The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial arguing the 1,500 idle convicts at Sing Sing should be set to building and maintaining New York State roads, quoting principal keeper Mr. Connaughton on the insanity bred by enforced idleness and a New York Tribune editorial pressing the Legislature to act.
- The editor's weekly comment column on candidate cities (Baltimore, Washington) for the tenth-anniversary L.A.W. meet, the New York Bicycle Club's new election method, and urging every state cyclist to join the Division to pass the Roads Improvement Bill via Secretary Abbot Bassett.
- Editor F. P. Prial reprints "Perseus'" Sporting Life reply advocating popular election of L.A.W. national officers through state electoral votes, and rebuts it, urging Perseus and E. J. Shriver to argue the question at the next National Assembly instead of in the press.
- Correspondent "Stump" of Eureka describes six wheelmen's first run of the season on March 31 from Eureka through Ferndale to Fortuna over the level Pacific Coast roads, riding Victor, Springfield, Champion, Columbia and Challenge machines.
- "Titnam" recounts New York State Chief Consul W. S. ("Billy") Bull of Buffalo touring New York and Brooklyn clubs, outlining plans to raise Division membership to 3,000, push Isaac B. Potter's Roads Improvement Bill, and publish a free state hand-book.
- Report of the L.A.W. Massachusetts Board of Officers meeting at the Clarendon Hotel under Chief Consul Emery, voting to give the Massachusetts and Rhode Island road-book to new members and declining to invite the League's annual summer meet.
- Boston-area wheelmen gathered at America Hall, called by Chief Consul Emery, to organize support for the road commission bill before the Legislature, with remarks by C. E. Pratt, Vice-Consul Robinson and President Underwood of the Jamaica Plain Cycle Club.
- Announcement of a Decoration Day handicap road race organized by A. B. Barkman of the Brooklyn Bicycle Club on the Irvington-Milburn course, open to amateurs, with twelve prizes from $25 to $135 and a Light Roadster bicycle for first.
- Calendar of upcoming events including the Chicago Cycling Exhibit, the Stone-Lumsden match races, Harvard and Twelfth Regiment race meets, the Orange-to-Philadelphia century run and the N.C.U. championships at Paddington, England.
- Baltimore correspondent "Bay Ridge" prints President Luscomb's letter on the 1889 League meet (possibly at Hagerstown) and reports club news, including a knife attack on Victor Safeties at Cline Bros. and Victor Emerson's record ride from Reisterstown.
- Correspondent "Snohomish" traces cycling's growth in Tacoma, Washington Territory, from Prince Wells's exhibition and agency to the disbanding of the Tacoma Wheelmen and formation of the new Tacoma Bicycle Club, plus a planned 25-mile championship road race.
- Detailed 26-event program for the Chicago Cycling Exhibit and Tournament arranged by S. A. Miles, featuring the multi-heat mile handicap as the event of the meeting and a novel one-mile flying-start race.
- Full timed schedule for the June 8 Orange-to-Philadelphia century run via Newark, Plainfield, Princeton and Trenton, with rendezvous at South Orange and dinner at the Colonnade Hotel, arranged by secretary L. A. Clarke.
- Wm. A. Clark of Stamford demonstrated the hill-climbing of a 44½-lb. 50-inch Eagle bicycle on Eagle Rock Hill before wheelmen and dealers from Orange, Newark, Elizabeth and Brooklyn, coasting to the bottom and riding straight back to the summit.
- Column of trade and club squibs: Lumsden training at Cheltenham, a £400 wage-money theft from Humber & Co. at Coventry, the death of Illinois Club rider J. K. Boyden after a collision, and elections for the Portland, Roxbury and Cambridge clubs.
- "Westfield" describes the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's mince-pie run to George Gideon's and on to Fort Washington, the railroad petition drive, and speculation over the identity of "Pennsy."
- Report of the Louisiana Cycling Club's long-delayed Batson medal three-mile handicap won by a limit man over twelve starters, its annual election (President W. H. Renaud re-elected) and a clubhouse drive that drew $1,375 in pledges.
- "Ornh Qba" reports Le Grand Spicer taking the Columbia agency, the Trojan Wheelmen's annual election (President C. E. Betts), and comment on the L.A.W. popular-election question and doing more for the ladies.
- Meeting at the New York Bicycle Club on April 6 re-elected John R. Blake president and L. S. Edwards secretary, awarded the 1889 championship to the Atalanta Wheelmen, and accepted the Harlem Wheelmen's resignation.
- "Fenton" notes the Seventh Regiment's many racing wheelmen (Beekwith, Hoffman, the Triplers), welcomes new Chief Consul Bull, and lists the New York City club racers expected on the track for the coming season.
- "Atol" reports the Long Island Wheelmen entertaining the Brooklyns when speaker Col. Oakey defaulted, windy-day rides by K.C.W. and Brooklyn Bicycle Club men, and the Brooklyn club's annual election and move to 62 Hanson Place.
- "Argus" praises South End Wheelman J. R. F. Edwards's 1,200 miles since January, debates a Decoration Day inter-club run to Belmont Mansion with "Ariel," and reports W. T. Fleming's return from Florida and a prohibition-sign joke on the Century Wheelmen.
- "Ithuriel" reports the Missouri Club's renewed push on club runs, the mileage medal presented to S. C. Newman (5,003 miles) who is removing to Chicago, Chicago wheelmen's acceptance of an invitation tied to the Stone-Lumsden race, and repeal of the Sunday games ban.
- "California" describes the Bay City Wheelmen reaching one hundred members, their theatre party and smokers, the new track, the three-mile national championship set for Los Angeles May 30, and advice on scheduling the Eastern century run.
- "Titnam" gives a verse-laden account of the Brooklyn wheelmen's theatre night before 275 riders and the Clarendon dinner, with Louis Harrison entertaining, Toast-master Michael Furst, Mayor Chapin and F. P. Prial of The Wheel among the speakers.
- Report of the Plainfield Bicycle Club's annual tournament of April 4, listing the ten events and winners including a tug-of-war over the Elizabeth Wheelmen and T. R. Finley's applauded fancy Star riding.
- Reprint from Health quoting Dr. Jennings that tricycling can relieve sedentary ailments, chronic gout, rheumatic gout, obesity and even early phthisis, with warnings on all-wool dress, moderate pace and abstaining from alcohol on a journey.
- List of recent cycle patents reported by C. A. Snow & Co. of Washington, including a spring fork (Leon Baudreau, Chicopee Falls), a bicycle saddle (John H. Brooks, Birmingham) and velocipedes by Malcolm A. Norton and Charles E. W. Woodward.
- Humorous mock pidgin-English letter from "Ah There" to a laundryman in Philadelphia alluding to the June Century Run and the spectacle of sweating wheelmen.
- Detailed account of the New York Bicycle Club's new write-in nomination and printed-ballot election system for its May 6 vote, with the candidate ticket and the relevant revised by-law articles reproduced in full.
- Trade review of L. H. Johnson of Orange, N.J., importer of the Special Premier Safety ($135), Premier Tandem Safety ($200), Sparkbrook bicycle ($125) and Humber Cripper tricycles and tandems, with specifications.
- Review of George R. Bidwell's pocket catalogue covering his Columbia and Psycho wheels and his renting, instruction, storage and repair departments at 313 West Fifty-eighth Street and Adelphi Hall, hiring only brand-new 1889 machines.
- Reprint from The Scottish Cyclist describing James Boyd of Galashiels's new double-spoon self-assisting brake that harnesses the wheel's forward motion to hold a machine with little muscular effort.
- Satirical pen picture, contributed by Junius Junior to the Irish Cyclist, of E. R. Shipton, organizing secretary of the Cyclists' Touring Club, mocking his self-satisfaction and the C.T.C.'s army of unpaid volunteers.
- Pope Mfg. Co.'s recapitulation of the 1889 Columbia line with prices and descriptions for the Light Roadster Safety, Light Roadster, Expert, Tandems and tricycle, plus the imported Rudge, Psycho ladies' and Rover ladies' bicycles.