Vol 10, No 18
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Articles in this issue
- Madison Square Garden meet opening 27 November 1894, with Zimmerman winning the five-mile, Martin's surprise, Wheeler's fall and the second day's disputed Verheyen-Wheeler dead heat.
- Johnson's planned exhibition trials in New York, Eddie Bald's private 2:35 mile on the Tonawanda course, and Starbuck and Lesna's preparations for the 24-hour race.
- Fire at the Lozier Mfg. Co. factory in Toledo with a $500,000 loss, caused by an enameling-fluid tank explosion and fought with only two hydrants.
- Johnson's 3:54 two-mile record at the opening of the new Louisville track, with Riggs's novice win and Kimble's and Daubert's races.
- F. C. Riggs reports the Stearns team broken up for the season after taking the standing records, and the farewell banquet hosted by Eck and Johnson.
- Mock of amateurs claiming unpaced record miles, including a North Carolina rider's Palmer-tyre letter claiming a 1:48 mile.
- Appeal for further donations to the Myrtle Hopkins fund, with the Associated Cycling Clubs taking over the prosecution of the driver who injured her.
- Editorial praising the Massachusetts road commission as the most practical state effort in building good roads.
- Editorial noting that English racing bodies are adopting the American two-class system of amateur and trade riders.
- Editorial arguing that the Madison Square Garden meet proves professional racing can pay, with Zimmerman, Banker and Wheeler as draws.
- The late pianist Anton Rubinstein's enthusiasm for the bicycle, drawn from a New York correspondent's visit.
- Louisville riders' claims to firsts: the first bicycle track in 1881, the first southern sub-3-minute mile by Chas. H. Jenkins, and electric-light racing from 1891.
- John Penseyers of Buffalo's unpaced 1:53 mile on Hotel Avenue, beating Johnson's time with a strong wind behind, with Leonert's quad attempts.
- Rumours that Humber & Co. will build bicycles in America, with Martin Rucker reported negotiating for the Lozier plant at Cleveland.
- Short joke: Fatima in the sultan's harem, surveying herself, needs only a wheel now that she has the bloomers.
- Farewell banquet at the Hotel St. Denis for L.A.W. chairman Raymond, who refuses the League presidency, with the Brooklyn club's diamond watch charm and the speeches.
- Notice of the League of American Wheelmen New York division fall meeting at the Grand Union Hotel on 17 December, with a new recruiting plan under Isaac B. Potter.
- Plan to merge Manhattan Field and the Polo Grounds into a third-mile or half-mile track for next season, and doubts over the Philadelphia pro tournament.
- Oscar F. Lewis's proposed gas-balloon flyer with pedal-driven propellers, claimed to reach 25 miles an hour.
- Profile of trainer David Shafer, who made Mike Dirnberger and J. P. Bliss into fast milers.
- Thomas J. Keenan's election as Pennsylvania division vice-consul of the L.A.W. over Wade McGowin, 949 to 741 votes, with Philadelphia club officers and the new Pilot Wheelmen.
- Subscription list for the Myrtle Hopkins fund, totalling $554.70, with named donors from Chicago, Iowa, Massachusetts and elsewhere.
- Syracuse police arrest Tony Rafelli, wanted for a Chicago cycle theft, with Dirnberger's move to the Shapleigh team and Rosentreter's and Gardner's Syracuse-Utica road records.
- The S.A.A. governing board's charges against Syracuse Standard sporting editor C. F. Ackerman over a fake Princeton captain interview.
- London column on the Catford C.C. dinner and new track, the Gamage Wood Green track scheme, the Pickwick clubrooms, the News of the Wheel launch and proposed two-class racing licences.
- Springfield hearing of the state highway commission on Hampden County roads, with Prof. Shaler, Agawam's lost road and the call for small road pieces in every town.
- The Massasoit Club's living-picture show before two hundred members, and a monthly ladies' night planned for the winter.
- Springfield riding has effectively ended for the season because of muddy streets and pavements.
- Sheriff Moore's 5,000-mile pursuit of George Baltzer, who stole a $40 wheel at Monticello, ending with the thief's arrest at Johnstown, Pa.
- Editorial hoping the Prince of Wales will take up cycling, as his taking-up would lend the sport the approval of fashion.
- Humorous anecdotes of J. M. Erwin's 'Wee William Twinkle' mangling French in a Paris cab, and an American in a Glasgow railway carriage with a Scot.
- Editorial replying to the Chicago Tribune's bloomer satire, preferring Grecian dress for women and calling for bloomers to be reformed in time.
- Editorial critique of advertising in the issue: the Union catch phrase, Morgan & Wright's and Monarch's displays, and the Fowler and Eagle cartoon campaigns.
- Thos. J. Kirkpatrick's United States Circuit Court judgment of $8,863 against the Pope Mfg. Co. for unpaid royalties on the Kirkpatrick saddle.
- Frank Riggs leaves E. C. Stearns & Co. to run H. B. Shattuck & Son's Boston store, the Stearns agency for New England.
- American Dunlop Tire Co. opens a Chicago branch at 266 Wabash Avenue under William Cahn, with brief trade movements.
- London trade column on the Jointless rim test, non-slip tyres, a Humber ladies' tandem, the Ormond amalgamation, the Stanley show and the Rudge-Whitworth share issue.
- Town-by-town notes of fires, judgments, incorporations and capital changes among US cycle firms and jobbers.
- Philadelphia will have no cycle show this winter after the Associated Cycling Clubs and the Trade League fail to agree on who should finance it.
- A Chicago salesman's profit of about $16,000 on 1,000 bargain wheels sold on tour, with a second lot of 500 planned.
- A Chicago travelling man offered $150 a month plus 10 per cent over 120 wheels in six months, with his own expenses paid.
- List of US cycle patents granted, with filing dates, for drive-chains, pneumatic tyres, velocipede saddles and brakes.
- Farwell, Ozmun, Kirk & Co., St. Paul hardware jobbers, take the Syracuse and Crawford lines for 1895 in the northwest.
- A racing man's letter demanding free tyres in return for boosting them, cited as an example of racing men working the tyre makers.
- The Bird Cycle Co. opens in St. Paul, with B. B. Bird's state championship record and Thos. L. Bird's road racing.
- Sam T. White plans a cycling holiday for the trade's travelling men in Wisconsin, and racing men choose Green Lake near Ripon.
- The Meteor Cycle Mfg. Co. moves its plant to a Saginaw brick building and plans 1,000 to 1,500 machines for next season.
- Short trade notes on Palmer tyre hour record, Sterling riders, Union Cycle's restocking, Hill Cycle's enquiries and Monarch's president.