Vol 10, No 17
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Articles in this issue
- John S. Johnson and the Stearns team break records at the new Louisville track, with Tyler's flying mile broken and pacing by the quadruplet, triplet and tandem teams.
- Johnson, paced by the triplet and tandems, takes the standing-start mile in 1:56 and clips Tyler's three-quarter and mile times at Louisville.
- Johnson takes the paced flying-start mile at 1:47 and the standing-start mile at 1:52 at Louisville, breaking the two-thirds and three-quarter standing-start records.
- A. V. Linton breaks Bouhour's hour record at Bordeaux with 28 miles 405 yards, and rides fifty miles in 1:54:09.
- Isaac B. Potter defeats Dr. E. M. Santee for chief consul of the New York L.A.W. division by 924 votes, with the state and district officer results.
- A. Cressy Morrison and Martin C. Rotier are unanimously re-elected chief consul and secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin division.
- George L. Cooke wins the Rhode Island division chief consulship, with the vote totals and the three League club representatives.
- Robert Holm is re-elected chief consul of the Missouri division, with E. P. Moriarity and W. M. Butler elected unopposed and the representatives named.
- Samuel A. Boyle is elected chief consul of the Pennsylvania division, with Thomas J. Keenan's narrow vice-consul win disputed over ballot distribution.
- Edw. A. Neuhaus is chosen chief consul of the Kentucky division at Louisville, with T. C. Walden and Owen Lawson among the officers and 287 votes counted.
- L. C. Jaquish, the Chicago member of the Racing Board, is elected chief consul of the Illinois division with 559 votes, and the district representatives are listed.
- Myron Williams, who stole a Columbia bicycle at Colorado Springs and was recaptured at Horton, Kansas, is sentenced to two years and nine months.
- A Philadelphia amateur and professional tournament is planned for Industrial Hall from 13 December, with a $2,000 fifteen-lap track built by Charley Ashinger.
- Over 300 Philadelphia postal men ride wheels, and a Thanksgiving parade on bicycles awaits Postmaster Carr's permission.
- Wheeling city champion W. W. Taxis escapes a mounted policeman by sprinting up Broad Street without a lamp, riding a nineteen-pound Sterling.
- The Club Atletico de la Ciudad de Puebla holds a two-day meet on 1 and 2 November, with Brauer, Sarre and Colombres in the results and the track measured.
- The Bearings reports that its campaign for Miss Myrtle Hopkins, hit by W. H. Wells' tandem, has drawn wheelmen's contributions and a call for Wells to be prosecuted.
- The editorial welcomes Isaac B. Potter's New York election over Dr. Santee and credits Potter's landslide with the League's good.
- L. D. Cabanne of St. Louis tires of the mispronunciation of his name, which was announced as Ca-baum at Steubenville, and considers riding under another name.
- W. F. Murphy still holds the mile paced ordinary record at 2:22, and argues that men, not machines, would now make 2:10.
- Frances E. Willard, a daily cyclist, is writing a book on cycling, and Geo. W. Wolfe seeks the $500 Chicago-New York stake.
- A Thanksgiving cartoon page with captioned figures: Miss Hopkins, the Crack-a-Jack, Zimmy, the West, the Cyclist, the Trade, Santee and Johnny.
- F. Howard Tuttle of E. C. Stearns & Co. reports from Mexico, where an order for 100 machines came from Hilario Meenen and wheels sell at $280 to $285.
- The G.O.O. ordinary riders make their second annual run to Clayton, and Ed Grath cuts J. A. Weaver's De Soto round-trip record to 8:13 on an Eagle.
- London news covers the Catford C.C. concert at the King's Hall, the Stanley show plans and the C. W. Nairn to Edwin Campbell editorship change at Wheeling.
- Syracuse welcomes Potter's New York election, credits the Syracuse Standard, and tells of a tire-manager joke over L. C. Smith's C. A. Benjamin and his mascot.
- Illinois Cycling Club members play a joke on Goodrider, whose fake subscription for his portrait, with telegrams from team managers, cures his vanity.
- The El Paso Track Association opens a concrete track for record attempts, and F. Howard Tuttle arranges its use for John S. Johnson.
- Fourteen American riders have ridden under two minutes, led by Tyler at 1:48 4/5, with Githens and Lumsden's tandem attempt and the pacing of Bliss.
- Chicago Cycling Club and Illinois Cycling Club stag smokers feature Lawson's singing, Abbott's female impersonation and sparring bouts.
- Chicagoan Levy wins two races at San Luis Potosi, where prizes were ribbons pinned by girls, and reports from Guadalajara.
- The Century Road Club accepts road records including Monte Scott's ten and twenty-five miles, R. P. Searle's 200 miles at 13:21 and W. L. Steimal's course records.
- Bert Harding lowers Ed Grath's St. Louis-De Soto round-trip record to 8:03 on a sleeting day, after a frame-twisting chain accident near Bulltown.
- Willis B. Troy's European racers land in New York from Southampton, including A. C. Edwards, Alex Verheyen, Lucien Lesna, Luigi Colombo and Adrien Guerry, training at the Ashland House for Madison Square Garden.
- Subscriptions for Miss Hopkins reach $513.85, with lists of donors from Chicago, Pittsburg, Springfield and other towns.
- Louisville dealer Prince Wells, his wife, baby and servants are poisoned by cream puffs cooked in a copper vessel, and L. J. Berger leaves Cycling Life for Morgan & Wright.
- President Bates's fiction tells of Strong Jeff, a champion rider who whips the miserly Didimus Dilworthy for abusing an orphan boy, and of the mock trial before Squire Blossom.
- An editorial on whether advertising pays, arguing that a Boston paper's replies were mostly postcards from one town and that E. C. Stearns & Co. should advertise its Johnson wins.
- M. E. Meader closes a contract giving George Worthington Co. of Cleveland control of the Ariel in Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and western New York and Pennsylvania.
- Cincinnati dealers prepare for 1895, with J. E. Poorman building a 500-wheel plant, Hanauer Bros. cutting the Mascot to $50 and the Scott Special at $100.
- The Barnes Cycle Co. is incorporated at Syracuse with $150,000 capital to make a sixteen-pound road wheel, and a suit over a Royal Scorcher is decided for Spalding & Co.
- The Telegram Mfg. Co. of Milwaukee plans 2,500 wheels for the winter and a $100 price for 1895, while Walter Sanger's riding for it is doubted.
- Hay & Willits of Indianapolis make the Outing, a light wheel listing at $85, in a 25,000-square-foot factory on the Belt Railroad, and become a stock company.
- A Chicago traveller reports that American wheels draw crowds in England and Ireland, where native wheels are heavy with steel mudguards and rims.
- A San Antonio dealer's letter discusses the $100 list price for 1895, the front-fork weakness of 1894 wheels and the strength of wood rims.
- New York trade notes cover Porter & Gilmore's move, Sidney Bowman's riding school, the 1895 Liberty with a detachable sprocket, Remington's new wheel and the Overman sporting goods department.
- Philadelphia dealers form the Cycle Trade League with H. B. Hart as president, and the Overman, Union and F. L. Donlevy houses oppose a trade show.
- Manufacturers describe their 1895 lines, including Gendron's No. 18 and No. 19 at $100 to $115, Stover's $100 Phoenix range, Grand Rapids' $100 Humber-pattern lady's wheel and Rouse, Hazard's Sylph and Overland lines.
- Trade changes list judgments and incorporations, including the Detroit Cycle Co. judgments, the American Ormonde receivership with $61,589 liabilities and the Pope factory move to Connecticut.
- John F. Palmer closes a 5,000-set Palmer tire deal with A. G. Spalding & Bros. for 1895, and the Palmer Tire Co. expects to double its 1894 business.
- E. C. Bode leaves the road to open a Sterling office in Boston for New England, and Frank Padgett joins Ralph Temple, while E. O. Durfee patents an inner tube.
- The Mcintosh-Huntington Co. of Cleveland reportedly lost $100,000 in three years on Sunols sold at $49 to $59 through dry goods stores, after buying the Speedy Cycle plant.
- A. E. Douhet, a Frenchman and twelve-year trade veteran, books Winton orders in Ohio, saying the Winton is a winner.
- L. M. Richardson, assistant manager of the Monarch Cycle Co., argues that American makers now beat English wheels in price and quality, and that Pope's $100 Columbia will avert overproduction.
- The New Departure Bell Co. wins its bicycle bell patent case against Bevin Bros., gaining exclusive right to its patterns and stopping the sale of Bevin's rotary bell.
- F. Howard Tuttle places the Stearns with Thorsen & Cassady for a large Chicago territory, with agents M. A. Mead, Hal Greenwood and Charles Walker.
- Trade notes cover Morgan & Wright's denial that Johnson used hosepipe tires, Hill Cycle's plans to double capacity, the Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett G. & J. agency and Monarch's 150,000-copy catalogue.