The Referee, Vol 10, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Lead editorial rebutting the Rochester Union and Advertiser's opposition to Colonel Pope's plan for a permanent good-roads exhibit and federal bureau in Washington, siding with the Chicago Tribune that good roads are inseparable from agricultural prosperity.
- Editorial anticipating the high-grade wheels of the 1893 season, with notes on improved ladies' saddles, gearing adjustment, head construction and the much-abused dropped handle-bar.
- The Referee brands as bogus the press dispatches in which J. S. Johnson supposedly renewed charges against Chicago racing men, noting Johnson denied them at the Referee office before leaving for Nashville.
- Signed travel column ("La Cote Mae Taile") recounting the traveler's return to Pueblo and Denver, visits to dealers G. E. Hannan, Candy and the Sperry Cycle Company, the Ramblers' planned $25,000 club house, and a sparring exchange with "Senator" Morgan and L. C. Boardman.
- New York department reporting the settlement of the Recorder's piano contest in favor of Holmes of Newark, with Vose and Trenchard receiving lesser awards, and the Referee defending its cartoon against charges that bogus votes were not proven.
- Profile of newly elected Congressman John H. Graham of Brooklyn, Democrat and selling agent of the New Departure bells, who pledges his hearty support for good roads in the next national assembly.
- Lengthy interview with Col. Albert A. Pope at 12 Warren Street, New York, endorsing the proposed cash-prize racing league, declining political office, and touting good roads as his chief work; continues with his views on the Massachusetts governorship.
- Report on the Manhattan Athletic Club's financial woes, the sheriff in possession over a Severance judgment, charges of $35,000 due creditors and a joke about imported racer Carl Hess's training bill.
- Account of Rev. Caspar W. Hiatt's sermon at a Kalamazoo Congregational church delivered with a ladies' and gentleman's wheel flanking the pulpit, lamps burning, drawing moral lessons from coasting, broad tires and the bent pedal of life.
- Report on racing in Australia, the seventh annual Melbourne Club spring meeting and the Austral wheel race, with the Rolfe brothers and champions Tom and J. W. H. Busst among the entries.
- Publishes the Sercombe/Bolte letter enclosing a $500 certified check toward a $1,000 prize for a proposed match between W. C. Sanger and A. A. Zimmerman, amid Willis Troy's lengthy account of the on-again, off-again contest.
- Roundup of track and road-race news: Charles M. Murphy's successful season, the Spokane and Savannah track plans, the Centaurs' road race won by Frank Curry, G. A. Hanson's St. Paul-Stillwater record and the Acme Wheelmen's 25-mile race won by Grant Bell.
- Comic account of a nine-inning indoor baseball game between two teams (the Tilts and the Guineas) drawn from the Lincoln Cycling Club at Klare's Hall, the Guineas winning 9-8 on Patee's pushed-in run.
- Chicago-area club social news: Lake View, Ravenswood and Chicago Cycling Clubs' turkey raffles and card tournaments, the Cook County Wheelmen's wine banquet, and the Englewood Cycling Club's house-warming and cycle raffle.
- National roundup of club doings: Brooklyn Ramblers' billiard tournament, Massachusetts Bicycle Club's new house, the Hartford Wheel Club banquet, and fairs scheduled by Philadelphia clubs.
- Trade feature canvassing Chicago dealers (Hughes of Quadrant, Marrett of Coventry Machinists', Reville of Pope, Horace Bell for Humber and A. A. Taylor) on the likely effect of reducing the 45 per cent duty on imported English wheels.
- Survey of Peoria's four great bicycle firms—Rouse, Hazard & Co. (taking on the Rudge), Luthy & Co. (the Sanspariel), Kirkwood, Miller & Co. (Telephone and Kite), and Kingman & Co. (Featherstone lines and Centaur).
- List of recent bicycle patents reported for the Referee by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh, alongside new-wheel notes (the Peerless triangle, the Lyndhurst, Morgan & Wright's new tube and valve) and several pneumatic-tire ideas.
- Court grants A. Featherstone an injunction against the Ormonde Cycle Company for infringing the reissued Dunlop tire patent, holding that an importer of an English-licensed bicycle acquires no rights against the American patent owner.
- Consolidated trade-news department covering Chicago and national makers: Gormully & Jeffery's copper-plated Rambler racers, the Monarch and Marble companies' 1893 work, Hendee's large orders for Imperial and Majestic goods, and Raleigh, Excelsior and Triumph agency placements.