The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editor Prial rebuts the Wheelmen's Gazette's claim that The Wheel never runs original illustrations, charging that the Gazette itself passed off The Wheel's old cut of Edwin Oliver and mislabelled racing cuts (notably one falsely captioned 'A. C. Banker') as original.
- A second meeting at the Hotel Hamblin, chaired by M. L. Bridgman with Prial as secretary, unanimously votes to invite the New York State Division L.A.W. to hold its Fall Meet in New York and Brooklyn on September 13-14, with runs, a Central Park parade, and a Coney Island supper proposed.
- The Maryland Division L.A.W. nominates Albert Mott (Baltimore) for Chief Consul and Geo. F. Updegraff (Hagerstown) for Vice-Consul, then passes a vote of censure resolving that the Bicycling World's report of the tenth annual L.A.W. meet is 'a scandalous libel' and calling on President Luscomb to terminate its 'official organ' contract.
- Officer Kelly, who drove his horse over cyclist Lester W. Beasly, is indicted at Fort Hamilton to appear before the September Grand Jury and released on bond, the case against him strengthened by witnesses including Brooklyn real-estate agent Cooper.
- Describes Mr. Watkins's patented automatic standing gear for ladies' safety bicycles, two metal rods projecting from the front axle that hold the machine upright to ease mounting and dismounting, as reported by Violet Lome in Bicycling News.
- Calendar of cycle races and meets from late July through October 1889, including N.C.U. championships at Paddington, the Cottage City and Massachusetts Division meets, Hartford and Albany tournaments, and European fixtures in Germany and Denmark.
- Results of the East Hartford Wheel Club's rain-postponed annual meet, with C. M. and W. F. Murphy of the K.C.W. taking the handicaps; the one-mile open scratch was declared 'no race' by referee Prial after the men loafed past the time limit.
- Two-day report (July 18-19) of the Lancaster Bicycle Club meet, dominated by W. I. Wilhelm of Reading, who won the flying-start mile, two-mile safety, half-mile state championship and one-mile L.A.W. state championship; bad weather made the meet a financial failure.
- Preview of the joint Massachusetts and Rhode Island Division L.A.W. meet at Cottage City, Martha's Vineyard, August 8-10, with fancy riding by Willie Windle, a Japanese lantern parade, a Nantucket excursion and races, headquarters at the Sea View Annex.
- Tam O'Shanter's letter from the Elwell party of thirty Americans touring France a-wheel, recounting comic language mishaps, the perfect Napoleonic roads through the Jura Mountains, six men riding a 106-mile century from Sens to Tonnerre, a July Fourth celebration and a bedbug-infested night at Poligny.
- The North Adams Wanderers make the first club run to the Summit House on Greylock Mountain, Mass., then coast eight miles down in darkness on Rambler, New Mail and Pony Star machines amid spills, a wrecked wheel and smoking-hot brakes.
- Notes that R. G. Betts won the sixth and final race for the Louisiana Cycling Club's Batson medal, the Hill 5-mile medal went to H. L. Carr, and the La. Division L.A.W. meets July 23 to elect officers, with Hodgson and Geo. Russ likely nominees.
- A column of short trade and club notes: Miss Rummill of Buffalo's 1,500 miles, the Overman Wheel Co.'s Victor prize for the Springfield road race, Harry Hodgson re-elected Louisiana Chief Consul, F. B. Hesse breaking the Queens track record, jabs at the Wheelmen's Gazette over the 'Vassar' spelling, and Prial's independent candidacy for New York League representative.
- Stamford correspondent 'Stamson' celebrates the arrival of an Ayling & Porter fifteen-ton steam road roller on trial, reports riding to the Bridgeport Division Meet with President Mabie of the Long Island Wheelmen, and notes the N.Y., N.H. & H. railroad does not carry cycles free.
- Chief Consul Albert Mott's open letter to Mayor Latrobe urging repair of the badly rutted Pimlico (Park Heights) Road used by some 5,000 Baltimore cyclers, plus notes on club delegate elections and a Crescent Club excursion to Tolchester.
- Atalanta Wheelmen news: thirty-one members' clam-bake outing to Bergen Point, Frank Brock's collision with a drunken man on his new Psycho safety prompting calls to ban bicycles from the park, the club's growing 'safety craze,' and a planned lantern parade under Captain Drabble.
- 'Comet' reports the Elizabeth Wheelmen debating their club-house land lease and a possible gymnasium expansion, President Pennell taking the Columbia agency, and credits the new state road law to an L.A.W. member near Elizabeth, introduced by Senator Miller.
- English racing results, including F. J. Osmond's win of the fifty-guinea Buxton Cup in the ten-mile scratch at Crystal Palace over F. P. Wood and W. Allston on July 6, and A. H. Robb's professional mile handicap at Leicester.
- 'Ithuriel' reports Bob Garden's challenge for a Lumsden v. Barnard track match, the Western Amateur Athletic Association bicycle championships to be run at the August meeting, and Forest Park complaints over wheelmen riding the side paths and frightening horses.
- Preview of the Waiontha Club's second annual meet at Richfield Springs on August 14, featuring a fifty- or hundred-mile road race around Lake Canadarago, with secretary Fred Bronner handling particulars.
- Detailed report of the joint July 4 meet of the Bay City Wheelmen and Stockton's Oak Leaf Wheelmen at Stockton, where W. A. Shockley set new coast records in the one-mile and two-mile safety races and W. G. Davis won the two-mile state championship and final mile scratch.
- 'Novice' reports opposition to a proposed lantern-and-bell ordinance, a petition to reinstate L. D. 'Birdie' Munger, the Illinois club accepting the Chicago C.C.'s five-mile team-race challenge (Lumsden, Van Sicklen et al.), and praise for flyer Miss Grace Lloyd.
- Brooklyn Bicycle Club runs to Babylon and Massapequa, the Cyclists' Union's credit for repairing Cobblestone Hill, W. G. Class thrown by a dog while racing at Lancaster, and the Beasly assault case set for the September Grand Jury.
- 'Ram Lal' details a Kings County Wheelmen trip to Mr. Lloyd's six-lap Queens track on July 21, where F. B. Hesse lowered the mile track record to 2m. 57 3-5s. (timed against E. P. Baggott's 2m. 59 4-5s.), plus Marion and Bensinger's planned 450-mile tour to the White Mountains.
- 'The Two' take an evening ride to the Conestoga and Rockford Hall, sparring with a churlish toll-gate keeper en route; closes with a note on the Pope Manufacturing Co.'s base-ball book advertising device compiled by Jacob C. Morse.
- Chief Consul W. S. Bull's notice to the New York State Division correcting the earlier list, confirming that the eleven roads of the Trunk Line Passenger Committee (Grand Trunk, New York Central, Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, B&O and others) now carry bicycles free when accompanied by their owners.
- The Hartford bicycling tournament at Charter Oak Park is moved to Labor Day, September 2-3, will host the Connecticut Division's annual meet, and will feature official handicapper Burnham handicapping racers on present ability rather than past records.
- Preview of the Albany Wheelmen's third outdoor tournament at the Ridgefield track on Labor Day, September 2, headlined by the New York State Division 2-mile L.A.W. Championship with a diamond medal, conveniently two days before the Hartford meet.
- 'Elm City' recalls the New Haven Bicycle Club's enjoyment of the Hagerstown and Bridgeport (Connecticut Division) meets, where their man Picket won the one-mile safety race, and notes member John Verhoef touring Europe awheel.
- Reprinted Minneapolis Tribune piece on Jeremiah W. Jenks's American Economic Association paper arguing that hauling wheat more than 18-20 miles to rail or water eats up the profit of culture, urging the Dakotas, Montana and Washington constitution builders to provide for good public roads.
- 'Snohomish' describes moonlight runs to Lake Steilacoom and Puyallup through the Indian Reservation, a sunset and moonrise view of Mt. Tacoma, and a ride through Seattle's burnt district with Dick Agassiz where twisted bicycle remains lay among the ruins.
- Reprinted Tacoma Globe item arguing that Chief Chesney should not ban sidewalk bicycle riding except on the dustiest streets, since wheelmen rely on their machines for conveyance and the streets are unfit for riding.
- Reprinted Wheeling description of Mr. Pomroi's roller-bearing invention, in which steel rollers seated in grooves along a fixed axle reduce friction and act as oil reservoirs, which the inventor hopes will eventually be fitted to carriages, street cars and locomotives as well as cycles.
- Patents reported for The Wheel by C. A. Snow & Co. dated July 23, 1889: H. Lucas's velocipede lamp (Birmingham), H. B. Morrison's wrench (Britt, Iowa) and S. J. Talbot's velocipede sled (Milford, N.H.), with a note on T. L. Wilson's dynamo-electric machine patent.
- Reprints a Brooklyn Citizen item on Jack Simpson of Bangor, a former Dacoma Brothers aerial cyclist, whose eighty-six-inch Birmingham-built bicycle he claims is the largest in the world, with The Wheel skeptically recalling a nine-foot wheel once ridden at Springfield.