The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 26
Articles in this issue
- The editor's leading notes cover the 'jays' who ride city sidewalks and drives in tights, the proposal for international championships, New York's decision to pave the Grand Boulevard with asphalt, and his own election as a New York State Division Representative against objections that he is 'in trade'—recalling Colonel Pope's earlier rescue of the bankrupt League.
- New York's Board of Estimate and Apportionment votes $204,000 to pave the Boulevard with asphalt and authorizes $700,000 in bonds for further paving on Lexington Avenue, Broad Street and Park Avenue, plus an engineering staff under Commissioner Gilroy.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, advocating an annual series of official world amateur championships rotating among nations, prompted by the N.C.U. sanctioning the Victorian Cyclists' Union to send Australian riders to England's championships.
- A Chicago Tribune reprint condemning the 'sidewalk fiend' and urging full legal penalties for riding on city sidewalks, while allowing limited exceptions in remote suburbs.
- A long column of cycling notes: A.B. Rich riding at Albany and Hartford, F.W. Shorland's 360½-mile 12-hour road record on a Geared Facile, W.T. Robertson's 10-mile Washington ride in 39 minutes on an Eagle, the C.T.C.'s £550 libel suit over E.R. Shipton, and 17-year-old Robert Wagner's 50-hour Detroit-to-Toronto run.
- The Maine Division L.A.W. elects Dr. George E. Dow of Portland Chief Consul, with Cyrus D. Batchelder, James O. Whittemore and A.L.T. Cummings to the other offices.
- A Harlem Reporter item on Robert, the 22-month-old son of John Wood of the Harlem Bicycle Co., said to be the youngest bicycle rider in the world, riding daily on Lenox Avenue.
- The Wheel reprints Wheeling's exposure of the Wheelmen's Gazette, which published a picture captioned as the start of the one-mile L.A.W. championship that is actually the 1888 international race at Copenhagen, complete with Danish riders and the Crown Prince of Denmark.
- A St. Louis Spectator profile of W.E. Hicks, the eccentric former Post-Dispatch cycling reporter who toured Europe awheel and is now interpreter to Henry George and Secretary of the American Department at the Paris Exposition.
- Programme for the New York State Division L.A.W. fall meet, September 13-14 in New York and Brooklyn, with a Broadway Theatre party, Central Park parade, run to Coney Island and concert at Gilmore's Amphitheatre.
- Official 1889-90 mail-vote results: W.S. Bull elected Chief Consul (493), M.L. Bridgman Vice-Consul (496) and Geo. M. Nisbett Secretary-Treasurer (493), with district representatives including F.P. Prial of the N.Y.B.C.
- E.J. Shriver's Rules and Regulations Committee gives notice of nine proposed by-law amendments covering proxy voting, Australian-ballot reform for independent candidates, duties of Consuls, and Executive Committee control of Division finances.
- Chief Consul W.S. Bull assigns the one-mile tandem safety L.A.W. championship and the one-mile New York State Division championship to the Binghamton Wheel Club for September 10-11.
- A letter from 'The Judge' describing a Columbia Safety ride of 23 miles from Worcester to South Framingham in 1h. 35m. with one dismount, praising Massachusetts roads and challenging Eastern riders to try New York's.
- Correspondent 'Ithuriel' on the Missouri Bicycle Club's August 31 meet with reduced rail fares, the simmering Greenwood-Banker hill-climbing dispute, and match races including Wrieden (handled by Ab. Lewis) versus Tyler.
- Brooklyn correspondent 'Aiol' on New York's coming asphalt pavements, the Cyclists Union's bid to repave rough Schermerhorn Street blocks, George Corby's header in Prospect Park, and arrests of wheelmen for sidewalk riding at Bath, L.I.
- Correspondent 'Floyd' reports a 100% rise in Kingston cycling despite abominable roads, names fast local riders such as Hoysradt and Hudler, and recounts two lady cyclists' visit to Vice-President Levi P. Morton's Ellerslie Park at Rhinebeck.
- Correspondent 'Zo.' on Main Street asphalt paving, an illuminated parade planned for the International Fair, the Lockport Wheelmen's tournament (young Green winning four events on a heavy Star Roadster; Campbell vs. Banker), and new ladies' clubs.
- Connecticut Division L.A.W. election results (David J. Post Chief Consul, 249 votes) plus East Hartford news of a cycle-club baseball league and a planned celebration freeing the Connecticut River toll bridge around September 10.
- Correspondent 'N. O. Remarks' on a club run to Camp Sheridan at Mt. Gretna, the start of three miles of sheet-asphalt paving on Third Street, and a planned fast ride to Reading.
- The Elizabeth Wheelmen plan a lantern parade and look ahead to their annual Election Day ten-mile handicap, with the President racing an Eagle and Mr. Caldwell riding a safety for the first time; charter member L.K. Hazard returns from a round-the-world trip.
- Correspondent 'Dorson' reports the Minnesota Division L.A.W. re-electing nearly all incumbents (T.M. Slosson Chief Consul, 57 votes) and reaching its largest membership of 123 with a treasury surplus.
- A Buffalo Sunday News reprint defending Frank P. Prial's L.A.W. nomination against the 'in trade' objection, arguing the trade is the backbone of cycling and that Prial is a professional editor.
- The calendar of American and European cycling events for late August through October 1889, including the Virginia Division meet at Norfolk, the New York State Division meet, the Hartford Tournament, and German fixtures.
- Preview of the Hartford Wheel Club Tournament at Charter Oak Park, September 2-3: excursion rail rates, fancy rider D.J. Canary's first American appearance in four years, and the reinstated F.F. Ives of Meriden.
- The Connecticut Division Board invites members to its Hartford meet, with $200 appropriated for an evening entertainment at Germania Hall featuring music, fencing, boxing and wrestling.
- Preview of the Albany Wheelmen's third tournament on August 31, with $300 in prizes including a $50 diamond medal for the two-mile L.A.W. State championship and F.P. Prial as referee and handicapper.
- The Binghamton Wheel Club's second annual meet, September 10-11 at the Driving Park, with a full two-day programme including the national tandem safety and New York State L.A.W. championships.
- Report on the Waiontha Bicycle Club's second meet (August 16): Wm. Murphy won the 50-mile road race in 4h. 31m., A.C. Banker won the 5-mile L.A.W. State championship and the 2-mile open, and W.S. Nicholson took the fancy riding.
- Dr. E.B. Turner of the Ripley Road Club broke amateur tricycle records from 22 to 50 miles at Paddington on August 1, cutting the 50-mile figure by eleven minutes.
- Two-day programme for the Pennsylvania Division L.A.W. meet at York, September 2-3, listing L.A.W. championship events for safety, ordinary, tricycle and tandem, plus a half-mile steeplechase, with gold medals as first prizes.
- The Passaic County Wheeling and Athletic Association's five-event programme on a three-quarter-mile track at Clifton, with Erie road train times from Chambers Street.
- Results from Hamilton, Ontario: W.F. Gessler of Niagara Falls won the one-mile safety (3m. 33 2/5s.), C.J. Connolly of Rochester won the half-mile ride-and-run, and O.S. Gibson took the two-mile novice.
- Announcement of the Berkeley Athletic Club's second tournament, September 7 at Berkeley Oval, Morris' Dock, with eleven events including a three-mile team race and two-mile tandem; entries close September 3.
- Results of the South End Wheelmen's annual races at the Philadelphia Driving Park, with L.J. Kolb winning the ten-mile championship in 38m. 15s. and the half-mile handicap, and P. Wilson taking the one-mile.
- Results of the Carthage Fair races on August 20: D.V. Knight won the two-mile, Theo. Klauss the half-mile Rover type, and J.M. Holloway the one-mile scratch.
- Short trade and club notes including free cycle carriage on the Delaware and Hudson R.R., a new Y.M.C.A. cycling club at Cleveland, the Missouri Bicycle Club's century run by Peckham, Hurck and Peck, and Chicago cyclists' satirical memorial to Alderman Cullerton demanding bells and lanterns on dogs.
- Drawing on Capt. Francis V. Greene's Harper's Weekly article, citing traction figures (asphalt 15 lbs. per ton vs. 90 for cobblestone) and arguing New York could save nearly $5,000,000 a year in haulage by adopting smooth pavements.
- A London Telegraph reprint describing a new ladies' tweed tricycling costume whose skirt can be let down to cover the feet while riding and shortened for walking by a system of buttons and cord.
- Dr. W.W. Eaton of Danvers was fined $2 and costs at Salem, Mass., for riding a tricycle on the sidewalk to visit a patient; the test case turned on the posted by-law and was appealed.