The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 80
Articles in this issue
- The Cycle Age sets out a seven-point editorial policy urging manufacturers who have not received legal payment guarantees to proceed independently rather than wait on the stalled combine, followed by retrospective analysis of Spalding's original plans, the difficulties parts makers face, arguments that the combine will not purchase all optioned factories, and a detailed timeline of the American Bicycle Company's formation effort.
- Report on the epidemic of bicycle theft in and around Chicago where police are hampered by insufficient laws, with a movement under way to grant officers the right to search cycle stores and repair shops without warrants in order to help recover stolen machines.
- Racing results including the Chicago Decoration Day road race won on handicap by Win Blum and on time by W. B. Ferguson over muddy roads, Eddie McDuffee defeating Major Taylor on an Orient One-Thirty in a five-mile pursuit race at Woodside Park Philadelphia, and Orient's other Decoration Day victories at Irvington-Milburn and Waltham.
- Announcement that Iver Johnson's Arms and Cycle Works of Fitchburg has introduced two new bicycle models listing at twenty-five and thirty-five dollars, with orders flooding in from dealers who had not even seen samples of the lower-priced machines.
- Coverage of the urgent need for comparative motor vehicle contests, a review of the American motor vehicle industry spanning gas engine, steam, and electric vehicle types, and a report from the New York Electric Show where thirty different electric wagons were exhibited at Madison Square Garden.