The Wheelmans Gazette, Vol 3, No 11

Articles in this issue

• Gormully and Jeffery — American Rambler, King of Rear-Drivers, Now Ready

  Gormully and Jeffery announce the American Rambler is the greatest success of the season, describing it as the best hill-climbing crank machine ever produced and noting it is now ready for immediate delivery.

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• Springfield Roadster — Testimonials from Across the Country

  Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co. prints a series of enthusiastic customer letters from Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, Illinois, and Wisconsin, each praising the Roadster's reliability, ease of running, and all-round road performance.

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• The Poet's Woe — A Comic Tale from the Editorial Room

  A humorous sketch recounts a self-important amateur poet named Demitrus Jaques who visits the Gazette's composing room on press day and insists on reading aloud his cycling epic 'The Birth of the Bicycle,' a bombastic verse about Thor crafting a cycle from cyclones and lightning.

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• Warwick Perfection Bicycle and Safety — New Wheels for 1889

  The Ware Manufacturing Co. announces the Warwick Perfection Bicycle and Safety for 1889 with agents already secured, inviting dealers to apply for terms and prices.

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• Clark Cycle Co. — Trade-In Your Old Wheel for a New Rapid or Quadrant

  Clark Cycle Co. continues its part-exchange offer for second-hand machines against New Rapid Roadsters, Light Roadsters, and Quadrant Tricycles or Tandems, urging riders to act before the limited allocation runs out.

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• Thomas Stevens' Round-the-World Ride — Volume II Now Ready

  Charles Scribner's Sons announce the publication of the second volume of Thomas Stevens' 'Around the World on a Bicycle,' covering the journey from Teheran to Yokohama, with press reviews calling it intensely interesting and a valuable contribution to travel literature.

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• King Bicycle — Lever Drive, Economy of Power, and Safety

  The King Wheel Co. of 51 Barclay Street, New York, promotes the King's lever drive as giving constant power with economy of effort, its treadles placed behind the hub to prevent headers, and liberal agent terms available.

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• Rover Safety — First Safety to Accomplish Major Milestones

  An advertisement for the Rover safety, available through U.S. agents L. H. Johnson of Orange N.J., Meacham Arms Co. of St. Louis, and R. D. Addis of Lincoln Nebraska, promotes it as the first safety to accomplish significant records, with British agent J. K. Starley of Coventry.

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