Vol 3, No 28
Articles in this issue
- Minutes of the Committee meeting of 20th September. Mr. Arthur Adams's resignation was accepted and the Hon. Sec. directed to express the Committee's very great regret at losing one of the oldest members, who had rendered the most valuable services to the L.B.C. in its early stages; the resignations of Messrs. J. Franklin-Adams, E. A. Green, H. F. Smith and Dr. Russell were also accepted. Messrs. T. Godlee, Ashley Barrett and H. R. Boyce were made a sub-committee for the Annual Club Dinner, fixed for on or about 8th December, and Mr. R. Newman was to be asked to take Mr. Dalton's vacated seat.
- Notice from Hon. Sec. Fred. W. Morris that the general meeting adjourned from 7th July will be held at 35, Eastcheap on Thursday, 7th October at 6.30 p.m., with the election of Committee and confirmation of the Rules to transact, so all members are particularly asked to attend.
- From our Special Reporter: despite a wet morning some 5,000 spectators fought their way in on Saturday 18th September, knowing that a win would make the £50 Challenge Cup the "Demon's" own property. Sixty-eight entries and forty-six starters in the Open Mile were run off in eight heats on a sodden grass course, the Executive rolled it before the final, and Cortis mowed his men down in the last lap to win by two yards in 3 min. 15 3/5 sec. In the Ten Miles Scratch Race he let Lacy Hillier lead for two and a half miles, then ran right away and overlapped the field by the fifth mile, taking the cup for the third time and keeping it; full heat details and lap times are given.
- The concluding instalment. Landing at Bergen from the Lofoten by small boat, an art the pair had by now mastered, they wheeled over rough cobbles to Holdt's Hotel and were lodged with their machines in the "Garden Room", the garden being paved with stone and producing only some very mangy fowls. Three idle days followed, taking in the public funeral of the once-celebrated violinist Ole Bull and a concert by Madame Ambré and Signor Bettini, before they boarded the Domino at midnight on Wednesday for home.
- R. M. Gruggen concludes: leaving Grip at 2.30 p.m. the pair lost an hour by following the carriage road to a magnificent cascade instead of keeping the telegraph wires in sight, then ignored two Spaniards in heavy top boots who urged them to turn back, crossed the snow by moonlight, and slept badly in a flea-ridden windowless tunnel at the Hotel du Pic du Midi. Starting at 3.30 a.m. with a guide they reached the 9,439-foot summit at 5.5 for the sunrise. Homeward, a chef-de-gare at Tarbes demanded 25 francs for over-weight bicycles and refused to weigh them, the Bordeaux stationmaster tore up his telegram, and Stanton's bicycle log carried by Barry is written off as a complete failure.
- A member's account of a visit to Messrs. Humber, Marriott and Cooper, the old Queen's Road premises in Nottingham, and the new works at Beeston three miles out, where Mr. Humber himself gave him the tour. He watched a fluted hind fork forged from a hydraulically-cut flat steel blank in under five minutes, a 150-ton hydraulic press turn a tube into a fork, spectacled men turning balls from a steel bar to be case-hardened and ground six at a time, hubs whose axles are run at five thousand revolutions a minute, regulating plates for boring and a spoke-screwing machine that throws itself out of gear, plus the burnishing, painting and casting rooms and the ten-horse engine the firm built itself. A newly patented section of felloe and the latest bearings are to appear with next year's machines.
- "L'Homme Qui Rit" reports Alison's heavy fall on a hill running down into Bournemouth when his front tyre came off, and his gratitude to Captain Malet, Lady Eden and Mr. Pearson (Hutchings's partner); a maiden of fifty summers prescribing turpentine at night and ink in the morning to a lacerated member, who declined the martyr's death. Also Dr. Coleman's negotiation of Mont Blanc, an irreverent North-Easter's quip that Balaam's Ass shied at an "Al' Bright Carver", Captain Feild F.S.A.'s purchase of the freehold between Earl's Court and West Brompton stations from Monsignor Capel's trustees for a first-class cricket and sporting ground, and general curiosity as to how the Amateur Dramatic Society is going on.
- Standing notice that contributions must be addressed to "The Editor, L.B.C. Gazette, 35, Eastcheap, E.C.", bear the author's name, be written on one side of the paper only and reach the office by Wednesday morning; Messrs. Darling supply badge-stamped portfolios at 2s. and back numbers cost 1d. each.