The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Editorial applauding the New York Assembly's progress on Judge Yates' bill to employ convicts on the public highways, arguing road work is the only solution that displaces no free labor.
- Reprints the text and provisions of Judge Yates' prison-labor bill, which would redirect convicts from contract manufacturing to road-making, bridge-building and stone-breaking under county supervisors.
- Commentary reprinted from the New York World defending the reformatory theory of state prisons and skilled-trade labor over degrading chain-gang treatment, in connection with the Yates and Husted bills at Albany.
- Account of the Assembly's April 11 Committee of the Whole debate, in which Judge Yates substituted his bill for the Savery bill and spoke over two hours attacking the prison 'ring' for locking convicts in cells rather than employing them.
- Reports the favourable committee recommendation for a Massachusetts Commissioner of Roads and Bridges and reprints a Boston Herald editorial of April 16 praising the advisory, low-cost office for town road superintendents.
- Reproduces John G. Whittier's letter from Danvers, Mass., to M. F. Round, read at the Prison Association meeting at Steinway Hall, protesting that enforced idleness in prisons will fill them with maniacs.
- Lists the ten highest mileage records for March and cumulative totals to April 1 compiled by Captain Teller, led by L. H. Wise with 618 miles in March and 953 to date.
- Two notices from Chief Consul W. S. Bull of Buffalo: naming The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review the division's official organ, and appointing M. L. Bridgman of Brooklyn as Vice-Consul.
- Report of the Essex Bicycle Club's tenth annual meeting and dinner at Davis' parlors, with officer elections (President John B. Lunger, Captain E. Eugene Sargeant) and toasts and a humorous poem by Herbert W. Knight.
- Letter from L. A. Clarke detailing the logistics of organising the Grand Century Run of 1889 across roughly twenty-two metropolitan clubs, replying to teasing from California correspondents and estimating at least one hundred starters.
- Department of regional correspondence opening with Brooklyn news from 'Atol'—Prospect Park road repairs, the Brooklyns' first Saturday run under Captain Meeteer, and four B. B. C. men (Cole, Bancroft, Snedeker, Raymond) chopping down obstructing posts on the Bath side-path.
- Correspondent 'Snohomish' on Tacoma wheelmen scorching for a 25-mile road race (Barlow and Keen favourites), a 35-mile club run to Steilacoom and American Lake under Captain Wells, and scenery of Mt. Tacoma and the Indian Reservation.
- Reports the Buffalo Ramblers' first run with 36 members, the formation of a Buffalo Ladies' Bicycle Club affiliating with the L. A. W., the second annual 100-mile Decoration Day run from Erie, and F. W. Brinker introducing the Eagle wheel.
- Wilmington Wheel Club notes on a planned race meet, refitted club rooms, Charles C. Kurtz's removal to Pittsburg, a joint run with the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club, and members entering the Irvington-Milburn handicap on May 30.
- 'Jack' offers an impressionistic sketch of New York's Central Park as a cycling venue, judging its roadways superior to Hyde, St. James' or Richmond parks and describing the mix of safeties, trotters and policemen along its avenues.
- Correspondent 'Bay Ridge' on Hagerstown's bid to host the July League meet, a proposed new Baltimore club-house, the incorporation of the Chesapeake Wheelmen Stock Company, and the Centaur Club's Arbor Day tree-planting in Patterson Park.
- Chas. Alex. Persons on Macon's spring riding, Georgia's planned Atlanta road congress and millions budgeted for street work, and a comic account of riding beside a header-prone stranger on a 58-inch ordinary.
- 'Ithuriel' on St. Louis wheelmen joining the Washington-inauguration centennial parade, the return of Ed. Sells, the quiet repeal of the Missouri Club's Sunday house rule, and Captain Lewis's overnight run to Ballwin.
- Troy notes that S. G. Whittaker is training on a Rover safety at Coventry for road records, Le Grand Spicer's new Columbia Light Roadster Safety draws crowds, and the Troy Bi. Club plans a gymnasium entertainment with the R.P.I. Banjo Club.
- Reports the Louisiana Cycling Club subscribing $1,400 for a new club-house and challenging the New Orleans Bicycle Club to a team race, plus the Louisiana State Division L. A. W. adopting a new constitution and a roads-improvement resolution.
- President D. F. Grove announces the Lancaster Bicycle Club's plans for a 4th of July race meet on its half-mile driving-park track, improving on last season's successful first meet.
- Correspondent 'California' on the Bay City Wheelmen raising their membership limit to 125, an enjoyable club smoker with guest W. S. Maltby and a comic 'stuffed man' stunt by Secretary Pierson, and a thirty-mile run to Redwood City.
- 'Headers' on the Bay City Wheelmen's full L. A. W. renewal, ex-champion M. J. 'Maggie' Baily buying a racing wheel, the Century Wheelmen weighing ladies' membership, and a week of Philadelphia club balls and dinners.
- 'Coaster' on the Hudson County Wheelmen's drawn-out uniform debate ending in a dark Oxford gray contract with Devlin & Co., the coming Benedict medal race, and moonlight runs to Orange and Elizabeth.
- Publishes the Orange Wanderers' full April–June schedule of morning, long, afternoon and evening runs, and reports the club will stay independent and build its own club-house with bowling alleys and a gymnasium.
- Announces the first monthly union run of all Boston-area clubs to Salem on April 21 at eight miles per hour, organised by a committee chaired by Captain Arthur Robinson of the Charlestown Rovers, with some riders continuing to Gloucester.
- Calendar of fixtures from April 21 to July 27, including the Harvard Bicycle Club open meet, the Stone-Lumsden match races, the Chicago Cycling Exhibit, the Hagerstown meet, and the N.C.U. championships at Paddington.
- Previews the Harvard Bicycle Club's open meet on Holmes Field, May 11, listing the team for the road race with Tech. and the events and prizes (including an Eagle bicycle for the two-mile handicap) for the meet.
- Fuller account of the Louisiana Division meeting of April 7 under Chief Consul H. H. Hodgson, listing committee appointments for racing, road improvement and rights, A. M. Hill as handicapper, and a road-reform resolution to the Board of Trade.
- Lists the new members elected at the April 8 committee meeting and reports Charles Schwalbach's offer of a gold medal for the union member logging the greatest road mileage between April 1889 and April 1890.
- Letter signed 'F. P.' opposing the L. A. W. President's hint that Baltimore again host the annual meet, recalling that Washington's 1884 meet drained its workers and proposing New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia or Western cities instead.
- 'Jack' replies wittily to columnist 'Fenton's' mockery of his English, defending the word 'rythmetical' with a citation from Carlyle's 'Hero-Worship' and answering with elaborate mock self-deprecation.
- Letter from E. J. Shriver of New York arguing the League should let its whole membership vote directly for officers from President down to District Representative, rather than electing through divisional delegates.
- Letter from 'Psyche' of Washington protesting the appointment of 'Helen Grey'—who has never ridden—as the Bicycling World's ladies' editor, and refuting Grey's claims about nervous strain and the dog-defending superiority of tricycles.
- Reprints from the Nashville American Psyche's detailed comparison of bicycle and tricycle for shopping and visiting, judging the bicycle far more convenient and graceful to mount once learned.
- Describes the Bowers pedal lamp, a patented lantern clipped to the pedal pin without tools that throws no rim shadow and can be aimed forward by toe pressure; written by inventor W. T. Bowers of Saco, Me.
- 'Consul' recounts an eighteen-mile evening ride from Boston through Malden, Everett and Revere during which a companion rode on for hours despite a wrist bone later found cracked, suggesting night quiet makes wheels run easier.
- Describes a tricycle patented by Patrick Gallagher of East Forty-second Street, New York, driven by a flywheel crank-handle with adjustable arms, easily operated and braked and suited to ladies and invalids.
- Letter from J. H. Watson of Hartford, reprinted from the Church Record, urging clergymen to take up the bicycle for parish work and health and suggesting congregations present a machine to their minister.
- Reprinted from Bicycling News, a question for chemists and medical men on how much tea a cyclist may safely drink on a long ride and whether alternating it with acid fruits could counteract its alkaloid effects.
- Letter from 'Klercy' of Philadelphia complaining that despite catalogue boasts of interchangeable parts, manufacturers leave riders waiting two to three months for spares even in the dull season.
- Lists recent cycle patents dated April 16 reported for The Wheel: a bicycle by Richard H. Fletcher of Socorro, N. Mex., gearing by Wm. J. Fitzpatrick of South Boston, and a brake by Samuel A. Burns of Bridgeport, Ct.
- Trade and club notes: the 'Keen'/'John Keen' ball pedal made by William Bown and praised by Ernest Mayes and Harry Osborne; trainer W. J. Corcoran moving to New York; and a notice of the Rhode Island wheelmen's Narragansett Park tournament.
- Describes the Chicago Exposition Building on the lake front—1,000 feet long, the largest roofed area in the world—as the venue for the coming cycle exhibit and tournament, with Phil Hammel and Senator Morgan training on its gallery track.