Vol 10, No 15
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Articles in this issue
- Porter, Tyler, Haggarty and Williams break nine marks at Waltham on Nov. 2, Porter taking a world's third and paced standing mile.
- The Stearns team at Chillicothe, Ohio: Johnson lowers Tyler's flying half and standing third, and ties the flying quarter.
- Louisville wheelmen back the park bond vote that would fund parkways, and enlist a pledged 1,800 riders for the carnival.
- Paul Grosch of Passaic rides a flying quarter near Montclair, N.J., with a forty-mile gale behind him, beating Johnson's record.
- The Chicago Cycling Club's third annual ordinary run to Pullman, with dismount and header fines given to the Hopkins fund.
- Subscriptions to the fund for Myrtle Hopkins pass $250, with the Wauseon club's $25, Bowman's $10 and Chicago donors listed.
- C. M. Evans sets state records at Salt Lake, including a 2:11 mile on the five-lap track, and Arthur Liday lowers the 100-mile state road record.
- Walter C. Sanger returns to Milwaukee in good health, declining a next-year offer for the present.
- Editorial against the flood of straightaway records since Johnson's 1:35 mile, though it grants Grosch's quarter a case of its own.
- Editorial on the veterans' ordinary run, which brought thirty-eight old-timers onto high wheels and revived lapsed riders.
- Editorial urging clubs and riders to add to the Hopkins fund, naming the Chicago, Wauseon and Jerseyville contributions.
- George W. Wolfe quits his Chicago-to-New York record attempt at Batavia, N.Y., after rain west of Cleveland.
- Rumoured moves for 1895 among the leading riders: Sanger, Brown and Cabanne, Johnson, Dirnberger, Ziegler and the Columbia men.
- The Rambler team travels for the Gormully & Jeffery tire, with Bliss, Githens, Lumsden and Tom Cooper assigned to territories.
- Rural members of the Massachusetts division slate six candidates against the Associated Cycling Clubs and its president, Spencer Williams.
- W. D. Bradstreet on a proposed Boston track, costing $50,000 to match Waltham, and his electric pacemaker idea.
- E. C. Hungerford's bamboo bicycle of the Lexington Wheelmen, with its threaded bamboo tubes, steel plug joints and tangent spokes.
- Springfield's Sidwell defends Tyler's Waltham competitive mile against Bald's handlers' fake charge, Bald refuses Waltham, and the Racing Board is left to accept or reject the record; the match is dropped.
- The Fountain Ferry track, a three-lap 1,760-foot concrete track on a bluff above the Ohio, built by Landenwich and Fraser; deck: no expense spared to beat Waltham.
- Frank Padgett, a round-the-world tourist, ends his trip in Cuba after a split with Breckenridge over the Columbia wheels.
- The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club's contested nominations for officers, and the lack of local interclub football.
- Herbert Maslin on society cycling in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, with the Bidwell-Tinkham academy and the rational costume.
- The Rhode Island Wheelmen carry the L.A.W. division election, and the Niagara and Lonsdale ten-mile road races are reported.
- Zimmerman narrowly beats Pontecchi at Florence after too much olive oil; the heats and final of the race meet.
- Replies from Edwards, Louvet, Colombo, Harris and Linton to the invitation for the Garden meet.
- Zimmerman and Conti's jumping contest at Florence, the Raleigh advertisement on the theatre curtain, and Banker's Paris win. The Paris 100-kilometre race follows: Fossier wins after a bell-ringing dispute over Dubois, and Iowa's Starbuck rides well to third in the first hour.
- Wilbur Edwards wins the twenty-five-mile handicap at Los Angeles by half a wheel from Otto Ziegler in 1:09 before 3,000 people.
- Sanger, back at 203 pounds, on his Union contract, the unpaced mile, and a possible Louisville Thanksgiving ride.
- A photograph by N. H. Van Sicklen of an eucalyptus avenue on Senator Stanford's California stock farm, with the tree's properties.
- Jimmie Levy, the Chicago racing man, lands in Mexico City just before an earthquake wrecks buildings there.
- Relph and Schofield beat Oxborrow and Sansom at Rochdale on a plain-geared Whitworth, with a bribe story; London notes follow unheaded.
- H. S. Robinson's home trainer of Meadville, Pa., with its 100-pound fly wheel, cyclometer and wall dial, listed at $35.
- A recent survey shows the Newburg track 14.5 feet short a lap, reducing Gimm's 24-hour record and the Maya-Patterson records.
- Havana's Club Bicilista races for the Sagua cyclone victims, with the young ladies of honour and the race summaries.
- Brooklyn cycle path fund, Kings County Wheelmen's clubhouse search, Frank Albert's New York to Chicago attempt, Calkins's death and the bloomers suit.
- Fred C. List of the Century Cycling Club rides the Utica course in 7:30, beating Van Wagoner's 8:36, paced on a tandem.
- Canadian race promoters move to adopt Class B so that American Class B riders can race there, against the English licensing system.
- R. P. Searle, back in Chicago, expects his 6 days 5 hours Chicago-New York record to stand for the winter.
- Column of manufacturers' 1895 list prices and policy statements, with the Pope and Gormully & Jeffery context.
- Editorial note that the Pope paragraphs under Here and There were advertisements and should have been marked as such.
- Gormully & Jeffery announce 1895 Ramblers at $100 and tandems at $150, with their reasons quoted in full.
- Letter from H. H. Fulton, president of the Eclipse Bicycle Co., praising the editorial on list prices.
- The Boudard gear flotation fails, the detachable hub gear is favoured over the chain-wheel, and Humber pays a 10 per cent dividend.
- Hungerford's bamboo road test to New York, the United States Tire Co.'s mechanically fastened tire, and Jandorf's cut prices.
- Hobart A. Stacy leaves Ames & Frost to sell Monarch cycles in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
- Joseph McKee of the Lyndhurst on 1895 prices, and his support for Lozier's stand against one-man control.
- Philadelphia dealers meet to form a trade association, with a committee to take over the cycle show from the Associated Clubs.
- The Raleigh Cycle Co. answers Colonel Pope's remark that the Raleigh is not high grade, with a rider's challenge letter.
- Niagara Cycle Fittings buys Charles Metz's light central-bearing pedal rights, with the 1894 and 1895 pedal weights.
- Warwick Cycle Mfg. Co. stockholders hear of a record year, and the board re-elects Russell, Wright and Very.
- Town-by-town notices of new incorporations, failures and removals, including Weatherly Bicycle Mfg. Co., Bay City and Portland companies.
- R. D. Garden and W. M. Brewster start a Philadelphia business handling the Overman and Western Wheel Works lines.
- The Central Cycle Mfg. Co. of Indianapolis contracts to use Dunlop tires, with its 1895 machine listed at $85.