Vol 10, No 24
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Articles in this issue
- Boston clubs' winter dances and the Press Club's officer fight; Massachusetts L.A.W. guide-board committee named and Elliott's amendments to the National Assembly.
- San Francisco club dances, Griffith and Terrill back from Honolulu, the proposed Mechanics' Pavilion indoor tournament, and the stranded round-the-world pair Breckenridge and Waller.
- Otto Ziegler leaves the Rambler team for the Falcon team under a contract with Yost's George Webb Alexander, and plans records on the Garden City track.
- Capt. C. Edward Wood named to the New York state racing board; Syracuse L.A.W. membership decline, the Cortland indoor track and C. Arthur Benjamin's reminiscence.
- Trunk Line drops its wheel baggage charge after Chairman Mott's campaign; Baltimore notes on the Park track, women riding bloomers and Featherstone military wheels.
- New York division meeting elects National Assembly delegates in a Potter-Luscomb fight; the candidates for L.A.W. president, vice-president and racing board are named. Also a Buffalo century by F. C. Christlick in snow and mud, and a Ramblers-Press Club New Year's peace.
- Springfield riders' outlook for 1895, interviews on touring, Massasoit Club sleigh ride and finances, and Greundler's bicycle fitted with a runner for ice.
- Outing's delay in sending a relief expedition for Frank Lenz, missing since May 1894 in Persia, is criticised.
- Jury of exhibitors finds the Chicago show management has kept its promises; the 1896 show is being booked and New York's future depends on its own showing.
- Luscomb's bid for the presidency, the Bulletin still barred from second-class mail, and a call to the delegates to set aside trade-influence prejudice.
- Zimmerman's reluctant visit to the Chicago show, his plan to buy the Raleigh plant and race in Australia, and a note on Wheeler and Banker going to Paris.
- The Cycle Trade explains that Lady Colin Campbell's 'biquette' was coined years earlier for a cyclists' banquet; a note that John J. Prial of the Wheel was cut by a carpenter's chisel.
- Robert Bruce of the Bicycling World sets out for Constantinople and Erzeroum on a relief expedition for Lenz, financed by Outing.
- US vice-consul John Tyler in Teheran reports that Lenz left Persia safely and reached Erzeroum, and that inquiries at Sivas found nothing.
- Milwaukee's Harry Crocker and Edward Roth plan a state record tour on a special tandem; the Andrae company team, North Side Club and Milwaukee Wheelmen election notes.
- Philadelphia's New Year weather, club elections and banquets, and the Press Cycle Club's organising meeting. Also the Park Avenue Wheelmen's New Year's banquet and Harry Longbottom wresting a revolver from a highwayman.
- Quaker City Wheelmen's Thirteen club holds a theatre party and banquet for ex-Captain Artman.
- F. Ed. Spooner's party of American racing men tours Mexico January to April 1895, with Jimmy Levy having built the City of Mexico track.
- Milwaukee's Charles Knudson and John Reitzner ride from Chicago through the South to New Orleans and Texas, with a night in an empty cabin and a revolver stand-off with tramps.
- Subscription list for the maimed Myrtle Hopkins, now $709.57, with the week's contributors from Kansas, Texas and Colorado.
- New York column: Potter's wheelmen's road bill, Zimmerman's supposed living picture, League Touring Club, the West Shore party to Chicago, and Brooklyn and Syracuse club news. Also Zimmerman's dread of a living picture at Chicago and a profile of George Curtis Wright of the Riverside Wheelmen.
- London column: a paper on speed gears to the Cyclists' society, Christmas weather, the state of racing control, the Stanley show, and a bamboo bicycle. Also Sturmey on the racing-control question, the Stanley show's machine statistics and a bamboo bicycle test by C. W. Hartung.
- The English holiday weather is blamed on J. Collinson, a Brading meteorologist claiming control of odylic force.
- Chicago show report: Battery D and the Armory packed by agents from everywhere, the living pictures, Zimmerman and Sanger's cameo, and the booths of Spalding, Pope, Stearns and Lozier; weights falling and detachable sprockets everywhere.
- Julius Andrae & Sons incorporated, the Pacemaker wheel to be built by the National Time Recorder Co., and Milwaukee trade notes.
- Rouse, Hazard & Co. of Peoria answer the Western Wheel Works' $20,000 suit: their exclusive eight-state contract to 1900, the $1,187 balance paid late, and the Western Wheel Works' cancellation of the contract.
- Indianapolis Rubber Co. working day and night, supplying Gormully & Jeffery, while the Indiana Bicycle Co. builds its own G&J tire plant.
- The Barnes Bicycle Co. formed at Syracuse with $100,000 capital, Peck as superintendent and C. Arthur Benjamin as general agent.