The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Senator Miller's County Roads Improvement bill passed the Senate 15-3 and the House 34-10 and was signed into law by Governor Green, giving New Jersey its first general roads-improvement legislation; the Elizabeth Daily Journal is credited for shaping public opinion.
- W. S. Bull of Buffalo asks New York State Division club secretaries to send him club details (name, location, club-house, meeting nights, membership and officers) for a record of every club in the division.
- C. S. Davol, chairman of the Racing Board, has appointed F. P. Prial official handicapper for New York and New Jersey, the second United States racing district.
- Letter from E. J. Shriver of New York disputing The Wheel's editorial on L.A.W. constitution reform and proposing that national League officers be elected by popular vote on the same ballot as state officers.
- Brooklyn correspondence (signed Atol) on the proposed macadamizing of the Coney Island Boulevard bridle-path by the Cyclists' Union of Long Island, the B.B.C. theatre party and supper at the Clarendon, and the B.B.C. annual nominations headed by Jas. Fox.
- Philadelphia correspondence (Westfield) on the Century Wheelmen's new club-house, the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's stag entertainment and dances, S. C. Levy's split-second watch prize, and the trend toward safeties over the ordinary.
- At the Atalanta Wheelmen's third annual meeting George H. Miller was elected president; the club, numbering thirty, will move to a leased building on Clarke Street and held its annual dinner March 11.
- The Aeolus Cycling Club of Chicago will move into a new 150-foot-frontage club-house April 1, adopt a gray uniform, and has elected George F. Koester president; signed Observer.
- Calendar of forthcoming events from March 22 to June 8, 1889, including club smokers and theatre parties, the Twelfth Regiment Games, the Stone-Lumsden match races at Chicago, St. Louis and Crawfordsville, and the Orange-to-Philadelphia Century Run.
- Touring article (signed Tourist) describing cycling runs from Washington to historic sites such as Cabin John Bridge, Great Falls, Harper's Ferry, Mount Vernon, the Decatur-Barron dueling ground, Bladensburg, and the Surratt homestead.
- The Roxbury Bicycle Club marked its third anniversary with a dinner at Young's Hotel, Boston, presided over by W. H. Emery, with L.A.W. secretary Abbott Bassett reading a poem and George A. Perkins speaking on the roads-improvement bill.
- Technical piece (from Wheeling) giving a table of wheel diameters, circumferences and revolutions per mile, with rules for calculating circumference and how much a chain-driven wheel is geared up or down.
- Reprint from the New Orleans Item urging Boards of Trade and commercial exchanges to convene a Louisiana state convention on country-road construction and maintenance, with delegates appointed by parish police juries and city mayors.
- Cable despatch to the New York World reporting that Thomas Stevens is leaving Zanzibar for Mombasa, described as the principal seaport and caravan starting point for the British East African Trading Company.
- Patents reported for The Wheel by C. A. Snow & Co., including a bicycle patent of Thos. O'Brien of New York combining two equal wheels with a vibration-free tubular frame, dated March 19.
- Philadelphia correspondence (Argus) on bad weather and muddy roads spoiling club runs, the cancelled Century Wheelmen smoker and Brown-Dietsch boxing bout, and progress on the Century Club's new house.
- New Orleans correspondence (signed Bi) on fine spring weather, the Christy-Hathorn race won by Christy over 1.5 miles in 4m 51s, A. M. Hill's silver cup for the New Orleans Bicycle Club, and the Louisiana Cycling Club's Hatson medal races.
- St. Louis correspondence on the Warner anti-bicycle bill's first House test vote, the League's fight against it, the Missouri club's experiment with short club runs, and C. C. Hildebrand's coming European trip.
- Maryland correspondence (signed Ithuriel) on booming cycling in Baltimore, the Rambler Club's election of F. L. Brauns as president, the new Potomac Wheelmen of Cumberland, the Hagerstown July meet, and the Maryland Club's seventh annual banquet.
- At the Manhattan Bicycle Club's annual meeting John M. Warwick was re-elected president and J. W. Sheehan won the captaincy over J. A. Post by two votes; the full list of new officers is given.
- Column of brief trade and club news, including the Humber tandem won by Geo. W. Fruttchey, the Capital Cycle Co.'s Monarch lanterns, a Leipzig cycle show, the Thompson electric welding exhibition, the N.A.A.A.A. handicap won by R. W. Steves, and New York Bicycle Club bylaw amendment voting.
- The Century Run Committee, meeting at Newark, decided to hold the run on Saturday, June 8 from Orange, N.J. through Elizabeth, Plainfield, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton to Philadelphia, with particulars from L. A. Clarke.
- English cyclist C. Levi writes to Wheeling favoring large 32-36 inch steering wheels on rear-drivers, with the seat set far back over the driving wheel and handlebars brought well back.
- A Harlem Wheelmen's reception at West End Hall, 125th Street, on March 15 featured singing by Miss Macey and dancing until 4 a.m.; the committee of Newcome, Emanuel, Raisbeck and Robus is credited with its success.
- Letter signed Psyche describing an uncatchable corduroy cycling dress with knickerbockers, and disagreeing with correspondents 'Marguerite' and 'Wildflower' by favoring equal-sized wheels on the Psycho Ladies' Safety and a saddle set over the pedals.
- Reprint from Wheeling in which 'Wildflower' argues the ladies' safety is safer and more advantageous than the tricycle, especially going downhill, predicting the lady cyclist of the future will ride a safety.
- Description of folding mahogany cameras and outfits for tourists, including rising-front and swing-back features, noting that this compact camera type was carried by Thomas Stevens on his journey around the world on a Columbia bicycle.
- Column by Fenton on Captain McFadden's doubts about the April cyclists' parade route, a New York Bicycle Club smoker featuring the farce 'The Bareheaded Dudes,' Charles E. Bentley's velocipede patent, and New York's aloofness from inter-city racing rivalries.