The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Editorial column backing Field Marshal Albert Mott of the Maryland Division for next L.A.W. President, defending the Hagerstown League Meet against the Bicycling World's unflattering report, dismissing rumors of trouble in the New York Bicycle Club, and noting the growing demand for lighter imported safeties.
- Urges the cycle trade to support L. D. Aylett of Birmingham, Ala., the first man to bring cyclists and horsemen together in a roads-improvement convention, whose work led the County Commissioners to build a mile-and-a-half boulevard.
- Reprinted from the Mail and Express, pressing Commissioner Gilroy and Mayor Grant to begin paving New York's principal streets with asphalt on concrete, citing Wall Street property owners' demand for a quiet pavement and the example of Paris, London and other financial centres.
- Reprinted from the New Brunswick Times and Elizabeth Journal, holding up Plainfield, N.J., with its forty to fifty miles of macadam roads, as proof that good roads draw wealthy settlers and pay 100 per cent interest for Union County.
- A letter signed 'Pony' complains that the Stamford House, a League hotel, gave no rate reduction to L.A.W. members, with the editor noting the Chief Consul of Connecticut should look into the matter.
- Reports that Orange and South Orange men have formed a corporation to build a hotel and a nearly 400-foot Eiffel-style tower with elevator at Eagle Rock, N.J., reached by a projected railroad and lit by an Edison electric light visible far out at sea.
- Secretary B. P. Connolly lays out a multi-day route from Scranton through Binghamton, Utica, Richfield Springs, Cooperstown, the Catskills, Berkshire Hills and Hudson River points to New York, open to friends as well as members, with parties to commit by August 1.
- Describes a little-known scenic ride from Elizabeth, N.J., over the Milburn stone bridge into the Orange Mountains past the chain of lakes supplying Elizabeth's water, ending in a two-mile coast down the South Orange Mountains.
- Reports that in Birmingham, Ala., two land companies are competing to build wheelmen a free track and that horsemen have joined the agitation for better roads, with a thank-you letter from citizen F. Y. Anderson on the Boulevard project.
- Notes the death of Fred J. Seymour of the American Aluminum Co. of Findlay, Ohio, whose secret cheap method of extracting aluminum from clay died with him, and a Boston man named Washburn who claims to make and weld aluminum cheaply but is regarded as a crank.
- Reports the Connecticut Division's annual business meeting where Chief Consul Chas. E. Larom gave his report (membership 454) and David J. Post of Hartford carried a by-law creating a paid Division lawyer; David J. Post and Calhoun Latham were nominated for Chief Consul.
- Reports an independent ballot substituting editor F. P. Prial of the New York Club for G. B. Watts, Jr., as at-large Representative for the First District, with the circular letter signed by Krug, DeGraaf, Voorhees, Shaw and Sheehan.
- Van Wagoner of Newport rode a mile in 2m. 48s. with his hands tied behind him on a Columbia safety at Roger Williams Park, timed by Benjamin Smith, George P. McAuslan and George Ballou of the Rhode Island Wheelmen; the editor wants affidavits and a certified course.
- Officers of the first and second New York State Division districts met at the Hotel Hamblin under Vice-Consul Bridgman to consider inviting the State Division to hold a meet in New York and Brooklyn on September 12-13, with a race meet at Washington Park.
- Suggests that manufacturers stamp numbered height measurements from pedal to saddle on the seat-rod of safeties so riders can quickly set the proper reach without a wrench.
- Reprinted from the Blackpool Gazette, describes S. J. Collier of Blackpool, England, patenting a simple pinion device that instantly lowers a safety's gear (e.g. 60 to 45 inches) while riding for climbing hills.
- Kings County Wheelmen correspondent 'Ram Lal' reports Beasley being ridden down by a drunken mounted policeman on the Ocean Parkway, the club's turn to safeties (New Mail and Psycho), Frank Brown's Cape May walk-over cup, and T. J. Hall, Jr.'s 58.5-mile run to Patchogue.
- Erie correspondent 'N.' relates the Sixth Street girls taking to the bicycle, a Sunday club run to Dill's Park, and grumbles over the 20-cent charge at the Head run, in good weather on good roads.
- Reprinted notes by 'A. J. Y.', a Britisher resident in America writing to the Scottish Cyclist, praising the American club-house system but criticizing the poor style of safety riding here and condemning American-made safeties as over-complicated, heavy and overpriced compared with English machines.
- Reprinted leading editorial from Wheeling, prompted by a fatal coasting accident at Purley Hill, arguing that the safest way to descend on an ordinary is with legs over the handles on good roads and back-pedaling with a brake on rough or twisting hills, and warning novices against machines too large for them.
- Maryland news department: Albert Mott elected an active member of the Hagerstown Club; Banker breaks the American amateur half-mile safety record (1m. 22s.) at the Fair Grounds; and a possible challenge between Harry Kingsland and Victor Emerson, who won the one-mile tricycle L.A.W. championship at the meet.
- Reprinted from the Nashville American, describes ten cyclists riding through muddy roads to a Fourth-of-July hop at Dr. J. C. Connell's Eldorado Springs hotel, where young lady guests decorated the halls and over a hundred danced in the ball-room.
- Tam O'Shanter's letter on the Elwell party in Paris: their struggles with French, light French breakfasts, encounters with D. J. Canary and the racer Woodside, a dinner by the Metropolitan Bicycle Club with M. de Baroncelli, a visit to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and an ideal day's run from Melun to Fontainebleau with champion rider M. Medinger and his wife.
- A London letter to the New York Times describing the three London pavements—stone, wood and chiefly concrete—and how the two-foot-thick concrete pavement is built over stone, tar and wood blocks to make a surface as smooth as a billiard table.
- Hudson County Wheelmen correspondent 'Coaster' reports a visit by the Elizabeth Wheelmen and Atalanta Wheelmen of Newark with music and recitations, Dr. Elliott Wheelman Johnson's elaborately planned Maine tour, an invitation from the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club to Philadelphia, and a club run to Long Branch.
- California correspondent 'Campania' reports Senator Morgan bringing a new American team west, the Bay City Wheelmen's League ticket (Thompson, Percival, Sheldon and others), and Denver trick rider H. G. Kennedy visiting San Francisco.
- St. Louis correspondent 'Ithuriel' is skeptical of matching the Missouri club's man Barnard against Lumsden, reports trainer Garden eyeing another St. Louis scalp, an amendment to Missouri Bicycle Club dues tied to the Sunday-riding rule, and the planned disbanding of the St. Louis Cycle Club into a new Cycling Club.
- Elizabeth Wheelmen correspondent 'Comet' reports the club thriving with more road riders, its photograph and history to appear in a Board of Trade promotional book for the city, the E. W.'s delight at the H. C. W. smoker, and a planned lantern parade in October.
- Account of a mounted Park policeman near Parkville riding down Beasley of the Kings County Wheelmen on the Ocean Parkway after overhearing his remark that the officer was drunk, wrecking his wheel; Beasley has obtained a warrant for assault.
- Correspondent 'Atol' describes a joint run of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club and Long Island Wheelmen from Pettit's Hotel, Jamaica, to Roslyn, L.I., with poor supper arrangements at the Mansion House and a merry sail home by boat, and replies to 'Ram Lal' about dual club membership.
- Harrisburg correspondent 'N. O. Remarks' reports H. B. Gerhart's tour toward Luray and Natural Bridge, the Harrisburg Club's thirty-five men at the Hagerstown Meet, and a local meet to be held at L. R. Kelker's country residence on the Susquehanna.
- Philadelphia correspondent 'Argus' reports rain spoiling the Fourth and the Lancaster Club's tournament, seven Philadelphia cyclers (Draper, Diamond, Wood, Fleming, McGlathery, Bromley and Spier) riding 158 miles in two days to Hagerstown, and A. G. McGlathery losing his voice after a Fourth-of-July oration.
- Erie correspondent 'P.' laments wet weather keeping wheelmen idle, missing the Buffalo riders who passed through on the night boat, and notes more ladies on wheels including Miss Gunnison on her Psycho.
- Notices the new volume 'Brawn and Brain, Considered by Two Noted Athletes and Thinkers' (John B. Alden, publisher), treating twelve popular sports including cycling by champions and experts such as F. R. Coudert on fencing and Buffalo Bill on riding.
- The paper's main gossip and trade-news column: League membership figures (10,272 with New York leading), A. B. Barkman's new driving gear adopted by Overman for all '89 Victor safeties, the Warwick Cycle Co.'s output, the Beasley road-hog case, Scotch road records, and a bicycle thief caught in Buffalo, plus many short notes on riders, makers and races.
- Lists the Rhode Island Division L.A.W. nominees: Charles S. Davol of Warren for Chief Consul, George L. Cooke of Providence for Vice-Consul, Nelson S. Gibbs for Secretary-Treasurer, with Greene and Newell for representatives.
- Official New York State Division organ matter: Consul and hotel List No. 5, resignations of local consuls for Cortland and Homer, the located State half-mile (Lockport) and two-mile (Albany) championships, and the 1889-90 nominations and voting blank signed by Chief Consul W. S. Bull and Secretary-Treasurer George M. Nisbett.
- Reviews the large 22.5 by 28-inch souvenir photograph of the Hagerstown League Meet grouped under the grand stand, picking out the Hagerstown boys, Centaurs, Chesapeakes and Chief Consul Mott, and directing readers to order from W. B. King of Hagerstown.
- Reprinted from the Boston Sunday Globe, reports the Massachusetts Division Board of Officers meeting at the Clarendon Hotel and the programme for the annual Cottage City meet (August 7-10), with business meeting, baseball, illumination, Gay Head excursion, ball and races.
- Calendar of forthcoming American and European race meets and championships, including the East Hartford Wheel Club meet (July 20), the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City, Springfield 50-mile road races, N.C.U. championships at Paddington, and German and Danish fixtures.
- English path results, including the North Shields meet, Jack Lee's professional championship wins, the North 5-mile safety championship won by W. C. Thompson, Allard's professional championship over Robb, Howell and Lee, and the Catford club's 50-mile road handicap won by K. E. Edge.