Vol 10, No 20
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Articles in this issue
- The Pennsylvania Bicycle Club re-elects Arthur H. MacOwen president and names its officers, with other Philadelphia club elections and the Packer and Americus slates.
- Anniversary banquet at the Broad and Morris clubhouse, with toasts to the L.A.W., the Associated Cycling Clubs and the trade, and music to 3 a.m.
- The Pennsylvania division officers reject Wade McGowin's challenge to Thomas J. Keenan's vice-consulship, and Chief Consul Boyle is awarded $500 for legal services.
- At Louisville Gardiner takes back the one-third-mile unpaced flying-start record from John S. Johnson, and rides the mile in 2:13 against a gale.
- Metropolitan column: the Riverside Wheelmen election, Frank Starbuck's withdrawal from the Philadelphia long-distance race, George Fitchett's novice-race crash, the Montauk Christmas stag, and the Seventh Regiment bicycle games.
- The Century Road Club's record committee refuses to recognise John S. Johnson's short straightaway road records, since its minimum road distance is five miles.
- Raymond's former Flatbush Avenue store in Brooklyn, now deserted and showing amateur theatre bills in its window.
- Sterling Elliott's first board meeting as chief consul: the 'cape circular' affair, the National meet for Boston, and the new Consolidated Cycling Clubs of Boston with 535 members.
- A three-lap cement-surfaced track with a 3,000-seat grandstand and bathing facilities is being built at Hot Springs, Salt Lake City, with railroad backing and a dispute with the A.C.C. over the May 30 meet.
- England's N.C.U. moves to suspend road racers and promoters, and Chicago's road races are being squeezed by the police, the L.A.W. executive and the A.C.C.
- The Bearings' fund for Miss Hopkins, run by the A.C.C. committee: $630.05 subscribed, about $250 left, and A. S. Trude expected to prosecute Wells.
- Johnson's straightaway road mile is not recognised by the L.A.W. Racing Board or the Century Road Club, which recognises no road record under five miles.
- The Dayton Bicycle Club's Thanksgiving Eve menu, printed on a loud cuff, of mock dishes such as Potato Bug soup, Mad River Lizards and Icicles. Bicycles. Tricycles.
- The Bearings defends the American baby carrier against the Irish Cyclist's outrage at a Dublin father riding with his child in front of him.
- London letter: the Stanley Show closes, the Lady Cyclists' Association declines to back the N.C.U. against women's racing, R. L. Jefferson lectures on his Orient ride, and the N.C.U. considers suspending road racers.
- The San Jose Road Club's first race-meet on a rain-soaked track, where Otto Zeigler wins three Class B events with a 2:48 mile and a 15:50 five-mile.
- Alex Verheyen, given a farewell reception at Hoboken, plans to return in about three months with a Columbia contract, having cleared over $400 at Madison Square Garden.
- Buffel on a Hurtu fitted with G. & J. racing tyres breaks the Paris-Rouen-and-return record in 12:08; a natural gas vein is struck in the company's new factory basement.
- Harold Quill's short story: a roadside tyre repair, a tramp who recurs, and a club dance, told in three meetings that end in a proposal.
- A committee of J. J. Purinton, John W. Grove and J. P. Langhans sets out to organise a relief expedition for globe-girdler Frank Lenz, lost in Persia; trade notes on Dodson, Parker, Elmore and Union Cycle follow.
- Los Angeles Athletic Club field day: Fay Stephenson lowers the coast century record to 4:47:11, and W. A. Burke, D. D. Burke, Whitman and Lacy win the cycle races.
- The Idler's column: an essay that transport is the basis of all advancement, with the air-machine as the bicycle of the future, and the column's other pieces.
- Frank Lenz is believed murdered by robbers on the Persian frontier; the Idler argues that round-the-world rides lost their novelty after Thomas Stevens, and Allen and Sachtleben were soon forgotten.
- The landlady of The Hautboy in Surrey refuses to serve Mrs. Clarke in knickerbockers, a party of twenty-five cyclists cuts the hotel, and Mrs. Clarke plans to sue.
- The Baltimore Thanksgiving Day road race: Bateman is disqualified, Callahan too for taking pace from a tandem, leaving Ives the winner and Church first-time prize.
- E. W. Pope denies he has resigned from the Pope Mfg. Co. and says he will stay in Boston, but E. A. Patterson is expected to succeed him as treasurer.
- The Massachusetts division board meeting: chief consul Elliott's aim of 10,000 members, a division headquarters, a local consul in every post office, and the spring meet to the A.C.C.
- Sanger, Charley Murphy and Ray MacDonald will form the Humber racing team in America in 1895, managed by Willis Troy.
- Subscription list for Miss Hopkins: $630.05 total with $39.75 new, including $5 from the Galesburg Cycling Club.
- Nashville dealers' 1894 sales and 1895 plans, with a Wabash holiday-fare notice set into the middle of the report.
- Sold 250 wheels in 1894 (Rambler, Waverley, Clipper), doubling the previous year, of which only ten were ladies' wheels.
- Sold 250 wheels in 1894 from a line of Columbia, Victor, Monarch, Kenwood and St. Nicholas, with the Columbia as leader and sales to double in 1895.
- Sold sixty Clevelands and twenty-five Crescents in 1894, more ladies' wheels than any other Nashville firm; Curry is on his bridal tour.
- Bicycle rooms opened in June 1894 alongside the hardware store, fifty Sterlings sold, with a Fowler to be added as a second high-grade wheel.
- The Nashville hardware firm drops its Keating cycle line after an ill-success season.
- The list of intending exhibitors for the Chicago cycle show, led by Monarch, Pope, Overman, Western Wheel Works, Columbia and Gormully & Jeffery, with the National Cycle Exhibition Co. choosing 2-7 December for 1895-6.
- Editorial on tracking advertising returns, citing E. C. Stearns & Co.'s return-card method and proposing a record-book credited to each paper.
- H. A. Lozier buys the Hartford Screw Co. plant, with $60,000 of new machinery, and will turn out Cleveland bicycles there with 300 workmen from Monday.
- The Meteor Cycle Mfg. Co. of Saginaw fails after six months with liabilities of about $5,500; its thirty-five unfinished wheels will be completed and sold.
- Edward A. Leonert breaks Johnson's straightaway mile at Buffalo, paced by a quadruplet in 1:35 flat and then unpaced, one second better than Penseyres' record.
- The Irish Cyclist's critique of the Union Cycle Mfg. Co.'s 20-lb path racer (flattened forks, hollow cranks, wide tread), with the Union company's point-by-point rebuttal.
- London letter on the Stanley Show's slow orders, the gear mania, a penumatic brake, Spring's puncture-proof tube, Doig's two-rim tyre, Maltby's leather tyre and the price-cutting that caused failures.
- The new '95 Spaldings (a 22-lb road racer at $100 and Credendas at $75), W. H. Wells and F. J. Titus on the road, and Edwin Oliver & Co.'s two-model line at $75.
- Western travellers' orders: Pop Field sells a car-load of Sterlings to the Salt Lake City Co. and opens Oregon agencies, and E. E. Stoddard renews Crescent agencies in the northwest.
- Town-by-town notices of new cycle companies, factory extensions, charters and agency changes, including Cyclone's New York office and the Climax Mfg. Co. of Portland, Me.
- Philadelphia dealers stage a small show in a hall beside Industrial Hall during the nine-day meet; Spalding moves to 1216 Chestnut Street, and Herman Brande is sentenced for larceny.
- The skacycle, a skating-bicycle that made a mile in 4:00 first time out; the Skacycle Mfg. Co. of Philadelphia has A. G. Spalding & Bros. taking a large share of its output, with Orient 1895 prices.
- The Excelsior Supply Co. opens at 274 Wabash Avenue to job the Fulton Machine Works' Thistle, with its 1895 models in three frame heights and a ladies' Thistle; John F. Palmer's fix for valve-cut Palmer tyres.
- Humber & Co. America plans five branch offices with Boston as headquarters; Bidwell-Tinkham's Tourist line and Stearns agency; and the Palmer Cycle Co.'s move to Kearney, Neb., to make featherweights.
- Ernest F. Walton leaves the Wickes Refrigerator Co. to become vice-president and general manager of the Bidwell-Tinkham Cycle Co. in New York.