The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader noting The Wheel was first on the scene at the Tenth Annual L.A.W. Meet at Hagerstown, placing 2,000 copies of a special edition before wheelmen, with further paragraphs on the meet's success and on Jo. Pennell refusing to stand for the Queen's toast at the American tourists' London dinner.
- Letter signed 'Tam O'Shanter' describing the Elwell party's rain-soaked arrival in London and stay at Burr's Hotel, the Stanley Club banquet at the Inns of Court Hotel with Geo. Lacy Hillier, Percy Low and Harry Swindley, and a Sunday run with the Ripley Road Club where 700 wheelmen gathered and Major Knox-Holmes, aged 81, was feted.
- Reprinted from the European edition of the New York Herald, describing the Elwell party's early-morning departure from the Rue d'Alger in Paris, en route via Melun and Fontainebleau toward Geneva.
- Announces the Overman Wheel Co. will consolidate its home office with its Chicopee Falls, Mass. factory about September 1, adding 40,000 square feet, while keeping the Boston store; President A. H. Overman sails for Europe July 27.
- Club notes signed 'Spark': Atalanta Wheelmen joined the K.C.W. lantern parade where Capt. Drabble took a header, ten new members were elected including W. I. Wilhelm of Reading, and A. T. Rummell led June mileage with 627 miles.
- A column of short cycling news covering English path racing (Howell's one-mile championship win), W. C. Jones's two-miles safety record at Paddington, Jos. McFadden's resignation as New York Club captain with G. M. Nisbett to succeed, Ralph Temple's sailing for England, and Zimmerman's showing at the Kings County races.
- A short humorous sketch, credited to To-Day, in which Alfred reads a romance novel aloud and renders 'quick, short pants' as 'quick knickerbockers,' to Gladys's confusion.
- Reprinted from the N.Y. Times: Wall Street business men petition Mayor Grant and Commissioner Gilroy to lay asphalt from Nassau to Front Street, but are told the city should not pay and that asphalt is less durable than granite; Gilroy proposes asphalt only near schoolhouses and hospitals to cut noise.
- A Denver correspondent corrects a Wheel item on Robt. Gerwing's record, clarifying his 2h. 18m. was made over the full 36-mile Denver-to-Platteville course, and reports fancy rider Barber's sprained ankle and Social Wheel Club reception before he joined Thatcher, Primrose and West's Minstrels.
- Patent digest reported by C. A. Snow & Co. of Washington, describing J. R. Rullman of San Antonio's velocipede combining a rocking chair on a platform with rods, cross-head and gear-wheel drive, dated July 2, 1889.
- Opening report predicting the Tenth League Meet at Hagerstown will be a success, praising the Hagerstown Bicycle Club and Maryland Division for decorating the town and rising to the occasion despite the small turnout.
- Reprinted from the Hagerstown Daily Globe: an account of Rev. E. H. Delk Jr.'s sermon to some seventy-five cyclists at Trinity Lutheran Church, taking 1 Corinthians 16:13 as text and urging wheelmen to 'watch, stand fast, quit you like men, be strong.'
- Brief Hagerstown meet items: seven-year-old Master Marshall Wilhelm's riding, the changed parade route, the welcome arch designed by Joseph Hopkins and H. C. Koehler, and the arrangements for President Luscomb's reception with the City Band and a four-horse landau.
- First-person account of the rail journey from New York via Philadelphia and Baltimore, joining Captain Supplee's twenty-six Pennsylvania Club men and a dining car arranged by Mr. McCarty, ending in a festive midnight arrival at Hotel Hamilton.
- Describes the rainy Monday-evening reception for President Charles H. Luscomb at the B. & O. depot and Hotel Hamilton, with Col. Buchanan Schley's welcome speech and the tin-horn brigades and fireworks that followed.
- Report of Luscomb's informal general-discussion meeting at the Hose Opera House, where Chief Consul H. H. Hodgson read a paper on handicapping and speakers W. H. DeGraaf, Purvis-Bruce, M. L. Bridgman and one-armed W. H. Morrow of Ada, Ohio addressed amateurism and the protection of bicycle clubs.
- The full text of Louisiana Chief Consul H. H. Hodgson's paper arguing that handicap races are unfair guess-work and advocating class races instead, followed by F. P. Prial's response defending the district-handicapper system.
- Reports the private Chief Consuls' session (Mott, Irvin, Lawton, Hodgson, Bridgman) deciding the League uniform contract with Browning, King & Co. stands, and practically resolving to ask chief consuls to stop publishing official League notices in papers other than the official organ, prompted by the Bicycling World Co.
- Some 200 wheelmen led by Luscomb and C. C. Mott made the six-mile run to Williamsport after a thunderstorm, swimming in the Potomac and viewing flood debris at the canal locks before an evening lantern parade fell flat.
- Only about twenty riders joined the rain-spoiled Wednesday-evening lantern parade, marching with torches followed by a cortege of small boys amid fire-crackers and noise.
- Account of the rough run to the Antietam battlefield where R. O. Goodman of West Hampton, L.I. broke his arm, sixty-seven cyclists dined at the L.A.W. Antietam House, and the party retreated by rail amid rain after paying two local boys to perform.
- Chief Consul Harry Hodgson presents the Hagerstown Bicycle Club an embroidered silk banner on behalf of the New Orleans Bicycle Club, recalling courtesies to the 1887 New Orleans tourists; President Cushwa responds and the New Orleans club is placed on the honorary list.
- Describes the special train excursion up the Blue Mountains to Pen-Mar, sixteen miles from Hagerstown, with picnic grounds, observatory views over the Cumberland Valley, the Blue Mountain House, supper, and a rainy return.
- Report of the postponed July 4 parade of about 450 riders led by the New York Division, with Luscomb as Grand Marshal, full lists of clubs and captains in line, lady cyclists, and statistics showing safeties (194) closing on uprights (220).
- Summaries of the meet races: V. L. Emerson took the one-mile novice, A. C. Banker the one-mile L.A.W. championship, W. E. Crist the one-mile safety, and the Banker Brothers a record tandem-safety half in 1m. 25s.; referee C. H. Luscomb.
- Describes the 'smoker' transferred to the Hose Opera House with clay pipes, lemonade and the City Band, and Luscomb's farewell address declaring the Tenth Annual Meet a success with over 200 new members gained.
- Full event-by-event results of the two-day K.C.W. meet at Washington Park, Brooklyn, June 28-29, with A. A. Zimmerman of Freehold and the Murphys prominent, the Berkeley A.C. team-race win, and A. C. Banker taking the three-mile New York State championship.
- Programme and rules for the East Hartford Wheel Club's eighth race meeting, barring Rover-type safeties and requiring machines of at least thirty-five pounds; entries close July 16.
- Letter signed 'Ithuriel' reporting the marriages of Percy Stone to Miss Iola Seales and Harry G. Stuart to Miss Bina Pitts, the approaching Division Meet under Consul Kelley, and the exposure of a 'fake' challenge to Greenwood from a Chicago party.
- Letter signed 'Snohomish' explaining the Fourth of July tournament was cancelled and its appropriation given to Seattle fire relief, recounting Mr. Dorsey's bear encounter while riding from Victoria, and listing the lantern parade and Prince Wells's trick-riding entertainment planned instead.
- Letter signed 'Tentoone' on the spread of ladies' bicycling in Lancaster as Misses E. and B. and Mrs. G. take to the wheel, quoting Lancaster New Era and the Business Women's Journal on athletics and rational dress for women's health.
- Results of the July 4 bicycle races at Franklin Park, Boston, with A. K. Cressey of Newton winning the one-mile novice and J. Berlo of South Boston taking the quarter-mile open and safety events.
- Reprinted from Bicycling News: detailed split times for W. C. Jones's two-miles safety record (5m. 26 3-5s.) at the Kildare B.C. sports on June 15, beating Herbert E. Laurie's mark, plus Edge and Archer's tandem flying-quarter record on an Olympia tandem.
- A Columbus, Ga. correspondent (Lewis) retorts to The Wheel's complaint about Tennessee roads, boasting that Georgia's sandy roads and 'bumps' make Tennessee's worst seem fine, and inviting riders to test a hundred miles there.
- Letter signed 'Ram Lal' on the Kings County Wheelmen's lantern parade of 273 wheelmen, the race meet dominated by W. F. Murphy and Banker's three-mile State championship, the Hagerstown ruling against League news in non-organ papers, and a plea to hold the Division Meet in Brooklyn.
- Reports the professional 175-yard race at Floating Bridge, Mass. won by Jack Hunt over Carey Libby, plus San Francisco track complaints, G. R. Adcock's twenty-miles-in-the-hour at Torquay, and John Hogan beating Fred Wood's Australian ten-mile grass record.
- Describes the San Francisco Park Commissioners accepting Superintendent Foley's offer of fifty convicts to complete the park speed track, citing the 1889 California Code provision permitting prison labor on parks and roads.
- Letter signed 'Atol' on Brooklyn's paving debates (cobblestone, Belgian block, asphalt), Charlie Schwalbach's new riding school, the K.C.W. race meet, Borland's last race-track appearance, and the Brooklyns' run to the Massapequa Hotel.
- Letter signed 'Argus' praising the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's large weekly runs under Capt. W. D. Supplee, who is to resign, and disputing 'Jack's' catalogue theory about pedal power on the safety wheel.
- Reprinted from 'The Rambler' in the Elizabeth Journal, urging McAdam's drainage principles and constant repair with twice-yearly top dressings of fine stone, and recommending county engineers consult the American Association for the Improvement of Roads at Philadelphia.
- A calendar of forthcoming events from July 8 through October 23, including the Connecticut and Massachusetts Division Meets, the East Hartford and Hartford race meetings, and N.C.U. championships at Paddington.