The Referee, Vol 10, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The week's editorial column, including "Misleading Reports" (rebuking the Tribune and Inter Ocean for inventing a Sanger-Zimmerman match and side bet), "Publish the Records" (urging the L.A.W. racing board to issue a complete revised record list before the World's Fair season), "They Shun Milwaukee" (Chicago racing men boycotting the Milwaukee Wheelmen's indoor tournament over the Sanger-Davis foul row), and "Perfection in Tires" on the unsolved non-puncturable-tire problem.
- A signed humorous sketch by La Cote Mal Taile of a stroll down Chicago's cycle-trade district and a celebrity-packed dinner at the "Rag Shop," name-checking Seig, Plumb, Nicolet, Van Sicklen, Barrett, Lumsden and the rest of the racing and trade crowd.
- The eastern correspondence column, with the racing board's "Grand Secret Concert" controversy, the postponed Sporting Life car-trip scheme, the Hartford wheelmen's nomination of Speaker Burdette for the legislature, and "A Thieving Lunatic" who stole wheels from Worcester and Cambridgeport dealers posing as a patient of Dr. Daniels.
- The story of the New York Recorder's "most popular wheelman" piano contest, in which Albert, Holmes, Vose, Trenchard and Worden ran up fraudulent vote totals from photographed ballots until business manager Turner exposed the fakery and no prize was awarded.
- An account of Harry Hillard Wiley reaching Chicago from New York on an Eagle safety placarded "New York to Chicago—Dead Broke," having begged meals and lodging across toll bridges and ferries for three weeks; the Referee dismisses it as an advertising dodge.
- Folded run of city letters and club news: "The Cream City's Track Scheme" (Milwaukee Telegram Cycling Club's proposed track and club house), "The Denver Ramblers' New Home," the Buffalo Wheelmen's Protective Association meeting, Jacksonville's Lockwood Cycling Club dances, a new New Orleans sporting paper, and the Comet Cycling Club of Milwaukee under president Richard S. Baird.
- Folded news squibs including the Englewood Cycling Club's new $10,000 home, a report that the Prince of Wales may take up bicycling, Rev. Henry H. Kelsey calling Sunday riding a moral pitfall, ex-Speaker Tom Reed's bicycle anecdote, and the racing board's killing of the Sporting Life car trip.
- Chicago club-news department: the Chicago Cycling Club's opening reception, indoor baseball matches among the Lincoln, Kenwood, Columbia and Aeolus clubs, and a string of club smokers and raffles (Lake View, Englewood, Columbia Wheelmen).
- A lively report of the Chicago Cycling Club's "Grand Old Ordinary" run to Pullman on antique high-wheels, Stars and Eagles, with fines levied on safety riders by fine-master George Thorne and a near photo-finish between Lumsden's Springfield "Rooster" and Thorne's Star.
- Trade description of the Fowler bicycle to be built by the new Hill Cycle Manufacturing Company of Chicago under F. T. Fowler, in light 26-pound and 32-pound scorcher models fitted with Morgan & Wright tires.
- The patent department, listing recently granted bicycle patents reported by attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh, including saddles (Garford, Stein), bicycle supports and ice and aquatic velocipedes.
- A writeup of John Palmer's self-closing tire, tested over thirteen centuries by Ed Porter without leakage despite embedded thorns, now sampled to the Chicago trade by the Columbia Rubber Company for the Goodrich Rubber Company.
- Illustrated descriptions of new tire patents, including the wired-edge cover of Thomas Fane and Charles F. Saunder of Toronto and the Airtite/1893-Dunlop-like tire of Louis K. McClymonds of Cleveland.
- Boston trade correspondence covering the Union Cycle Company's secret new wheel, Kirk Brown and the Airtite tire, the Lovell and New Mail works, the success of the Brookes bicycle under agent George A. Drysdale, a busy Pope Manufacturing Company, and the Tillinghast Tire Company's George C. Voss on early tire ordering.
- Worcester trade letter on the new Reed & Curtis Machine Screw Company building, J. C. Wakefield's bicycle wrench, the J. J. Warren Company's leather goods, plus rounds of Springfield, Chicopee, Holyoke and Hartford trade (Warwick, Keating, Overman, Columbia, the new League Cycle Company).
- Chicago and general trade department: agency and factory notes on the Western Wheel Works, Ariel, Taylor, Derby and Featherstone concerns, plus brief national trade items on Marble racers, the Goodrich Rubber Company's 150,000-tire output, and the Liberty cycle line for 1893.
- A character sketch of the "inducer" Troy, retold by Fox of the Sercombe-Bolte company, recounting Troy's Dakota days of chasing the shifting county seat with a print-shop in a covered wagon to keep the legal-printing graft.
- Report of the Century Road Club of America's second meeting at the Grand Pacific hotel, adopting its constitution and by-laws, with W. A. Skinkle expected as president and William Herrick as chief centurion of the 1,000-member road-record body.
- Folded racing and club news from across the country, including Thanksgiving road races (San Jose, Oakland, Lincoln, St. Louis), W. C. Rands lowering the Detroit-to-Mt. Clemens record, a colored rider Phelps of Youngstown, and the Allegheny Cyclers' mileage medal won by C. L. Miller with 6,712 miles.
- The recurring portrait department, profiling Asa Windle as its eighth subject.