Vol 16, No 13
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Articles in this issue
- A page of cycling jokes and comic sketches, among them a daughter's bargain cycling suit, a court scene of 1900 punishing a pedestrian without a bell, Davy Crockett's maxim for learners, a scorcher who ends as a museum's hump-backed man, a doctored stopwatch at Fakem's record ride, and a racer lost in a Russian bath.
- Reprint of N. C. Fowler, jr.'s argument from Boots and Shoes that the trade paper is a trade necessity and its advertising pages money-bringing.
- Oakland's 'bicycle night' at a theatre, with over 300 young women in bloomers from the Acme and Reliance Cycling Clubs, and California's progress from skirts to bloomers.
- Grattan's defence of the horse against the horseless age, claiming the nations that excelled in horsemanship have ruled the world and Sheridan could not be imagined on a wheel.
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that a bicycle has the same rights and penalties as a carriage and must keep off sidewalks.
- An undertaker at Vancouver, Washington rigs a bicycle to carry coffins into country districts.
- Railroad papers, quoting the Railroad Gazette, defend charging for carried bicycles, including the Pennsylvania Railroad's 15-cent Newark rate, against the great dailies' support of wheelmen.
- How ancient Greek runners trained and dieted for the Olympic races, with Plato, Aristotle and Herodotus among their critics.
- Warns riders to trust their wheel to a competent repairer as they would a valuable watch.
- Lead editorial dialogue on whether the 1895 cycle boom is artificial, forecasting a glut of 1896 output from new makers and concluding the editors side with caution.
- Editorial paragraphs on a Central Park cyclist path, the Brooklyn Bridge one-cent toll, R. Philip Gormully's recovery, Frances Willard on the bicycle as temperance reformer and an acknowledgement to Harper's Bazar.
- Racing standings: E. C. Bald leads the National Circuit ladder ahead of T. Monarch Cooper and Murphy, with team points (Columbia 216, Monarch 193), the 'Also Rans' and the Berlo quint tyre explosion at Louisville.
- Argues from The India Rubber World that the US patent system fails cycle and tyre inventors, citing George Westinghouse's letter to Professor Forbes.
- An ex-amateur racer tells how a Boston-area track promoter paid him with a check he could only cash at a discount.
- Eddie Bald complains at Lincoln, Nebraska of crowds staring at the circuit-chasers like dime-museum freaks.
- Short item that a scorcher's 'I didn't mean to do it' is poor consolation to a run-down pedestrian.
- F. C. Fuhrman and L. H. George are accused of crooked Erie-Buffalo road records after the Buffalo Press C. C. and the Express found no witnesses along the road.
- New York's new Park Commissioners, with Samuel McMillan proposing an asphalt road for cyclists on the Eighth Avenue side of Central Park.
- L. C. Boardman's promised Southern race circuit at Jacksonville and Atlanta collapses when no guarantees from the makers arrive.
- Kittie Knox sues members of the Boston Wheelmen for $300 after the club excluded negro entries from its century run; also 2,000 bicycles carried on the Brooklyn Elevated on Election Day.
- A French physician argues that woman's skeleton, with a lower centre of gravity and heavier pelvis, fits her for cycling better than man's.
- Trade advice that there is business but not for everybody, to be pasted in the dealer's hat.
- Detroit servant Emma Schmidt arrested for keeping a livery bicycle since August and selling it to the dealer Mallory.
- Judge Randolph of Emporia, Kansas upholds the ordinance requiring wheelmen to ring bells at crossings, in cases against J. E. Evans and Dr. E. W. Wagoner.
- Brooklyn Bridge trustees cut the cyclists' fare from 3 cents to 1 on Mayor Schieren's motion and drop the rule to dismount.
- Frank Hackleman of Connersville, Indiana nearly dies from a cold bath after a long ride.
- French professional Jacquelin's rise from humble means to a carriage and pair in two years.
- The Thistle Cycling Club of Chicago recommends expelling Fred Stobbart, whose Elgin-Aurora 100-mile record was aided by ropes tying him to his pacemakers' tandem; also notes on the Cyclists' Federation of New York.
- Minneapolis proposal to bank a circular cycle track on the ice of a lake, recalling John S. Johnson's ice-cycle trials.
- Calendar of race meets from November to February, including Louisville, Los Angeles, Atlanta and the Chicago, New York and Denver cycle shows.
- Arthur Gardiner's paced flying mile at Fountain Ferry, Louisville on November 5, behind two quads, beats Johnson's professional record by 1 4-5 seconds.
- Johnson ties Ziegler's standing-start paced mile at 1:50 2-5, and C. W. Miller and S. C. Cox of Chicago cut paced records.
- Harry Clark of Denver breaks all unpaced Class A and B records from three to five miles on the Denver Wheel Club track.
- Harley Davison of Toronto sets a Canadian paced half-mile record of 59 seconds at Peterboro, Ontario.
- A. A. Hansen and John Nelson ride 100 miles on a Syracuse tandem in 5:07:00 at Minneapolis.
- The revived hill-climb on Corey Hill near Boston, recalling George E. Webber's 1886 record and F. P. Benson's 1891 climbs, and Urquahart's eleven ascents in an hour on a Fowler with Vim tires.
- At Fountain Ferry on November 7 Ziegler rides a paced standing-start mile in 1:50 2-5 and De Cardy cuts Titus's ten-mile record to 20:45.
- L.A.W. Racing Board list of riders transferred to Class B, including A. F. Wisner of Waltham and E. C. Barnes of Auburn.
- Racing Board names W. T. Bonfield, Charles Donnelly and J. H. Lane as professionals and suspends Casey Castleman of Los Angeles.
- George A. Eisenhart of Mulberry, Indiana suspended for a year for riding under an assumed name.
- Racing Board accepts records by Becker, Hamilton, Collins, Murphy, Bald, Clark, the Stowe quad team, Coulter, and Brooks and Weinig; with the French timekeeper Mousset's debarment and Searle's 100 miles in 4h. 22m. at Louisville.
- San Jose, California: Murphy beats Bald by six inches in the five-mile national championship, with Wells awarded the third-mile after a pile-up; also Zimmerman beaten in Australia by J. Parsons.
- Zimmerman loses a five-mile match to J. Parsons at Sydney; the English professional A. W. Harris arrives.
- L.A.W. and Board of Trade transportation committees meet on carrying bicycles free; Walter Burnham's remark that Spalding wanted a charge creates comment.
- Joke about Waswun leaving racing to sell self-sticking tyre patches.
- Louisville blue-ribbon meet at Fountain Ferry where Otto Ziegler sets a competition mile of 1:53 2-5 behind a quad ahead of Nat Butler and De Cardy; Jaap Eden turns professional.
- A Danbury, Connecticut inventor drives a barrel organ with a stationary bicycle.
- Notices of a stolen Rambler No. 16,389 and a Peerless tandem, with a $25 reward offered by the Bridgeport Cycle Company.
- The Star Manufacturing and Supply Company of Chicago will sell parts and its Korker bicycle at $85; with notes on the American Waltham Co.'s factory and the Sherman Cycle Co.
- Short comic paragraphs: why Ethelinda sold her wheel, a German trainer's quip on Heinrich's muscles and brains, a cyclist qualified for the saloon trade by handle-bar experience, and a dialogue on why pacemakers must go fast.
- On Greek maidens at Olympia and the cycle maiden in bloomers expected at the 1896 Athens games.
- Wheelmen in the railroad dispute can simply avoid rail travel.
- A Racine inventor's windmill-propelled safety said to reach 35 miles an hour, tested in a boat on Racine River.
- Chief Consul Gentle of the New Jersey Division prepares an 'L. A. W. Catechism' crediting the League with the good roads movement.
- A crowd of 27 men, 34 boys and a policeman gathers round a wheelman refilling his pneumatic tire.
- Lansing, Michigan: police seek a woman bicyclist who posed as a San Francisco Examiner correspondent and stole wheels on the way from Grand Rapids to Detroit.
- A fashionable New York girls' boarding-school on Riverside Drive stores fifty pupils' bicycles and has governesses leading road trips.
- London letter: the Dunlop Tire Co.'s 50 per cent dividend and reserves hint at a £250,000 deal with Clincher interests; includes Humber's profits, English patterns and ladies' machines for '96 and W. S. Simpson's lever-chain challenge accepted by W. A. Gamage.
- The Maumee Cycle Company of Toledo, headed by J. L. Yost, will make the Volant at a 50x150 ft factory and aim at 5,000 wheels.
- R. J. Mecredy advises carrying a second-hand wheel to spring rather than selling in autumn, against The Wheel's storage-cost advice.
- The New York Tire Company appoints H. P. Moorhouse of Paris to handle its tyres in France.
- Fred Patee resigns from the Indiana Bicycle Company on November 9 to organise a new $200,000 concern.
- The Liberty Cycle Co. arranges for Wheeler & Wilson to sell Liberty cycles in the West, Southwest and Southeast through 2,500 sewing-machine agents; also G. Minturn Worden joining Monarch.
- Opening of the six-storey Spalding-Bidwell building on West 42nd Street, New York, under George R. Bidwell, with riding school, rental and ladies' costume departments.
- T. B. Jeffery of Gormully & Jeffery tells The Wheel that bicycle prices must fall when model changes cease and dismisses the Simpson chain.
- Plans for Mr. Coleman's November 30 banquet for wheelmen at the Atlanta Exposition, with special cars from Chicago and New York.
- Morgan & Wright send a special car of travelling men to bicycle factories east of the Rockies from November 18; F. W. Morgan orders a steel steam yacht.
- The Warman & Schub Cycle House of Chicago's Cataract parcel-carrier tricycle, 38 pounds without box, listed at $175; also the reversed Herald woodcut.
- Profile of Edward K. Orr, new sales manager of the Standard Cycle Works, Chicago.
- The temporary injunction in Palmer vs. Newton Rubber Works is vacated at Parkersburg, West Virginia; also a fatal sidewalk collision at Erie.
- The old Assembly ballrooms on Washington Street, Brooklyn, offered for rent as a riding school.
- E. H. 'Ned' Wilcox resigns from the Humber company to start in business on his own account.
- Letter from the American Dunlop Tire Company correcting a Wheel paragraph on a new guarantee, with the editor's note that it referred to the English Dunlop.
- The Remington Arms Company will open cycle branches, beginning at 533 Fulton Street, Brooklyn.
- The Lyndhurst Plant of McKee & Harrington, moved from New Jersey, is described in the firm's own agricultural metaphor.
- Metropolitan clubs open three bowling tournaments, with M. A. C. C. and Long Island schedules and Long Island results; The Wheel offers a trophy.
- Dates of the Chicago, New York and Denver cycle shows in 1896, with the Stanley, National and Paris shows abroad.
- Brief notices of new, failing and moving cycle firms across the US, including the Cole-Gerard Manufacturing Co. of Boston.
- The Clio Wheelmen of Jersey City plan a Thanksgiving Day parade and ten-mile race to open the Hudson County Boulevard.
- Barnes drill presses of W. J. & John Barnes Co., Rockford, Illinois, widely used in bicycle factories.
- Martin Burke of Youngstown, Ohio invents a piston-and-crank pedal drive claimed to apply power through seven-tenths of the stroke.
- Trade paragraphs on the Defiance, Puritan, Lovell, Orient, Herald and Grand Rapids companies, one-legged rider Kilpatrick on an Iver Johnson, and British and American tube factories.
- Details of the failure of Cincinnati dealer J. E. Poorman after a suit by his late wife's estate, with a hurried chattel mortgage and assignment.
- The Indianapolis Bicycle Chain and Stamping Machine Company moves into a new factory expected to be the country's largest chain plant.
- The Aladdin Lamp Co. of Newark's $3 bicycle lantern, with notes on the Climax bell and the King-O'Hara Manufacturing Co.
- Warman-Schub compare the monthly cost of a horse delivery rig ($84) with the Cataract carrier tricycle ($26).
- Cutting & Kaestner, Chicago saddle-makers, market a corduroy stocking supporter for wheelmen.
- Henry Roncoe of Cheshire signs his young son to ride for A. G. Spalding & Bros. at big meets.
- J. H. Hopler & Co. of Binghamton give a $7,700 bill of sale to Hulburt Brothers; also a Milwaukee case against Parker H. Sercombe dismissed.
- The Windle Cycle Company of Worcester, Massachusetts and its Windle Special with oilless dust-proof bearings and a handle-bar lock nut.
- An E. W. Bliss Company press built for the Pope Manufacturing Company for bending handle-bars and tubing.
- The newly organised Tourist Cycle Company of Syracuse, with H. E. Maslin as president, plans 5,000 to 10,000 wheels at $75 for 1896.
- Three new Elgin, Illinois makers, C. H. Woodruff & Co., the Elgin Cycle Co. and the Elgin Sewing Machine and Bicycle Co., choose confusingly similar wheel names.
- Martin & Gibson Manufacturing Company equip a new plant at Kensington, near Buffalo, to build the Kensington.
- Editorial on destructive price-cutting competition in the wheel trade, warning that selling below cost lowers quality.
- Advice from the Stoves and Hardware Reporter to hardware dealers on displaying and selling bicycles; plus Stearns and Gormully & Jeffery trade notes.
- Charles E. Duryea argues that smaller wheels with larger tires are better, answering a subscriber's question on 28-inch versus 26-inch wheels and gearing.
- Messrs. Niles and Harris of the Zenith Company appoint Willard & McKee to handle Zenith cycles in New York and Brooklyn; also the Morse Manufacturing Co. name change.
- The Brassell Adjustable Socket Wrench of Boston, whose jaws self-adjust to nuts.
- The Union Nut and Bolt Company will handle the International Manufacturing Company's America cycles in New York City and Eastern New York State.
- Remark that competent cycle salesmen are in short supply.