Vol 10, No 25
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Articles in this issue
- Milwaukee: Wisconsin's new governor William H. Upham endorses good roads in his first message, and the Wisconsin Division plans a Good Roads League banquet at the Hotel Pfister and an extension of the Sheridan Drive to Milwaukee.
- South Milwaukee's land company decides to build the part of the Sheridan Drive extension that crosses its 300 acres of lake-front property during the coming spring and summer.
- Baltimore's Maryland Division plans a theatre party to clear the rent debt on the Park cycle track, and a proposed alliance with the athletes' new park comes to nothing.
- New York Chief Consul Isaac B. Potter replaces idle consuls, names three new Syracuse consuls, and orders a census of hotels that refuse the L.A.W. card rate.
- Three feet of snow idles Buffalo's riders, the Press C.C. and Ramblers B.C. set their ball and anniversary plans, George L. Hager's Schnitzler velocipede doggerel is printed, and the dealers' association meets on drygoods-house cut prices.
- Robert A. Irving plans a five-day San Francisco show and tournament on an eight-lap indoor track of Frank D. Elwell's design, with 48,000 square feet of exhibit space and over $10,000 of contracts placed.
- J. M. Erwin, the 'William Twinkle' of the Chicago press, rescues handicapper E. W. Newman from the icy lake shore, taking a snapshot before he pulls him out.
- The Canadian rider trains at St Paul for the national skating championship at Newbury, N.Y., and recalls how W. L. Steimal's pacing gave him his first boost in the Martin road race at Buffalo.
- The Bearings blames L.A.W. president Luscomb for the League's bankruptcy and the loss of its official organ, which the Springer Bill left barred from the mails.
- The amendments for the L.A.W. annual meeting, including one-year memberships from date of application, a clause on the word white, a nominating committee and Racing Board changes.
- President Luscomb wants to cut the salary of L.A.W. officer Abbot Bassett, whom the Bearings calls faithful and indispensable.
- New York notes: Frank Sanger's trip to the Chicago show, Essex County Wheelmen's officers, Swank's challenge to Martin, the Cabanne and Titus presentiments, and Prospect Park's new bicycle rules.
- Boston's club social season, the Press Club's minstrel show and cake walk, the A.C.C. and C.C.C. tournaments, and the Denver club's plans for its 800-rider steamer excursion.
- The Massachusetts board names a five-man committee, and the A.C.C. its own, to work for the 1895 national meet at Boston; the Denver visitors also form a committee.
- E. S. White, treasurer of the Overman Wheel Co., dies of typhoid fever at Old Point Comfort after eight or ten years with the firm.
- George W. Marble, inventor of the Plymouth wood rim, proposes weighing finished rims, since a rim of the wrong weight is likely to be brittle.
- In the House, Representative Quigg's amendment to admit the L.A.W. Bulletin to second-class mail is ruled out of order, and Quigg vows to reintroduce it next Congress.
- The Crown City Cyclers' New Year's Day meet at Pasadena, with Oscar Osen's wins, Hewitt's mile club championship, Ulbricht's handicap and Stevens's ten-mile race.
- London notes: New Year's Eve at the Stanley clubhouse, a prospectus for the North London Cycling and Athletic Grounds, a planned Tufnell Park track, and T. P. O'Connor's account of learning to ride.
- A Wisconsin boy's letter to Warman & Schub asks whether a main sprocket can run loose on the crank axle with a ball bearing in its hub.
- Curb-stone agents sell cut-price wheels from a sample machine and undercut reputable dealers, and John Caldwell and the Eastern Rubber Co. report single wheels lost at the show.
- The Cleveland Wheel Club files away a petition to reinstate its dismissed porter, Frank Isaac, after he refused to wear the club uniform; the same club report notes the coming annual election and the Lakeside Club's new board and Church Street quarters.
- F. T. Bidlake, reprinted from British Sport, traces how cycling costume moved from military uniforms and eccentric dress to ordinary clothes that the wearer would wear anyway.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs of Chicago plan Class A tournaments at the South Side track, seek a cycling drive in Lincoln Park, and will set the Decoration Day road race course in February.
- Springfield, Mass.: the second bicycle club assembly in the Masonic Hall, and Fred Graves's move into business with McGarrett as the Indiana Bicycle Co.'s Boston agents for the Waverley.
- The Colorado Springs Wheel Club elects Charles Wilmott Dawson president, and the correspondent reports the town's swell set taking up the bicycle.
- The Chicago cycle show closes after over 15,000 paid admissions and large sales, and more than forty exhibitors give verdicts on the price cutting, the one-show-or-two question and the small building.
- Show gossip: W. Montague Perrett's pneumonia, Fred Titus and W. C. Sanger's dread of full-dress suits, the Monarch card-seller, Pope's San Francisco branch and Warman & Schub's hunt for H. E. Laurie.
- George S. MacDonald buys the entire stock of the American Cycle Trading Co. and opens a New York jobbing store on February 1, while the Zimmerman Mfg. Co.'s plant deal hangs fire.
- Philadelphia dealers' spring stock: Garden & Brewster's Victors and Crescents, Tryon's Eagle and Apollo, the Supplee bicycle department, Dampman's move, Spalding's new store and the John T. Bailey Co.'s own Bailey wheel.
- L. E. Hoffman and L. M. Sigler's Cleveland bicycle company, which began with 150 wheels and moved into a new factory at Case Avenue and Hamilton Street.
- Short trade items from across the country: branch stores, incorporations, factory moves, fires and new agencies among bicycle makers and dealers.
- Ernest Bruner of Mitchell, S.D., designs an ice tire of grooved steel, about three pounds a pair, held in hollow plates over a pneumatic tire.
- The London correspondent finds the National Show short of orders, praises the Centaur ball-race hubs, dismisses the Otto swing frame, the De Burgo spring wheel and pneumatic hubs, and notes the fall in gear-case demand.
- A column of trade gossip whose main item is the Overman Denver branch manager's move to Boston.
- W. E. Miles, manager of the Overman Wheel Co.'s Denver branch, moves to Boston and H. W. Taylor, two years at Denver, takes over the branch.
- The R. D. Cone Co. of Winona, Minn., takes up the Winton in a big way for 1895 with its own medium-grade wheel, under the supervision of W. J. Landon and E. J. Lewis.
- Charles F. Osgood, son of the Keating Wheel Co.'s manager, will sell Keatings in New York, New England, Ohio, Michigan and Indiana in 1895, and once saved four drowning men near Holyoke.
- The Wyeth Hardware & Manufacturing Co. of St Joseph, Mo., takes on the Winton as its leading high-grade machine with thirty road representatives for 1895.
- The A. F. Shapleigh Hardware Co. lists the dealers in its southwestern territory, from Springfield, Mo. to Grand Junction, Colo., who have contracted for the Syracuse line before January 1.