Vol 10, No 13
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Articles in this issue
- John S. Johnson rides a 1:35 2-5 straightaway mile at Buffalo behind the quadruplet, a tenth of a second under Salvator's running-horse record.
- Murphy, Louis Callahan, Saunders and Kennedy set world's quarter, half and three-quarter marks on the quad at Buffalo, while Johnson's tyre punctures twice.
- Harry Tyler makes six world's records in paced two-mile work at Waltham, with Arthur Porter's Class A marks and the Thatcher, Gardiner and Bainbridge tandems.
- Tyler takes two of Johnson's long-standing world's records and adds two more at Waltham, while Porter rides a mile for five Class A marks.
- Tyler wins the Class B mile at Waltham in 2:05, and Porter takes the Class A race behind a slow tandem, with Sims's Class A competition record left standing.
- The editor grants Johnson's 1:35 2-5 mile as a fine performance but refuses it competition status, since it was a road ride paced by team-mates.
- An editorial deplores the mud-slinging in the L.A.W. division elections and asks for cleaner campaigns.
- An editorial declines to treat Tyler's 2:05 mile as a competition record, because a team tandem set its pace and rivals were team-mates.
- George W. Wolfe's ride from Chicago towards New York is reported stage by stage through Cleveland, Mentor and Unionville, ahead of schedule.
- R. P. Searle reaches New York City Hall in 6 days 7 hours 30 minutes from Chicago, an hour under Wolfe's record, and a note follows on Joseph Gunther's and Charley Fairchild's century bars.
- Ziegler's coast records lead into the winter plans of Johnson's Buffalo and Texas tour, the Cleveland and Union teams, Columbia's Bald and the Rambler team at Birmingham, Ala.
- E. C. Stearns & Co. correct a misprinted percentage table, with Sanger at .683 and Johnson at .568 as the leaders.
- Cabanne and A. I. Brown try records at St. Louis, where Cabanne falls and rides a 2:02 track mile, and Bert Harding's 100-mile attempt is stopped by rain after forty miles.
- Guy Gary wins every bicycle event at the Dartmouth College athletic games at Hanover, N.H., including the one-mile handicap in 2:43.
- An account of Walter Sanger's caution, his $10,000 season and the fall over the bank at the Cleveland meeting that cost him no injury.
- Paris notes: the Velodrome Buffalo's grievance at Zimmerman's departure for Italy, Fossier's 112-inch gear win at Buffalo, and the Harris, Banker and Crooks rivalries.
- J. L. Clark of the Eclipse team wins the twenty-mile Wilmington to New Castle road race from a 6:30 handicap, and C. A. Church's 55:53 is the fastest time ever for the course.
- Leon Johnson of the Indiana Bicycle Co. is mistaken for John S. Johnson at Louisville, and the same column reports the Thanksgiving meet, the grand stand contract and Hugh Caperton's suspension.
- E. A. Boffinger of the Riverside Wheelmen takes the honours at the Union Lake Park meet at Millville, N.J., and W. A. Wenzel sets a track mile record of 2:23.
- Walter Sanger argues that his 2:08 handicap record is the only real competitive mile, and that tandem-paced scratch times like Tyler's 2:05 belong in a class of their own.
- The Rhode Island Wheelmen's ten-mile road race at Providence, with eight starters, sees Chas. Harris first and H. B. Hills Jr. take the time medal.
- A New York Hospital ambulance is fitted with Dunlop tyres, and the city authorities may adopt them if they wear as well as the old rattlebox type.
- Milwaukee clubs plan socials, minstrel shows and pool tourneys, the council threatens a speed ordinance after scorching on new asphalt, and the Wisconsin L.A.W. division election and the 1894 state Class A records are reported.
- The column covers the Queens Athletic Club races and a Queens track record, the New York Life five-mile handicap, a Riverside challenge to Elizabeth, Asbury Park lamp arrests and the army's interest in bicycles for signalling.
- Pope Mfg. Co. fixes the 1895 Columbia at $100, and rival makers including Gormully & Jeffery, Sterling ($110), Stearns, Stover, Wainwright's Ben-Hur and Monarch respond.
- Chicago rider William DeCardy lowers road records on the Garfield Park boulevard, riding 25 miles in 1:03:52 and ten miles in 24:13 on a Syracuse with Morgan & Wright tyres.
- The Carriage Builders' National Association convention at Philadelphia adopts good-roads and wide-tyre resolutions after an address by Sterling Elliott, with brief notes on James Levy's trip to Mexico.
- C. W. Hartung's London letter reports the Inflexible C.C. twelve-hour race at Putney, the Union debate on women's road and path racing, Miss White's London to Coventry ride and staff news at The Cycle.
- A twenty-five-mile match between McDuffie and Nat Butler in Boston collapses after a newspaper prints the arrangements, and the A.C.C. plans its winter tournaments.
- Mrs. George Bunker lowers the ladies' Elgin-Aurora century record from 8:18:00 to 8:16:00.
- An editorial argues that makers should not cut 1895 prices merely because others might, noting that six or eight firms have already kept last season's prices.
- A San Francisco review of the year's dealers: Alexander's Columbia and Falcon sales, the Overman Victor branch, Varney's Rambler agency, the Pacific Cycle Imperial and Lozier's Cleveland business.
- Chicago's Wabash Avenue cycle row has largely emptied, with a list of firms that have closed or moved, the five remaining street-level stores and the rumoured demolition of the corner buildings.
- Short trade notes cover Dunham's stock orders, Dirnberger's plans, the New York Tire Co.'s road trials, the Monarch capital increase, the Dunlop tyres fitted to the Prince of Wales's brougham and the new International Mfg. Co. wheel, the America.
- A London correspondent reports the Coventry Machinist's management changes, G. P. Mills's move to Raleigh, the Palmer detachable tyre, Sloper's rotary tyre, wood rims, the new Dunlop non-slip cover and the Guthrie chain.
- New York trade news includes Spalding's 1895 bicycle, the Hy-lo changeable gear, the Remington and Monarch lines, Equitable instalment selling, Western Wheel Works' Crescent and Dunlop's 1895 tyres and valve.
- The Bearings reprints Cycling Life's attack on swaged spokes and the Excelsior Needle Co.'s reply that cold swaging increases tensile strength.
- The Elkhart Cycle Co. is incorporated at $25,000 by Chicago and Indiana backers to build at least 1,000 wheels, mainly for the jobbing trade.
- The Ellwood Shafting & Tube Co. expands its Hartman cold-drawn weldless tubing plant under new president F. W. Ensworth.
- Bert C. Van Nest wins the South Side Cycling Club's five-mile road race in Chicago from scratch in 11:19, breaking the American record.
- The National Cycle Exhibition Co. sets out exhibitor, sign, admission, press and advertising-rate rules for the January Chicago show.
- Trade changes across the country include a War Department tender for signal-corps bicycles, store and management changes, chattel mortgages, new repair shops and a bicycle factory planned at Aurora, Ill.