Vol 10, No 21
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Articles in this issue
- London letter on the National Cycle Show at the Crystal Palace (247 exhibitors, about 1,500 cycles), the N.C.U. two-class racing scheme, the Sporting League and rational dress for women.
- Arthur A. Zimmerman, asked whether he would act as official referee on the coming circuit, says he may join the boys on the circuit; he claims 46 firsts and talks of a race with Johnson.
- Syracuse Athletic Association re-nominates Frederick R. Hazard as president and fills other offices; a third-mile track inside the Kirk Park half-mile is proposed.
- Subscription list for Miss Myrtle Hopkins, the injured girl rundown by Wells, with receipts totalling $637.82 including Pope's Buffalo store collection.
- Gormully & Jeffery's Pacific coast team is expected east; Ziegler, Foster and Big Wells ride for it, though Ziegler has reportedly signed with the Yost team.
- Century Road Club of America's review of 1894 road records (Monte Scott, R. P. Searle, A. E. Weinig) with its rules for accepting road records, including the one-tenth pavement limit and checking requirements.
- Cincinnati's city hall bars dogs and bicycles; city employee John Anderson is refused entry by Superintendent Lillard and vows to bring his wheel in anyway.
- Springfield Club presidency contest: D. Edward Miller expected to be re-elected over George M. Hendee, whose challenge is good natured and unlikely to succeed.
- Detroit Wheelmen's mid-winter circus at the Auditorium over New Year's, with a tented circus, side-shows, a bazaar and nearly 5,000 tickets sold at 10 cents.
- Johnson's mother dies in Minneapolis while he is in New York and Syracuse; the Bearings extends its sympathy to John and his brother Anton.
- Edward F. Leonert of the Press C.C. rides a paced straightaway mile in 1:35 flat at Buffalo, beating John S. Johnson's record; he also rides an unpaced mile in 1:02 2/5.
- Alderman Con. Corcoran's ordinance requiring repair shops to record each wheel and its owner, to help police catch bicycle thieves; penalty $50.
- Century Road Club accepts Ohio, California and Maryland state records and Wallin's Buffalo-Pittsburg and Erie-Pittsburg rides, and Harding's St. Louis to De Soto course records. Also in the same column: Albert Mott elected president of the Baltimore Cycle Club, with M. R. Mettee, H. Barrington and the other new officers.
- Editorial Christmas wishes to riders, makers and dealers, with the paper's regret at having dropped its usual big Christmas issue.
- Tom Eck proposes that the L.A.W. Racing Board issue numbered gold medals as race prizes, convertible to cash and usable as proof of amateur status.
- Editorial comment that Zimmerman, though declining publicly, would accept an official referee's post on the National Circuit.
- Editorial rebuke of Cycling's editor Wardrop for praising George Moore's supplement drawing 'Collared' and claiming accuracy; American cycle illustrators are rated above the English. The same editorial column continues with short squibs on the Rubber World's remark about adulterated tires and F. P. Prial, the American Cyclist's predictions, the Myrtle Hopkins fund, and Johnson's bereavement.
- Holiday verse by Sandy Hook, illustrated by Charles Cox with a pair of wheelmen in a park and a rider climbing a hill; the poem reflects on wheeling in winter.
- Ole Owen's Christmas story: inventor John Smithers develops a tire-inflating explosive capsule, is cheated by Snodgers of Snodgersville, and gets a patent from his wife's family to sell back for cash.
- Chairman Albert Mott of the National Transportation Committee reports railroads will charge 25 cents to carry bicycles with riders in 1895, despite his objections.
- Louisville meeting of the Kentucky division board, which plans to appoint the full committees for the first time; state racing board to control 1895 championships. Louisville notes follow on Gardiner's training, Kilpatrick's one-legged records and Spalding's team plans.
- T. W. Winder, editor of the Warsaw Wasp, plans a 21,600-mile ride around the coast and borders of the United States in 300 days starting from New Orleans on February 4, 1895.
- Indoor tournament at Industrial Hall: Zimmerman's small-attendance exhibition, class races won by Barbeau, Roome and Earle, and W. C. Roome's world records in the five-mile and two-mile events, with the Second Day finals.
- Six-day professional race at Philadelphia starts late after a dispute over gate receipts; Starbuck breaks the indoor 50-mile record in 2:30:53 and the paper gives the lap scores.
- Lakeside-Cleveland Wheel Club football game on Christmas morning, the club's century division elects Kent Chisholm chief centurion, and the Amusement Gazette publishes a table of Class B races.
- Billiard expert Frank Ives, with his wife, backer A. J. Levy and Capt. A. C. Anson, leaves on a southern vacation that will include much riding.
- Tour of Chicago factories ahead of the cycle show: 1895 road wheels of 23 to 24 pounds, racers of 16 to 19, and gearing that changes with a monkey wrench.
- Western Wheel Works has its 1895 Crescent models out but will not show them before January 2; Sam T. White, R. P. Searle and others are assigned territories.
- Sterling's chairman H. E. Raymond promises a better 1895 wheel, and Studley & Barclay of Grand Rapids take the Sterling agency; the narrower tread and new front fork are noted.
- St. Louis clubs push a January dealers' cycle show and a third-mile training track at the Fair Grounds, with street-cleaning demands. Also: the Victor Cycling Club's new dues and the arrest and Mexico trip of L. D. Cabanne.
- Massachusetts division meeting under new chief consul Sterling Elliott: a headquarters room is approved, the division has lost only 15 per cent of members, and the racing board reports 200 sanctions. Also the St. Louis club's football team. The column closes with the St. Louis Cycling Club's football team, unbeaten in the Lindell League and leading for the trophy, which may play the leading Chicago team.
- Chicago cycle show details: record exhibit space with about forty firms turned away, a 'living pictures' stage show in place of trick riding, a trade smoker, and the next show set for the first week in December.
- Tour of the Pope Mfg. Co. and Hartford Cycle Co. works: Columbia crating in Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, Pope's lockers, canteen and welfare arrangements, and the '95 Columbia as a single-frame machine.
- Springfield tour of the trade: the Warwick (10,000 wheels), Overman's Victor, Ames (Credenda contract, 200 men), Keating (10,000 wheels), Spalding's plants, and Hendee's Silver King at $75.
- A. G. Spalding's Springfield works, which now make only Spalding wheels, expects 10,000 in 1895 and has a new building coming; Candy describes the hubs, the one drop forging, and the factory's lack of room.
- H. A. Lozier & Co. write to say the works at Toledo are being rebuilt on a larger scale and will not move; the former Hartford Screw Co. plant is to make screw-machined parts. Also noted: Union Cycle's Denver agency with A. L. Deane & Co.
- Review of the London National Cycle Show: rear-driving safeties, Humber's self-locking tandem frame, tandem safeties with internal liners, large wheels, wood rims and the fads of the year, with a note on the 'Elliptic'.
- Edward C. Toie, Sterling's new Ohio traveller, who has ridden since 1882.
- C. W. Ashley of Sioux City, Iowa, holds the state mile, two-mile and one-mile championships; he rode 24 races in 1894 on an Imperial racer.
- E. W. Ballard of the Chicago Cycling Club goes on the road for the Central Cycle Mfg. Co. selling the Ben Hur.
- Short trade news from around the country: new bicycle companies in Coldwater, Michigan and New Bedford, Lozier's insurance claim, and new bicycle agencies at hardware stores across the states.
- London column: the CTC's manufacturer scheme collapses, the Pneumatic Cycle Brake Co. books large orders, Mr Wood's wire saddle, the Osmond racer, and Puncture Proof Tire's anti-friction solution.
- The CTC's proposed special terms for members, dropped by its council, and manufacturers' right to offer them.
- A silver plate set in the Louisville track at the mile record Johnson set; all his machines were Stearns.
- St. Louis trade: Beck & Corbitt to handle Lu-Mi-Nums, R. L. Hill opens the Crawford branch, and George M. Wilder goes to Indianapolis.
- Run of short trade notes on agencies, branch stores and makers: Stearns, Fenton, Syracuse, Palmer, Morgan & Wright records, the Indiana Bicycle Co.'s Waverley and Singer's '95 models, carrying on to page 27.
- Anecdote of a dealer's order that asks for the 'digesting' cone for a crank shaft.