The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Unsigned editorial paragraphs adding E. C. McCormick of Brooklyn to the cycling scroll of fame for his hospitality to wheelmen, urging the Racing Board to bar safeties from ordinary bicycle races, and praising a fine recent number of the Bicycling World by Messrs. Fourdrinier and Neumann.
- A correspondent signing "Psyche" apologizes to "Marguerite" over a mix-up with "Wildflower," praises the Psyche ladies' wheel, and describes three ways of mounting a bicycle in skirts.
- W. S. Bull assumes the office of Chief Consul of the New York State Division vice the resigned George R. Bidwell, thanks Bidwell for his service, and appoints Dr. George E. Blackham of Dunkirk to the Executive Committee.
- Adams & Sons, makers of "Tutti-Frutti" chewing gum, offer $100 and $50 gold medals for the highest and second-highest one-month mileage records between May and November 1889, to be verified by C. W. Fourdrinier and F. P. Prial.
- "Fenton" urges the wheelmen of New York to follow Brooklyn's example with a theatre party and dinner, and reports the proposed New York Club election slate headed by Shriver, Terry, Findley and Shaw.
- Club correspondence on the Brooklyn wheelmen's theatre party (the panned "Pearl of Pekin") and supper attended by Mayor Chapin, McCormick's hospitality invitation, and plans for the 1889 Century run.
- Reports the likely organization of the N. J. T. R. R. A. under Capt. Day, denies a rumor that C. E. Kluge will race this season, and describes the Hudson County Wheelmen's "Grand Smoker."
- The Pope Mfg. Co. asks The Wheel to state it did not issue circulars accusing firms of patent infringement, while not denying it privately informed its own agents of alleged infringements.
- Describes the spread of rubber-tired carriage wheels, citing William Carmont's patents worked by the London Noiseless Tire Company (bought by the Earl of Shrewsbury) and Howard M. Dubois's American Cushion Tire and Wheel Co. of Philadelphia.
- Discusses the claim, drawn from engineering papers and a rider's letter, that bicycles run with far less effort at night, and quotes "Perseus" in Sporting Life on cycling as a fountain of youth; also notes the new Flower City Wheelmen formed at Rochester.
- The Samuel Winslow Skate Mfg. Co. of Worcester, Mass., has set up a bicycle plant and is producing the high-grade "Vineyard" wheel in sizes 38 to 50 inches at $35 to $60; also notes the Prospect Wheelmen of Brooklyn electing officers.
- Trade and racing notes: German champion Lehr's planned visit to England, the Leipsic cycle show with 140 firms, German makers copying the American "Star" (Lexzau & Scharbau of Hamburg), and the N. C. U. championship dates at Paddington.
- The Irish Cyclist reports Messrs. Edlin & Co. of Belfast introducing a "Pneumatic" safety with an air-filled hollow tire that absorbs vibration and resists cuts from sharp stones.
- Reprinted from the Nashville American, arguing that the everyday devotion cycling inspires keeps riders' muscles hard, appetite good and digestion sound; also notes a book "The Bicycle: Its Use and Action" by Charles Spencer, London, 1870.
- Rain again postpones the Louisiana Cycling Club's Batson medal race; the New Orleans Bicycle Club sets dates for its A. M. Hill cup races and adopts a bottle-green uniform, and the Louisiana Club matures a building scheme.
- A long letter from "Violet Lorne" in Bicycling News defending the ladies' safety against a critic in The Lady, praising a hinge-saddle machine shown by Mr. Leni of Hammersmith at the Stanley show, and recounting her own learning to ride a Starley "Psycho."
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, reporting two cycle races at the Parsee Gymkhana at Bombay: the two-mile bicycle won by K. M. Satin over his brother, and the one-mile tricycle won by P. M. Dalai over D. D. Dubash.
- Announces that B. Gaylor of the Eagle Bicycle Company and Wm. A. Clark of Stamford will attempt to climb Eagle Rock on a 50-inch "Eagle" on Saturday, April 6.
- Theodore W. Roberts of Poughkeepsie reports teaching a young lady to ride a Rambler in two hours at the Casino Rink and lists Vassar College ladies interested in cycling, whose enthusiasm waned owing to the awkward tricycle.
- "Ithuriel" surveys the St. Louis trade (St. Louis Wheel Co., Warwick, Wilder & Laing, Meacham's), the failed track-consolidation meeting, and Western interest in the Stone-Lumsden races.
- "Argus" reports the Pope Mfg. Co.'s Boston reception, the South End Wheelmen entertaining the Camden men, the Tioga Athletic Club's track scheme and Century Wheelmen anecdotes.
- "Buzz" reports growing safety-bicycle use and a proposed fifty-mile road race around Lake Canadarago for the 1889 Waiontha Club tournament, plus the club's plan to stage the drama "Our American Cousin."
- "Bay Ridge" reports the Crescent Club owns its North Avenue club-house, the prosperous Maryland Club's growth, a new Easton (Talbot County) club, and a serious header taken by Isaac Hinds of the Baltimore Club on Eutaw Place.
- A trade write-up of Singer & Co.'s Berkeley Street, Boston branch under manager W. L. Ross, detailing the firm's Safety, Royal Singer, Ladies' Safety, Apollo, Challenge and "SSS" tricycle line with prices.
- Reviews Messrs. Holmes & Co.'s sixteen-page 1889 catalogue of jersey-fitting and athletic garments produced at their new Kingston Street, Boston premises, with prices for shirts, tights and stockings.
- A calendar of forthcoming cycling fixtures from April 25 through July, including the Harvard Bicycle Club race meet, the Chicago Cycling Exhibit, the Stone-Lumsden match races, and the Orange-to-Philadelphia Century run.
- A second column of trade and personal notes: ladies shopping awheel in Dublin (Violet Lorne), Pullman road race entries closing May 10, Spalding's new photographic department, and a new Boston newspapermen's cycle club.
- Detailed description of the Century Wheelmen's new quarters at 1605 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, with parlors, wheel room, gymnasium and billiard room, and a list of officers headed by president Thomas Hare.
- Reports preparations for the May 13-18 Chicago tournament under W. I. Niles, listing the business committee, the proposed racing programme, and an exhibit of 2,000 cycling photographs and the largest display of wheels yet seen in America.
- Details the Orange, N. J., to Philadelphia Century run of June 8 via Newark, Plainfield, Princeton and Trenton, with rendezvous, rest stops and pace, organized by chairman L. A. Clarke.
- Reprinted from the Tacoma Globe on E. I. Halsted of the Harlem Wheelmen and his Adamant Manufacturing Company interests at Tacoma; followed by a note on Wm. A. Clark of Stamford climbing the steep cobbled "Put's Hill" near Greenwich on his "Eagle."