Vol 10, No 23
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Articles in this issue
- Henry E. Ducker, the Springfield tournament organizer, is to chair the New York state racing board; he urges a Buffalo track and predicts League control of professional racing.
- Column of rider gossip: Bald gives diamonds to his family; Goehler retires from the path; the unheaded Callahan paragraph says snow ends the record trials and the Globe-Stearns match, and Callahan may ride for Humber or Shapleigh.
- Milwaukee letter, with the corrected Wisconsin state records list: Walter Sanger, unsigned for 1895, negotiates with Humber, Union and Spalding; the Milwaukee clubs, pavements and the bell ordinance are reported.
- The Wisconsin division picks Marinette for the next state meet; the Wisconsin resolution on second-class mailing of the L.A.W. Bulletin and the good roads league are recorded.
- Boston letter, which also gives the Massachusetts Club Christmas and Roxbury notes: Massachusetts chief consul Sterling Elliott proposes L.A.W. amendments on track racing, non-wheelmen membership, year-round enrolment, a racing board fee schedule and a 50 per cent share of initiation fees.
- New Year's notes from Boston and Chicago: Bassett and Peck, McGlenen's Paul Revere lecture, the Union Bicycle Club's stock clubhouse, and the Massachusetts Club's co-education dispute.
- The 2:50 Club's sixth New Year run to Pullman in snow: Tracy Holmes wins in 1:05, with C. H. Peck second on a Czar.
- Editorial on the 2:50 Club's New Year scorch to Pullman through snow, with Chicago's pluck set against the heroes of old.
- Editorial welcome to outsiders for the Chicago cycle show, the city as the only place for a show.
- Editorial welcoming Henry E. Ducker back into the sport with his Buffalo track and meet plans.
- F. L. Warner, back from Birmingham, London and Paris for the Union Cycle Co., reports French prices and the Irish Cyclist's roast of the Union wheel.
- Century Road Club records allowed: C. G. Morrill's Ohio record, Frank Devlin's Boston to Detroit ride, R. P. Searle's 1,000 miles and Chicago to Buffalo, and tandem course records.
- A Daily News report that the Pope has named a committee on priests riding bicycles; the London Athletic Club accepts the New York AC challenge for May at Travers Island.
- Editorial on unjust referee rulings in the past season and the case for an official referee with power to suspend riders; Raymond on the proposal and on Zimmerman.
- The Madison Square Garden trouble is too recent to discuss in print, but Raymond declines to name a referee and says Augustus cannot be appointed as a professional.
- Dave Shafer, trainer of the 1894 Rambler team, signs to train Spalding's team, with Titus as the only rider so far.
- Syracuse letter, which also recalls the Syracuse Cycling Club Thanksgiving hare-and-hound run: Syracuse proposes buying W. B. Kirk's Kirk Park for a cycle track after New York's constitutional amendment kills horse-race betting.
- Profile of Buffalo rider Edward F. Leonert, whose straightaway mile record was paced by the Dorntge quad on Palmer tires; the course and wind are compared with Johnson's record.
- Julian P. Bliss marries Mary D. Ellett in Chicago on New Year's night; the wedding is described and Bliss leaves the racing path.
- New York letter, including the Willetts Point magnet reprint from Harper's, the New Jersey and Gotham club notes, and Marrett's visit to Potter: New York column: Harper's account of the magnetic gun at Willets Point, Carl Hess's arrest in Germany, the Flushing Mercury club, Asbury Park, Coney Island track and club notes.
- Argues that the 1895 League meet should go to Asbury Park rather than Boston, where wheelmen would be lost in the city, with the roads cited as good.
- Argues a quarter-mile cycle track at Coney Island would draw the Saturday crowd after horse racing is killed, with 25 and 50 cent prices suggested.
- The Outing Publishing Co. organises a relief expedition for Frank Lenz, quoting Secretary of State Gresham's reply on the British consul's report from Erzeroum.
- Springfield's Massasoit club holds its election, with G. H. Wing as president, and the club's popularity is described; Dickinson's street superintendent bid is reported.
- The Pope company moves its office from Boston to Hartford, with a description of the new three-storey building beside the factory.
- The Myrtle Hopkins fund stands at $695.32, with the week's contributions from St. Louis, Kutztown, Detroit and Indianapolis clubs.
- Philadelphia notes: Joe Gannon's release from hospital after the six-day race, Thomas G. Allen's account of Lenz, Alpha Wheelmen elections, a pool tournament and the Time Wheelmen's masquerade run.
- Julian Bliss, Lumsden and Githens leave the path; Bliss marries and joins the Monarch Cycle Co.'s Chicago retail store, with Dave Shafer's comment.
- San Francisco letter: indoor club amusements, Wilbur Edwards to lead the Pacific Coast Rambler team, the Bay City Wheelmen's minstrel show and Waller and Breckenridge stranded in the city.
- Mike Dirnberger places Shapleigh agencies in the south and west, is trained by Frank Lyman for 1895, and has recovered from typhoid.
- London letter: clubs replace smoking concerts with ladies' entertainments, the London County Council grants a public cycling track, and the Dunlop company declares a dividend.
- Chief consul Neuhaus names the Kentucky division's 1895 committees, and Louisville track and rider news follows.
- Syracuse riders oppose the L.A.W.'s proposed abolition of road racing; Captain C. Edward Wood of the Century Road Club defends the sport.
- Racing man Charley Murphy is seriously injured in a Brooklyn trolley collision and may be crippled.
- The New York division's annual meeting re-elects Luscomb-era officers and names Schwalbach, Packwood and others as delegates to the Assembly.
- Otto Ziegler joins the Falcon racing team for 1895 at $300 a month, with C. R. Coulter and Gussie Steele as team mates; Lozier advertises the Chicago show.
- An essay by an experienced rider on falls: the safety bicycle's effect, footpath croppers, a fall into stones on a downhill, and the bicycle's low accident rate.
- The New York show's 108-by-35-foot electric sign by Frank Martin, with a giant electric bicycle of 601 lamps, and the Hill Cycle Co.'s planned West Side store.
- The Idler's column: a mock manuscript about Charlie Funnell and a stolen fox terrier pup, opening the column.
- The Idler's attack on Christmas greetings in the face of want, after a newspaper's 'joyous day for all' headline.
- Two Bum-Bum club riders ride out on New Year's Day to call on girls and end drunk and frozen on the road.
- Preview of the Chicago cycle show at Battery D, with stands in the armories: wheels averaging very light (22 to 23 pounds for road use), detachable sprockets, wood rims almost universal, and $100 list prices. Leading exhibitors include Peerless, Pierce, Sterling, Monarch, Western Wheel Works, Columbia and Spalding.
- Canadian dealers favour the Chicago show; traveling man M. G. Peoli says agents are going Chicagoward.
- New York show preview at Madison Square Garden: press bureau, stage acts, music by Gustav d'Aquin, and goods receipt on 17 January.
- National Cycle Mfg. Co.'s president Henry B. Smith makes California and Colorado agency contracts.
- Paris show at the Palais de l'Industrie, with an account of the stands, catalogue and English and French exhibitors, from the Cyclist.
- The Wilson-Myers Co. reorganises as the Liberty Cycle Co., with new officers including Thomas A. Hine as president.
- Short trade notes on incorporations, removals and store openings in New York, Chicago, Williamsport, Buffalo, Colorado Springs, Fort Worth, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Shawano.
- New York trade notes: the Lyndhurst range, the Monarch agency, Jandorf, American Bicycle Co., Spalding's store, Western Wheel Works' Crescent sales and the Raleigh 1895 ladies' model.
- The Wellington Hotel as the trade's Chicago headquarters, run by A. S. Gage.
- E. C. Bode resigns from the Sterling Cycle Works, will not open a Boston office and stays in Chicago.
- F. Howard Tuttle places agencies in Wilmington, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis, and reports that Johnson has signed with Stearns and Eck is still free.