The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The editorial responds to New Orleans correspondent 'Bi' and 'Perseus' of the Sporting Life on popular election of L.A.W. national officers, defends the proxy system as workable, and argues the League's real priorities are an active Executive Board, a Racing Board as arbiter of all racing, and a national roads improvement bureau.
- Reports Dr. B. W. Richardson's paper to the Society of Cyclists holding that vibration is the most injurious fatigue in cycling, a 'spinal shock' akin to railway-accident shock, and urging makers to build a near-vibrationless machine.
- A signed piece ('5678') welcoming bicycles for women in 1889, urging married wheelmen to teach their wives to ride, questioning the tandem safety versus the tandem tricycle, and praising the rear-driving safety for men.
- A letter signed 'Psyche' of Washington, D.C. praising the ladies' bicycle over the tricycle after a few lessons, recalling how her sister kept up on a Psycho safety while she toiled on a heavy tricycle.
- Account of a 'stag' at the Long Island Wheelmen's Brooklyn club house with Kings County Wheelmen and Brooklyn Bicycle Club members present, Mr. Clark as MC introducing the 'Jolly Six,' and music from Messrs. Fuller, Spielman and Torrey of the Brooklyn Club.
- Describes the Citizens' Bicycle Club annual ladies' reception of March 8, 1889, featuring a loan collection of pictures and bronzes including twenty-one cycling sketches by Jo. Pennell, followed by 'THE STAG,' the Citizens' Club nominations, and a Keystone Bicycle Club 'In Memoriam' for Frank Magill.
- A calendar of forthcoming events from March 16 through May, including Harlem vs. Hudson County, F. A. Elwell's European party sailing, and the Stone-Lumsden match races at Chicago, St. Louis and Crawfordsville.
- A column of short paragraphs on cycling people and clubs: Kennedy-Childe at St. Louis for the Warwick Cycle Co., the Brooklyn Bicycle Club's move to Hanson Place, Willie Windle's fancy riding, Secretary Bassett's salary raised to $2,000, and the Gormully & Jeffery 'lady' bicyclists now at Omaha under Thomas Eck.
- Reprinted from the Newark Call, arguing the neglect of dirt streets endangers public health, injures adjoining property, and raises costs for grocers, coal dealers and butchers, and noting the Newark Street Commissioner lacks sympathy and ability for the work.
- Pacific Coast correspondence noting Vice-Consul J. P. Percival securing the League meet for Los Angeles on May 30, visitors to the city, and Mr. Sharkley joining the Bay City Wheelmen.
- Report of the California Division L.A.W. board meeting of February 18 under Chief Consul Mohrig, resolving to defend Mr. Wright in the Cherokee Lane affair, considering a road book, and ordering 5,000 League circulars; followed by a division members' meeting report and an Olympic Athletic Club half-mile bicycle race won by C. W. Hammer.
- St. Louis correspondence ('Ithuriel') on the annual Missouri Club meeting electing George Andrews president, a proposed track association to lease the old Red Stocking ball grounds for the Stone-Lumsden races, and the Warner 'anti-liberty' bill which wheelmen want withdrawn.
- Correspondence ('Chas. Alex. Persons') reporting the Central City Wheelmen's planned four-day tournament at the Georgia State Fair, July Fourth races under the Macon Public Library, and a Georgia 'Road Congress' called to meet at Atlanta in May.
- Correspondence ('Argus') on Philadelphia's contrasting Broad Street pavements, new Century Wheelmen members including 65-year-old Mr. Brown, racing prospects now that 'Irv' Halsted has gone west, the failed 'ladies' bicycle' show with 'Armaindo,' and the fire that destroyed the Century Wheelmen's annex on March 5.
- Correspondence ('Bi') on a runaway Georgia boy enamored of a show cyclist, Mississippi Chief Consul Geo. G. Clarke visiting for carnival, and a forthcoming Hathorn-Christy match of the Louisiana Cycling Club.
- Connecticut correspondence ('Stamson') on winter riding on frosty macadam, Editor Jessup's move to form an athletic club, the 'safety fever,' Selectmen doubling the head one's salary, and praise for 'Traveler's' account of riding from Wolverhampton to Stratford-on-Avon.
- Signed 'Aleck,' details the Brooklyn (formerly Brooklyn-and-Ilderan) Bicycle Club's five-year lease of a three-story brick house at the corner of Hanson Place and South Elliot Place, to be occupied May 1 as the largest bicycle club house in Brooklyn.
- A signed essay ('5678') contrasting American and English cycling, arguing the country's vast distances make path racing a failure here and that amateur racing can only survive through events at athletic clubs with suitable tracks.
- From the Lynn Bee, a biographical interview with Lynn shoemaker Shurman on his hill-climbing exploits up Corey Hill in Longwood and Stickney Hill in Lynn, describing his method, training and sensations of climbing and descending.
- A comic verse signed 'Tentoone' praising the Light Roadster safety, noted as sent to the Pope Mfg. Co. by a Columbia crank.
- Recounts how a cyclist frightened the horse of Mr. E. W. Ward of Elizabeth, N.J. on the Boulevard, and the Elizabeth Daily Journal's claim that the bright-nickeled wheel, not dark-enameled ones, caused the fright, which the paper treats with amusement.
- A letter signed 'Ixion' disputing W. W. Stall and 'Pony,' arguing from experience that the single-tracked tandem safety bicycle runs far better than the tandem tricycle over rough Western Pennsylvania and New York roads.
- Correspondence ('Coaster') reporting the Hudson County Wheelmen's first bowling defeat by the Atalanta Wheelmen of Newark with full score, criticism of an indelicate Boston advertisement in the League organ, a note on 'Bown's Velocipede,' and ladies of the H.C.W. appearing on ladies' bicycles.
- Trade department opening with 'A SELECTED LIST OF PATENTS' (Aaron G. Rose of Greencastle and Geo. T. Warwick of Springfield, via C. A. Snow & Co.) and write-ups of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s imported ladies' bicycles, the New York Bicycle Co. handling Coventry and Star wheels, and the history of Wm. Read & Sons.
- A column of brief club and trade notes, including the Columbia safety tandem ready for delivery, Mr. Thomas Whitaker elected Mayor of Millville, N.J., the Newton (Mass.) Bicycle Club officers, and a second Citizens' Bicycle Club ladies' reception.
- Describes the Gavin Dalzell machine shown at the Stanley Show, reproduced from the Scottish Cyclist, argued to be the original bicycle in use before 1846 in Lanarkshire and the prototype of the rear-driving safety, with a detailed account of its wood-and-iron construction and lever drive.
- A feature on amateur photography and the gelatino-bromide process, recommending the camera outfits of E. & H. T. Anthony of New York, with 'NOTES ON CAMERAS' praising American makes and describing Anthony's $9 amateur equipment.