Vol 10, No 19
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Articles in this issue
- Frank Waller wins the 24-hour race at Madison Square Garden with 434 miles, ahead of Lesna, Van Emburg, Martin, Albert and Eaton, and Shorland's 462-mile record is not threatened.
- Boston riders turn out on Thanksgiving, the A. C. C. winter entertainments begin, and Massachusetts division delegates and chief consul Sterling Elliott are discussed ahead of the National Assembly.
- Zimmerman, Wheeler and Banker's profits abroad lead to talk that John S. Johnson may ride in France, with his letter to Manoury, a skating challenge and his Stearns for 1895.
- An East Melbourne correspondent reports the Austral meeting on grass, the fast pace of the scratch men and the rising Victorian riders D. J. Walker and J. W. Parsons.
- Harrison K. Caner and the Lagan brothers fail to lower the Philadelphia-New York road record, with a Philadelphia damages award to cyclist Daniel Soudier and the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club election and minstrel show.
- B. W. Twyman rides 381 miles 1,748 yards in 24 hours at Louisville in rain, breaking Louis Gimm's American 24-hour track record, with disputed pacing.
- The Century Road Club allows 1894 road records including McDuffie's 27:17 for ten miles, Weinig's 2:30:40 for fifty miles, Hansen's 6:46 for 100 miles and Searle's Chicago-to-New York ride.
- An editorial denies a report that the business manager has sold his interest in The Bearings and names the three stockholders, saying no stock is on the market.
- An editorial argues that the L.A.W. should legalise professional racing before the National Assembly, comparing the English and French systems and naming Zimmerman, Banker and Wheeler.
- An editorial sizes up the L.A.W. presidential candidates Luscomb, Willison, Perkins, Potter, Billingsley and Raymond, with their records and backers.
- August A. Hanson rides 100 miles in 5:03:00 at Minneapolis, 24 minutes better than Weinig's Buffalo record.
- H. E. Raymond, chairman of the Racing Board, arrives in Chicago as vice-president and superintendent of agencies of the Sterling Cycle Works.
- An illustrated verse by Harold Quill in which a cyclist waits at a stile for a cycling maid, and the couple meet and arrange a future tryst.
- The Madison Square Garden tournament clears no more than $2,000 against an expected $25,000, with prize-money totals for Wheeler, Zimmerman and Waller, the Class B men, and the Kings County Wheelmen, Gramercy reception and Zimmerman's and Wheeler's plans for Australia.
- M. D. Rucker closes the purchase of the Densmore-Yost plant at Westboro, Mass., for Humber & Co., America Ltd., capitalised at $375,000, to build racers, roadsters and tandems at $100.
- The history of the Westboro plant is traced through the White Flyer, Murray V. Livingston and Beacon Cycle concerns and their failures, including the drowning of J. Purvis-Bruce.
- H. A. Lozier & Co. recover from a fire at Toledo that burned part of the plant, with the tool building back in use by a force of 150 men and wheels promised by February 1, and Lozier blames the city's fire protection.
- The Myrtle Hopkins subscription reaches $595.30, with donors listed from Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, North Carolina and Iowa.
- Walter W. Clark's humorous fiction in which Tom and Bess quarrel over her bloomers, he rides in her blue skirt, and his mishap in a mill village ends the ride, continuing on page 12.
- E. R. Guthrie, reprinted from Cycling Life, argues that makers who hold 1894 list prices protect the scalpers and side-line dealers and that the $100 list price for 1895 is right.
- The Baltimore Thanksgiving ten-mile handicap at Druid Hill Park lake ends in confusion, with James L. Ives, L. A. Callahan, Church and Bateman each claiming the finish and protests lodged.
- A. J. Nicolet describes a ride from Decatur through Champaign and White Heath to La Salle and the Starved Rock, Deer Park and Lover's Leap country of the Illinois River.
- County surveyor Samuel Baker and predecessor Jay F. Brown quarrel over the Cleveland county road data, and the C. W. C. dispute over a dismissed porter, the Lozier plant and the club's billiard tournament are noted.
- Dave Shafer picks W. A. Terrill, a Pacific-coast five-mile record holder, as a future star for his team, comparing him to Walter Sanger.
- London letters from C. W. Hartung cover the Anerley 12-hour race at Putney, the Stanley dinner, Mrs. Ormiston Chant's support for women's cycling, the new Cycle paper, and H. L. Winter's perjury sentence before the Stanley show opens.
- A profile of William F. Hoyt, manager of the H. A. Lozier racing team, who earlier sold a chain fob for expenses and had managed Lonnie Warren on the circuit.
- The Morgan & Wright team at Louisville, led by A. Gardiner, tries to regain the unpaced mile record taken by Johnson, and the Fountain Ferry track is certified at 1,760 feet by city engineers.
- A note that the new Cycle paper, published on the day the Stanley show opens, will carry a full account of the show in its first issue.
- An editorial on trade advertising advises one topic at a time, cutting copy down and emphasising one word, with the Indiana Bicycle Co. and Western Wheel Works cited as examples.
- Hartung's review of the 1894 Stanley show finds tandem safeties, large chainwheels, gear-cases, narrow treads, the Helix pedal, dust-proof pedals and bamboo and fly-wheel novelties.
- Philadelphia trade notes: the Ariel agency goes to D. Mershon & Sons, Dampman takes Falcon wheels, and Charles S. Smith & Co. shows '95 Ramblers.
- New York trade notes cover the McKee & Harrington Lyndhurst, the United States Tire Co., Hulbert's $75 Majestic, the Western Wheel Works Crescent prices, Gannon & Son, the Crawford and 1895 A. A. Raleigh, and a Wayne Sulkyette.
- The Providence Tire Co., makers of the double inner tube tire, has two attachments on its effects, its business stopped, and suits for salary and a book debt by Godding and the Davol Rubber Co.
- The general appraisers classify puncture-proof cotton-and-rubber tires at 30 per cent duty, consular returns show English cycle exports from Birmingham and Nottingham, Norway raises its bicycle duty, and the United States Tire Co.'s "That clamp does it" band is described.
- The Buffalo Tricycle Co. becomes the Buffalo Cycle Co. because bicycles now outsell tricycles, in a letter from Atherton & Funnell.
- Trade news from across the country lists incorporations, factory moves and new firms, including the Kearney Cycle Mfg. Co., the Meteor Bicycle Co. at Saginaw, the Colton Cycle Co. at Toledo and the Novelty Cycle Co. in Chicago.
- Louisville dealer changes for 1895: Prince Wells takes the Rambler, Jefferis Bros. goes Victor only, Griffith & Semple and Harbison & Gathright enter the trade, and the Indiana Bicycle Co. attachment against Martin & Dressing is contested by a creditor.
- A letter from Rouse, Hazard & Co. corrects an earlier item: Barnett won the Nebraska one-mile championship on a Model G Sylph, not a Sterling.
- Trade notes include Morgan & Wright's 69 world's records, a Sterling road staff of 25, the G. & J. denial that Rambler records used other tires, the Solid Comfort saddle line, and Ide's $5 elliptical spring cranks.