Vol 10, No 22
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Articles in this issue
- Milwaukee business men and the L. A. W. join the good roads campaign: a Sheridan Drive extension to the state line, a state branch of the National Good Roads League, and a pauper-labour plan from Albert Moyer.
- Milwaukee's Mercury club announces its new officers, headed by O. F. Thieme, and a masque ball at South Side Turner Hall on January 12.
- Paul Von Boeckman and his two-speed bicycle wait in Louisville for weather to try the unpaced records, with Nat Butler also after them and Arthur Butteroff called home by illness.
- The Philadelphia six-day race ends in poor attendance and accidents: Joseph Gannon is burned in a rubdown fire, Charley Ashinger wins with 1,300 miles, and Starbuck sets a fifty-mile record.
- The Wissahickon Wheelmen, Quaker City Wheelmen, Turner Cyclers and Chester Bicycle Club announce officers, and Chester plans a quarter-mile track at Eddystone.
- Buffalo's record men: the Stearns quadruplet trials for Louis Callahan's mile at Delaware Avenue and Hertel Avenue, Eddie Bald's pranked unpaced mile, and the Callahan family's straightaway riding on Palmer tires.
- The relief fund for Myrtle Hopkins reaches $660.07, with subscriptions from Port Huron, Ogden and Fort Worth clubs.
- The Bearings urges the L. A. W. National Assembly not to suppress road racing, citing the New York and Chicago club interests and the speed men road racing has produced.
- The N. C. U. council keeps licensing and strict amateur definitions, and the editor blames delegates who went to the cycle show instead of attending the meeting.
- The editor condemns long-distance track racing as brutal, citing Ashinger carried from the track after the last 144-hour race, and asks for limited daily hours.
- Boston riders keep wheeling over the holidays, with the Massachusetts Club's tree, Sterling Elliott declining the L. A. W. presidency, 300 Helping Hand signs out, and Denver's 100 riders saving for the 1895 meet.
- A dialect poem, read at the Press Club German entertainment, in which Fritz takes up the bicycle, rides himself into a breakdown and is put to bed by a doctor with a monkey-wrench.
- Salt Lake work on the cycle track proceeds, Utah's National Guard Signal Corps is uniformed and drilling, and new division officers Neill and Butler recruit for the L. A. W.
- An Irish mason, Pat Devlin, hires a bicycle for an hour and then a second hour, and the shop clerk's price for the second hour is pointed out in a joke.
- Baltimore's Centaur club gathers mistletoe from black gum trees by rope ladder on its annual Christmas run, while record-breaking riding weather brings out new wheels.
- A crowd gathers at John P. Lovell Arms Co.'s Boston store to see the prizes won by Nat Butler, E. A. McDuffee and Tom Butler at Madison Square Garden.
- The Cleveland Wheel Club's Christmas tree, where James Josephi takes a tree without paying for it, the gifts are opened in full view, and the tree goes on to a Sunday school; the cycle path committee also seeks a cinder path on the new boulevard.
- Birmingham, Alabama, has about 8,000 cyclists, two rival clubs, the Birmingham Wheelmen and the Birmingham Cycling Club, and dealers handling Columbia, Rambler, Victor, Clevelands and the local Birmingham Scorcher.
- Syracuse riders cover twenty miles inside the hour in ten-degree weather on a Stearns tandem geared to 86, and A. A. Zimmerman's bronze-ornament prank is recounted.
- Mrs. J. Kelly rides 200 miles on the road in under 12 hours on a diamond-frame Rambler, the first double century on record by a woman.
- C. N. Britton, president of the Carriage Builders' National Association, argues in an India Rubber World interview that pneumatic tires are unsightly and unsuited to carriages.
- Farmer Corntossel vows to ride the old mare to market in a divided skirt if his wife takes up bloomers, a joke reprinted from the Exchange.
- The N. C. U. racing scheme for two amateur classes and the road-racing ban fail for lack of a two-thirds majority, and the Union seeks a new president after Viscount Albemarle's death.
- Springfield wheelmen take up skating for lack of snow, and the column notes a bicycle theft by a Northampton man, a Haradon wedding and Massachusetts state road work.
- A history of falconry from the ninth century, with its royal hierarchy and the gyr falcon, and the Yost company's gyr falcon from Berlin that will be the Falcon team's mascot on the circuit.
- Sterling Elliott stages a mock Christmas celebration at Newton for Abbot Bassett, with a sham service, a brass ring, a gilded crown and a fatted calf on wheels, all photographed by flashlight.
- Robert Irving plans a six-day bicycle tournament at San Francisco's Mechanic's Pavilion in early 1895, with $500 offered for each world's record and Zimmerman and Johnson expected.
- George A. Banker arrives in New York from Europe, having won over $4,000 in the season including the Grand Prix de Paris, and will ride for Humber's professional team when he returns in spring.
- New York trade notes: the Raleigh Cycle Co. reorganised as the American Cycle Trading Co., the Bamboo bicycle at the American Bicycle Co., Wilson-Myers moving uptown, Stearns and Elmore lines, and the Western Wheel Works' sales.
- The editor replies to the English paper Wheeling on light wheels, saying American makers build 20 to 23-pound roadsters with forged tool steel and lap joints, while English factories are assembly rooms.
- Philadelphia trade news: W. M. Brewster and Garden take the Overman store on Arch Street, Hilliard Cyclometer will handle the Stearns, and the Stearns and Spalding are used at the six-day race.
- Louisville trade news: the Indiana Bicycle Co. opens a branch under R. F. Maxwell, the Hart Hardware Co. takes on the Derby, R. C. Whayne sells the Southern, and dealer notes come from Kansas, Michigan, Ohio and Iowa.
- Short trade notes from New York, Selma, Corning, Baltimore, Brooklyn and Plymouth, Ind., including the Plymouth company's move to direct agency sales and the Smith Wheel Co.'s capital drive.
- A technical account of the drop forge, from the eighteen forgings in a high-grade bicycle to the Chicago drop-forge works on Ohio Street, the die-sinking and the history of the drop forge at Windsor, Vermont.
- Peoria jobbers Rouse, Hazard & Co. start their own wheel factory in April, using tool-steel cups and cones and swaged spokes, under Voss and Schultze, late of the East Side Cycle Mfg. Co.
- A list of US patents granted in late 1894 for cycle parts, including tyres, pedals, sprockets, velocipedes and a bicycle-support, with a Hot Stuff chain-lubricant trade mark.
- Short trade notes on Labadie Bros. of Galveston, the Pope agency in Pueblo, the Winton and Eclipse catalogues, Zimmerman toe-clips moving to the George Pearce Co., and Gormully & Jeffery tires on Western Wheel Works bicycles.