The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 23
Articles in this issue
- Leader paragraphs rebut Wheeling's claim that the German Lehr's one-mile championship win shamed British athletics (arguing Osmond and Synyer simply watched each other), condemn the Bicycling News and editor Hillier for slurring the late James Purvis-Bruce as a 'peddling' person, and note the Hagerstown ladies' repudiation of the Bicycling World's charges.
- Maryland Chief Consul Albert Mott and the ladies who attended the L.A.W. Tenth Annual Meet at Hagerstown jointly rebut the Bicycling World's 'bacchanalian orgy' charge, signing a resolution (Mrs. Clarence H. Plumb and others) praising the wheelmen's conduct and demanding the World produce proof.
- The Indiana Supreme Court, while reviewing a sidewalk bicycle-collision non-suit, had Judges Coffey and Berkshire run down by a clumsy rider, prompting the court to rule that a bicycle is a vehicle and a rider who recklessly strikes a pedestrian is liable for assault and battery.
- West Side wheelmen form the Washington Cycling Club of Chicago at 653 West Adams Street, electing George D. Chisholm president and Frank Barrow secretary-treasurer, with quarters to open about August 15.
- Republishes the conditions for the Adams & Sons $100 and $50 gold medals awarded to American wheelmen with the highest one-month mileage between May 1 and November 1, 1889, with sworn records submitted to C. W. Fourdrinier or F. P. Prial.
- Tam O'Shanter's travel letter follows the Elwell party's last days in Switzerland: the Murren descent and 'Charley-horse,' Lucerne's Thorwaldsen lion and covered bridge, the cog-railway ascent of the Rigi-Kulm by Beal and 'Bob' White, and a one-day stand at Zurich ending at the Falls of the Rhine.
- Reprinted from the Providence Journal, complaints of riders racing down Mill Street and across Thames Street at night, with warning that the police will intervene.
- Free Lance's eyewitness sketch of the Paddington championship meeting: Lehr's surprise one-mile win over Osmond and Synyer, Louis Stein and Dr. Turner in the five-mile tricycle heats, and Osmond's twenty-five-mile ordinary win cheered by his father.
- A long obituary and character study of 'Jack' Purvis-Bruce, the Scotch-born cycling writer ('Gentleman John') drowned at Chauncy Pond, Westboro, Mass., on August 4 while in the employ of the White Cycle Company, with his life story, the curious false death rumor he had turned into an advertisement, and his funeral; includes the Bicycling World's tribute and Dr. Corey's poem.
- 'Novice' reports West Side club gossip: Bob Garden alone refusing to sign Berdie Munger's reinstatement petition, skepticism over Ralph Temple's English reception, the Illinois Cycling Club accepting Capt. Van Sicklen's five-man challenge on the Oak Park course, and grumbling over poor club value for dues.
- California correspondence under several heads: 'Improved Streets' urging bituminous-rock pavement, 'Associate Membership' arguing against non-riding voting members, 'Race-Promoting Clubs' praising the Bay City Wheelmen's 1889 meets, and 'Shockley's Riding' on W. A. Shockley's Stockton July 4 safety-championship win.
- 'Spark' reports rain damage to Essex County's macadam roads, the planned Telford paving of Broad Street, and the Atalanta Wheelmen's proposed race meet and team-race challenge.
- 'El.' reports the Louisiana Cycling Club's advanced building scheme on Octavia Street near Audubon Park, the election of new members and officers (Lieut. L. J. Frederic promoted captain, R. G. Betts made Honorary Captain), and an upcoming Harris-Shute one-mile match race.
- 'Dokson' reports the 25-mile Minnesota State championship around Lake Harriet on July 31, won by Colie Bell (1h 38m 45s) over Bird and Stockdale, with talk of a Bird-Bell rematch and Bell leaving for Oregon.
- 'Ithuriel' rebuts a Globe-Democrat fabrication about wheelmen's antics in Forest Park and a Republic report blaming a rider for a stage accident at Manchester, and ridicules the Missouri Bicycle Club circular calling cycling merely 'an improved means of walking.'
- 'Snohomish' reports a club run to the Woolen Mills on Steilacoom Creek, Prince Wells's and Halsted's planned three-week exhibition and racing tour through Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, and the departure of Harley Hays and Bert Manning for college.
- 'Atol.' warns that athletic clubs are poaching fast riders from bicycle clubs under cover of 'expenses paid,' reports a Riverside Wheelmen run to Bath with the Brooklyn Bicycle Club, and notes Frank Demarest's new Englewood Bicycle Club.
- 'Zo.' notes Cincinnati Crescent Wheelmen visitors, few tourists this year ahead of the International Fair, jibes at the Wheelmen's Gazette illustrations, and the Ramblers', Zigzags' and Buffalos' century runs.
- 'N. O. Remarks' describes the Harrisburg Wheel Club's third-anniversary parade and banquet at the Bolton House, with toasts responded to by Dr. G. N. Gorgas, H. B. Gerhart and others and a closing history by President Lusk.
- 'Tanglefoot' reports the E. W. monthly meeting, plans for a lantern parade, new turnpike contracts (Elizabeth-Rahway awarded), club action against sidewalk riding, and Stevenson Towle's appointment as consulting engineer for street pavements.
- Dated calendar of forthcoming race meets, runs and tours (August into October 1889), including the Massachusetts Division meet at Cottage City, the Montreal Bicycle Club meet, and the Scranton Bicycle Club's annual tour itinerary.
- Full results of the Paddington Recreation Grounds meeting of July 20: Lehr of Frankfort winning the one-mile (first time abroad) over Osmond and Synyer, plus the five-mile tricycle (Sansom), twenty-five-mile bicycle (Osmond) and twenty-five-mile safety (F. J. Fletcher) championships with records and a list of previous winners.
- Preview of the Hartford Wheel Club tournament at Charter Oak Park September 2-3, with the Connecticut Division L.A.W. meet, a parade of four or five hundred men, trainer Wm. J. Corcoran engaged for the Wheel Club team, and an entertainment at Germania Hall.
- Official L.A.W. organ matter: committees, programme and notices for the New York State Division annual meet at New York and Brooklyn on September 13-14, Chief Consul W. S. Bull's letter on hotel conduct and the hand-book mailing, and the five-mile state championship assigned to the Waiontha club.
- Paragraph news: lowered Australian 100-mile road record, English championship spectators Furnival and Webber, Lehr's machine described, the White Cycle Co.'s creditable handling of Purvis-Bruce's funeral, and assorted club, trade and road items.
- Charles S. Davol and Howard L. Perkins object to the paper's calling Van Wagoner's challenge 'blatant'; the editor reiterates the characterization while publishing their defense of his quiet character and Providence-track records.