The Referee, Vol 10, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editorial leader on the newly formed International Cyclists' Association's plan for world championship races, arguing the amateur rule will exclude America's best men (the makers' amateurs) and leaving the league an impossible problem to solve.
- The Referee renews its charge that southern record-breakers Johnson, Rhodes, Ballard and Myers are being financed under A. L. Atkins as the 'Rudge team,' citing letters on Rouse, Hazard & Co. notepaper, despite Fred Patee's denials.
- Signed humor-and-opinion column ('La Cote Mal Taillee') answering anti-cyclist newspaper squibs sent in by J. B. McConnell of Lincoln, Neb., the rejection of the bogus 'Mr. Snaix' L. A. W. application, and verse on Nancy Hanks.
- Department reprinting British comment, led by the Irish Cyclist's attack on 'those dress competitions' for women as impractical paper costumes, plus Wheeling, British Sport and others on Zimmerman, dead tricycle racing and a new Paris daily cycling paper.
- Report on the flourishing sixty-member Women's Wheel and Athletic Club planning to build a bowling alley, with club election notes for the Mohawk A. & C. C., Iroquois A. C. and Hudson County Wheelmen.
- Full text of the constitution and racing rules adopted by the International Cyclists' Association in London, with editorial comment that Rule F's amateur definition is worded so as to let in—then bar—the makers' amateurs.
- Round-up of racing items including a profile of fast Californian Wilbur F. Edwards, new tracks at Salt Lake City and San Antonio, the Milwaukee Wheelmen's holiday tournament programme and the California Association's road-race series.
- Description, with the inventor's own letter, of A. J. Snyder of Grimsby, Ont.'s design for a cigar-shaped flying machine driven by a geared bicycle, reprinted from the New York World.
- St. Louis correspondence on discontent after Holm's defeat of Davis for chief consul, and plans to revise the division's constitution and by-laws.
- Department of club social news—receptions, whist and dancing parties and election tickets for the Illinois, Aeolus, Lincoln, Oak Park and Ravenswood cycling clubs—folding in Buffalo whist and 'About the Country' club notes.
- Patent department abstracting new British specifications prepared by G. Douglas Leechman, including Bradley's velocipede handle, Decourdemanche's pneumatic tire and H. H. Lake's puncture-plug injector for the Boston Woven Hose and Rubber Company.
- Short department noting new officers of the New Jersey Division L. A. W. (chief consul G. Carleton Brown) and the Baltimore Cycle Club, and the eastern trip of George K. Barrett of the Marble Cycle Company.
- Major feature: a Referee man tours Boston-area makers and shops—William Read & Sons, the McCune, Raymond, Lovell Arms, Union and Pope companies—gathering '93 prospects and gossip.
- Continuation of the New England trade tour through Providence (Tillinghast Tire, Belcher & Loomis, Rankin & Bruce) and the Springfield/Holyoke/Chicopee makers, with a long account of A. H. Overman's mansion and the Keating, Warwick and Overman factories.
- Notice of the new $100,000 League Cycle Company at Hartford under Gen. Henry C. Dwight, set to make E. J. O'Connor's chainless bevel-gear wheel, amid the trade tour's stops at East Hampton, New Haven and Torrington bell, saddle and Eagle bicycle works.
- Description of John S. Barnes of Detroit's bicycle umbrella, made by the Bicycle Canopy Company, that folds away as a package carrier when not used as a sun shade.
- Department listing recently granted U.S. bicycle patents (tires, stands and attachments) reported by patent attorney W. E. Aughinbaugh of Washington, D. C.
- Trade department covering Chicago, Peoria and general makers—Col. Albert A. Pope's arrival, the Morgan & Wright fire recovery, the Lozier plant rumors, English makers' World's Fair duty-free importing scheme, and dozens of dealer and salesman movements.