The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial tracing the bicycle's history from Baron Von Drais's 1816 Draisine and Lallement's cranked two-wheeler through David Stanton's 1876 import and Alfred D. Chandler's 1877 Boston riders to the founding of the Pope and Cunningham firms and the 1880 League.
- Extended preview of the tenth annual L.A.W. Meet at Hagerstown, Md., July 2-4, with extracts from the official 36-page programme covering reception, entertainments, parade, table of distances, and the one-mile ordinary/safety/tricycle National Championships.
- Humorous thumbnail sketches of prominent League and trade figures expected at Hagerstown, including Luscomb, Mott, Bidwell, Emery, Bassett, Gormully, Jeffery, Overman, and Purvis-Bruce.
- Pre-meet news of mounting entries, track preparation under Vice-Consul Updegraff, the substituted tandem-safety race, and quarters secured by Gormully & Jeffery, Eisenbrandt Bros. and Billy West of the Clark Cycle Co.
- Baltimore & Ohio timetable and fare details for the special car leaving New York July 1, with round-trip certificate instructions via agent Charles Newbourg at 415 Broadway.
- Calendar of forthcoming American and European race meets from late June through October 1889, including Hagerstown, the C.W.A. Meet at St. Catharines, the Missouri Division at Sedalia, and N.C.U. championships at Paddington.
- Report of the Louisiana Cycling Club's fifth twenty-mile contest for the Batson trophy on June 23, where on handicap the medal went to R. G. Betts over M. S. Graham after a close finish on the asphalt course.
- Brief summary of the first day of the K.C.W. meet at Washington Park, Brooklyn, with wins by Bensinger and W. F. Murphy and a five-mile championship to W. F. Murphy, plus the successful lantern parade.
- Brooklyn correspondence (signed Ram Lal) on the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's tenth-anniversary house-warming at 62 Hanson Place and the entries, team race and prizes for the Kings County Wheelmen meet.
- California correspondence (signed Caliform) on the Bay City and Oak Leaf Wheelmen's July 4 Stockton race meet, the new Bay City Wheelmen officers, trick rider George Nash, and an evening with a rural cycling Social Club.
- Account of a poorly organized L.A.W. run from Washington Circle on June 16, led by Vice-Consul Demaray and Mr. Borden of the Capital Club after Chief Consul confusion left riders straggling to and from the bridge.
- Tacoma, Washington correspondence (signed Snohomish) on the delightful Northwest evenings, ladies taking up cycling, the suspension of Willie Windle, and the street-pavement debate between cedar block and asphalt.
- Long touring narrative (signed Marguerite) of a ladies' safety trip from Maplewood through Newburyport to Portsmouth, N.H., describing broken saddle-posts, sandy roads, missed dinners and a tumble into a brook.
- Reminiscence by Frank A. Egan of early cycling: the one-man Lone Star Bicycle Club formed by Will R. Pitman, ivory billiard-ball handles, corduroy suits, Victor C. Place's three-minute mile at Buffalo, and the track-measurement disputes.
- Ranked list of the fastest recorded mile times by Rowe, Hendee, Osmond, Howell, Whittaker, Furnival and others, from 2.29 4-5 down through the 2.49 marks.
- Catalogue of cycling milestones: Alfred D. Chandler as first American bicyclist, the first U.S.-built wheel in 1877, the League's founding at Newport in 1880, and the earliest legal decisions defining the cycle as a vehicle.
- Description of an oscillating ball-bearing pedal invented by Fred D. Owen of Washington's Capital Bicycle Club, whose elastic steel strap accommodates the foot's sideways motion and shields the crank in a fall.
- Patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co., including L. J. Atwood's lamp holder, W. H. Kitto's velocipede, J. Davidson's safety lamp and W. H. Bevinger's hip belt, dated June 18 and 25, 1889.
- Sketch of A. G. Spalding & Bros.' expanding 241 Broadway establishment, with Walter Spalding sailing for Europe and portraits of managers Curtis and Frank White overseeing the firm's sporting-goods empire.
- Travel letter (signed Tam O'Shanter) on F. D. Elwell's party crossing the rough Irish Sea and wheeling through Chester, Birmingham, Coventry, Kenilworth, Warwick and Stratford to Oxford, meeting Henry Sturmey, Joseph Pennell and G. Lacy Hillier.
- Mock-aggrieved editorial reply to "Violet Lorne" of the English Bicycling News, who had ridiculed The Wheel's pretensions over the Amelie Rives affair.
- Practical training manual (signed G.H.) on conditioning for cycle racing: reducing weight with a sweater, developing chest and arms, the knack of spurting, avoiding staleness, daily routine and diet.
- Satirical column (signed Jack) cataloguing the "bicycle crank," sidewalk crank, League-number crank, full-nickeled crank and others, prefaced by a Tennessee Division Meet report from Nashville.
- Hudson County Wheelmen correspondence (signed Coaster) reporting Mayor Orestes Cleveland's election as honorary member, with his witty reply, plus New Jersey League nominations and the new county road law.
- Correspondence (signed Ithuriel) on the Track Association's stormy meeting over complimentary tickets and incorporation, the election of Professor Stone as superintendent, and Hal Greenwood's hill-climbing challenge from H. A. Wilson of Chicago.
- Short reprint from the Des Moines Graphic observing that women cyclists now pass unremarked while a man on a "U-frame" safety draws jeers of "See the man on his sister's wheel."
- Correspondence (signed Atol) on the Brooklyn Bicycle Club house-warming and a mishap-filled Sunday run on which Fuller and others, raiding a roadside cherry tree near Englewood, were fired on by an irate German with a shotgun.
- Correspondence (signed Dorson) on twenty-nine days of fine wheeling weather, a revival of ladies' cycling on safeties, the city's first tandem bicycle, and Tom Eck's failed attempt to arrange a six-day race.
- Correspondence (signed Safety) noting Hatfield's new "L.A.W." dining rooms, the coming Cincinnati Club road race, and the Athletic Cycle Club contenders Walter Wise and Will Strauss.
- Correspondence (signed Bi.) on the Louisiana Cycling Club's club-house deliberations, the election of Miss Bell Fairchild as honorary member, and the expulsion of a delinquent original member.
- Philadelphia correspondence (signed Westfield) on Hagerstown preparations by the Century and Pennsylvania clubs, a bungled hundred-mile run, club mileage leaders, and a nineteen-man run to Phoenixville.
- Correspondence (signed Aylett) on the founding of the Birmingham Bicycle Club on June 17 with M. S. Cann as president, and the Georgia tourists Ingram and Persons riding 131 miles up the valley to Huntsville.
- Maryland Division news (signed Bay Ridge and Argus) on the new committee-based election procedure, League Meet notes from Chief Consul Mott's conference, and Philadelphia wheelmen-clergymen carrying families on tandems and Star wheels.
- Report of the Ramblers' Bicycle Club's Erie-to-Buffalo century on June 22, bringing in thirty-four of thirty-five men in record time, with Charles E. Gates the only rider to climb Silver Creek Hill.
- Official roster of New York State Division officers under Chief Consul W. S. Bull and List No. 4 of consuls and League hotels at Albany, Sing Sing, Waterloo and other towns.
- Programme of the Connecticut Division meet hosted by the Bridgeport Wheel Club and Rambling Wheelmen, with runs to Beardsley's and Seaside Parks, a parade, races, and a Greenfield Hill climbing contest.
- Secretary F. E. Hoffman, Jr.'s letter outlining the Sedalia Cyclers' July 3-4 meet, with a run to McAllister Springs, a smoker, banquet, fireworks by the Sedalia Flambeau Club, and racing including Percy Stone of St. Louis.
- Account of the Kentucky Division tour, where twenty-eight members answered roll call at Danville, A. J. Lamb was elected Chief Consul, and sixty-four-year-old "Pap" Ruff rode sixty-eight miles from Richmond to Danville.
- Description of Charles Schwalbach's new riding academy in the Fifth Avenue Casino, Brooklyn, opened June 22 with exhibitions by Professor Snyder and five-year-old prodigy Eddie Schwalbach.