No. 18,123) describing a June 1 safety run from Washington to Cabin John Bridge, viewing the Potomac flood from Little Falls to Chain Bridge and scaling a hundred-foot cliff to bypass the washed-out road.
- Riding tips for wheelwomen signed 'Psyche', recommending turning the toes in, using ankle motion, short cranks for city riding and fitting the machine and handle-bar to each individual rider.
- Reprint from the Scottish Cyclist describing American tourist Otto C. Nussle of Walnut, Ill., touring Scotland on a Victor safety made by the Overman Wheel Co. of Boston, with notes on its anti-vibrating forks and tangent wheels.
- Correspondent 'Ram Lal' extols the Kings County Wheelmen's racing team's recent wins by F. G. Brown, the Murphys and Ferd Hesse at the A.A.U. championship, Huntington and the Long Island meet, looking ahead to the club's own meet on June 28-29.
- Ithuriel's correspondence on the Missouri Bicycle Club's billiards and Rule 8 quarrel, the troubled new Track Association, a reply to 'Brother Miles' of the Referee over the Pullman race, and bicycle thief Jno. Greathouse's three-year sentence.
- Items on the Hagerstown meet preparations, including the Sunday Herald's complaint about the $100 charge for the L.A.W. mailing list furnished by Secretary-Editor Bassett, with an editorial note on his authority, plus Hagerstown grand-stand and club news.
- A correspondent reports few meets and runs at Erie owing to chronic wet weather, the arrival of four wheelwomen including Mrs. Fairbairn, and praise for agent Frank Fairbairn for stimulating the local trade.
- The editor remarks how the British and Irish cycling press relish the Elwell tourists as fresh copy, quoting Mr. Baynham's Dublin dinner speech and 'Scorcher's' humorous character sketches of Beale, Reilly, Collins, Elwell and Pennell from the Little Blue 'Un.
- A paragraph from Wheeling and Pen and Pencil sketching cycling journalist J. Purvis Bruce as a Byronic, sarcastic but velvet-and-iron writer and acknowledged authority on the cycle who also writes on angling and shooting.
- Missouri Bicycle Club secretary J. B. S. Lynch writes cancelling the club's subscription over Ithuriel's remarks, with a long editorial reply clarifying that the offending 'bow-legged' comment described the May (not June) Missouri Club billiard dispute.
- A 'Free Lance' description of the Crystal Palace cycle track and the riders training there, with character sketches of Mrs. Smith, Adams, Adcock, Bramson ('Lord Bram'), the Dutchman Scheltema-Bedoin, Edge, Lacy Hillier, the celebrated Osmond and ground-man Charlie Wilson.
- A trade note on Edwin Mohrig of San Francisco, Chief Consul of the California Division, who issues a catalogue of New Mail, Rudge Light Roadster, National and Psycho wheels and aided the Los Angeles race meet.
- Detailed arrangements from 'Hagerstown' for the L.A.W. meet parade on July 1, signalled by church and fire bells, marching over the finest streets, with the race course six blocks from the Hamilton House and a grand stand seating 2,200.
- Correspondent 'Safety' on incessant rain postponing the road and Cincinnati Club races to June 16, plans for a cycle track at the new Gymnasium Athletic Grounds, and comic mishaps with Chas. Colling's dog and Mr. Hatfield's saddleless safety.
- Frank I. Howatt reports that summer cycling in Florida is pleasant after 4 o'clock, that the Athletic Association games will offer a $20 medal for a 3-mile race, and that hotel owner H. M. Flagler plans a bicycle track.
- Reprint from the Minneapolis Tribune describing 'Prof.' Alphonse King's June 8 performance at Lake Harriet walking and riding a bicycle on water using tin pontoon shoes and a submerged tin-cylinder bicycle with an iron paddle wheel.