Vol 10, No 26
Cite this issue
Citation
The Bearings 10, no. 26 (1895). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-bearings/vol10-26/
Wikipedia
{{cite magazine |title=Vol 10, No 26 |magazine=The Bearings |volume=10 |issue=26 |date=1895 |url=https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-bearings/vol10-26/ |via=cyclearchive.com}}Page numbers are pages of the PDF, which can differ from the numbers printed on the page.
Articles in this issue
- Michael Dirnberger on Class B pacemakers and his planned record attempts, the Barnes team's hunt for a Class B rider in Syracuse, and Otto Ziegler's signing with Falcon.
- Oscar Osen's winter wins at the Phoenix and Los Angeles diamond meets, the Garden City Cyclers' new clubhouse, and Wilbur Edwards' planned straightaway record attempt.
- The San Jose Cyclers' track, held up by winter rain, is designed to be the fastest in the country.
- Milan's newly formed Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano, its planned international cycle show and the proposed Milan-to-Rome promenade.
- The Milwaukee Wheelmen move their July 4 road race to a Grand Avenue start, the club goes League, and a Wisconsin good-roads bill is introduced.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs plan a larger Decoration Day parade of about 5,000 riders, a new slate of officers and a fresh bid for the national circuit race.
- The North Side Club names its racing board for the Silver Spring road race and a February pool tourney, and Gerhard Aussem starts a winter gymnastics class.
- Louis Pierron's new monthly club paper, through which the North Side Club sends all its official notices.
- St. Louis dealers show 1895 models at Uhrig's Hall, with more applications for space than the hall can take.
- Louisville riders form new wheel clubs, the Essenic Senate military company, the Keating Wheel Club, the Oceola club and the exclusive Louisville Wheeling and Driving Club.
- The Bearings judges Chicago's January show the better one on exhibitors' and agents' business, with a 30,000 attendance, against New York.
- Makers are building diamond-frame women's wheels, society endorses rational dress and bloomers, and the editor predicts 1895 as a bloomer year.
- Alfred Ducros pays $15,000 to the Premier Cycle Co., the attachments are lifted, and L. H. Johnson forms the new Premier Cycle Mfg. Co. in New York.
- Harry B. Hanford of the American Cycle Trading Co. marries in St. Paul, and A. G. Moore of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. marries on New Year's Day.
- Eugene Lay's travel narrative from the voyage out past the Azores and Gibraltar to Algiers, continued on page 6 to Naples and Rome.
- J. E. Patterson publishes his complaint that a Wellsville Wheel Club national-circuit tournament never paid his prizes, despite letters to the club and to H. E. Raymond.
- Milwaukee rider Charles Knudson's solo ride through Mexico, including a 200-mile desert crossing, cold mountain roads and a welcome in Mexico City.
- Harley Davidson's skating wins, the Press C.C. ball, Eddie Bald's contract with Pope, plans for a Buffalo track, and the Martin 25-mile handicap on Decoration Day.
- A Childs bill before the New York Legislature would build a convict-worked state road from Sag Harbor through Albany to Buffalo, with a $10,000 appropriation.
- H. C. Tyler buys one of E. J. Pennington's motor cycles as a pacemaker, and A. G. Spalding becomes the Chicago agent for the Motor Cycle Co.
- The Humber luncheon for Elliott Burris, the N.C.U. amateur-definition fight, the Manchester B.C. clubhouse, a track for the King of Italy and cycling at the Queen's Club.
- A major-general takes up the safety, is elected to the Stanley C.C., and is followed by many officers of his brigade.
- Philadelphia dealers go to the New York show, the Overman branch and Crescent wheels change hands, the American Sewing Machine Co. enters the trade, and club affairs are reported.
- The American Sewing Machine Co. of Philadelphia enters the bicycle trade with three American wheels, exhibited at stand 58 in New York.
- The Northeast Wheelmen elect officers, the Riverton Athletic Association plans race meets, and the Golden Eagle Wheelmen move to a house on Park Avenue.
- Bill Jones, a Dogtown dealer, tours the New York show with a Gotham salesman, visiting the Yost Falcon, Keating, Fowler, Rambler, Columbia, Stearns and other stands.
- Tire exhibitors at the New York show, including G. & J., Keystone, New York Tire, Dunlop, Morgan & Wright and Eastern Rubber, with detachable and single-tube designs prominent.
- Sundries exhibitors at the New York show, from Standard cyclometers and Cushman & Denison oilers to Pratt & Whitney's machine tools, drop forgings, saddles and leathers.
- Show gossip: 500 agents registered by Monday noon, Zimmerman's "off my apex" line, Monarch's lion bid and Mr. Pennington's motor cycle rides.
- Agency, store and failure notes from across the country, with the town notes listed below.
- Bridges & Lacey open a bicycle store with repairing and renting.
- The Ramsdell & Rawson Co. is incorporated with $5,400 capital to make bicycles and rubber-tyred wheels in Worcester.
- Charles H. Child & Co. add a bicycle jobbing and retail department under Bradford H. Devine.
- F. A. Wilske & Co. is succeeded by a new firm with John Beardsley admitted as a partner.
- Westcott & Tanner reported with judgments against Fred A. Westcott for $111.
- George Yokom's Sixth Street store is damaged by fire, with no insurance.
- The Overman Wheel Co.'s treasurer, Edward S. White, dies of typhoid at Norfolk, Va.
- Dey Bros. & Co. open a bicycle department handling a National Sewing Machine wheel.
- W. I. Twombly reported to have organised a stock company to make bicycles and pleasure launches.
- C. R. Jordan's bicycle business is succeeded by Jordan & Co.
- Friese Boat & Cycle Co. at 410 Milwaukee Street is damaged by fire, with a loss of $1,500 to $2,000 covered by insurance.
- The Samuel Winslow Skate Mfg. Co. wins a $728.82 judgment against J. Clarence Doyle.
- The C. B. Rice Bicycle Co. moves into 4,030 square feet at the Oswego Machine Works, behind schedule after a fire.
- A. Q. Woodworth's bicycle business is succeeded by the Woodworth Cycle Co.
- James W. Boyd moves his sporting-goods business to Chardon, Neb.
- F. M. Coe & Co., a new firm of Frank M. Coe and Orville P. Townsend, to handle Columbia wheels.
- The Barnes Bicycle Co. is incorporated with $100,000 capital and elects C. F. Saul president.
- Columbia agency changes, Stearns' new branch, Overman's Victor line and other Pacific coast agency news.
- Sixty-seven spaces applied for at the second show, with the list of firms applying and the number of spaces each wants.
- Texas trade notes on new Galveston and Houston cycle stores, Stearns and Sterling orders and traveling salesmen.
- W. F. Stewart starts a cycle business in Galveston, taking Sterling, Remington and Stearns orders.
- Two exclusive cycle stores for 1895, with Wilson, Eyers & Co. ordering fifty Stearns wheels.
- Will o' the Wisp's London letter on the shows' business, a brazing-free frame, chain-wear discs, the Dunlop dividend, and the narrow tread craze.