Vol 10, No 16
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Articles in this issue
- Zimmerman, Wheeler, Erwin and Harry Rue land at Hoboken from the Augusta Victoria, and the Garden's Thanksgiving money is estimated.
- Zimmerman wins the 3-kilometre final at Florence, beating Pontecchi, with the Verheyen and Dani heats and a Wheeler-Pontecchi match.
- W. H. Penseyers rides a half mile at Buffalo in 0:46 3/5, paced by a Globe quadruplet on Palmer tires.
- The Louisville wheel carnival parade of about 1,500 riders, its decorated floats and designs, the prize awards and the fire that destroyed one display.
- Unpaced records set at Wichita by M. H. Burt, W. H. Fehleisen and Ross Miller on Stearns, Syracuse and Rambler machines, with tandem marks by Miller and Burt.
- Chicago park commissioners consider a 30-foot exclusive cycle road from Douglas to Garfield Park, to the plans of G. W. Dorr, with the racing board's recommendations printed alongside.
- The L.A.W. Racing Board's recommended rule changes, including manufacturer contract protection, a salaried elected chairman, barring women from racing and condemning road racing.
- The Columbia team breaks up at Springfield, and its record riders MacDonald and Bald are stood down while the Stearns, Rambler and other teams pursue Tyler's mark.
- Editorial on the L.A.W. Racing Board's year and its recommendations, and its rejection of Tyler's competitive mile record claim.
- Editorial on the rejection of Tyler's claim for the competitive mile record.
- Editorial on Zimmerman's return from Europe with his money and on Class B's drift towards professionalism.
- Editorial on the flood of record enquiries the paper receives and the compiled record table published to answer them.
- Walter Sanger, of Milwaukee, is in talks with makers including Union and Spalding about riding for unpaced records in the south this winter.
- Obituary of L.A.W. president Dr. N. Malon Beckwith, with a quoted tribute from Secretary Abbot Bassett and funeral details.
- Michael Dirnberger in Syracuse, where club life dominates a dead winter season; his talk with Buffalo, the Stearns man, and the Syracuse bowling tournament.
- Boston's row over an anonymous circular on A.C.C. race management, with Dirnberger's views on Johnson and his mile plans for next season.
- Two young Toledo men, A. B. Barnes and W. J. Noble, leave Chicago on Monarch bicycles for a two-year tour of the world.
- The Waltham season closes after snow, with Tyler's 1:48 flying mile, the Johnson, Bliss and Bald attempts, and W. J. Corcoran's suggestions to the Racing Board.
- New York notes on the cycle-path fund benefit, the Castle Point Cyclers reception, Dr. Beckwith's funeral and a Long Island City century run.
- A humorous first-person story: a would-be Lochinvar rides a borrowed bicycle to win Ellen from the cyclist Jones, and the pair elope by train.
- Subscription list for the Myrtle Hopkins fund, raising $347.95 from Chicago and out-of-town wheelmen and clubs.
- Compiled American record tables for standing, flying and paced track times, road records and hour records, with a horse-and-bicycle comparison table on the next page.
- The vote for the Massachusetts division of the L.A.W., with Sterling Elliott elected chief consul over the Cape circular candidates.
- Thorvald S. Jensen of Salt Lake City lowers the Class A 1-hour record to 23 miles 497 yards, with his mile splits, and plans a 100-mile attempt.
- H. E. Frederickson of Fremont, Neb., an 18-year-old Class A rider who won 98 prizes in his first season, with his state records and Sterling machine.
- John S. Johnson and the Stearns team arrive in Louisville to record on the new track for two weeks.
- Prince Wells, Louisville's leading cycle dealer, describes the new track, its dressing rooms and the city's trade.
- The Idler's column on the cycle's new fashion of actresses and celebrities writing on the wheel, with answers to correspondents on Gross Landing's round-the-world schemes.
- A short note on the De Soto record, Weaver's 9-hour ride to the course's wind-up.
- A reader from San Diego asks how Conkey Tubbs and Birdie Bucket got their jobs; the editor declines to publish the company's name.
- The Idler replies to a J. B. Grossberg of Gross Landing, Ind., on round-the-world touring, pay, food and representation in China and Japan.
- A short anecdote with a drawing of a salesman trying to sell a wheel to a stranger who has none to trade in.
- F. A. Elwell's 1895 tour programme: a Bermuda trip in January, summer tours to Ireland, the Isle of Man, Switzerland, Germany and Holland, and a London to Marseilles tour.
- Salt Lake City's cycle trade on asphalted streets and cement walks, with Jensen's Victor, Evans's Ariel and Falcon, the Salt Lake Cycle Co. and its racing team.
- A sketch of salesman John P. Walters, who moved from money-lending to the Phoenix and then the Spalding agency.
- Town-by-town trade notes of hardware and bicycle dealers' failures, partnership changes, new factories and chattel mortgages.
- London trade notes on Osmond's new cycle company, the Boudard gear, the Westwood tire company and Humber's gear exchange offer.
- A reminiscence from the Cycle Trade Journal on the old Coventry makers and racing, and on the company boom and its failures.
- Lindsey Coleman of the Western Wheel Works on holding prices, the Pope Columbia circular, European contracts and a 30,000-wheel output.
- Tom Roe, a long-time trade figure, now selling the United States Tire Co.'s new tire, with his career and character.
- F. Howard Tuttle, back from four months on the road and in Mexico, reports large Stearns orders and Johnson's record causing excitement.
- Louisville dealers Martin & Dressing assign for creditors after the Indiana Bicycle Co. attaches them, with Cycle Row shop changes, Lumsden's move and a round-the-world Sterling tour.
- Philadelphia dealers move to larger premises on Arch and Chestnut streets, with the Overman branch closing and Spalding's new store.
- Short trade notes on Garford, Lozier, Peerless, Syracuse, Yost, Maltby's Keating tour, Demorest, Sager, the Buffalo Wheel Co. and Stearns.