A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS.
VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., APRIL, 189?. No. l.
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tioned cycle races and races under the L. A. W. rules shall be run, will spread the doctrine of intelligence and add to the power of the organization.
T^HE value of a League membership was again exempli- * fied by a case in La Crosse. Three wheelmen were forced into a ditch by a farmer with a team. They brought A- MONTHLY suit and he was fined. The members went at this with the JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. assurance that the L. A. W. was back of them and would FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. employ its best council to establish wheelmen's rights in All copy lor advertisements, changes for same, news and correspondence Wisconsin courts. for publication must be sent in before the 7th, to Insure insertion the same month. Contributions returned if not published. \I 7IDE tires for wagon wheels have proven to be practical ENTERED IN THE P. O AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. * " in improving and preserving our roads, and the sub A.DVBKTISI1MG. ject in Wisconsin is being taken up by many responsible THE PNBTJMATIO is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes farmers and citizens, advocating the adoption, of a measure of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on covering the inauguration of wide tires by this legislature. application. The soil of the roads in the state, particularly in the Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. northern part of it, is such that it would especially respond M. C. ROTIER, Editor and Publisher, to the good effects of the rolling process of wide tires. But 505 East Water Street, - Milwaukee, Wis, it is believed that unless a law is made absolutely prohibit ing the use of narrow tires, it will take many years before Entering the Fourth Year. the general use of wide tires will be effected. The whirligig of time has carried us across the threshold into another year. The tender bloom of youth HE recruiting committee in this city is engineering an can no longer be associated with this paper. In fact the T active campaign forthe League of American Wheelmen. smiles of prosperity which now adorn our pages would Since the wealthy people and socalled "400 " have taken to indicate as much, especially when looking back at the cycling in Milwaukee, it has become an easy matter to gain time we came tottering into the field of cycling journalism. their support for an organization which is spending thou It is three years ago this 15th day of April. Bicycling was sands of dollars each year in agitating the improvement of practically in its infancy then and the number of cycling highways and in securing legislation granting wheelmen journals could be counted on the fingers of one hand while full and unrestricted rights upon the highways and park today the whole world seems to be moving on wheels and ways of the country. Many prominent doctors, lawyers, new papers are sprouting out like dandelions in the professional and business men are taking to cycling and springtime. joining the ranks. Their influence will have the weight Thanks to our warm friends and patrons we have to accomplish many things in the way of preventing the withstood the severe trial of business stagnation and passage of absurd laws depriving the wheelmen of the common privileges they have but recently acquired to enjoy. although it dwarfed our progress for a time we are now in an excellent way to make the improvements we have long HEELMEN are constantly meeting with some adverse contemplated. W action by the legislature, common council and the HAT Wisconsin is having a phenomenal cycling boom court. Their rights are often a question and they are hard T is evident, and the Wisconsin State Division of the to maintain. The importance of associated efforts by the L. A.W. seems to be with it. During all last season 160 wheelmen in every state is undisputed. There is strength in new members were enrolled while this month alone, about sympathetic work. When men work together there is 200 have applied for and were admitted to membership. evolved a forte that is never witnessed where the same men work separately and apart. In associated effort there is The thousand mark is easily within its reach. brought into play what may be termed the complimentary and supplementary action of congenial spirits. Among the OM ECK has advanced a suggestion to the L. A. W. benefits of organization also, are the advantages of the Racing Board. The suggestion deserves consideration. T attrition of bright minds, one against the other, of ideas It has a glistening of merit. Eck suggests an alliance with brightened and sharpened by conversation and social inter the National Trotting Associations. Come what may, it course. All become teachers and scholars at the same time will, he says, give the League absolute control of all cycle and are the beneficiaries of sympathetic contact. ' This is racing in this country. The trotting associations are com the excuse for the existence of the League of American posed mainly of track owners. They embrace all of the Wheelmen and riders who have the slightest spirit of loyalty large and nearly all of the rural courses. It is easy to see cannot but acknowledge that it already has clone much for how an alliance providing that on these tracks only sanc THE PNEUMATIC.
them and that it is deserving of everyone's support. The The "Chain Letter" Scheme, work of "the League in the future can be measured by what Again the festive "chain letter" is going the rounds and it has accomplished in the past. this time among the cycling fraternity. The '95 L. A. W. Meet Club, of Denver, has been receiving an untold T'HE amount of wheels being sold this year is surpassing amount of letters with dimes enclosed for a fund which will * the wildest dreams of the most sanguine manufacturer. enable them to place in one hospital in every large city in The number is beyond count at the present time, but the the United States, a free bed for the benefit of injured fact that the factories making tubing and all other bicycle wheelmen. parts are taxed to their utmost capacity and cannot promise to fill any order under ninety days, is evidence that The letter in part reads as follows: " Please make three the business this year is phenomenal. And there is not copies of this letter as we have done, only changing the only a famine iu tubing but in wrenches, oil cans, rims and date and put the next highest number at the top, number tires. Cycling is, it would seem, a veritable craze this ing all three the same, sending each to a friend and sign season. This good business has had a tendency to keep up your name. Send this letter with 10 cents to George M. the prices of high grade wheels, and even medium quality Geraghty, President, Box 1507, Denver, Col., with the bicycles are commanding a fair figure just at this time. names of those to whom you have written. When the number 50 is reached the chain will end.'' IT IS but natural to feel good about a pi-ediction one has Has anyone ever stopped to figure out just what this * made which eventually comes true. Since the agitation means to the recipient of these letters'if no break is caused has been revived concerning the future of the professional in the chain? We started it but stopped at the letter No. riders, and the sentiment seems to be quite unanimous in 25 instead of 50 and this is the result: Letter No. 5 will favor of a three-class scheme, which would provide for the cause to be sent in 81 letters and $8.10; letter No. 10, ptire, the speckled and the " pro " to be governed by the L. A. 2,946 letters and $294.60; letter No. 15, 8,158,054 and W., the writer recalls to mind an editorial which appeared $815,805.40; letter No. 25, 142,732,925,184 and ten nearly three years ago in the September number of THE times that amount in cents. Dividing this total amount of PNEUMATIC. It seems to be so remarkably adapted to the letters received by 365, the number of days in a year, and present time that it will bear repeating. After speaking of it will give the tremendous sum of 391,049,110 letters professional sports in general it reads: " Conclusions can received each day. Allowing that the quadrillion letters, as yet hardly be drawn, but there is a certainty that the which the succeeding twenty-five letters would create, were League will soon have a hard row to hoe in upholding the neglected to be answered or lost, and even half of the amateur status of its organisation. When the formation others, which is a very fair allowance, it is safe in stating of racing teams begins and the wary magnate casts his that $100,000 has been or will be received by President baited hook, then look out for the hundreds of amateurs Geraghty, of Denver. who can reel off a mile anywhere bslow three minutes. It has.also been figured that on the thirtieth series, if When things come to this pass it is time to change the law every letter written brought the required 10 cents, every of our association so as to classify our riders into two man, woman and child in the United States would have grades, the amateur and the professional. Some may stand been taxed to the extent of $180,000. There is not aghast at the idea of this grand and pure League of Ameri enough wealth in the entire world to pay the one can Wheelmen's association becoming contaminated with the hundredth series. rank of professionalism which drags clown every known sport, but it is to save the sport of wheeling and racing ninisters Opposed to Bicycles. from such a fate, that the League ought to take professionals The Methodist ministers have decided that the bicycle under its control and preserve the correct principles it has is responsible for the fact that many young men do not so long striven to maintain. The sport from a mediocre attend church on Sundays. At the last meeting the various standpoint, has taken highest rank in popular favor, and causes that keep men away from the services were dis the League, which has done so much to foster this feeling, cussed. Rev. Dr. Huntley was of the opinion that the must continue its power by controlling and guarding the bicycle was one of the worst enemies that the church had professional races from becoming associated with gamblers, to contend with. He said that it took the young man out cheats and the disreputable types of men that abound in all early Sunday mornings for a spin in the country and that professional sports. Eventually, the L. A. W. must control the rider dined at a country tavern instead of at his home. the professional, the maker's and the pure amateur, if it After riding about for most of the day he returned home in. would continue its power over the sport." the evening, called on his lady friend, and she also failed to lead him to church. There is a movement afoot by the And now an alderman is talking of introducing a reso Wisconsin Sabbath Association to strictly enforce the Sun lution to tax bicycles 10 cents a day. Where will the day la,ws. All sorts of amusement are to be prohibited and idiotic suggestions of our councilmen lead us to. attention may also be turned to bicyclists, THE PNEUMATIC.
The Chief Consul's Official Address. privileges which are now accorded to the wheel under all To THE LOCAL CONSULS AND MEMBERS: circumstances, on the railroad, on the path, in parks, in It is a very pleasant thing, now, at what we all believe towns and villages, are enjoyed and maintained. to be the close of an age of depression in our great and Yours fraternally, usually prosperous country, to report to the members of A. CRESSY MOKHISON. any organization that progress, instead of retrogression, List of Wisconsin League Motels. has been the tendency. The word tendency is scarcely Below we give a list of the League hotels iu this state. strong enough—it has been the fact—we might go a step Members desiring others appointed will write to Secretary further and say, great progress has been made by the Rotier, 505 East Water street, Milwaukee : Wisconsin Division, League of American Wheelmen. Hotel Ritger Appleton. Hotel Campbell Merrillan. We have gained in membership and gained in prestige, Goodwin House Beloit. Republican House,.Milwaukee. and lifted ourselves into a position of responsibility and Bellis House Berlin. Ludlow House Monroe. Freeman House .Black R'r Falls. Russell House Neenah. worthiness in the public mind, and have created amovement Hall's Hotel Brandon. Merchants'Hotel....Neillsville. for good roads which is as far-reaching as the state itself, Taylor House Ohippewa Falls. Norwalk House Norwalk. Transit House De Pere. Jones House.. Omnomowoc. and which will redound to our credit so long as highways Eau Claire House...Eau Claire. Central House Oinro. exist; and now that we are about to enter upon a time of Sharp's Resort Elkhart Lake. Tremont House Oshkosh.. Poldemian House..Florence. Central House Plymouth, prosperity for our country, we are in the best possible Palmer House Fond du Lac. Merchants' Hotel....Kacine. position to press onward to that position of prominence Beaumont House..,.Green Bay. Central House Reedsmirg. Greenwood House..Greenwood. Wood's Kipon. and influence in the national body to which our division is Grant House Kenosha. Brewster House Shullslmrjr. entitled. Erlchson House Kewaunee. Warner House Sparta. Hotel Van Etta Madison. Sherman House Toman. You will find in the matter that has been sent to you Williams' House Manitowoc. Fox River House....Waterford. certain inducements which we offer that we may add to our Tremont House Marshfield. Daubs' Hotel Watertown. Ward House Medford. National Hotel., Waukesha. strength numerically. Do not get the impression, however, National Hotel .Menasha. Lake View House...Winneeonne. under any circumstances, that League memberships are a Lincoln House Merrill. Park Hotel Wrightstowu. cheap commodity, or that they are to be sold at bargain For Race Promoters. sales. It is an honor to belong to the League of American Irvin F. Strauss, Ripon, chairman of the State L. A.W. Wheelmen because it signifies the allegiance of the member Racing Board, is at work compiling a list of state racing to one of the most respectable, thoroughly intelligent, and men for the use of State League clubs and League mem influential associations in our country, and a membership bers only. He says it will he a large one and will be of is synonymous with the advancement of civilization by the great advantage both to the promoter and racing man. construction and maintenance of good roads. None but League names will be taken. There is one suggestion which may aid you in building up the League of American Wheelmen in. your especial The Wisconsin Road Book. locality, and that is, that you organize a League club. It The proposed Wisconsin road book which the L. A. W. takes twenty members to make a. League club, entitled to State Division officers have been working on, is still very representation on the Board of Officers of the Division. It far from being completed. Of the the seventy local consuls seems possible, in almost any community now that wheel but thirty have furnished maps of their respective counties ing has become an important feature, to find twenty people and not until all have been sent in.can the work progress. who are willing to band themselves together for the main The League in Wisconsin on a Boom. tenance of the principles of the League in their locality. The simplest way is to form an organization with an There seems no doubt about the realization of the initiation fee of two dollars, and annual dues, and let the 1,000 members which the Division officers and members joining of the club also constitute a membership in the have set out to attain. From all quarters of the state League of American Wheelmen, the two dollars initiation comes the encouraging news that local wheelmen are fee being used for the purchase of such a membership. In organizing, and that their names have been sent in for this way, no one feels the burden, joins two organizations at membership in the L. A. W. Marinette has recruited 124 once, and if you can get twenty together, you have a members in a month, La Crosse 50 in about the same representative on the Board of Officers. time and Local Consul Thompson writes that more are soon coming. Janesville intends coming in with two L. A. This is to be one of the most important years in League W. clubs. Stevens Point and Neillsville are also working work. We want you to feel that not only is your co-opera to that end. ,_ tion needed, but every wheelman must lend his influence to ] the maintenance of the League in every possible way, for Mr. Wm. D. Hall, president of the Beloit Cycling Asso though great has been the work of the past, there are ciation has been appointed local consul to take the place of constantly new fields to conquer, and it is only by the com F. H. Blodgett, who has been appointed on the State bined influence of this great and powerful body that the Racing Board. THE PNEUMATIC.
A Good Appeal. Fourth—A record by a class A rider paced by a class B would not be allowed, unless it can be proven that the class A man did not know that his The secretary-treasurer of the Kansas Division has pacemaker was in class B. The rule is, knowingly competing. Fifth—Any rider could not join a team, go for records, as iu question issued a circular to the members which is extremely four, and declare himself in B, expecting to get the record accepted, as lie original in its style and at the same time must appeal to would have full knowledge of the class of his pacemaker. Sixth—In transferring men employed in the trade, it will only be done every one who reads it. In part he says: in the event of such men using their connection with the trade to further "The proper time to renew is NOW—now, while the their interests on the track. For instance, if they give unusual amount of time away to training or if they are presumed to be getting a larger subject is before you; now, while you are in the humor, and salary than the work would warrant, they would be transferred without now, while your fingers are surrounding the dollar con further explanation. cealed in your bloomers' pocket. If you have no dollar Fifteen Hore Days. just at this minute, get it from someone who has; the cause is worth the sacrifice on somebody's part. There are fifteen more days for League members who You can recoup this dollar on any tour you may make, have not renewed to avail themselves of the offer made by by stopping at League hotels and getting the rake off the Wisconsin State Division to pay for every renewal sent allowed when you show your League ticket. If the hotels in which is accompanied by two or more applicants for in your district are not Leagtie houses, the Chief Consul membership. will gladly furnish you with blanks so you can have them The regular renewal season closes May 31 but this become so, and you will be doing missionary work. offer lasts only till May 1. The League is a recognized power in the land today; it is stronger than ever by reason of its success; our mission is The Bulletin and Good Roads. a highly philanthropic and patriotic one, and every wheel The first number of the new League Bulletin was mailed man and wheel woman in the country should be a member, to every member, April 5. The general appearance of the • The men at the head of it have never been dismayed by publication is good but the contents savor a bit too much adverse criticism or defeat—nor should you—but, Anteas- of "Sterling Elliott." That it will be a big boon to the L. like, it has regained strength after every knock-down; and A. W. in recruiting members is evinced by the great army these same men, with your help, will give this nation yet a of applicants published weekly in its columns. The paper system of highways that will stamp it as refined, civilized is mailed free to every member but until he has renewed his and enlightened, ages from now, when we are ashes. membership for this year he will not receive it. You would have no rights whatever today on any public road, street or bridge, if it were not for the League The Sentinel Again. of American Wheelmen. It has promoted the interest of Supposing that the efforts of the League are defeated cycling, has protected the rights of wheelmen, has facili and that nothing is accomplished in the way of construct tated touring, and has been, is now and ever will be, the ing roads, who is going to be the sufferer? Surely the champion of good roads, and when you contribute the bicyclists will contrive to worry along. Their use of the dollar mentioned in the former part of this epistle, you roads is for pleasure and it is not after all a matter of are doing your duty towards unborn generations, and at tremendous concern to them, if the roads arenot improved. the same time getting interest ou your investment in this. But with the farmer it is different. He is a direct bene It is a labor of love in which you should engage with ficiary. If good roads are built his property enhances in your whole heart, and the payment of one dollar. You see value, his comfort is increased and his surroundings are the results of past years of patient toil before you every made more pleasant. He has every motive to help the day. Can you afford to be a clam? A clam never moves, movement for good roads. it stays where it is put—in the mud, opens its mouth con Instead of spurning the helping hand offered by the tinually, but says nothing—and I assure you there is no bicyclists, it would be far more sensible if the farmers took likeness between a League wheelman and a clam." every possible advantage of it. Perhaps the banquet at Madison may tend to bring about an alliance between the No nisunderstandings. farmers and the bicyclists. It would be in every way a Chairman Gideon, of the National Racing Board, pro desirable outcome of the affair.—Sentinel. poses to live up to the letter of the law governing amateur racing and gives the following clear and concise form of the Zimmy Gets Harried. most important ones that no one may err under penalty: Arthur Augustus Zimmerman was married to Miss First—If a racing man sells a wheel won as a prize, no matter when Grace Reilly, of Troy, N. Y., April 13. This news went won, he is a proiessional. chasing over the wires last Sunday and the information Second—It a racing man changes a prizo for other merchandise and sells the merchandise, he is aprofessional. has somewhat startled the cycling world, for the date of Third—Proof that a racing man offered to sell a prize for cash cannot the proposed marriage had never been disclosed. This may be considered sufficient evidence for the charges, as he may not-have suc change the expectations of foreign race promoters to see ceeded in selling it. If, at the same time, it can be shown that the prize is not in his possession, it is certainly a good circumstantial case- Zim over there this season, THE PNEUMATIC.
Education on Roads. Mr. Geo. McKerrow, superintendent of the Farmers' Institutes of Wisconsin, proposes to give the road im provement movement his earnest support. He has expressed himself as follows: "I am heartily in accord with every practical movement for better highways, and am sure that the sentiment in the rural districts of the state A bill has been introduced into the Minnesota legis is being rapidly educated up to the standard of better lature providing for the taxation of Bicycles "as other roads. This subject is often brought up and discussed at vehicles are taxed." ": the institutes, and the coming winter it will be my aim to * * # have it discussed by the aid of charts illustrating sections American Cycling, of Philadelphia, has absorbed the of good roads at every institute in the state." American Athlete. With their combined forces they hope to produce a more interesting weekly. Tit For Tat. * * * The farmer, as we find him in Wisconsin, is hopping mad. The cyclist, as he is discovered unto us in Wisconsin, Miss Fan Desiak—"How do you know that bicycle is the cause of the farmer being angry. The man who tills riding develops women, doctor?" the soil complains that the man who plows his way over it Dr. Horsefligh—"Figures prove it."—Town Topics. is getting too fresh. And your Uncle Reuben, game to the * * # heel, threatens to curry his adversary with a hoe. The time seems to be drawing very near when the There is a strong spirit of retaliation among the League of American Wheelmen will control all cycle racing, farmers in the district of which mention is made. They both amateur and professional, or none at all. The recent say that highway improvement bills are coming too thick, agitation of adding a professional class under the wings of and to repress the ardor of the cyclists from whom these the L. A. W. has shown that wheelmen begin to favor the measures mostly emanate they have prepared a bill, which three-class rule adoption, although it cannot come about they will press for passage, providing for a license tax on this year any more. all bicycle owners. There is justness in this form of reprisal, and it is surprising that the farmers have not tumbled to it A bill has been introduced in the Ontario^ Canada, before. legislature to regulate bicycles. Among other things it We shall soon see if the enthusiasm of the wheelmen will declare all bicycles to be carriages under the regulation for good roads vanishes or remains when he himself is of municipal councils and authorizes municipalities to taxed for the construction and maintenance of them. The license all such machines, providing the moneys obtained farmer is sly, devilish sly,—Cycling Life. from the taxation are applied to improving roads and making pathways for persons using wheels. Milwaukee's Asphalt Pavement. * « * Local wheelmen are watching with great interest what Plenty of exercise, good, sound food, early rising and the outcome in this city will be of the fight against asphalt retiring are, perhaps, the maxims of training for racing. pavements. Last year the first pavements of this kind On rising, a cold bath should be indulged in, followed by a were laid here. The completion of the same caused rejoic ing, among the riders, who foresaw a future when all streets little gymnastic exercise or dumb-bell practice. A spin of a would be of asphalt. Enthusiastic real estate men planned few miles should be taken on the track nearly every day, to have the streets on which their lots front, paved with and a good proportion of the work done should consist of the material, but when tax-paying time came around the sharp bursts at top speed. Many men training for short situation changed. The property holders whose property distances make the fatal mistake of doing too much work. faces on the newly paved streets objected to the large * * # increase in the taxes and some of them have brought suit A chain wheel out of true can generally be detected to be released from paying the enormous assessments. The almost immediately by the uneven -running of the chain result i's that all those owning property on streets that ' over the cogs. Chain wheels may-cease to be true in three were to be paved this summer with asphalt, have arisen in ways—on side, on face, on edge, and out of pitch; the two arms and are protesting against the move that the board, former may be seen by removing chain and spinning wheel of public works has inaugurated. Meetings to protest around, the latter by using several (say three) links at end against the pavements are held nearly nightly and in all of chain in the following manner: Hold the third block instances the old cedar block pavement is indorsed. All from end in contact with one of the cogs, and notice if this is viewed with regret by Milwaukee riders. blocks two and one are in contact, turn round, advancing one cog at a time, and, if the blocks touch all around, the A relay ride between Oshkosh and Green Bay is being wheel is true. planned to be run on Memorial Day. THE PNEUMATIC.
WISCONSIN BREVITIES. At Plymouth, the Hub City Wheelmen organized with fifteen members. Following officers elected: W. E. Wolf, Great Activity Throughout the State — Nany Strong Local Organizations Formed-Unusual Interest Shown in the Sport this Season. president; F. L.Carroll,vice-president; 0. A. Scheibe, secre Stevens Point has between 300 and 400 riders. tary-treasurer; W. D. Porter, captain. Lake Geneva ladies are trying toorganizea cycling club. An interstate high school athletic league has been A bicycle club has been formed at Burlington, with organized including the cities of Marinette, Menominie, Iron Mountain, Ishpeming and Negaunee and a joint field W. G. Rasch as president. day will be held May 2S in Menominie. A sneak thief got away with a $70 wheel out of the repair shop of G. L. Sande at Stevens Point. The Town of Antigo has been sued by a wheelman who demands $2,000 for injuries received by riding into an New Richmond is waking up in cycling matters and unlighted pile of bricks at night. In law the rights of promises to be a lively town ere the season closes. wheelmen on the road in this respect have not yet been Bicycling has taken a firm hold in Plymouth and a club defined in Wisconsin, so that the suit is one of general of about twenty-five members has been organized. interest. TheY.M.C. A., of Janesville, proposes to have a cycling Marshfield wheelmen who are L. A.W. members have a club and its members are to become members of the L. A.W. great scheme for increasing League membership under the Clinton ville has organized a club and its members have offer made by the Wisconsin Division. Instead of saving caught the fever of Trilbyism and call it the Trilby Bicycle the dollar for their renewal fee they give the applicants the Club. benefit of same, giving them the first year's membership At Delavan F. A. Parish is using his efforts to organize for $1.50. a cycle club. There are a number of ladies in the town In all likelihood Wisconsin will be the first of the states, who ride. havingthe greatestneed for good highways,to acquire them The Green Bay-Milwaukee relay ride which was to and yet not give offense to the people upon whom at first have been run on Decoration Day has been indefinitely such enactment would press most severely, to wit, the farmers. This notwithstanding the defiant attitude of the postponed. Wisconsin farmer towards the cyclist.—Cycling Life. Marinette and Menominee have more women who ride bicycles in bloomer suits than any other cities of their size La Crosse County Wheelmen. in the northwest. The club racing board, F. L. Goddard, W. R, Chapman Miss Scheibe has the honor of being the first lady rider and A. J. Walder, are making arrangements for a ten-mile in Plymouth, but there are prospects of several more to road race in the forenoon of Decoration Day, to be followed follow her example. by about five track races in the afternoon. La Crosse numbers 115 L. A. W. members, all in one Secretary Ellers reports sixty-six renewals and fifty- club, and the members are hopeful of raising the list to 150 two applications sent to Abbot Bassett and a few more before the season opens up. applications in his hands for which the application fees and The La Crosse County Wheelmen will hold a race meet dues have not yet been received. on Decoration Day. They expect to have some of the state The right of a wheelman to his share of the road is riders, but it will be principally a local affair. pretty well understood in La Crosse but not so well in the surrounding counti-y. Therefore when Bernard Limoseth, Port Washington ladies have taken to cycling. The of Chaseburg, driving a team attached to a top buggy, thirteen members of the Batchelor Girls' Club of the town met three wheelmen on one of the paved roads leading out propose to become devotees of the sport this season. of La Crosse he refused to yield an inch of the road Since Green Bay and Fort Howard haveextended hands although the wheelmen took the extreme right of the road across the river and become one city, a cycling boom'can be in single file. One rider was tumbled into a ditch, the looked for as a large club can nowbe organized from among other two escaping only by jumping from their wheels and the riders in both localities. getting off the road. F, H. Bbdgett, of Beloit, has been appointed on the Unfortunately for the driver, however, the wheelmen State Racing Board to take the place of D. D. Warner, of were L. A. W. members and were looking for a good test Madison, who resigned to accept the position of official case on the rights of wheelmen and they immediately set handicapper for this district. out in pursuit and overtook the man, learned his name and M. C. Ewing, of Climax Plug fame, and who has been had him brought before Justice H. S. Daniels, who assessed seen on the road and race track a good deal last season has him $7.14. One of the daily papers in its report of the gone and joined the benedicts. He-is an old Wausau boy case used this very appropriate heading: "Don't crowd but has now made his home in Mankato, Minn., the home the wheelers. If they take their side and teamsters try to of his better half. run 'em down it costs money in police court." THE PNEUMATIC.
Superior Cycle Club. will go to Paris and Italy, returning via Switzerland and The Superior Cycle club is being organized. A meeting the Rhine to England. They expect to be back before the has been called by J. G. Pease, for the purpose of electing opening of school in September. officers and drawing up the necessary papers. A few of the Wheelmen looking for state championship honors may principal promoters of the club are 0. H. Burr, George breathe considerably easier now. The Reed boys have done Yale, Richmond Smith, W. H. Ward, J. G. Pease, John some wonderful riding last season and they possibly could Johnson and others. Everybody who has a wheel is asked show the old speed again. to join. It is proposed to get up a grand road race for At the State University. July 4. On May 30, the Duluth Cycle Club will give its grand Capt. Downer, of the Athletic association at the Wis annual race and the members of the Superior organization consin university, has outlined, to some extent, the work for the present term. All practice work will be done on the propose to contest for the prizes. lower campus except that with the shot and bicycle. For It is also proposed to make the prizes for the races held these sports Camp Randall will be used. A cinder track is in Superior, of such value and worth that the riders will to be made on the lower campus for the use of the track show their best mettle, and also to get as many entries as men. Eighteen men were selected to go to the training possible for each race. table. They are as follows: Downer, H. Frame, W. Appleton on the Boom. Frame, Holt, Maybury, Aston, Eisner, Brewer, Chittenden, A correspondent writes that it is a safe prediction in Zimmerman, Hopkins, Montgomery, Metcalf, Jackson, saying that more wheels will be sold in Appleton this year Day, Cochems, Leigler and Smelker. More than eighteen than in the previous three, if not all previous years. The will go to Chicago in June to take part in the inter selection and sale of machines has begun more than a collegiate meet, but this number was all that could be month earlier this year than is customary. Among the new accommodated at the present training quarters where lady riders will be Mrs. Conkey, the Misses Elizabeth over fifty men, including the crew and base ball men, are Wilson, Hanrahan, McNaughton, Harwood, Fuller, Ham eating. Capt. Downer urged all the men to keep on train mel and Erb, Mrs. Lou Kutler and others. ing faithfully even if they could not be accommodated at the training table. W. D. Whorton and 0. W. Dodge will ride 17-pound Clevelands and are expected to be a credit to the town A Four-Year-Old. on the cycle path this season. Wausau, Wis., has perhaps the youngest and cutest flarinette's Dates Fixed. little bicycle rider in the -v ,. • * "•«"• After considerable worrying and more trouble, Mari FT" • • . • *n state. His name is i * Freddie Levenhagen nette has secured just the dates wanted on the national i and is the son of a circuit. They are Friday and Saturday, Aug. 16-17, and nf the State L. A. W. Meet will be held at the same time. bicycle dealer in the town. The picture ac- The Marinette boys feel jubilant because they had been led companying this to believe that they could not get the circuit boys up shows him mounted on there until along towards winter. The weather in August his ten-pound machine. in this section of the country is extremely delightful and is t -i He can manage a wheel invariably to be relied upon. as well as the average The Marinette Cycling Club will now begin active work man. in arranging for the grand affair. Menominie, across the f/f 1 river, has extended her hand to help in a practical and Those bicycle police- financial way and even the neighboring towns have the | men wont join any of fever. Committees will be appointed in a few days. "-—i - - - ' ' the regular wheel or A feature of the list of prizes will be, the 40-acre farm, ganizations. They have a club of their own, says the given by D. G. Madagan, a real estate man of Marinette. Philadelphia Times in a comment upon the cycling police ' The land is located one mile from Ellis Junction. men of that city.
Others Will Cope for the Honors. Our Directory of Repair Men. On the last page will be found our directory of repair Louie Reed, who holds the four state championships, the men and cycle agencies. We are printing this regularly for one-quarter, one-half, one and two mile, will not be on the the benefit of touring wheelmen and those who may desire cycle path this year. Both Roy and Louie will accompany to do business. We desire the names of all reliable repair their parents on a European trip this summer. Leaving men and will thank wheelmen who will take the trouble to here June 15, they sail from New York on the 19th on the make such recommendations. American steamship "City>f Paris." From London they THE PNEUMATIC.
Local Items of Interest. bers will constitute themselves the high officials and will Ed Roth and Harry Crocker will ride in the Pullman arrange for the paraphernalia to be used. on Memorial Day. It comes within the province of all cycling papers to Here's the N. S. C. C.'s club cry: "Good Luck—Here's report the sad ending of Walter G. Nicholson, of this city. the North Side Cycling Club." Despondency caused him to commit suicide by drowning in Lake Michigan. Mr. Nicholson was once the Milwaukee Will Howie is reported as being ill and in a poor condi cycling scribe for the Bearings and several other papers and tion for the season's first racing. was an earnest and enthusiastic wheelman. He leaves a Until your L. A. W. renewal has been sent in the wife and several children well cared for. official Bulletin will not reach you. Among the local riders who will make the state circuit flilwaukee Wheelmen. this season are Ed Roth, Will Howie and Harry Crocker. The membership of the Milwaukee Wheelmen will be limited to 125 if the following amendment goes through at It is ramm-ed that the new base ball park to be built at the next meeting. Seventeenth and Lloyd streets will include a cinder track. ARTICLE IV—MEMBERSHIP. Membership shall consist of Wake up there, Milwaukee! The Aschenbroedel Verein, four kinds, Active, Honorary, Associate and Non-Resident, of New York, has a brass band mounted on bicycles.— and shall be limited to Onellundred and Twenty-Five (125). Cycling Life. Memberships are defined as follows : etc., etc. Elmer A. Savage won first prize in the Milwaukee The membership of the club is again climbing up and Wheelmen pool tourney, a gold medal. George Bartels this limit will be reached in a short while it is expected. won second from J. L. Bass in a close game. nilwaukee Secures Two Dates. Many will own and ride tandems this year since the Gerhard Aussem, in the name of the Associated Cycling weight and price of them have come down to what an Clubs, of Milwaukee, has been assigned two days on the ordinary safety bicycle weighed and cost a few years ago. national circuit. The dates are Monday and Tuesday, The Badger Wheelmen are bestiring themselves in great August 19 and 20 just following the Marinette meet. shape and promise to outdo the larger clubs if the activity Sanger Loses fluch Flesh. continues. The club is composed of a bright young The prospects of Waiter Sanger joining his team mates element. on the 1st of May are not very encouraging. It is hardly Charles W. Price, who looks after Sidney Bowman's probable that the Milwaukee champion will be able to interest in the Michaux Cycle Club, New York, will have leave the city before the 15th of May. He has not had charge of the branch of the club which will be opened at a relapse, but he is not gaining his strength as rapidly as Bowman's Academy in the Casino at Newport this was at first expected. As showing that Sanger's illness summer. was not much exaggerated, it may be remarked that his The following runs have been scheduled by the Mercury thigh measurement has decreased six inches, his calf club: April 21, Elm Grove, 1:30 P. M. May 5, South Mil measurement three inches and his arm measurement two waukee, 1:30 p. M. May 19, Thiensville, 10 A. M. They inches. have also concluded to have two century runs, one to The Triangular Road Race. Watertown and the other to Sheboygan Falls. ' Arrangements for the North Side Cycling club's tri Lieut. William H. Beach, of this city, who served angle road race have taken definite form, and matters of during the war in the First New York Cavalry, under Sheri such importance as the course of the event, the prizes and dan and others in the Shenandoah Valley, proposes to the date have been determined upon. make a bicycle tour of the valley this summer for the pur The start and finish will be at Frank Rader's place, pose of gathering material for a history of the regiment. 1504 Green Bay avenue, the distance covered during the It is being planned by the Milwaukee Wheelmen to rig race to be about eleven miles. The Washington road will up the John Schroeder, the lumber vessel to take them to be taken as far as the green tree, a point well known to Marinette to attend the state L. A. W. meet in August. wheelmen of this city, thence turning to the left across the Over 100 members are expected to go, and in view of the Silver Springs bridge to the Green Bay road, over which unusual mode of transportation adopted, it is expected a , the return run is made. Surveyors have been engaged to jolly time will be had on the way. lay out the entire course and ascertain the exact distance At the next meeting of the Milwaukee Wheelmen it is and this work will be completed early next week. intended to arrange for introducing the burlesque ritual to Interest in cycling all over Wisconsin has reached a be used for initiating new members. It is proposed that point where it is "hot and sizzin." More wheels have all but the charter members of the club will have to go already been sold than all four seasons last year, put through the same initiatory ceremony. The charter mem together, and the end is not yet. THE PNEUMATIC.
Milwaukee's "400" Are Riding. bicycle, as it stands tipped in front of an old homestead, Never has there been~such an army of converts to the talks to those who listen. No doubt the saucy, shining wheel at the opening of any cycling season. Society fellow is full of pleasant anecdotes and almost mellow women have taken to the wheel as they did_in former years with love stories. He is worth knowing, and one of these to the carriage. On pleasant mornings the lake front days I shall get him in a talkative mood, and then I'll drive is a scene of great cycling commotion. Not only worm a secret or two from the fast rascal. young girls, but wives of bankers, brokers, merchants and Spring. physicians are to be seen spinning along this beautiful Balmy zephyrs, warm sunshine, avenue. Among them are Mrs. J..H. Tweedy, Jr., Mrs. Dr. Swelling buds on tree and vine; William Mackie, Miss Ilsley, Mrs. J. C. Spencer, Miss Passengers on open cars, Getting scent from bad cigars; Schley, Miss Gibbs, Mrs. C. J. Allen, and others' equally Bicyclists in endless troop, prominent in society circles in this city. Most of them with monkey stoop; Overcoats on left arm flung— It must be that spring has sprung. The Bicycle and the Girl. The beautiful spring-like weather of last week brought Our Country Cousins. the bicycles out in numbers, says the Memphis Times. They Con. De Smidt sold his bicycle to Gan-ett Hoenink one were wheeling through every near-by country lane, and the day last week. The bicycle promises to have another suburbs were alive with them. Riders looked brisk, athletic boom this summer.—Sheboygan County News. and happy, and the suburban girl, with exquisite grace, E. P. Humphrey, Hal Lummis, Ralph Pomeroy and S. leaned against the balcony post with confident knowledge J. Ryan, of the Appleton press, will all ride this year. Edi that now her season of sway had come again. The bright tors Reid, Ryan, Meyer and Roemer have not yet screwed wheels rolled silently over the roads, they were tilted signi their courage up to a sufficient pitch to tackle the fiery and ficantly against suburban carriage blocks, and appeared to unfed steed.—Appleton Crescent. tip a knowing salulationto all travelers, as much as to say, The ladies of this city are not as enthusiastic as in "My owner is in there, see? You can bet there's a pretty some places but they are coming on and a large number of girl in there who is glad to see him, and who makes him barless machines will be tamed.—Exchange. welcome, but this early in the year he won' •': keep me wait D. D. Warner, of Madison, is organizing a company to ing long. There's too many lovely bits of maidenhood manufacture bicycles. If there is any one thing needful in about here, and he is such a flirt he is bound to have a peep this country above anything else, it is another bicycle at everyone of them. But just you wait a little until these factory.—Monroe Exchange. jaunts become familiar. I won't then wait on the outside, nor will beflyingfrom place to place; from girl to girl. No,indeed; The Jos. A. Sandburg Cycle Co., of Menominee, Mich., one sweet maid will demand and receive his entire time, has recently started in the bicycle business. and at her house I shall not stand at the gate. No, sir'; I'll roll right into the hallway, and if I choose, lean right against the hatrack or the mirror, for that matter, and no chamber maid need think she can put me out, either. She dare not touch me, or else her mistress will make it warm for her, for I am the means of bringing her beau, and I' am the most important visitor to the house hold. "Oh, you can bet we bikes are no chumps. We know a thing or two, and we can tell some good stories, too, and if you'll cultivate me and be good, I'll let you into some secrets some time or other." Thus it is the jaunty Rambler Quad Team. THE PNEUMATIC.
Does Not Favor Three Classes. State Trade Notes. EDITOR PNEUMATIC: I am sorry to hear that you are M. Babcock, of Milton, is handling the Road King and in sympathy with the three class scheme. I, for my part, Queen. cannot see what lasting good can come for the League by Vice Consul Ben Park has become associated with D. D. controlling them. The B men now arc the only ones that Warner & Co., Madison. want it and for what reasons I need not tell you. They J. W. Millis, Lake Geneva, handles the Fowler, Mon certainly clo not want it so, in the interest of the League, arch, Thistle and Andrae cycles and reports trade but for their own pockets. You would see this if all B flourishing. men were at once transferred to the pros, that where they now get twenty entries for a $50 cash race they would get H. D. McCulloch & Company, at Stevens Point, handle 200 entries for a purse of $5, the competition being so the Telegram, Cleveland, Spalding and Crescent wheels and great that the pros would in a good many instances run report trade fair. races for practically nothing. On account of the great Dodge & Pearson, of Duluth, Minn., have opened a number of cash riders it would be impossible to give new store in Superior and will handle a line of sporting exhibitions to satisfy them all unless there would be so goods and bicycles. many that the public would get tired of them which would At Cumberland, it is expected, the bicycle will be certainly do no good to the League. I don't see why a B greatly in evidence this year. Lonquest & Shipherd are man like Sanger, for instance, with a good salary, better handling several makes. considerable than most men have, and the winnings An Appleton correspondent estimates that at least cJOO besides, wants the League to make more money for him wheels will be sold in that town this season and states when he is really doing less League work than any of our that it is a conservative figure. prominent League officers. Here is a comparison that Ramblers, Telegrams, Clevelands, Waverlys, Andreas, should not be lost sight of. I am not in favor of three Columbias and Crescent wheels are being sojd in Appleton. classes, neither of professionalism, but do not think it just Old and young, rich and poor are buying. to compel a man to keep his prizes. I think that he should Russell Bros. & Curtis is the new name of the hard be allowed, after a given time, to dispose of them any way ware firm in Elkhorn. They report trade exceedingly good he chooses. Respectfully, T Q SHULER and the sale of ladies' wheels especially so. The Telegram Team. John Wigginton, of Waukesha, is reported as being a promising competitor for state championship honors this The Telegram Manufacturing Company announces that season. He will ride a 15-pound Syracuse racer. its team this year will consist of Will P. Howie, Edward Roth, Harry Crocker, L.White and F. Schmitz, all Milwau- Every hardware merchant in Sheboygan, it is reported, keeans. The riden. are already doing light work and will is handling some high grade bicycle, and the trade looks enter all the principal state events. It is reported that promising. Lawyers, merchants and mechanics are all Roth will go for the hundred mile record some time in June. taking to the wheel. At Plymouth, J. B. Holsta will handle the Union and The Andrae Team. Reiter special, W. E. Wolf has taken the agency for the The following l'iders have been selected to constitute Andrae, and W. J. Sweet has added the Sterling to his line of the Andrae racingteam on the Andrae mount: W.F.Sanger, Western Wheel Works. A. Bingenheimer, who won many track races at the tourneys A Berlin bicycle dealer has a great scheme, according to last fall; A. Krugmeier, of Horicon ; Don Pollock, of Beloit, its local paper. He has on one of his counters an attractive a "well-known rider who is going for the intercollegiate bicycle marked at $55 and over this mark a tag- marked championship in Chicago in June; R. Millard,, of Lake $100, so as to hide the $45 mark. It works to a charm. A Mills, an all around racing man; J. C. Sehmidtbauer, of man comes in and looks the wheel over, he sees the $100 Milwaukee. mark, thinks it is fine, admires it to his heart's content, The Huennekens Cycle Co., Then when he is through admiring it, the dealer turns up the tag and shows the $45 mark. He works on the prin Make a specialty of selling bicycles, bicycle parts and ciple that admiration of a wheel is very often gauged by sundries at wholesale to dealers. Special prices and dis the price. counts given upon application. Address, 124 Ferry street, Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, Milwaukee, and get catalogue. as mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfacea Such articles should never he used except on prescriptions from reputable phy Wm. F. Bremer has severed his connections with the sicians, as tie damage they will do is tenfold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured hy F. J, Cheney & Union Cycle Manufacturing Company and gone back into Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the Mood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's catarrh the cycle repair business. He is ready to serve his old Cure be sure you get. the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by S\ J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free, patrons. . |5r" Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle THE PNEUMATIC.
General and Local Trade. We clipped from the Irish Cyclist the following para graph i •which was called forth by the controversy between Wm. Pollitt has shipped one of his "Only" wheels to the English, Irish and American bicycle publishers,in regard Germany recently, and he has prospects of getting more to the stability of American light wheels: "In reference to orders from there. our article on American featherweights, we lately received a If you want your sinews strengthened for bicycle riding letter from Messrs. Vatcha, of Bombay, India, who state use Anti-Stiff. It prepares the muscles for hard work and is that they have just received a G. & J. Rambler, weighing a perfect remedy for stiff limbs after an overtiring ride. twenty-two pounds, which has been used for a year by all The tubing famine still continues and manufacturers sorts of rulers, and is perfectly strung and good. The everywhere are getting way behind in their orders. Tires, weight includes saddle, pedals, a tool-bag, but not brake or wood rims and many other parts are nearly as scarce. guards. They also state that, on the whole, they prefer J. E. Reiter says that they have an unknown who will ride American machines to English, aud find them spcciallygoocl aUnion that with training willbe an equal to Tyler or Sanger. for use in India." __ „.._..„ He is credited with a mile in 2 :02 with poor pace-making. Rich, Rare and Racy. Miss Londondery, who is circling the globe on a wheel, A cycle company received the following letter from a writes from Colombo, Spain, under date Wisconsin hoy last week. The letter may of February 6, saying: "I wish to speak, not read straight, but we are able to also, of the great satisfaction the Morgan MORGAN *WRIGHTTIRES assure our readers that the writer means & Wright tires have given me. 1 have well: gone so far without a puncture, and the DEAR SIU: I herewith must stale-you roads are dreadful." ARE GOOD TIRES n question upon wich I should like to Cycle shows under the auspices of have your answer of experience as it is a clubs are growing in popularity as a question wich I with my experiiuiee can means of showing new goods. The one hardly answer for I have not had the at the Lincoln club house, Chicago, last chance to experiment on the object. week was a big success in all particulars Now the principal of the question I although the dates selected were not the have before me is weather the Main best for drawing a crowd, being the last Sprocket (of a safety Bicycle) can be loose half of Holy week. HERE'S T. T. MACK upon tlie Crank Axle in certain way's. SAYS CENTURIES ARE A PUDDIN' ON THEM An edition de luxe of the Morgan & Now if there should be an uddision MORGAN & WRIGHT Wright catalogue is the latest advertis of about one-half of an inch be added lo ing wrinkle of that firm. It has been CHICAGO the length ol" the hub of the Main Sprocket sent to prominent makers and otherpeo- anil an excellent cone or boll bearing lie ple.directly or indirectly in the trade. It fixed to the hull of the sprocket so as lo is handsomely bound in stiff leather, with the name of the avoid j*ron.t friction or hard running upon tlie crank shah recipient on the face in gilt. when pedals would be held, as on occasion of going down The Julius Andrae & Sons Company is experiencing a grade Hit* feet would not have In be removed from pedals hard time in making wheels as fast as they can sell them and also I have other ren«ons wich I LhinU would IK* more and its entire plant is being worked to the full capacity and useful]. The Sprocket would have to be put on in it has been running over time for the past two months. wratched form so that when the pedals are set in motion Especial prosperity is reported through the state, where the the sprocket will catch and revolve again. Andraes are being met with great favor. Now most Respective (renllvmcns upon this question I most ask your answer of experience. Now lo weather the The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad has ordered a main sprocket in tlie ways mentioned here to fore, (If the number of railroad bicycles, manufactured by C. N. Geeter, sprocket he Umm tin the erank-nxle and a ball bearing be of Hagerstown, for use of section men. It is one of the put in tlie huh of sprocket 'iiul also a wmtehed attachment first companies to recognize the merits of the bicycle for to he put in the huh for the purpose of holding the sprocket railroad use. The machine is much the same as an ordinary fast to the axel when axel bcang put in motion again). wheel, except for a two-wheel attachment that runs on the Now if a hall hearing' he added lo the hub of sprocket, far rail. The wheels are fifteen inches in diameter, and the will it be possible that the sprocket will or can lie kcept in tires are faced with rubber, which serves the double purpose perpendicular or correct position to the chain in this way. of affording a hold on frosty rails and making the riding Now most Hon. Gentlemens this is the most principal easy and noiseless, thus enabling the rider to bear approach part of the (juration and il is something wich I cannot ing trains, state anything about so I call upon you and hope you will THE PNEUMATIC.
make the best of my question that possibly your thoughts of esperiance will let you. Perhaps my statement is poorly erranged so as to be understood but as I stated before you must make the best that you can. Herewith I enclose stamps fore reply. If you have cat, fixed for '95 please Meyer = Rotier send me one. Hoping to have your reply I remain,
Yours Resp., JoHN BLANK.
Wisconsin Division Local Consuls. tlSrintinQ Dated April 18, 1895.—The following local consuls l|V ...Go... re-appointed have again accepted : Brandon G. 13. Weinstoek. Manitowoc ..Norman Knudson. Commonwealth..F,. W. Hopkins. Merrill B. P. Hellman. Columbus Geo. C. Stevens. Monroe L. A. Hodges. Green Bay W. H. Field. Marshlleia A. H. Kelley. Grand Rapids....Geo. N. Wood. Ripon J, Storris Hall. PRINTERS HUlsboro R. F. Myers. Rice Lake J. W. Munnell. Kenosha R. H. Welles. Whitewater Chas. S. Weeks. PUBLISHERS Kiel .'..Paul Schubert. Waterloo Max Janisch. ELECTR0TYP1NQ La Crosse Jas. H. Thompson. ENGRAVING The newly appointed local consuls who have accepted ZINC ETCHINGS are: HALF TONES BloomIU{?dalu,...Gus, Morterud. Medford Louis A. Maier. Beloit Wm. D. Hall. Plymouth W. D. Porter. Elkhorn W. H. Allen. Stevens Point....W. F. Dewey. Madison L. P. Holmes. Shawano T. S. McNichol. Re-appointments made for the following towns have received no acknowledgement up to the present date: Appleton. Eau Claire. Menasha. Sparta. Ashland. Fond du Lac. Nelllsvllle. SUullsburg. Barronette. Florence. Neenah. Tomah. Berlin. Grafton. Otsego. Utley. Black River Falls. Hika, P. O. Onalaska. Waterford. Burlington. Hayward. Port Washington. Waupaca. Cedar Grove. Horicon. Platteville. Wausau. f~ I "\HE excellence of our work Chippewa Falls. Kewaunee. Richland Genter. Winnecoune. is pronounced by every CUntonville. Lake Mills. Rhinelander. Waukesha. body. Get our prices. Local consuls for the following towns have not yet T been determined upon: Beaver Dam. Kaukauna. Oshkosh. Sheboygan Cedarburg. Little Suamlco. Racine. Watertown. Greenwood. Oregon. » Reedsburg. West Superior. Janesville. Omro. South Milwaukee. Waupun. The Chief Consul will be pleased to have interested members recommend for appointment such members whom they believe to be qualified to represent their town. We have a large assortment of cuts in stock suitable for All local consuls, this season, will be sent a handsome illustrating, which we place at the disposal of our cus photogravure certificate as a souvenir of their office. tomers for. the purpose of advertising or printing. The Pond du Lac Wheelmen have decided to take part in the relay road race from Green Bay to that city on Decoration ~_ay. We Want Lady Members. No organization can be so good- that it is not made Phone 691 better by the presence of women. The tobacco-chewing sex should not monopolize the League tickets. The girls may have them on the same terms. 505 E. WATER ST. The L. A.W. is open to the sisters, and they are ever welcome.^-Sterling Elliott. • MILWAUKEE-WIS. THE PNEUMATIC.
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THE CYCLE REPAIR » ICYCLES and Bicycle Parts Manufactured DEPARTMENT HAS » B Light Weight Wheels a Specialty BEEN REPLETED » A Large Stock of Cycle Sundries for the trade WITH IMPROVED » MACHINERY AND • Are You USING PUNCTURE PROOF BANDS CAN HANDLE THE • Write For Prices MOST DIFFICULT . W. A. BREMER OF REPAIR WORK * • 538 East Water Street .. Milwaukee
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Andrae Bicycles fire as good as bicycles can be made. We don't build them to compete with cheap goods (alleged $100 wheels), but for customers who want the best bicycle We are Headquarters for- JULIUS ANDRAE & Crawford SONS CO. #^^ and Sunbeam Cycles. 225 WEST WATER STREET, Which are sold for a good deal less money, but can be classed with many fllLWAUKEE, WIS. ... $100 wheels THE PNEUMATIC. T^HE L. A. W. in Wisconsin proposes to assist in the con- *• viction of bicycle thieves and to see to it that a heavier .penalty is dealt out to them than the courts at present inflict. If these guilty people received the same punishment that horse thieves usually get, the number of bicycles stolen weekly would materially grow less. Why should not a bicycle be compared with a horse in value and A. MONTHLY if it is why should not a thief of the former receive the same JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. sentence as one of the latter ? What an excitement it would FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. create if three horses were stolen in one day! And yet three bicycles mysteriously disappeared the other day and the All copy for advertisements, changes for same, news and correspondence for publication must be sent in before the 7th, to Insure insertion the same authorities seem to give the matter but very little consider month. Contributions returned If not published. ation. In self-protection, communities where horse-stealing ENTERED IN THE P. O AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. is common, visit exemplary punishment upon horse thieves ADVERTISING. THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri when caught. Bicycle stealers must be admonished in the tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and. Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes or individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper same way. A few deterring examples are needed. When wliich. concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on application. captured and tried and found guilty, cycle thieves should be sentenced by the court to the severest punishment pre Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. scribed by law. M. C. ROTIER, Editor and Publisher, 505 East Water Street, - - - Milwaukee, Wis. Demand for Road Signs. The Wisconsin Division, L. A. W., has determined to use ' I "HE great trouble with the average League member is its influence and its power to enforce the state law in Wis *• that he pays his dues and then forgets that he is a consin which provides that guide posts shall be erected at member of the L. A. W. He fails to appreciate the fact that the intersection of all main traveled roads. These sign if all members followed in his footsteps it would soon be boards are extremely scarce in this state, yet Wisconsin has -unnecessary for him to even pay his clues, as there would be one of the best of sign hoard laws. nobody to pay them to. This is wrong. As a citizen of the The League of American Wheelmen appreciate the United States should take an interest in its affairs and importance of enforcing the law. Wheelmen who are tour assist in shaping its ends, so should the members of every ing the state all complain of the lack of signboards even on organization take an interest in its workings. the most prominent highways. The eastern and middle states are far ahead of Wisconsin in this respect. It is a ' I 'PIE life of a hanclieapper is not altogether a happy one. logical conclusion when the roads improve, the necessity for He may study the abilities of his men most carefully their use will become greater and their value increase. and form a most beautiful handicap, only to have his calcula It is but a short time since the city council of Milwau tions rendered useless by wind, a heavy track, loafing by kee was compelled to erect street signs on the corners. some of the contestants, or by a sleeper amongst the riders, Because of the same old, poky, go-as-you-please methods, and, of course, he is credited with all the blame for faulty the matter had been neglected for half a century. work. Then the racing men and their friends consider him The state law reads as follows: "The chairman of each the worst enemy they could possibly have, and never lose town shall cause to be erected at the intersection, within an opportunity to abuse him, while race committees add to his town, of all main traveled roads, with other established his woes quite frequently by their carelessness. roads, suitable guide boards, giving direction and distance, from point of such intersection to adjoining or important S IT right that wheelmen should pay toll on turnpike towns; and shall keep in repair all guide boards erected, I roads? This is a question which the L. A. W. Roads the expense to be paid from the treasury of the town. And Improvement and Rights and Privileges committees seem every such chairman who neglects to erect or repair any ±0 be agitated over at the present time, since it has been • such guide board, after ten days' notice in writing has been threatened to tax wheelmen at every toll gate leading out personally served upon him, stating that such guide board of the city. It seems an injustice, that a user of a bicycle has not been erected or that it is out of repair, shall for which, instead of doing- harm to a road surface, does the each month that elapses after said period often days, and very opposite and rolls it smooth, should be compelled to for each instance of such neglect for such time, forfeit five contribute towards its support. An attempt was recently dollars, one-half to go to the person making the complaint made to nullify the taxation of bicycles on the Whitefish and the other half to the school fund." JBay drive, but it was found that the charter was so con structed that the company has a perfect right to make a The same effort required to walk one mile if put on a nominal charge. bicycle will carry a person six miles. THE PNEUMATIC. State Fixtures. practical talks upon road building, by Superintendent Mc- Kerrow of the Farmers' Institutes, and representative May 30—La Crosse County Wheelmen, road race and farmers and engineers from different parts of the state. We meet, La Crosse. feel assured that the large circulation we are able to give May 30—L. A. W. parade and reception, Milwaukee. this special Good Roads number will do a great deal to May 30—Mound City Wheelmen, road race, Platteville. further develop the interest which has so strongly mani May 30—Madison Cycling Club's local road race, over fested itself in Wisconsin during the last few months. the cemetery six-mile course. Fraternally yours, May 30—Green Bay-Fond du Lac relay road race. ALBERT MOYER, Milwaukee, Chairman. May 30—Menominee, Mich., road race. WM. M. FOSTER, Port Washington. June 4—Waterloo road race, E. E. Leschinger, promoter. JOHN W. KNIGHT, Racine. C. A. Alderman, Eau Claire. Eight and one-half mile course. OTTO DORNER, Milwaukee. June 6—Madison cycle meet, Madison Cycling Club. Highway Improvement. Committee, Wisconsin Division, L. A. W. Five events. Milwaukee, May 11, 1895. June 8—North Side Cycling Club's Milwaukee road race, over Silver Spring course. flore Division Local Consuls. July 4—Waukesha-Milwaukee road race, Milwaukee Additional list of L. A. W. consuls who have acknowl "Wheelmen. Over old course. edged their reappointment: July 4—Marinette cycle meet. Appleton P. M. Conkey. Menasha I-I. B. Hewett. Black KiverFalls.S. H. Castle. Neenah A. W. Anderson. July 16, 17,18,19—Cycle meet and tournament, Supe Clintonville L. E. Schroeder. Otsego John A. Johnson. Cedar Grove L. 0. Smith. Port Washington.!!. L. Coe. rior Bicycle Club. Eau Claire WW. Jackson. Platteville E. P. Grindell. August 15, 16—L. A. W. national circuit and state Florence E. E. Wilcox. Shullsburg H. B. Chamberliu. Fond duLac JohnE. Eeeves. Utley C. W. Birum. meet, Marinette Cycle Club. Hika ;... Henry Knoll. Winneconne W. A. Molcher. Lake Mills F. M. Seaver. August 18, 19 — National circuit meet, Milwaukee. Horicon Dr. F. S. Forbes. Additional list of newly appointed consuls who have Associated Cycling Clubs. accepted: Thanks to Wisconsin Riders. Ashland Merton H. Potter. Ehinelander H. M. Woodard. Janesville Dr. C. T. Peirce. Waupun .. •. S. A. Davison. TheHighwaylmprovementCommittee of the Wisconsin Neillsville G. A. Huntzicker. Hortonville O. W. J. Spengler. Racine W. J. Hopkins. Division, L. A. W. desires to extend thanks to the Division members for their very generous support in response to its Reappointments for the following towns have received circular letter of April 30. The contributions sent to Mr. no acknowledgement up to the present date: Otto Dorner, of our committee have been much more numer Barronette. Chippewa Falls. Tomah. Waterford. Berlin. Kewaunee. Onalaska. Waukesha. ous than was expected, and it is fair to believe that the few Burlington. .members who have not been heard from will respond to Local consuls for the following towns have not yet our call. been determined upon: Your, committee finds it impracticable to acknowledge Barron. Grafton. Little Suamico. Sparta. Beaver Dam. Greenwood. New London. Sheboygan, each of these contributions separately, but begs to take Browntown. Hayward. Omro. Wausau, this opportunity, through the columns of THE PNEUMATIC, Cedarburg. Jefferson. Oshkosh. Watertown to thank each of those who have so generously responded Delavan. Kaukauna. South Milwaukee. West Supei Deerfleld. . to its call for support in its efforts, How a Dog Retaliated. The thanks of the committee are also due to local consuls , One of the city fathers in a certain city in Northern and other members who so kindly assisted in collecting the Wisconsin rides a wheel. He prefers the sidewalk to the names of town officers and influential farmers in the state. street for the purpose, as likewise does a dog in his neigh The money received will be used for the purchase of borhood for his daily nap. additional copies of the special Good Roads number of the One day recently, he discovered the dog napping with Wisconsin Agriculturist, which is being issued under Mr. his tail outstretched and decided it was a good opportunity Dorner's editorship, and we will he able to send copies of to teach him a lesson by riding over it. The first wheel same to 35,000 farmers and town officers throughout Wis went over all right, but before the second one had time to consin. The number will contain articles upon the value and follow, the dog was very much awake, as the rider concluded need of better highways, by men like Governor Upham and when he found himself in the middle of the street and his ex-Governors Hoard and Fairchild, several members of the bicycle the worse for the spill. Legislature, Secretary Curtis of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Association, President Chas. E. Adams and Professor Rich It is estimated that there are 500 wheels in use at ard T. Ely, of the University of Wisconsin, and a number of Appleton. Over 200 wheels have been sold this spring. THE PNEUMATIC. Interesting to State Riders. Home field day exercises were held by the Normal school Oconomowoc has about fifty wheelmen. at Stevens Point, May 11, and besides the usual races there Waupun wheelmen hope to form a club this season. was a half-mile bicycle race hy young women. The bloomer is marching on. The Appleton contingent La Crosse will make a bid for the '96 L. A. W. state has received a reinforcement and now numbers five gallant meet. wheelwomen, who are determined to lead the i-eform to A bicycle club will soon be organized in Markesan, with victory. fifteen members. It is reported that the city fathers of Appleton are Green Bay proposes to be included in the racing circuit seriously considering the adoption of an ordinance making around the state. • it a misdemeanor for any woman to appear on the streets Ed. Wooford, of Menominee, Mich., is doing some excel of that city in bloomers. lent road and track work. The Neenah Wheelmen have organized, with officers as Marinette cyclists are bothered by the small boys stick follows: President, E. W. Griswold; vice-president, J. C. ing pins in their tires. Yule; secretary and treasurer, S. D. Baird. It is intended There are about twenty-five riders in Lake Beulah, who to make it a League club. are about to organize a bicycle club. Charles Griebler, Henry Griebler, Sam Thielen and Chilton has formed a cycling club and will adopt the Claude Ingles rode on their bicycles from Neenah to Oshkosh Milwaukee Wheelmen's constitittion. in fortv-one minutes. The fastest time made between the There are 1,300 bicycle riders in Oshkosh, yet there is cities heretofore was fifty-nine minutes. no regularly organized club in the city. Thomas O'Dwyer made the remarkable time of seven Kenosha wheelwomen are organizing a club and its hours and thirty minutes in a run of 110 miles from Dane, members expect to appear in bloomers. Wis., to Cudahy. He wentby way of SunPrairie, Waterloo, Watertown, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee and Milwaukee. The Madison Cycling Club will hold a road race over the six-mile cemetery road on Memorial Day. Waukesha wheelmen are arranging for a two day's The Arrow Cycling Club, of Janesville, had a very enjoy tournament, to be held some time in the latter part of July. able dancing party May 10, at the Armory hall. The members expect to make it the star class A meet of the season, in the state. $1,000 worth of prizes will be hung up. Menominee, Mich, has a cycling club which is vieing in number of members with the Marinette Bicycle Club. Stevens Point lady cyclists to the number of twenty, Warren Herrick, a Neenah young man, collided with a ride in rational costume. The local consul writes that in buggy while riding a wheel and was seriously injured. all probability they will have two race meets in the Point Between Menominee and Marinette alone there will be this season, one on the 3d and 4th of July, and another in the fall. nearly a thousand wheels represented at the state meet. The third annual road race and tournament of the Six Eau Claire wheelmen will leave that city on June 1 Waterloo Bicycle Club will be held on June 4. Abou t thirty for a 400 mile tour through the eastern part of the state. valuable prizes will be put up for the contestants, including There is some prospect of a bicycle club being organized two suits of clothes, sweaters, shoes, bicycle sundries and at Deerfield. The demand for wheels at that place is large. the like. The Columbus Wheelmen held a club roadrace May 16, Appleton cyclists will have a grand parade on Decora over the Columbus-Fall River course, a distance of nine and tion Day and expect to get 500 wheels in line. It is intended one-third miles*. Arthur Stevens was the winner, in 37.55. to decorate the wheels with flowers and bunting and form The usual enthusiasm prevails at Mount IToreb. The into squads of twenty-five under the guidance of lieu boys are improving their track and are getting in trim for tenants. some fast riding. The Beaumont Cycle Club of Green Bay has elected the Menasha will most likely be included in the state circuit following new officers: President, J. V. DeCrerner; vice- this season. The town is lively and the interest taken in president, Oscar Mann; lieutenant, George H. Schaefer; secretary and treasurer, W. H. Field; captain, Oscar Mann; cycling warrants its success. directors, E.J, Carroll, J. Cauwenburg, J. C. Dorschel. Medford has almost the required amount of League members to form a League club. A few more recruits and A plucky girl cyclist at Menomonie, who was crowded the members will effect such an organization. to the curb by a heavy wagon, which the driver steered A bicycle club has been formed at West Bend, with the straight at her from the other side of the street, jumped following members: Joseph M. Sevenich, captain; H. from her wheel, grabbed the horses by the bits, and held Kaempfer, secretary; August Fuge, treasurer; Charles them while she told the driver a. few things he will be apt Karsten, Frank Kress, John Hetzel and Jacob Becker. to remember. THE PNEUMATIC. Entries for the La Crosse race meet, which will be held Handicapper D. D. Warner. May 30, close May 25 at 10 o'clock p. m. Entrance fee for Many, no doubt, who never had the good fortune to Class B is $1 and for Class A 50 cents. The races will be meet the original of this picture, D. D. Warner, will be conducted under sanction of the L. A. W. Racing Board. pleased to see what he looks like, especially since he has become the official handicapper for this district. A fine list of prizes is already assured. In the 'varsity at Madison there are more good riders than ever. Chittenden, who did considerable riding before • entering the university, is said to be a fast rider, and Zim ' ..^yydj merman, who was on the team last year, is riding well. ^^k . Sweiker and Home are also promising well. The Mound City Wheelmen of Platteville have organized '^^^^tm with E. P. Grindell as secretary. The club will hold a road B- - BUS1 race on Decoration Day, open to Southwestern Wisconsin riders. The distance is ten miles, over a fair country road. < M HBBKV^' Several valuable prizes have already been donated. Entry blanks may be secured at this office. '•e;' 0mm The Columbus Wheelmen have re-organized, with the Blllf following officers: President, F. A. Chadbourn; vice- W~^m |||F'V president, A. M. Bellack; treasurer, G. N. Loomis; secretary, '*Wm&mB&sBffiM&S& f E. G. Linck; captain, M. B. Nute; lieutenant, E. Blumen- _S__m_w____W_^_W__h ilfl thal. The club has about thirty members. They propose * ijm IIHfe' to have several tournaments and road races. mNk F. W. Spencer is.: working hard with the Watipaca boys, WrflRv who are inclined to do racing this season, to bring them HflPP^ out with proper care and training, that they may make a "flliW creditable showing in the meets to come. Many wheels MSi'/m***.••! *^s T^js *j -, v \ are being sold in Waupaca this year and much interest is being taken in Chandler, Anderson and others, who rode so Mr. Warner is in the wholesale saddlery business in well last year. Madison and a very successful man. He has keen business judgment, is a close observer and is looked upon as an The Kaukauna Cycle Club was re-organized at a meet exceptionally good man to fill the office of handicapper. ing held for that purpose at the council rooms recently. A Seven years ago he left Bloomington, 111.,,and came to large number of local wheelmen were present. The follow Madison. In 1891, when the Madison Cycling Club was ing officers were elected: President, L. D. Sargent; vice- organized, he became its first president and has since held president, H. B. Tanner; secretary and treasurer, Will A. nearly every office the club affords. He has been a wheel Nugent; Directors, Frank Fargo and J. V. Miller; captain, man for fifteen years and was once looked upon as a prom J. N. E. Trout. ising racing man,, but business responsibilities interfered Lou Allman, Will Trumbull, Joseph Hafer and Frank and he'has since clone, comparatively, little riding. Sinclair have planned a long trip this summer from Marsh field to Lake Maxenkuchee, Ind., a famous summer resort. Southwestern Wisconsin Triangle, They propose to leave Marshfield without a cent in their It has been talked over among the riders of Beloit, pockets and work their way along by giving a short min Monroe and Madison that a meeting once or twice during strel performance to the farmers for their meals. The boys the season in each city for racing and a general good time, have money, but they are looking for adventure. would do much to further the sport and make the riders of The Princeton Cycling Club has been organized with a Southern Wisconsin better acquainted than in almost any membership of sixteen, and the work for the betterment of other way. the .roads in the vicinity will be earnestly pushed. The The first meeting will be held in Madison on the after following officers were elected : President, Albert Rimpler; noon of June 6, which will be during the Modern Wood vice-president, Frank Giese; secretary and treasurer, J. E. men's annual picnic, and the railroads will sell tickets one Leimer. A road committee was appointed, consisting of fare for the round trip., Races will take place at Randall E. D. Morse, W. P. Harmon,G. H. Holliday andW.R. Yahr, Field at 2:30 and a meeting to perfect an organization will The club will meet weekly and are talking of giving a dance be called immediately after the races in the Madison Cycling to raise funds for their operations. Club rooms. A general invitation is extended to all riders THE PNEUMATIC. in the state, and a special one to the riders of Southwestern Sub-committees were appointed by president Mannen, Wisconsin, to be present and take part. Gold medals will to lay the matter before the city council, in reference to be given as prizes for both first and second place. The cleaning up the city and streets, the proprietors of the triangle championship medal will be a diamond and different hotels for cheap rates, the railroad men and ticket will be given to the rider making the best average in the agents for excursions and cheap transportation, and, last, three or six races, as follows: First counts 3, second counts but not least, the board of supervisors, for the purpose of 2, and third counts 1. making all possible repairs on the various highways leading into Superior, and especially the military road leading to The team race will be for a trophy and will be run by ward St. Paul. Another committee was appointed to see three men from each city, which will be arranged the same about putting a red label on every letter going out of as the one-mile championship. Superior from now on, announcing the fact of Superior's Entry blanks will be furnished by addressing any of jollification on the date named. the committee—L. A. Hodges, Monroe; Frank Yan Wart, The club, uniform will be gray trousers and white Beloit; D. D. Warner, Madison. sweater, with a cardinal letter S on the breast. The club The list for the Madison meet is as follows: button will be a maroon S on a white background. The One mile novice—one prize. One-fourth mile open—two prizes. club cap will also be gray. One mile tandem—two pi-izes. Two mile handicap—two prizes. Green Bay=Fond du Lac Relay. One-half mile open—two prizes. One mile triangle championship (includes Hock, Greene and Dane The arrangements for the relay race from Green Bay to counties). Fond du Lac, on Decoration Day morning, have all been One mile handicap—two prizes. One mile triangle team race. completed. At the last meeting of the Beaumont Cycle One mile open—two prizes. Club, of Green Bay, the following local riders were chosen : First relay, Oscar Mann, Jacob Echtner; second relay, Superior Cycle Club. Will Field, J. Dorschel; third relay, H. P. Terris, Fred. Great enthusiasm in cycling prevails in West Superior. Holmann; fourth relay, George Schaefer, Jules de Cremer. An organization wag recently perfected, with over 100 The relays will be fifteen, miles each and an allowance members, and the following officers were elected: F. A. of four minutes will be made for each mile, thus making the Maunen, president; J. B. Arnold, first vice-president; Dr. J. scheduled time 4:48. The entire distance is seventy-two A. Rene, second vice-president; N. B. Arnold, recording miles. The start from the mayor's office in Green Bay will secretary; W.J. Smithson, treasurer; C. A. Pelletier, captain; be made at 8 a. m. Riders from De Pere and Kaukauna F.J. Spring, first lieutenant; Richmond Smith, second lieu will pace the riders along and the tandem at Appleton with tenant; J. Max Darrenougue, standard bearer; George W. Pearson and Holbroook up, will be in waiting to carry Potter, whipperin; Dr. H. T. Greenlaw, Homer T. Fowler them to Neenah. Oshkosh riders may assist incarrying the and G. L. Sterling, directors. message if more are needed. The club was no sooner organized, than a committee Medford Correspondence. was appointed to look into the project of building a club Cycling enthusiasm is receiving a serious check here on house. It is proposed to incorporate the club and issue account of the non-fulfillment of orders for bicycles placed stock, at from $1 to $5 a share, which will be taken to a early in the spring. C. 0. Dunning, representing the great extent by the members themselves. Sketches for the Andrae Cycle Works, of Milwaukee, visited this city recently proposed club house are already being submitted by the and displayed a full line of sample wheels of the Andrae architects, and the land site has been secured. and Crawford make. He placed an agency with Dr. F. R. At a recent meeting a good deal of discussion was in Zeit. (C. 0. D. complained of being homesick when he left dulged in regarding the railway crossings on the principal here. Has he got a girl down there?) All the chairmen of streets, and a committee was appointed, consisting of the towns in this county will in the near future be notified Messrs J. B. Arnold, J. H. Agen and I. P. Lord, to present by the local consul that they must put up guide-boards at a petition to the council, that it request the railways to road crossings or they will be fined according to law. make such improvements as would allow a wheel to pass L. A. MAIER. over easily. The trouble seems to be that it wrecks a Ashland Gets in Line. bicycle very much to pass over the tracks as they are now, The scores of wheels that have been purchased this and causes more wear and tear than a day's riding on spring in Ashland by business and professional men and level roads. persons engaged in all. classes of work, has resulted in the Arrangements are now under way, by the club, to hold formation of a bicycle club. Merton H. Potter was elected a big tournament on July 16, 17, 18 and 19. Members of president at a recent meeting and C. W, Hunter temporary the Chamber of Commerce have extended their support to secretary. The club will have a racing board and take an the big meet, and the whole business community seems active part in the movement for good roads. aroused to help the boys along. THE PNEUMATIC. No League Representatives in These. La Crosse County Wheelmen. It may be interesting to many to know that the League The prize list for the La Crosse County Wheelmen races to of American Wheelmen is not represented by a consul in any be held May 30, 1895, are as follows: of the following towns. Any one desiring to serve in that EIOIW TO TEN MILE ROAD HAOE. First time, gold medal *1B °° capacity and is not a League member may receive the Second time, silvermedlll B °° appointment by joining the organization and securing the First place, gold medal lf> °° Second place, silver medal 9 0" recommendation of three representative citizens. Com Third place, electric bicycle lamp "100 municate with Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier, 505 East Fourth place, search light 5 0° Water street, Milwaukee. ONE MILE NOVICE, f Ahnapee. Dodgeville. Kibourn City. Portage. First, gold medal 0 7f> j AIma. Durahd. Lake Geneva. Porter's Mills. Second, silver medal 3 £B ; Antigo. Eagle River. Lancaster. Prescott. ONE RIMS OXASS u.—(Two in Three.) i Augusta. Edgerton. Mauston. Princeton. M Baraboo. Elroy. Mayvllle. River Falls. First, diamond pin °° •' Boscobel. Evansville. Mazomanie. Sheboygan Falls Second, diamond stud So 00 Brodhead. Ft. Atkinson. Menomonie. Shell Lake. OlASS A.—Open. Cadott. Glenwood. Necedah. Stoughton. Cedarburg. Hartford. New Richmond. Sturgeon Bay, First, gold medal 12 Ou Chilton. Hudson. Oconto. Tomah. Second, silver medal 8 00 Chippewa Falls. Hurley. Omro. Tomahawk. Third, search light 5 00 Cumberland. Kaukauna. Onalaska. West Bend. DePere. ONE MILE r.. c. o. w. CHAMPIONSHIP.—(Two in Three.) Gold club medal (to be won three times) 20 00 Stevens Point. HALIf-MIKE HANDICAP. First, gold medal IS 00 Wheelmen in Stevens Point are being taxed for the own Second, bicycle suit and shoes 9 00 Third, diamond collar button 6 00 ership of wheels to the extent of $1.19 each. The riders Fourth, sweater 4 00 are naturally incensed at the action of the assessor and and a three mile handicap, for which the prizes are not listed have been trying to be released from this taxation, but yet. Entries are coming in lively. without avail. On top of this the city fathers have issued Four members of the club made an attempt at a century instructions to keep the wheelmen off the sidewalks. While run over the Elgin-Aurora course last Sunday. They report this would be considered but a fair restriction in the aver courteous treatment from Chicago riders, but gave up at age town, it can hardly be considered so in Stevens Point, the forty-eighth mile, owing to three out of four machines owing to the almost impassable condition of the roads. being crippled. There is but one hope for the repeal of this order. The chief of police has recently taken to the wheel and may- Marinette's Preparations Begun. soon realize the utter impossibility of using the wheel with The state League meet which is to be held in Marinette, out using the sidewalks. The L. A. W. is growing strong August 15—16, gives promise of being the greatest the state in the town, however, and through concerted action and has ever had. Everybody seems to be awheel in the city, with its assistance they may secure proper recognition. and the proposed meet is largely responsible for this. The club membership now numbers about 140, composed of U. W. Cyclers Re-organized. the representative business men of the city. The Marinette club has begun to formulate plans for the entertainment of The University wheelmen recently met and re-organized the wheelmen who will gather for the annual meet. W. C. the U. W. Cycling Club. A good and active set of officers Brown, the president of the club is a young man of wealth were elected. The colors ghosen were cardinal and black. and business enterprise, and his active interest in the prog The present club promises to be the best the University ever ress of the work is a guarantee of its unqualified success. had, and the membership is increasing daily. The boys will H. C. Higgins, superintendent of the street railway company begin at once to win additionallaurels for thecardinal. The is the vice-president of the club and his time is liberally de officers are: President, 0. B. Zimmerman; vice-president, voted in its behalf. Secretary N. E. Lindquist is almost too W. O. Thomas; secretary-treasurer, C. W. Reed; captain, well known to be specially mentioned. He was one of the C. H. Anderson; lieutenant, H. S. Bird. first to join the Wisconsin Division, when it was organized, and his acquaintance with the wheelmen all over the state Advanced Lady Cyclists. is large. At every state meet the Division has had, he has The women cyclists, of Grand Rapids, Mich., to the been an enthusiastic participant. The local racing board number of 125 attended a meeting recently to discuss the has been appointed by President Brown, and is as follows: bloomer question. A committee of three, consisting of the N. E. Lindquist, E. C. Keesler, R. F. Chase, J. S. Wheeler, city librarian and two school teachers, drafted thefollo wing- W. R. Fairchild, A. D. Curtis and J. H. McGillan. resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: "Whereas, Our Heavenly Father with divine love and A relay ride will be held from Chicago to New York city infinite wisdom in our creation has made us bipeds and in June. The first relay will leave Chicago on June 5. endowed us with reason; and THE PNEUMATIC. "Whereas, By reason we find the use of the regulation Country Exchanges. skirt as established for us by custom and long usage an Mr. Darwin Brown is riding a new Columbia, of late actual hindrance in many cases, as well as a great incon model, that is a "bute."—Milton Telephone. venience in others to the proper freedom and best use of Ray Clarke will not take anybody's dust. He now these pedal extremities, which use in economy of nature, we rides a "Road King," which registers another sale for believe to have been the intention of an all wise creator; and Babcock.—Milton Telephone. "Whereas, We believe that the most convenient and A party of thirteen cyclists, representing the Arrow most truly modest dress is the one which clothes each leg Cycling Club, made a parade here Sunday with a fog horn in separate coverings; and whistle accompaniment.—Janesville Exchange. "Whereas, We further believe that it is prejudice and Oshinsky and Simansky, seniors, collided on Dunlap false education rather than reasonableness and true modesty square while astride of their wheels Saturday. Mr. Oshin which restrains reform to clothing our legs ; therefore, be it sky struck Mr. Simansky broadsides and rode right over "Resolved, That we most reverently recognize the su the latter's wheel.—Marinette Eagle. periority of the infinite wisdom and divine love of our Heavenly Father and be it On account of the good roads we have had for some - "Resolved, That in all cases where, in our best judge time past, quite a number of wheelmen are seen passing ment, the regulation skirt as worn by us is unhealthful, through this vicinity who seem to love to indulge in the impracticable, uncleanly and inconvenient, we will have the pleasures of bicycle life. Quite a iramber of people are rid moral courage to renounce our prejudice and adopt such ing the wheel for the purpose of benefiting their health, other costume as will eliminate these objections as nearly besides being very good exercise.—Sheboygan CountyNews. as may be." We're in District D. In the State Meet City. Chairman Gideon, of the National Racing Board, has Chief McLaughlin has become a convert to the wheel. assigned to the various members of the board the districts The club will probably occupy its present quarters in over which they have direction. District D includes Illinois, the Stephenson block until July, when commodious quarters Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Dakota, Nebraska, on the ground floor will be secured. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming and is represented by Mr. CarlKlagstad, of Marinette, was run down by a reck Fred. Gerlach, Montauk Building, Chicago. less driver and sustained some bodily injuries and had a new 16-pound machine completely ruined. Suit has been Honors to the State. brought against the driver who is a prominent Menominee Otto Dorner, secretary of the Wisconsin League for business man, and the L. A. W. attorney is of the opinion Good Roads, and a member of the State Road Improvement that the injured man has a clear case. committee, has been appointed by President A. C. Willison, The Marinette Club has established a permanent rights of the League of American Wheelmen, on the National Road and privileges committee consisting of, J. H. McGillan, E. C. Improvement committee. The effective -work which Mr. Eastman, I. D. Buck, W. F. Overbeck and C. M. Fairchild. Dorner is doing in keeping up the agitation for an improved The first work of this committee has been cut out in con condition of our country highways, is fast bringing him in ferring with the common councils to prepare a common prominence. sense and uniform bicycle ordinance for both Marinette Brought a Handsome Sum. and Menominee. Among other accomplishments, Chief Consul A. Cressy Neenah and flenasha. Morrison possesses a rare ability to write. Some time ago, A few weeks ago the council of Neenah passed an ordi at leisure moments, he wrote a story entitled "Man who nance prohibiting wheelmen from riding on the sidewalks. Resembled Christ.'' When it was completed some friends This law was considered just by the majority of the wheel advised him to publish it, and when last in New York he men, and no objection was made to its enforcement. The had about completed a deal with a publishing house, when latest move of the council was made last Thursday evening, the managing editor of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly when an ordinance was submitted by the committee, making got hold of it, and, after giving it a careful examination it unlawful for a wheelman to ride on the streets during the offered Mr. Morrison the price of $336 for the production. daytime without an alarm belland in the evening without It was accepted and the article will appear in the Christmas a lamp. It is thought that a club with 300 members will number of that paper. It will occupy about three or four be organized to fight the matter. pages, and it has been said that the price paid for this is as much as the best known writers command. On May 30, a ten-mile open road race will be held in -Duluth, Minn. For particulars apply to Ray Hoppel, Clean tissue paper makes a good substitute for cotton Duluth Cycle Club, Duluth, Minn. waste in polishing a wheel. THE PNEUMATIC. man Andrae and E. A. Savage visited the Spring City, and the liberal spirit with which Waukesha wheelmen and business men offered their assistance, caused them to favor ably recommend to the club the adoption of the old course. And so it will be, and activity has begun in the racing board headquarters. At the last meeting it was decided to leave the handicap time limit at ten minutes, to offer ten An ordinance limiting the speed of bicycles within cer time prizes and to charge $2 entry fee. A committee may tain city precincts to ten miles an hour is much needed and do the handicapping. would be heartily welcomed by the wheelmen, who have some consideration for the safety of people who are crossing The Decoration Day Turnout. the streets. The L. A. W. run on the 30th of May gives promise of * # * being a big success. An invitation is extended to every one The habit of placing the instep, instead of the ball of who rides a wheel to join in this parade. The run will not the foot, on the pedal, is easily acquired, but difficult to only be a rally of local wheelmen, but it is expected that a break off afterwards. It is surprising to notice the number large crowd from other towns in the state will also be in of men and women who ride in this way. If they knew the line. The procession will be one of the oddest of its size the amount of useless energy expended in misplacing the feet, city has ever seen. There will be old ordinaries, and store and the ugly effect it has, they would soon conform to usual rooms will be ransacked for ancient relics in the bicycle line. custom. Every wheel of an old-fashioned style that is hidden away * * * in the recesses of some dark closet will be resurrected, and That was a lofty subject for a toast which our friend so the parade will be a graphic description of wheel evolu Terry Andrae chose at the banquet of the Milwaukee tion from its early infancy to the most elegant of the mod Wheelmen, "Cycling, Its Moral and Social Effects." He ern roadsters. Wheels of solid tires will be brought out, and taked eloquently and with perfect truth about the moral there will be wheels with no tires at all. "Bikes" with big and elevating- tendency of cycling as compared with other wheels and little wheels, with a big wheel in front, and sports, and it is to be hoped that the truths he spoke were machines with the big one in the rear—they will all be in fully appreciated by some of the thoughtless ones who were line on Memorial day. The route has not been decided on, present. but it is intended to wind up at the Soldiers' Home. * * * The speech made by "Papa" W. L. Simonds, at the Badger Wheelmen. tenth anniversary banquet of the Milwaukee Wheelmen Captain Walter Schrader, of the Badger Wheelmen, lias was as excellent as it was appropriate. It was an interest arranged the following runs: Menomonee Falls, June 2; ing resume of the old days and the organization of the Pewaukee, June 16; Waukesha road-race course, June 30. club. He recounted many of the memorable old ordinary The following members will participate in the Chicago road rides and incidents, which kept his hearers in constant good race: Walter Schrader, Con Reinke, Frank Jones, Fred. humor. There is no man better posted on affairs relating Cramer, Morris Hastings, Lewis Wagner and Eric Reinke. to the early history of the club than Mr. Simonds, and his The racing team of the Badger Wheelmen will be made up remarks were eagerly listened to. as follows: Con Reinke, George Chapin, Capt, Walter The Big: Waukesha Again. Schrader, Dick Meyer and Lewis Wagner, H. 0. Blecker and William Krasselt will ride a tandem. It is intended to Time with its unceasing tread is again bringing us establish headquarters at Menomonee Falls. The annual around to the big" annual event of the Milwaukee Wheel road race will be held before Labor Day this season. Sev men—the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race. The Fourth of eral members of the club are already in training for the July cycling derby has been, the theme of discussion by half races the coming season. The Badgers have secured new the wheelmen in the city the past few weeks, due to the rooms, as the ones they occupied were too small to accom final decision of the racing board to again make the start modate the increase in members. ing point fit Waukesha. It was a long, drawn-out question It has been said that Walter Schrader will stay with whether it was advisable to change the course to make it the best road riders this season. Tandems mounted by our start and finish in Milwaukee, and the racing board wres best men cannot get away from him. tled with it for several nights, discussing its advantages and disadvantages, and it was not until some Waukesha The Milwaukee Wheelmen celebrated its tenth anniver wheelmen interceded and suggested that some one be dele sary with a banquet at St. Charles Hotel, on the evening of gated to go to Waukesha and see what support could be April 27. The event was marked by an evening spent in obtained out there, that the sentiment began to change recalling pleasant incidents of the early days of cycling, considerable in favor of the old course. Accordingly, Chair songs and instrumental selections. THE PNEUMATIC. Local Jottings. Milwaukee Wheelmen's Runs. Gus. Pollworth, well-known as a local wheelman, will Captain Neilson of the Milwaukee Wheelmen has ar be married on June 12, to Miss Alice Birler. ranged club runs for May and June, as follows: Sunday, May 12,1:30 p. m., Elm Grove. Citizens of Highland Boulevard are petitioning the park Sunday, May 36,1 p. m., Hales Corners, base ball game. commissioners to make a law prohibiting heavy teaming Thursday, May 30, 3 p. in., L. A. W. parade and reception. Sundaj', Jnne 2, 8 a. m., PeWEiukee, boating and fishing. on their road. Sunday, Jnne 9, 7:30 a. in., Fox Poiut, breakfast at Whiteilsh Bay. The wheels of Louis M. Steiner and George Krieke were Sunday, June 16, 6 a. m„ Tishigan lake, fishing party. Saturday, June 88, 7:30 p. m , Mineral Spring Park, dancing party. stolen recently, and five other victims made a similar report Onthe last run mentioned the members will take steam at police headquarters during the same week. ers at the North avenue bridge. The regulation pace will The National circuit meet, under the auspices of the be strictly enforced both ways on all runs. It is expected Associated Cycling Clubs, of Milwaukee, to be held at that the club will be largely represented in the L. A. W. National Park, August 18-19, is now receiving active parade on Decoration Day. All the "old guards" of the club attention. will be in line, mounted on old ordinaries, Eagles, Stars and Several Milwaukee riders are entered in the Chicago Kangaroos. road race on Memorial day. They include E. E. Hannan, Lenz Was Killed by Kurds. E. W. Fry, E. A. Clifford, Anton Stolz, Walter Schroeder and H. A. Zerbel. At last the fate of poor Frank Lenz has been settled. The plucky Pittsburg rider who attempted to girdle the There is happiness in the home of our worthy friend, earth on a wheel, was killed by the Kurds. The latest Fred Schroeder. A twelve-pound baby girl made her ap advices go to prove this. Speaking of him, a missionary pearance, and the ex-chau-man of the racing board now says he has reliable information tlmt Lenz was killed last wears a continuous smile. May at Koordali on the Alishgird plain near the famous John French, a well-known south side wheelman, was pass of Deli Ba Baka. The missionary talked with a man run over by a business man driving a light wagon. Mr. who saw Lenz at Karakalessen on what the native said French's wheel was demolished and he received severe in was a two-wheeled cart. Two days later the man saw the juries in the back. The case has been looked into by the body of the wheelman at Zedikan. The missionary has Rights and Privileges committee of the L. A. W., but fouud sent for three men who also saw the body, and expects to that no case could be made against the driver, owing to the be able to tell just how Lenz met his death. fact that French tried to pass him on the inside, next to the curb. Race Notes. Milwaukee wheelmen ought to help the L. A. W. to Official referees are being appointed by Chairman Gid- ' further the project of extending the Sheridan drive from eon for the various sections of the country. Chicago to Milwaukee. The road has already been macad Gideon, chairman of the National Racing -Board, still amized to Waukegan, and it remains for the Wisconsin side continues to suspend riders for competing in unsanctioned to do her share. The L. A. W. has taken this matter up, races. Last week over thirty were shelved for thirty days. but needs the united support of every "wheelman interested. By vote of the National Racing Board, a deposit of one dollar, to be returned if the referee's decision is reversed, or The N. S. C. C. Road Race. forfeited if his decision is sustained, will hereafter be required On June 8, the North Side Cycling Club will conduct its from any rider appealing from the decision of the referee of first road race, over the Silver Spring course. The event a meet. will be known as the Milwaukee road race, and the start W. C. Klug, is the maker of the lightest bicycle in' Mil and finish will be at the intersection of the Washington and waukee. -The machine has been ridden on the road for some Green Bay roads, on the border of the northern city limits. time, and does not show the least sign of weakening. Its Thelist of prizes for the big race is a long one, and is headed weight is thirteen pounds. The frame is made of twentv- with a piano and five bicycles. Entries are coming in six gauge tubing, and the forks of twenty two gauge tubing. lively, and it is calculated that 150 will make up the list. The wheels are twenty-six inches, with tubular hubs and. wooden rims of the Fairbank make, with New York tires. Walter Sanger All Right. The wheel is geared to sixty-eight inches, and was built for A letter from Sanger states that the rumor that he is ordinary road work. It will easily sustain a weight of 180 unwell, is unfounded and he will enter his first race this pounds, and runs light. The machine is neat, and well season in a few days. He believes that this will be his last finished in every particular. Last year Mr. Klug built a year on the track as an amateur and says that he "would wheel for his own use that weighed eighteen pounds. like to see the L. A. W. take hold of the professional end of the sport of cycling. . Carroll Lucas, Menomonie, handles the Waverly, THE PNEUMATIC. General News Notes. The Athlete, a Syracuse cycling paper, has been discon- ued. It wrote its own obituary in the last number, which appeared April 27. Medinger, the famous bicycle rider, was shot and killed at Paris, by his wife, who afterwards committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause of the tragedy. Benzine will clean cork handles. The Mclllraths, who are making a 25,000 mile tour of * # * the world in the interest of the Inter Ocean, expect to reach California this week. They left Chicago April 11. The annual meet of the Illinois Division, L. A. W., will The course of the Chicago road race, which is to be run be held this year at Galeshurg, on June 19, 20 and 21. The prize list is valued at $2,500. on Decoration Day, is 18 miles 4,056 feet in length. A han * * # dicap time limit of twelve minutes is allowed. The date of the Michigan state meeting, which is to be When a man buys a second-hand wheel and if he is a held at Battle Creek, has been fixed for June 22 and 23. wise man he will ask for the pedigree of the owner of the Prizes to the amount of $3,000 will be given. The Battle wheel. In these clays it is of more importance than the Creek track is half a mile in circuit. pedigree of the maker. * * * The Racing Board has given the National Meet sanction Jimmy—" Timmy Grogan is talkin' of getting him a to hold the quarter mile, half mile and two mile national bysiekle." championships. The other championships will be accorded Mickie—" H'm ? He ain't got de price fer de wind wot Springfield, Louisville, Waltham and one or two other big goes in de tires."—Ind. Journal. tracks, * * * L. A. W. Secretary Abbot Bassett continues to be very "That's a curious typographical error," says Mrs. busjr. There were 802 applications for last week's Bulletin, Partridge. "The title of this new book is printed 'The against 210 for the corresponding week of last year, 9552 Viking Age,'" " Well, why not ?" asked Partridge, "What subscribers was last year's record for the Bulletin; this ought it to be ? " " Why, Biking, oughtn't it ? "-Harper's year there are already 10,377. Magazine. The Associated Cycling Clubs of Chicago have decided * * * to locate the new bicycle track in that city on the west The Good Roads League should lose no time in enlisting side. About $50,000 will be expended for the site, grounds the services of the new woman in their cause. As a bicycle and track. The majority of the stock will be subscribed by rider she should be an enthusiastic member of the league the manufacturers of that city. and her influence might even win over the recalcitrant farmer.— Milwaukee Sentinel. The Minneapolis Cycle Club, Limited, will hold a fifteen * # * mile handicap road race on Decoration Day. The club will also hold a twenty-five mile road race on August 12, the Note this little straw from a lay paper: "Turn and day preceding the National Circuit Meet in that city, which turn about is fair play. When bicyclists were few in number is also under the auspices of that club. they were compelled to carry lights at night by carriage owners. Now the two-wheel men are numerous and they Collie Bell, well known in the West, will be seen on the demand that for their protection, vehicles carry lamps." race track this year for the first time in several years. Mr. Bell lives in Minneapolis and is a good friend of Johnnie * •* * Johnson's. He began training last year, but met with an This is the way a Kentuckian informed a touring wheel accident that prohibited him from entering any of the man what thedistance was from a certainpointtoanother: events, " three hoots and a right smart distance," or a New Hamp shire "mile." This was no less vague than the way a Furthering Racing Interests. Boston reporter described a woman as weighing between In the office of THE PNEUMATIC can be found entry 200 and 300 pounds. blanks for every racing event in the state. Local and state * * * racing men who do not know where else to obtain them, "My boy Hiram writes me from college," said farmer can do so by calling at or writing to THE PNEUMATIC office. Craycraft, laying the letter on the table a moment in order Race meet promoters will do well to send a supply of blanks to wipe his glasses, "that he has been studyin' up this to this office for distribution. subject of good roads an' I'm all wrong about it. I'll bet $1000," continued farmer Craycraft, "he'sbeen bttyin' him. Dentistry at Kalt's, corner East Water and Mason self a bisickle \"—Chicago Tribune. streets, Milwaukee. THE PNEUMATIC. Trade in the State. Doings at Andrae's. Haas & Merbach, at Kaukauna, are selling Ajax bicycles. Happy Joyful Warner has returned from a six months' C. H. Bergstrom, Neenah, sells Spaldings and cheaper trip selling Andraes. He will remain in town for some time wheels. on account of the increased business in the office. Archie Anderson has started out traveling for the firm Kenosha business men are tryingto get abicycle factory for that city. and is doing well. Col. Andrae states that he could dispose of 1,000 more Buttler & Guessenhaimer, Kaukauna, are handling wheels if he had them right now. Waverly bicycles. Thirteen Crawford machines were sold in one day by A handsome printed book, containing many valuable Chas. Norton in Marinette. maps for the touring cyclist, and a brief description of 0. J. Weiss, at Princeton, has opened up a new store Wisconsin's popular fishing and hunting grounds, has been and will sell bicycles this season. sent to us, with compliments of the Wisconsin Central lines. Lau & Ferguson, who have been handling bicycles at D. D. Warner & Co., Incorporated. Waukesha, have sold out to S. J. Seabury. D. D. Warner & Co. have incorporated under the name A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, is wonderfully successful of D. D." Warner Company, with the following officers: D. in his sales of Rambler machines this year. D. Warner, president; B. W. Park, vice- CHntonville, Wis., is booming in the president; C. B. Chapman, secretary; L. bicycle busines, L. E. Schroeder, the P. Holmes, treasurer; F. M. Wooton, leading bicycle dealer, reports trade O.K. MORGAN &WRIGHTTIRES attorney. The saddlery hardware busi He sells the Telegram, Andrae and Craw ness will be continued as before, but the ford cycles. ARE GOOD TIRES capacity for handling bicycles will be more than doubled. E. S. Babcock, of Milton, will locate at Fetherston's mill, to carry on the How to Wash a Sweater. manufacture of his punch and shear I recently resurrected to usefulness a machines. Steam power was anecessity, sweater of the best quality which had and for that reason moved his shop to been so relaxed or stretched oat of shape that location. He will continue the bi by its first washing that it looked quite cycle business at the mill. disreputable and had been relegated to HERE'S T. T. MACK use in such prosaic exercise as shoveling The following is a clipping from the SAYS CENTURIES ARE A PUDDIN' ON THEM snow, chopping wood, etc. Chicago Herald of recent date: "The MORGAN & WRIGHT A few weeks ago, needing a sweater four Lincoln Park policemen, who were for use with a class of young ladies, favored, by being mounted on bicycles, which was formed rather unexpectedly, have succeeded in mastering their wheels, I tried a plan recommended for washing and use them daily in their patrol duty. woolen and flannel fabrics, which was They owe their proficiency to the untiring efforts of Profes most successful. I put my stretched and dirty sweater into sor Long, the instructor of Gormully & Jeffery's model warm water containing a handful of pearline (any washing riding school. In addition to fitting out the "sparrow powder or soap would do, no doubt) and left it over night. cops," the "Rambler" people recently equipped six of the Next day I kneaded it—no rubbing; punch and squeeze it, army officers, at Fort Sheridan, with their wheels." or walk on it with the bare feet—changed the water several times and then simply pressed out the excess of water- The Huennekens Cycle Co. without wringing—and hung it tip to dry. I wanted it Make a specialty of selling bicycles, bicycle parts and smaller in the waist, so hung it across a stick, thus allowing it to hang lengthwise. sundries at wholesale to dealers. Special prices and dis counts given upon application. Address, 124 Ferry street, When dry, it was clean, as nice a fit as when new and Milwaukee, and get catalogue. was soft; whereas it had been hard, both to touch and in appearance. It is again doing its duty nobly. Give your One of the best things recently produced in the form of sweater another chance.—Harvey C. Went, Physical Direc illustrated verse, was the humorous soliloquy of a monkey tor, Public Schools, Bridgeport, Conn. wrench, in Morgan & Wright's Wheel Talk. Grace Duffie Phillip Gross & Son are now handling the Eagle Altair Roe was the writer, and Cox, the illustrator. Morgan & bicycle. Wi-ight wish to emphasize their statement, that Wheel Talk can be sent regularly to the trade and clubs only, though Teeth need attention occasionally. Dr. Kalt, East sample copies will be sent to anyone. Water and Mason streets, is the dentist who can serve you. THE PNEUMATIC. To a Bloomer flaiden. More Local Jottings. From Kvening Telegram (West Superior). Interesting L. A. W. revival meetings are being held in EARobject that my eyes beheld as an Broadway you glided, the city at the various cycling clubs. The state officers And thrilled my senses till your form In evening's dusk sub- Bided. deliver speeches on the good of the League and many recruits Are you of earth, of flesh and blood, or mere ethereal vision arc enlisted each time. The last meeting was held at the That came to charm me for a while and leave me in derision? Are you all human, lovely one, so gracefully propelling Badger Wheelmen and nine of its members made applica Your safety bike ? I cannot think you are, but there's no tion. Others have promised to soon follow. The club is telling; the youngest in the city, but is showing remarkable activ It even may be that you are one of those "reform" boomers That skirts have failed to satisfy, and now appear in bloomers ity and will lead all others if they continue to prosper as Perhaps you're a progressive maid, who manumission preaches they have been doing in the past. For womankind, ami sets the goal at cut-a-ways and breeches. But vision, phantom, spook or maid, my frigid heart enkindles A jolly stag party will be held at the cosy new home of As you glide by—alas! tis caught in your revolving spindles— the Badger Wheelmen on Saturday evening, June 1. 'Tis wound about each hub—'tis chained upon the flying pedals Anil crushes every time your feet are pressed upon the treadles! A Wheelman Gone. The numberless friends of Fred. Kasten, a well-known Milwaukee wheelman, were stricken with grief by the sad news of his sudden death last week. His death was the result of blood poisoning caused by the extraction of an ulcerated tooth. Morgan & Wright, Chicago, are publishing a beautiful illustrated weekly magazine, called Wheel Talk. Dealers and repair men, whose addresses are not already upon Morgan & Wright's mail list, are invited to communicate with the firm. ..„- Filling teeth requires the attention of an expert dentist. You can get good service at Dr. Kalt's, East Water and Mason streets, Milwaukee. How like some swiftly-flying bird along the pavement soaring! How tunefully the playful breeze goes by your bloomers roaring! How sphinx-like—statuesque you are—a poem bifurcated! f A plodding mortal disenthralled-unloaded—liberated ® Tfye Vsftyee\xx)et) s Camera ® "Prom dragging yards of skirts, and gowns of ponderous dimensions! You are the creature long talked of at women's rights conventions I You are the coming man! You've come! To stay? Ah I fickle woman, You are a riddle to us all, yet very, very human. THE PREMO! Tlie PREMO is the most compact Hand Camera in the mar ket. The 4x5 measures but 44x5|x6£ inches. It is fitted with the best Lens and our new Silent No! much I fear this change of yours is but a passing fashion, Shutter, and uses both Glass Plates or That causes us poor masculines to spend our hard-earned cash on Boll Film. These funny bulging trouserettes that ill-become the slender And at a distance puzzle one to tell the wearer's gender. Ah. well I bestride your safety, dear— enjoy your quaint diversion— ROCHESTER OPTICAL CO. And up and down our thoroughfares make many a swift excursion; And when you tire of the wheel and end this peccadillo, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Each member of your bloomers then will make a sofa pillow. S. E. W. SSISTU IFOR O.A.T.A.XiOGKCnE!.. THE PNEUMATIC. BIGYGLES • AND • BIGYGLE • PARTS^ M Arc ur F^AOTILJ :re E: ID . %IQH Weight Wheels IRepair Wotfc of au ikmos a Specialty Ibanolco witb Sftill ant> promptness. A FULL LINE OF CYCLE SUNDRIES. 538 EAST WATER STREET, MILWAUKEE. f W. A. BREMER. THIRD ANNUAL AVedals Waterloo Road Race Society - UNDER THE MAHAttEHENT 01? - Badges ~U. IE. LZESCIEIIIISrGKErjEi, m wftteELoo, wis, manufactured By... &&';<#•!£'&*!; "^^"W SOME. SECOND-HAND BUNDE IUPMEYER Almost New Type 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET - MILWAUKEE For Sale at your own price, at First-Class Work at MEYER-ROTIER Very Low Prices PRINTING COMPANY Write for Proof Sheet 505 East Water St. Send (or Illustrated Price List Milwaukee Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS Solicited Sent on Application METION THE PNEU8.1 Indispensable to Cyclists and Tourists. UWE ARE NEVER XJUIZ." J SS.00 a Year.«f _, You Will Like It. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL At News-standa SO Cts. Peppermint CHEW Flavored hewing WHITE'S C filTM... To Relieve the Dis- r trussing Pains of YUCATAN Dyspepsia A WESTERN «ND Heart SfpiESlZI! MAGAZINE. GUM. Burn ...... CUciv for Twenty Minutes After Eneli Meal. The only Gliewlne Sum factory opeu to visitors at Sample copy sent on receipt of eight 2-et. stamps all times. \f. J. WHITE, Solo Manufacturer, " Sports Afield," 358 Dearborn St., Chicago. Cleveland, i0., U.S.A. THE PNEUMATIC. LIST 0F== RELIABLE REPAIR MEN HNTI-STIFF IN THE STATE. Immediately relieves soreness Bkryeli! riders when in neod of repairs and strengthens or cycle .sundries, while touring, will lind "the firms listed below worthy of the muscles. A Marvelous Preparation patronage. Quick in its notion to relieve soreness and stiffness in the muscles. APPLETON tf C.& N.W. R Y Cyclists and Athletes Try it. WM. GROTH, A number of unsolicited, tes timonials have been received. CYC'LB AGESOV AMI) REl-AIH SHOP,— - SUPERBLY EQUIPPED J. O. KNOIVXES (Kings Oo. Alt. KINDB OP OVOLD SUNDBIBS. FAST TRAINS Wheelmen), of Brooklyn, 7 says: "I ob.eerfu.lly BELOIT "~ r o commend Anti- Stiff as the bBst rem D. H. POLLOCK & CO., edy that wheelmen BICrcLES AND SUNDRIES. can use for All kinds ol Bicycle Repairing. First-class MILWAUKEErrCHICAGO tired mus Workmen employed, EQUIPPED WITH cles and stiff joints. Dur COLUMBUS PARLOR CARS» PALATIAL DIMM CARS. ing my ride of 6240 miles M. B. NUTE, Palace Sleeping Cars Between in 60 conse cutive days I HAMlMJffi AlfBHAK ASD SUNIiKAM (ft'CMiS, ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND DIILTOH usod it with aiOYOLB RBPAIRINd * SPSCIALTY. great bene Oity Tioket Office, 102 Wisconsin St, fit; doing ail FOND DU LAC it pretends CHAS. YERS, Passenger Station, to do; cy- || / / h \\Jff Price20&3Sc. box Lake Front, Foot of Wisconsin Street. clists should W//7 / Y/.JA Trainers' size, $1. PRACTICAL CYCLE REPAIRER. never bo NM// /J^_^^ Drugging and Dealers QOODWOItK. RRABONABLII PRIOBS. W. H. NEWMAH, J. M. WHITMAN, without it. ^l^gpS^ in Sparling Guilds, r ______Third Vice-Pres. General Manager. E. FOUOBRA & CO., 30 N.William St. N.Y. , A. THEALL, Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agt, CHAS. S. KERR, „~_i(^l'^ C_rx^«arf_ Bicycles BICYCLE CLUB Wheels to Rent. Wliools Repaired. LA~CROSSE C A. KREBAUM, BADGES - BUTTONS • HNS. BICYCLES aai SUHDEIES PEKMANENT REPAIES See Our Novelty Lapel Button. L. A. W. No. 6n38fl. 827'If. 3(1 St. We will make you one hundred, your own design, for ten dollars. Manufacturers irnd MADISON Dealers should write us for prices on Advertis D. D. WARNER CO,, ing Novelties. Cycle Agency and Repair Shop. THOMAS M. GOODWIN, Fully Equipped to give Satisfaction. MAHffrAOTRER NOVELTIES, MILWAUKEE ~ MITCHELbBlD'G ILWAUKEfr.WlS. 175 PLUM STREET, - CINCINNATI., O. WM. POLLITT, Experienced Cycle Bsj&irer. 704-706 Choctnut Street. MAKER OF 'VH< ONLY" BIOYOLK. MILWAUKEE Julius Andrae &, Sons Co's Repair Dept, ''WISCONSIN FOND DU LAC Equippod In the most complete manner. 225 W. Water St. OSHKOSH ?ATEN7tf NEW RICHMOND CENTRAL NEENAH J. W. RIDINGER, MENASHA V COPYRIGHTS.^ GUN AND CTCXE SHOP... The only reliable CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT ? For a CHIPPEWA FALLS prompt answer and an honest opinion, writs to repairer in the city. "We carry a line oi Bicycle MUNN ife CO., who have had nearlyflfty years' Sundries and Sporting Goods. ...Main Stroot. EAU CLAIEE experience in the patent business. Communica tions strictly confidential. A Handbook of In formation concerning Vatents and how to ob OSHKOSH PuXMtAr? SLEEPERS TO tain them sent free. Also a oataloguo of median, ioal and scientific books sent free. J. W. WAGNER ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS Patents taken through Mnnn & Co. receive special notloe in the Scion tific American, and Exclusive Cycle Repair Shop. Main Street. ASHLAND SUPERIOR thus are brought widely before the public with out cost to the inventor. ThiB splendid paper, DULUTH issued.weekly, elegantly illustrated, has by far tho SUPERIOR largest circulation of any scientific work In tha DODGE & PEARSON, world. $3 a year. Sample copies sent free. Building Bdition, monthly, $£50 year. SiBRlo Bicycles and Sporting Goods • opines, as cents. Bvery number contains beau 1123 Tower Avenue tiful plates, in colors, and pnotographs of now •••.OITY lahquBes. w th plans;n( , enabling builders to show the TIOKBT OFPIO S?5:JS?'F"9^ l secure contracts. Address WATERLOO .100 Wisconsin Street MUNN £ CO., NEW xorac, 301 BROADWAY. JANISCH BROS. BICYCLES AND HARDWARE, BIOYOLK RBPAIRINQ A SPEOtAi-TY. SrStoBicycIes Shipped anywhere VCO.D. Saving you lidealers profit. pi(KWI«lnv„„a>for$C2.5H f$Si 'Arlington' " »M,IIO $05 " <'M!.5(> *20 " "S1O.0O Latest models, wood or stcolrinisi pneumatic tires; iveijrlu nj* to 30 ills, mil styles Rtid prices. Larfjo illustrated outalocrno free. Cash Buyers'Unlon,162 W.VanBuren St.n U3,Chicaao THE PNEUMATIC. .Have..... SLGHAEtCHURert S'lC Typewriter Your Name Supplies On Your Bicycle 50c POB ALU Can be put on in place,of makers' plate. Send paper size of plate with holes marked, and you can easily put on plate yourself; or I will send material Mactiines. so that you can have it placed in differ ent place, CHAS. M. WILDE, Typewriters 88 Wisconsin St., Milwaukee, Wis. ^_\\\__\______wf{ FOR ARE YOU A MEMBER It has the most conveniences and runs the easiestRENT. Othe. r manufacturers acknowledge its superiority by imitating'1—hut OP THE LEAGUE OF not equalling—its essential features. AMERICAN WHEEL ? The U. S. War Department adopted it in 1893, and has MEN ---•--'-- just renewed the contract. Free : Descriptive pamphlet, with opinions from such lead It needs your support to advance ing concerns as the Carnegie Steel Company, who use 25 Densmores. the cause of Good Roads, and to The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. are \ising 6 protect your rights as a wheel Densmores. man. Initiation Fee $1.00 Annual Dues i.oo UNITED TYPEWRITER AND SUPPLIES CO. GEO. K. KEKDATJ, Mmiagcr. Road Rights of Wheelmem, 377 BROADWAY, - - MILWAUKEE. Tolopltone 1722. By George B. Clementson. The Right to Use Highways, Streets, Alleys, Sidewalks, Also dealers for the New Yost Writing Machine. Etc. Liabilities ,of Others for Injuries to Wheels and Wheelmen. Bicycle Suits "One Volume, pocket size. Price,. paper, 50 cents j cloth, We take any suit in stock, and 75 cents. For sale hy all Booksellers, or sent prepaid on receipt tnakeBloomets (the right length) of price. Callaghan & Company, 114 rtonroe St. of tlie pants. Lots of them at CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. ;•'"•• $10.00,•including vest—a dollar- N. B,—Wanted, an Agent in every cycling club" and town, less if you" don't, want it. *• '., to whom special inducenients will be given for selling. Sweaters 95 WISCONSIN ST. £»imrmrlc From $1.50 to $5.00. MILWAUKEE. DR. W. SGHLRGER, ^llllUimiS : In. stock, to-day "the new Clothing Co. '-TURTLE NECK," CKOWtf and BRIDGE WORK a Specialty. 'Vitalized Air. •386-8 taSt Wat6r Str66t Maroon or Black, $4.00 TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Pilled Without Pain ^ by a New Method. AH Work Guaranteed. F, G. HAEFER'S«Miitl R-I-P-A-N-'S STUDIO ONE GIVES RELIEF. Corner Milwaukee and Mason Streets MILWAUKEE We photograph Everything Under the Sun L ;.'... Are Enthusiastic over their . . . Telegram Mounts flany have Selected the telegram Sanger IRacet For Track Work, and—watch their smoke at the numerous meets around the state this season ...... J Do you know that we build a Lady's Tele gram that cannot be beat, for lightness, strength J '•"•• A and beauty? We haven't said much about it | << before, because the demand has been greater v$ than our supply. m Telegram Cycle CATALOGUE WILL Manufacturing TELL YOU ALL Company. ABOUT THEM. Erie and East Water Streets, w MILWAUKEE. MENTION THE "PNEUS.,J A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., JUNE, 189$. No'.'-?. "Ob, pshaw! I've punctured m"y tire! Guess I'll have to patch it. Good thing it Is afl.ij" '' There, that's patched! Nov, let's see Narrow edge in the rim lirst' —and don't pinch the air tnlie." *VahaBBt. " -. ! V. :> ... 1 NfS1 V.'i. ;•«&•- , " Jf i, } 1 "Pooh! That was easy! Now pump it up." Much hetter'au walking home! Ten minutes wasn't long." WHEN YOU HAVE A GOOD TIRE--A G. & J. Any dealer oi' maker -will supply tliom on any wheel. Insist. THE PNEUMATIC. THE REITER SPECIAL SW yw^w^ww'w. _A Handsome, Strong Wheel at a Reasonable Price ...A WISCONSIN FAVORITE... Because it Runs Smooth and Stands up Well Our Repair Department Is Ready to do your Work in a Hurry and Well Twenty Pound JUVENILE BICYLES, with Twenty-four or : ' Twenty-six Inch Wheels at Astonishing Low Prices. UNION CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO. J. E. REITER, MANAGER. 291 Third Street ... MILWAUKEE, WIS. MENTION THE PNEUS.1 Don't Waste Your Money r$62 5o1 ...YOU MAY NEED IT SOMETIME... "L.~.*«~JL~.J PR.CE .. $62.50 THE "WISCONSIN" BIGY6LE <-Honey Baver. ....EQUAL TO ANY $100 WHEEL IN THE HARKET.... "Examine "Tlie Wisconsin "before buying elsewhere. '•The Wisconsin" lias all of the latest improvements, and 18 fully warranted. •• Branden'bm'B Pedals; Sager Saddle; full Incli-Tui'imi: Harrel firault Hanger; SM-inch Frame; wolght. 85 poiim!*: S'i inch tread. THE INVINCIBLE TRIO: The Fowler .. The Ide .. The Honarch HIGHEST OF ALL HIGH SHADE WHEELS Sue the Fowler Truss Frame—-strongest Bicycle l-Yami- on Earth. Everybody is falling In lore with the Fowler. It is ili« most iioimlar wheel in the market. Bicycle Repairing Promptly Executed. THE WISCONSIN ROADSTER. ;62.5ol CRIDP CdRRMQE COnPdNT, il s~3 Broadway and Huron Street. THE PNEUMATIC. u THE ONLY 9$ Athletic Clothing. is Carefully Built by an Experienced flechanic You are Cordially Invited to And Front the Examine the Fine New . . . Best Material Bicycle Suite, we have just received. We have full lines of Shirts, Tights, Knee Tights, -Sweaters, Stockings and other goods, for out and indoor exercises—send for Catalogue to • Each Wheel is Especially Built to Order The Repair Department The Petley Shirt m* of our factory is ready to fix up your wheel in shape ...Co.. Oollitt Cycle Works 86 Wisconsin Street, 703-705 Winnebago Street fllLWAUKEE 704-706 Chestnut Street MILWAUKEE ® Tfye Wl?eelrr;er^s Carrjera ® Medals Society Badges flanufactured By . . . THE PREMO! The PREMO is the most compact Hand Camera in the mar BUNDEI UPMEYER ket. The 4x5 measures but 4fx5ix6£ inches. It is fitted with the best Lens and our new Silent 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET-MILWAUKEE Shutter, and uses both Glass Plates or First=Class Work at Roll Film. Very Low Prices Send lor Illustrated Price List ROCHESTER OPTICAL CO. Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS ROCHESTER, N. Y. Solicited Sent on Application METION THE PNEU8.' SrElTID FOB OjSL.'X'^.X.OGrXTE- THE PNEUMATIC. THE REITER SPECIAL >^ j\,l*AKA*** A Handsome, Strong Wheel at a Reasonable Price ...A WISCONSIN F/JVORITE... Because it Runs Smooth and Stands up Well Our Repair Department Is Ready to do your Work in a Hurry and Well Twenty Pound JUVENILE BICYLES, with Twenty-four or ..... '••••."• Twenty-six Inch Wheels at Astonishing Xow Prices. UNION CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO. J. E. REITER, WlANAGER. 291 Third Street ... MILWAUKEE, WIS. MENTION THE PNEUS Don't Waste Your Money r$62.50 * ...YOU MAY NEED IT SOMETIME... "L™*«JL~L'^J PRICE.. $62.50 JAB "WISCONSIN "B16YGLE 'B-Honey ^aver. ....EQUAL TO ANY $ioo WHEEL IN THE flARKET.... Examine "The Wisconsin " before buying elsewhere. '•The Wisconsin" lias all of the latest improvements, ami Is fully warranted.' ,",".' Brandenburg Pedals: Sagpr Saddle; full inch, fnblng; Barrel Crank• Hanger; S4-inch Frame; .weight. So pounds; :")',' inch tread. THE INVINCIBLE TRIO: The Fowler .. The Ide .. Thefionarch HIGHEST OF ALL HIGH GRADE WHEELS See the 'Fowler Truss Frame—strongest Blcyrie Framis on' Earth. ' • Everybody Is falling iu love with the Fowler. It is the- most popular wheel In the market. fc^rii't Bicycle Repairing Promptly Executed. THE WISCONSIN ROADSTER. J$)- CRIPPCflRRI/lQE COnPdNT, Broadway and Huron Street. THE PNEUMATIC. €4 THE ONLY ft Athletic Clothing. is Carefully Built by an Experienced fiechanic You are Cordially Invited to And From the Examine the Fine New . . . Best Material Bicycle Suits, we have just received. We have full lines of Shirts, Tights, Knee Tights, -Sweaters, Stockings and other goods, for out and indoor exercises—send for Catalogue to Each Wheel is Especially Built to Order The Repair Department The Petley Shirt <& of our factory is ready to fix up your wheel in shape • •• .vOi ollitt Cycle Works 86 Wisconsin Street, P 703-705 Winnebago Street fllLWAUKEE 704-706 Chestnut Street MILWAUKEE ® Tfye Wfyeelrr^et^s Ganrjera ® DBS Aedals Society Badges flanufactured By . . . THE PREMO! The PREMO is the most compact Hand Camera in the mar BUM X UPMEYER ket. The 4x5 measures but 4fx5ixGi inches. It is fitted with the best Lens and our new Silent 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET - MILWAUKEE Shutter, and uses both Glass Plates or First-Class Work at Roll Film. Very Low Prices Send for Illustrated Price List ROCHESTER OPTICAL CO. Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS Solicited Sent on Application ROCHESTER, N. Y. METION THE PNEUS." SEHSTD :FO:R OATALOGtrs. THE PNEUMATIC. ANDRAE CYCLES To the Front as Usual. Blgin (111.) road race, three Audraes in the race; first, third and fifth place. Second time prize .... High School (Milwaukee) field day, first in mile open. Oconomowoc cycle races, First in Every Race . . . Waterloo road race, June 4?, Walter Schrader from scratch, wins first time, sixth place, beating course record one minute, Quilly wins second place. Only two Andraes in the race Madison, June 6, Schrader wins first in one-quarter mile open, time, 35:1-5; second (from scratch) in two mile handicap, time, 5:06, both track records. Menominee, Mich., High School field day, Hamilton, on Andrae, first in one-half mile open, time, 1:19. ALL MOUNTED ON ANDRAES "Andraes" Never Disappoint Is the talk of the country. It is wonderful how they sift through the crowd and show up in front. Better ride one and have a wheel that does not disappoint. JULIUS ANDRflE & SONS CO. 225 West Water Street ... MILWAUKEE OUR CATALOGUE 15 FREE MBNTION THE "PNEUS." THE PNEUMATIC. this practice is encouraged it will be at the expense of the sport. A gambler or a "bookmaker" has no license to interfere with an amateur event, and if he is allowed to operate at races it will only be a matter of time when his influence will be felt. At Wausau, Carl Krueger, winner of the race, was offered as a 6 to 1 man by the "bookies." When he won the race the gamblers immediately protested A. MONTHLY his place and asserted that he had been paced by .outside JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. riders. This was only a small race but it served as an FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. example to show what may he expected if betting is All copy for advertisements, changes lor same, news and correspondence allowed to receive attention in cycling. The sport is now [or publication must be sent In before the 7th, to Insure Insertion the same month. Contributions returned ii not published. looked upon as clean, but when "bookmakers'" bets are ENTERED IN THE P. 0 AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOND OLAiS MATTER. allowed to figure on the result of the races, it will only be a ADVERTISING. matter of a few years when there will be just as many dis THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan, It reaches the homes honest cycle races as there are running and trotting races of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on today. application. HENOniNEE'S BICYCLE ORDINANCE. PNEUriATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, 505 East Water Street, - Milwaukee, Wis. The common council of Menominee, Mich., has passed J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. what seems to be a sensible bicycle ordinance—one that M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. works both ways. It imposes proper restrictions on the Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York, use of the wheel, among other things fixing the maximum speed on streets of the city at ten miles per hour. On the NOTE THE CHANGE. other hand, the public is forbidden to leave or place on the Commencing with this issue, as the editorial head will streets "any iron, tin, bottle, glass, nail, tack, wire or any indicate, an important change takes place in the office of other thing whatsoever, contact with which may tend to THE PNUEMATIC. ,We, who are responsible for the existence impede or injure any bicycle moving over such street or of this monthly visitor and for its gradual growth, lay sidewalk." aside the editorial pen to take charge of the business An ordinance of this kind in Milwaukee would be management and in our chair will be seated a man whose favorably received by all sensible wheelmen. Recently newspaper experience and familiarity with cycling is a scorchers have run down and severely injured a number of guarantee that the pages will be brighter and more com people and it is now reported that an ordinance is to be plete with news. introduced in the common council regulating the rate of It is with a feeling of sincere regret that we resign this speed of riders. It is to be hoped that the aldermen will position, but the growth of the paper demands the change not forget to incorporate in the measure a section for and we believe our cycling friends will be benefited by it. bidding the throwing of rubbish ou the streets, M. C. ROTIER, ASSOCIATED CYCLING CLUBS. BICYCLE RACES FOR WOMEN. Why is there so little life in the Associated Cycling A one-mile bicycle race in which only wheelwomen can Clubs ? That organization has accomplished nothing this enter, is being advertised as one of the features of the season except to get permission to conduct the circuit Ozaukee County fair. As a drawing card, the idea may be races here in August, and the prospects now are that some a good one, but it is to be hoped that such races will be dis club will have to take the races off the association's hands. couraged and that wheelwomen will refuse to enter into the Several meetings, at which no interest or enthusiasm has contest. The track is no place for the fair rider. If she been displayed, have recently been held, but as uearly as persists in becoming a racer, she will soon find that pre can be learned no other business than the decision "to judice will be raised in quarters where cycling as a pastime appoint a committee has been transacted. From present for women is now looked upon with favor. There have appearances, it is very probable that the North Side Club been female baseball teams but all of them have been looked will have to take charge of the races. In that event there upon as degrading, in the eyes of the public and the result is again a danger of two or three members of that organ will be the same with feminine track racers. ization securing control of the tourney and conducting iL in a manner that will pay the largest profits. Under no cir BETTING ON RACES. cumstances should the local League members allow the "Bookmakers" are now turning their attention to races to be run by private parties again. If the races can bicycle races. At the Chicago road race and at the Wausau not be run as they ought to be, the present sanction should race, on Memorial Day, betting was freely indulged in. If be surrendered, THE PNEUMATIC. JOHNSON A PROFESSIONAL. "Dutch" Howie's Record. The action of the Racing Board in declaring John S. D. W. Howie, Jr., often called "Dutch" by his High Johnson a professional, is a step in the right direction. But School friends, is twenty years of age and is one of the speed now that the board has begun the strict enforcement of the iest riders found on Wisconsin tracks. He began racing rules governing racing and Class B, it should extend its two years ago and has established a riding record held by investigation among other riders. Johnson is not the only fewof his age in the state. In 1893 he secured ninth placein one who has been a professional under cover of Class B. the Waukesha road race with a ten minute handicap, and There are many others equally as guilty as he is. He alone came within two minutes of best time. It was at the ought not to he singled out. Let the inquiry go on until Telegram meet iu 1893 that Howie won his novice race in the L. A. W. controls none but pure A and B men Next 2:37. That same year he won second place in a race with season the League will find itself compelled to take the Roy Reed, the fast Ripon racer. Last year he began his professional rider under its wing and not until this step is racing at the High School field day exercises at which he accomplished will the racing board be able to place leading won several prizes. In the Marinette races Chicago men racing men in the class they belong. tried Howie.but the best that they could do was to barely beat him. At Monroe he won the two mile handi Morrison to Wheelmen. cap in fast time and Chief Consul A. Cressy Morrison has issued the follow fmished second to ing address to wheelmen: Will Sanger in the To THE WHBBLMEN AND CITIZENS or MILWAUKEE: The League of f^ two mile open. In American Wheelmen, through its officials In each Division, desires to uphokrthe law, and where no laws exist, it desires to control the actions of the Fraternal Alli its members and all wheelmen, so that no abuse of the privileges accorded ance races he cap wheelmen by the community and citizens may grow np. There are 12.000 wheelmen in Milwaukee. The large majority know that the bicycle is tured the one mile accorded the same rights and privileges and is subject to the same laws handicap and from governing other vehicles. A very small minority do not realize that the bicycle is governed by any laws whatsoever, and abuse the privileges the Edgerton meet which a liberal city government and a lenient public have accorded it. The he brongbt back League of American Wheelmen, through its chief executive, calls upon all of its members and all good citizen wheelmen to aid in the correction and three second prizes. suppression of the growing tendency among wheelmen, and especially the At Waukesha he young riders, to use the streets in a way that not only is inconvenient "for pedestrians, hut positively dangerous. took the mile handi The wheelmen of Milwaukee cannot expect the public to submit to cap and on Septem scorching on the city streets, to the rapid turning of corners, to the peculiar persistency with which some wheelmen ride on the left-hand side of the ber 28, at Elkhorn, street, and to the terrific pace which some riders assume, even in the most he won both hatidi- crowded thoroughfares. Therefore the L. A. w. feels confident in appealing to organized wheelmen and to the great, body of wheelmen, who, as we cap events and know, have always been in harmony with good citizenship, that they are secured second not calling in. vain. Every time you see a violation of the law by a wheel 'a~ man, stop him and talk to him with earnest emphasis; and the League of places in several American Wheelmen hereby notifies the wheelmen, regardless of their open races in which affiliations, that while it Is the object of the League to pi-otect the rights of wheelmen, it will, from the publication of this notice forward, add to its a large field of Chicago riders were entered. The following duties the arrest and conviction of any wheelman who persistently violates day Howie made a sprint at the Milwaukee Wheelmen's the laws which govern vehicles generally, and will aid the police in secur ing good order in every possible way. field day races which won him glory. It was in the finish These remarks do not reflect upon wheelmen as a whole, but upon the of the mile open in which he defeated Willie Sanger and very small minority whom we as wheelmen must recognize as violators of the fundamental law of all nations, common sense. other fast local riders. He also won the half-mile open. At On the other hand, the League requests the citizens of Milwaukee to the Janesville meet Howie made his greatest feat, establish use a little care, also. They are requested not to walk backwards or blind folded upon the main thoroughfares. They are requested not to stop and ing the world's record for a quarter-mile, standing start, gaze at an approaching wheelman and then jump in fourteen directions at in :27^4. The record was protested but the same day he once. They are requested to keep steadily and quietly on their way, no matter where they see a wheelman, and the wheelman will see to it that rode another quarter in :30% which is still a state record. they are not hurt; but if they shy at the approaohing monster, they are In these races he defeated Crocker, Church, Sanger, Cnare pretty sure to shy in the wrong direction. The number of bicycles is rapidly approaching the number of other vehicles which use the streets and Kenyon, of Chicago. During last winter and spring and they are entitled to the use of them, and drivers of vehicles must he was ill but he is now rapidly getting into condition and remember that in the growth of cycling is the probability that the wheel men will be largely in the majority. It therefore behooves the drivers of as soon as the state circuit opens he will be back on the vehicles to accord the wheelmen the same courtesies which they have the track, and good work is expected from him. right to expect from the new vehicle. No law will be more effective in con trolling wheelmen than the present common law governing vehicles, and Superior Heard From. nothing will tend to the establishment of harmonious relations for the'new vehicle better than the suppression of abuses by the wheelmen themselves. F. E. Spring, local consul for Superior, has sent Sec A. CRBSSY MORRISON, ; Chief Consul. retary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier a batch of ten new League members. Mr. Spring writes that interest in the L. A. W. Three times as many ladies are now riding wheels as is booming and that there will be 100 League members in was the case a year ago. his city before the close of the season. THE PNEUMATIC. OPINIONS ON THE BLOOilER. Interviews With a Number of Prominent Women In Wisconsin Show That Their Views Differ Greatly. The Milwaukee Sentinel has interviewed a number of well-known women in the state on bloomers. Mrs. E. P. Eaton, of Beloit, thinks that a blouse waist and skirt ought to be worn; Mrs. Senator R. J. Burdges, of the The ladies of Green Bay are talking of organizing a same place, can see no objection to bloomers; Mrs. W. D. club for the purpose of booming the bloomer. Up to date Hall says that the time is coming when all women will only one woman there has the courage to don bloomers. wear them; Mrs. C. Ingersoll thinks the bloomer is un * * # becoming; Mrs. John Foster prefers a. skirt; Miss Carrie Marinette, and Menominee have more lady riders who Ross, one of Beloit's most popular lady riders, thinks wear bloomers than any two cities in the Northwest. bloomers are unnecessary, while Mrs. G. W. Sparks, of the same place, approves of them. Madison women are con * * * At Appleton the report that the council is to pass an servative in their ideas. Mrs. R. M. La Follette hopes it ordinance prohibiting the wearing of bloomers in public is will be unnecessary to adopt a costume quite so different looked upon as a hoax. from the regular street dress; Mrs." Gov. W. H. Upham * # # thinks that a skirt is more sensible; Mrs. C, K. Adams Mrs. John Jacob Astor owns a nickel-plated wheel. says the modest woman will never wear an immodest * * * costume; Mrs. J. C. Spooner is not charmed to see a The average woman learns to ride a bicycle in five or woman in bloomers and Mrs. H. Casson thinks that six lessons, many women learn in two or three, and the woman should wear what she is most comfortable in unusual woman learns in one. without sacrificing grace or dignity. Mrs. H. P. Falme- * * * stock, of Superior, does not oppose them nor does Mrs. C. The Misses Rockfeller are the owners of silver wheels, P. White. Miss Etta Hannahs does not oppose them while except where the works require the hard material. Mrs. C. S. Beck does because "they are an unwomanly costume." Mrs. Ella Crocker, Mrs. Gustav Schrage and Oshkosh Has«a riodern Woman. Miss Charlotte Schroeder, of Sheboygan, have no pre Pedestrians on Jackson street, Oshkosh, were much judice against them, while Mrs. C. M. Fairchild, of Mari amused at an unusual sight. It was nothing more than a nette, favors and wears them. Ashland women are fashionably attired young matron riding leisurely along on opposed to them, while Appleton women are not. Among her bicycle and pushing a rubber-tired baby perambulator the women at that place who advocate them are Mrs. Dr. containing a smiling specimen of Young America, who Plautz, Mrs.Minnie R.Winslow and Miss Emma Schroeder. seemed perfectly delighted with his novel' ride. Scores of At Green Bay and Eau Claire the bloomer alsois infavor. people paused to take a second look at this newest phase of the new woman until the object of their interests, with Wheelwomen As Racers. considerable dexterity, turned cab and wheel down a side Thewheelwomen of Ozaukee County are going to make street and was soon lost to view. the Ozaukee County Fair a success if their efforts will do it. They have decided to enter in a race provided that the The Bloomer Costume In 1855. managers of the fair will set up a prize that will be worth The. Jefferson Banner is reprinting extracts from its old their time to ride for. This is the first race of wheelwomen files, and finds the following comment on the bloomer cos in this state. tume printed in the year 1855 : " Can any one answer why the bloomer costume should not be brought into general Eight Wisconsin Women L. A. W. riembers. use? Is it a sufficient reason because those who are ram Though the number of wheelwomen in the state has pant and abusive in their opposition, that a healthy, agree largely increased this season, comparatively few take ad able and convenient dress should be discarded for a less vantage of the privilege extended by the L. A. W. in allow elegant and more clumsy one, and of a style manifestly ing them to become members. There are only eight unbecoming our age of progress and reform? Had the lady League members in Wisconsin: Miss Nina F. ladies of 1854 a little more independence, we opine that the Huie, of Neenah; Miss Amy Clish, of Marinette; Mrs. H. vulgar pens of brainless snobs and reeling loafers would B. Chamberlin, of Shullsburg; Mrs. Ella Denning and have but little influence to deter them from adopting such Mrs. Jennie Lott, of Marshfield; Miss Agnes Fahsel, Miss habits as their good sense and cultivative taste would Cora E. Mosher, of Milwaukee, and Miss Edna E. Moore, suggest as conducive to their best interests of health and of Cheteck. Local consuls and wheelmen, as well, ought to pleasure." induce more women to join. THE PNEUMATIC. WE ARE NOW IN THE LEAD. Clementson On Road Rights of Wheelmen. Wisconsin Division the Largest In membership In the West—Nearly AH An attractive little volume with the above title comes the Old League Members Have Renewed. to us through Callaghan & Companj-", law book publishers The Wisconsin Division is no longer in the rear ranks of of Chicago. The author-is Mr. Geo. B. Clementson, of the League of American Wheelmen, but is now the leading Lancaster, Wis., a member of the L. A. W., and an division of the West. Michigan, Ohio, Colorado, Illinois attorney. and other Western divisions which, in former years, have The book is a complete treatise, in a small compass, looked down on this state with contempt, because it was upon the laws relating to the construction and mainten weak in numbers, now find the tables turned. Hard and ance of highways, to the rights of the public upon the persistent work on the part of the division officers has road, with particular reference to bicycle riders, the duties placed Wisconsin in the front ranks. The work has been and liabilities of passengers to each other, and those of quietly going on for a year and the growth has been slow the authorities in charge of highways towards the public. but steady. Now the membership list numbers over 800 The volume contains a legal treatise, with numerous cita and there are two weeks more before the renewal season tions to statutes and legal decisions, with an appendix closes. Last year the division numbered only 426 mem giving a full report of recent decisions involving the rights bers. Booming the L. A. W. has been found uphill work of wheelmen, and is certainly a valuable addition to the but constant efforts on the part of Chief Consul A. C. literature upon highway law. We commend the book to Morrison and Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier, assisted by the members of the Rights and Privileges Committees and an able staff of local consuls, has been rewarded by 356 of the Roads Improvement Committees of the L. A. W., renewals out of a possible 426. This is probably the and congratulate the author upon the thoroughness and largest percentage of renewals in the country. the success with which he has handled the subject. Frank F. Nicholson, a Janesville drummer, broke two " Con." Knudson's New Paper. wheels the other night while trying to learn to ride. He The Madison Cyclist is the name of a new monthly says he intends to keep on if he breaks a dozen more. paper, devoted to cycling, which is published at Madison by Cornelius Knudson, a popular young wheelman. The Cyclist has been made the official organ of the Madison Club and is a credit to that organization. It is full of spicy- reading matter, well illustrated, and the printing is neat and clean. The paper deserves the support of every wheel man in Madison. * * # The "Good Roads" edition of the Wisconsin Agri culturist, on May 15, was issued under the auspices of the Wisconsin League for Good Roads and contained matter that will convince the farmer that good roads are desirable and for his welfare. Otto D°rner, the secretary of the league, was editor pf the special number. # # # The Milwaukee Sentinel, on Memorial Day, issued an eight-page supplement devoted entirely to cycling. Besides a number of interesting sketches, the paper was well illustrated. From the Exchange Table. A Portage boy (no need of mentioning the name) is about to make a bicycle. He proposes to take the wheels out of his head, the rubber out of his neck and the seat of his pants and attach them to the frame of his mind when— but we draw the veil.—Portage Daily. Bicycles can be bought cheap on the installment plan now, and the price of a few "balls "per day will pay for it nicely. Then one feels better without the said "balls," and feels better, also, with the wheel. Thus the bicycle becomes Louisa A. Roth—First Bloomer Girl in Milwaukee. an alley to the Prohibitionists.—Printers' Union. . THE PNEUMATIC. STATE RACING DISTRICTS. Everts won the one mile bicycle race in 2:50, at the Chairman I. F. Strauss, ol the Racing Board, Has Divided the State Into Normal School field day exercises, at Stevens Point. . Five Disrtlcts—Other Racing; Gossip of the Board. The Racing Board of the Wisconsin Division, L. A. W., At the field day exercises of Beloit College, Donavan, of has mapped out its work for the season. The business of Evansville, won the quarter-mile bicycle race, in 41 seconds, the Board this year is to be conducted on a strictly sys C. Foster, St. Paul, the half-mile, in 1:14V2, and D. tematic basis and on this account it has been decided to Van Wart the two mile, in QASVi. divide the state into five districts, one of each to be under the supervision of each member, the following territory The Duluth Cycling Club's road race was won by Hassel- has been assigned to the members of the Board: blad, in 36:20 ; Mertens won the time in 27:32. The course F. H. Blodgett^The counties of Jefferson, Rock, Green, Lafayette, was ten miles. After the race the cyclists held a banquet. Dane, Iowa, Grant and Columbia. Many Superior riders attended. H. P. Andrae—Sheboygan, "Washington, Ozaukee, Waukesha, Mil waukee, Walworth, Bacine and Kenosha. N. E. Lindquist—Marinette, Manitowoc, Calumet, Brown, Kewaunee, Baer, of Appleton, won the mile bicycle race in 3:19, at Shawano, Langlade, Oneida and all counties east and south of the ones the field day exercises of the Inter-High School Athletic mentioned. I. F. Strauss—Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Lake, Marquette, Association, at Fond du Lac, on May 30, Corliss, Ripon, Waushara, Winnebago, Portage, Waupaca and Outagamie. finishing second, and Reed, Ripon, third. F. Huutzicker—Ashland, Price, Lincoln, Marathon, Clark, Eau Claire, Dunn, Pepin and all counties north and west. Under this system each member of the board will be Kruegmeyer, of Horicon, won the mile bicycle race, at charged with the responsibility of the racing interests in the Dodge County Athletic League's field day, June 1; his territory and he will be expected to look after the Schultz, second. Time 3:30. affairs of the various counties under his jurisdiction. He will keep in touch with the racing men and race promoters The races which were planned at Beloit, Platteville and and be on the alert to prevent the violation of racing rules. La Crosse, on Memorial Day, were postponed on account Each member will also be expected to assist the state of rain. handicapper, D. D. Warner, in all state events. The board is now engaged in collecting the names of all the state The Wausau Cycling Club is arranging another road racers and after the list is completed, race promoters will be race for June 29. One hundred dollars worth of prizes will furnished references that will be valuable to them in pro be awarded. moting meets. It is also proposed to guard against the granting of state sanctions that will interfere with other It is proposed to hold a road race at Appleton on July meets. 4. The distance has not yet been decided upon. The board is still undecided as to the state circuit races. The members of the board are now consulting the race Under the management of George K. Mead, Sheboy promoters and if the sentiment is in favor of holding two gan will have a five mile road race on the Fourth of July. short circuits the board will act accordingly; if not, only The start and finish will be at the same point. It will be a one extended circuit will be held. local affair. State Racing Notes. Jefferson wheelmen are planning to hold a tournament The Derby Cycling Club, of Burlington, Wis., is making on June 28 or 29. preparations for its first annual road race, which takes place on June 30. The course is to Lyons and return, a A five and one-half mile road race will be run at Winne- distance of eleven miles, over some of the best road in the conne on July 4. W. A. Melcher receives entries. state. Over $300 in prizes will be offered. Ou July 4, at Beaver Dam, there will be a road race and At the University of Wisconsin field day exercises, May three track events, as follows: Five mile handicap, one 22, the one mile bicycle race was won by T. G. Chittenden, mile handicap and half-mile open. '98, in 2:34 4-5, lowering last year's record seven seconds. C II. Anderson, '96 and 0. B. Zimmermann, '96, were a The Waukesha Wheelmen are arranging a large meet close second and third respectively. to be held some time in August. One thousand dollars in In the Fall River road race, run under the auspices of prizes are to be awarded. A guarantee fund is being raised the Columbus Wheelmen, owing to some misunderstanding by business men. there were only five stai-ters. Arthur Stevens finished first, with a fourminute handicap,in37:55. EdwardBlumenthal The second meeting of the Southern Wisconsin Tri won the time in 35:55, he having had one minute handicap. angular circuit will be held at Monroe on July 4. Riders The course is about ten miles. from Madison and Beloit will be entered. f HE PNEUMATIC. STATE HEET AT HARINETTE. Future State Races. June 28—Jefferson cycle meet. Every Indication That the fleet Will Be a Success—Nine Events Will Be June 211—Wausau road race. Run Each Day. June 30—Derby Club, Burlington, road race. Marinette wheelmen are hard at work making arrange July 4~-Burlington road race. July 4— Oshkosh cycle meet. ments for the state and national circuit meets, to be held July 4—Sheboygan, five mile local road race. there on August 16 and 17, on which clays all the fast men July 4—Appleton cycle meet. July 4—Marinette cycle meet. in the L. A. W. will be there. A good program for the July 4—Beaver Dam road race and tourney. amusement of the riders is now being arranged and there is July 4—Winneconne road race. July 4—Waukesha-Milwaukee road race, Milwaukee Wheelmen, every reason to believe that the tourney will be one of the July 4—Superior road race. most successful ever conducted in Wisconsin. The prize list July 11—Monroe cycle meet. July 12-13—Wausau cycle meet. will be equal to that of anycityin the West. The committee July 16, 17, 18, 19-Cycle meet, Superior Bicycle Club. having the races in charge has decided that nine events will August 15, 16—L. A. W. national circuit ana state meet at Marinette. August 18, 19 — National circuit meet at Milwaukee, Associated be run daily, as follows: Cycling Clubs. FIRST DAY—AUGUST 16. flarinette's Coming Heet. 1. One Mile Novice .'. 1 Class A 3. Half Mile, State Championship " A Marinette wheelmen have planned a big meet for the 3. Two Mile Open " B Fourth of July, Nine races have been arranged and it has 4. Half Mile Handicap " A 5. One Mile Handicap " B been decided to buy the prizes instead of asking business 0. One Mile, Boys IS years or under " A 7. Two Mile, State Championship " A men to donate them. The program is as follows : 8. Half Mile Open " B One Mile Novice. i). Two Mile Handicap " A One Mile Marinette Cycling Club, Championship. One Mile Boys' Handicap, 16 years or under. SECOND DAY-AUGUST 17. One Mile Handicap. 1. One Mile Handicap Class A One Mile Business Men's—local. 2. Quarter Mile Open " B One-half Mile Open, 3. One Mile, State Championship " A One-half Mile Boys', under 17 years. 4. Two Mile Handicap " B One Mile Open. 5. One Mile, 2:35 Class : , " A Five Mile Handicap. 6. One Mile Open " B The club has decided to hold a general celebration of 7. Quarter Mile, State Championship " A 8. Three Mile Handicap " B wheelmen on that day and one of the features will be a 9. Five Mile Handicap " A parade in which fully 750 wheelmen from Marinette and Superior's Cycle fleet. Menominee will participate. Superior is cycle-mad in anticipation of the large meet Hadison's Race fleet. to be held there on July 16, 17, 18 and 19. Club meetings The first of the series of races to be held by the South are being held regularly and the business men are lending western Triangular Circuit atMadison, Beloit and Monroe, their support. The race meet promises to be one of the were held on June 6 at Madison. The races were well largest and most successful ever held in the northern part attended and resulted in S. C. Cox, of Chicago, breaking of the state. The Superior Club expects soon to be ad the track record. Following are the results: mitted to the L. A. W., and the race meet will be con One mile novice—S. C. Cox, Chicago, first; Roy Smellier, Madison, second. Time2:82J£. ducted under the auspices of that association. The club Quarter-mile open, final heat—W, O. Schrader, Milwaukee, first; T. G. has secured from the Land and River Improvement Com Chittenden, Madison, second; A. Bingenheimer, Milwaukee, third. Time 35^- pany the use of the driving park for the race meet. The One mile tandem—Ed. Roth and Harry Crocker, Milwaukee, first; club has a membership of 150 and there is some talk of F. H. Blodgett and F. L. Moore, Beloit, second; B. W. Parle and D. D. Warner, Madison, third. Time 2:59%, building a club house to cost $1,500. Two mile handicap—James Hodges, Monroe, first; W. C. Schrader, Milwaukee, second; Ward Lamberson, Madison, and R. P. Searles, Madi Oshkosh Waking Up. son, tied for third. Time 4:56^- One-half mile open, final-S. C. Cox, Chicago, first; R. C. Smelker, The club recently organized at Oshkosh is now making Madison, second; Leon Chilcott, Beloit, third. Time 1:13(4. One mile triangular championship—F. L. Moore, Beloit, and1 Ward arrangements for a cycle meet on July 4. The plans are yet Lamberson, tied for first; II. L. Hull, Madison, third. Time 8:51. incomplete, but at least three events have been decided One mile handicap—James Hodges, Monroe, first; Louis Hetwlg, Monroe, second; H. S. Bird, Madison, third. Time 2:82J£. upon—a mile novice, a mile open and a mile for the Oshkosh One mile open—S. C. Cox, Chicago, first; T. G. Chittenden. Madison, championship. Diamonds are to be awarded as prizes. second; E. P. Searles, Madison, third. Time 2:35. Though Oshkosh is one of the largest cities in the state Menominee Road Race. wheelmen there seem to be unusually slow. It is to be The Menominee road race on Memorial Day was won ' hoped that other events will be planned before the season by Chase in 28:05, which was also the best time. Chase is over. had a handicap of 2 minutes. Seidl, 4 minutes handicap, . " Wheelmen at Waupaca are taking an interest in the finished second, and Gilmore, 4 minutes handicap, third. improvement of the Veterans' Home road and are con Chandler, of Waupaca, fell 100 feet from the tape and tributing funds for the undertaking.' broke his wheel. THE PNEUMATIC. Waterloo Road Race. the Green Bay riders by Mayor Elmore at the court house The Waterloo road race, which was run over an eight at 8 o'clock in the morning and was carried on to Apple- and one-half mile course, on June 4, was won by H. H. ton, Kaukauna, Neenah, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac in four Gottschalk, of Sun Prairie, while W. Schrader, of Mil hours and forty-four minutes. waukee, captured the time prize, beating Harry Crocker. Crescent City Road Race. The following is the time made by the starters: The Crescent City Cycling Club's road race at Monroe, W. 0. Schrader 27:35 E. B. Crump 33:50 H. Crocker 28:20 L.Fiebinger 34:38 on June 4, resulted in Joseph Sickinger, who had forty sec E. A. Clifford 29:00 August Menedorf. 34:30 onds handicap, winning the race, and Albert Kundert, who A, "E. Sperbeck 30:45 James Stokes 35:08 E.H.Uglow '..31:10 F. E. Peschel 35:20 had fifteen seconds handicap, in getting the time prize in John Luilty 31:14 A. Faltersack 35:25 6:27%. Louis Hirsig, the scratch man, finished fifth and B W. Parks. : 31:17 A. Buokhert 36:38 H. H. Gottschalk 32:00 Joseph Blascka. 39:28 rode so hard that he fainted on his wheel after crossing G. w. Fan- 33:25 the tape. Beloit's Successful Meet. A Cyclist at Seventy. The Beloit Cycling Club's meet on June 13 was a suc Marinette claims the oldest bicycle rider in the state, cess. L. D. Chilcott, of Beloit, and F. S. Huntley, of Hunt and perhaps in the country. George Townsend, a retired ley, 111., won all the races, the results of which are: machinist, who is nearly seventy years of age, has just One-half mile open—Won by Chilcott; F. Cnare, Evansville, second; purchased a wheel, and as he has nothing to do but to Webb Stevens, Eockford, third. Time 1:20 1-5. enjoy himself he proposes to ride a wheel and keep himself One mile handicap—Won by Harry Hull, Madison, 25 yards; Chilcott, scratch, second; J. H. Durno, "Eockford, third. Time 2:47 1-5. healthy and hearty. It may look strange to people in this One-fourth mile open—Won by Chilcott; Cnare, second; A. Burr, country to see an elderly man riding a wheel, but it is Rocktord, third. Time :34 2-5. ' quite the rule for such people in England to ride, play Two-mile handicap—F. S. Huntley, 150 yards, first; Durno, second; Burr, third, Time 5:42 3-5. tennis, etc. One mile open—Chilcott, first; Cnare. second; Stevens, third. Time 3:021-5. New State Clubs. Five mile, handicap—Huntley, 300 yards, first; Chilcott, scratch, second; Durno, scratch, third. Time 15:03. Chief Consul A. Cressy Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier and Otto Dorner, secretary of the Wisconsin Marinette Field Day Races. League for Good Roads, organized a club at Oshkosh, on The Y. M. C. A. field day races at Marinette, on June 1, May 31. The officers of the club are: President, R. H. resulted as follows: Halsey; vice-president,, -L. P. Allen; secretary, George Hundred yard dash—Dalke, first; McOallum, second; Allen, third. Sanders. H. C. Ingles, Benjamin Soper and John Rosen- Time :10!4. Half-mile handicap—Merryman, first; Chase, second; Klagstadt, third. kranz were appointed a committee to secure headquarters. Time 1:12}£. The club has a membership of 100, and may apply for an Two hundred and twenty yard dash—Dalke, first; Allen, second; Mc- Cullum, third. Time :23M. L. A. W. charter. Quarter mile open—O'Shinsky, first; Chase, second; Klagstadt, third. Time :3i. A bicycle club has been organized at Appleton. It starts Business men's race—Klagstadt, first; Wheeler, second; Mars, third. Time 2:31. out with the most promising appearances. The following One mile handicap—Chase, scratch first; Place, second; Bell, third. are the officers: Captain, Gus. Kloes; president, Will Time 2:35'^. Boys'half-mile handicap—Curtis Merryman, 15 yards, first; Gilmore, Shields; vice-president, Harry Prahl; financial secretary, scratch, second. Time 1:23. Rolla Wolcott; recording secretary, Herb.Verwey; treasurer, One -mile open—Klagstadt, first; Chase, second; O'shinsky, third. Time 3:11. Fred. Woiter; trustees, H. Wolter and William Groth. Wausau Road Race. Neenah has organized a League club and elected the fol Though it rained, the twelve mile road race at Wausau lowing officers: President, E.W.Griswold; vice-president, J. was run as scheduled on Memorial Day. Win. Schrader C. Yule; secretary-treasurer, S. D. Baircl; captain, G. IT. won the time prize in 49:37, while Carl Krueger, Kuhefuss; lieutenant, A. L. Mucks; captain of ladies' divi of Wausau,. crossed the tape first. Schrader ran into sion, Miss Nina Huie. It has 100 charter members, and is a barb wire fence and cut his arm. Several riders' still growing. wheels were disabled on account of the almost impassable condition of the roads. There was heavy betting on the The Kaukauna Bicycle Club has been organized, with race, "bookmakers" having picked Krueger as a 6 to 1 the following officers: President, L. E. Sargent; vice- president, Dr. H..B. Tanner; secretary and treasurer, Wm. Nugent; captain, J. N. Trout. Green Bay=Fond du Lac Relay. The relay race from Green Bay to Fond du Lac, a dis George B. Clementson, of Lancaster, has published a tance of 72 miles, was run on Memorial Day in 4 minutes neat book on "Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen." less than the scheduled time. The message was handed to It is full of valuable information for wheelmen. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief State Notes. Frederick Lindelkugel, of Manawa, has donated the use of some land and a one-third mile track for riders is Grand Rapids has eighty wheelmen. being built. Fifteen Kaukauna ladies wear bloomers. Bertie Kenyon, a 7-year-old Appleton boy, was run Oshkosh policemen may soon be mounted on bicycles. down by a careless rider. The child sustained a bad gash Baraboo riders have adopted black and blue for club on its head. colors. A wheel stolen from C. Freuchtel, of Saginaw, Mich., The Rev. J. B. Olstead, of Appleton, is an ardent last summer, at Menominee, was recently found in a back wheelman. yard in the latter city. Eighty riders of Menominee participated in a parade Members of the Arrow Club, of Janesville, by a unani on May 23. mous vote have decided not to ride faster than six miles an Marinette riders are considering the advisability of hour on business streets. hiring a trainer. President L. A. Erhart, of the Winnebago Wheelmen, was The Winnebago Wheelmen, of Fond du Lac, now num married on May 15. The club members presented him ber 146 members. with a silver water pitcher. Peshtigo and Sugar Bush residents have become infected Several members of the Winnebago Wheelmen, Fond du with the cycle fever. Lac, are planning to take a trip through the southern The Marinette Club is making extensive improvements part of the state this summer. on the Riverside Park track. Edward Payne, of Marshfield, wants to ride around Frank Schubring was sentenced to six months in jail, the world without money, provided Marshfield citizens will at Racine for stealing a bicycle. give him $1,000 when he returns. An 1892 Century Columbia, No. 9193 was stolen from At Marinette, while every one was hurrying to a fire, Jelleff & Jackson's office, at Ripon. Frank Powell, of that city, collided with a Menominee Jefferson has passed an ordinance making it a mis rider and was knocked insensible. demeanor to ride a wheel on sidewalks. The D. D. Warner Company, of Madison, has opened a Carl Klagstadt, of Marinette, promises.to be one of riding school in the turner hall where lessons are given the fastest riders in the state this season. Tuesday and Saturday mornings. Marinette wheelmen must carry lanterns on their At Berlin an ordinance has been passed limiting the wheels since the passage of a recent ordinance. speed of riders from four to six miles an hour. Riders are In the Appleton Memorial Day parade the cyclists complaining about the absiird measure. formed a column four abreast three blocks long. T. M. Bredell, one of a gang of bicycle thieves who Julius Benke, of Waupaca, recently stole a horse, have been arrested at Toledo, was formerly a clerk at the traded it for a bicycle and now languishes in jail. Park hotel in Madison, where he is well known. Chandler, of Waupaca, showed in the Menominee road A cycle meet at which a number of valuable prizes will race that he is still as speedy as he was last year. be awarded, will be held at Wausau on July 12 and 13, Neenah wheelmen are opposed to the ordinance com pelling them to carry bells and lanterns on bicycles. Janesville has one of the finest club houses in the state. The Arrow Cycling Club has been incorporated and has S. F. Luchenbach and. J. H. McGillan, of Marinette, ninety members. The Y. M. C. A. club is also prosperous. cannot agree as to who is the fastest rider of the two. Albert Schaller, while scorching, collided with a glass Fourteen members of the Arrow Club, of Janesville, portable pop-corn house, at Janesville. He will have a visited Rockford recently and were royally entertained. nice bill to foot for the repairs of his wheel and the pop W. A.Brown and C. M. Fairchild, of Marinette, have corn stand, been elected to represent Marinette on the division board. The Appleton Crescent says that Harvey Pearson, N. E. Lindquist, ex-local consul of Marinette, is doing James Heath and Frank Holbrooke hold the record from good work in booming the League in that part of the Appleton to Green Bay, a distance of thirty-one miles, state. their time being 1:52. The members of the Y. M. C. A. club, of Janesvile, have While J. W. Oliver, ex-member of the State Board of adopted the national colors-red, white and blue-as club Control, was riding at Waupun on June 4, his wheel colors. struck a stone and threw him. His right leg was fractured The Neenah Cycling Club held a parade on May 23. in two places and dislocated at the hip. His injured leg, One hundred and sixteen wheelmen and wheelwomen were when he recovers, will be two inches shorter than the left in line. membe. THE PNEUMATIC. 35. H. W. Crocker, M. W 1 31:50 WON BY JOSEPH DOLISTER. 3fi. W. P. De Cardy, M. andW Both. 30:55 37. J. W. Warnken, N. S. C. C 4 35:00 38. R. C. Lemhko, Menominee Palls 414 35:32 The Burlington Rider Captures the North Side Club's Road Race, While 39. George II. Bender, N. S. O. C 014 37:34 40. Henry Pierron, N. S. C. C 6 37:05 C V. Dasey, of Chicago, Wins First Time. The winners of the seven time prizes are as follows: Had the course of the Milwaukee road race, held on Name and Club. Handicap. Time. June 8, under the auspices of the North Side Cycling Club, U C. V. Dasey, C. S. O. C 1 30:48 2. W. P. DeCardy, M. and w seth 30:55 been in good condition, the race would have been a grand 3. Anion Stoltz, M. C. C 3 31:07 4. J. Dolister, Derby C. C 314 31:20 success. The entire Morgan & Wright team was entered, 5. W. Bainbridge, M. and W seth 31:29 f,. F. Weige, M. and W ' 2lA 31:47 also such Chicago 7. J H. Zerbel, N. S. C. C 4 31:50 7. | H. W. Crocker, M. W 1 31:50 flyers as C. C. Duke, Following is the key to the abbreviations of the clubs: C. V. Dasey, H. L. B W.C Badger Wheelmen Dodson, and E. W. O. a. O. C Cream City Cycle Club C. S. C, C... Chicago S. S. Cycle Club Osmun, besides all Derby C. C Derby Cycle Club, of Burlington M. C.'O • Mercury Cycle Club the local talent, in- M. W Milwaukee "Wheelmen M. and W Morgan & Wright Team clu ding Schrader, N. S. C. C North Side Cycle Club Clifford, Crocker, NOTES OF THE RACE. Sanger, Stoltz and Schrader led Dasey by two blocks and would probably others. Jos. Dolis- have beaten him for first time but his chain broke. ter won the race. Sanger and Neilson collided and the former cut his C. Y. Dasey won the cheek and ear. He timeiu 30:48 and W. /' ,l'f'• did not finish. F. De Cardy second timeiu 30:55. The The course was latter protested, 392 feet short often claiming first time miles. in 31:00 and assert The M. & W. ing that Dasey's team was badly JOSEPH DOL1STGH. time was 31:10, but bruised after the the protest has not been allowed. The following is the race, nearly every list of riders in the order they finished, their handicap and member having fal their time: len during the ride. Among the Chi Post Handi- Act'l tion. Name and Olnh. cap. Time. cago cracks who 31:20 J. Dolister, Derby CO 814 came up were C. P. H. Zerhel. N. S. C. C * 31:80 3. John Muss, M. C. C... flH 34:30 Root, T. J. Witzel, 31:07 4.' Anton Stoltz, M. C. 0 3 S. T. White, John 5. P. Oonley, city °W 34:40 6. E. Bingor, N. S, O. 0 1 35:40 Kelly, and E. Mc 33: B0 7. P. R. Keinhold, N. S. 0. C 6 ' Neil. 8. ,T. McDonald. Jr., city 8 3? 00 9. Frederick Kirsten, city 7 30:05 E. W. Fry, who 30:06 10. E. A. Slumk, N. S. C. C 1 claimed to have rid- m' DB CARDY" 11. A Weilep, C. C. C, C : 4'/* 33:43 12. John Schuyburg, N. S. C. C W 30:43 den the full course in the Chicago road race and finished 30:44 13. J. J. Sohok. N. S. C. C 7'/s second only to be ruled out because he wore no number, 14, F. Welge. M. and W 2^ 31:47 15. J. Bowler, M. and W 31/s 32:48 made a poor showing. He finished in fifty-seventh place 10. E. E.Harnish, N. S. C. C W* 33:50 17. A. F. Bingenheimer, M. W * 33:22 and there are now few local riders who credit his alleged 35:00 13. H, Guderson, N. S. C. C ^ Chicago performance. 19. (i 35:31 John Lemmer, M. C. C 35:05 20. A. 0. Van Nest, O. C. 0. M There were 102 entries, eighty starters and sixty-five 31. s 32:08 Theodore Kirchner, N. S. C. O '/* 33:15 finished the race. 22. P. Do Cardy, M. and W M 23. 6 34:40 Joseph Dolister, though only 19 years of age, has W. C. Williams, city 30:48 24. O. V. Dnisoy, C. S. 0. C 1 25. 38:50 proven himself to be one of the speediest road racers iu the P. Rauschwalhe, city " 32:00 26. B. W. Nwymann.M. and W » state. Last year, in the Cedarburg road race, he finished 27. 34:10 Edward Everts, N. S. C. C '' 33:15 second, and later in the year he captured a number of 28. W.C. Nielson, M. W ° 29. 36:51 Otto J. Tank, N. S. 0. C °» • 30:52 prizes in events at Burlington. He is a member of the 30. W. Klnso, city "A 31. 38:28 Derby Cycling Club and will, henceforth, be looked upon as John Weilep, city ° 34:53 32. Alexander Stewart, M. and W */2 one of the leading racers in Wisconsin. He will probably 33. 32:30 J. Skelton, M. aud W " 37:38 be entered in the Waukesha road race. 34. Oscar Bunker, city • THE PNEUMATIC. Local Racing Events. Walter Sanger's Condition. Local friends of Walter C. Sanger are speculating con At National Park, ou June 1, the employes of Beats, siderably on what showing he will make this summer. Torrey & Company ran a three-mile bicycle race for the Some time ago he was reported to be in poor condition but silver "medal presented by Capt. J. G. Salsman. It was won later reports received in the city are to the effect that he is hy John F. Hafemeister in 8:42. Otto Koehler, 8:47; J. in fairly good form. While it is believed here that his recent Pratt, 9:15, and W. Meier, 9:27, came in in the order illness will effect his work somewhat, there are few in the mentioned. — city who do not believe that he will be king of Class B Stillman won the one-mile bicycle race on May 25, at before the season is half over. the High School field day exercises, in 2:46. Gaartz finished second and Estes third. Cyclist Dies of Heart Disease. Arthur Rintelman, aged 19 years, whose home is in Three bicycle races will be held at the Scotch picnic this Cedarburg, while riding on a bicycle at Yliet and Twelfth vear. The events will be a one-mile novice and a one and streets on June 4, was stricken with heart disease and fell two-mile handicap. Diamond medals will be awarded in dead from his wheel. He boarded with his uncle, C. Toll, each event. The date set is August 8. at 1632 Prairie street. Rintelman was a shoemaker. The annual road race for the members of the North New South Side Club. Side Club will be held some time in August. The race will The Morgan & Wright Club is the name of a new be over the same course used by the club's recent open organization which has been started on the South Side. event. — The officers are: President, Joseph J. Steinharter; vice- The Western Union Telegraph Company's road race on president, George Bryden; secretary-treasurer, Alexander May 12, was won by B. Perenthaner, who had one minute Evart; financial secretary, E. Steinharter; captain, George handicap, in 11:00, while Otto Yurga won the time prize in Perrigo. A number of club runs are being arranged. The 10:55. The race was over the Whitefish Bay course. club has a membership of thirty and has its meeting place at 344 Greenbush street. Brief Local Items. Henry Kanaska " Crawfished." Upper Grand avenue will be paved with asphalt this year. Under a Philadelphia date of June 3, the Referee says: The management of the mixed professional and Class A races Welcome Kirby has opened a bicycle " tentery " on the held at Alcyon Park, Pitman Grove, N. J., Decoration Day, Bay road. is bitter over the way that Kanaska, who had been lauded Henry Kanaska, the local professional, says he is about to the skies and extensively advertised as a sure Starter, to go to England. gave it a "throw down." At the last minute he refused to It is proposed to boulevard Fourth street from North ride, and when Bunnell accused him of cowardice he avenue to Center street. practically admitted the truth of the charge by saying Local wheelmen are complaining because some streets nothing. The other "pros " who had ridden against him at are continually drenched by sprinklers so that it becomes Toronto say he was defeated so badly in each event lie hard to ride. entered that he "crawfished" when he found lie would have Albert Bingenheimer, of this city, who represents a to meet the same men at Alcyon Park. local jewelry firm, travels considerably during his business trips on his wheel. A Large Parade Planned. Bicycle thieves continue to operate in the city with a The parade of local riders which was'to have been vengeance. Over a dozen wheels were stolen during the past held here on Memorial Day, was postponed on account of month and not a single thief has been sent to prison. rain. A full representation of the clubs turned out and the The following club runs are scheduled by the North Side riders were about to form in line at the Court House Club: June 23, Hales Corners; June 30, Waukesha; July 4, Square when the weather interfered. Chief Consul A. C. State Fair park; July 7, Good Hope; July 14, annual Morrison awarded the North Side Cycling Club a blue Watertown century. silk banner for making the best showing of all the clubs in the city, they having sixty men in line. It has been decided Elmer Grey, Peter Brust and Frank Bader, of this city, to hold the parade after the finish of the Waukesha road and George P. Fernald, of Boston, will sail from Boston on race oil July 4. It is estimated that over 1,000 wheelmen July 6 and will tour England, France and Italy on their will be in line. wheels. Herman Lammers and W. J. Pistor, of Chicago, sailed last Saturday from New York and will join the local A. Cressy Morrison has been appointed a judge at the party in France^ National L. A. W. races at Asbury Park. THE PNEUMATIC. THE WAUKESHA ROAD RACE. General News Notes. Arrangements Are Nearly Completed—The Entry List Will Be Large and John S. Johnson has been declared a professional and Will Include Some of the Fastest Hen In the Country— Tom Eck, his trainer, has been suspended from track The Course In Qood Condition. privileges for one year. Arrangements for the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race —the cycling derby of the. West—have about been com-' Chairman Gideon, of the National Racing Board, has pleted. Indications are that the race will be the largest in granted permission to the Asbury Parle race promoters to the history of the Milwaukee Wheelmen. It is believed that employ Zimmerman as pace-maker in the two-third mile there will be between 200 and 300 entries when they race on July 12. close on Saturday night. Among the fast men who are Tom Eck is trying to organize a professional league. expected to start are De Cardy, Dasey, Bainbridge, Dod- Sanger, on May 30, at Plainfield, N. J., road for the son, Duke, of Chicago, Bird, Briggs and Hanson, of St. first time this season in the mile event but failed to secure Paul, and Chandler and the Anderson boys of Waupaca. a place. Sanger, Howie, Crocker, Roth, Schrader and Stoltz will be Charles Murphy now holds the mile competition among the local flyers. With such an assortment of road record at 2:01 4-5. racers, the success of the race is an assured fact. The At Louisville, on May 29, Dirnberger rode a mile, flying Morgan & Wright team, of Chicago, will probably also start, paced by a quad, in 1:45 Hat, breaking Tyler's ride and make an effort to capture the majority of the ten record of 1:48 3-5, time prizes. The condition of the road this year is better than it has been for several years past and little ^ doubt remains that new records will be established. The racing board is now corresponding with the 44 roaclmasters.having wATrnrcfiMi i iiffiaaBstssy- charge of the course CLM i5D0VC and is requesting SN!""!- '<•> Walter Sanger and Charles W. Murphy will ride a series of match races, beat two out of three, one mile heats, at Manhattan Beach, on Saturday, June 2!). them to keep the course clear from James Levy, a member of the Chicago Cycling Club, obstructions. Workmen will also has green tires on his wheel. They are made of South Sen be employed several days before Island cotton and are puncture-proof. the Fourth of July, on which day There are 25,000 bicycles in Greater New York, the event will be held, to go over the entire distance of the according to the estimate of the editor of a lending weekly course and remove all stones that may interfere with the newspaper devoted to wheeling interests. speed of the riders, The prize list will include 100 trophies. Frank Ives the champion billiardist, is a cycle crank Especial care will be taken in the handicapping and no and in burned almost brown from a recent cycling trip pains will be spared to put all riders in the right classes. through Southern California. The following officers will officiate at the race: A Buffalo firm is building a six wheel machine, a sex- Starter—F. J. Morawetz. ttiplet, which will be chased after records this fall. Referee—E. A. Savage. Judges—-F. R. Pingree, V. II. Tichenor, Waukesha; 0. A. Con tin Doyle, the famous author, is a wheel crank, F. Thieme, Louis Pierron, II. Oscar Blechcr, L. Barnickel, Dirnberger now holds the record for two-third mile, Assistant Judges—R. S. Baird, W. L, White, W, N. Dur flying start, paced, in 1:09 4-5. bin, W. Blakely, T. E. Hutchings, A. Bunke. The Chicago-New York relay ride, which began on June Timers—R. P.Wheeler, D.W. Howie, Louis Bunde, Wm, 5, was run in sixty-five hours and fifty-three minutes, which Schmidt, W, H, Upmeyer. is now the best record. C. W. Price, formerly of Milwau Assistant Timers—M. C. Rotier, L. Huennckens, J. H. Clement, A. Cressy Morrison, N, E. Oliphant. kee, delivered tin message to Gen. N. A. Miles. Chief Marshal—August Rutz. An attempt is being made to match Zimmcrmau and Marshals—J. Schiffmann, Ii. J. Warner, E. H. Neustadl, Johnson, but it is doubtful if a race will be arranged. H. P. Andrae. It is reported that Zimmerman is not up to his last The Marquis of Queensberry is going for long distance year's form and would make a poor showing in a race with records. Johnson. THE PNEUMATIC. Grand Rapids women have organized a club and elected Talks Niagara Now. the following officers: President, Mrs. A. Muir; captain John W. Warnken, a young man who is well and favor Mrs. 0. T. Hougeti; secretary, Miss Alice King. They will ably known among Milwaukee bicycle riders is now the not wear bloomers. Blue and white are the club colors. manager of the cycle department of Beuzemaker Bros., W. L. Sachtleben, of the Outing, thinks that he will find who are general Western agents f~r the Leuz's grave and bring the body to this country for burial. Niagara and cheaper grade wheels. Mr. Warnken has just reached the age A bulletin issued by the National Racing Board says no of twenty-two, but he has displayed other Class B men are being investigated. exceptional business ability during his The Chicago road race on Memorial Day was won by career. He has been on the advertising Homer Fairman, of Chicago, W. W. Rosback of the same staff of the Daily Argus, of Fargo, city, finishing second. So much fraud existed, that the Dak., worked on several Milwaukee winners of time prizes could not be determined, and on June papers and has served his apprentice 15, thirty-nine riders again went over the course, Frederick JOHN W. WARNKBN, ship as aprinter. Several years ago he Nessel won first time, and W. F. DeCardy second. was looked upon as a rider of considerable speed but he has Grand Rapids wheelmen have signed a petition and given up racing owing to the firm's demand on his time. presented it to the mayor, agreeing "to ride on the streets This spring he made several trips through the state for the when practicable; while riding on sidewalks to ride no firm and has placed many reliable agencies in large towns. faster than six miles an hour; to dismount when wishing to pass women or children, unless they manifest their con J. M. Parmer's Inventions. sent to let the rider pass; never to try to pass a person Julius M. Farmer, of this city, has invented several new- without giving a signal; on approaching a 'blind corner' appliances for the bicycle. One consists of a pump fastened to slacken speed to six miles an hour and not to coast to the. rim and the hub of the wheel and by means of an down hills." , eccentric this pump is operated and replaces any air that Momentary Meditations. may escape from a punctured tire. He also has improved A relay race from Green Bay to Milwaukee would help the tire by doing away with the inner tub. On the edges to boom cycling in cities on the route. of the tire he has fastened a triangular strip of rubber * * * which fits into the groove of the rim and is held in place by W. F. Sanger, A. M. Chandler, W. C. Schrader, Will the pressure of air. The lips of rubber also serve as a hard tire if the outer tube is disabled. With the means of an Howie—who of these will be the state champion ? eccentric he has also arranged a crank so that the back * * * tread of the pedal is shortened two and a half inches and Interest among the members of the Mercury Club is thus shortens the revolution. waning. No plans for the season have been made. * * * Going to Kenosha. When will a bicycle thief receive his just dues in criminal Kenosha will soon have one of the largest bicycle courts? * * * factories in the West. The Sterling Cycle Works, of Chi One of the probable time winners of the Waukesha- cago, has closed contracts with the Business Men's associa Milwaukee road race will be W, C. Schrader. tion and on August 1, will take possession of a new plant, * * * 600 x 120 feet, which has been built at Kenosha. The How annoyed other western states must be at the capital of the company at present is $100,000, with Wisconsin Division's growth! $50,000 reserve, but this is to be increased to $200,000. . * # * The firms main office will remain in Chicago. Sanger, Zimmerman and Johnson will be track-mates next year. Here's a good team for some maker. The Huennekens Cycle Co. Make a specialty of selling bicycles, bicycle parts and Will Remain in Class A. sundries at wholesale to dealers. Special prices and dis William F. Sanger, brother of Walter C, will not counts given upon application. Address, 124 Ferry street, become a class B man this year. He has been negotiating Milwaukee, and get catalogue. with several manufacturers to follow the circuit but has concluded not to take to the track this year. He will ride a At Rhinelander, wheelmen are prohibited from riding ou Telegram during the season. sidewalks faster than eight miles an hour, riding a wheel at all while meeting a baby-carriage with a child in it, riding W. C. Schrader recently broke the two-mile state record a wheel" when meeting a child under 3 years of age, and at Madison in 5:06%. The record was 5:09. riding around a corner faster than four miles an hour. THE PNEUMATIC. THE ANDRAES WILL MOVE. Clifford & Lundy is the firm name of a new bicycle A. New Factory Will Be Taken Possession 01 Shortly—Julius Andrae Buys house in this city. They are located on the South Side on a Large Block on West Water Street. National avenue, and will sell Telegram wheels and Sanger Important improvements have been decided upon by Racers and do a general bicycle repairing business. Ed. the J. Andrae & Sons Company. The present factory has Clifford, of the firm, is well-known as a racing man. outlived its usefulness for the extensive business of the firm Telegram cycles are popular. The Telegram Cycle and will soon be abandoned. The firm is now negotiating Manufacturing Company has sold thirty wheels to Caison, for a larger factory and as soon as the present rush in Pirie, Scott & Company, of Chicago, for their employees. business abates, it will take possession of a new building. Considering that Chicago is a center for cycle manu The change will be made in August or September but it has facturers, this order certainly speaks well for the Telegram not been definitely decided where the new factory will be wheel. located. The firm's factory, however, will eventually be located Lau & Ferguson, of Waukesha, have sold out to S. J. on West Water street, between Grand avenue and Syca Seabury. more streets. On June 4, the Wisconsin Marine & Fire William Trowbridge and D. A. Gaffron have formed a Insurance Company Bank sold to Julius Andrae, at a low partnership at Plymouth and will handle bicycles. figure, the large stores at 162 to 168 West Water street, R. F. Zeit handles Andraes and Crawfords at Medford. which are now occupied by the C. J. Beuzemaker went to Buffalo and Henneeke Statuary Company and the other eastern cities in search of more shoe firm of Beals, Torrey & Company. wheels. The lease of the latter firm does not MORGAN XWRIGHTTIRES A. D. Meiselbach, of Columbus, 0., expire until 1896, while the other firm's has leased the plant formerly occupied lease extends to 1907. As soon as Mr. ARE GOOD TIRES by the Moore Manufacturing Company, Andrae can secure possession of part of on Sixteenth street, and will open a the building the factory and store will large bicycle factory, having a capacity be removed there, but until then a of thirty wheels a clay. temporary factory, of larger propor J. E. Reiter says he will takeKirchner, tions than the one now used, will be Zerbel and Duke to the Poorman road secured. The building purchased by Mr. race at Cincinnati, on July 4, and will Andrae is 82V2 x 180 feet, four stories also enter them for the track events high, of brick and has good dock facilities. HERE'S T. T. MACK in the afternoon at that place. SAYS CENTURIES ARE APUDDIN'ON THEM Brief Trade Notes. George Spoerer, William Krinker and MORGAN & WRIGHT C. 0. Dunning, traveling agent for C. R. Heppe, members of the Lake View the Julius Andrae & Sons Company, has Cycle Club, of Chicago, recently rode resigned, and has entered the employ from Chicago to Green Bay on their of his brother at Menominee, Mich. wheels. Dunning is well-known in the state. Why is it that a man feels so much more indignant H. K. Beuzemaker, of Beuzemaker Bros., has just re when he is run into by a bicycle than when he is run over turned from an extensive trip through Europe. by a beer wagon ? J. Dean, of Racine, Wis., has invented a practical bicycle boat, which was recently given a test on the river at Racine. Columbus wheelmen are planning a two days' race It works easy, there is no danger of capsizing, and it is safe meet. A sanction from the L. A. W. has been secured. in every way. Superior riders will hold their annual road race on July At Racine, Spencer Hall and others are reported to be 4. A number of Duluth riders are entered. organizing a company, with a capital stock of $50,000 to The Milwaukee Athletic Society are arranging for an manufacture a newly-paten ted bicycle, the patent of which excursion to the Wisconsin Dells, for August 4. Wheelmen is owned by Mr. Hall. are invited to join this party. At Janesville, J. C. Shuler, is preparing to commence the manufacture of bicycles from a patent recently received How's This I We offer" One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrli that can by him. The machine will be known as the Extra Bulletin. not be cured hy Hall's Catarrh Cure I , 3. J. OHENBY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.-We, the undersigned, have Morgan & Wright, with their usual enterprise, pub known I? J Cheney for the last 15years, and we believe him perfectly honor able in all business transactions and financially able to carry put any obliga lished a seven-column sheet giving a full account of the tion made hy their firm. WEST & TRUAX, Wh olesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. WAtBiNG, KIHNAN& MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists Toledo, O. Chicago road race, less than ten hours after the finish of Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Drug the race. gists, Testimonials free. THE PNEUMATIC. LIST OF: ANTNST1FF • • • • RELIABLE REPAIR MEN A Marvelous Iiiimedlntnl}' Koliovos Soreness IN THE STATE. 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MILWAUKEE. A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., JULY, .189?. No. 4. THE PNEUMATIC. THE Waukesha Road Race ™™_-f£FRON T AGAIN The Waukesha Time Prize was won on a "FOWLER BANTAM," Weight 20/4 Lbs. See/ A. C. Mertens, of the C. C. C. of St. Paul, Minn., won Time Prize in the Waukesha Road ^WISCONSIN Race, July 4th, 189!), on a Price #62..50 "Fowler Bantam" It Has all in 45:32. This breaks all Late previous records Improvements One of the Weight 23 lbs. Points of a High-Class Up-to-Date Wheel is a Rigid Frame. has the only "Truss Frame," making it more rigid than any other. For strength and lightness it LEADS Fowler Its lines are lines of beauty and its finish is superb. Ladies'and Gents'Wheels in high and medium grades. Bicycles Fully Guaranteed. Bicycle Repairing Promptly Executed. Cribb C9.rri8.g6 Company, BROADWAY AND HURON STS., MILWAUKEE. a 99 THE 0NLT & is Aedats Carefully Built by an Experienced flechanic And From the Society Best Material ..... Badges Manufactured By... Each Wheel is Especially Built to Order BUNDE-i UPMEYER The Repair Department 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET-MILWAUKEE of our factory is ready to fix up your First-Class Work at wheel in shape Very Low Prices Send for Illustrated Price List pollitt Cycle Works Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS Solicited 703T705 Winnebago Street Sent on Application 704-706 Chestnut Street MILWAUKEE MENTION THE PNEUS." THE PNEUMATIC. MARINETTE'S BIG MEETS AUGUST National Circuit Meet 1R-1C-17 L. A, W. State Meet at which National and all State Championships will be Run. Under the auspices of the MARINETTE CYGL1NG CLUB THE TRACK Is the BEST Half-Mile Track in the State Dressing Quarters Are Elegantly Equipped and will accommodate 200 riders The Array of Marinette Extends, with open arms, a cordial • • I |L|LU ...WORTH and earnest invitation for all wheel PRIZES«• • m • mmM ^Bm ~mw » riders in this state to attend. are, without exception, the finest ever offered THE RATE ON ALL RAILROADS TO MARINETTE WILL BE L. A. W. Members will be accorded special privileges at this meet, including Free Admission to the Racing Grounds. Address all Correspondence to N. E. LINDQUIST, Write for Our Souvenir Program SECRETARY OF THE MARINETTE CYCLING CLUB. WUlcH will be Beady In a Few Days. THE PNEUMATIC. Behold the Lily 1 He toils not, Yet he Spins He cometh like a great Army to Victory And He Rides ... .THE ANDRAE Waukesha-Milwaukee Road Race 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 8th Places Julius Andrae & Sons Co.-.. Hilwaukee, Wis., U. S. A. THE PNEUMATIC. Where has there been a more proficient L. A.W. administra tion than in this state? Where has there been more atten tion given to the improvement of highways than in this state? What .state has ever undertaken to arrange a state racing circuit? What state has a better record for man aging ideal state meets ? A MONTHIvY We have reason to be proud of Wisconsin's wheelmen. JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. riorrison Will Retire. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Though his term of office has not yet expired, Chief All copy for advertisements, changes for same, news and correspondence Consul A. Cressy Morrison has announced that this is his for publication must be sent in before the 7th, to insure Insertion the same month. Contributions returned if not published. last year in office. He says he cannot conduct the affairs of ENTERED'IN THE P. 0. AT MILWAUKEE AS SE0OH0 CUBS MATTER. the office without interfering with his private business and ADVBRTISING. therefore will retire from the division when his term is up. THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes In Mr. Morrison's retirement the division will lose a valu of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on able worker, who has placed Wisconsin in the front ranks of application. the League in the West. Mr. Morrison's good work has PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHIPANY, been commented on by the leading cycle papers in the 505 East Water Street, ... Milwaukee, Wis. country and his progressive ideas have been recognized J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. throughout the West. M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. League Clubs Organized. THE L. A. W. CONTROLLING PROFESSIONALS. The interest in League matters in the state is at present centered in Sheboygan, Appleton and Neenah, Clubs have At the L. A.W. meeting at Asbury Park, the much been organized there and members of each have made mooted question of -whether or not to control the profes application for League charters. Early in the season there sional riders was finally settled and hereafter many of the were only three League clubs in the state but before the race meets will have professional races scheduled with season is over the number will probably have been increased amateur events. This places the League in full control of all to twenty-five. track racing in the country and it can be said that the move has been the most important one in League history as it is The State Racing Circuit. the salvation of the sport. Chairman I. F. Strauss, of the State Racing Board, is now engaged in filling out the dates for the state circuit. THE NATIONAL LEAGUE MEET. There is every reason to believe that the circuit this year What was promised has been more than realized at the will be followed by many of the fastest riders in the state, annual National L. A. W. Meet, held at Asbury Park, July and that before the season is over, an entirely new list of 8 to 14. Visitors from all over the country have come state records will have been established. So far, the chair away feeling that their stay could not have been made man of the racing board has arrauged the following dates pleasanter. Denver was represented by a body of eighty for meets: men who traveled inaspecial car. Chicago, St. Louis, Phila July 16-19—West Superior Cycle Club. July 28—Marshfield Cycle Club. delphia and New York wheelmen were much in evidence. August 1-2—Stevens Point Wheelmen. The trade was represented and had headquarters estab August 0-7—Neenah Cycle Club. August 9—Berlin Cycle Club. lished all over the little city, dispensing refreshments, August 13—Waupun Cycle Club. souvenirs and badges. The L. A, W. meeting showed the AugustSl—Lake Mills Cycle Club. August 22-23—Waukesha Wheelmen. most prosperous condition of the League in its history and August 24—Milwaukee Wheelmen. "Papa" Bassett has prophesied a 50,000 membership at the The dates allotted to Waupun, Lake Mills and Milwau end of the season. The championships were contested for kee have not been formally accepted by the clubs and will be by the largest and fastest number of riders ever on a track. changed if they are not agreeable. In a letter, Chairman Trial heats and semi-finals were necessarily run on the Strauss says: "There are no restrictions as to entries or morning of each day's racing. prizes. A great many riders seem to think a permit is neces sary to ride 200 miles from home. It is not when in our WISCONSIN'S POSITION. own state. I am also having trouble with promoters who That bicycling has had a wonderful boom all over the have unofficial handieappers. All such will be blacklisted country this season is a fact undisputed and that tlie State and no sanctions granted them iu the future. No state of Wisconsin has exceeded most states iu the multiplication records go unless claim is made in accordance with the of riders is evinced on every hand. And it is not strange. racing rules. L. A. W. state meets are the only exceptions." THE PNEUMATIC. JOHNSON'S FIRST RACE. Rev. George Steuber's Long Ride. The Minneapolis Rider Tried Pneumatic Tires for the First Time at Green One of the pastors who attended the conference of the Bay In 1891 and .Caused Trouble for the Officials. Wisconsin district of the Missotiri Lutherans synod at She Fenton S. Fox, western advertising manager for boygan last month was the Rev. George Steuber, of Butter Bicycling World, with headquarters in Chicago, was in the nut. Mr. Steuber rode to Sheboygan on his wheel and city the otherday. "It is with a great deal of satisfaction/' covered the distance of 289Va miles in two and a half days. said Fox, "that I can say, I first trotted out John S. John On the first day he traveledl07miles to Spencer, the second son on a wheel fitted with pneumatic tires. It was back in day 107% miles and the remainder of the distance on the 1891, I think, that Johnson came over to Green Bay to morning of the third day. The greater part of the distance attend the state meet. They were the first races of any was traveled over rough roads. consequence that the Minneapolis Wonder had entered. In Compiling a Good Book. those days handicaps were arranged according to tires and Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier, of the Wisconsin Divi a man riding a wheel fitted with pneumatic tires was sion, is prepai'ing a road book of the state of Wisconsin. penalized. Sam Miles was referee and I was chairman of He proposes to secure from every town that has a consul, the State Racing Board. Johnson came along with a cushion a list of the roads to travel in riding from the city where tired machine, which was then considered light but would the consul resides to those in the neighborhood. By secur now be looked upon as an ice wagon. I was in business in ing reports from every consul.in the state, a complete list of Green Bay and Johnson was my guest. I asked him if he the roads in Wisconsin is secured, and a rider traveling from wanted to try a pneumatic tire and he said yes. Well, the one part of the state to another, where he is not acquainted, minute Johnson got on the track, the fun began. You never will be greatly benefitted by consulting the roadbook. A heard such kicking. He was entered for cushion tires and description of the scenery along the route will also be given. all other riders protested against him riding my wheel. Miles was kept in hot water for some time and when he A Preacher Fined. got tired of the kicks he referred the matter to me, as chair An interesting bicycle case has just been decided in a man of the State Racing Board. I ruled that aman entering justice court at Neenah. One evening recently, when the a race had the right to provide himself with modern racing Rev. Mr. Opersild was riding his wheel he met another implements, and Johnson rode the machine. Did he win ? cyclist coming from the opposite direction. For some Why,he skinned everybody on thetrack. That was his first reason or other the preacher failed to turn to the right as big day. -It has been claimed that Johnson first made his he should have done. Turning to the left instead and he hit at Winona, but that is a mistake. Some day I will collided with the other rider, whereupon the bicyclist had write this up and send it to the Bicycling World and set the reverend gentleman arrested and the case was tried Johnson right, but I have been so busy lately that I have before Justice Stiles, who fined the defendant $1 and costs, not had time to contradict that Winona story. But one of amounting to $1 these days Bicycling World will spring the story and then the truth will be known." A Bicycle Ordinance. Alderman Starkweather is preparing an ordinance Professionals Recognized. which will govern the rate of speed that bicycles nifty be Chairman Gideon, of the National Racing Board, in his ridden in the city. It is also proposed to compel riders to weekly bulletin of July 6, says: "Riders are warned that carry lamps at night and bells during the day. An ordi theL. A.W.1 through the racing board, has sole jurisdiction nance of this kind was introduced in the council last fall, over all cycle racing in the United States. The erroneous but it was allowed to die. The aldermen will consult a idea prevails among those who are uninformed that the number of the L. A. W. officers before he brings the measure Board enforces its rules only against members of the League. in the council. All riders in the United States are classified as amateurs of Swell Society Club. Class A or B, or as professionals, in accordance with the "The Rise and Fall, or The Perpetual Motion Club" is League's definitions of such classes, and so soon as a rider the name of a new bicycle club which has been organized by enters a competitive event he becomes subject to the super members of Milwaukee's best society. The following vision of the racing board. Any rider competing in un officers have been elected: President, Miss Elizabeth Black; sanctioned events,amateurorprofessional, will be promptly vice-president, Mrs. Franklin Smith; secretary, Mrs. R. B. suspended from all track racing." Mallory; treasurer, Miss Seaman. The membership of the To Catch Bicycle Thieves. new club embraces all society people who ride wheels. Frequent runs are taken to the country club house on the Bicycle stealing in this city has become so general that Bay road where dinners are taken. the police have adopted a systematic rule for keeping track of stolen wheels at certain periods and supply all local and Medford riders favor Marshfield as the place for holding state repairmen with a list of the wheels stolen in this city. the next state meet. THE PNEUMATIC. THE STATE MEET. accommodations there will be no trouble experienced by any Indications Are That It Will be the Largest and riost Successful Ever Con of the visitors. There are now enough good hotels to ducted In Wisconsin—Over $2,300 In Prizes, to be Awarded accommodate those who will be at the races, but another —There Will be Five Championship Events. large new hotel will be opened before the meet. Besides Riders who attend the state meet at Marinette on these quarters a number of wheelmen will be entertained at August 15,16 and 17 and compete in the races, will find the homes of the Marinette cyclists. that the prize list, arranged by the Marinette Cycling Club, The program for the three days has not been mapped is the largest and best that has ever been put up in Wiscon- out but it is likely that an excursion on the bay will be given on the first day so as to acquaint the riders with each other. A ball will also be given during the meet. This, with otherentertainments that are being arranged, will not give anyone time to regret that he went to the tourney. The business meeting will probably also be held on the first day. On the second and third day there will be racing from morning to night. It is proposed to run the trial heats in the morning and the finals in the afternoon. An effort is now being made to have Governor Upham attend the meet and fire the shot that will start the first race. In case that no notional circuit races are run in Milwaukee, Marinette will probably take another day and hold it in case of rain during the meet. The officers of the club who are arranging the meet are: President, W. A, Brown; vice-president, H. C. Higgins; secretary, N. E. Lindquist; treasurer, W. F. Overbeck; directors, C. M. Fairchild, H.J. Brown and J. H. McGillan. All the officers have been hard at work but special credit is due to President Brown and Secretary Lindquist. Mr. w. A. BROWN President Marinette Cycling- Club. sin. There will be over $2,500 worth of prizes to compete for and each will be worth the full value that it is advertised at. No prizes have been solicited but each one has been purchased by the club. With favorable weather the races will be the best that have been held in this state for some time. There will be'no lack of fast men. Every Class B rider who is following the national circuit will be there. Besides these all the state cracks will be present. An effort is now being made to get Johnson and Sanger and possibly Zimmerman to come, and if they can be secured a $500 purse for professionals will be'hung up. For the first time there will be five state championship events, the quarter, the half, the one, two and five mile races. For each of these the Wisconsin Division, L. A. W. will offer gold and silver medals. Ten races are to be competed for each day and it is no exaggeration to say that each one will be spirited from start to finish, because there will be no time N..E. LINDQUIST for loafing with the array of flyers on the track. The Secretary Marinette Cycling Club. course has been made very fast and suitable accommodation Brown is an enthusiastic worker. He is a prominent Repub for the races has been provided. Ample arrangements have lican and a member of the State Central committee and is also been made for the comfort of those attending the races. being spoken of for state chairman. He is president of the From the interest taken this year in the meet, it is very Marinette Soap Company and is also interested in the probable that the attendance will be larger than at any banking business. He is also a member of the State Board previous state meet. Arrangements are now pending to of Normal School Regents. Mr. Brown's capable assistant secure special excursion rates ou the railroads. As for hotel in all bicycle matters in Marinette, is- Naboth E. Lindquist. THE PNEUMATIC. Though only twenty-eight years of age, he has served Sun=Prairie Madison Race. several terms as city treasurer. As a cyclist, there are few more enthusiastic than he. He has been a League member The seventh annual road race of the Madison Cycling since 1883 and has taken a prominent part in all state Club, from Sun Prairie to Madison, will be run on July 27. events. It was largely through his efforts that Marinette The Club has secured thirty prizes and a $50 time medal. Entries must be filed with Con. Knudson, at Madison, secured the meet. The following is a list of the events and the prizes: hy July 20. The Milwaukee Wheelmen expect to attend in a body, and will go into camp on one of the lakes, after FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. the race. t. One mile novice, Class A-First, stop watch, $25; second, cuff buttons, 110 i third, bicycle lamp, $5. Neenah's Big fleet. 2. Half mile state championship, Class A-Flrst, gold medal; second, silver medal. , ., „,, The meet which is being arranged by the Neenah Cycling 3. Two mile open, Class B-First, diamond ring, MSB; second, diamond stud, $50; third, diamond scarf pin, $25. Club at Neenah, on August 6-7, will probably be one of the 4 Half mile handicap, Class A—First, diamond stud, MO; second largest held in that part of the state in the history of cycling diamond scarf pin, $20; third, watch oliarm, 810; fourth, bicycle lamp, $4. 5. One mile handicap, Class E-First, diamond ring, $100 second, in Wisconsin. The club members are all hard at work diamond stud, $-10; third, diamond-set scarf pin, 115. preparing a valuable list of prizes, $500 worth of which 0. Mile handicap, boys 18 years or under, Class A-First, watch, .«*>; second, ring, $10; third, bicycle saddle, $5. are to be given during the two day's races. The half Y. Two mile state championship, Class A—First, gold medal; second, mile track has been put in good shape and fast time will be silver medal. made in all races if the conditions of the weather are favor 8. Half mile open, Class B-Flrst, diamond stud, $80; second, diamond stud, 330; third, diamond-set scarf pin, $15. able. Neenah has been placed on the state circuit all the 9. Two mile handicap, Class A—First, diamond stud, 3S0; second, fast men in the state will be there. Every wheelman in diamond stud, $20; third, watch charm, $15; fourth, scarf pin, $5. • 10. One mile tandem, Class B—Two $50 diamond studs to the winners. Neenah will make it his business to look after the entertain SATURDAY, AUGUST 17. ment of the visitors, At the track, dressing rooms have 1. One mile handicap, Class A—First, 14k. gold-filled watch, $50; been provided for and every effort is being made to make second, diamond stud, $30; third, diamond scarf pin, $15; fourth bicycle saddle, $5. the arrangements for the meet perfect. Eight events will be 2. One mile open, Class B—First, diamond, stud, $125; second, diamond run each day. stud, SS0; third diamond scarf pin, $25. 3. One mile state championship, Class A—First, gold medal; second, Berlin's Tourney. silver medal. 4. Two mile handicap, Class B—First, diamond stud, $10D; second, "The officers of the Berlin Cycling Club have secured diamond stud, $40; third, diamond scarf pin, $15, enough promises from fast riders in the state to attend the 5. One mile 2:30 class, Class A—First, diamond stud, $50; second, diamond stud, $30; third, cuff buttons, $10. meet, to be held on August 9, at the Riverside Park track 0. One mile open, limit 2:15, Class B~First, diamond ring, $150; that there is no chance for failure. The races will be con second, diamond stud, $75; third, diamond scarf pin, $35. 7. Quarter mile state championship, Class A—First, gold medal; ducted as the regular state circuit events. A large list of second, silver medal, prizes has been secured and a number of entries have already 8. One mile tandem, Class A—Two $40 diamond rings to winners. 9. One mile unpaced Hying start, Class B—First, diamond ring, $150; been filed with Secretary L. E. Davis. The races are being second, diamond stud, $76; third, diamond scarf pin, $35. arranged by the racing board of which A. Bucll, R, Reese 10. Five mile state championship, Class A—First, gold modal; second, silver medal. and T. Dodson are members. The half mile track has been SPECIAL PRIZES. banked and is one of the fastest in the state. Class B-A diamond stud, valued at $100, for the fastest mile, ridden in a mile race during the tournament, Lake flill's Tourney. Class A—A diamond stud, valued at $50, for tho fastest mile ridden in a mile race during the tournament. The meet of the Tyranena Cycling Association, at Lake Class A—A diamond stud, $50, will be given the winner of the five mile state championship If riddon in 12:S0 or better. Mills, on August 21, will consist of seven events. The cluh has secured a prize list of $300 and invitations to neighbor Marshfield's Heet. ing cities have been sent out from which there will be liberal At the Marshfield meet, on July 22, nine events are to be responses. A gold medal will be awarded as first prize in run. They are the mile novice, half-mile open, three mile lap the mile novice, a gold watch for the first place in the half race, half-mile boy's race, quarter-mile open, mile Wood mile open, a diamond ring in the two mile handicap,, a gold County championship, mile open, five mile handicap and ring in the county championship, a tea set in the quarter consolation race. Three hundred dollars worth of prizes mile, a diamond ring in the mile open and a water set in the will be awarded. mile handicap. Arrangements are now being made to Marshfield citizens are taking a great interest in the secure special railroad rates on the day of the races. A meet and every effort will be made to give the visiting number of Milwaukee riders are expected to attend. wheelmen a good time. The track is considered fast and every race pi-omises to be spirited. J. A. Sandburg, of Menominee, on July 14, established a new track record at Menominee, riding a mile in 2:13 3-5. Stevens Point is planning to hold a meet next month He also rode five miles on the Marinette track in 12:29 during the German editors' convention week. beating the state record, paced, by 33 seconds. THE PNEUMATIC. MAY HAVE NO CIRCUIT HEET. cap, while gold and silver medals will be awarded as second The Affairs of the Associated Cycling Clubs are in a Bad Huddle, and it flay and third prizes. In the half mile race for hoys under fifteen Become Necessary to Surrender the Sanction.— years, one gold and two silver medals will be awarded. The riercury Club to Re-Organize. It was at the picnic of the St. Andrew's Society a number of There is by no means any certainty that the two days years ago that the first bicycle track races in this city were meet of the national circuit will be held in Milwaukee. held and since then the races have been made an annual The sanction for the races was secured by the Associated event. Walter C. Sanger first made his appearance on the Cycling Clubs of this city, early in the season. August 18 track in 1S91 at the races of the society. and 19 has been allotted to Milwaukee. These dates fall on Monday and Tuesday, which are considered poor days Waukesha's Big fleet. from a financial point of view. On this account there is not What will be one of the largest meets to be held in this a club in the city which is very anxious to undertake the state this year will be conducted by the Waukesha Wheel risk of conducting the meet. The Associated Cycling Clubs' men at Waukesha on August 22 and 23. The races will be affairs are in such a muddle, that it is impossible for the asso held on the fine half mile track which has recently been put ciation toconsiderthe proposition of holding the races. The in good condition and is now one of the fastest in the state. trouble originates in the Mercury Cycling Club. The latter, At'the time the races are to be held the city will be crowded the North Side Club and the Bay View Wheelmen organized with visitors who will spend the summer at the popular the association. Shortly after, the Bay View Wheelmen dis resort and there is no doubt that the meet will be one of the banded. This left the association composed of the Mercury most successful ever conducted in Wisconsin. All the fastest and the North Side clubs. The former of these is on the men in the state who follow the state circuit will be in brink of disbandment and there is now some talk of re attendance. The men having the tourney in charge have organizing, for the purpose of securing more harmony and decided to award $800 in prizes, many of which will be instilling new life. Under the present circumstances, the valuable. Mercury club is in no position to undertake its share of the Cyclists Building Roads. responsibility of the meet. This leaves the Associated Cycling Club's sanction in the hands of the North Side club, Portage bicycle owners are good roads enthusiasts. which also does not care to assume the risk. As matters They have raised nearly enough money by subscription to now are, the Mercury club is fast on the road to disband build a good road from Portage to Swan Lake. The ment, the Associated Cycling Clubs is practically dead, owners of property along the route have donated.the work and the North Side club is undecided as to the holding of with teams and an effort is now being made to interest the meet. carriage owners in the matter. A scheme has been proposed by a number of the mem Gathering of Wheelmen. bers of the North Side club. They propose to have the races run under the North Side club's name and sanction, but The Mound City Wheelmen, of Platteville, gave a picnic under the personal management of members interested to cyclists of neighboring cities on June 23. Riders from financially in the tourney. This scheme of holding the races Lancaster, Shullsburg, Darlington, Galena, 111., and Du as a personal speculation, is vigorously objected to by many buque, la., were in attendance. These cities are within forty miles of Platteville and the visitors all rode to the wheelmen, and if an attempt is made to carry out the ar picnic grounds on their wheels. The picnic was given in rangement, a protest will be filed with Chairman Gideon, order that riders might become better acquainted with each who will be asked to revoke the sanction. The North Side club conducted the races last year under this arrangement other. ___ and the outcome of the meet is well-known. In the event Here's One at Seventy-three. of the sanction being surrendered by the parties now hold E. P. Grindell, of Platteville, writes that James Stephens ing it, the Milwaukee Wheelmen might consent to take the of that city is a lively cyclist. He is a retired farmer, meet, but it is not likely that the riders who are now in seventy-three years of age, and began to ride a few months power of the situation, will allow such a course to follow. ago. He can be seen daily on the streets of Platteville. It is less than a month from the time the races are to be held, and, but little has been done in the line of making F. Q. Dickerson's Long Trip. arrangements for the meet. P. G. Dickerson, who is en route from Appleton'to the Scotch Picnic Races. East, writes to the Appleton papers from Hamilton, 0., At the annual picnic of the St. Andrews Society, which that he has been away from home two weeks and has will be held on August 1, three bicycle races will be run. In covered 555 miles by wheel and 350 miles by boat and the one mile handicap the first prize will be a diamond stud, railroad, and still has 500 miles ahead of him. His average the second a gold medal and the third a silver medal. daily run is fifty to sixty miles, but he has made as high as A diamond pin will be the first prize in the two mile handi eighty miles in a day. THE PNEUMATIC. Sandburg Brothers. Opening of the Circuit. The Sandburg brothers, of Menominee, are the only The Wisconsin Valley Cycling Circuit opened at Wausau team in their vicinity. Norman, who is seventeen years of on Friday, July 12, and was well attended. The meet age, is a novice and occupies the front seat. Joseph A. is lasted until Saturday, and during it some very fast time twenty-eight years of age and has quite a record. He rode was made. A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, rode a paced mile his first race in the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race in 1893 on the first day in 2 :12%, thereby establishing a new state and finished in thirty-sixth place. He had a six minute record. The mile novice was won by H. H. Evans, of handicap and when he started there were 140 men ahead of Waupaca, in 2:41; the mile handicap by O. B. Virum, of Stevens Point, in 2 :15, the quarter mile dash by O. E.Virum in 34 seconds; the half mile boys' race by George B. Pratt, of Minneapolis, in 1:20%; the half mile open by O. E,Virum in 1:07%; the mile open, paced, by A. M. Chandler in 2:12%,; the two mile handicap by Nels Anderson, of Wau <*. paca, in 4:40; the mile open by William F. Sanger, of Mil ii waukee, in 2:241/2. On the second day of the meet Edward Roth and Harry •«,>_y 1 Crocker, of Milwaukee, established a state tandem record s| •i at 2:09. The half mile 1:30 class was won by I. G. Chit *!_i tenden,of Ripon,in 1:20%; quartermile open b-yO.E.Virum L ^ in 32% seconds; the half mile handicap by H. H. Evans, of -_!,./ *_&& ^S!_9L i Waupaca, in 1:06%; one mile three minute class by II. H. Evans in 2:57; the two mile open by I. G. Chittenden in Efr / f J_ *-^_f / v* 5:00; the mile penant by A. M. Chandler in 2:41; the five _j _ ^Pi<*,,ws^^ mile handicap by Edward Harkeus, of Marshfield, 225 yards, in 13:18 and the consolation race, half mile, Harry PK . B. Hewitt, of Menasha, in 1:44. Successful Races At Columbus. Milwaukee riders captured nearly everything in the two day's meet which was held at Columbus on July 12 and 13. The races were held under the auspices of the Columbus ^_ / Wheelmen and were run at the Wheatland Driving Park. The mile novice was won by W. D. Campbell, of Waukeslm, S-V/wL N* ' ' ' in 2:39%; the half mile open by W. C. Schrader, of Mil waukee, in 1:16%: the two mile handicap by W. D, Camp JOSEPH and NORMAN SANDBURG, of Menominee, Mich. bell, 220 yards, in 5 :01; and the county championship, one him. Only one man, Ed. Roth, caught him during the race. mile, by H. Blumenthal, of Columbus, in 3 :12. Walter C. His time was 50:02. In September of the same year he Schrader, of Milwaukee, rode an exhibition half mile won first time in the Menominee-Marinette road race in in 1:06%. 29:45. He rode from scratch and was delayed fully a The second days races were all won by Milwaukeeans. minute by a freight train. At the state meet at Ripon that W.C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, won the mile open in 2:3414; year he secured second place in the two mile handicap. At A. Weilep, of Milwaukee, 75 yards, the mile handicap in the Caledonian picnic in August, 1893, he won three out of 2:46; A. Bingenheimer, 250 yards, the five mile handicap four races. About a month ago the brothers purchased a iu 13:10, and the mile consolation by J. R. Kellogg, of tandem and have been doing some fast riding. Joseph is Portage, in 3 :04%. now training for the five mile state record and at the Cedarburg's Race Meet. Caledonian picnic, on July 30, he will try to cut the record. At Cedarburg, on July 13, a successful meet was con He has already established a record of 12:26 and with ducted. The mile novice was won by R. C. Kami, of Port pacing will bring it below 12:00. He has broken the Washington, in 3:05; the half mile by C, A. Dockery in Marinette track record by covering a mile in 2:13 3-5. 1:16; the mile handicap by C. A. Dockery in 2 :41; the two Joseph Sandburg states that they are not posing as cham mile opeu by T. F. Wittenberg in 6 :10; the mile for boys by pions and the recent challenge published in the papers Albert Joachim in 3:09; the five mile handicap by C. A. was sent off by The Marinette Eagle. Dockery in 15:25, and the consolation by F. J. Behrcns in Attorney B. F. Simpson, of Marinette, was fined two 3:20. R. C. Kann, of Port Washington, established the dollars and costs for not carrying a lantern on his wheel. quarter mile Ozaukee County record in 37 seconds. THE PNEUMATIC. FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS. handicap; the half-mile open in 1:27%, by W. F. Sanger; Races Held in Nearly Every City in the State—Several Track Records the one mile triangle championship in 3:08, by Frank Lowered—A Number of Road Races Run. Moore, of Beloit; the two mile handicap by James W. Cyclists in Wisconsin were wide-awake on the Fourth, Hodges, with 300 yards handicap, in 4:53%, and the mile and in nearly every city in the state, road races or track open by W. F. Sanger, in 2:20%. Ed. Roth and Harry events were held. At Marinette, Carl Klagstad went Crocker, of Milwaukee, rode a mile on a tandem in 2:36%. against the five mile record, paced, established in Wiscon Oshkosh's Track Events. sin, by Zimmermann, two years ago, and clipped it 20 At Oshkosh the first meet that has been held there for seconds. His time was 12:59. Willie F. Sanger, who went some time was run. Frank Clark won the mile novice, to Monroe, captured all in sight, while at La Crosse, 0. J. G. Seelig the mile handicap and A. M. Chandler the mile Gudenschwengcr won the road race and also captured the open. Parade at Stevens Point. principal track events. The day was the most important Stevens Point did not allow any of her neighbors to in the history of cycling in Wisconsin. Following is a out-do her. The bicycle parade, nearly half a mile in length, summary of the day's events. was the attraction of the day. In the afternoon the races Appleton's Road and Track Events. of the Great District Fair Association were held. The mile At Appleton a road race and five track events wereheld. novice and quarter-mile open were won by Harry Welty, The road race was held in the morning, over a triangular and the half-mile open by Ole Virum. course, fourteen and Marinette's Big Tourney. three-quarters miles in Carl Klagstad.of Mari length, and was won by nette, now holds the five Archie Wokott, in 49:37 mile paced state record, 2-5. His handicap was in 12:59,' having beaten seven minutes. H. H. the record established by Meyer won the time in Zimmermann two years 48:43 1 5. In the after ago, by 20 seconds. He noon thenew track of the was paced by a tandem. Appleton Driving Club The mile novice was won * _s was dedicated, at which by L. Palmer, of Chi ceremony 3,000 people „;:..! •:-•! :• ; . «'•.:>.- .. |, •• •.>••. • cago, in 2:37; the half- were present. Frank mile open by F. Chase, Plolbrook won the mile in 1: 08 ; the business novice in 2:34%; Nels men's half-mile handicap Anderson, of Waupaca, by T.S.Arthur, in 1:22; captured the half-mile the mile handicap by W. open, in 1:13%; Leo R. Bell, 300 yards, in Jacobs won the boy's 2:23%; the boy's mile by M. Oshinskey, in 2:45; race, in 3:08; Edward *£»<« / Baer, the mile open, in the mile open by F. Chase 2:45, and Nels Anderson, Niagara Team. in 3:15, and the mile of Waupaca, the two mile handicap, in 5:12. Menominee River championship by F. Chase, iu 2:32. rienominee's Heet. Over 3,000 people attended the races. Before the races were held, there was a cycle parade,in which 500 wheelmen At Menominee, the mile open was won by Juttner, in participated. 2:29%; the mile handicap by E. Woodford, 25 yards, in Beaver Dam Road Race. 2:30%; the business men's half-mile by Kirkham, in 1:26%. Mack won the five mile special race, 15:17%, while Juttner, Beaver Dam cyclists were interested in a road race. The course was six miles, and was covered in best time by 30 yards, captured the two mile handicap. M. E. Hastings, scratch man, in 16:05. Roy Williams, Monroe's Track Events. with a 1:30 handicap, took second time honors. Thomas Monroe held a big meet, it being the second of the Gadson, a four-minute man, won first prise, in 19:45. southern Wisconsin triangle circuit. Besides the riders The men finished in the following order: Clarence Butler, from all the cities on the circuit, a Milwaukee delegation Frank Hyde, W. Klawetter, Fred. Williams, H. R. Mc was on hand. W. F. Sanger captured three first prizes. Millan, Bert Butler, T.J. Livermore, Ray Williams, George The mile novice was won by Louis Hirsig, in 2:25%; the Henninger, Willie Heinig, M. E. Hasting (scratch) Albert quarter mile open in 34:%; the mile Green County cham Williams, Bert Rickseckler, J. R. Kcll, A. Duzinski, Ed. pionship in 2:42, by Frederick J. Blumer; the mile handicap Rifeldt, Bert Roedl, August Schumacher, Charles Koehler, by Don Van Wart, of Beloit, in 2:16%, with 100 yards Sterne Roedl. THE PNEUMATIC. Merrill's Track Races. SANGER IN POOR FORM. The feature of the Fouth of July celebration at Merrill, He Says He is Weak, But is Improving, and In a llonth or so Expects to was the bicycle races. The track was heavy and therefore Ride Away from Johnson. fast time was impossible. William Schraeder, of Wausau, Walter C. Sanger, who arrived in the city several days won the mile novice, in 3:00; Charles Stange captured the ago, to testify in behalf of Robert Luscombe, who is half-mile open in 1:16%; W. W. Wilson, of Wausau the charged with the murder of his brother-in-law, Emil A. quarter-mile dash, in 32 seconds; H. C. Miller, the mile Sanger, while here, stated that he was well pleased with handicap, in 2:34%, and W. W. Wilson, Wausau, the mile professional racing. "Johnson at present," said Walter, "is open, in 2:39%. Prof. Ley, of Chicago, gave an exhibition in better shape than any of us are. He is doing good work. of trick riding on an ordinary and a safety. I am not in good form, but expect to be in about a month. Events at La Crosse. I am weak, and sometimes on the track I give out and can't Five thousand people witnessed the meet of the La do anything. I am growing stronger daily, however, and Crosse County Wheelmen. The day opened with a ten while Johnson has had the best of it so far, as I grow mile road race, which was won by 0. Gudenschwenger, in stronger, the distance between us at the finish gets smaller 31:14, which was also best time. W. B. Jacobs secured and smaller. As soon as I am in form I expect to do better second place, and H. M. Bird got second time. Besides work. Yes, Dave Schafer will remain with me. We haven't capturing both first and time prizes in the road race, Guden mapped out any plans for the future, but will take in all schwenger won every track event which he entered. He the big meets. I will probably ride here at the circuit races captured the mile La Crosse County Wheelmen champion next month. ship, in 2:58%; the half-mile open in 1:16% and the three " Will you go abroad ? " mile handicap in 7:54. The mile novice was won by H. M. "If I do, it will be late in the fall. At present I will i-e- Bird, in 2:36; the quarter-mile open by P. R. Linker, in 35 main here." seconds, and the mile open by H. M. Bird, in 2:26. ," What wheel will you ride ? '' Tourney at Superior. " I will continue to ride Spalding's machine until I close At Superior a meet was held which over 1,000 people a deal with some other firm. I am now negotiating with attended. George F. Scales won the 200 yard slow race in the Syracuse people." 2:31; J. P. Burnett the half mile in 1:15; F. M. Williams " Will Cabanne and Titus remain in Class B ? " the business men's race in 3:10%; Iver Ronning the boy's " Yes, I think they'll hold on as long as the can. Cabby mile in 3:14%; Dr. C. S. Beck the doctors' mile in 3:16. would like to be King of Class B, but I am afraid he'll have W. E. Wheeler, who had a two minute handicap, won the to wait until^everal other Class B men turn professional." five mile handicap race in 16:06. J. P. Burnett, scratch, Sanger, in the murder case, testified that his deceased made the best time in 14:17. brother, Emil, had a treacherous and uncontrblable temper, Other Road Races. and that on one occasion Emil had drawn a knife on him A four mile road race was held at Sheboygan. It was when he picked up his sister from the floor, after Emil had won by L. Krof in 14:45, George Galloway finishing second knocked her down with his fists. and D. W. Borden third. Geo. K. Mead won a half-mile straight-a-way, in 1:11. Ashland Heard From. Frank Fuller, of Winneconne, won the road race which Ashland riders are hard at work in the interest of the was held at that place. Henry Gribbler, of Oshkosh, won L. A. W. A number of new League members have been the time prize in 15 :49. secured and Consul M. H. Potter writes that more will be Dartford Road Race. enrolled before the season is over. An effort will be made to organize a League club. Agitation for a third mile The Dartford-Princeton road race on July 6, was won cinder track is now occupying the attention of wheelmen by Whittemore, who had a six minute handicap, in 47:07. there. Yahr, scratch man, won time, in 43:00. The course was ten miles. Janesville Meet. Burlington Road Race. The Arrow club, of Janesville, recently held a meet, A. K.Wheeler won the quarter-mile open, in 33 seconds; W. The Derby club's road race, at Burlington, was won A. Watt won the one-mile open handicap, in 8:32; George by Herman Lock, of Lyons, who had a seven minute handi 0. Ford the mile novice, in 2:49%, and Charles Hodson the cap, and rode the eleven and one-half mile coursein 35:32. five-mile handicap, in 21:45. Walter J. Clark, with a handicap of eight minutes, finished second. H. A. Zerbel, of the Cream City club, Milwaukee, The board of review of Menasha has decided to tax won the first time,in 31:00, Joseph Dolister, of Burlington, bicycles according to their valuation. Wheelmen are in finishing fifth and securing second time. W. C. Schrader, dignant and believe that dogs, which they consider a of Milwaukee, finished third. E, W. Fry, of Milwaukee, nuisance, ought to be taxed, and not bicycles, which are failed to finish the course. almost a necessity. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief State Notes. La Crosse wheelmen are dissatisfied with the bicycle Fond du Lac has about 450 wheelmen. ordinance that has been passed there and are making efforts to have it repealed. Stoughton has eight women who wear bloomers. Curtis Merryman, Benjamin Batchelor and John Van The Oshkosh Times says that Oshkosh has 2,000 wheel Cleve, of Marinette, have finished a two weeks trip in the men. state on their wheels. Stevens Point riders will erect a building at the race Waukesha women have taken favorably toward cycling track. and a number of them-are now contemplating the organiza A bicycle constructed entirely of wood is on exhibition tion of a bloomer club. at Marinette. Wheelmen of Neenah are complaining that tacks are A number of Oshkosh mail-carriers now deliver their being scattered about the streets of the city and on the road mail on wheels. between Neenah and Oshkosh. Appleton has a juvenile trick rider. His name is John Sheriff Catlin, accompanied by his son, recently rode Baer,aged nineyears. He is the son of Postmaster J. M.Baer. from his office in Iron Mountain, to Marinette, a distance C. F. Lind, of of eighty miles, in Rhineland, recently eleven hours. made a trip from his Jacob Liudem is home toWabash,Ind. the pioneer cyclist of Berlin wheelmen *8&\_— Marinette. He has have re-organized ridden a cycle for and elected W. J. ^ * __M____&& twenty-five years, nofr 4_u_^^B_sEyQ_S_____H_***?*_il Graffman their pres T_£f:A___3____r^3______fc •' ^" having owned one in ident. Norway over twenty years ago. Louis and Roy '!l_Stnd__ll^ ____V______H____E______HE_Hi_r Reed, of Ripon, ac After August 1, companied by their any wheelman found parents,are traveling ____B_L A'' riding on the streets in Europe. -___£_4lL^^Kk ' lr\\ * •! of Ma dison after F. E. Stitt and a ^K^^^iK^_!^^l___^-i%'.- dark without a committee have lighted lantern will -»jj agreed to keep the §18? be subject to a fine of |Kjjwy JH ^_HSSf'fi Stevens Point track from $5 to $25. in good condition. ?fts^Ki_n_BBE__a____B^9r_Sl_«5tSi <- • r^wB* i?K*3* Otto Tonne, at vSr *•• ">*»/>. ***»*,'japy "^S_fe*_-____H River Falls has a Green Bay, recently new bicycle club, of collided with a drag which A. P. Forsyth on the race track. j is'president and S. J. i He was thrown tin Rasmusseu secretary. der the drag and the Walter Schrader and His Trainer, Harry Warner. The Marinette horses ran away. club has adopted black, gold and cardinal for club colors. After being dragged along for some distance he was rescued. William P. Mapps, of Belmont, was sentenced to one He broke his collar bone, dislocated his left ankle and year in the penitentiary for stealing a bicycle from Louis lacerated his left foot and leg. Hirsig. Two hundred wheelmen from Superior recently went on R. F. Myers and Theo. A. Quinn, of Hillsboro, have an excursion to Minneapolis and St. Paul and spent a started on a six weeks' tour through Dakota and other delightful time in those places. western states. Appleton wheelmen who conducted the races on the Twenty-four members of the Marinette Cycling Club Fourth of July bought their prizes. An entertainment recently rode to Oconto and were caught in a drenching which netted them $300 was held before the meet. rain on their way. The ordinance which has been passed in Berlin, limiting Wheelwomen of Grand RapidshaveorganizedthePlenty the speed from four to six miles an hour, has caused com Cois Cycling Club and elected Mrs. G. M. Hill, president; plaint to rise from the wheelmen. Recently a young man Mrs. Dr. Hougen, captain, and Mrs. Edward Lynch, assist named Bryant, from Oshkosh, while visiting friends there ant captain. was arrested and fined for violating the ordinance, THE PNEUMATIC. WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE RACE. POSITION AT FINISH. NAME AND CLUB. HDCP. TIME. 9 G. A. Madison, St. Paul 5:00 47:57 George Schmidt, of the Badger Wheelmen, Is the Winner, While A. C 10 Alfred Brown, Milwaukee 0:00 48:58 Mertens, of St. Paul, Wins the Time Prize and Establishes a 11 E. E. Harkins, M. W. C 6:E0 49:29 New Record for the Course. 13 Morgan C. O'Brien, B. W S:30 49:40 13 J. Pfingsten Milwaukee 9:00 52:20 The Waukesha-Milwaukee road race has again been run 14 W. M. Bailtie, Milwaukee 6:00 49:35 15 L. J. Friend, M. W 8:00 61:36 and once more it can be said that the event was one which 10 Charles Muss, Milwaukee 8:30 52:14 17 J. F. Funk, Milwaukee 9:00 52:50 the Milwaukee Wheelmen may justly be proud of. While 18 F. Coons, Milwaukee .. 10:00 53:52 19 E. E. Harnish, N. S. C. C 5:00 48:59 it was not as large, so far as entries were concerned, as it 20 Albert Mueller, Milwaukee 7:30 51:30 21 Leu White, M.W 5:00 40:02 __ has been in former years, 22 Lorenz Steudel, Milwaukee 9:00 53:20 23 Anton Stoltz, M. C. C 2:00 48:24 24 _%' '•• £•*$& there were plenty riders to W. A. Yueill, O. C. C 4:30 48:55 25 E. A. Clifford, M.C.C 4:30 48:57 26 g is make the race spirited. Es- O. A. Harvey, Waukegan 5:00 49:28 27 J. W. Warnken. N. W 6:00 50:20 28 E. J. Steinkopf, Milwaukee ... 6:30 51:11 rj ^ *S** V pecially was this the case in 29 R. O. Lembke, Menominee Falls. 7:00 51:48 30 Joseph Dolister, D. O. C 1:110 45:52 .il_" the contests fortime honors. 31 J. McDonald, Milwaukee 7:20 52:23 32 David Cole, Milwaukee 9:80 54:24 ' A •<*/Lf>?~l George Schmid t had an 83 Fred Seidemnnn, Milwaukee .. 10:00 55:00 31 Hugo Keitter, N. S. O. C 7:00 52:01 35 W. H. Maokin, Milwaukee 7:00 52:20 30 George Yeoman, Kenosha... 7:00 52:21 L*Li '$§&&&&&£ V'Aiv plflee- He ha(l never been 37 Emil Buenger, M. C. C 7:30 53:00 38 A. Krngmeier, Horicon 4:00 49:31 39 A. C. Mertens, St. Paul ..scratch 45:32 40 F. W. Osmun, C. C. C... . scratch 45:33 ^^BM^^^SWHL^___%_^^ little trouble in finding the 41 W. C. Schrader, B. W scratch 45:3-1 42 P. B. Wlison, C. O. C scralch 45:35 ^^^^™™™™*™"^^^ way and being in perfect 43 E. M Spike, S. S. C. C scratch 45:36 44 John Muss, M. C. C. 8:00 51:40 QEORGE SCHMIDT condition after training for 45 W. B. Simpson, M. W 8-00 53:47 4U Who won on an Andrae. several weeks, he found no H. Milbrath, M. O. 0 7:00 52:51 47 John Bentley, Milwaukee 7:30 53:28 48 J. Sehuiitz, B. W 6:30 52:47 difficulty in keeping the lead. He had a handicap of 9:30. 49 Edward Flack. Milwaukee. .. 8:00 54:20 50 a. W. Kreitsenstein, W. C. C. 8:00 54:28 He had not ridden two miles when he passed the limit men. 51 Charles Herman, Milwaukee.. 9:U0 55:2(1 52 Paul Brooke, Milwaukee 9:00 55:58 Then Frank Coons, a limit man, gave him a run. The two 53 A. C. Siegel, N. W 0:00 53:02 54 A. Frattinger, M. W 6:00 53:03 rode side by side until Wauwatosa was in sight. Behind 55 H. Warnken, N. W 0:30 53:87 5U A. J.. Berg, Milwaukee 6:30 53:38 them Bingenheimer was pressing hard. At Wauwatosa 57 P. Vantine, C. W 4:30 51:47 58 C. R. Curtiss, L. 0. C. 3:00 50:20 Coons let Schmidt run away and also allowed a number of 59 William Stafford, Milwaukee 10:00 67:27 60 Arthur Arndt, Milwaukee 7:30 55:10 other riders to pass him. Schmidt finished 400 feet ahead 61 6:30 64:16 63 S. A. Greenleaf, Milwaukee of Bingenheimer, who, with J. M. Quilty, finished second S. S.Cramer, M. W 8:00 55:47 63 John Mueller, C. B. 0 7:00 55:18 64 Jesse Pedersen, Milwaukee 4:00 53:23 and third. 05 Oeorge Seeley, Milwaukee 2:30 51:56 60 Geo. I,. Zink, Menominee Falls.. 7:30 57:11 A. C. Mertens won the time prize on a spurt. The 67 A. W. Kuehn, South Milwaukee.. 6:30 57:00 68 George Ruel ter, Mil waukee , 7:00 59:36 scratch men, W. C. Schrader, A. C. Mertens, F. W. Osmun, S. K. Youmans, Waukesha 8:00 58:57 P. B. Wilson and E. M. Spike, from the time they left 70 A. W. Zeally, Milwaukee 6:80 58:45 71 F. O. Holmes, B. W 2:00 56:05 Waukesha, never lost sight of each other until Mertenswas 73 H. Buggaber, Milwaukee 8:00 1)2:20 73 B. M. DeDiemann, Kenosha 8it0 63:45 ditched near Elm Grove. The others, in a bunch, continued 74 Louis Reinhold, Milwaukee 6:C0 61:51 to ride on, turns being taken at pace-making. Mertens did The time prize winners are as follows: not damage his wheel and, though slightly bruised, lost no 1 A. C. Mertens, St. Paul 45:32 2 F. W. Osmun, Chicago 45:33 time in remounting. He forged ahead and at the end of 3 W. C. Schrader, Milwaukee 45:31 two miles was again with the bunch of scratch men. At 4 P. B, Wilson, Chicago 45:35 5 E. M. Spike, Chicago 45:36 the top of Stone Quarry hill the contest began. The bunch 6 Joseph Dolister, Burlington , 45:52 now numbered about a dozen, some of the riders having 7 Anton Stoltz, Milwaukee 40:21 8 A. F. Bingenheimer, Milwaukee 47:20 taken advantage of the pace set by the scratch men. Every 9 W. C. Neilson, Milwaukee 47:56 body made a spurt but Mertens had the advantage of the 10 G. A. Madison, St. Paul 47:57 position, gained the path and, followed by less than a half NOTES OF THE RACES. length by Osmun, crossed the tape. Schrader, Wilson and There were few accidents. J. McDonald and W. Stafford Spike also followed Osmun in close order. The record of collided when just over the tape but none were hurt. 46:54, held by E. Ulbricht, was lowered by Mertens, Osmun, Several riders broke their wheels. Schrader, Wilson, Spike, Dolister and Stoltz. The road was in fair condition. For several miles the The following table shows' the position in which the riders had gravel to contend with but the remainder of the riders finished, their handicap and their time: course was easy to travel. POSITION AT JflNISH. NAME AND OLTJB, HDOP. TIME. The management of the race was perfect. One hundred 1 George Schmidt, B. W 9:30 150:50 policemen kept the street clear from teams at the finish 2 A. F. Bingeimeimer, M. W 5:30 47:20 3 J. M. Qnilty, Sun Prairie 9:00 60:52 and also kept a crowd of 8,000 people off the road. 4 W. B. Mauecar, M. W. 8:30 50:50 5 Peter Olle, Bacine 7:00 49:30 0 A. Weilep. M. C. C 5:30 48:04 There were 129 entries. Eighty-two started and seven 7 Edward Aldridge, B. W •• 8:00 50:35 8 W. C. Neilson, St. W 5:00 47:56 ty-four finished. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief Trade Notes. Badger Wheelmen's Flyers. William Heinzen who has grown up in the Telegram The Badger Wheelmen for the second time furnished the factory, has left that place, to accept a position as manager winner of the Waukesha road race. Last year G. M. Chapin of the cycle department of the Wm. Frankfurth Hardware captured the race and thereby brought fame to the Junior Company. Cycle Club, which has since been known as the Badger Peter Sandlund & Co. is the name of a new firm, which Wheelmen. This year George Schmidt won the race and as will begin the manufacture of bicycles at Marinette. he represents the club it is beginning to feel proud of its The Janesville Machine Company, of Janesville, has racing men. W. C. Schrader, who has won a number of decided to build bicycles next year. time prizes in the state events this year is also a member of the club. Miller & Crook, of Madison, intend placing a wheel of their own make on the market shortly. North Side's Century Run. « The Syracuse Cycle Company, the Union Cycle Com The annual Century run of the North Side club from pany, the Buffalo Cycle Company and the Grand Rapids Milwaukee to Watertown and return was made on July 14.. Cycle Company have appointed W. B. Medary their agent The start was made at 5 o'clock by thirty-eight wheelmen at La Crosse. from the club house on Reservoir avenue. The first riders A Niagara wheel, No. 11,773 was stolen from Bueze- reached Watertown at 11 o'clock without accidents. maker Bros., 579 Twelfth street. After a rest of twenty minutes the return The American Metallic Packing Com trip was begun. While at Oconomowoc pany has decided to manufacture wheels a rain storm arose and most of the start and will locate either at Fond du Lac MORGAN *WRIGHTTIRES ers took the train home and some of or at Oshkosh. them kept right on and those who fin ARE GOOD TIRES ished in the specified time were 0. J. Brief Local Notes. Tank, Emil Buenger, W. H. Prichard, The Milwaukee Wheelmen recently R. C. Lemke and Phillip W. Schaefer. held a dancing party up the river at Each of them will be awarded a medal. Mineral Spring Park. At Oconomowoc the North Side mem There is some talk here of organ bers met Schrader, Serbel, Duke, Neilson izing a club whose membership will con and Weilepretuniinghomefromthe races sist only of business and professional at Columbus the day before. men. HEBE'S T. T. MACK The Niagara Team. The Little Hustlers held a road race SAYS CENTURIES ARE A PliODIN' ON THEM The Niagara team, under the man from Wauwatosa to Seventeenth and MORGAN & WRIGHT agement of J. W. Warnken, has been Wells streets the other day. Frederick organized and will consist of F. Heim- Kellogg came in first in 18:15 while W. bach, J. W. Warnken, A. C. Siegel, H. W. Roland won time in 17:58. Warnken, E. Weeke and Gustav Pickard. Walter C. Sanger now wears the The team is training under the Fails colors of the Quill Club Wheelmen, of America. brothers and will enter a number of races in the state later Clifford & Lundy are arranging a road race of south in the season. The team members all ride 17I/2-pound side riders for August 25. The race will be held from South Niagaras. Milwaukee to the city. Wooden Bicycle Road. The annual club road race of the North Side Cycling E. J. Pennington, the inventor of the motor cycle, was Club will be held over the Silver Springs course, on August in the city last week and stated that he had organized a 31. The race has been put in charge of a committee, con company with a capital of $1,000,000 which will be known sisting of Emil Koehn, Otto J. Tank, T. L. Trothey, J. W. as the Chicago & Milwaukee Bicycle Railway Company. It is proposed to build an elevated wooden road, sixteen Warnken and C. F. Schutz. feet wide, between the two cities and to charge a toll of ten William Jahn has resigned as secretary of the North cents for the use of the road between the two cities. Mr. Side Cycling Club, and J. E. Rothweiler has been chosen to Pennington thinks that the distance between the two cities can be covered in four hours on a wood track without the succeed him. rider exerting himself. Messenger's Road Race. The Huennekens Cycle Co. The Western Union messenger boys' road race, on July 14, from Elm Grove to Twenty-eighth street and Grand Make a specialty of selling bicycles, bicycle parts and sun avenue, was won by William Sullivan, who also won the dries at wholesale to dealers. Special prices and discounts time prize. Otto Jaerga finished second. They were scratch given upon application. Address, 124 Ferry street, Mil men. waukee, and get catalogue. THE PNEUMATIC. Other State Items. Bicycle rierry=Go-Round. Reuben Stephenson recently rode from Marinette to Arthur and Ernest Sustins, of Stevens Point, are the Maple Valley and met a number of farmers on the way who inventors of a Bicycle Merry-go-round. The wooden horses said they had never seen a wheel before. are displaced by cycles, with cushion tires. There are three tracks, two of them are parallel, and are spiked to the Several bicyclistshave been fined at Marinette forriding ground. Between these is a movable track. The bicycles on sidewalks. C. H. Waters will test the legality of his are arranged in pairs, and are fastened to the movable arrest and his case has been postponed to July 23. track. When the wheels are mounted and propelled, the Hans Von Kass, a well known Sheboygan merchant, riders are carried around on the movable track. The riders has been missing since June 27. His bicycle has also disap furnish the power to operate the merry-go-round. A patent peared and it is believed that he left the city on his wheel. has been applied for. Arthur Elvis and L. A. Maier, of Medford, will make an There is a posibility that all toll roads will be bought extended tour of the state on their wheels the early part of up in Milwaukee county, including the White Fish Bay August. Green Bay, Kaukauna, Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, drive. Wheelmen are awaiting the decision of the county Oshkosh and Fond du Lac will be visited. Wheelmen board with interest. desiring to accompany them should communicate with L. A. Maier. Joe Lantry, who for many years has been in the employ of the Sercombe-Bolte Manufacturing Company, will open The races held at Marshfield on June 22 were well at up a cycle and cash register store and do repairing in both tended. The novice was won by F. Sinclair, in 2:52; the lines, shortly. half mile open by Ole Virum, in l:26y2; the mile, three min ute class, by F. Sinclair in 3:32, and the three mile handicap Results at West Superior. by Ed. Harkins,100 yards, in 9:15. A. H.Kelley, of Marsh At the West Superior cycling meet, the two-mile open field, was licensed to do the handicapping, and he did satis was won by Griebler, of St Cloud. Scales, of Superior, won factory work. the five-mile handicap, in 13:21. McCleary, of St. Paul, was first in the half-mile open. The ten-mile handicap was How Farmers Repair Tires. won by Burnett, of Superior, in 27:20 1-5. At Marinette, on the Fourth, a lad from the country came into Wheeler's bicycle store to have his tire repaired. He punctured it out in the country and not knowing how MILWAUKEE HEADQUARTERS to repair it filled the inner tube with bran and rode it FOR into the city eight miles in this manner. Big Demand for Wheels. A trade journal says: "The extent of the bicycle The. industry is something remarkable. The capacity of bicycle factories in the country is 400,000 machines a year, hut by working night and day the capacity will be increased to St. Charles 600,000 this year. There is a demand for about 200,000 wheels. HOTEL FORMERLY THE PABST A Cycling Edition. Ne w The Evening Telegram, of West Superior, issued, on Opposite Milwaukee's July 10, a special cycle edition, with a handsomely illus New Million Dollar 1\\ r.Alxf.n City Hall XTAOUCril trated and printed cover and sixteen inside pages, all of which contained illustrations and portraits of prominent Elegant members of the Superior Bicycle Club. DINING ROOM ON TOP FLOOR Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local application, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a LARGE CONVENTION ROOM rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deaf In Connection ness is the result, and unless the inflammation can betaken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine oases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which Is nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars tor any case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh) that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, Rates free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. $2.0O • $2,50 - $3.00 P. J. Matchette ^"Sold by Druggists, 75c. Proprietor THE PNEUMATIC. j^farshfield fleet tffi Marinette's Great Meet ....JULY 22 ...SEE FIRST PAGE... MARSHFIELD CYCLE CLUB WAUKESHA'S Good Prize List...... FineHalf=riHe Track Great Given by Annual Cycle ST. ANDREWS Class A Meet SOCIETY Races of Milwaukee August 22=23 AT THE $800 in Prizes Under the auspices of the Scotch Picnic Send to the Club Waukesha Wheelmen AND GAMES for Entry Blanks AT OPEN TO ALL AMATEURS Entry Blanks at the NATIONAL PARK Cycle Stores and Clubs August 1st, 1895 They Are Stickers WISCONSIN STATE CIRCUIT MEET A Test of Strength In the North Side Club's Cen tury Run, Sun day July 14th, Neenah . . . ADOLPH C. SIEGL August 6 and 7 HENRY WARNKEN Under the Management of the WILLIAM ZEALY Neenah Cycling Club mounted on regular stock, 17^4 $500 DIAMONDS—BOLD WATCHES—SILVERWARE In Full Value Prizes FINE HALF- MILE TRACK S. D. BAIRD 16 EVENTS SECRETARY BERLIN BICYCLE CLUB Friday State Circuit Meet Aug. 9 at One of the Finest. RIVERSIDE PARK TRACK . . • WHEELS • • • Perfectly Banked - Fine Surface - Half Hlle. rode 100 miles in 10 hours, FINE LIST OF PRIZES actual riding time, through Racing Board ARDIN BUEIX Write for Entry Blanks rain, mud and wind R, KB12SB NIAGARAS win races, but T. DODSON L. E. DAVIS, Sec'y. this importance is not com parable with their reliability WANTED in long distance riding .... THESE WHEELS CAN All Bicycle Riders in the State BE INSPECTED AT To Attend the Meet of the TYRANENA BEUZEMAKER BROTHERS CYCLING ASSOCIATION Lake Mills, Wis 579 TWELFTH STREET Wednesday $300 IN PRIZES MILWAUKEE For Entry Blanlis address J. W. WARNKEN August 21, 1895 F. H. EVERSON, Secy. Hanager Cycle Department THE PNEUMATIC. :______LIST OF ----•^•= ANTI=STIFF RELIABLE REPAIR MEN A Marveloua Immediately ltclieves Soreness IN THE STATE. Proparation and StrongtliciiB the Muscles. Quick m its action to lelieve soie Clean and Pleasant to Use Bicycle riders when in need of repairs ness md stiffness or cycle sundries, while touring, will In lire musiles Price, 20 i, 30c box find 'the lirms listed below worthy of Cyclists and Athletes Trunors si_, $1 piiti'onngc. Try It ORUCGSTS AND DEALERS IN A mirnbei of irn SPORT MQ GOODS APPLETON solicited testlmo C.&N.W.RY ulals hive- WIVI. GROTH, been received CVOLE AOESCV AND REPAIR SHOP, SUP ERBLY EQUIPPED ______AL L KIND_S OP OYOLB_ SUNQOIIS_ , . - 7 FAST TRAINS D. H. POLLOCK & CO., BICYCLES AND SUNDRIES. All kinds of Bicycle Repairing. First-class MILWAUKEE^CHICAGO Workmen employed. EQUIPPED WITH COLUMBUS LUXURIOUS PARLOR DIRS - PALATIAL DINING OARS. M. B. NUTE, Palace Sleeping Cars Between HAND LINO ANDHAE AND SUNBEAM CYCLES, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND DIMH ______BIOVOLB R.PAIRIN_ - A -P.-tALTV. _ City Ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St. J. C. KNOWrra (Kings Co Wheelmen) says: "I cheerfully recommend Anti-Stiff as the best CHAS. YERS, Passenger Station, remedy that 'Wheelmen can use for tired muscles Lake Front, Foot of Wisconsin Street. and stiff .joints. During my rifle of n.S-10 miles In PRACTICAL CYCLE REPAIRER, 00 consecutive days, I used It with great benefit: QOOD WORK. REASONABLE PRIORS. W, B. NEWMAN, J. M. WHITMAN, doing all it pretends to do; cyclists should never Third Vice-Pres. General Manager. be without It. FO1*THOWARD W. A. THRALL, Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agb. E. FOUQERA & CO., 30 N. William St. N. Y. CHAS. S. KERR, Indispensable to Cyclists and Tourists Wheels to Bout. Wlmels lteiialrod. ______THIS IS THE ORIGINAL C. A. KREBAUM, Peppermint BIC-CLES ind 8DNDBI-S PERMANENT RE-AIKS CHEW Flavored L. A. W. No. (15386. 2-7 X. 3(1 St. WHITE'S hewing MADISON niTM D, D. WARNER CO., C [To Relieve the Dis- Cycle Agency and Repair Shop. 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ASHLAND SUPEBIOR SUPERIOR DULUTH DODGE & PEARSON, AND Bicycles and Sporting Goods 1133 Tower Avenue WATERLOO .;«•_;_';;;-•. 100 Wisconsin Street YOUR'EHIGHT JANISCH BROS. BICYCLES AND HARDWARE, BICYCLE CLUB BIOYOLK HBPAIRINQ A BP_Of*LTV. BADGES - BUTTONS • HNS. ar!d.Bicycles See Our Novelty Lnpel Button Shipped any whom lEYER Ron ER C.O.D. Saving you Send Ten Cents fer Sample. .dealers profit. We can furnish special Club Badge at.very PRINTING (WHY $ 100'OnkMiioirfiir$fifl, fif) low price. Also Campaign Buttons, "Free *&. Urllngliin* "$_ii..i_ Silver," Sound Money, Etc. AGENTS WANTED 900 " "837.&_ _Pi!0 *' "8_(M>0 Lareat odols.wooaorBteolrlniB; piicuinntln tErraj wdjrlit nu THOMAS M. GOODWIN, t*.o, 3«-..-"0 His.. i filnil B-rvltit s anil in_««s. I.ftiye_lluatrnteil_at_1ncimfivt!. MAH.FAO.nEBE NOVELTIES, Cash Buvers'Union, 162 W.VanBuren St.u U^Chicaao 175 PLUM STREET. - CINCINNATI, O. THE PNEUMATIC. . © Tfye Wfyeeltfpejp's Gatr^era @ Typewriter Supplies FOR ALL MaGbines. Typewriters FOR RENT. It has the most oomonipn.ei uid inns the easiest. Other mauuiactmeis acknow ledge its supenouty by imitating — but not equalling — Us essential ioatuie. THE PREMO I The U. S. War Department adopted it in 1893, and has just renewed the contract. Fiee Descnptne pamphlet with opinions fiom such lead The PREMO is the most compact Hand Cameia in the mat ing eoneeins as the Carnegie Steel Company, who use 25 ket. /The 4x5 measures but _£x5&_.6£ inches It is Densmores. fitted with the best Lens and pur new Silent 'J he NoUhwcstein Mutual Lite Insuiancc Go aie using 6' Shutter, and uses both Glass Plates 01 Densmoi es ; ' Roll Film. • UNITED TYPEWRITER AND SUPPLIES CO. ROCHESTER OVTKAL CO. GEO. K. KENDAL, Jlannger. 3T7 BROADWAY, - - MILWAUKEE. ROCHESTER, N. Y. Tolephone 1722 SIC-STID _?_>:__ o__-.T__i_oc3-T_r___. Also dealers for the New Yost Writing Machine. MEYERTROTIER PRINTING GO. Bicycle Suits r '':•..' We take any suit in stock and ATAL0GUE — make bloomers (the right length) ...PRINTERS •'• - of the pants. Lots of them at 505 East Water Street $10.00, including vest—a dollar less if you don-'t want it. MILWAUKEE -WE ARE READY TO FIGURE WITH YOU Sweaters 95 WISCONSIN ST. '.'. ; Prom.$i.50to$5.00 DR. W. S6HLAGER, MILWAUKEE. Simonds In •stock to-day the new •*3gS± =DE_N"TIST Clothing'Co. - "TURTLE NECK- Maroon or Black $4 00 CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a Specialty. Vitalized'Air. 386-8 East Water Street - ' TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Filled Without Pain by a New Method. All Work Guaranteed. (< (1 F. C. HAEFER'S UMttmt RIPANS STUDIO ONE GIVES RELIEF Corner Milwaukee and Mason Streets MILWAUKEE We Photograph Everything Under the Sun n contests oi Speed and Endurance Many a poor rider has been handicapped on account of his mount being a hard run ning machine. Oftimes the energy and strength which he expended in his contests would have carried him to easy victory had he been mounted on a TELEGRAM SANGER RACER &&&^S&&&^ w Our Riders are Constantly Winning on Our Machines Why Can't You? Telegram Gueie MIQ. GO. Erie and East Water Streets Send for Catalogue Milwaukee s A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS,, AUGUST, 189?. No. -J. And the Sly Salesman ... Catcheth a Soft Flark. • • • • And thus the Conversation Ran through his Hat... S. M. " But I want' G. & J.' tires." S. S. " Good Heavens! You don't mean it! Haven't yoti heard?" S. M. "Heard what?" S. S. " That the ' G. & J.' are no good at all." S. M. " Always heard they were the best. People who use them say so." S. S. " But—they are all wrong this year." S. M. "Was told they have used the same fastening for six years. Ought to be all right—been well tested, certainly." . S. S. "Don't you believe it. You should take 'Heat & Meltem' tires. They're cheaper—I mean, much better." , S. M. "But lam told riders had so much trouble with them in 1893." S. S. "Yes, but £_at was changed in 1894." S. M. "They do say their 1894 tires were worse than ever." S.S; "They fixed all that in 1895. FASTEST S. M. "Good many changes, eh?. But if you recommend it I'll take the'H. &M,' Send the wheel over. Good day." ,'J/HRE'ON EARTHS S. S. "He was easy. Pour dollars ($4.00) extra profit-r-besides repairs to come." IITH E GREAT G^Jl\\ USED ON ALL ii And he (S. S.) jingled the free silver in the pocket of his bloomers, and hummed: RAMBLERS III " Oh cruel he who struck the blow," '%ANY DEALER WILL SUPPLY j "And soft the guy who bled." ^THEM ON ANY WHEEL If YOU INSIST THE PNEUMATIC. A Little Fowler History... DON'T FAIL TO SEE— "The Wisconsin" Weight 33 pounds, and all late improvements ..... Price $63.50. Equal to the majority of $100 wheels x^*********. 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Frame," malting it more rigid than John Law-on, the Terrible Swede, any other. For strength and light does the .trick ; on the FOWLER. ness it leads. Its lines are lines ot Lowers the world's record for SB beauty, and its finish is superb. GRIBB GftRRiftGE COMPANY miles and 50 miles, respectively. Wo fiordiiiUy Invite you to call and Time for 35 miles,was 59:31 3-5, for compare our stock and prices with 50. miles, 2:051-5. best inducements offered elsewhere. BROADWAY AND HURON STS. u 9$ THEONLY is Carefully Built by an Medals Experienced Tlechanic And From the Society Best Material. Badges rianufactured By . . . Each Wheel is Especially Built to Order BUM I UPMEYER The Repair Department 121-123- WISCONSIN STREET - MILWAUKEE of our factory is ready to fix up your Flrst-Class Work at wheel in shape Very Low Prices t>olllit Cycle Works Send for illustrated Price List Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS • 703-705 Winnebago Street Solicited Sent on Application 704-706 Chestnut Street MILWAUKEE MEM-ION THE PNCUi.' •/ THE PNEUMATIC. MILWAUKEE HEADQUARTERS STATE CIRCUIT MEET... FOR AT- Appleton, Wisconsin All prizes are now on exhibition iu stores AllCriICT "?& 1 HC% K of Keller & Son, Mayer & Kamps, A. ""_.«"»• -GO, IOVO The_ H. Baker, A. J. Kahn and P. M. Conkey, and are guaranteed to be full value. Write to P. M. donkey, at Appleton, Wis. S375 for entry blanks. St. Charles ...IN PRIZES The Track is a Fine Half Mile Oval, Well Banked and Very Past HOTEL Entries to Handicap Events Close Aug. 21 Entries to Other Events Close Aug. 26 FORMERLY THE PABST New Opposite Milwaukee's New Million Dollar City Hall iVlodern Beuzemaker Elegant Bros. DINING ROOM ON TOP FLOOR 579 TWELFTH ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. LARGE CONVENTION ROOM SOLE WISCONSIN AGENTS FOR In Connection THE FAMOUS Rates $2.00 - $2.50 - $3.00 F. J. Matchette Proprietor Janesville's State Circuit Meet ..BY THE- ARROW CYCLING CLUB TWO DAYS Wheels $650 in Prizes—Actual Value All ST. __y = 3U Milwaukee Riders are ENTRIES CLOSE AUGUST 22 beginning to appreciate the quality of the ON THE ROAD AND TRACK they have been tested and shown to be Strong MEYER-ROTIER Light and PRINTING Swift CO. J. W. WARNKEN Manager Cycle Department PROF. A. THEISE 505 EAST WATER STREET ... MILWAUKEE MANAGER EAST SIDE BICYCLE DEPARTMENT ROOM 52 UNIVERSITY BUILDING TELEPHONE 691 MILWAUKEE THE PNEUMATIC. A Partial List of Races ANDRAE WINNINGS Won on Andrae Cycles ROAD RACES Waterloo ("Wis.) Road Itacc — W. C. Schrader 1st time, Oth East Side C. C. Road Race—Nat. McDongall 1st time, Geo. place; J. M. Quilty, 2d place. Schmidt 3d time. Waukesha Road Race —Geo. Schmidt 1st, A. F. Bingenheimer Winona (Minn) 60-Mile Road Race — N. Steffes 1st time. 2d, J. M. Quilty 8d, W. B. Maseear 4th, Art. Weilep 6th, Kandy Kitchen (Winona, Minn.) Road Race — Steffes 1st place. W. C. Neilson 8th, W. G. Schrader 8d time. Elgin (111.) Road Race —1st, 3d and 5th places. 2d time. 19tli Century Road Race —M. S. O'Brien 1st time. W. U. and Postal Telegraph Boys' Road Race — 1st time and Oroole Road Race— H. Ihling 1st place, M. S. O'Brien 1st time. 1st place. AND LOTS OF OTHERS TRACK RACES Oconomowoc, June 1—Three races. Two Andraes entered, Wausau, Wis., July 12-13 —E. Ii. Harkins won 1st five mile capturing three lsts, two Sds and one 3d prizes. handicap and 2d half-mile open. Marshfield, July 22—W. C. Schrader won 1st half-mile open Marquette College Field Day—four 1st prizes. in 1:07, 1st one mile open in 2:19, 1st three mile lap, 2d Menominee, Midi.— 1st half-mile open. quarter-mile open. A. F. Bingenheimer won 1st quarter- mile open and 1st five mile handicap. E. H, Harkins won Beloit, Wis.— 1st five mile handicap. 1st one mile countyc hampionship and 2d five mile handicap. Beloit, Wis.— 1st two mile handicap. Neenah, Wis., August 7-8 —W. C. Schrader won 1st half-mile open and 1st two mile open. (4:38 state record by 0:34.) Monroe, Wis.— 1st one mile handicap. Neilson and Sehmidtbauer won half-mile State Tandem, Madison, Wis.— 1st quarter-mile open. record 1:01. A. F. Bingenheimer won 1st quarter-mile Lake Mills, Wis.—1st one mile open. open in 81$ and 2d. half-mile open. Berlin, August 9. — W. C. Schrader won 1st half-mile open Lake Mills, Wis.—1st one mile handicap from scratch, and 1st one mile open. A. F. Bingenheimer. Avon 2d Columbus, Wis., July 12-1S — W. C Schrader won 1st in half quarter-mile open. Schrader and Bingenheimer won 1st mile open, 1st in one mile open and 2d in quarter-mile half-mile tandem. open. A. F. Bingenheimer won 1st in quarter-mile open, Scotch Picnic—One mile handicap W. C. Schrader (scratch) 1st, 1st in five, mile handicap and 2d in one mile open. Arthur Bingenheimer (25 yards) 2d, McDougall (100 yards) 8d, time Weilep won 1st in one mile handicap and 3d in five mile 2:10$; two mile handicap, Art. Weilep (00 yards) 1st, time handicap. 4:50. AND LOTS OF OTHERS 225 West Water Street Milwaukee, Wis. JULIUS ANDRAE & SUNS GO, THE PNEUMATIC. THE CYCLE PARADE. It is proposed to hold a large bicycle parade in connec tion with the Semi-Centennial celebration to be held here in October. This event will be given in honor of the city of Milwaukee and every wheelman and wheelwoman in the city is in duty bound to participate and make the parade __ MONTHLY one of the features of the celebration. Cycle parades have JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. proven successful in other cities where they have been held. Several parades have been planned here at various times but FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. none have been held since Walter Q. Sanger returned from All copy for advertisements, changes lor same, news and correspondence for publication mnst be sent to before the 7th, to insure insertion the same England two years ago crowned with glory. Wheelmen are month. Contributions returned if not published. now given an opportunity to redeem themselves for lack of ENTERED IN THE P. O. AT MILWAUKEE AS flEOONO CLASB MATTER. interest taken in parades and meets and they cannot afford ADVBI^TISING- THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri to slight this event. If all club members will join hands and tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homos of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper induce theirfriends, who do not belong to any organization, which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on to turn out, the parade will be a success. Work should be application. begun at once. _ PNEUTIATIC PUBLISHING COflPANY, WISCONSIN LEAGUE MEMBERSHIP. 505 East Water Street, - Milwaukee, Wis. Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier's report on the condi J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. tion of the Wisconsin Division will be very interesting for Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. members who attend the state meet at Marinette. It will show that there are now nearly 900 members in the state. J THERE is some satisfaction in knowing that Milwaukee This is an increase of over 100 per cent over the record of j can conduct a road race in as good a style as any of them. last year. Energy and hard work on the part of the Division FOR securing sanctions for meets and the failing to hold officers has brought about this result. In this work, Chief the races, the city in the country that can beat Milwaukee Consul Morrison and Secretary-Treasurer Rotier have been lias yet to be discovered. especially active and they deserve the thanks of every mem ber of the League. Thisstateis nowrecognizedthroughout THERE is perhaps not a statein the Union where so many the country as one of the largest in the west, and it has won small state meets are held as in Wisconsin. This has been this distinction during the past year. It is to be regretted caused by the state circuit. that Mr. Morrison cannot continue to build up the division. IF THE membership of the Wisconsin Division increases The new consul next fall will find the division in a good next year at the rate it did in 1895, over 2,000 wheelmen condition, but he will not be compelled to complain for will be, enrolled in the L. A. W. records a year from now. want of a field to work in. There will be plenty to do to MILWAUKEE riders will soon have to sound bells at keep him busy if he would continue to improve the division street crossings. Its dollars to dough-nuts that more as has been done during the present administration. pedestrian's will be run clown then through their own CYCLE PATHS. carelessness than heretofore. Wheelmen at Appleton claim the credit of being the pro THOSE -who are delaying the buying of a wheel until jectors of the first cycle path in Wisconsin, and oneof thefirst next year, with the hope of getting a high grade machine in the Northwest. The path is over half a mile long and will for f 30 next spring, will be anxious to meet the newspaper be built at an expense of $200; which the riders are raising man who invented that Studebaker fake story. by contributions. The cyclists of Appleton deserve credit for their enterprise. Thereisno good cause why everycityin the No WONDER the bloomer is not popular among wheel- state cannot have paths set aside exclusively for wheelmen. women in Milwaukee. A look at some of those worn by The expense is small and the funds can be raised without the fair Chicagoans who come up on the Whaleback would trouble. All that is needed is hustle. Other cities should lead one to believe that the material out of which they are follow Appleton in this matter. It is to be hoped that the made is costly. There is so little of it. movement to build a path between Stevens Point and Amherst will be successfully carried through. GENERAL PASSENGER AGENT I-I. HEAFFQED, of the Chi Local riders also should turn their attention in this cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul road, is reported to have said direction. In some cities paths have been built for cyclists that railroads will suffer a decrease in earnings until the in the public parks, Milwaukee has one of the best park "bicycle fad" dies out. The railroad magnates will find it systems in the country and extensive improvements will a good long wait if they have begun looking for the death be made during the next few years. Riders ought to see to of the "fad." it that their interests are not forgotten. THE PNEUMATIC. AN ASSOCIATION NEEDED. haps fitting would be a better word — of wheels in which The time is here when every intelligent wheelman must the English manufacturers are ahead of us. The great realize that something ought to be done to promote more amount of rainy weather and consequently wet roads in harmony among clubs. A year ago an Associated Cycling the British Isles makes it very desirable to have chain and Club was organized for the purpose of securing the co-oper sprockets protected by a gear case. In this country, where ation of all clubs in racing events in this city. The basis of our riding season is comparatively dry and where, if it does the association was weak from the very start, and now the occasionally rain we can postpone our exercise or pleasure organization is a thing of the past. There are now a num awheel for a day or two without feeling that our riding ber of strong clubs in the city, which, if they would unite, season is being unduly curtailed, we do not so forcibly feel as have the clubs in Chicago and other cities, much good the benefit of covering the propelling mechanism of our could be accomplished. The various little differences ought wheels. But what rider is there who uses our roads or well- to he laid aside, and immediate action taken by all clubs — sprinkled streets to any extent, who has not many times both large and small—to organize an association on a felt that it would save him a deal of annoyance and be of good, sound basis. Who will begin the good work ? great benefit to his wheel if its driving gear could be thor oughly protected from mud and dust by a gear case? One JEALOUSY AMONQ CLUBS. of the reasons why such a contrivance has not been adopted It is to be regretted that among the 15,000 wheelmen in this country is that it would add weight, and American in Milwaukee, there is not enough interest and harmony to riders have demanded that everything be sacrificed to light warrant the holding of a race meet in this city without ness. Another objection has been that it looks heavy. If assuming the risk of meeting with a financial loss. The we can believe English manufacturers, both of these objec same conditions confront riders this year as have in former tions have been done away with. They illustrate in their ones. Cycling is at its height, and yet interest for the good advertisements gear cases weighing but eight ounces having of the sport is wanting. Lack of harmony is responsible. sides of some transparent substance, presumably celluloid, The various clubs are watching each other with jealousy through which the chain can be plainly seen. These cases instead of co-operating and furthering each others'interests. are dust proof, are provided with a device to keep the gear This has been so in Milwaukee for the past two years, and constantly oiled, and judging from the illustrations, would now things have come about in such a way that it must not at all detract from the looks of a wheel. make wheelmen feel ashamed. In the state towns of from Now that our manufacturers have brought their wheels 5,000 inhabitants and upwards wheelmen areholding large to such astage of perfection, regarding weight and elegance, and successful meets. Milwaukee on the other hand has been obliged to surrender sanctions for its national circuit ought they not to turn some of their attention to this most races, for a semi-professional meet and for a state circuit troublesome part of a wheel's anatomy and furnish us with tourney. There is not a single town, however small, in a neat, light gear case? WILL M. FOSTER. Wisconsin that has not held its meet after a sanction had flay Have No Races Here. once been secured. Thereis just as good a class of wheelmen in this city as are found anywhere. There are plenty men Milwaukee now is in a fair way not to sec any bicycle who are willing to work if they see that satisfactory results races this year. Every meet that has been spoken of has can be attained, but as long as they do not receive the sup fizzled away in wind. Early in the season the Associated port to which they are entitled theydo not propose to go on. Cycling Clubs secured a sanction for two days on the The sooner members of the various clubs realize that national circuit. The races were to be held on August 19 nothing can be accomplished in trying to down each other, and 20, but long before the snow melted away the associa the better, not only for the various clubs, but cycling in this tion began to show signs of disbandment. Meetings were city. ______frequently called but no quorum could be secured and it soon became apparent that the association was dead. AMERICA VERSUS ENGLAND. With it the chances for holding the circuit races died away. We Americans are inclined to make fun of the ideas our Then the North Side club secured a sanction to hold semi- English cousins have about the weight of wheels ; and it is professional races here on August 10. These also have been rather amusing to the 1895 cyclist on this side of the postponed indefinitely. The Milwaukee Wheelmen have a water, who finds a 22- or 23-pound roadster strong enough sanction to hold state circuit races here on August 24 but for hard usage on our rough highways, to read the state it is not likely that they will be held. At present no other ment of a writer on a prominent British wheeling journal meets have been spoken of and unless a meet is planned and of recent date that he has been testing a light safety, weigh arrangements for it are made in the near future it is certain ing not more than twenty-six or twenty-eight pounds on that Milwaukee will go without track events this year.. good, bad and indifferent roads for a few months and has never had the slightest thing go wrong with the machine. "Berryman is still a novice" has been the by-word at There is one point, however, in the construction — or per various meets where young Berryman, of Madison competed. THE PNEUMATIC. FLOCKING TOWARD MARINETTE. Besides receiving nominations, other matters of impor Everything Is In Readiness For the Reception of Wisconsin Riders, Who tance will come up. The reports of the chief consul, the Will Begin to Arrive There On Wednesday Night—The Probability secretary-treasurer and the chairmen of the various com . la That William A. Brown Will Be the Next Chief Consul mittees will be received. This has been the most prosperous —Secretary-Treasurer n. C. Rotier Also To Serve Again, year in the history of the division and all reports will be Marinette wheelmen are ready to receive their guests. very interesting. A number of important questions will The arrangements which have been under way for the state also be discussed. meet have been completed and on the fifteenth, hundreds of The races, of course, will be the feature of the meet. wheelmen will flock into the city situated on the waters of There will be five championship events—the quarter mile, Green Bay. For weeks the cyclists of Marinette have been half mile, mile, two mile and five mile events. Each will be waiting for the day to come around and the visitors will be hotly contested for and it is reasonably certain that new met with a warm welcome. Weather permitting, the meet state records in each will be established. Valuable prizes will be the largest ever held in Wisconsin. Probably 1,000 will be awarded for each race. Ten events will be run in the riders will be present. afternoon of the second and third day. On account of the There will be a good program for the entertainment of large number of entries it will be run on each morning of the the visitors. The first day will be devoted exclusively to races. Thetrack has been improved and it is now one of the pleasure. An excursion on the bay will afford the visitors a fastest in the state. The list of prizes is the best that has good opportunity to become acquainted with each other. ever been awarded in the state and the club spent $2,500 in Attheopera house one of Frohman's plays will be presented. securing it. Many of the riders will attend this place of amusement in The accommodations will be such that no fault will be the evening while others will spend their time in the city found in that direction. The riders will also find all conveni and in Menominee. After the first day, those attending the ences at the track, where enough dressing rooms to provide meet will be in good condition to enjoy the races because of for all the racing men have been arranged. If the weather their acquaintances with nearly all riders. is unfavorable on one of the days of the meet, the races will The business to be transacted will occupy the officers' be postponed until the following day. This will not inter attention on the mornings of the second and third days. fere with any of the plans of the fast riders who follow the The sessions will be held at the headquarters of the Mar national circuit, because the races which were to be held in inette Cycling Club and will begin at 8 o'clock. The principal Milwaukee on August 19 and 20 have been declared off and business will be the placing in nomination of officers for the the meet following the Marinette events will be at Mt, ensuing year. Several days ago Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Clemens, Mich., on August 22 and 23, which will give the Rotier sent out ballots and a greeting to each League mem "flyers" plenty of time to stay over at Marinette. The ber. These ballots have been filled out and will be returned officers who will be in charge of the races are: Irvin to George K. Mead, who has been appointed chairman of F. Strauss, of Ripon, referee; W. F. Overbeck, Marinette, the Committee on Nominations and who will make his M. A. Dunning, of Menominee, and W. C. Campbell, of headquarters at Hotel Marinette. Mr. Mead will count Marinette, judges; Isaac Stephenson, Jr., of Menominee, the ballots and report the results to the division officers Fred Carney, Jr., and Amos Holgate, of Marinette, timers; at the business meeting, which will be taken into account Martin C. Rotier, of Milwaukee, clerk of the course; J, E. in the regular balloting for nominees. There are only three Case, of Marinette, T. S. Hitchcock and E. C. Prescot, of candidates in the field for the chief consulship as far as is Marinette, assistant clerks of the course; C. M. Fairchild, known, William A. Brown, president of the Marinette E. E. Nott and A. Z. White, of Marinette, scorers; F. M. Cycling Club, seems to be the favorite and there is little doubt Stephenson, of Menominee, starter; T. S. Arthur, J. E. Mars but that he will receive thelargestnumber of votes. Heis the and H. P. Chase, of Marinette, umpires. candidate of wheelmen in the northern part of the state and is alsofavored by the Milwaukee delegation. His will be one Investigating Local Flyers. of the names which will be finally voted upon in the fall. William F. Sanger, Edward Roth and Harry Crocker, F. W. Walker, of La Crosse, has brought out the name of members of the Telegram team, may soon be declared Class Dr. D. S. Mc Arthur, of that city, as a candidate. Dr. B men. F. Gerlach, of Chicago, who is a member of the Mc Arthur, it is understood, is not seeking the office, L. A. W. Racing Board, is now investigating their standing however, and is making no effort to encourage his friends as Class A riders, it having been charged that they are being to work for him. The third candidate is Irvin F. Strauss, paid by the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Company for of Ripon. Mr. Strauss is chairman of the state racing riding the Telegram wheel. It is understood that the riders board and his candidacy is being urged by President have been notified of the action of the board, which is now J. Seelig, Jr., of the Ripon Cycling Club. M. C. Rotier, of -making inquiries in the city. If Sanger, Roth and Crocker Milwaukee, will again be placed innominatioufor secretary- are expelled from Class A, it is not improbable that others treasurer. in the city will also be investigated. THE PNEUMATIC. Won By a Milwaukeean. Sun Prairie-fladison Race. Con. G. Reinke, a member of the Badger Wheelmen, The Sun Prairie-Madison race on July 27, was won by won the fourth annual Hilsendegen road race at Detroit on Frederick Kull, of Madison, with a ten minute handicap, August 3. He covered the twenty-five mile course in he covering the twelve miles in 37:00. Kull weighs 210 1:06 % . His handi pounds, and is the center rush of the State University foot cap was 5% minutes. ball team. Henry Zerbel, Milwaukee, won the time prize, T. R. Eddy of Colum in 31:00 and broke the former record, which was 40:48. bus, 0.,a scratchman, There were seventy-nine entries and fifty-one starters. lowered the Belle Isle There were no serious accidents. The result, with the handi record by .41 yi sec caps and time of each rider is as follows : Posi- Handl- onds and won the tlon. Name. cap. Time. time prize in 1:05 j/4 . 1 Fred Kull, Madison 10 37:00' The second time prize 2 B. D. Black, Chicago 6 34:01 3 James Housel, Madison 10 38:18 was taken by V. R. 4 I, D. McDauiels. Madison 8 34:33 Gable, of Greensburg, 5 C.W. Eiddiclt, Madison 8 30:44 6 A. B. Sherbeck 3_ 33:36 Pa., who covered the 7 S. W. Rogers, Portage 8 H7:07_ course in liOSilOVi. 8 B. Thompson, La Crosse 5 34:08 9 Carl Thomas, Madison .- 10 38:09 The second position 10 H. H. Qottschalk, Sun Prairie 5 34:86 winner was A. S. 11 Phillip E. Linger, La Crosse 4 33:30 IS! M. S. O'Brien, Milwaukee >•••• 3 82:3(l_ Hagar, of Toledo; 13 "W. F. Schroeder, Madison 5 34:37 third, S. W. Veithee, 14 J. M. Quilty, Sun Prairie 4 33;S8 IB Conrad Knudson. Madison.... 9 38:45 of Mt. Clemens. 16 George Wiggins SH 33:23 Nearly 200 wheelmen 17 Parker Eoss, Lake Mills 7 30:00 18 J. L. Edgren, Madison ' 8 38:01 started, the riders re 19 William Horstmere, Sun Prairie 7 37:03 CON. G. REINKE, 20 Alfred Brown, Watertown 3 33:13 MILWAUKEE, presenting Michigan, SI Louis H. Fale.s, Madison 4 34 :S1 Winner of the Hilsendegen Road Race. Illinois, Wisconsin, 83 Frank Haeket, Palmyra 3 33:82 Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario. 23 Benjamin W. Park, Madison 4 34:23 21 Charles E. Delong, Evanston 4 34:61 Con. Reinke is twenty-one years of age and one of the 25 P. B.Mills. Beloit...., 5 35:62 20 BenjaminF. Oakey, Madison 0 3(1:59 fastest road riders in the city. He has ridden a wheel three 27 H. A. Zerbel, Milwaukee Scratch. 31:00 years and from the very start has shown speed. Last year 38 W. _. Lutzow, Madison . 7 38:05 29 Frank Cnare, Evansville 8_ 33:36 he won second place in the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race. 30 T. J. Estes, Evansville 4 35:10 At the last state meet at Ripon he captured the five mile 31 H. O.Walton, Evansville 4 33:25 32 W. 0. Neilson, Milwaukee 2 32:44 handicap. That same year he took second time in the 33 C. F. Spencer, Evansville 5 311:20 Junior Cycle Club's, road race, which was won by W. C. 34 J. E. Church, Milwaukee 5 30:21 35 H. L. Hull, Madison 8 34:27_ Schrader. In the Hilsendegen race he rode a Syracuse 36 A. F. Bingenheimer, Milwaukee l;4 33:01_ wheel with Palmer tires. His prize is a handsome diamond 37 T. B. Eoyce, Ft. AtkiiiBon 3 34:35 38 Fred Steniple, Madison , 7 37:37 medal. Reinke is a member of the Badger Wheelmen. 39 J. J. Meier, Madison i as:30 40 H. Helgison, Deertlekl (1 38:05 Fred Bremer Place and Time. 41 Will Simpson, Milwaukee fi 37:06 42 A. L. Williams. Beaver Dam 3_ !15:30H The annual road race of the Telegram Cycle Manufac 43 D. D. Warner, Madison. (i at); 16 turing Company's employees on July 20 over the Whitefish 44 A. E. Matthews, Madison . 8 40:20 45, E. E. Stone, Chicago 3 33:32 Bay course was won by F. Bremer in 17:05, who also won 40 Henry Colton, Palmyra 6 87:__ first time. Edward Roth and Harry Crocker lowered the 47 C. S. Berryman, Madison..., 0 38;fi:i 48 H. S. Bird, Madison 0 ;JH:61 tandem record for the course. They cut the former time of 49 Aug. Genske, Madison 10 42:55 14:40 to 13:08. 50 Herman Eowedett, Madison (1 40;19_ 51 J. E. Patterson, Madison v y 43:28?,f, Won't Part With the Records. 52 W. C. Schrader. Milwaukee Scratch. 35:40 53 E. C. Smelker, Dodge , 4 Nineteenth Century Club's Race. May Hold Indoor fleets. Paul Milbrath, aged fourteen years, won the annual There maybe several indoor race meets in Milwaukee road race of the Nineteenth Century Cycling Club from during the fall and winter. Several members of the Mil Beloit Corners to the club's headquarters, at National and waukee Wheelmen are now considering the renting of the Eighteenth avenues, on July 28. Morgan S. O'Brien won Exposition building late in thefallforthe purpose of getting the time prize. up a big meet, It is proposed to conduct the races on a The wheel that Milbrath rode was one that he had large scale and an effort will be made if it is decided to go borrowed from a friend, he not possessing one of his own. into the scheme, to get all the fast men in the Northwest to A number of accidents occurred. One of the riders near the come here. There would be no trouble in doing this because finish ran into a woman which caused the second and third all the speedy racers are at leisure when the races are to be man who were following close on his rear wheel to pile on held. Among those who will compete will be Sanger and top of him. The third man, A. C. Siegl, fractured his arm several other, professionals. There seems to be little doubt severely. that a meet of this kind, properly managed, would pay. An unknown rider,E. A.Clifford, A. Weilep and A. Stolz The last indoor meet was held two years ago. The sport collided at National Park and landed in a heap. The result was comparatively new at that time, but since then cycling of the race is as follows: has grown to such proportions that there ought to be no Posi- "" Handi- trouble in drawing out large crowds. tion. Name and Club. cap. Time. 1 P. Milbrath, Milwaukee 4 17:10 3 J. Lemmer, Nineteenth C. C. C _1_ 10:04 Joins the Telegram Team. 3 A. Koken, A. C. 0 3 10:39 4 J. Weilep, C. C. C 2 16:45 Henry Zerbel, the speedy south side rider, who has won 5 J. Pedevson, Milwaukee 2 15:60 a number of races this year, is now an employee of the 6 E. Gumz, Nineteenth C. C. C 'MA 10:13 7 Morgan S. O'Brien, B. W % 14:47 Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Company and hereafter will 8 J.Muss, M.C. C & 14:49 ride a Telegram wheel. 0 M. Stark, M. C. C S„ 10:42 10 A. Zueflow, Milwaukee 3 17:1(5 11 H. Milbrath, Nineteenth C. C. C 3>4 10:48 Were Well Entertained. IS B. E. J. SteinkopU, M. C. 0 1_ 15:60 13 R.Falk.C.C.C 2t_ 16:52 The wheelmen who attended the Hilsendegen Belle Isle 14 W.Zeally.N.W 8JA 18:30 Road race at Detroit on August 3, are loud iu their praises 15 EoM. Gumz, Nineteenth C, C. C 5 111:20 10 H. J. Solunitz, B. W 2 10:31 of the hospitality shown by Joe and Louis Hilsendegen, tlie 17 H. Warnken, N. W S 15:30 promoters of the race. They spared no money or pains to 18 George Schmidt, B. W 1 15:39 19 J. W. Warnken, N, W 1 15:45 to give the boys a royal good time during their stay, 50 F. Bremer, T, C. C IK 10:18 21 A. Stolz, M. 0. C scratch 14:54 Scotch Picnic Races. S3 A. Weilup, M. 0. C Bcrateh 14:59 23 C. A. Muss, M. C. C l'/a 10:35 There were three good bicycle races on August 1, at the 24 W. Milbrath, M. C. C 2>/a 17:39 25 A. Mueller, Nineteenth 0. C. 0 W 10:40 annual Scotch picnic at National Park. W. C. Schrader 26 E. Hamish, N. S. C. C « 10:42 won the one mile handicap from scratch in 2:10 [/,; 27 E. A. Clifford, M. C. 0 ...scratch 15:35 S8 G. Henkel, Milwaukee 5 20:21 Arthur Weilep, 90 yards, the two mile handicap in 4:50 % , 29 W. Jordan, Milwaukee Hany Cycle Tourists. Priests Ride Bicycles. This is the year for bicycle touring. Scarcely a day While there seems to be an impression among some passes that announcement is not made that a long tour by riders that the Pope has issued an edict prohibiting priests wheelmen has been completed or begun. E. H. Warlike and to ride the bicycle, such is not the case. There are a number D. H. Work have just returned from a three weeks' trip in of ardent wheelmen among the Catholic clergy in Wisconsin. the state during which time they rode over 1,000 miles. Father O'Brien of Green Bay is an active rider as is also They traveled as far north as Marinette and Sturgeon Bay Father O'Hearne of this city. and among other places of interest visited by them was the North Side Club's Race. Keshine Indian reservation. They traveled about sixty Preparations for the annual club race of the North Side miles a day. H. E. Slater, William Fry and J. Huennekens club are now under way and a number of entries have al have completed a week's trip in the state, visiting Fox Lake, ready been filed. The race will be run over the Silver Springs Green Lake, Berlin, Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha, Appleton, course on August 31. Two high grade wheels are among Kaukauna, De Pere, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Sheboygan the prizes, and the time medal will be donated by Beuze and Port Washington. They covered about 400 miles. maker Bros. Frank Zander and Leonard Bellinghausen have also finished a 600 mile tour along the lake shore, returning by way of Young Riders Organize. Oshkosh and Fond du Lac to the city. Woods Plankinton, A mtmber of young riders in the northwestern portion son of William Plankinton, and August Bertsch,of this city, of the city have organized a club and named it the White recently rode to St. Paul on their wheels. Mrs. C. I. Cook, Star Cycling Club. It has a membership of twenty, most Mrs. S. B. Sanderson and Mrs. A.N. La Combe, well known of the members averaging about 17 years. A club room at Menominee, Mich., women, rode to Chicago awheel a week North avenue and Thirty-second street has been secured. ago. The trip was made for pleasure. James C. Wall and A number of club runs have been arranged. his nephew, Alexander, left on the 3d inst. for a 900 mile tour in the state. All historic and picturesque places will No flore Use For Horses. be visited. Nearly all trips are being made while the riders Frederick P. White, an Astor street liveryman, recently are having their vacations. failed. Poor business caused by the extensive use of the bicycle was the cause of his making an assignment. Old League riembers. Punished Thieves. Few people who set Andrew A. Hathaway riding erect Richard O'Brien, brother of the notorious "Kid" on his wheel know that he is the oldest member of the L. A. O'Brien, stole a wheel recently from E. Chapman, of 134 W. in this state. Mr. Hathaway has been a member of the Seventh street, and was arrested. Tie pleaded guilty and League since 1880. B.B.Ayers, now of Chicago, also joined was sentenced to the House of Correction for six months, the League in Wisconsin that year, and has retained his Elmer Mead pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing a membership ever since. Henry P. Andrae,is the next oldest bicycle at Oshkosh and was sentenced to Waupun for one member residing in this city, having joined the League in year. His home is in Waupaca. 1886. L. W. Earle, of Tomah, H. Van Arsdale, and W. J. Hopkins, of Racine, also have held membership cards since How to Organize a Club. that year. F. J. Morawetz, F. J. Schroeder, F. T. Andrae, There are many small towns in the state where no clubs V. J.Schoenecker, Jr., all of this city, have been League mem have been organized and where such a step is contemplated. bers since 1887, ashavealso, Anson Prescott, of Sheboygan, The following suggestions may be of some value to wheel John W. Knight, of Racine, S. C. Newman, of Kenoslfa, and men of those places who are forming new organizations: L. B. Baker, of Racine. The following have been members Place the matter of organization in the hands of half a since 1888, August Rutz, of Milwaukee, Con. Leenhouts, of dozen enthusiastic cyclists, with the suggestion to them Milwaukee, W. W. Jackson, of Eau Claire, W. L. Simonds, that they model the newly organized body after the general of Milwaukee, R. P. Wheeler, of Milwaukee, and W. H. plan of some of the many live clubs around you. Get a Field, of Green Bay. copy of their constitution and by-laws and follow the general plan of one of them. Have some of the club Will Pass the Bicycle Ordinance. members come up and give you a little talk on the subject. At the next meeting of the common council a bicycle They'll be glad to. Keep the question of official action and ordinance will be passed. The ordinance was introduced club control well to the rear, and confine your missionary by Aid. Starkweather and limits the speed of riders in the work to that class and social strata which "best can work city to ten miles an hour and six miles an hour while pass and best agree." And finally, "fix the newspapers." They ing over crossings. It also provides for the carrying of will cheerfully use any news items you can give them, and bells, but the rider is not obliged to carry a lantern. A fine do you an immense amount of good in keeping alive the of from $3 to $6 is imposed for violation of the ordinance. interest in cycling. THE PNEUMATIC. Prices Asked For Toll Roads. THE NIAGARA WHEELMEN. Dr. A. G. Leland, of Whitewater, Wis., has offered the The New Organization Promises to Become One of the Leading Clubs In Janesville toll road to the county for $10,000. The road is the City—Plans for the Future—The Officers and the Committees. seven miles long and runs from Forest Home Cemetery to A club which promises to soon be one of the leading Hales's Corners. F. organizations of its kind in the city, was organized on July Koenig, president of the 25, and christened the Niagara Wheelmen. Its membership Milwaukee and Brook- is made up of active and hustling west side field Macadamized Turn riders and the officers are now busy making pike Ro ad Company, ha s arrangements for entertainment to be given offered the Lisbon road members during the winter. It is proposed for $21,000. This road to keep enthusiasm in the organization all is seven miles long and year around and not to allow the membership extends from Twenty- to dwindle down as soon as the cold weather seventh street to Butler sets in. The club has now about eighty members and that post-office. The com number will probably be doubled by next spring. bined price of all the toll The Niagara Wheelmen have secured good quarters at roads, with the excep the corner of Ninth and Harmon streets. The following tion of the Watertown officers have been elected; President, F. C. Leinibach; F. C. LEIMBACH plank road, from which vice-president, Arthur C. Miller; secretary. Julius Loebl; President Niagara Wheelmen. no proposition has been treasurer, Henry K. Beuzemaker; captain, A. C. Sicgl; received, is $84,000. It is said that if the county gets con. first lieutenant, W. A. Seally; second lieutenant, W. C trol of the roads they are not liable to be as well main Williams; sergcant-at-arms, R. Werner. The club's board tained as they are under private of directors consists of F. C. Leim- ownership. baeh, Julius Loebl, H. K. Beuzemaker, Abducted on a Bicycle. A. C. Miller, N.J. Minch, F. C. Brown, Charles W. Tank recently abducted E. Kroenig, A. Klug. The club has his child on a bicycle. He and his a good racing team, which consists wife had parted, owing to family of the following members: J. W. troubles. The child, which is two Warnken, A. C. Siegl, H. Warnken, and a half years of age, lived with F. C. Leimbach, E. Welke. its mother, who refused to surrender Besides promoting cycling, the club it to Tank. One day he put on a intends to give a number of social false beard, mounted his bicycle and events. The committee having charge rode to his wife's home. He coaxed of this end of the chili's affairs con the child to him and then with the sists of J, W. Warnken, chairman, little one in his arms he rode away to the home of his sister. Shortly after he arrived there, Deputy Sheriff Clarke called on him to serve papers in a suit for a divorce, and thinking J. W. WARNKEN Captain Niagara Racing Team and Organizer of the Club. that the officer had come to arrest him for taking the child, he surrendered the little one who John Roader, Samuel was restored to its mother. Moll and Nic Noll. The house committee Bicycles Hurting Railroads. N. Minch, J. Betue- General Passenger Agent H. Heafford, of the Chicago, makcr, E. Kroenig, Milwaukee & St. Paul road was in the city recently and Fred Marqitardt and gave some idea of the injury that the bicycle is doing to the P. Brown. T h e s e railroad companies. In Chicago, he said there are 150,000 committees have de bicycles and whole families are supplied with them. Instead cided to give an enter of riding from suburban homes to the city on trains, bicycles tainment and ball on AIJOU'H SIEHL Captain Niagara Wlu:i'lmt'n. are used and thus the traffic has been greatly reduced. Mr. October 0, and ar Heafford says few people owning bicycles ever travel into the rangements forit are now under way. On August HI tlieclub country in trains but ride out on wheels. Thus the railroads will give an informal hop at its hall on Ninth and Harmon in the country lose heavily each year, streets. The racing board will soon arrange a dub road race. THE PNEUMATIC. Following are brief sketches of the officers : Water Bicycle Saves a Life. Frank C. Lcimbach, the president, is a hustler and George F. Cremer, inventor of the water bicycle, which is being manufactured by the Wisconsin Inter-National well-known wheelman. He is a member of the firm of Water Bicycle Company, on Saturday, near PleasantValley, ntra c tors of Lcim while the regatta was being held, demonstrated that his bach & Son. machine is not only valuable to furnish pleasure. With it Arthur C. Miller he succeeded in saving at least one life. Just before the races is twenty-one years were held, the tug L. O'Connor ran down a row boat occu pied by Frank Hilfray of age and has been and Edward Rooney, in the employ of T. the former was thrown L. Kelly & Company into the water and be for six years. He is gan to sink from view. Rooney, who remained vice-president of the in the boat, was drag club. ged away from the Julius M. Loebl, drowning boy. Hilfray the secretary, is nine was finally caught by teen years of age, and Rooney, who jumped out of the row boat. a draughtsman. He The drowning boy takes great interest struggled so hard that ARTHUR C. MILLER in cycling. Rooney himself was Vice-President Niag-ara Wheelmen Nic Noll is twenty- pulled under water. three years of age, and will prove a valuable man as Before any of the hun dred row boats near by financial secretary, and as a member of the entertainment NIC. NOLL could go to their assist committee. Financial Secretary Niagara Wheelmen ance, Cremer fie w up on J. W. Warnken is the chairman of the entertainment his bicycle and held them above water until they could be committee and the organizer of the club. He is also a mem assisted by others. Hilfray held on to the water bicycle and was carried ashore, while Rooney caught a row boat. ber of the racing team and is one of the hustlers of the new Cremer was cheered by several thousand people who saw club. Beuzemaker Brothers have appointed him manager the rescue. Several weeks ago a row boat capsized, and of their cycle department. Cremer with his bicycle rescued the occupants. Adolph C. Siegl, the club's captain,is twen Cycling as an Exercise. ty-one years of age, and is also connected In his address before the L'Anse, Michigan High School with Beuzemaker graduating class, recently, M. E. Wadsworth, in referring Brothers. He was to exercise of young people, said : formerly steward of the " No matter what occu- * Sheridan Drive Club, pation or life you follow, Chicago. look after your health, as Captain Siegl has a you caunpt expect a sound valuable man in Wil mind unless your body is liam A. Zeally,the first . also sound. As a factor lieutenant. He is twen in the health question, I ty-two years of age and thank God for the evo ' a stenographer at The JULIUS LOEBL lution of the bicycle, which Laundry. General Secretary Niagara Wheelmen, has rendered the physical outdoor exercise of the O'Brien Gets First Time. American woman, pleas The second annual road race of the Oriole Cycling Club ant and fashionable. If which was run last Sunday, was won by Harry Ihling, a its popularity continues, sixteen year old member of the Cream City Wheelmen, who I believe that in giving WM. ZEALLY rode the eight miles, from. Elm Grove to Twenty-ninth better health to our young First Lieutenant Niagara Wheelmen. street and Highland Boulevard, in 24:03. H. Guderson, people it will do far more to elevate the moral tone of this finished a close second. The time prize was won by Morgan country during the next twenty years, than all the churches S. O'Brien, the skilled pilot of the 'Evening Wisconsin eleva and schools in the land could do, if they were not aided by tor, whose time was 20:17. .Henry Zerbel won second this, God's own instrument for the salvation of the Ameri time, in 20:30.' can woman and the American race." THE PNEUMATIC. Big Meet at Neenah. Berlin Races On August 9. The meet which was held at Neenah on August 8 and Berlin's meet on last Friday was very successful. It 9, was one of the most successful that has been conducted was attended by a large crowd and fair time was made in in the state so far this season. The races on the first day the races. A protest was entered against the handicaps of were attended by fully 2,000 people, but rain marred the 250 and 600 yards given I. Corliss in the two and five mile program on the last day. The track was slow and the handicap events and Handicapper D. D. Warner was wired attendance small. Two state records were broken on the and reduced them to 100 and 200 yards. I. R. Biggert won first day. The five mile competitive record was broken by the half mile novice in 1:13, W. C. Schrader the mile open in Henry Zerbel, of Milwaukee, who lowered the best state 2:34% 1 Fred Olson the mile for Berlin and Waushara time made by Zimmerman, at Ripon, two years ago, to County riders in 2: 37, Fred Olson the boys' half mile race 12:30. The race itself was won by I. Corliss, of Ripon, who in 1:24; W. C. Schrader the half mile open in 1:15, had a handicap of 600 yards. The Andrae tandem team, I. Corliss the two mile handicap, J. G. Seelig the quarter of Milwaukee, consisting of Sehmidtbauer and Nielson, mile open in 32 seconds; I. Corliss (200 yards) the five mile broke the half-mile tandem record, covering the distance in handicap in 14:05. The Andrae team on a tandem went a 1:01. The mile novice on the first day was won by John mile against time in 2 : 03%.. Martin, of Winneconne, in 3:27%; the half-mile open by Hansen's New State Record. W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, in 1:15 ; the mile for Neenah and Menasha cycling club members, by Arthur Koch, in A. A. Hansen, an old Waiipaca boy, but now of Minne 2:51%; the half-mile boys' race by E. Nugent, of Kaukauna, apolis, stopped off at Waupaca last week for a day's visit in 1:19 ; the two mile open by W. C. Schrader, of Milwau on his way home from the East. In the evening about fifty kee, in 4:38; the one mile handicap of the Neenah Cycling wheelmen witnessed him ride ten miles on the track in Club by H. C. Hewitt (scratch) in 2:29%; the half mile 25:45, just for a little exercise, which lowers the state handicap by I.Corliss (65 yards), of Ripon, in 1:02%; record about 1% minutes. Mr. Hansen holds nearly all of the half mile unpaced by Harry Hewitt of Neenah in the American Class A records above ten miles. He rides a 1:13 % ; the five mile handicap by I. Corliss (600 yards), 20-pound wheel geared to. eighty-three. of Ripon, in 12:09%; and the half mile tandem by Sehmidt ITust Erect Guide Boards. bauer and Nielson in 1: 01. Supervisor Dugdale, of Belmont, has been notified by On the second day A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, the L. A.W. representative, W. E. Minor, at that place, won the quarter mile open in 31% seconds; I, Corliss, of that unless he attends to the enforcement of the law pro Ripon, (25 yards) the mile handicap in 2:16Vi; E. Hunt viding for the erection of guide boards on cross roads, he the mile boys'race in 3:21%; H.B.Hewitt (scratch) the will be prosecuted. A number of similar requests have been mile handicap for Neenah and Menasha riders in 3:03; made in various parts of the state and in many cases the William F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, the mile open in 2:19: demands have been complied with. The agitation for more I. Coi'liss, of Ripon, (225 yards) the two mile handicap in guide boards was begun by the Wisconsin Division officers 5:48% and Henry Zerbel and A. Stoltz, the Telegram team, some time ago and is accomplishing good results. the mile tandem in 2:26. Ripon Club Officers. flarshfield's Successful Meet. At a meeting on July 22, of the Ripon Cycling Club, the At Marshfield, on July 22, state circuit races were held following officers were elected: President, J. G. Seelig, Jr.; andresulted in A. Steward, of Loyal, winning themile novice first vice-president, T. S. Chittenden; second vice-president, in 3 : 07%; W. C. Schrader, Milwaukee, the three mile lap L. E. Hall; secretary, J.Storrs Hall; treasurer, F.W. Lyle; race in 7:57; A. F. Bingenheimer, Milwaukee, the quartet- division representative, C. H. Ellsworth; captain,,!. F. mile open in 34"!_ seconds; E. B. Harkins, Marshfield, the Strauss; lieutenant, F. J. Hall. There are now twenty mile Wood County championship in 2 : 32 ; W. C. Schrader league members in Ripon and more are looked for. Milwaukee, the mile open in 2:19; A. F. Bingenheimer, Milwaukee, (150 yards) the five mile handicap in 14:27; flany Tires Punctured, and C. PL Shorey, Grand Rapids, the consolation in 2 :51%. Superior wheelmen are complaining about the condition of the streets in that city. It is claimed that broken glass Result of Superior Races. is promiscuously strewed about the city, and that nearly On July 22, the postponed races at Superior were run all riders have had tires punctured on account of the care on a heavy track and resulted in J. C. Taylor winning the less manner in which broken crockery and glass is disposed two mile handicap in 5:36, P. Oselund the mile open in of. There is some talk of petitioning the council to pass 2:35; G. A. Madison the mile handicap in 2:22; N. B. an ordinance restricting the throwing of waste matter on Arnold the five mile handicap in 13:49 and A. C. Mertens the streets. Repair men in Superior are doing a good the quarter mile open in 36 %.. business. THE PNEUMATIC. Races at Eau Claire. Riponites Will Entertain. Eau Claire will have three days of bicycle racing on The wheelmen of Ripon will again entertain state riders August 15,16 and 17. The Eau Claire driving park asso on August 27 and 28. The cycling club there has secured ciation has planned a number of horse races and in conjunc these dates on the state circuit. It is not necessary to tion with these several bicycle races will be run. In view of comment on the entertainment that will be provided riders. the state meet being held at Marinette on those days it is The hospitalityenjoyed in former years will still be found in doubtful if any of the fast cyclists will be at the meet. Ripon by wheelmen who attend the meet, for which a valu able prize list is being arranged. Two Day's Meet at Waukesha. Waukesha wheelmen are making extensive preparations Arrow Cycling Club's Meet. for their meet, which will beheld there on August 22 and 23, Janesville will hold a two days meet on August 29 and when all the fast riders, who follow the state circuit, will be 30. The races will be conducted by the Arrow Cycling Club on hand. Entries are already coming in and everything which has secured a state circuit sanction. Prizes valued points to a very successful tourney. Besides the fast state at $650 are to be awarded. Seven events will be run each riders several Chicago men have promised to enter, and the day. D. D. Warner, official handicapper has agreed to do races will be hotly contested. The prizes to be awarded are the handicapping. valued at $800. In view of the fact that there is no likeli The events on the first day will consist of a mile novice hood of races being held here this year, a large number of race, a mile handicap, a quarter mile open, a mile open, a Milwaukee enthusiasts will probably go to Waukesha to two mile handicap, a mile tandem and a five mile handicap witness the races. for Rock County riders. On the second day of the meet a Seven events will be run each day. On August 22 there mile handicap, a quarter mile open, a mile tandem, a two will be a mile novice, half mile open, mile handicap, mile mile handicap, a mile open and a five mile handicap will be boys' race, mile open, mile tandem, and two mile handicap. rim. All entries should be filed with Dr. C. T. Peirce, secre On the last day of the meet a mile handicap, quarter mile, tary of the Arrow Cycling Club. mile open, mile, 2:30 class, two mile tandem, three mile On August 16, a five mile bicycle race will be given by handicap and a mile consolation will be run. the Rock County Calidonian Society at Janesville. The Arrow club will have the supervision of the race. Dr. Peirce Lake mils Wheelmen Busy. will receive the entries. Members of the Tyranena Cycling Association at Lake Mills are working like beavers at present in arranging the An Interesting Decision. big state circuit meet which has been planned for August A dispatch from Emporia, Kas., under a date of August 21. The club has secured $300 in prizes for the seven events 1, says: "The ordinance passed by the city council which which will be run. The events will consist of a mile novice, required bells and lamps on every bicycle and made it half mile open, two mile handicap, a mile county champion compulsory to ring the bells at every stixet crossing and ship, a quarter mile open, a mile open and a mile handicap. alley, was today, by Judge J. F. Culver, declared unreason Invitations have been sent out to all the fast men in the able in its requirements and therefore unconstitutional and state and many of them, including the Milwaukee delega void. tion of racers, will be on hand. Ample. arrangements for Stevens Point's Sanction. the entertainment of visitors has been made. Stevens Point wheelmen, who surrendered theirsanction Appleton Will Have a fleet. for a two day's race meet on the state circuit, August 1 and The Appleton club has been granted a sanction on the 2 on account of their inability to make a deal with the state circuit for a meet on August 28. A prize list valued owners of the track, have again applied for and secured a at $375 has been secured, and the following events will be sanction for a meet on September 6. An iron-bound con run: One mile novice, half mile open, mile boys' race under tract has been made this time with the track people and all sixteen years, mile open, mile handicap, mile handicap, mile the wheelmen in the town have gone to work with renewed Appleton championship, two mile handicap and mile Outa energy to make their meet one of the largest and best on gamie County championship, the circuit. The club has secured the services of young Lee Richard, Rider With an Artificial Limb. son, of Chicago, to give an exhibition of trick and fancy riding during the meet. Otto Leu, the Normalite, from Centralia, known through Special time trial heats will be run and all open events the city as the monopedaled bicyclist, has provided himself will be paced by tandems. with an artificial limb, and is now engaged in giving it a special course in physical culture, so that he may be able to Portage wheelmen and wheelwomen recently held a ride the wheel without exciting the old-time curiosity,— bicycle parade. There were thirty-eight wheels in line. Stevens Point Journal. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief State Notes. William A. Brown and C. M. Fairchild have been elected Mr. & Mrs. E. M. Deming, of Grand Rapids, recently by the Marinette Cycling Club to represent that organiza traveled to Madison on their wheels. tion on the board of officers of the division. A. M. Chandler, the Waupaca flyer, was recently fined At Waupaca the board of assessment has counted up $6 and costs for riding on foot-paths within the city limits. 126 bicycles, owned and used in the city, and given them an assessment of from $10 to $25, each. As many more A new track, of either cement or asphalt, will be built are in the stores waiting for purchasers. in Street Railway Park, Marinette. A grand-stand, with a seating capacity of 2,000 will also be constructed. Wisconsin's First Cycle Path. The Appleton Cycling Club is at the head of a move Jacob Maul and William Hayman, while riding a tan ment to build a cycle path from the state road at Appleton, dem at Racine collided with a dog and were very seriously parallel with College avenue, to the fair grounds. The hurt. At one time Maul's injuries were considered fatal. distance will be 3,352 feet. Itis proposedto make the path Waupaca is fitting up a baseball park and bicycle track, six feet wide and to dress the top with fine cinders, laid which,itis claimed, will be oneof the finest in North Central upon five inches of gravel, heavily rolled and packed. The Wisconsin. A grand stand to hold 500 people will be expense will be about $200, and will be paid by the wheel erected. men of Appleton. The money has already been contributed Charles S. Linehon, a lawyer, and James W. Green, an and the work is under way. This is the first bicycle path insurance man, took a trip from Ashland on their bicycles that has been built in Wisconsin. and were lost in the forests. Game Warden Woodly found Riders in Stevens Point and Amherst are also consider them and directed them on their way. ing the building of a cycle path. THE END-OMHE-CENTURY DICTIONARY. THB END-OF-THB-CENTORY DICTIONARY. BLO BLO BLO BLOOM'ERS, n. pi [Low G«., own semblance yon die. Sir John. woman." Others claim that It is a Btantive Idea of the word It Momma; High 014 Ger. Homo; Mrs. iordr There's no woman's product or reactionary Influences qualifies. gown big enough for Win. exerted by the extremists of the Fr. (Quart. Lat.^, brovgues; icel., JFWstaf: Goon hearts, devise BOma- claps of Er. Mary Walker, to meet Who that possesses a mind sensi Mom.,- Of. Lat, bracae.^ The root tblng. Marry, past me asaweuch -tie ancient dlillculty of *•bagging tive to the r,«n6menta of suffering: 'and a heart warmed by tho Instincts la A. S., blbvan, to blow, to.flaunt, 1' the bloomers, see 7 at tho kneea " (See Walkar's Merry Wives of Windsor. Thirty Years Out of Peiticoats.) of humanity—who that contrasts to show off. ] I British craft with Beogaleaa sim Bloomers ore also said not to have plicity, Saxon strength with Hin 1. A. bifurcated nether garment Orlando; If there be truth In Woom- been Invented, but rather discovered ers, you are my Hosollnd. by, or suggested to, an American doo belplesshess-who. I say, WUI worn by female pedestrians, bicy As You XAke Tt. lady who temporarily and Involun not denounce Bucb, tyranny, Hucb clists, or tarily assumed a man's seat In her atrocity, such rapine, auoh Intrigue, riderBjo Full many a gem of purest paste, I saddle while riding na unbroken such corruption, as a beastly, ween, Texas palfrey. The Idea has Also blasted, burning, bloomingshame I fttcllltato The dark and lustrous locks of b_en referred lo the leadings of Mitrke; Jmiieachtnent of If. __"«s«)i(U. ] ocomo beauty bear; nature as manifested by a March, Haste Into tho garden, Maud, tion on _ull many ' a bud' Is born to blush hurricane. These are merely tha 3Tor It's blooming cold out hero. crowded (unseen) fancies, however, of those unac And flaunt her bloomers on no quainted with the place o( bloomers thorough. desert air. In literature and history and tholr A common fool by nature, he inres by BO' Gray's Topical Song in a Clly' great antiquity. They ware un addod to tho tarent Intrusted to powerful - [Churchyard. questionably worn by Zonubla, him and expanded by cultivation lioadltJea, Joan or Arc, and Maria IntoaWoojHffV Idioi. ly attract When divided Into two brancbeS Theresa. Johnson's Zl/e ofBoswell. ing the at they are great bloomers, but not She'- twenty - eight, ht_ father tention of prolific. J)arwtn: One. Species^ knows, • BI,OOM'IN<_ (Woom* -The New York World. THE PNEUMATIC. FACTORIES IN FULL BLAST. ideas have been used by us all along and we even have some now that beat theirs'. I am convinced that there is not a All Are Prepalrlng For Next Season's Trade—The Andrae's New Plant — The r\eiselbach Factory Started—Changes In the Bolte Company wheel on the market that is constructed with more care and —Activity at the Telegram Factory. strength than is the Andrae. This my trip has proven me. Bicycle building will be one of the leading manufacturing Of course, I got some suggestions and these with those I industries in this city next year. There will be no less than have had in store for next year will greatly improve the '96 four large factories in full operation and it is estimated that wheel. As soon as we can get into our new factory we will about 20,000 wheels will be shipped from the works. Most begin to run our force day and night. We propose to get a of these will be high grade machines but a large number of good supply of wheels on hand for the early trade. medium grade wheels are to be manufactured. This will be The firm is already renewing its agencies for next year. a new point in cycle building as far as Milwaukee is con The territory covered by the company will also be extended. cerned because no cheap grade wheel has been made in the The rleiselbach rianufacturing Company. city. The weight and the build of the '96 wheel will A new factory, known as the Meiselbaeh Manufacturing remain about the same as the '95 though there will be a Company, is now in operation on St. Paul avenue in the number of important improvements in the construction of Menouinee Valley, The company has leased the factory the bicycles. The firms which will manufacture machines formerly occupied by the Moore Manufacturing Company, are the Julius Andrae & Sons Company, the Telegram Cycle which recently moved to South Milwaukee, and has one of Manufacturing Company, .the Bolte Manufacturing Com the finest cycling building establishments in the Northwest. pany and the Meiselbaeh Manufacturing Company. Besides It is two stories in height and of large dimensions and so these there will be several smaller manufacturers in the city constructed that there is plenty of light in all parts of the but their output together will not amount to several building. The factory will be in full operation within three hundred wheels. weeks. The Julius Andrae & Sons Company. The new firm is under the management of A. D. Meisel The factory of the Julius Andrae & Sons Company will baeh, formerly of the Columbus Cycle Company, of Colum bemoved next month fromits present location to a building bus, 0. He is a man of large experience in the business and of much larger capacity. The new factory will be 50x150 has broughtwith him an ablecorps of assistants from Ohio. feet and five stories high and is on West Water street not In the new enterprize he is being assisted financially by the very far from the present plant. The lease for the new Lindsay Brothers of this city who will dispose of most of quarters will be signed in a few days. the wheels turned out of the factory. Mr. Walter Lindsa}', When the firm is once in its new quarters it will have who is interested in the firm, states that the firm will lie run one of the finest plants in the Northwest. The house has to its full capacity and that during the season 20,000 grown up with the trade. As the business has been wheels may be built. He says he is ready to dispose of all improved the Andraes have kept time with the progress and that the factory can furnish. The company will supply the in a number of instances they have taken the lead. The jobbing trade exclusively. A high and medium grade wheel new factory will be as modern as any in the country. The will be made. machinery will all be of the latest patterns and of the The Bolte rianufacturing Company. highest grades. The workmen will be the most skillful and Important changes have taken place in the Bolte Man the utmost care will be taken in the construction of each ufacturing Company, formerly the Milwaukee Cycle Manu machine. With the improvements to be added, the '96 facturing Company. The firm has leased spacious quarters Andrae will not be excelled by any make on the market. at 186, 188 and 190 East Water street, where it occupies The '95 wheel was popular but that of next year is to be three floors. M, Fichtenberg has been elected president and still better. treasurer of the company and Frank H. Bolte is the man The present plant on West Water street has served the ager and secretary. The capital stock of the company firm so long until nowit is far to small. In the newquarters is $25,000. the company will have three times the room at its disposal. The company is now at work on a supply of machines Moving will be begun in a few weeks or as soon as the rush for the '96 market. The build and the weight will remain of summer work is over. It will take several weeks to the same as this year and thewheel will be named the Bolte. replace the machinery but by fall the new factory will be in Besides the high grade machine the firm will manufacture full operation and furnish employment for 150 men. P. two medium grades which will sell at $60 and $80. The Terry Andrae, who has just returned from the east is author names of the medium grades have not yet been decided ity for the statement that the factory will turn out 5,000 upon. It is also pdssiblethat thecompany will do a jobbing wheels in 1896. trade. A number of agencies are already being established "I was greatly benefited by the trip East," said Terry and the officers of the firm look for a big trade within a few Andrae. "It has given me more confidence than ever in the months. A lot of new machinery is being ordered and will .Andrae wheels. . I have learned that many of their principal be placed in position as soon as possible. The force of work THE PNEUMATIC. men will then be increased and arrangements will be made, Q. F. Cremer's Water Cycle. according to Mr. Fichtenberg, to turn out 5,000 wheels. George F. Cremer's water bicycle on the river above the All the material has been ordered and the tools are now dam is attracting considerable attention. The machine being made. The company's factory is on the second floor consists of a bicycle without wheels, the chain being used and a large store room w'ill be opened on the first floor. to propel a screw on the stern .of the two copper-sheet The Telegram Cycle rianufacturing Company. boats which are parallel with each other and between which At the factory of the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing the cycle is mounted. The water bicycle is an invention of Company an unusual activity prevails. Preparations for Mr. Cremer who believes that eventually it will become an next season's trade are nearly all completed. Orders for important factor in lake traffic. material have been placed and work on the '96 models is Brief Trade Notes. under way. The output for next year will be fully double There is no truth in the report that the Studemakers that of '95. A number of important improvements will be made ill building the Telegram wheels and it is also likely will build high grade bicycles next year for $30. that the machines may be slightly lighter. The proposition Emos Fish at Eau Claire will handle a line of bicycles of manufacturing a medium grade of wheels is now being hereafter. considered by the company. One of the improvements over The Janesville Manufacturing Company will make ' this year's wheel will be in tubing. Nothing but 1V6 inch bicycles hereafter. tubing will be used next year. W. B. Meclary, of La Crosse, has been appointed agent for the Syracuse Price of '96 Wheels. Cycle Company. The price of .wheels remain the same Herman Schlegelmilch, who conducts next year. F.Terry Andrae, of the Julius a hardware store at Eau Claire, is get Andrae & Sons Company, has just re ting ready to manufacture bicycles. turned from a month's trip in the East and at all the cycling plants at which Harry Wai'ner, the head traveling lie called he was told that there would salesman for the Julius Andrae & Sons be no reduction in the price. He says Company, has been away to his eastern that the manufacturers will raise the home for three weeks. price of wheels to dealers from $2.50 to The Huennekens Cycle Co. $5 but the price to buyers will remain Make a specialty of selling bicycles, the same. He thinks that it will cost bicycle parts and sundries at wholesale more to make wheels next season because HERE'S TV T. MACK to dealers. Special prices and discounts greater care will be taken in the con SAYS CENTURIES ARE A PUDDIN' ON THEM given upon application. Address, 124 struction and the dealer wjll have to MORGAN s WRIGHT Ferry street, Milwaukee, and get cata bear part of the burden of the additional logue. cost. The rider will get more benefit than ever of the live competition next A Large Bicycle Parade. year but he need not hope for a fall in One of the features of the Senii-Cen- prices. ' The manufacturers have firmly fixed themselves tenial celebration in this city in October will be a large on this point. bicycle parade. The parade will be held on the evening of The St. Charles Hotel, which is now the League hotel the first day of the celebration and it is proposed to make it for Milwaukee is becoming a popular place for wheelmen. one of the leading events in cycling of the year. It is thought Almost daily wheelmen are seen at the hotel who are tour that about 5,000 wheelmen can beswuug into line and all of ing about. these will have decorated wheels and carry lanterns. The Another Factory For Kenosha. parade will probably be headed by several bands. A com Kenosha is now one of the leading cycle manufacturing mittee of local wheelmen will probably be appointed to cities in the northwest. Recently'it secured the large plant take charge of the procession. of the Sterling Cycle Company. Negotiations have now There Is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other been closed with the Sieg & Walpole Manufacturing Com ises put together, and until the last lew years was supposed to be _ . .fable, For a great many years doctors pronounced It alocal disease pany which has purchased the large buildings of the Lane and1 prescribep: d local remedies,. and, by constantly failing to cure with local Manufacturing Company and the new plant will be in treatment, pronounced It incurable. Sclenco has proven CataiTh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. operation by August 20. The company manufactures the Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., Is the only constitutional cure on the market. It la taken Internally in doses from •,,,. , , , , , , 11 r c ten drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on tha blood and mucous sur- Windsor bicycle and expects to supply a large number ot faces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to ...... , cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. wheels for jobbing trade. &" Sold by druggists, 75c. _\ J, CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o. THE PNEUMATIC. LIST OF ANTI=STIFF • • • • RELIABLE REPAIR MEN A Marvelous Immediately BolieTes Sorciioss IN THE STATE. Preparation and Strengthens the Muscles. Quick in its action Clean and Pleasant to relieve sore to Use. Bicycle riders when in need of repairs ness and stillness or cycle sundries, while touring, will in the muscles.... Price, 20 & 30c box find the firms listed below worthy of Cyclists and Athletes Trainers' size, $1 patronage. Try It. DHUCGISTfi AMD DEALERS \» A number of un 8PORTINQ QOOD6 APPLETON solicited testimo C.&N.WRT nials have WW1. GROTH, been received CYCLE AGESCY AND REI'AIE SHOP, WATERLOO BICYCLE CLUB JANISCH BROS. •——BICYCLES AND HARDWARE, BIOVOLB RSPAIRINQ A SPEOIALTV. BADGES • BUTTONS • PINS. ^Bicycles '" — Shippud itiiywlicro See Our Novelty Lapel Button C.O.i). 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K.KENDAL, Manager. 377BROADWAY, - - MILWAUKEE. " ROCHESTER. N. Y. , .' Telephone 1722 • • < S__lSr_D POE 0_VT^_X.OC3-T_-__. Also dealers for the. New Yost Writing Machine. . MEyER-ROTIER PRINTING GO. Bicycle Suits r We take any suit in stock and ATALOGUE- — make bloomers (the right length) ...PRINTERS of the pants. Lots of them- at 505 East Water Street $10.00, including vest—a dollar MILWAUKEE * less if you don't want it. - -WE ARE READY TO FIGURE WITH YOU Sweaters 95 WISCONSIN ST. From $1.50 to $5.00 DR. W. SGHLflGER, MILWAUKEE. Simonds In stock to-day the new Clothing'Co. "TURTLE NECK" Maroon or Black, $-.00 CKOWN and BItlDGE >Y0KK a Specialty. Vitalized Air. 386-8 East Water Street TEETH ;EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Pilled Without Pain by a New Method. All Work Guaranteed. • ^^V •frii-trick-b'k-kirirfc F. C. HAEFER'S RIPANS STUDIO ONE GIVES RELIEF. Corner Milwaukee and Mason Streets MILWAUKEE We Photograph Everything Under the Sun -*-_-_-____)_ ifll I f ® © © It Has Been Spoken of ® Everywhere that ® © ® Telegram Features © © Have been adopted by rriany makers of High Grade Machines © © EVERY FEATURE... © Has Proven Its Practicability © © © © ,. .WE HAVE SOflE- © Pleasant" Eye-dpefiers " © In Store for Ottr '96 Friends. © • 0 • • © ©.; © TELEGRAM CYCLE MANUFACTURING CO. ® ERIE AND EAST WATER STREETS © MILWAUKEE, WIS. __KT!ON THE PNBUo © © © @©##®)©@#©#§) © ® © ® ® ©©©©©©©©© •rr«_rT^^T^_» *rv*_m »'- >- W, ^ A JOURNAL OP CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, Wis., SEPTEMBER, 189?. No. 6. The Has it ever occurred to }roti that a majority of the well- known racing men of this country were at some time or other Rambler riders,, that many of the prominent racers of today made their first reputations on Ramblers, many of them never having done any thing since changing their Ramblers for some other make of wheel ? Rambler . . . . Here is a partial list of racing men, of national and local fame, who are now or were Rambler riders. This - Kindergarten Rambler Kindergarten has supplied the material formally competing teams now in the field : RAMBLERS MAKE RECORD BREAKERS OF NOVICES-—r "Are YOU anxious to Change Your Luck?" RAMBLER Walter Foster Ii. P. Condon K. C. _e:ilinau H. Fehleisen O. A. Church II. Catieiton 11. H. Maddox F. A. Beall H. A. Githens W. I*. Hurlburt C. Knisely Ii. 15. Hewitt Otto Ziegler A. W. Warren V. W. Fisher R. G. Roach M. F. Dirnberger I Patterson G. h. Davis Watson Oolenian "J. P. Bliss Pro u IN: R. L. Long • Teddy Goodman FASTEST A. K. Lumsden F. A. Richmond T. Dcliims F. Spaulding Geo. F. Taylor R P. MeUnnly L. Fox D. A. Gofer: TIRE ON EARTH Wilbur J, Edward s G B. Mershnu O. S, Brandt R. Harry Page. Geo. Thateher G E. Hancock W. A. Rhodes H. A. French. W. IT. Mulliken Eli Lee W. II. Whitehead G. Weiler fTH E GREAT G^Jl Alien Jones Geo, A. Faulkner R. 1-1. Iloflieitr/. W. W. Jaques USED ON ALL Geo. Fitzsiinoii.s _.'K. Oliver Austin Crook J. A. Roaeh Oscar Oseii. J. K. Newbuen Grant Bell S. W. Merrihew RAMBLERS « W. A. Terrill W. F. Anderson K. W. Ballard A. B. Hughes .Smith Bert lliii'iliiiff A. J. Nicollet: . O. H. Woodward ,ANY DEALER WILL SUPPLY W. A, Burke K. P. Miller Dan Hmnpliilt G. S, Comb ,THEM ON ANY WHEEL A. Silvie C. E. Tudor John A. Wells F. W. Bock IE YOU INSIST II. Parks F. II. Allen I'. (.lasso Joe Gunther Fred Elmer W. F. Sims (.:. E. Gause. F. A. Sehade A. M. Chandler l'Tl'll. J. Titus Custiv Castkminn W. II. Haley Fred. II. llerriek Tom' Cooper ('. M'. Bortreo 8, G. Spier (.'. L. Ban hoi C. S. Wells T. W. Richmond E. (.'. Oliver EMBLEM W. Steu bor Hurry Arnold AND OTHER C OOD RIDERS. GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO. OHICJAGO. .BOSTON. WASHINGTON. N.GW YOHIv. eOVKNTHY, ENGLAND. M-HTIONTHE PNEUS.1 THE PNEUMATIC. A Tourist's Recommendation WHEELING, W. V>„ Aug. 23. • I am surprising the people in the East with the wonderful ™>rk "The Only" bicycle is doing. I nffflle 673 miles over stones Medals and hills and'the wheel is as good as it was when I left Milwaukee." Society JOS. Q. SCHMIDT Badges Hanufactured By... "The Only" is built with the greatest of care, and and only the best material in the world is used in itl BUNDEI UPMEYER Intending buyers of a wheel will do well to call and.examine our wheel. 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET - MILWAUKEE First-Class Work at Very Low Prices POLLITT CYCLE WORKS Send for Illustrated Price List 703=705 Winnebago Street Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS 704-706 Chestnut Street Solicited Sent on Application CYCLE REPAIRING.... MENTION THE PNEUS.1 RECEIVES OUR PROMPT ATTENTION Bicycle Suits Typewriter We take any suit in stock and Supplies make bloomers (tlie right length) of the'pants'. Lots of them at $10.00, including vest—a dollar less if you don't want it. Machines, Sweaters From $1.50 to $5.00 Typewriters Simonds In stock to-day the new Clothing Co. "TURTLE NECK" 386-8 East Water Street Mamon Bkck, $4.0.0 or It has tlie most conveniences and, runs the easiest. Other manufacturers acknowledge its superiority by imitating — but 'not equalling —its essential features. The U.S. War Department adopted it in 1893, ^"^ has just renewed the contract. Free : Descriptive pamphlet, with opinions from sneh lead ing concerns as the Carnegie Steel Company, who use 25 Densrnpres. • ." Tlie .'Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance- Co. are using 6 RIPAN-5 Densmores. ONE GIVES RELIEF. V UNITED TYPEWRITER AND SUPPLIES CO, GEO. K. KENDAL, Manager. 377 BROADWAY, - " MILWAUKEE. -olephono 1722 Also dealers for the New York Writing Machine. THE PNEUMATIC. ...Always in the Front A Thistle Agency lias just been opened and the wheels are meet ing with great favor among the riders. Although established but two weeks, more than a dozen wheels have been sold. In races they have been showing up well as the following list of winnings will testify: North Side Cycling Club.... THE LIGHTEST H. Warnken, Second Place; Time, 32:26; Distance, 10 Miles J. Warnken, Sixth " " 32:0a; " 10 " FASTEST Badger Wheelmen STRONGEST H. Warnken, Third Place; Time, 36:58; Distance,'12 Miles J. Warnken, Eighth " " 35:53; " 12 " Whitefish Bay H. Warnken, First Place; Time, 16:08 ; Distance, 6 Miles J. W. WARNKEN J. Warnken, Eleventh " " 16:00; " 0 " 703-705 Winnebago Street Racine Road Race.... J. Warnken, Eighth Place. Time, 38:07; Distance, 18i Miles MILWAUKEE, WIS. Head Wind In all these Races AT THE EXPOSITION MEYER-ROTIER PRINTING 60. ATALOGUE — C ...PRINTERS 505 East Water Street MILWAUKEE lfrrinttttQ •• WE ARE READY TO FIGURE WITH YOU 95 WISCONSIN ST. DR. W. SGHLftOER, MILWAUKEE. ^HH =-D___STTIST Our close connection with the sport and tradein the cycle world has given CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a Specialty. Vitalized Air. us a thorough knowledge of all the TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Filled Without Pain peculiar requirements connected with by a New Method. All Work Guaranteed. printing in this line. We are headquarters for printing A A ntm%nn cycle catalogues, circulars, advance sheets. A large assortment of cuts F G HUE ^8 for this class of work. STUDIO Cor, nilwaukee and Hason Streets MILWAUKEE Phone. MEYER-ROTIER PRINTING CO. We Photograph 691 505 East Water Street Everything Under the Sun MILWAUKEE. nbvm NEVER DISAPPOINT. As a Palling Snow-lake Is the beautiful Lady Andrae Bicycle— the ideal "wheel for ladies. Made especially for the use of ladies. Finished in exquisite style. Enameled in Black or Maroon. You can ride it a year, or two years, 1 and it is still the beautiful Lady Andrae Bicycle. If We Don't Know You You had better write us for terms on 1S96 agency. During the past season we have not dared to ask for more agents, but with our increased facilities, we can take care of your business. Better get ready to sell the Cycle that never disappoints. Your customers will ask for it. JULIUS ANDBAE &30N_yc<3.:* THE PNEUMATIC. nette, where, according to a newspaper, he rode half a mile on the track in 1:06, certainly shows that some of them are good riders at that. Recently the Rev. G. Steuber, of Butternut, rode to Sheboygan, a distance of 28QYs miles. Besides those mentioned there are scores of others and many of them have joined the League of American Wheelmen. __ __O:MT__I,Y JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. MORE LIKE HIM ARE NEEDED. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. If all farmers were only as reasonable as James Smith, All copy for advertisements, changes lor same, news and correspondence of Hale's Cornel's, what an easy time of it wheelmen would for publication must be sent In before the 7th, to insure insertion the same month. Contributions returned i t not published. have. Recently wheelmen noticed that there were quite a ENTERED IK THE P. O AT MILWAUKEE AS fiEOOND CLASB NATTER. number of stones in front of his farm on the Janesville plank road which made it hard for riders to pass at night without ADVE5KTISING. THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tossing them about. Word reached Smith that wheelmen tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes of individual riders as well as the dealers, and Is recognized as a paper were grumbling about the stones, so he hired a boy to "Which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on application. remove them from the road and now there is not a.better PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, stretch on the plank road than that in front of Farmer 505 East Water Street, - • Milwaukee, Wis. Smith's house. Wheelmen are praising him and he feels that J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. the quarter he spent for hiring the boy has been well M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. invested. Other farmers ought to take a lesson from Mr. Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. Smith. CYCLE PATHS. WHAT has become of E. J. Pennington's elevated bicycle Itis announced that the board of park commissioners road scheme between Milwaukee and Chicago ? are figuring on the cost of building a cement cycle path on AT SPARTA a number of ladies competed in a half mile Park avenue. It is to be hoped that the commissioners will race. Sport of this kind ought to be discouraged. The see fit to construct the path. Park avenue is a boulevard track is not for wheelwomen. and therefore under the supervision of the Park commis sioners. Wheelmen should now turn their attention to the PAST riders who are tempted by makers will probably board of public works and the common council which take a lesson from the action of the racing board toward control" streets and urge the building of paths in various the seven local riders. Unless a rider wishes to race in Class parts of the city. B he had better not negotiate with manufacturers. WHY CHANDLER LOST. CHAIRMAN GIDEON'S AXE. The Waupaca Post recently complained because A. M. The transfer of a number of local riders, who have Chandler, the Waupaca rider, failed to win more than the accepted expense money from makers, to Class B is a step in one mile championship event. It is asserted by the paper the right direction. There is no reason why these riders that the officials at the meet were unfair toward,Chandler should remain in Class A and they ought to consider them and that a conspiracy existed among the Milwaukee dele selves lucky that they were not suspended from the track gation1 to pocket him. and keep him from winning at any for a year. Other riders who are pure Class A wheelmen, cost. The man who wrote the article was evidently trying will now have an opportunity to win a race on the state to do Chandler a good turn, but Chandler, it is said, is as circuit. ' much incensed at the article as the Milwaukee boys. It is MINISTERS AND BICYCLES. claimed that the fact that Chandler won the mile champion The opposition of the church against the bicycle, seems ship is evidence that he is the fastest rider in Wisconsin. to be dying out. When the bicycle first began to attract Chandler's time was 2:4-0 in that mile. There are dozens attention, nearly all ministers opposed the riding of it, of riders in Milwaukee and throughout the state who are contending that it detracted attention from the church on not members of the "combination" complained of, who Sundays. Since then, however, they have realized that the have ridden a mile below the 2:20 mark. Yet, perhaps, wheel is not harmful and now many clergymen ride wheels these could not defeat Chandler, which only goes to show themselves. In Milwaukee the Rev. Judson Titsworth is that a rider winning one race does not entitle him to the name of champion. W. C. Schrader, who rode against probably the oldest rider. The Rev. W. A._ Htmsberger also him, can ride rings around the Waupaca man as was rides a wheel as well as Fathers David J. O'Hearn and evinced in the five mile championship, while Sanger, and Michael Houston. In the state the Rev. J. Faville, of Bingenheimer this year can give him the dust of their Appleton, and Father O'Brien, of Green Bay, have taken wheels also. to the bicycle. The performance of Rev. Kirby, at Mari THE PNEUMATIC. RACING SEASON OF '95. Lake Hills. Morgan S. O'Brien, of Milwaukee, won every race in It Has Been the Host Successful — Hany New Riders Have Come Out— which he started at Lake Mills on August 21. The mile The Track Time Has Been Greatly Reduced — rleets Held Everywhere Except nilwaukee. novice was captured by him in 2 :37%; the half mile open The racing season in Wisconsin will be at an end in a by W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, in 1:12; the mile county few weeks. The year can be looked upon as the most pros championship by Riley Willard in 2:27; the two mile handi perous in the history of cycling in Wisconsin. More races cap by Morgan S. O'Brien, of Milwaukee, in 5:03; the have been held, the attendance has been larger and more quarter mile by A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, in 331. riders have competed than ever before. Racing has taken a seconds; the mile open by W.C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, in thorough hold in small towns in the state and next year's 2:25.4, and the mile handicap by M. S. O'Brien, of Mil prospects seem to point to even a still further improvement waukee, in 2:26%. in the racing line. Waukesha. The feature of the season has been the number, of new Waukesha conducted itsmeets on August 22 and August riders that have been seen on the track. Locally, Morgan 27, with credit. The races were to have been held on the S. O'Brien, A. F. Bingenheimer, Henry Zerbel and A. Wielep 22d and 23d, but owing to rain on the last day the meet have cropped out as racing lights, and have made it ex had to be postponed. On the first clay William Baikie, of tremely interesting for all men they have met. William F. Milwaukee, won the mile novice, in 3:08%; W. F. Sanger, Sanger, W. C. Schrader, Will Howie, Edward Roth, W. C. of Milwaukee, the half mile open,in 1:121.; W. C. Schrader, Neilson, Harry Crocker and John F. Reitzner have not only of Milwaukee, the mile handicap, in 2:19%; Anton Stoltz, been in as good form, but have shown a marked increase in of Milwaukee, the mile for boys, in 2:42%; 0. F. Bohnian, speed this year. When it is considered that these riders Lake View, the mile open, in 2:18; A. F. Bingenheimer and 1 have ridden miles in 2:06}_ and 2:08, it will be seen that W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, the mile tandem, in 2:19 /_i, Milwaukee has some very speedy men besides Walter C. and J. F. Reitzner, of Milwaukee, the two mile handicap, Sanger. In the state several new riders also have cropped in 4:58%. up. The Sandburg brothers, Chase and Klagstad, at Mari On the last day W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, broke nette, Harkins at Marshfield, Hewitt at Menasha, Gudeil- the state mile competition record, he making it in 2:12. The schwager at La Crosse, Virum at Stevens Point, Dolister mile handicap was won by J. F. Reitzner, of Milwaukee, in at Burlington, and a score of others, while not all new to 2:15 1-5 ; the quarter mile by W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, the public, have made a good showing during the season. in 32 1-5 seconds; the mile open by W. C. Schrader, of Mil Chandler, at Waupaca, has ridden well, but seems not to waukee, in 2:12 ; the mile 2:30 class by A. F. Bingenheimer, have improved as some of the others have. The Anderson in 2:21; the two mile tandem by W. C. Schrader and A. F. brothers, of Waupaca, who showed up well towards the Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, in 5:58 2-5; the three mile latter part of the season, last year, have not been as active handicap by G. Farragaut, of Waukesha, in 7:28 2-5; the this year. Two riders who have been missed at the races consolation by N. McDougall, of Milwaukee, in 2:43, and are Louis and Roy Reed, the Ripon wheelmen. Corliss, of the half mile boys' race by W. Wigginton, of Waukesha, Ripon, now represents that town at races, and he too has in l:24y2. done well. Appleton. Successful race meets have been conducted at La Crosse, The meet at Appleton on August 28, was attended by Neenah, West Superior, Madison, Stevens Point, Lake Mills, 3,000 people, who witnessed fast racing. As has usually Marinette, Appleton, Janesville, Monroe, Racine, Waukesha, been the case in all circuit races, the Milwaukee delegation Marshfield, Merrill and many other towns. All of them captured all the open events. The mile open was won by have been state circuit events. There is little doubt that Harvey Pearson, of Appleton, in 3:06; the half mile open the state circuit scheme has been successful and another by W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, in 1:03; the mile boys' circuit will again be arranged next year. race by Earl Nugent, of Kaukauna, in 3:13 ; the mile open It has been a dismal racing season in Milwaukee. Just by W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, in 2:14%; the mile Outa why it should have been, nobody knows. There is every gamie county championship by E. S. Baer, of Appleton, in reason to believe, that a good meet, properly conducted, 2:35%; the mile handicap by C. Treleven, of Fond du Lac, would have paid. The crowds attending road races have in 2:15 3-5 ; the mile Appleton championship by E. S. Baer, been larger than ever before, and if such is the case, a race in 2:15 2-5; the three mile handicap by A. F. Bingenheimer, meet also would have been well attended. Sanction after of Milwaukee, in 7:40, and the mile consolation by W. F. sanction was secured by clubs, but when the time ap Sanger, of Milwaukee, in 2:37 1-5. J, C. Sehmidtbauer and proached for holding the meet, the clubs surrendered the W. C. Neilson, of Milwaukee, made an unsuccessful attempt sanctions on various excuses. The past month has been a to lower the state half mile tandem record. . busy one, from a racing standpoint, meets having been held Henry Kanaska is in Europe beating out many of the at the following cities: crack professional riders. THE PNEUMATIC. Janesville. Stevens Point. Janesville held a successful two days' meet on August W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, established a new record 29 and 30. The track was in good condition and all the for Class B in this state, at Stevens Point on September 6. fast Wisconsin riders were on hand. On the first day G. E. It was the first Class B race he rode in and he clipped the Wiggins, of Evansville, won the mile novice in 2:34; W. F. 2:08 mark down to 2:06%. Porter won the mile novice, in Sanger, of Milwaukee, the quarter mile open in 32% seconds; 2:45%; Virum the half mile open, in 1:10%; Dewey the Anton Stoltz, of Milwaukee, the mile handicap in 2:34; mile 2:50 class, in 2:41%; Virum the mile open in 2:29%; W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, the mile open in 2:16; Porter the half mile boys' race, in 1:20; Wilson and Virum A. Stoltz, of Milwaukee, the two mile handicap in 4:58%; the mile tandem, in 2:53; Harkins the two mile handicap, W. C. Schrader and A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, the in 4:56%, and Virum the five mile handicap, in 13:57%. mile tandem in 2:15 and C. W. Hodson, of Janesville, the Sparta. five mile handicap for Rock County riders in 13 :47. At the races at Sparta on September 6, a half mile race On the second day of the meetW. D. Howie, of Milwau for ladies was held. There were seven entries, the riders kee, entered a protest against G. E. Bicker and L.E. Lange, finishing in the following order: Miss Cheney, Miss Dickin of Chicago, and W. F. Sanger, A. F. Bingenheimer, W. C. son, Miss Newbury, Miss S. Tharbus, Miss Nyberg, Miss Schrader and H. A. Zerbel, of Milwaukee, on the ground Everett, Miss Walloa. The race was quite spirited. Miss that the men belonged to Class B and could not compete in Cheney's time was 1:48. The half mile open was won by the races, to turn the tables somebody protested Howie on Poole,in 1:2,3 3-5; the mile by Poole, in 2:52%; the five mile the same ground. Referee M. C. Rotier had no knowledge by Linker, in 14:35, and the ten mile by Mosley, in 29:42. that the men had been transferred to Class B and allowed Oshkosh Races. the riders to race under protest. A telegram was then sent At the Oshkosh Fair Association bicycle races were held to Fred Gerlach, western representative of the racing board, on three afternoons, September 10, 11 and 12. The results and he answered that no transfers had yet been made. The of the first day are as follows: mile handicap was won by R. R. Ropp, of Irving Park, in One mile novice, eipht starters—H. N. Bacon, Oshkosh, lirst; Eel. G, Smith, Fonddu Lac, second; Archie B. Richards, Oshkosh, third. Time 3:13. 2 :14; the quarter mile open by W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, Three mllo open, sixteen starters—E. P. Chnso, Marinette, lirst; Anton in 31 seconds; the mile tandem by W. C. Schrader and Stoltz. Milwaukee, second; J. N. Wigginton, Waukesha, third. Time, 0:17. One mile local handicap, twelve starters —Ed. Comstock, Oshkosh, A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, in 2 : 20%; the two mile scratch, flrst; Frank J. Clark, Oshkosh, 1(|[) yards, second; II, N. Bacon, handicap by W., M. Pfennig, of Janesville, in 4 :49 ; the mile Oshkosh, 175 yards, third. Time, 13:27 4-5. Ono mile open, twelve starters —H. Zerbel, Milwaukee, first; A. M. handicap for boys by J. W. Hodges, of Monroe, 2:25 %; Chandler, Waupaca, second; O. R. Virum, Slevens Point, third. Time, 3:43. the mile open by W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, in 2:25%; Five mile handicap, twenty one starters — C. Reinke, Milwaukee, 125 yards, ilvst; H. A. Zuruel, Milwaukee, 100 yards, second; A, J. Weilep, and the five mile handicap by Anton Stoltz, of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, 200 yards, tliird. Time 10:5(1 S-fi. ™ 12 = 36%. Neenah. At the finish of the mile open Chandler protested Zerbel Twelve hundred people witnessed the races at Neenah on the ground that he was a Class B. Chandler telegraphed ou Labor Day. The meet was held at Twin City park, and Gerlach that Zerbel competed with him in a Class A event was successfully conducted. The mile novice was won by and demanded first prize instead of second. The reply was W. Ii. Pierce, in 2:52 4-5 ; the mile open by Harry B. Hewitt, the suspension of Zerbel from the track for the next day's in 3:41; the mile handicap by F. S. Baer, scratch, in 2:28 4-5; races until the formal notice of transfer to B reached him. the five mile handicap by Harry B. Hewitt and E. S. Baer, Chandler has been protested by other riders because he both scratch, who were tie, in 15:54; the one eighth mile knowingly competed with Zerbel as a Class B man, cycle wagon race by George Malchow, in 1:03. Andrew The second day's summary: Anderson, of Neenah, went against the record for a mile, Three mile handicap—Rd. S. Comstoclc, Oshkosh, 275 yards, lirst; P. G-. McWiUiains, OshUosh, B75 yards, second; E. M. Wordon, New London, 300 . riding without the use of his hands to guide him. He low yards, third. Time, 7:95 »-ft. ered the record from 3:50 to 3:1.1. One .mile handicap—-John F. ReitKner, Milwaukee, -10 yards, lirst; Earl Nugent, Kaukauna, 150 yards, second; Arthur Weilep, Mllwanlceo,-10 La Crosse. yards, third. _lme,3:a04-li, H. M, Bird, of St. Paul and 0. Gudenschwager, of La Two mile handicap—15. S. Comstoclc, Oshkosh, 150 yardH, first; J3. M. Worden, New London, 800 yards, second; A. E. Trolevou, Fond du Lac, Crosse, scooped iu most of the prizes offered in the La Crosse SIX) yards, third. Time, 5:0a. meet on Labor Day. It was expected that the Milwaukee Portage. delegation would be on hand, but they failed to put in an Ed. Rockwood, with two minutes handicap, won the appearance. The mile novice was won by Albert R. Paul five mile race at Portage on September 12, B. Hughes, son,of Onalaska, in 2:40%.; the mile La Crosse champion' second; S. Rogers, scratch, third. Time, 16:40, ship by 0. Gudeuschwager, of La Crosse, in 2:26 ; the two rionroe. mile open by II. M. Bird, of St. Paul, in 5:31; the quarter At the Monroe fair the mile race was won by F. J, mile open by H. M. Bird, in 36% seconds; the mile open by Blumerin 2:43; half mile handicap by Blumerfrom scratch; H. M. Bird, in 2:49%; the half mile open by II. M. Bird and quarter mile open by Blumer in :35JA; five mile handicap, the three mile handicap by H. M, Bird, in 7:58 3-4. J, Hodges, first. THE PNEUMATIC. MARINETTE DID WELL. dark year had been restored. The division had been active in all lines of League work, but the feature of it The State Meet One of the Most Successful Ever Conducted In Wisconsin —The Annual Reports Very Encouraging—Fast Time Hade In the was the organization of the Wisconsin League for Good Races—A Good Time Had by All Who Attended. Roads which had been placed in the bands of efficient The state meet is over and Marinette wheelmen who officers. For this movement A. Cressy Morrison was were in charge of it have covered themselves with glory for responsible and deserved credit. Continuing the report, he the able manner in which it was conducted. W. C.Schrader, says: "An evidence of the healthy condition of our state of Milwaukee, won the half mile state championship, division, lies in the fact that although our membership last A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, the two mile champion year was not as great as in the two previous years, we have ship, A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, the one mile champion gained a far greater proportion of renewals than ever ship, W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, the quarter mile cham before. In 1893 when the membership was 603, but 316 pionship and W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, the five mile renewed during the entire season ; in 1894 with a member championship. The following ticket was placed in nomina ship of 492, 268 renewals were obtained. This season with tion: a membership of 426, we secured 360 renewals, the highest For Chief Consul—W. A. Brown, of Marinette, and Dr. D. S. McArthur, percentage ever attained by any division with a membership of La Crosse. For Vice Consul —Ben. W. Park, of Madison. of over 400. In twenty-one' towns where we had more For Secretary-Treasurer—M. C. Rotier, of Milwaukee, and E. L. Spicer, than one member every renewal was secured. Last year or La Crosse. For Representatives —S. J. Ryan, of Appleton; S. C. Newman, of we enrolled 160 new members and secured the renewals of Kenosha; Henry P. Andrae, of Milwaukee; R. Welles and H. M. Baldwin, 140 of these. Today we can point with pardonable pride of Kenosha; N. E. Lindquist, of Marinette; F. R. Zeit, of Medford, and George K. Mead, of Shehoygan. to our membership roll which sums up to the figure of 901. The voting of the annual election will begin on October Our 1,000 members are now easily in sight. At the annual 15 and end on November 15. R. H. Welles, of Kenosha, meeting last year, held at Ripon, we reported a total mem and Dr. F. R. Zeit, of Medford, have withdrawn as nominees bership of 370. During the remainder of the year we for state representatives. increased it, by unceasing work, to 426. If the same efforts The meet was all that could have been desired. Riders are put in this year, we ought to get 1,200 at the close of were welcomed wherever they went. There was not much the year, During the first two months of the League year, time for visiting, however, as League matters and races beginning with April 1, we enrolled 358 new members; in took up all the days.. The business meeting was held on the June we secured ninety-four; in July fifty-eight and the first evening of the first day's racing and the feature of this half of this month thirty-one, making a total of 541 new was the fight for the chief consul nomination and W. A. members gained. Marinette, La Crosse, Appleton, West Brown, of Marinette, and Dr. D. S. McArthur, of La Crosse, Superior, Milwaukee, Janesville, Sheboygan, Neenah and were placed on the ticket. Both are now making a hard Marshfield have greatly helped to swell our total member fight and while Mr. Brown seems to have the lead, La ship up to date." Crosse wheelmen are making a strong effort in behalf of The cities having the largest League membership are Mc Arthur. In his annual report, Chief Consul Mor Appleton thirty-one, La Crosse 157, Milwaukee 146, rison, after referring to the progress of cycling says: Marshfield thirty-three, Marinette 114. There are nine "While it is true that the rapid growth has instilled an. lady members enrolled. F.D. Shaw, of Medford, No. 2731, energy into the League this year, it is also true of the Wis who joined in 1886, is the oldest member. The consin Division that the individual industry of the more report stated that the special offer of giving each member than one hundred local consuls, the earnest co-operation of who secured two new members his renewal free for the our Board of Officers, and the indefatigable industry of an current year had cost the division $61 and that 133 new exceptionally efficient and intelligent secretary have made members had been secured in this way. Mr. Rotier recom the record of Wisconsin stand out this year prominently in mended thatthe same plan be adopted next year. Reference the national body and have turned the eyes of other states was made to the importance of having a road map of the upon us with enthusiastic interest, congratulation, and state and he recommends that the new officers complete the regard." In conclusion Mr. Morrison referred to his having work he has begun without delay as it will be the means of been honored by the national body by being made vice- largely increasing the membership. The expenditures for president and a member of the executive committee and the year had been $687.80, leaving a balance on hand, stated that it was the endorsement of the state which had including what was due from the national body of $422.75, won him'this position and for it he wishe'd to thank the against $197.45 at the same time last year. division. Chairman I. F, Strauss, of the racing board, after mak Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier, who will undoubtedly , ing reference to the conducting of a successful state circuit be re-elected, in his report stated that the League member and the fact that he has been unable to gather a list of ship had increased over 100 per cent during the year racing men owing to the riders failing to give the necessary and that more than the confidence lost during the previous information, in his report says: "The board recommends THE PNEUMATIC. the abolition of Class B which is placing the L. A. W.in a Notes ol the fleet. false position with the public, and the return to two classes Isaac Stephenson, Jr., made an excellent starter. — amateur and professional. The board does not think Attorney General W. H. Mylrea attended the meet, that the L. A. W., an amateur body, would be justified in Joseph Sandburg and F. R. Chase were in poor form. going to the expense of looking after the professional class and recommends accordingly that the L. A. W. only govern The League headquarters were crowded on thefirstday. amateur racing. As this matter is one of vital importance Many attending the meet rode to Marinette on their we would respectfully recommend that it be submitted to a wheels. vote of the division at the annual election and that our Many homes were decorated with crimson, black and delegates to the next National Assembly be instructed gold, the local club colors. accordingly." Class B men said before leaving that it was the best The races were well attended. The leading Class A clay track in the country. lights of the state and all the Class B men who are chasing O. Harger and C. H. Noyes, of Waterloo, rode to Mari the national circuit were on hand. Tom Cooper captured nette, a distance of 200 miles, pn a tandem. the majority of the Class B events while most of the Class The Whaleback crew, of the Appleton Cycling Club A races were won by members of the Milwaukee delegation. was the most conspicuous body at the meet. The summaries of the races are as follows: The parade was not the success anticipated, owing to Friday, August 16. the wheelmen being busy with other matters. First race, one mile novice, Class A—Edgar S. Comstook, first; R. H. Zinlte, of Fond du Lac, second; Fred W. Allen, of Ripon, third. Time, 3:41, All L. A. W. members were admitted free on the boat Second race, half mile state championship, Class A—Walter Schrader, Fanny Hart, on Thursday evening, and were given a three of Milwaukee, first; W. F. Sanger, of Milwaukee, second; H. B. Hewitt, of Menasha, third. Time, 1:18. hours ride on the bay. Third race, two mile open, Class B—Tom Cooper, first; C. H. Murphy, second; E. C. Bald, third. Time, 4:30. E. H. Smith, of Beaver Dam, who gave promise of being Fourth race, half mile handicap, Class A—Edgar S. Comstock, of a possible winner of the championships, was ill during the Oshkosh, first; Charles F. Juttner, of Menominee, second; John Flanagan, of Norway, third. Time, 1:0314. entire meet and did not ride in a race. Fifth race, one mile handicap, Class B — J. P. Bliss, first ; A. D. Kennedy, Jr., second; A. I. Brown, third. Time, 3:16. Local talent from Green Bay gave a very interesting Sixth race, one mile handicap, for hoys under eighteen, Class A—Carl performance on Saturday evening, at the Opera House, J. Ekstrom, of Manistique, first; Frank W. Seidle, of Menominee, second; E. A. Treleven, of Fond du Lac, third. Time, 8:17%, in a play called "Tycoon." Charles Kerr, a prominent Seventh racd, two mile state championship,. Class A—A. F. Bingen wheelman from Ft. Howard, played an interesting part in heimer, of Milwaukee, first; Walter Schrader, of Milwaukee, second; William Howie, of Milwaukee, third. Time, 5:24%. the show. . Eighth race, half mile open, Class B —Tom Cooper, first; B. C. Bald, second; L. D. Cahanne, third. Time, 1:07. Isaac Stephenson, of Marinette, not only donated the Ninth race, two mile handicap, Class A—Anton Stolz, of Milwaukee, use of the Marinette track free and subscribed $300 toward first; Arthur J. Weilep, of Milwaukee, second; Frank W. Seidle, of the club's guarantee fund, but gave 700 employees of the Menominee, third; Charles F. Juttner, of Menominee, fourth.. Time, 4:_75_£. One mile, tandem, Class B—McDonald and Johnson, fh'st; Lund and Boom company, Stephenson Manufacturing Company and Van Herrick, second; Levy and Githens, third. Time, 2:21. the N. Ludington Company a half holiday on the last Saturday, August 17. day of the state meet and paid them their wages in full. One mile handicap, Class A—John Flanagan, of Norway, Mich., 115 yards, first; E. A. Treleven, of Fond du Lac, 125 yards, second; Arthur The Rev. Kirby on August 16, road into Marinette J. Weilep, of Milwaukee, 50 yards, third. Time, 2:18. from Hermansville, Mich., a distance of fifty-five miles, One mile open, Class B—Tom Cooper, of Detroit, first; C. M. Murphy, of Brooklyn, second; E. C. Bald, of Buffalo, third. Time, 2:08. which he covered in three hours and twenty-nine minutes. One mile state championship, Class A—A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, He then reeled off ten or fifteen miles on the race track and first; A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, second. Time, 2:40, Two mile handicap, Class B—Ray McDonald, of New York, 30 yards, finished up by doing a half mile unpaced in 1:06. Sheriff first; Percy Patterson, of Bay City, 230 yards, second; James Levy, 240 Cathiu held the watch, Mr. Kirby did not participate in yards, third. Time, 4:30. One mile, 2:30 class, Class A—William Howie, of Milwaukee, first; A. the races though he could, no doubt, have given the " pot- F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, second; R. F. Chase, of Marinette, third. chasers " a lively go. Time, 2:38. One mile open, 2:15 limit, Class B—L. D. Cahanne, of St. Louis, first; The boys at Marinette are having the laugh on Amy E, C. Bald, of Buffalo, second; C. M. Murphy, of Brooklyn, third. Time, 2:11. Quarter mile state championship, Class A—W. F. Sanger, of Milwau Clish, a popular young wheelman, At the annual meet kee, first; A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, second; Walter Schrader, of Secretai-y-Treasurer M. C. Rotier read a list of lady League Milwaukee, third. Time, 3354 seconds. One mile tandem, Class A—Schrader and Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, members in Wisconsin. Fie did npt know Clish and among first. Time, 3:05. his list he incorporated Amy's name. Of coursethe moment One mile, unpaced, flying start, Class B—L. 0. Johnson, of Cleveland, first; C. M. Murphy, of Brooklyn, second; L. D. Cahanne, of St. Louis; Amy's name was mentioned a roar of laughter followed, third. Time, 2:16. Clish himself could not restrain and took the joke good Exhibition half mile, paced, flying start-E. C. Bald, of Buffalo, 57 seconds. naturedly. The mistake lies with Secretary Bassett who Five mile state championship, Class A—Walter Schrader, of Milwau has entered Amy's name on the national rolls among the kee, first; Arthur J. Weilep, of Milwaukee, second; A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, third. Time, 11:224. , ladv members, THE PNEUMATIC. THE DIVISION ELECTION. for Highway Improvement may perhaps offer an excuse for my again assuming the floor, to place in nomination a can La Crosse Seeking the Office of Chief Consul and Secretary - Treasurer Against riarinette With W. A. Brown, and Hilwaukee With didate for the chief consulship. I trust that yourinterest in n. C. Rotier for the Same Offices. this subject may alsoexcusemydwellinguponthemovement Until the official division ballots shall have been cast, for good roads in making this nomination, because I am on November 15, no other topic is so interesting as the strongly of the opinion that the success which has attended possible chances of the various nominees. the labors of our committee during the past season, and the From the outset, at the Marinette meet, it became evi widespread interest in the movement for good roads which dent that there would be a division among the membership ' we have succeeded in creating, both among the farmers and in the selection of two of the important offices, although among bicycle riders, is largely responsible for the large nothing previously had been known of possible candidates, increase which has taken place in our division membership except one for each office, and they seemed to be the general this spring. choice from all the sentiment previously expressed. Having in view, therefore, the continued growth of the The story of the campaign begins with Secretary- Wisconsin membership, and a continued vigorous agitation Treasurer M. C. Rotier writing D. S. McArthur, of La of the matter of good roads, I believe we should select as Crosse, suggesting that La Crosse bring out candidates for our next chief consul a gentleman whom we can depend upon chief consul and secretary-treasurer, or either, as they to lend us material assistance in both of these directions. choose, and asking Mr. McArthur if he would not accept a We should select a man of the world, one who has had nomination for the high office. Mr. Rotier did this to stir extensive dealings with people, and knows how toapproach up friendly rivalry for the offices, believing that it would them; he should be a man of affairs, who has undertaken stimulate an interest in League matters that would be things and accomplished his purposes; a man whose achieve beneficial. About two weeks before the Marinette meet, ments in other directions will warrant us in believing that however, Mr. McArthur replied to this letter, which had he can accomplish results for the Wisconsin Division in the been written some time in June, saying that he would have many lines of his work. The situation in Wisconsin is such to decline to accept a nomination for chief consul as he that our coming chief consul must be able to give consider could not spare the time. During the last few weeks before able of his time to the work of his office, and must have the the meet, Chief Consul A. C. Morrison suggested the name facilities at his command to perform the manifold and of W. A. Brown, president of the Marinette Cycling Club, varied duties incident to an aggressive administration, in as a man who could ably fill the office which he was about cluding the extensive clerical work and correspondence con to vacate and when Mr. Brown happened in town Mr. nected therewith. Our means are not such that we can Rotier called on him and urged him to accept the nomina make him an allowance for a stenographer, and we should tion. -Mr. Brown was reluctant to permit his name to be therefore endeavor to choose a man who can devote not used but getting the assurance that the retiring officers onlyhistime, but that of his office help to the welfare of the would most heart'ilyendorse himhe finally agreed to accept. division and to its work. At the Marinette meet La Crosse members sprung a I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I may be subjected to surprise. "With scarcely any explanation they brought criticism for nominating a man who is a comparatively into nomination Mr. McArthur for chief consul and E. L. new member of the League, and departing from the custom Spicer for secretary-treasurer. The latter's name was of selecting our officers from among our veteran members. brought in because they felt that in view of Mr. Rotier's Many of these have done much faithful work in the interest position with Mr. Brown they could expect no support of our organization, and I feel, as much as anyone does, the from him for McArthur. Mr. Rotier, however says that he sense of obligation towards them. But I take it, Mr. had fully determined to remain neutral in the matter until Chairman, that the chief consideration in the selection of he heard of their intention of bringing into nomination an our officers should be the work still remaining to he done, opposing candidate to him for no other reason than that. and that the man whose position and surroundings offer the He says he now feels it his privilege to express his preference greatest promise of his success at this coming work, taken for chief consul and unhesitatingly does so in favor of Mr. together with his previous success upon other, perhaps Brown. similar lines, is pre-eminently the man to be selected for Mr. Dorner's Nominating Speech. such an office. It is my opinion that at this particular time At the meeting at which the nominations were made we are especially in need, of a man who can help us in Otto Dorner, of the Roads Improvement Committee, made furthering the cause of good roads, which has ah-eady made the nominating speech for W. A. Brown, which we here such splendid progress in tl e Badger State, and which is with publish in full: the center upon which all OUT*efforts are now united. I feel Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Wisconsin Division; tlrat we can all afford to lay aside minor considerations, The enthusiasm with which you have received the and work together in furthering the cause of good roads by report I presented on behalf of your Division's Committee every means in our power. Our opportunities for securing THE PNEUMATIC. the passage of new road laws are improving day by day, weeks before the Marinette meeting, with the suggestion and to accomplish their passage we want a chief executive that La Crosse was in a strong position to present a candi officer, if possible, who is well known in legislative circles, date for the Chief Consulship and for the office of Secretary- and whose personal acquaintance there will help ustowards Treasurer, and it was intimated to him, that as the Nestor securing the desired reforms. of the League in La Crosse, the choice would naturally fall It is these considerations, mainly, that have directed my upon him ; and the question was asked him, 'will you accept choice of a candidate, and it is a pleasure to me to be able the nomination,' to which he replied that he could not to present the name of a man who I firmly believe can do possibly accept the nomination, as he had not the time to much for us upon 'these lines, and who at the same time devote to the League work. This declination on his part, admirablypossessestheotherqualincations I havedwelt up left the field open; and when the very strong membership on. Our highway improvementcommittee will be fortunate in Marinette brought forward Mr. Brown as their candi date, it became apparent that he not only possessed all the in securing the assistance of such a chief consulin their work, qualifications, but in view of the declination of Dr, Mc and the cause of good roads will be sure to make far better Arthur, he had practically no opposition. Some three days progress, even, than it has in this, our banner good roads before the meeting at Marinette, I received a letter from year. I wish to nominate a man who is known to all of us Thompson, at La Crosse, asking why Dr. McArthur could assembled here at this annual meet, as a successful adminis not be a candidate. I responded that any League member trative officer, one who is, to a large extent, responsible for could be a candidate, but stated that Dr. McArthur had the splendid membership which Marinette shows upon our declined when the suggestion was made to him. On the books today, and to whom belongs much of the credit for day before the Marinette meeting, I was informed that Mr. the success of this meet. I wish to nominate a gentleman Thompson had induce Dr. McArthur to change his mind, who has thrown wide open to the wheelmen of Wisconsin, and that he would be a candidate." both thegates of Marinette and the doors of his own home, and to whom we all owe thanks for our entertainment by "Do you think that Dr. McArthur did right to change the Marinette Cycling Club. That man, Mr. Chairman, is his mind at the eleventh hour ? " " There is no question of Mr. William A. Brown, of Marinette. right or wrong about it. However, it ma*kcs a difference with him, as he would probably have had no opposition An Interview with Mr. florrison. had he accepted the suggestion and announced himself a Chief Consul A. Cressy Morrison, who has recently re candidate earlier in the campaign, besides, his declination turned from a trip through Colorado, was asked this made Brown the logical candidate." morning if he would answer a few questions regarding the contest for the Chief Consulship of the Wisconsin Division, "Do you think there will be any trouble in the League "What do you think of Mr. Brown as a candidate?" "I as an outgrowth of the campaign?" "Not in the least. It will really prove a benefit, for it will interest everybody think he is a man of ability, intelligence, and with all the more than ever, and the very fact that two such good men qualifications necessary to fit him to fill the office of Chief are anxious for the office shows that the organization is Consul, with credit to himself and the Division." "What one to which it is an honor to belong." do you think of Dr. McArthur as a candidate?" "I think he is a man'of ability, intelligence, and with all the qualifi " What do you think of the article which appeared iu a Ripon paper, casting reflections upon one of the candidates cations necessary to fit him to fill the office of Chief Consul, for office? " "I consider it of no consequence whatever, as with credit to himself and the Division." careful reading shows it to be written without any con "Has Mr. Brown taken any active part in League sideration or any knowledge of the facts. I wholly con work?" "Yes. Although he is a new acquisition to the demn this contemptible species of attack, which is beneath League, he is properly credited with bringing in over a the notice of those affected and discreditable to its author." hundred new members this year. He was one of the prime "For whom will you vote? " "I do not -consider that movers in the very successful meet at'Marinette, and has a very courteous question. As an executive officer, it is my developed a strong enthusiasm for League work." "Has duty to see that elections are conducted fairly and properly, Dr. McArthur similar qualifications ? " "Certainly. He is and I am bound by probity and honor not to indicate any a League member of long standing, and is directly respon preference which would give direction to the efforts of the sible, through his active work as Local Consul, for the friends of the administration." gratifying showing which La Crosse makes in the Division. He is a conservative, thoughtful and conscientious worker N. E. Lindquist, of the Marinette Cycling Club has, for the League, and is most worthy of any compliment the received Chairman Gideon's decision on the protested League can pay him." decision of the referee at the Marinette tournament. John "Is not Dr. McArthur the logical candidate for the son and Murphy were tied in the unpaced mile event in Chief Consulship this year?" "He was." "Then how is 2:16, and the referee awarded the race to Johnson, who it that Mr. Brown became suddenly so powerful an oppo made the time first, Chairman Gideon permits this ruling nent for the office? " "Dr. McArthur was approached some to stand, as there are no rules governing the case. THE PNEUMATIC. H. M. TINDEL GOT FIRST PLACE. Riders Handicap Time 48 F. Weselik, Racine 0:00 41:39 Captured the Lover's Lane Road Race, In 37:40; While W. C. Neiiaon 49 F. Smajinsky, Berlin 3:00 38:40 Gets Time, in 34:27. 50 W. C. Cain, City 0:30 44:30 51 W. C. Kroening, City 8:30 44:46 The road race of the Badger Wheelmen, over the Lover's 52 F. J. Kiefer, B. W 0:30 45:36 Lane course, on Labor Day, was the largest that has been 53 J. Peterson, 19th C .*...... *... 2:30 37:13 51 G. L. Zlnk, Menominee 3:00 37:67 held here this year. The course is a distance of twelve 55 W. C. Congers, C. W 1:00 37:58 miles, the start and finish being at Twenty-eighth street 58 H. Kastenholtss, City 6:00 43:07 57 L. C. Stiles, L. G. C. C 4:00 41:40 and Grand avenue. The first to cross the tape was H. M. 58 H. Milbrath, M. C. C 8:30 41:12 Tindel, an eight minute man, who led E. H. Krueger, of the 59 R. R.Phelps, Chicago 1:00 38:43 80 H. W'. Harris, Chicago 1:30 39:17 Badger Wheelmen, by fully a block. H. Warnken, of the 61 O. O. Harvey, W. W .' 8:30 41:26 Niagara Wheelmen, finished third. Tindel, who has never 63 W. Williams, City 8:00 47:18 63 A. Moyer, M. W 9:00 49:05 ridden in a race, finished in 37:40. First time was won by 64 B. Bottrell, B.W 0:30 47:22 W. C. Neilson, of the Milwaukee Wheelmen, who rode the 05 W. F. Wolffee, S. C. C 8:30 44:52 66 G. E. Dixon, L. G. C. C 3:00 47:48 course in 34:27. Con. G. Reinke, of the Badger Wheelmen, 67 F. H. Stanwood, I. C, C 1:00 46:41 got second and H. A. Zerbel, of the Mercury club, third time. 68 H.Wheeler, W. W ; 1:30 48:05 69 H. P. Andrae, M. W 5:00 52:39 The arrangements were perfect. Though there were 70 G. F. Funk, B. W-... 4:00 52:15 3,000 people at the start and finish, no trouble was ex 71 O. L. Bland, B. W 0:00 58:50 72 R. J. Parks, B. W 7:30 56:20 perienced in keeping the course clear. After crossing the 73 W. A. Bremer, B. W 3:30 51:55 tape the riders rode into the school yard close by, where twenty-five cots bad been placed in the basement of the South Side Road Race. school, which was used as the dressing room. Of the 116 The South Side road race, from South Milwaukee to entries, ninety-one started and seventy-three finished in the Lincoln and Kinnickinnic avenues, on August 24, was run race. The list is as follows: • over a muddy course. The distance was only seven and Riders ' Handicap Time one-half miles and had the road been in good condition, it 1 H. M. Tindel, Clly 8:00 37:40 would have been one of the most interesting races of the 2 E. H. Krueger, B. W 7:00 37:47 3 H. Warnken, N. W 6:00 36:58 season. John Cruse won first place. He had a handicap of 4 R. Bauman, R. 0. C 6:00 37:32 5:00 and finished in 25:00. H. A. Zerbel captured first time 5 C. Winkler, B. W 6:00 37:44 0 F. Ahraham, B. W 7:00 38:45 prize, scratch, in 21:45, while Anton Stoltz and Morgan 7 Ed. Aldiidge, B. W 4:00 35:50 O'Brien came in for second and third time. The race was 8 J. W. Warnken, N". W 4:00 35:52 9 Frank Coons, City 5:30 .37:25 witnessed by 2,000 people. Following is the order in which 10 W. M. Baikie, B. W 3:00 34:57 the riders finished: 11 David Cole, City : 7:00 38:28 12 Albert Miller, 10th C. 3:00 35:03 Rider and Club Handicap Time 13 _. W. Worden, New London 3:00 37:04 1 J. Cruse.. 5:00 25:00 14 W. C. Neilson, M. W 2:00 34:27 2 A. Mueller, 19th C. C 2:30 23:25 15 H. R. Owens. City 8:30 40:68 3 F. Harhach, M. C. C. 3:00 23:57 18 H. Cotton, Palmyra 5:00 38:08 4 R.Bremmer 5:00 26:00 17 John Muss, City 2:00 35:00 5 Vf. C. Willlver, M. C. C 3:00 24:15 18 John Miller, Cudahy • 4:30 .37:41 6 J. Hansen 3:30 25:00 19 Peter Olle, Racine 3:00 38:12 7 A. Stoltz, M. C. C :30 22:04 20 H. F. Rothe, City 8:00 . 41:17 8 W. Prltchard, M. C. C 2:30 24:15 21 H, C. Williams, City '. 4:30 37:58 9 H. Zerbel, T. C. C scratch 21:45 22 H. J. Schmitz, B. W 4:00 37:25 10 M. O'Brien, B. W :30 22:17 23 E. A. Clifford, City 2:30 36:07 11 E. Aldrldge, B.W .". 3:30 26:21 24 R. J. Frohhach, B. W 7:00 4p:44 12, J. Weiley, B, V. W 3:30 24:22 25 E.M.Kelly, City 8:00 41:45 13 J. "W. Rellly 2:80 26:45 14 L. P. Olsen 3 30 24:55 28 T. R. Bours, B. W 9:00 42:46 : 27 F. Huennekens, M. C. C 5:30 39:17 15 W. A. Zealley, N. W 3:00 25:27 28 R. 0. Lemlte, A. S 4:00 37:48 i6 J. Muss, M. C. C :30 23:00 29 G. Arpa, City , 7:00 40:50 17 J.Miller 3:00 25:42 SO George Schmidt, B. W 3:30 37:21 18 A. "Weilep, M. O. O scratch 22:44 3i Joseph Sharf, City ; 9:30 43:25 19 H. J. Schmitz, B. W... 2:00 24:45 32 W. Keating, B. W 7:00 41:00 20 F. Conley , s:3o 35:17 K) E. W. Fry, B.W 3:30 37:31 21 H. Ihling, O. C. C... 8:00 24:48 34 J. Wielep, C. C. C. (.: 4:00 38:34 22 W. Mueller , 3-00 25'50 35 John Cruice, City 3:30 38:05 28 W, Duke, B. V. W lloo 23:57 24 F, Htiennekeus, M. O 0. '. 4-00 20:52 36 Con, G. Reinke, B.W scratch 34:36 25 C. Frellson 4.'8Q 07-03 37 H. A. Zerbel, City scratch 34:37 26 J, "W. Warnken. N. W i.oo 28:51 88 Ed. Harnish, N. S. C. C 1:30 36:20 27 E. Ihling, M, C. C 5:oo 27:55 39 H.Shineer.C.W., Chicago,.... :S0 35:21 28 H. J. Onions, C. C. C. C 3.30 25:20 40 L, J, Friend, M. W... 4:00 38:53 29 E. Fry, B.V. W ] :00 23:57 30 A. Huennekens, M.C. C 2-00 25-10 41 W. Roland, City 4:30 39:34 31 B. W. Fueger, M. O. C... 2-',30 25:45 42 I. Eggers, City 6:00 41:05 32 H. Guderson, N. S. C. O 1-SO 24;5s) 43 P.J.Cass, City 0:00 41:08 S3 M. J. Carney...... sj.gn 20:57 44 L. P. Olson, O. C. C. 3:30 38:44 34 E. Harnish, N. S. C. C :so 23:50 45 L. Stiedel, B. W .. 3:30 88:58 35 Q. Hoacher., 3.00 'X-.SZ 36 J. Lemmer, M. O. O a-00 25:47 48 H. J. Onions, City 4:30 . 39:57 37 W. Swmhelm, B. V. W 4;00 27-50 7 W. A. Zealley, N. W .....1 4:00 89:38 38 A. Van Ells, M. C. O B?X> 29:00 4 39 W. Boland, M. 0. C. g-oo 28-00 40 B. W.Twyman, M. & W .'.' il.pen .30 28:30 THE PNEUMATIC. Won By Frank Harbach. Winners of the Racine Race. The North Side club's road race for members only, on Herbert W. Crane, of Racine, with a handicap of 7% August 30, was won by Frank Harbach, who had a handi minutes, won the Racine road race. He covered the cap of six minutes and who covered the triangular Silver thirteen miles in 38:40. The first time prize was taken by Spring course, a distance of ten miles, in 32:35. Harbach J. Dolister, of Burlington, from scratch. His time was and H. Warnken rode side by side until within three blocks 35:35. The second time prize was won by H. E. Zerbel, of of the finish when Harbach sprinted and finished nearly a Milwaukee, also scratch, in 36:46. Morgan S. O'Brien, block ahead of him. J. Miller finished third. A. J. Weilep, Milwaukee, scratch, won the third time prize in 36:56. who started from scratch, won first time in 31:27 and Out of forty-two starters, thirty-nine finished. A large E. Harnish, also a scratch man, captured second time. The crowd witnessed the finish and the race was a success in course was in a good condition. About 1,000 people saw every detail. " Senator" Jones attended to all the arrange the finish. ments and did the handicapping as well. Niagara Wheelmen's Race. To Unite Both Clubs. The last road race of the year will be held on September 22, when the first annual eventof the Niagara Wheelmen will A scheme is now ou foot to unite the Badger Wheelmen be conducted, The start will be at Mequon and the finish and the Milwaukee Wheelmen into one club, It is doubtful at Burleigh and Teuto'niastreets, Nearly all of the members if the consolidation will be made. of the Niagara Wheelmen, will enter and there is no doubt Transferred To Class B. but what the race will be hotly contested. There has been a decided shake-up among Class A riders To Stimulate Interest. during the past few weeks. As a result of an investigation Gerhard Aussem, of the North Side Cycling Club, has a by Frederick Gerlach, the western representative of the new scheme whereby he hopes to stimulate interest in racing National Racing Board, the following riders have been in his club. He proposes to divide the members into teams transferred: W. C. Schrader, W. F. Sanger, A. F. Bingen of five riders each. In running over a course he proposes to heimer, Edward Roth, Harry Crocker, H, Zerbel and J. C. start each team separately, say fifteen minutes apart. The Sehmidtbauer, all of this city. It is reported that several teamwhich.aggregates the fastest time shallbe declared the riders in the interior of the state may also receive their winner of the race. The question which is worrying Mr. notice some time or other. Over a mouth ago Crocker, Aussem, however, is how to divide the teams and get them Roth and Sanger, were notified that they were being all evenly matched,. It is proposed to award small medals investigated. As was predicted, the investigation was to the winning team members. extended to other riders. It was ascertained that all riders had received expense money from either the Andrae or the Thief Chased on a Bicycle. Telegram companies and thereupon Mr. Gerlach recom On Labor Day a burglar broke into a warehouse at mended their transfer. When in the city, Mr. Gerlach stated Colby and stole a wheel belonging to Henry Eder. When that he -would have suspended the riders from the track the theft was discovered the next day, Eder borrowed a but he thought no good would come from such action. wheel, put a revolver in his pocket and gave the thief a Schrader and Sanger entered Class B before they were chase. He tracked him to a woods, where he met the thief, officially notified of their transfer. scared him away and recovered his bicycle. No Professional Races. An Extended Trip. As was predicted in the last issue of THE PNEUMATIC, Local Consul R. F. Myers, of Hillsboro, Wis., has therewill be no races here this season. The semi-professional returned from a bicycle tour of about six weeks. He rode races, for which the North Side club secured a sanction, have through Minnesota and South Dakota, to the Black Hills, been abandoned. Several weeks ago the officials of the and returned via Nebraska and Iowa, making 1,470 miles club began to correspond with the leading professionals in on wheel and about 175 on train through the sand hills the country, with the view of getting them to race here. of Nebraska. ______The riders all wanted their expenses paid and a big guaran Society Ladies Organize. tee posted, and when the members figured up what the total At Green Bay last month a number of ladies who are expense would amount to, including park hire, advertising, spending the summer there from Chicago and those of etc., they held their breath. It was estimated that about Green Bay, organized a ladies' cycling club. They call $4,000 was the lowest figure at which the race could be themselves the S. C's. The following officers were elected: conducted. It would require a crowd of from 8,000 to President, Mrs. M. Joannes; vice-president, Mrs. Neeves; to 10,000 to pay for the running expenses of the meet, and Secretary, Mrs. Murry, of Chicago; treasurer, Mrs. Van that such a number cannot be secured in this city, is well- der Zee. The club takes an early morning run every day known to cyclists. Consequently, it was decided to sur and has a membership of about twenty. render the sanctioned. THE PNEUMATIC. Walter Sanger In His Old Form. Married in Bloomers. There was unusual enthusiasm displayed at the Spring James Gill and Regina Benson, both of Chicago, were field tournament when Sanger, Tyler and the other fast married on August 27, by the Rev. E. D. Huntley. Both men came out for the mile international professional race. are enthusiastic cyclists. Dressed in bloomers, Miss Benson Although Walter had been losing at most meets through rode up to Milwaukee with Gill, who wore "knickerbockers" the season at which he rode, it was rumored that he was and rode straight for the minister's house. They then rode now in the pink of condition and that there would be a back to the Whaleback Columbus, on which they returned close contest. A tandem paced and Tyler and Sanger kept home. The wedding caused a good deal of comment. it well iu sight. As the tandem dropped at the last quarter A Toll Gate Keeper's Blunder. Tyler shot out and led into the homestretch and the crowd The company owning the Whitefish Bay road, will arose and greeted the Springfield man with a tremendous probably be made defendant in a damage suit, ,to be insti shout. But the shoxit momentarily ceased and the crowd tuted by Mrs. R. A. Mallory. Recently, Mrs. Mallory and became breathless for an instant as they saw Sanger, with a party of friends were returning home in the evening from one of his old-time sprints, coming up, nip Tyler fifty yards the Country Club. The woman in charge of the gate from the finish and beat him out by two lengths at thetape. stretched a heavy chain across the road, just before the party The race was the prettiest of the meet and the audience passed, and not seeing the obstruction, Mrs. Mallory ran gave vent to their appreciation by a long continued shout. into it with full force. She was hurled to the ground and May Build a Cycle Path. painfully injured, while the other members of the party, Milwaukee is to have a cj-le path. The park commis who were behind her, narrowly escaped riding over her. sioners are now figuring on the cost of the construction of The woman in charge of the gate then explained that shortly a path for wheelmen ajong Park avenue, from the northern before, a man had passed, who insulted her, and that she end at Terrace avenue to a point near the intersection of was watching for him to return. This is not the first time North avenue. The idea is to have a cycle path three feet that cyclists have been bothered by the chain at the gate. in width qn each side of the street. The roadway will be It is a common occurence for the gate keeper to stretch the macadamized and the cycle road will be made of cement, so chain over the road and leave it there without displaying a that at all times the wheelmen will have a clear right-of-way signal. The L. A. W. has taken the matter in hand and over a smooth and even road. Cyclists will keep to will see what can be done to have the present keeper removed. the right and there will be no danger of collisions, for Milwaukee Wheelmen's Hop. those who are going in the opposite direction will be upon The Milwaukee Wheelmen have arranged an informal the opposite side of the street. hop at Tippecanoe,lake for September 25. Chartered cars will bring the dancers home. The cars will leave the lake at Bicycle Ordinance Not Passed. 11 p. M. The following schedule of amusements has been That bicycle ordinance which Alderman Starkweather arranged: introduced in the common council over a month ago, still September 15 — Elm Grove and Butler Post-Ofllce, start 1:30 p. HE. September 22— Second annual basket picnic at Fish Creek, start 8 A. jr. hangs fire. The wheelmen have taken up the fight and September 25 —Informal Hop at Lake Tippecanoe. every alderman in the city has heard from them. There September 20— Chicago by Steamer Nyack, start SP. M„ on Saturday.' October 0 —Tour through City Parks, start 1:45 p. M, was some talk of incorporating sections providing that October 18 — Oconomowoc, start 8 A. M. lanterns must be carried and that a wheelman, even when October 20 — Cedarburg, start II A. M. dismounted, should not push his machine oil the sidewalk. October 27— Racine, start S A. M. These two obnoxious provisions caused the rights and Dorner As a Tourist. privileges committee of the L. A. W. with W. L. Simonds Otto Dorner, the hustling secretary of the Wisconsin chairman to take hold of the matter. Petition blanks were Leagefor Good Roads, is fond of touring and making long sent to every League member in the city and circulated runs. Scarcely a Sunday passes that he does not reel off among riders. The names and the protestwas then sent to fifty miles in the country, weather permitting. After the the judiciary committee of the council and before the alder state meet, he rode down to Appleton from Marinette where men knew what had happened they had a stack of petitions he met by appointment C. H. Sheldon, of that place who signed by thousands of wheelmen before them. Then it accompanied.him on a jaunt around the state on his bicycle was announced that there was no intention to incorporate and returned with a long list of roads which he thinks the lantern clause and prohibit wheels from being pushed on ought to be improved. As soon as the fall sets iu Mr. sidewalks. The city fathers have promised the wheelmen Dorner will open up, an active campaign.. He has been an opportunity to address them before final action is taken gathering material for his arguments in favor of highway on any measure regulating them. It now seems that if the improvements during the summer months and if he meets ordinance is ever passed it will contain provisions to which anyone who opposes the movement now, woe befall the sensible wheelmen do not object. man, for Dorner is loaded up to the handle. THE PNEUMATIC. Chandler's Protest Not Sustained. Wausau. A. M. Chandler, of Waupaca, several days ago filed a At the races of the Marathon County Fair, held in protest with Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier against Wausau, September 14, the mile novice was won by Arthur Weilep, of Milwaukee, who won the second prize in M. Leistikow in 2:55%; the half mile open by 0. E. Virum the five mile championship at the state meet. Chandler in 1:44; half mile county handicap by Joe Stevens, thirty- finished third in the- race. He now contends that Weilep five yards ; mile open by Chandler,Virum second, time, 2 • 38 ; was not a League member and therefore could not compete mile club handicap, by Joe Stevens, 100 yards; half mile in the race. Secretary-Treasurer Rotier says that Weilep boys' by Bert Pierce in 2:20; quarter mile for Wausavi did not hold a regular card, but several days before the riders by Wilson in :38._; the two mile handicap by E. E. meet he filed his application for League membership, paid Harkins, 100 yards^ his dues, and was issued a temporary membership card. This Phillips Will Hold Races. entitled him to race in championship events. Frederick Gerlach, the western representative of the racing board, Phillips will have two days of racing on September 18 when in the city several days ago, was asked about the and 19. The races will be held under the auspices of the protest and he sustained Mr. Rotier. Mr. Gerlach contends Price County Agricultural Society and are being arranged that it is to the interest of the League to allow riders to by David Myers, of Prentice. A valuable list of prizes has compete as soon as their applications have been filed. been secured and most of the fast riders of the state will be There is considerable delay before a membership is accepted present. Several Class B events will be included in the and were a rider to wait for his card before he could enter a program. championship race, many League members would be lost Chairman Gideon Calls Attention. yearly. At every state meet from five to fifteen riders In the last Gideon Bulletin issued, the chairman says: usually file their applications several days before the races The attention of racing men is called to the necessity of so that they can compete in the championship events. This properly filling out entry blanks, stating thereon the best was done by Weilep. Zerbel and Clifford and the proceeding times made by the rider, as required by the rules. Handi- is a regular one. cappers are instructed to report to the Board improperly Charging For Bicycle Baggage. filled blanks, and the riders will be promptly disciplined. Entries by wire must be.follo wed by a properly filled blank, The rule of charging for the baggage transportation of else they cannot be considered. bicycles has gone into effect on some of the western.roads. This will,for the present, effect lines running out of St. Paul _oo L. A. W. Buttons Left. only, but that it will extend and become universal, now M. C. Rotier, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Divi that the Western roads have broken the ice, is admitted by sion, wishes to make known that 200 L. A, W. lapel but railway officials. By the rule which has gone into effect tons, and as many badges are left Over from the state meet, from St. Paul, the two divisions of the Chicago, Milwaukee held at Marinette, and all those desiring one of each can do & St. Paul from that city will be included, but it will not so, as long as the supply lasts, by writing to him and en have any effect on all other divisions of the St. Paul until closing a two cent stamp for return postage. the rules are extended to other territory, which will prop- L. A. W. Application Lost. ably be at an early date. The price to be charged for bicycles will be the same as the excess baggage charges Will the person who sent in his L. A. W. application to now in vogue on all lines of railroads. M. C. Rotier, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Division, General Baggage Agent Carrick of the St. Paul railway about two months ago, and has not received his member says that the railroads in the West were being forced into ship ticket, please communicate with him ? The application charging for bicycles as a natural result of the numerous was forwarded to the national headquarters at Boston, demands being made on the average road for the transporta but did not reach its destination and no trace can be found tion of wheels for passengers. In every small town, as well of the name or address. as in all cities, baggage cars of nearly every regular passen Want the State fleet. ger train are now crowded with wheels going as baggage. Though the annual meeting of the division will not be As a wheel takes up considerable more space than the : held before December, there is considerable rivalry already average trunk, there is no room for other baggage. , for the state meet. La Crosse, Appleton, Eau Claire and Rev. J. Faville Joins the L. A. W. Neenah have already come out for it. Kenosha also wants Among the many distinguished-men who are members it and says that with the assistance of H. E. Raymond, of the Wisconsin Division, L. A.W. is the Rev. John Faville, ex-chairman of the National Racing Board, who"will be of Appleton, who has recently joined. Mr. Faville is per located there with the Sterling Cycle Company, it could get haps the most popular preacher in the state today, with up a big meet. Several other cities will probably come in the possible exception of Rev. Judson Titsworth. the race, before the meeting is held. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief State Notes. rienominee's Races. At the County Fair, held in Menominee, Michigan, the Menominee, Mich., will have a meet on September 18 principal feature of amusement was the bicycle races, on and 19. September 18 and 19. The Milwaukee delegation took Ernie- Fails, formerly of the Telegram team, has been most of the prizes, and Milwaukee Class B men competed training Oshkosh wheelmen. for the first time in the class to which they but recently Miss Edna Sweet was the first young lady who dared graduated. The first day the mile novice was won by appear in bloomer costume in Green Bay. Quimby, time, 2:47; quarter mile open, Class A, won hy F. Harry Hewitt, of Menasha, will, with one more season's R. Chase, Marinette, in 35Vi seconds; quarter mile open, work, be able to hold his own with the best state riders. Class B, by Zerbel, Schrader second, time, 34 4-5 seconds; The Neenah club is now a branch of the L. A. W., a two mile open, Class A, by Arthur Weilep, Stolz second, charter having been granted them last month. It has time, 4:59; unpaced mile, flying start, Class B, Zerbel's twenty-two League members. time, 2:19 4-5; Sanger, 2:26%; Schrader, 2:28; Bingen Inducements will be offered by the semi-centenial com heimer, 2:28 1-5; Crocker, 2:281.; the mile, Class A handi mittee to wheelmen to enter the parade to celebrate the cap was won by Quimby, 100 yards, in 2:24; two mile, fiftieth anniversary of the city of Milwaukee. Class B, Zerbel first, Schrader second, time, 4:49 2-5; five mile handicap, Class A, won by Harkins, in 13:00. The Marinette officials are determined to enforce the bicycle track the first day was heavy, which pleased Zerbel, as he ordinance prohibiting the riding of a wheel at night unless is a hard road rider, and consequently had a decided ad a lantern is carried. Recently several arrests have been vantage over the other riders, who were trained only for made for violating the ordinance. fast pedalling. Jacob Linden, of Marinette, has ridden a wheel for The second day's races were more spirited and the track twenty-five years. Fifteen years ago herode asafetyto and in much better shape. A new Michigan record was estab from his work and twenty-five years ago he used one in lished by O. E. Virum, of Stevens Point, who rode a half in Norway to ride to and from his work. The wheel used at competition, in 1:08%. In the Class A tandem race, four Marinette was made by him and was of wood. teams started, Harkins and O'Brien on a Telegram,finished On September 8, members of the Niagara Wheelmen held first, in 2:25. In the mile open, Class B, Zerbel won in a road race over the Whitefish Bay course. H. Warnken 2:08%, being the fastest mile ever ridden in competition by won first place, in 16:00. First time was won by Morgan a Wisconsin rider. The two mile, Class A handicap was S. O'Brien, in 15:13, while J. W. Warnken captured second won by Chase, in 4:47. The half mile open was the hottest time. There were eleven starters in the race. race of the meet. Four starters, Sanger first, Zerbel second, The Racine wheelmen are up in arms against an ordi Schrader third, time, 1:13. The mile, Class A, flying start, nance which the city council proposes to adopt. It prevents paced, was won by Anton Stolz, in 2:21%. Zerbel rode a wheelmen from riding on sidewalks, requires them to place half mile, unpaced, in 1:04 1-5, which is near the world's an alarm upon the wheels, sound them when approaching •record. Sanger was paced in a mile, which he rode in a crossing and that lanterns be attached and lighted at 2:10 1-5. While Schrader was pacing Sanger, he met with night. a serious accident, falling against a fence, which rendered Charles B. Thwing, assistant professor of physics at him unconscious for some time. The two mile, Class A the state university, paid a fine of $5 and costs, in the tandem was won by Harkins and O'Brien, in 5:10, and the Municipal court, on August 27, for riding a bicycle on the five mile open, Class A, by Stoltz, in 12:17. city streets after dark without a lantern. The ordinance At the Inter-County Fair, held in Cumberland, Wiscon went into effect August 1, and this is the second conviction sin, September 19, a three mile handicap race was run and tinder it. the time prize was won by C..C. Taylor, with H. M. Bird a close second, in 8:04 1-5. 0. D. Edgbert finished first, M. B. Nute, of Columbus, last mouth made a trip to Cleveland, 0., and return, making the entire journey by wheel. He was gone from home about three weeks, but spent only fourteen days in the saddle, and in that time his cyclometer registered 1,278 miles, an average of 91 2-7 miles per day. His largest run was 131 miles in one day. Wear Coats While Dining. Many hotel proprietors are complainingof the slovenly, neglectful appearance of some of the wheelmen who stop at their hotels. In many cases wheelmen are requested to wear their coats when in the dining room. THE PNEUMATIC. Andrae's New Flachinery. Displaying Their Wheels. The Julius Andrae & Sons Company's removal to larger At the Exposition the Andrae people have, what is quarters is now a certainty. The preparations have been generally considered, the finest display of wheels and deco completed. F. Terry Andrae while East contracted for rations, the Bolte company, across the isle are, however, ten new Cleveland automatic machines which make making an effort to eclipse them. Cribb Carriage Company, cones, a new hub blanking and screw machine, which Thistle Company, Beuzemaker Brothers, Clement, Williams -was purchased from Pratt & Whitney at Hartford, & Company and others are well represented with a line of Conn., a Brown & Sharp milling machine and a ball machines. The Mystic Cyle Works, of Mukwonago, occupy "bearing grinding machine. It is the intention of the a conspicuous booth, in charge of Mr. Palmer, the secretary firm to hereafter grind every ball before it is placed of the company. ~ in the machine and see that they are of true size. Contracts have also, been closed with the Sanderson Steel Company, at Syracuse, for tool steel. Hereafter all cones -will be made entirely of tool steel which will be tempered and ground. This will be a new innovation in the building of Andrae wheels. With these jaew machines and the ones in the present factory the company will be thoroughly equipped. Material for 5,000 wheels is ordered and there -will be no delav in transforming the material into bicycles. In fact the work is already under way. The. plant is now x-unning to its full capacity making tools. Two new departments will be added to the plant. These are the enameling plant and the nickel plating department. All enameling and nickel plating will be done by the company itself next year. While east Mr. Andrae secured the services of George Peters, a skilled mechanic in bicycle building, who -will be the superintendent of the tool department of the -works. The screw and machine department will be in charge of Charles Hardy, who was formerly connected with the Grand Rapids Cycle Company and the Standard Sewing Ivlachine Company. The entire factory, of course, will be under the direction of F. Terry Andrae. At present the firm is making tools and gigs for next year's supply of wheels. WM. POLL1TT The firm will pay considerable attention 'to tandems Mounted on his '96 Model " Only.' next year. The tandem now ridden by Sehmidtbauer and Another New Club. Nielson is considered one of the finest in the Northwest and A number of local wheelmen met at No. 25 Juneau Ave. and a number of orders for next year's delivery are already and organized a new cycling club, to be known as Cream on file. The build of the Andrae will be nearly the same as City Wheelmen. The club has virtually existed for four in '95. It is not likely that the wheels will be lighter but years and upwards, lacking however a permanent organi they will be considerable stronger. The prices will remain zation. The ultimate success of the new club is earnestly -unchanged. hoped for by the members and is rendered almost certain by the zeal and personal interest manifested at their first At New London four bicycle races were conducted under meeting. L. A. W. auspices, on September 18 and 19. The officers elected are: Robert Wittig, president; Gustave G. Gehrs, vice president; Emil J. Ludwig, secre tary and treasurer; Len. P. Bellinghausen, captain; John Rafenstein, first lieutenant; Frank J. Zander, second lieu tenant; John Rafenstein, Gustave G. Gehrs and C. Van Ess, oard bof directors. Meetings of the club will be held r^~ monthly at the place above indicated. The bicycle races at the Chetek Fair were declared off on accountof bad weather, which made the track too heavy, Clarence Taylor, of Barron, however, rode an exhibition half and quarter mile in slow time, THE PNEUMATIC. See the Wonders of the Day. F. H. Bolte's New Job. The Milwaukee Exposition opened this year more An important change has taken place in the office of grandly than ever, and thousands of delighted people are the Bolte Cycle Manufacturing Company. Frank H. Bolte, daily visiting the building. No intelligent citizen can afford who has had charge of the mechanical department, has to miss seeing the thousand and one mechanical and scien withdrawn from the active management in the factory, and tific wonders. Wheelmen, especially, will be interested this J. R. Connell and D. A. Donlevy will succeed him. Mr. year in the display as many makes of bicycles are on exhibi Bolte, however still retains his interest in the firm. He has tion, with many curious attachments. The price of admis accepted a position as manager of the Peoria Rubber & sion, including the great art gallery, is but twenty-five Manufacturing Company, of Peoria, 111., a large bicycle cents, and no one can afford to miss this opportunity at so plant, which is now being built there. The plant will be in small a cost. operation by November 1, and Mr. Bolte says that 15,000 wheels will be placed on the market. The tools of the new Brief Trade Notes. concern are now being made at the Bolte factory, in this All the local manufacturers are getting up their '96 city. Mr. Bolte says that the firm at Peoria intends to catalogues. manufacture its own tires. It is stocked for $200,000. The The Meiselbaeh Manufacturing Company is now run Seiberling syndicate is at the head of the project. All of ning with a full force, preparing for the '96 market. the Bolte patents will be used in the manufacture of the The first lot of '96 wheels of the new machine, and it is understood that, Bolte Manufacturing Company will be a large bonus was paid the Bolte com placed on the market in a few weeks. pany for this privilege. "Snowflake" lubricant is a new See Great Work at Springfield. composition used for chains. It is light Nearly all records were cut at the that in color, highly perfumed and will not Springfield meet. Sanger rode two miles soil the hands. nail? in competition in 4:24 yi,, breaking the The Telegram Cycle Mannfacturing Remove the nail and inject our world's professional record. Titus went special rubber solution, which, Company already has a supply of pressed down, picks up the patch against his hour record and covered ing ply in the inner lube, closing: orders for '96 wheels on hand. Their •the puncture. Thai's all The twenty-seven miles and 185 yards. This quickest, least expensive and model will be up to date in all respects. ONLY PERMANENT quick-repair is a new American record. Starbuck device. Send for our"quick-repair" The Chief Cycle Manufacturing Com pamphlet. broke the five mile professional record More Morgan _ Wright tires are pany, of this city, is preparing for the used than all others combined. paced by a quad and also the Class Nearly all road riders prefer them. manufacture of wheels. A factory is So do mast racing men. They B record, covering the distance in hold nearly ono hundred world's now being furnished with machinery by records. 10:11 % . E. C. Bald made a mile in % the company. MORGAN & WRIdHT, competition in 2 : 00 A . CH1CAQO. J. Wick Cycle Company has suc Sehmidtbauer and Bingenheimer will ceeded Reitzner & Wicks in the cycle be the Andrae Class B tandem team business on National avenue. Mr. in the future. Reitzner is now entirely interested in the Milwaukee Japan Enameling Company. Bloomers Just the Thing. Judge Wilson, of Little Rock, Ark., has rendered an The D; D. Warner Company, of Madison, will manu interesting decision for wheelwomen. After carefully read facture wheels during the winter. A large two story plant ing books on dress reform, he decided that bloomers are not is being built, and it is expected that, the factory will be in indecent dress and dismissed the case. Mrs. Noe, the operation by October 1, defendant, failed to appear in court, and a large crowd of Wm. Pollitt has just completed a sample wheel for the spectators were disappointed. In rendering his decision, '96 trade which weighs twelve pounds. He has given it Judge Wilson said that women are going to ride bicycles severe tests and the wheel seems as strong as the average and they were bound to have some comfortable and appro 20-pound machines. It is enameled in orange color. priate dress. Bloomers were just the thing. The rush at the factory of Julius Andrae & Sons Com pany has. been so great during the past month that the $ioo Reward, $ioo. firm has been unable to move its factory to larger quarters. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and As soon as the business permits, the change will be made. thabls Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh beluga constitutional disease, i-eqiiires si con J. W. Warnken, formerly manager of the cycle depart stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally, acting di rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ment of Beuzemaker Brothers, has resigned to accept the ing the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The local agency of the Thistle wheels. Mr. Warnken is a proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they otter One hustler, has many friends and if anybody can sell Thistles Hundred Dollars for any oase that it fails to cure. Send for list of testl- tn (*vn 1 __1 ft ___.__.* GSS here, he is the one. Sold by Druggists, foe. P. J, CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. THE PNEUMATIC. LIST OF ANTI-STIFF- • •• RELIABLE REPAIR MEN A Hitvelous Immediately Believes Soreness IN THE STATE. -raparatioa and Stroiixtlieng' tho Muscles. Quick in its action to relieve sore Clou 5nd Pleasant Bicycle riders when iu need of'repair's ness and stillness to Use. or cycle sundries, while touring, will In ilie muscles.... Price, 2D & 30C1JOI lind'the linns listed below..-worthy .of . Trainers' mi, $1 patronage. ' '"•'..'• Cyclists _d Athletes Try It. DflUROISTS ANO DEALERS IN A number of mi SPORTING GOODS APPLETON - • C.&'N'.W.'RY'. '•oliciteil testuno WM. GROTH, nials have l)een leceived —CYCLE AGENCY AND IOH'AItt SHOP, SUPERBLY EQUIPPED ALt. KINDS OP.CVOLB SUNDRIES. FAST TRAINS COLUMBUS "''••• ' 7 M. B. NUTE_ iUSllMKH AJfDKAE AND SUNBEAM CYCLES, MILWAUKEE-CHICAGO BICVCLB REPAIRING * SPECIALTY, EQUIPPED WITH FOND DU LAC LUXURIOUS PARLOR CARS - PALATIAL DINING CARS, - . CHAS. YERS. Palace Sleeping Cars Between PRACTICAL CYCLE REPAIRER.. — MILWAUKEE AND ST, PAUL, MMEAFM AND DOLTUII aOOD WORK. REASONABLE PRICES. Oity Ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St, J. C i_\Owr,Es (Kings Co Wheelmen) says FORT HOWARD "~ ~ "I cheei fully recommend Anti-Stiff as the best CHAS. S. KERR, Passenger Station, remedy that wheelmen can use lor tired muscles Lake Front, Foot of Wisconsin Street. anfl stiff joints. Dining my Ude of 6,2.0 miles m lr_"i__j-~ __y--—>-c_<_ Bioy —les 60 consecutive days, I used it witli great benefit: Wheels to Kent. Vhools Repaired. W. H. HSWIJAH, , - J. H; WHITHA1T, doing all it pretends to do; cycliBts should never Third Vice-Pres. General Manager. be "yithont it. LA CROSSE ' ~~ • ~ W. A. 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The men are riders of too great speed to debar from Wisconsin rac ing events, and as they can not compete in Class A events it is very probable that at all large meets nearly one-half of the races will be for Class B men only—that is if Class B A. MONTHLY remains in existence next year. Should the League decide JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. to drop Class B, races will have to be arranged for amateurs and professionals. Under such conditions the riders who FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. have been transferred will not find their positions so hard All copy for advertisements, changes for same, news and correspondence for publication must be sent In before the 7th, to Insure Insertion the same • as they imagined when the order came from Chairman month. Contributions returned If not published. Gideon. ENTERED IN THE P. 0 AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. FUTURE OF CLASS B. ADVERTISING. THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri Milwaukee nowhasbut two professional riders—Walter tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes of individual riders as well as the dealers, and Is recognized as a paper C. Sanger and Henry Kanaska. Sanger has been a pro which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on application. fessional of less than a years' standing, while Kanaska has PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, been out for the cash for several years. Both seem well 505 East Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis. pleased with their lot. Walter Sanger in a recent inter J. P0PPEND1ECK, JR., Editor. view, declared that William Sanger, his younger brother, CON. KNUDSON, M. C. ROTIER, Associate Editors. who is now riding in Class B, will ride for cash next year. M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. There are a number of riders in the state of nearly equal Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. speed to that possessed by William Sanger, and just what they will do will be watched with much interest. It will THE PNEUMATIC ABSORBS THE CYCLIST. not be at all surprising if several of them follow into the THE PNEUMATIC with this issue, absorbs the Madison professional ranks.' If Class B remains, and they are al Cyclist, which lias been published by Con. Knudson. lowed to only compete for prizes in that class, there are few Subscribers to the Cyclist will receive THE PNEUMATIC until perhaps, who will resist the temptation of entering races in their subscriptions expire without any extra charge. Mr. which cash is.offered. With the hold that professional Knudson will from time to time contribute to this paper racing has secured, it is only a matter of time when Class and help make it bright and newsy. B will have to go. This is realized by most of the Class B men, and therefore it is probable that the ranks of the pro INTEREST BEGINNING TO LAG. fessionals will be greatly swelled next season. Now that the winter is on hand,interest is beginning to WHEELMEN HAVE POLITICAL INFLUENCE. wane in some of the clubs, and it is reported that it is hard That the time has come when the wheelman plays a to .secure a full attendance at any of the meetings. Steps part in politics has recently been made apparent from the should be taken by all the clubs to keep the interest up dur- delay caused in passing the bicycle ordinance now pending iug the winter as well as the summer, and members individ in the local council and at Racine. In both cities the ordi ually ought to work in this direction. nances as introduced by the aldermen have been objection able to wheelmen and they have protested against the STOP SUNDAY RACING. passage of the measure. So strong has been the pressure During the past few months there has been considerable that has been brought to bear on the aldermen that they Sunday racing in the state and city. This should be avoided have been very careful in their deliberations. Section after as much as possible, because it causes prejudice to arise section has been carefully weighed and the wheelmen have against cycling from certain quarters. Arace that is worth been consulted ou every detail of the ordinance. This holding at all can just as well be conducted on a Saturday action on the part of the aldermen is proof that wheelmen afternoon, or some other week day as on Sunday. have influence. The time is at hand when politicians begin to count on their votes. In Pennsylvania the Republicans TWO CLASSES OF RACES. have inserted a plank in their platform favoring improved . No matter what action is taken at the next meeting of highways which also is the outgrowth of an agitation on the League with reference to classes, race promoters here the part of the wheelmen. The wheelmen in Pennsylvania after in this state will have to arrange at least two classes number many thousands and most of them will no doubt of races. This year, except toward the latter part of the vote for "better roads." Wheelmen in this state ought not season, all races that have been held on the circuit have to be backward. There are many things in the line of been Class A events, Some provision will now have to be legislation which wheelmen want and can get if they will THE PNEUMATIC. only press their demands. They should come out and have been allowed to ride in any Class A events from the declare themselves in favor of such men who will support very start of the season, yet they have been a drawing card, the legislation they desire. If this is done the result will be and without them many people would undoubtedly not the same as in Pennsylvania, and this is one of the ways in have patronized the meets. The circuit has also brought which the extension of the Sheridan drive from the Wiscon riders in closer contact with each other, and cycling has sin line can be secured. Wheelmen can secure any reason been given a big boom in all towns in the state. The circuit able demand but they must work as a body and show their feature of racing in Wisconsin will be repeated next year. strength. Trouble Ahead For Riders. The Prediction Came True. Early in the season the chairman of the state racing Early iu the spring it was predicted by the present offi board sent out notice that all riders participating in meets cers of the Wisconsin division that the membership of the that were held without a sanction from the League, would League in this state would climb to the 1,000 mark. At make themselves liable to suspension from the track. The that time the officers were just laying their plans for secur season which has just closed in Wisconsin has been a ing members and each membership had just expired. remarkable one. There is scarcely a town of over 2,000 The highest number before this was 426. Not only most of inhabitants at which a race meet of some kind has not been the last year's members have renewed their cards but conducted. Besides all the meets on the state circuit, enough new members have been secured during the summer bicycle races have been held at nearly all the county fairs. to make good the prediction of the officers. The division But there have been a number of unsanctioned meets in the now numbers 997. In voting for new officers, members of state and this is going to be the cause of serious trouble for the League should not fail to look over, the record of the a number of riders. P. R. Linker and Blaine Thompson, of present officers, and those who are up for re-election should La Crosse; A. R. Paulson, of Onalaska; J. C. Flood, of not be forgotten. If efficient officers are placed at the head Tomah; Guy Poole, Clarke McCoy, E. Schram and H.Olson, of the division next year the membership of the state can of Sparta, have been suspended for sixty days by Chairman again be increased over 100 per cent. Gideon for competing in unsanctioned races and a dozen or two more riders may find themselves under the ban before Good Results From The Circuit. long. Frederick Gerlach, the western representative of the With the close of the season a glance at what has been racing board, has been very active in Wisconsin and he is accomplished by the state circuit is appropriate. The races endeavoring to find out the unsanctioned meets in the state conducted this year on the circuit have all been very success and the names of all riders who participated in the events, ful. The attendance at the meets has been large, and there No distinction will be made as to who the riders are. All has been no scarcity of riders to compete for honors. There are to be suspended for a period and the racing board hopes is, however, one feature that is to be regretted, and that is that this lesson will serve to keep all riders oiit of unsanc that the racing board did not take'action sooner in relation tioned meets next year. When the list of suspended riders to a number of riders who were in the employ of manufac is announced it is very likely that among them will be found turers, and who followed the races and won all there was some of the fast men in the state. in sight. Until the transfer of those riders was made, there There are also likely to be several more transfers made was little show for the majority of the pure amateurs to from Class A to Class B. It is reported that A. M. Chandler, win any of the open events. The Class B men in question, the speedy Waupaca man, is being investigated and that a who rode under Glass A colors, devoted all their time to number of local flyers may also be included in the list. racing and consequently were not only in good condition all Chandler rode in races with Zerbel after it was known that thetime.but with all the practice they received were able to the Milwaukee rider had been transferred to Class B and ride much faster and to show greater generalship than riders this may cause him some trouble. Since the last batch of who did not constantly follow the circuit. But there is no local riders have been transferred a number of others have danger of a repetition of this next year. been in pretty close relations with local manufacturers and The circuit has done much good, however. It has if Mr. Gerlach does not get after them it will be surprising. brought out many new riders who, heretofore, did not have confidence in themselves to take part in a track event. Henry Zerbel's Close Call. Morgan S. O'Brien, Milwaukee, Edward Harkins, Marsh It has just been learned that Henry Zerbel, who was field, and a number of others have been pushed to the front transferred from Class A to Class B, had a close call from since they followed the circuit. William Sanger, Edward being suspended from the track for a year. He continued Roth, Harry Crocker, A. F. Bingenheimer, H. C. Zerbel, to race in Class A events until he received official notice, W. C. Schrader and J. C. Sehmidtbauer, who have been though itwas generally known that hehad been transferred. placed in Class B, have played active parts in the circuit of The members of the racing board thought that Zerbel this year, and have done much to add to its success by ought not to have done this, but in view of his clean racing following it to all meets. Though the riders ought not to record the matter will be overlooked. THE PNEUMATIC. Edgar S. Comstock. He then demanded that the money be refunded to him, but Edgar S. Comstock, of Oshkosh, is one of those riders according to Stoltz, this also was refused him. Stoltz is one who has pushed himself in the front ranks of state racing of the fastest riders in the state and had a good chance of men during the past summer. Though this was his first winning several good prizes at the meet, and he thinks that season on the track he has won a place in nearly every race this is the reason he was debarred. The action of themaua- in which he competed and at present is the champion of the gers in refusing to refund the money has caused much com Saw-dust City. ment among wheelmen. Could Not Get Pacemakers. The attempt of Henry A. Zerbel, of the Telegram, team to lower the 100 mile record was postponed last Wednesday, because no sanctions for pacemakers could be secured from Chairman Gideon. Zerbel was to ride the race over the National park track. He is a Class B man and as there are not enough class B men in the city to pace him a letter was sent to Chairman Gideon, of the racing board, asking permission to have a number of speedy Class A men pace Zerbel in the trial. No answer was received to this letter in time to make arrangements for the race. If the weather permits and the chairman grants the sanction for pacemakers, Zerbel may go against the record October 23. His friends are positive that he can lower it. Morgan O'Brien who was to try and lower theWhitefish Bay course record, which he established several weeks ago, also failed to make a trial. Comstock is seventeen years of age and lias lived in Oshkosh since 1886, when his parents moved from Adrian, May Build a New Track. Mich., where he was born. He first began to ride in the fall Milwaukee may have another track next year. The of '93 but never did any fast riding until last spring when directors of the Milwaukee Base Ball Club are figuring on he began to train under the direction of a book on training. the expense of building one in the baseball park. If a good On May 30 he rode his first race in the high school field day track was constructed on the grounds it would make a exercises at Fond da Lac and finished second, At the fine place for holding race meets. There is a large seating Marinette meet he won the mile novice iu 2:41 and the half capacity in the park, and patrons of races could receive mile handicap, with a handicap of seventy-five yards, in good accommodations. With a new track in the city the 1:03%. In the Oshkosh races during the fair last month he prospects for Iwivhig big races next year would also be also captured a number of events. He and a number of brighter. other Oshkosh. riders had previously trained under E. J. Henry Kanaska Doing Well. Fails and were in good condition. He won every race in which he started. On September 10 he won the mile Henry Kanaska, the local professional rider who has handicap from scratch in 2:27 yr, • On the next day he been in Europe all summer, has been heard from. In a captured the three mile handicap from the 225 mark iu recent letter received in this city from Paris he gives an 7:25 and the two mile handicap in 5 : 02 with a 150 yard account of his movements since he left the city. He has handicap. been riding well and when he again puts his foot on Comstock is a member of the junior class of the Oshkosh American soil he will bring back with him considerable high school. European gold. According to his letter he has been making it extremely interesting for French riders. On September Refused to Refund His Money. 15 he won the international 3,000 metres scratch race at A queer case has been laid before the officers of the Paris in which all the leading riders of Europe were entered. Wisconsin Division. On September 2(5, the Walworth His time was 5:55]^, the last quarter being made in county fair was held at Whitewater, at which several bicy 28 yr, seconds. On August 25 he captured the 900 metres cle races were held. Several days before the meet, Anton race on the Buffalo race in Paris in 1:10 ]4, . In this race he Stoltz, of this city, forwarded his entry fee to the managers defeated Mercier. The first race he was entered in across of the races. When Stoltz arrived at the track he was told the water was at Anvers, Belgium, on August 11 in which that he would not be allowed to race.. He demanded an lie finished third. In this race Huct won and Gougoltz was explanation and was told that his entry fee had been re second. On August 17 he went against the one mile record ceived toolate and thereforehe was debarred from the races. of Belgium at Ostende and came within one second of it, THE PNEUMATIC. his time being 1:55x /f< • This shows how fast he is riding. and several following they rode against time, but the wind He says that a wind was blowing and his pacemakers were was unfavorable and they failed to do better than on the slow. On the following day he rode a quarter, unpaced, in first day. 26 yi , one-fifth of a second within European record time. List of State Records. Henry writes that he is now riding faster than ever Nearly all the state records have been lowered during before and is well pleased with himself. He does not like the the past summer. The following is a list of state records country, however, because he can not converse with the for Wisconsin riders up to date, as compiled by Secretary- people and must constantly have an interpreter with him. Treasurer M. C. Rotier: He says that he has met many Americans and all have CLASS A RECORDS. treated him well and cheered him at all races. He says that Quarter mile competition, W. - . Sanger, of Milwaukee, at Janesville, if he were not under contract he would come to his native August SO, 1895, time 31 second... Half mile competition, Louis Reed, of Ripon, at 1894 state meet, time country at once, and he thinks that he will make his depart 1:00. ure shortly after his contract expires. He writes that Mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Waukesha, Aug- during the first month he was in Europe he was sick, owing ustS7,1895, time8:13. to the change of climate. As soon as he comes back to Mile tandem competition, W. C. Schrader and A. F. Bingenheimer, of Milwaukee, at Janesville, August 29, 1895, time 2:15. America he intends to go against the one-hour record, either Five mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Marinette, at Chicago or Milwaukee, and he is confident he can lower August 17, 1895, time 11:22V_. it. He is under contract with the Whitworth Cycle Company. Mile without use of handlehars, Andrew Anderson, of Neenah, 3:11. CLASS B RECORDS. Established a New Road Record. Mile paced against time, W. - . Sanger, of Milwaukee, at Stevens Point, September fl, 1895, time 2:06V_. The road race of the Junior North Side Cycling Club on Quarter mile paced against time, Harry Crocker, of Milwaukee, at October 6, over the Whitefish Bay course was won by E. State Fair park, September 25, 1895, time 26 seconds. Frieseke, who had a handicap of 3% minutes. J. Benseley, Half mile paced against time, Harry Crocker, of Milwaukee, Septem ber 25,1895, at State Pair park, 59:00. with a handicap of 2 minutes, finished a close second. The Some of the records are within a few notches of world's time prize was won by Morgan S. O'Brien, scratch, who records, which is proof that Wisconsin has some of the rode the course in 14:46, breaking the course record which fastest riders in the country. previously was 15:10. J. W. Wai-nken, who also started from scratch, secured second time. There Were thirty-five Big Road Race Planned. starters. The following is the order in which the riders The Evening Wisconsin will conduct a large road race finished: next June. It is proposed to make the event the largest KldiT. Handicap. Time. that has ever been held in the city, and it is probable that 1. 32. Frieseke 3>,£ 17:60 2. J.Benseley 3 17:14 all the fastest men in the northwest will be entered. While 3. W. Zealley 2_ 10:45 the arrangements have not been fully decided upon, it is the 4. H.Kirl ; 3 17:36 6. "W.Rolan 2 16:44 intention to have at least twenty wheels head the list of 6. M. 8. O'Brien Scratch 14:46 prizes. It is thought that no less than 100 good prizes will 7. G.Pielihardt SJ4 17:50 8. J Peterson 1% 10:50 be secured. The entry fee will only be $1, and this small 9. H.-Warnken.. 1 16:23 expense will induce many riders to come in and compete for 10. G. Schmidt 2V_ 18:00 11. J.Plarnbeck 3 18:32 the prizes. The course has not been selected but it will IS. E.Schmidt 2_ 18:04 either be a twenty or a twenty-five mile course. The finish 13. J. W. Warnken Scratch 16:10 14. W. Miller 2% 19:30 will probably be somewhere near Grand avenue andfif'teenth 15. A.S'iegel. l'/i 18:45 street. The affair will be managed by the officers of cycling 10. G. Schmidt Scratch 17:50 clubs of this city. Broke Several State Records. Hay Hold An Indoor fleet. During the latter part of last month, members of the The proposition of holding an indoor meet next month, Telegram team made several attempts to lower world's is again under consideration by the Milwaukee Wheelmen. records, but the conditions were against, them. They It is proposed to hold the meet at the Exposition building, succ(eded, however, in making some very fast time, and in from Thanksgiving, November 28, to December 1. If it is breaking several state records. On the first day, September decided to hold the races, an effort will be made to get 24, Harry Crocker rode a quarter, paced, in 26 seconds flat, Sanger and Johnson to compete for a cash prize. A number at State Fair park track. He also covered a half-mile in 59 of speedy Class B men are also to be secured. seconds, both of which are new records for Class B in this state. Henry Zerbel rode a quarter in 27 seconds, and a No Consolidation Probable. half in 59 j/g seconds; while Edward Roth rode a quarter It is not probable that the Badger Wheelmen and Mil in 28 seconds, and William F. Sanger the same distance in waukee Wheelmen will be consolidated into one club, 26 yf, . All were made with a flying start and there is no Members of the former club do not look with favor on the doubt about the distance and the time. On the next day scheme though the Milwaukee Wheelmen do. THE PNEUMATIC. Niagara Wheelmen's Road Race. Races in the State. IT. Warnken won the Niagara Wheelmen's road race There were but few races conducted during the past four from Mequon to the corner of Burleigh street and Teutonia weeks. The only races of any consequence were those at avenue on the afternoon of September 22. Warnken had a some of the county fairs, and most of these were slow handicap of one minute and covered the twelve miles in affairs. At the New London fair A. M. Chandler, of Wau 41:48 in a hard wind. W. C. Williams, one of the scratch paca, won a mile open in 2:57 while Edward Worden, of New London, captured the two mile handicap in 6:41.4 ] At Elkhorn the mile open was won by W. C. Bode, of Chicago, in 2:46, and the five-mile handicap from scratch by W. C. Bode in 13:56. _____% At Waupaca, the three mile handicap was won by Edward Worden, 125 yards, in 8:59Vs; the two mile novice by Alfred Bailey, in 7:05; the three mile open by A. M. Chandler, in 8:56. ••J '. ffi&_K £ At Weyauwega, on September 25, Edward Worden, of 0 New London, won the three mile handicap in 8:59, and A. •'iC3 !-_Jnfi M. Chandler, of Waupaca, the three mile open in 8:56. w • i 't-i___Jr_W_Si-rc^Hb_'-- . On September 27, at Baraboo, Louis Helm won th F jfc i\1v___F^10_s:>' Ji:"\': mile open at the fair in 2:44, Ross Kellogg the half mile 1 LL _€r ' jD' * 'lA' * la open in 1:17 and, A. Nesvacill the three mile handicap in K__fr a" "W1 * B jSSr ••&;,./>••••• I 8:41. Lonis Helm and Ross Kellogg rode a half mile on a •__? • tandem against time and made the distance in 1:13V&. ™ At the Ozaukee county fair at Cedarburg, on September 27, Clarence Kenney won the mile boys' race in 3:50, and Albert Joachim the two mile race in 6:42. John C. Sehmidt H. WARNKEN, Winner. bauer and W. C. Neilson, of Milwaukee, paraded around men, finished second in 41: 50 and captured first time, while the track on a tandem. J. W. Warnken and F. C. Leimbach won second and third At Kewaunee, on the same day, Anton Dishmaker, of time respectively. It is claimed that Williams won first Kewaunee, won the county championship in 2:35 4-5, and time because he took Warnken's pace all the way thus being John Molle the one mile open in 2:44. protected from the severe gale of head wind. There were no serious accidents. Frank Harbach, who was looked The La Crosse county fair races, on September 28, were . upon as one of the probable winners of the race, took a fall won as follows: The two mile handicap by W. R. Ellers, and finished eighth. The riders finished in the following in 5:35%; the half mile by Otto Gndenschwager, in 1:20%; order: the mile handicap by A. James, 175 yards, in 2:53y2; the Post- . ' Handi- mile tandem by L. Funk and F. Cutler, in 3:05; the five tion, Rider. cap. Time. mile handicap by W. R. Ellers, 700 yards, in 14:41% and 1. H. Warnken 1 43:48 2. W.C.Williams scratch 41:50 the half mile consolation by L. Funk, in 1:23V-. On October 8. J. W. Warnken scratch 41:51 3, O. Gudenschwager won the half mile, in 1:25. 4. F. C. Leimbach scratch 41:51!<_ 5. W. 0. Zealley ' 4 -|(i:lr> At Jefferson, on October 4, the one mile novice, at the (I. F.Baum 4 "lfi:18 7. W. Raasch <> r,1:ai) fair races, was won by C. N. Crittenden, of Hebron, in 8. F.I-Iarbach S 44:22 2:56%; the mile handicap by F. N. Hackett, of Palmyra, 75 9. L.Kramer 7 -10:47 yards, in 2:31; the half mile boys' race by H, L. Mack, of 10. A. E. Klug ° wiM 11. II. F. Barthe]...-... 1() Wf' Fort Atkinson,in 1:48, and the two milehandicapby Anton lx 12. A. W. Bender. .- -' • ' '-~'' Stoltz, of Milwaukee, scratch, in 5:29. 13. A.C.Siegel • , » 17:37 11, F. Marquarflt •• !"> 41): _K r m;S0 At Reedsburg, on October 9, the three mile handicap 15. W.Mueller > 16. R.Warner 7 r>»!3r> bicycle race was won by Helm, in 9:15. 17. H. Rleban ' •W'A" 18. E, Frleseeke 1<> ""i'r>9 On October 12 the Sparta Cycling Clubheld races which s n,i:IM 10. F. Thlele resulted as follows: The one mile novice was won by Carl 20. O.Klnge •'•••• •' r)3:r,il 21. R.SchulU _ I(» r,8:r,,! Foster in 2:52; the mile open by C. 0. Stimson in 2:18; r,8:S;1 22. A.C.Miller « the three mile handicap by C. Foster, 125 yards, in 8:51; 23. A.Schunck » •4)1:09 24. P, Kroening •• s . OUsJU the mile handicap by Carl Foster, 50 yards, in 2:45; the l,;,:l(l 25. p. Berghauer '•» half mile boys' race by H. Olson in 1:37V.; the five mile Lillian Russell now rides a wheel. handicap by H. Olson, scratch, in 14:45. THE PNEUMATIC. Tomah Races. Country Club Interested. At Tomah, on October 18,the races resulted as follows: Cycling has become such an interesting sport among W. B. Pengilly, of Sparta, won the half mile novice in the members of the Country Club, that the question of 1:25 yi; C. S. McCoy, of Sparta, the mile handicap in holding a road race has come up for consideration. Some 3 :26 ]ri ; C. F. Foster, of Sparta, the mile Monroe County favor the matter but it is not likely that any action will be championship in 3 :28 y$ ; G. H. Anderson, of Wausau, the taken this year on account of the lateness of the season. half mile open in 1:19; George Tower, of Tomah, the half New West Side Club. mile boys' race in 1:28 /£ , and L. W. Bailey, of Tomah, the five mile handicap in 17:14. The West Side Wheelmen have organized and elected the following officers: President, Louis Halm; vice-president, The Fond du Lac Road Race. Gustave Berg; secretary, Henry Halm; treasurer, William The Fond du. Lac road race on September 25, was Wolters; captain, George Schmidt. The club has rented won by Plank, who had a handicap of 45 seconds. He quarters at 501 North avenue and is rapidly increasing in covered the course, nine and one-half miles, in 28:12. members. Trelevan, who started from scratch, finished in fifth place, Will Have A Cycle Show. and made the course in 27:47, winning first time. The race The North Side club is now making arrangements to was witnessed by 5,000 people. give a local cycle show at its club house on Reservoir avenue, The Andrae Road Race. from December 30 to January 4. A committee of Louis The road race given by the employees of the factory of Pierron, P. A. Roth, W. W. Dusold, E. E. Harnish and H. Julius Andrae & Sons Co., on September 29, over the White- Pierron has been appointed to take charge of the matter, fish Bay course, was won by John Peterson, who had a and thej' report that the success of the show is already handicap of one and one-half minutes, and covered the assured from the number of applications for space at the course in 17.09. George Schmidt, scratch, won the time show which they have already received. All the local prize in 16 : 52. dealers will have exhibits. This is the first show of its kind that has been held in this city, and it will no doubt prove a Columbus Road Race. novelty. If it is received with favor by the local wheelmen The first time prize in the Columbus road race was it is very probable that a large show will be arranged here won by Albert Waltersdorf who rode ten miles in 32 :10. next year. This show will be mainly for local dealers, E. Blttmeuthal finished first in 34:35. though some outside firms will have space. North Side Team Race. New South Side Club. The first team road race ever conducted in this state The south side, which since the disbandment of the •was held on October 13, by the members of the North Side Mercury Cycling Club, has been without a club, is again club, over the triangular Silver Springs course. The dis represented.among local cycle organizations. The riders on tance was not quite ten miles. Only two teams started in that side of the river have organized what will be known the race. All started from scratch, the members of each as the South Side Cycling Club. The organization is nearly team starting fifteen minutes apart to prevent any bunch 100 strong and it is expected that next spring it will be one ing. From the fastest men in the race the club's next year's of the largest in the city. Wheelmen are daily joining and racing team will be selected. The restilt of the race is as arrangements are now being made to provide a program of follows: amusement for the winter. The following permanent FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. officers have been elected: Gustave Simmerling, president; H. Guderson 32:5(1 Henry Warnken 34:00 J. W. Warnken 33:69:30. Joseph Miller 38:01) E. A. Clifford, vice-president; William E. Milbrath, corres Bmll Buenger 30:55 Hugo Reiter 30:05 ponding secretary; Herman Helling, financial secretary; W.Hamman 37:50 Henry Pierron 37:30 Dr. Kellerman 41:30 Charles Dehn 40:14 John F. Reitzner, treasurer; George H. Bender,captain ; W. There were no accidents of any consequence, though G. Fry, first lieutenant; G. Steinkopf, second lieutenant; Hugo Reiter and a cow did collide on the course. Neither Gustave Simmerling, Joseph C. Cordes, Dr. Southwell, I. A., Reiter nor the cow were hurt. Lttndy, J. M. Connell, board of directors; Herman Win thers and Adolph Manasse, committee on club colors. Niagara Wheelmen's New Home. The Niagara Wheelmen, one of. the youngest clubs in Rex Reinertson's Steam Engine. the city, has secured a fine club house. The new home is at Eighteen year old Rex Reinertson, one of the speediest Twelfth street and North avenue in a three story building, riders in his class, has on exhibition at the Exposition a and the club is to occupy the upper two floors. The home steam engine and dynamo which he made and designed is well lighted and ventilated and will contain a gymnasium, himself. The engine is a half-horse power machine and has a reading room, a library and baths and lockers. The attracted much attention owing to the youthful designer quarters are among the finest in the city. of it. THE PNEUMATIC. Election Now In Progress. can be elected although it is expected that the division will The annual election of officers of the Wisconsin Division be entitled to five when the voting closes as it has now is now in progress, and during the next few weeks the mem within two or three of a thousand members. The candi bers will decide who shall conduct the affairs of the division dates are: S. J. Ryan, Appleton; S. C. Newman, Kenosha; for the ensuing year. The vote will be in progress from H. P. Andrae, Milwaukee; H.J. Baldwin, Kenosha; Geo. October 15 to November 15, and it is expected that the K. Mead, Sheboygan ; N. E. Lindquist, Marinette. contest will be spirited and that nearly every one of the 1,000 Another question to be voted upon will be the recom League members will vote. The ballots have already been mendation of Irvin F. Strauss, chairman of the racing mailed to the members and all that remains for them to do board, who at the state meet reported in favor of recom is to fill them out and return them. The following com mending to the League the abolition of Class B, and also mittee has been appointed to act as tellers of the vote: that the League only assume the control of pure amateur Henry Van Arsdale and W.B.Hopkins, of Racine, and H, J. racing. If the members think that this recommendation Paine.of Milwaukee. On ought to be made, who the evening of November ever represents the state 15 the committee will at the League meeting count the votes and will be instructed to do report the result to the so. The sentiment of officers of the division. the League members in This is the first year Wisconsin will also serve in the history of the as a guide for the state League that there has representatives to vote been a spirited contest upon when the question for office. While it is of classes is considered. desirable that the elec tion should be spirited, General News Notes. yet some of the tactics Louisville and Toledo that have been resorted are working bard for to by certain members the '96 meet. of the League, who were The Pope Manufac not successful in being- turing Company is pre nominated, have not paring to make road been approved of by the motors. majority of wheelmen in Harry Wright, the the state. An attempt cyclist and base ball was made to cast reflec enthusiast, died at Phil tion and suspicion on adelphia this month. some of the present officers but those efforts It is reported that failed and the projectors Titus and Cabanne will ofthe moveheaped upon next year join the pro THE THISTLE RACING TEAM. fessionals in England. themselves the wrath of J. W. WARNKEN. F. C. LEIMBACH. H. WARNKEN, members in all quarters. Parker H. Sercombe, Many letters were received by them and since then the formerly of Milwaukee, is arranging to have a large meet agitation has entirely died out. at Laredo. While it is impossible to say who will be elected, yet the New York Democrats and Pennsylvania Republicans sentiment seems to be strongly in favor of W. A. Brown for have come out for good roads in their platforms. chief consul. Dr. D. S. McArthur will have a strong follow Class B will probably be continued for another season. ing, but his declining to run when he was first asked has. If it is dropped riders of that class will be permitted to hurt his chances for election. The contest for secretary- choose between amateurism or professionalism Chairman treasurer is not so spirited and there is little doubt that Gideon says. M. C. Rotier will have an easy victory over his opponent' E. L. Spicer, if the members will take the proper interest. Dave Shafer is no longer Walter C. Sanger's trainer. Ben. Park will be unanimously chosen vice-consul. The Milwaukeean is again in charge of E. C. Dumbleton, The vote for state representatives will be interesting as who served as his trainer last year while he was with the six excellent men are up for election and but four of them Union people. THE PNEUMATIC. WHEELMEN IN PARADE. trouble was encountered on account of the jam of people. The Semi-Centennial Parade of Local Wheelmen Was a Success —Crowds The riders were only given a few feet of the road and the Were So Great That the Progress of the Riders Was Interfered car with the band made such slow progress in getting With—It is Estimated That There Were a,500 Riders in Line. through that stops had to be made frequently. It took the When the Semi-Centennial celebration was planned head of the parade over an hour to move from Eighth some time ago, it was agreed upon by the various commit street to the river. tees to hold a large cycle parade on the evening of October There was not a hitch in the arrangements, as far as the 16. It was given out that the parade was to be one of the wheelmen were concerned, and had they been given theright- features of the celebration. The wheelmen in whose care of- way, the pageant would have been the success of the cele the arrangements were placed worked with this object in bration. Directly behind the car and band came Captain view, and that they succeeded in what they undertook no Birkhaueser's 100 mounted soldiers, with their guns strap one doubts who saw the parade. That the turnout was ped across their backs and thousands of spectators for the the most interesting event of the celebration has been first time realized that the bicycle will soon become an im proved by thecrowds that gathered along the lineof march. portant implement of war. The soldiers rode four abreast, The hopes of the local cyclists to fully demonstrate their but later were obliged to ride in ranks of two, on account strength was realized, but their arrangements were sadly of the crowds. Then came Grand Marshal A. Cressy interrupted by the crowds which completely blockaded part Morrison and his aids, Spencer Ilsley, Frank T. Furlong, of the route and spoiled what would have been the finest Frank R. Bacon, Rollin B. Mallory, M. C. Rotier and pageant ever seen in the state. It is estimated that over Franklin T. Smith. Tbey were distinguished from the 2,500 wheelmen were in the procession, which was several others by a baud of wide red and white satin from the miles in length. right shoulder to the left hip. Before they had gone far on Long before the time appointed for the parade to move the main portion of Grand avenue it became their principal there were active scenes down town such as are onlyseen on duty to assist the officers in keeping the great crowd back, occasions like the celebration. Thousands of people which they succeeded in doing. Next to the marshals came streamed toward Grand avenue and Wisconsin street from a dozen wheelwomen, in charge of Marshal Geo. W. Peck, all parts of the city, and the sidewalks were so crowded Jr., seemingly to tell the crowds that there were more of "that the entire streets were used by pedestrians. Companies them to come later. Then came the parade proper, and in of college boys with tin horns paraded up and clown Grand the first division was the Milwaukee Wheelmen, the city's avenue and such boring of horns and trumpets has never oldest cycling organization. There were about sixty of the been heard here except on election nights. By eight o'clock members in line, dressed in white duck trousers and wearing the crowd of people completely blockaded Grand avenue white caps, and presenting a very fine appearance. The from Eighth street to the river, and Wisconsin street up as Wheelmen gave someideaof what was to be expected later, far as Jefferson street. It is estimated that between Jeffer in the line of floats and decorations, at least a dozen wheels son and Eighth streets no less than 150,000 people were and their riders being almost hidden from view by bunting assembled, and street car traffic was nearly suspended. and Chinese lanterns, swaying and flickering in the night Under such conditions the cyclists had no easy time in breeze, from gaily colored umbrellas or network of bamboo riding through the crowds. The police were unable to poles. The features of the Wheelmen's division were the handle the multitudes which continued to jostle and refused float, "Time and Progress," and Terry Andrae on a high to move and make room for the parade. wheel reminded the spectators of the days when he was The pageant was formed at.Twenty-ninth and Cedar champion. J. C. Wall was marshal of this division. streets, between 7 and 8 o'clock. During this time the The North Side club made a creditable showing. The marshals were kept busy arranging the divisions. Shortly club,was led by the Ladies' Auxiliary. The ladies wore after 8 o'clock all was in readiness for the start, and Grand white caps, decorated with the club color of blue. The Marshal A. Cressy Morrison gave the word, As the wheels were all decorated with bunting. None of the ladies pageant began to move down Grand avenue under the wore bloomers. The male members of the club represented electric lights and the glare of red fire, which residents a menagerie. There were wolves, bears, dogs and monkeys along the line of march lighted, a grand spectacle was in the line, Gerhard Aussem and Alexander Bunke repre presented. The parade moved down the boulevard without sented wolves on a tandem. Marshal Frank Lewis had any interruption until Twelfth street .was reached. Here a charge of this division. trolley car decorated with bunting and several hundred colored incandescent lights was met. The car contained The Badger Wheelmen are generally believed to have the Hartford Military Band and led the pageant. As the made the best showing as a club, though the judges awar car came in sight on upper Grand avemie a cheer went up ded the prize to the South Side club. The club members from the crowds down town. The parade then slowly wore white duck suits and caps and black stockings. moved down the avenue. At Eighth street.the first serious They rode two abreast and all had their machines finished THE PNEUMATIC. up in white. There were a number of interesting illumin more interference from the crowds, and the parade went on ated floats in the division, which was in charge of Marshal without interruption. "Many of the wheelmen, however, Samuel Pierce. had gotten tired of the delay and dropped out but fully The Niagara Wheelmen, in charge of Marshal Walter 1,000 rode all way around the route, which had been Cary, made a creditable appearance. The club was only mapped out by the marshals. recently organized, but theshowing itmade in the pageant, The following prizes were offered by theSemi-Centcnnial proves that it is prosperous. There were several floats in committee: the division. All the members were dressed in red sweat For the "best appearing male club of Milwaukee, $50 in cash. ers and wore gold colored jackets and red collars and caps. For the best appearing female club of Milwaukee, $50 in cash. For the best appearing out of the city male club, JlH) in cash. Then followed the Cream City Wheelmen, in charge of Mar For the best appearing out of the oity female club, $50 in cash. shal F. F. Zetteler, who had fifty men in command. They For the best float, $100 in cash if to a club, but in merchandise if to an Individual. For the second hest float, $50. wore an oriental costume, on the style of the Turks, with For the best decorated bicycle, stogie rider, a diamond medal, and red bloomers. medals for the second, third, fourth and fifth. Diamond medal for the most comical rider, and four other medals. Making the sixth division and composing the largest For the hest appearing school, a banner. body in the pageant, were the members of the South Side For the best-appearing school boy rider, a gold medal. Cycling Club, about 150 strong. The club was organized * The report of the judges who were appointed to award but three weeks ago, and since its organization, its member the prizes is as follows : ship has increased at a rapid rate. The riders were distin A. c. MORRISON, GRAND MARSHAL WHEELMEN'S PARADE, SEMI-OENTEN- KiAi". CELEBRATION. guished from the others by white caps and stockings. The Dear Sir: Thanking you for the unexpected honor of being appointed feature of the South Side club's part in the parade was the chairman of the judges of the parade o( wheelmen, I beg to say I appointed judges of the different subjects competing for prizes. Their "float, "1845, Progress, 1895." It was devised and taken decisions are as follows: in the parade by E. A. Clifford and I. Lundy. Its forward For the best appearing male Milwaukee club, awarded to the South Side club (the Badger's were a close second ) part consisted in a high grade wheel of today and repre No out of town male club competed. No out of town female club senting the figures " 1895." At the rear and giving the competed. meaningof "1845" was avelocipede. The name "Defender" First prize for best float, more than one bicycle to be used, but a tan dem to count In the competition, was awarded to "Time and Progress," was also> on the sides in big letters. The division was in Milwaukee Wheelmen. charge of Marshal Fred Rockwell. The seventh division in Second prize, for second best float, more than one bicycle to be used, charge of Marshal Geo. Moss was the West Side Cycling but a tandem to count in competition, was awarded to the Niagara Wheel men, for " lantern float." Club which was organized but a week before the parade. The The following awards were made for the best decorated bicycles: Business Men's division came next to the South Side Cycling First—Jason Church, fifty years' progress, represented hy canoe and steamboat. Club. It was in charge of Marshals W. Bloodgood and Second—Herman Gliddoy, of North Side Cycling Club, representing Frank Pingree, and had nearly 100 men in line. The East lire ladder. Side High School riders followed the business men and Third—Phil. Schaeffer, of North Side Cycling Club, representing sailboat. received an ovation for their victory at football over Fourth — G. Schweitzer, of North Side Cycling Club, representing Marquette College in the afternoon. There were also many illuminated umbrella. unattached riders among whom were college students, Filth—Schmitz, of Badger Wheelmen. Sixth—J. W. Warnken, Niagara Club. messenger boys and clerks. All rode decorated wheels and For the most comical riders the following awards were made: many carried Chinese lanterns. Marshal W. G. Birkhatieser First and second prize — Hoolihau combination. Ed. Both and Geo. Becker. had charge of the riders representing the Northwestern Third prize—Donkey with cat in c:ige, E. S. Potter. Mutual Life Insurance Company, while Timothy Higgins Fourth prize—to the biggest clown in white, nearest the head of the procession, Phil. Both. led his squad of forty-five Western Union messenger boys Fifth and sixth prizes—The two Zulus, J. W. Reilloy and C, D. Chase. dressed in full uniform, which was in charge of Marshal The award for the best appearing school was allowed for the East Side High School. Otto Dorner. It was impassible owing to the confusion and the crowd to make Miss Roth, a sister of Edward Roth, was the only lady any award as to tha best appearing schoolboy on decorated wheel. Very respectfully yours. rider who wore bloomers. She sat on a pneumatic sulky II. R, WILKINS. decorated with bunting and lanterns. The sulky, was Chairman. drawn by a tandem ridden by E, Harkins and M.S. O'Brien. The confusion also caused the judges to overlook the Ed. Roth and R. Becker represented "Mr. and Mrs. North Side ladies' auxiliary, but the executive committee O'Hoolihan" going to a picnic on a tandem. No less than has awarded it the $50 prize for the best.appearing city nine young O'Hoolihans were provided a seat somewhere on female club. the tandem, and the float caused much laughter. William The Badger Wheelmen have protested the awarding of Sanger and John Rappel were fat men dressed in gaudy the prize to the South Side club for making the best show colors. There were a number of other interesting floats ing as a club, Members of the former club believe that they and decorations. are entitled to the prize and the decision of the judges may After the line had reached the Pfister hotel there was no be changed, THE PNEUMATIC. THE D. D. WARNER COMPANY. ures of the machine is the novel name plate which the firm The Madison Cycle Firm Now in Full Operation—Arrangements Hove Been has designed and the adjustable handlebar, which is Mr. Made to Manufacture 5,000 Wheels. Warner's own invention. One and one-eighth inch tubing The D. D. Warner Company, at Madison, is now in full and Aurora hubs will be used. Besides the factory, the operation. All the machinery of the new firm has been company has opened offices and show rooms at 219, 221, placed in position and the plant is now one of the finest in 223 East Main street in Madison. The firm will occupy the northwest. The machinery has been furnished by the J. two stories, and its display of wheels and sundries will be S. & John Barnes one of the best in the state. ff _-*"""" "^ Company, Hill, D. D. Warner, who Clark & Com is now on his way to pany,and Gaines, the Pacific coast, and and is the best who reports a good and latest to be business, is "the presi found in any cycle dent and manager of > factory. A full the firm. He started force of experi in business in Bloom- enced men have ington, 111., where he • been put to work was the agent of the _ and the firm will Columbia, eight years be one of the most ago. He moved to active in the state Madison, still retain when the spring ing the agency, and to D. D. WAKNEH. President. trade opens, and this line was added the B. W. PARK, Vice-President. agents who have been put on the road are already send Andrae, Crawford, and Crescent. Mr. Warner is an old ing in large orders. member of the League, has been local consul for years, and The shops are well adapted for a cycle plant. The ma is now the official hadicapper. The officers of the company chine shop is 40x120 feet and is well lighted. An annex of are D. D. Warner, president; Ben. W. Park, vice-president;, 20 x 40 feet, two stories high, has been built, and is used as L. P. Holmes, secretary; C. B. Chapman, treasurer; Frank a carpenter shop and assembling room. Besides these there M. Wooton, attorney. Mr. Park, the vice-president of is another building 40- the company, is one of x 60 feet, which con- the popular and old , tains the enameling time members of the room, three ovens, League, having been brazing, nickel-plating unanimously re-elected and polishing and vice-consul of the Wis boiler rooms, as well consin Division L. A. as a wash room and W., at the last election. lockers for the men. He is a valuable man The entire factory is ,7 in the management and heated by steam and will be in charge of the electricity is used for down town sales de powerandlightingpur- partment. poses. Crocker doing to The firm contemp Cleveland. lates the manufacture Harry Crocker will of5,000 wheels fornext not be seen on the track year. The line will con again after he leaves it sist of a 22-pound WARNBR SPECIAL ROADSTER, WEIGHT 22 LBS. this season. .He has re roadster, a 24-ponnd signed his position with ladies' wheel; racers built to weight and a diamond and the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Company, and will soon drop frame tandem of from 35 to 40 pounds. The "War take up his residence iu Cleveland, where he will establish ner Special" is finished in mahogany enamel with mahog himself in business. Crocker is one of the most enthusiastic any finished rims. The firm will also manufacture a cyclists in the city, and by his retirement from the track a medium grade machine, with diamond and drop frame, valuable racing man will be missed. Edward Roth will which will be known as the "Madison." One of the feat succeed him in his position with the Telegram company. THE PNEUMATIC. fladison Cycling Notes. Why Bloomers Are Unpopular. A bicycle lamp exploded one night recently, damaging Henry P. Andrae is reported to have recently said that the rider's, front tire. the reason the bloomers are not popular in Milwaukee is D. D. Warner is now on a trip to the Pacific coast because everybody has become prejudiced on account of the introducing the '96 Warner Special. hideous costumes worn by some of the Chicago wheel- women who were seenintliis city during the summer. There Madison furnishes several very good specimens of are only fifteen or twenty women in the city who wear "bicycle faces," They are not the anxious watchful faces of bloomers. those who ride bicycles, but are the eager, longing faces of -those who wish they had bicycles to ride. To Build a Track. At a banquet of twenty-eight business men of Fond du It has been the desire of a number of the members of Lac, on October 2, at the Palmer House, it was decided to the Madison Cycling Club for some time past, to take a form an association which will purchase grounds for a club run to Eockford to visit Frank S. Horner, their last cycle track. The grounds will also be used as a base ball year's president. Recently an attempt was made to hold park and a grid iron for foot ball players. A committee this run during the absence of the captain, but it proved a was appointed to perfect plans. Prior to the banquet a failure. road race was held which was won by H. J. Yopp. Now, that the secretary of the Madison Cycling Club Waupaca Club's Officers. lias associated himself with THE PNEUMATIC and discon The Waupaca Cycling Club has elected the following tinued the publication of The Cyclist, the editor of the officers: President, E. H. Knapp; vice-president, George DeerBeld Enterprise gleefully informs his readers that "The Ghoca; secretary, Jeff Woodnorth; treasurer, Frank Madison Cyclist has already given up the ghost, and the Whipple. farmers will in the future have to rely on other sources for information concerning the need of macadamized roads." Rode Into The River. This enterprising editor is one of the kind who is so alaiTned At Sheboygan on October 9, Peter Smeiss, a teamster, lest the wheelmen should be successful in securing better was riding home on his wheel and did not notice that the roads,that he invariably has a fit upon seeing an argument bridge was open. He came along on Eighth street at a in favor of good roads, and spasmodically attempts to good clip and rode into the water. Not being able to swim express himself in words several sizes too largefor his mental he drowned before assistance could come to him. calibre. The Enterprise is the same little organ that Chased a Bloomer Girl. contained the remarkable statement that "the necessity for A Superior bloomer girl cut a great clash on the after Tjetter roads is fast decreasing." noon of October 5 by appearing ou the streets in light The Tychoperah Cycling Club, organized last summer bloomers. She rode along undisturbed until a policeman by twelve of Madison's fair riders, is now making a special spied her and gave her a chase. He asked her to dismount effort to increase its membership. The members have been and follow him, but the bloomer girl ignored the order and given the use of the Madison Cycling Club's rooms for their rode down the street as fast as she could. The policeman meetings, receptions and parties, and the club has taken new then ran after her but she outrode him. Three other police life. The Madison Cycling Club too, is making preparations officers took up the chase but she fooled them all by riding for a series of entertainments, by which to secure new up a side street, members as well as -to retain the old ones. It is a noticeable Riding on the Lake Beach. fact that the club is more active during the social season, Eiders living along the lake shoi-e above Milwaukee, and it is at this time that it has the largest membership, have enjoyed one of the best courses iu the country at times The want of a good track is the cause of a lack of interest during the summer. They have ridden on the beach for in cycling affairs during the summer season, and to the repu ta- miles. The sand, near the water's edge, makes it good tion of the club as entertainers, and for sociability and good riding after a storm,by packing the sand smooth find hard. fellowship, is due the success and prosperity of the club The scenery along the shore is pretty and during the season during the winter months. many riders have made trips as long as fifty miles. Several She Is Opposed to Bloomers. Milwaukee riders have gone to Sheboygan by this route during the last few months. Miss Elizabeth Jordon, editor of the woman's and child ren's department of The New York World, is spending Wheelmen Played Base Ball. several weeks in the city visiting her parents. In an inter The North Side and the Badger Wheelmen clubs recently view several days ago, Miss Jordon expressed herself as dis played a game of base ball at Athletic park, which was won pleased with the way in which women ride the bicj _le, and by the former club hy a score of 0 to 0, Owing to darkness thought that the fair sex ride to excess. She thinks that only five innings were played. Thomson pitched for the Ijloomers are immodest and inartistic. North Side and Shape for the Badger Wheelmen, THE PNEUMATIC. May Engage An Instructor. Secretary Bassett each week. Milwaukee now leads the The North Side club is considering the advisability of list of members with 169, against 163 for La Crosse and. engaging an instructor for its gymnasium. Now, that the 123 for Marinette. riding season is almost over, the members are beginning to Across the Continent Awheel. look after gymnastic work again, and a number of the mem Charles Rush, sporting editor of the San Francisco bers think that it would be to the advantage of the club to Chronicle, who is traveling awheel across the continent hire an instructor. The Nonpareil Boat Club has submitted without a penny in his pocket, was in the city recently. He a proposition to the club, that if the members will engage has traveled 9,600 miles in two months and ten days, and an instructor, the rowing club will join in a body. The busi after leaving here went to Chicago and thence to New York, ness men of the club are especially in favor of an instructor. where he is now about due. He will return to San Francisco Preparing for Winter Amusements. by way of New Orleans and expects to arrive home by All the clubs in the city are beginning to make arrange January 1, 1896. He was taken care of in the city by ments for the winter entertainment of its members. Some members of the Press Club and by the local division officers. of the clubs have already partly mapped out aline of amuse He is a member of the League of American Wheelmen. ment. The Niagara Wheelmen have arranged several balls, During his trip he has not met with any serious accidents. and the Milwaukee Wheelmen will hold its usual parties as Twice Across the Continent. soon as the cold weather sets in. The North Side club also Merton Duxbury, of Providence, R. I., has twice crossed will have several entertainments, as well as the Badger the continent on a wheel. He rides M. & W. tires and Wheelmen. The plans of the South Side club, which was recently rode through 1,500 miles of pease-wood and cacti organized the other evening, are yet incomplete, but the- officers will take care to provide plenty of amusement for the members. JTay Kill the Ordinance. Never before have cyclists in this city made such a determined fight on any legislation as is now being made on the bicycle ordinance which has been introduced in the council by Alderman Starkweather. Though the measure has been pending for nearly three months, it is no nearer a law than it was when the Sixteenth ward alderman drew up the measure. Every club in the city has passed a resolu tion condemning the measure and the division officers are hard at work trying to defeat the proposed ordinance. Petitions arc being sent oi.it to all League members and the aldermen are being flooded with written protests from wheelmen in all parts of the city. Judging from present appearances, it is probable that the meastire will be killed. Joseph Schmidt's Long Trip. Joseph Schmidt, a member of the Niagara Wheelmen, has just returned from an extended eastern trip, in which in the West and only punctured his tire three times. With he rode 2,422 miles on his wheel. He left the city on the aid of a quick-repair outfit he had no trouble in mending August 10 and headed for Chicago and then for Fort the tire. Wayne and later to Columbus. After a stop of several The Factory at Oregon, Wis. days he rode to Wheeling, ,W. Va., arid then headed for The Badger Cycle Company with factory at Oregon and Hagerstown, Harper's Ferry, Baltimore and Washington. ohicesin Madison arc making great preparations for the '96 After spending five days in Washington he went to Phila trade. Mr. A. W. Marvin, the secretary of the company delphia and then to New York, after which he started back states that he expects tlie factory to turn out at the very to Milwaukee, stopping at Albany, Utica, Syracuse, lowest estimate 2,000 wheels, and that more than a thou Rochester, Niagara Falls and Detroit enroute. sand can be placed at once. C. A. Lathrop is the active Milwaukee in the Lead. manager at the factory and he has his plans welllaid for The race between Milwaukee, La Crosse and Marinette extending their output. The '96 model of the "Badger" for League members, during the past few months has been will be lYs inch tubing throughout except the head, which spirited. Milwaukee and La Crosse have been especially will be 1% inch. The company had a stand at the State active, and a number of new members have been sent to Fair grounds. THE PNEUMATIC. To Make Railroads Responsible. Brief Trade Notes. Though the agreement among the various railroads in The Chief Cycle Company has opened a new factory on the west, to charge a fee for carrying bicycles on trains, Second and Sycamore streets. went into effect on September 15, no charge for the trans Beuzemaker Brothers attended the St. Louis fair to portation of wheels as baggage has yet been made in this cousumate a big deal of wheels. state. The cause of the delay is said to be due to the re, fusal of one of the western, roads to adopt the rule, and William Bremer fractured his shoulder on October 16, the other railroad companies fearing that the wheelmen while riding near South Milwaukee, by the front fork of his will show favors to this road, are holding off until the road wheel breaking. can be induced to charge a fee. A movement has recently The Mystic Cycle Works at Mukwonago is preparing for been started in the east, whereby the charging of a small a large spring trade. The company had a stand at the fee by the railroads is favored. The bicycle is not looked Exposition and made a creditable showing. upon with favor by baggage men, and it is a common Harry Crocker, of the Telegram team, as soon as the occurrence for wheels to be broken while in the care of season closes, will leave the employ of the Telegram Cycle train employees. It is said wheelmen are using then-in Manufacturing Company and move to Cleveland where he fluence everywhere to throw business to the railroad com will establish himself in business. pany which has kept out of the com Harry Warner is on a trip to the bination of charging for the transport Pacifkeoast selling Andrae wheels while ation of wheels. J. C. Sehmidtbauer has gone south on The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul a similar errand. Several more men will See road has decided on the rate it will be put on the road by the Julius Andrae charge cyclists for carrying wheels, but that & Sons Company on about January 1. the rule hasnot gone into effect. Charge nail? will be made at excess baggage rates, The Andrae's New Factory. and will be governed by the amount the Remove the nail and inject our special rubber solution, which, The Julius Andrae & Sons Co., which wheelman has paid for his ticket. If $5 pressed down, picks up the patch ing ply in the inner tube, closing recently leased a new factory on the or less, the charge for his wheel will be the puncture.. That's all. The quickest, least expensive and south side, has taken possession of its 25 cents; if $7, it will be 50 cents; if ONLY PERMANENT quick-repair device. Send lor our "quick-repair" quarters. The factory is the old machine $11 or $12, the charge will be 75 cents; pamphlet. More Morgan „ Wright tiros arc shops formerly used by Filer & Stovvell if $25, there will be a tax of $1,50. usod than all others combined. Nearly all road riders prefer them. at Florida and Clinton streets, and is At the rates laid down, awheehnan So do most racing men. They hold nearly one hundred worlds well adapted for a bicycle plant. It has takinghis wheel with him to the Pacific records. a floor space of about 20,000 feet, and coast will have to pay $5. The same MORGAN & WRIQHT; CHICAQO. when all the machinery is put in place it tariff will be charged for tricycles and will be among the best works in the baby carnages. None of these vehicles country. The old plant on Second street will be carried at less than 25 cents. was entirely too small for the business n -,r. ._.... J. 1*1 4 4i T i • A/r c i. • n of the company. The first floor of the old factory is beintr It is reported that the Jenkins Manufacturing Company, ir "•"'_ of Sheboygan, contemplates manufacturing bicycles. The tuincd lnto offices and the entire store will he usee] as a company has one of the largest machine shops iu the state, sales-room. The two buildings are to be connected, and and the plant is well adapted for a bicycle works. when all improvements have been made tlie firm will have offices and sales-rooms not surpassed by any cycle house in the west. The new factory, cut of which we present here with, is 200 feet deep with an L on the rear, of 100 feet, directly on the Chicago & St. Paul railroad, a convenience which hashing been looked forward to by the company in order to ship wheels. with less trouble. The new plant will have a dynamo with a capacity for 300 lights and a duplex set of rt.|t'. power generators. F. Terry Andrae will be mana ger in charge and George Peters the mechanical expert. Sparta Wheelmen linye organized and will shortly become an L. A. W, organization. THE PNEUMATIC. The Thistle The Thistle THE LIGHTEST Jjjt Q „j_ * ^ v A few Thistle seeds sown • J. W. Warnken on a This now will bring forth much : tle rode a hundred miles business in '96. Procure \ in 6:24 actual riding time. the agency and be in line. This being state record. * -k it TV TV >* FASTEST STRONGEST Excelsior Supply Co. ?_____£=Wabas h Ave= Chicago. J. W. WARNKEN, MILWAUKEE AGENT 703-705 Winnebago Street The Thistle The Thistle 95 WISCONSIN ST. Ordered A Lighting Plant. DR. W. S6H_flG_R, MILWAUKEE. At Kenosha the demand for wheels at the Sterling Cycle Works has become so great that the firm is preparing to *^^ =DE_STTIST increase its facilities for working a double turn, and it has CROWN and BRIDGE WORK a Specialty. Vitalized Air. placed a contract for a complete lighting plant, including 600 incandescent and 25 arc lights. TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Filled Without Pain by a New Method. All Work Guaranteed. A track is now being built at Waterloo and wheelmen there propose to hold a large race meet next summer. Betsey Jane On Wheels. F. C. H AEFER'S H. E. Brown is the author of "a tale of the bicycle craze" as he termsit. It is printed in book form with paper cover, bearing the title of "Betsey Jane on Wheels," and is published in monthly serials. The story illustrates the STUDIO common fever which every son, daughter, father and mother Cor. Milwaukee and Mason Streets becomes blest with iu these modern days of independent MILWAUKEE locomotion. It is written in a quaint and humorous strain, We Photograph and is intended to serve as a diversion from the general Everything Under the Sun literature published on cycling. It can-be obtained for, fifty cents from W. B. Conkey, publisher, Chicago. Among the latest cranks who have taken the fever and How's This I are now trying to- learn to ride a wheel are Prank Cole We offer One Hundred Dollars Beward for any case of Catarrh that can not "be cured "by Hall's Catarrh Cine i and Harry Qt.in. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O.—W.e, the undersigned, have known V. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and we believe Mm perfectly honor able in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga The new bicycle song, "Have You a Wheel," which is tion made by their firm. WEST _ TKUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, ,0. 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It is much good has been demonstrated by the large amount.of stated that all the western roads have recently discussed new road machinery which is being purchased. In nearly the question and have reached an agreement which is to every county in Wisconsin roads are being improved. Some take effect on that date. The minimum rate to be charged of the farmers are buying road machinery at their personal will be 25 cents for a trip of 100 miles or less. Distances expense while many are clubbing together and buying over 100 miles will be charged accordingly. It will cost 60 machinery. cents to ship a bicycle from Milwaukee to St. Paul and Bicycle Ordinance Not Yet Passed. Minneapolis. In addition to the charging of a rate for carrying the wheel, a regular storage charge will be made There has been so much guessing as to the fate of the by all roads. This class of baggage will be held at all so-called bicycle ordinance which has been pending before stations, awaiting orders of owners, for twenty-four hours the council for over a year and a half, that the aldermen free of charge. For the second twenty-four hours a charge themselves now do not know whether the measure will be of 25 cents will be made and must be collected by baggage killed or become a law. It was expected that at the last agents, with 10 cents for each subsequent twenty-four meeting of the council the measure, would come up and be hours. This will have a tendency to keep baggage rooms finally disposed of but the aldermen again showed a dispo of the various roads clear of wheels, something they have sition to put the action off to a time when wheelmen are been unable to do for years, as wheels have been cared for not quite so alert. The measure has passed its third free of charge and many wheelmen have left their wheels in reading. It now comes up for final adoption or rejection. these quarters for days and sometimes weeks at a time. When the ordinance passed the third reading there seemed General baggage officials state that the decision to to be little doubt that it would become a law. Since then charge for carrying wheels and that class of articles will be the outlook has changed considerable,however. Wheelmen a great relief to railroads. During the past three years, have been fighting the measure continuously since its intro they say, the increase of business in the free transportation duction by Alderman Starkweather, but during the past few of bicycles alone has been something startling. Frequently weeks every club in the city has passed several sets of resolu roads have been compelled to haul extra baggage cars on tions demanding that the measure be killed. So vigorous certain trains for the accommodation of bicycles, and in a fight have the wheelmen set up that aldermen now are many instances trunks, regularly checked, have been undecided about the measure and it begins to look as if the crowded out by wheels. The eastern roads have been ordinance will be allowed to die in the council. One of the charging for bicycles the same as for excess baggage, for a worst features of the measure was discovered last week. 3'ear or two, and in self protection western roads have been Wheelmen have just observed that no provision is made for compelled to adopt similar rules. When this rule goes into holding road races in the city. If the ordinance becomes a effect all wheels will be checked and will be delivered only on law as it is at present all road races will have to be changed presentation of checks and the payment of the cost of which will greatly inconvenience the riders. It would be iu transportation. The companies will undoubtedly get up a direct violation of the ordinance for a rider to finish at arace regular coupon book, the same as is issued for excess in the city at a rate faster than ten miles an hour. baggage, which will be sold at a stipulated price and coupons taken for the baggage when presented. Figures On The Bicycle Output. A trade paper has solicited the opinions of the leading The Sheridan Drive Again. bicycle manufacturers of the country as to the number of Agitation for theextention of the Sheridan drive from bicycles manufactured in America during 1895, and the the state line to this city has again been begun. For the probable output for 1896. The responses, which are from past few weeks the officers of the Wisconsin League for the leading manufacturers of the country, place the output Good Roads have been at work among the property for 1895 anywhere from 400,000 to 750,000, and that'of holders between here and the southern state boundary and 1896 from 600,000 to 1,000,000. A fair average of these all along the proposed route of the drive great interest has opinions would bring the prophecy for 1896 to near 750,000 been awakened. The newspapers have taken up the matter wheels. The general opinion is that the prices will remain and columns of space are being devoted to the subject. about the same as 1895. The fear is expressed by some The officers of the good roads league propose to arouse manufacturers that the business will be overdone, especially enough interest in the matter so that at the next session of inthecheaper grades, although production will be restricted the legislature the people along the route of the drive will somewhat by the inability to obtain material. No fear is demand the passage of bills providing for the extention. expressed in any quarter of there being any falling off hi the At: Racine and Kenosha the authorities have taken the demand because of a waning interest of the public, THE PNEUMATIC. ASSOCIATED CYCLING CLUBS. to draft the constitution was instructed to drawit on these Tbe Preliminary Steps for Its Organization Have been Taken and there Is lines and as soon as the committee is ready to report No Longer Any Doubt that It Will Become a Successful another meeting will be called and a permanent organiza Association. It now seems certain that an Associated Cycling Club, tion will be effected. In the meantime all the delegates will on a sound and firm basis, will be organized here shortly. report the proceeding of the preliminary meeting to their The preliminary steps have already been taken and judging clubs and the clubs will then further instruct their delegates from the harmony and enthusiasm a permanent organiza if there are any other recommendations to make. tion will be perfected at the next meeting. All the leading Before adjourning, Henry P. Andrae brought up the clubs in the city will be represented in the association. question of applying for the next state meet in this city. The agitation for an association was started several The place for holding the next state meet will be decided weeks ago by the officers of the Badger Wheelmen, who upon at a meeting of the division officers next month. Mr. sent out letters to all the clubs inviting their co-operation. Andrae said that it was a number of years since the state At the meetings of the clubs it was thoroughly discussed. meet had been held here and he was of the opinion that the All organizations realized that something on that line association ought to make an effort to secure it. At the ought to be done and resolutions were passed and delegates next meeting of the delegates this matter will probably be to a general meeting were appointed. The first meeting of decided upon, the delegates was held on November 13 at the club rooms P. H. Sercombe No Longer an Editor. of the Badger Wheelmen. At the preliminary meeting the Parker H. Sercombe, formerly of this city, is no longer following delegates were present: Badger Wheelmen, P. PI. an editor. When he left the city he went to Laredo, Tex., Cambier, W. A. Kx'asselt, 0. C. Baumgaertner; North Side where he later became an editor of The Times. He has club, G. Aussem, A. Bunke, L, Pierron; Cream City Wheel severed his connection with the paper and hereafter will men, R. Wittig, G. G. Gertz, E. J. Ludwig; Milwaukee devote his time to mining interests. Of course he will Wheelmen, H. P. Andrae, F. J. Morawetz; South Side club, incidentally keep his eye on bicycle racing. While in Laredo, G. Simmerling, F. W. Huennekens, E. A. Clifford. A number Parker did much to promote an interest in cycling. of other clubs iu the city have not had time to elect Figuring On an Indoor Meet. delegates but as soon as the organization is perfected they will join the association. There is some talk among the clubs of holding a large The details of the association were all minutely dis indoor meet at the Exposition building on Thanksgiving cussed but no action was taken except to appoint a com Day, but it is very doubtful if the meet will be arranged. mittee to draft a constitution. This committee will consist Recently the Milwaukee Wheelmen figured on the meet but of W, A. Krasselt, R. Wittig, A. Bunke, F. W. Huennekens the idea has since been abandoned, Nowthe Badger Wheel and F. J. Morawetz, each club being re.pi-esented on the men have the matter under consideration. While the committee. It was. feared that there might be a dispute as attendance at an indoor meet would no doubt be large yet to the plan of representation but this question was settled the expenses are heavy. A new track would have to be without a dissenting opinion, all delegates agreeing that built and this would necessitate the outlay of several each club should have an equal voice in the association hundred dollars. regardless of its membership. It was decided that the Hay Have a Cycle Show. various clubs in the association should elect three delegates There is a possibility that a large cycle show may be each. As the Mercury club and the Niagara Wheelmen will arranged in this city during the winter. The matter has probably join the association it is likely that the total t'epre- been laid before several of the large local manufacturers sentation in the new organization will be twenty-one. The and dealers and all seem to look favorably on the project. outlay of all expenses of the association will be assumed by The matter is being pushed by the Ethical Society. The the various clubs according to the membership of each society now controls the large building at 558 Jefferson organization. As a basis for figuring the share of the street and has good quarters for holding a show. The expenses the secretary of each club will furnish the number expenses of holding such an exhibit are now being investi of members in the organization and the assessments will gated and if they are not too high it is probable that the; be figured accordingly. In voting in the organization the show will be held in the near future. If it is determined unit vote among the delegates will not prevail, but each upon to go on with the scheme all the cycle clubs in the city delegate will cast his vote as he wishes, irrespective of what will be asked to co-operate. The leading manufacturers in the other delegates of his club may think. It has been the country will be invited to exhibit and there is no doxibt decided that any club with a membership of twenty-five or that the show will attract a good deal of attention. An more, in good standing, and which has been in existence exhibition of this kind, if it is properly conducted, ought to more than six months, shall be eligible to join thcorganiza- pay well, Cycle shows in other cities have been successfully tion, providing it secures the vote of three-fourths of the conducted and there is no good reason why one could not delegates present at the meeting. The committee appointed be held in Milwaukee as well. THE PNEUMATIC. Wheelmen's Annual flinstrel Show. Bicycles Hurt Hackmen. The Milwaukee Wheelmen have decided to hold their Jack Eager, Milwaukee's veteran hackman, recently annual minstrel show shortly before the holidays this year. said that the bicycle had clone more to harm the hack busi The exact time has not been decided upon but it will be held ness than any other invention. He said that the present at the new Pabst theater. The following members have dullness in his business was almost entirely due to the been appointed to arrange for the show: W. L.White, wheel, and that it did more harm to hackmen than the general manager; George L. Bartels, assistant manager; street cars. He stated that many wealth}^ people who here E. H. Nenstadtl, treasurer; E. Fielding, secretary; Henry tofore took carriage rides in the summer now owned bicycles P. Andrae and F. J. Morawetz advertising agents; W. B. and took rides into the country on their cycles instead. Masecar, master of properties; R. P. Wheeler, musical The North Side Cycle Show. director. The show this year will no doubt surpass all previous entertainments which the Wheelmen have arranged. The North Side club is making active arrangements for The minstrel shows of the Wheelmen have always been its cycle show which will be held during the third week in popular, especially with the cyclists of the city. This year January. The space at the club house has nearly all been more interest will be taken because of the enormous growth taken by local manufacturers and agents, and the success of in cycling. It is proposed to make the entertainment better the exhibit is already assured. All the local clubs are taking than ever and members of the club are now racking their an interest in the coming show and nearly every wheelman brains for original local "gags." in the city will probably visit the exhibit while it is open. The ladies' auxiliary of the club is also taking considerable A Challenge From Waukesha. interest in the matter. The Waukesha Wheelmen have challenged the Milwau kee Wheelmen to play pool. The stipulations are that the Serious Charges Preferred. match consists of 600 points, 100 points to constitute a Charles D. Edeler, who was formerly a foreman in the game, and the games to be played alternately in Waukesha factory of the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Company, is and Milwaukee. Each team will consist of six men. S. S. nowawaitingtrial on the charge of larceny. If the charges Cramer, J. R. Church and W. B. Masecar have been against him are proven Edeler is a thief of no small caliber. appointed as a committee by the Milwaukee club to com He is charged with stealing enough material to start a small plete arrangements for the tourney. sized bicycle plant on the west side. Several months ago Edeler formed a partnership with a man named Sirsch to Will Not Hire an Instructor. manufacture wheels. According to Sirsch the latter was to It is not likely that the North Side club will hire an furnish the necessary capital to run the plant, while Edeler instructor for its gymnasium. The Nonpareil Boat Club agreed to furnish the material needed to make the wheels. recently submitted a proposition to the club that if an The two partners opened a small factory on First Street instructor was hired during the winter they would join near Garfield avenue, and were doing nicely when Edeler them in a body. The officers of the cycling club have came under suspicion. He learned that the police were figured on the expense of having an instructor and have about to arrest him on the charge of stealing material for decided that it is not advisable to accept the proposition of wheels from the Telegram company, so he fled from the city. the Nonpareils. It is thought that the hiring of an He was traced to St. Louis where he was arrested and instructor would necessitate the outlay of a larger amount brought back to Milwaukee for trial. His home is at 1286 of money than the club at present is in a condition to bear. First street. Bicycles for Mail Carriers. Could Not Get Pacemakers. In some cities in the east mail carriers who have routes Henry Zerbel of the Telegram team did not go against on the outskirts of the city have been mounted on bicycles. the 100 mile track record this fall as was expected he would. It is reported that bicycles may be introduced in the mail Originally, the trial had been set during theSemi-Centennial service in some cities in the west. Superintendent A. W. celebration, on October 16, but the sanction which Chair Marche, of the free delivery department of the postal service man Gideon was asked to grant did not arrive and the trial at Washington, is now making a tour of inspection of the had to be postponed because there were not enough Class principal cities in the country. He is said to be highly in B pace-makers in the city and Class A men did not dare to favor of using bicycles for carriers and in several eastern pace Zerbel, who is a Class B rider, until a special sanction cities he has recommended their adoption. When Superin had been secured from the racing board. On October 21 tendent Marche visits Milwaukee he will look over the the special sanction arrived, setting October 23 as the day routes on the outskirts of the city, and it is probable that forsaking the trial. The time for making the necessary he will order some of the carriers to be mounted on wheels. arrangements was then so short that the attempt was The only drawback that there is to the bicycle is that in abandoned because the arrangements could not all be the winter and in rainy weather it can not be used. completed. THE PNEUMATIC. MAY BECOME A PROFESSIONAL. center; F. Bours, right guard; A. Richards, left guard; E. Walter C. Sanger Says His Brother, William P., Will Probably Desert Class Munkwitz,right tackle; E. Krueger, left tackle; L. Wagner, B Next Season. right end; George Chapin, left end; W. Keating, quarter Walter C. Sanger, while in the city recently, stated that back; E. Reinke, left halfback; Con Reinke, right halfback, his younger brother, William F., will probably become a and W. Schroeder, full back. The substitutes are Cramer, professional rider next year. Walter is very hopeful as to Parks and "Bumpus" Jones. the ability of his brother. He says that he thinks William New Track at the Baseball Park. is built far better for riding than he himself is and that he The directors of the Milwaukee Baseball Club are consi gives promise of developing great speed if put into the dering the advisability of buildinga bicycle track at the new hands of a good trainer. He is well pleased with the work base hall park at Lloydand Sixteenth streets. Theexpenseof of his brother this year and is confident that he will im such an enterprise is now being determined and if the direct prove next year. ors decide that it will he a paying investment, in their Speaking of the past season, Walter is well satisfied opinion, a first class track will be built in the spring. There with what he has done. He did not net as much cash as will be a number of race meets in the city next season and did Tyler, who cleared about $5,000, but he says that he all would no doubt be held on this track as its proposed did much better than if he had stayed in Class B. He has location is central. been paying all his traveling expenses and the salary for a trainer since he became a professional because he was Prizes Awarded to Clubs. not under contract to ride for any manufacturer. His The awarding of prizes offered in the Semi-Centennial expenses have been from $400 to $500 a month. He does parade has caused some trouble but it has now nearly been not think that Johnson cleared as much as Tom Eck is straightened out. All the prizes have been awarded with trying to make the public believe. Speaking of some of the exception of the $25 offered to the club having the Johnson's records, he also stated that he believed they had largest representation in line. At the time some of the been made with slow watches and that Johnson had awards were protested, and the executive committee investi practically admitted as much to him. He is thoroughly gated the decision but no changes resulted in the awards. disgusted with the manner in which the public has been That for the largest representation, however, has not yet treated by Eck and Johnson during the season. Sanger been decided by the executive committee, but the matter says they advertised races against time and when the date will be settled as soon as Chief Consul A. Cressy Morrison came around Johnson was always sick and some third class returns from Atlanta, Ga., where he is attending the expo rider was substituted to try and break a world's record. sition. The prizes which have been awarded are as follows: Host appearing male clul), SCO, South Side club; best appearing He is very bitter in his denunciation of Eck and thinks that woman's club, 8TO, Indies' auxiliary, North Side oiub; best float, $100, if the latter does not stop "fairing" he will soon make Milwaukee Wheelmen; second prize, $50, Niagara Wheelmen. Medals for best decorated bicycles, awarded as follows; Jason Church, Johnson a back number with the public and will kill profes first prize, a diamond medal; Herman Glaettli, second prize; Phillip sional racing. Schaefor, third prize; Henry J. Sclimltos, fifth prize, and J. W. Warnken, sixth prize. Sanger does not think that Class B will be abolished Awards for the most comical riders: E. Koth and George Becker, just yet but he says that professional riding will grow next first prize, a diamond medal; E, S. Potter, second prize; Philip Roth, third prize, and J. W. itoilly and A. a. Davis, tour a prize. year. He asserts that Stearns, Sterling, Spalding and the Banner for the best appearing school club, awarded to the east side Syracuse people are trying to down all professionals by high school. Medal for tho best flocoratefl wheal among the school riders, awarded refusing to hire them, but he believes that if Bald and to Ernest Parr of the east side high school. Cooper can be induced to join their ranks that the manu Milwaukee's Wheel Industry. facturers will have to come to time. He is of the opinion Recently, Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier was asked that the combination that the four companies have formed by the publishers of a trade directory to compile statistics against the professional riders will not affect them arid that showing the number of men who are employed in the cycle they will find other manufacturers to work for. industry in this city. A few years ago there was not a Sanger is in good condition, He looks healthy and dozen men in the business in Milwaukee. Now the number strong and apparently has recovered from all effects of his will probably reach about 600. All the local plants are recent illness. He' stated that his sickness had greatly now in full operation. At the Andrae plant from 100 to interfered with his work this season but that next year he 150 men are employed, at the Telegram works about 75 to expected to do better work than ever. His old trainer, 100 men find employment, at the Meiselbaeh factory from Dumbleton will probably remain with him next season. 150 to 175, at the Bolte factory from 30 to 50, and the re Badger Wheelmen Foot Ball Team. mainder are distributed among the smaller works in the The Badger Wheelmen have organized a foot ball team city. Besides this number in the city there are about 1,000 and are ready to accept challenges from the North Side more at work in factories in the state. It is estimated that Cycling Club or the Milwaukee Wheelmen, the latter pre at all factories and stores where bicycles are made and ferred, The team lines up as follows: A, Bingenheimer, handled in the state nearly 2,000 people find employment. THE PNEUMATIC. .South Side Club Prosperous. ization and make it one of the strongest clubs in the city. There are many riders on thesouthside and that part of the The growth made hy the South Side Cycling Club since city ought to be able to support two organizations. At a its organization has been remarkable. During the past two meeting of the Mercury club recently it was decided to have months that it has been in existence it has enrolled, over weekly discussions on all subjects of interest to wheelmen, 150 wheelmen, most of them residents of the south side, such as good roads, bicycle legislation, hygienic costumes, and some of them prominent local business men. The credit etc. These subjects will no doubt renewinterest in the club's able showing which the club made in the Semi-Centennial affairs and every thing will be done to awaken a new spirit parade, brought the club into prominence. With the money of friendliness among all the members. it realized by winning several prizes and with what was raised among all the members the club has been able to To Organize a Cycle Band. rent pleasant quarters, at the corner of Reed street and The Niagara Wheelmen have decided to organize a National avenue, in the Deuster block, where meetings are bicycle band. A number of members of the club are musi being held regularly. The club is now beginning to direct cians, and these will soon begin to practice playing, while its attention to racing affairs for next year. It is not im riding wheels. This will be a novelty for Milwaukee, which probable that it will conduct a large road race from Racine can then lay claim to having what only one or two other to this city during the summer. This course was chosen by cities in the country possess. the Mercury club last year, and the race was well attended. If the South Side club decides to conduct this race next Wheelmen's Football Team. year, an effort will be made to induce the Racine Wheelmen The Milwaukee Wheelmen have organized a football to co-operate in the event, and in this way it will probably team with the following players : ' Name, and Position. Wt. Ht. become one of the largest road races of the season. The Church, 1..0 1B5 5 8H course is twenty-five miles and over fairly good roads. Fleming, 1. t loo 5 VA W. _•. White, 1. g 180 5 7}i The club ha£ adopted the following club cry : Sehmidtbauer c. r .- 204 511% Andrae, r. g 103 6 1 Slss—Boom! Slss—Boom! Bartels, r. t _B7 59 Siss—Boom! Bah! Carroll, r. e - 157 010 South Side Cyclists! Landauer, q. b 154 5 9^ Eahl Kan! Rah! Capt. Neilson, v. h 161 5 S% Recently, the club held a lantern parade as a demon Adams, 1. h ....15tt !> 8 Howie, f.b 17a fi svi stration, after it won several prizes in the Semi-Centennial Substitutes— Eiring, Morawetz, Haven, Neustadtl, parade. Nearly all of the club members turned out with Stumis, Mendel, Anderson, Simonds and Sullivan. decorated wheels, and the riders paraded through all the Capt. Neilson announces that the team is ready to play leading streets on the south side. Every rider carried a any team in the city, on'any Saturday. lantern. The club has arranged a number of sociables for the winter, and the members will find plenty amusement Using Bicycle Carts Now. about the club room to occupy their attention during the At the banquet of the Wisconsin Leaguefor Good Roads cold weather. one of the speakers remarked that the time was not far off At a recent meeting of the club the following officers when the horse and buggy would be a thing of the past, and committees were appointed : Captain, W. G. Fry; first This prediction in part is already coming true, for light lieutenant, R. J. Steinkopf; second lieutenant, J. C. Cruice; deliveries of goods can now be made on bicycle carts. An racing board, J. C. Cordes, F. W. Huennekens, John Muss east side shoe dealer has just received the first cart in this and R. B. Barlow; entertainment committee, Hem-y Stoltz, kind in the city. It consists of a tricycle on which a light B, E. Saveland, H. G. Winters and Joseph Dalrymple; house wooden box has been- neatly built between the two rear committee, William Smith ; press committee, George Muss, wheels. This box holds from thirty to forty pairs of shoes W, W. Rowland and W. E. Milbrath. and the cart can easily be propelled by a boy even when heavily loaded. There are only a few carts of this kind in Mercury Club Not Disbanded. use in the country, but the time is not far off when the It seems that the reports that the Mercury club had vehicle will be used extensively for light delivery work. It disbanded on the south side, were a little previous. would not be at all surprising if in the future all manufac Perfect harmony has not existed among the club for some turers turned their attention to the manufacture of these time and the rooms were surrendered at First and National carts and if agents kept them in stock the same as they avenues but members of the organization state that the do bicycles now. The United States Express Company club still exists. A sort of reorganization has been affected is already using them in nearly all large cities for light and a number of the disgrunted members have dropped out. deliveries, and the practicability of the cart has already Many of the members have joined the South Side club since been fully demonstrated. There seems to be no doubt, as it was organized but those members of the Mercury who time goes by, the bicycle is becoming moreandmoreafactor have remained loyal say that they will build up the organ in commercial traffic. THE PNEUMATIC. BROWN AND ROTIER WIN. was one-sided, Martin C. Rotier, the present incumbent, They Carry the Annual Election of the Wisconsin Division—A Large Vote winning easily over E. L. Spicer, of La Crosse. Mr. Rotier Was Cast—Dr. McArthur Polled a Good Vote from Around the received 476 votes, which is a larger vote than was cast for State But fir. Spicer Had Scarcely Any Support Mr. Brown for chief consul, while his opponent, Mr. Spicer, Outside of La Crosse, His Home. polled 210 votes, he running further behind the ticket than CHIEF CONSTJL-W. A. Brown, of Marinette. any other candidate. This is probably due to Mr. Rotier's VICE CONSUL—B. W. Park, of Madison. SECRETARY - TREASURER—M. C. Rotier, of wide acquaintance and popularity, while Mr. Spicer, prior Milwaukee. to the time he was nominated as a candidate with Dr. REPRESENTATIVES —H. P. Andrae, of Mil waukee; S. J. Ryan, of Appleton; Q. K. McArthur, was comparatively unknown in cycling circles ' Mead, of Sheboygan; N. E. Lindquist, of Marinette. outside of his own city. Of the six representatives placed in nomination, only The above is the result of the annual election of the four were to be elected. The Kenosha candidates, H, N. Wisconsin Division which has been in progress for the past Baldwin and S. C. Newman, received 301 and 296 votes, month. The votes were counted at Racine on November 15 respectively, and were defeated for election. This can be by Tellers Henry Van Arsdale, of Racine; W. B. Hopkins, accounted for because of two candidates coming from of Racine, and H. J. Paine, of Milwaukee. The total one town split up the vote. The successful candidates polled the following vote: H. P. Andrae, of Milwaukee, 553; which is the largest vote received by any candidate, S. J. Ryan, of Appleton, 487; George K. Mead, of Sheboy gan, 464; N. E. Lindquist, of Marinette, 396. "Do you favor the plan of the League controlling profes sional racing and the adoption of A and B and professional classes? " was a question that was asked every voter. The proposition came up at the business meeting at Marinette during the last state meet when it was decided to refer the matter to the members for their opinion. Thcvote just fin ished shows that the division is in favor of the adoption of three classes. Many failed to vote on the question but 367 votes were cast in favor of it and 67 against the plan. At the next National Assembly the Wisconsin delegation will vote in favor of having the League control three classes. The delegates to be elected at the division meeting next month in this city, will be so instructed. The election was the most spirited of any that has been held in the history of the Wisconsin Division. Ever since the officers were placed in nomination last August the candi Wisconsin's New Chief Consul, W. A. Brown, of Harlnette. dates and their friends have been hard at work. Early in number of votes east was 689, which shows that there was the race some questionable campaigning was begun by cer a greater interest in the election this year than ever before. tain Ripon wheelmen who were dissatisfied because they The total membership of the division is now over 1,000. had not been placed in nomination and who were anxious Last year out of about 400 members only 200 voted. W, A, to defeat the Brown-Rotier ticket. Their methods were Brown, of Marinette, and Dr. D. S, McArthur, of LaCrosse, soon exposed, however, and during the remainder of the the candidates for chief consul, had an, interesting run. Mr. campaign, the fight was clean, though spirited. Friends Brown received 398 votes, Dr. McArthur 290 and A, Cressy of Dr. McArthur and Mr. Spicer sent out circulars to every Morrison, the present chief consul, who was not a candidate League member urging them to support the La Crosse for re-election, received one vote. Dr. McArthur polled ticket. This was followed by one iu favor of Mr. Brown by nearly a solid vote in1 La Crosse but his support in this city the Highway Improvement committee of the division which and in cities outside of his home was not as strong as his set forth that Mr. Brown was a valuable man to further opponent's. Mr. Brown's vote in Marinette and Milwaukee the good roads question on account of his high standing was almost solid. and influence. Every candidate has worked hard as is There was no opposition to the election of Ben W. Park, shown by the large vote which was cast. The election will of Madison, as vice consul, which office he now holds. He no doubt awaken new interest in League matters. polled 598 votes. Ninety ballots were not marked for vice consul and one vote was for a man not in the nomination. Racing men who will spend the winter on the Pacific As has been predicted, the race for secretary-treasurer coast contemplate establishing a co-operative home. THE PNEUMATIC. Corrected State Records. The U. W. Club's Officers. CLASS A RECORDS, The U. W. Cycling Club, of Madison, has elected the Quarter mile competition, W. D. Howie, of Milwaukee, at Janesville, October !0,1804. Time, 37 Seconds. following officers: President, W. O.Thomas; vice-president, Half mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Marshfteld, Dr. Elsom; secretary and treasurer, A. B. Crosby; captain, July 23,1895. Time, 1:07. R, C. Smeiker; lieutenant, J. A. Ramage. Mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Waukesha, August 87, 1895. Time, 3:13. Two mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Neenah, A Road Hog Comes to Grief. Augusts. Time, 4:38. Mile tandem competition, W. C. Schrader and A. P. Bingenheimer, of At Chilton recently a farmer refused to give a cyclist Milwaukee, at Janesville, August S9,1895. Time 2:15. half the road but instead struck the rider with a whip. Five mile competition, W. C. Schrader, of Milwaukee, at Marinette, August 17,1895. Time 11:22.4. Gustav Plate, the wheelman, caused the farmer to be Mile without use of handlebars, Andrew Anderson, of Neenah, 3:11. arrested and the next clay Mr. Roadhog paid a fine and CLASS B RECORDS. costs amounting to $11. Mile paced against time, W. P. Sanger, of Milwaukee, at Stevens Point, September 6, 1895. Time, 2:08.4. Quarter Mile nnpaced against time, Harry Crocker, of Milwaukee, at The League and Accident Insurance. State Fair Park, September .25,1895. Time, 30 seconds. Half mile unpaced against time, Henry Zerbel, of Milwaukee, L. A. Maier, a Medford correspondent, suggests that September 35, 1895, at State Fair Park, Time, 58 seconds. the League indemnifyits members for injuries received while Division Officer's Meeting. riding awheel, and a plan of accident insurance, be adopted allowing a certain amount a week during the time of At the meeting of the division officers in this city next accident on a bicycle. He says: "Of course it would be month there will probably arise an interesting contest necessary to raise the dues but it would'increase the mem among the several cities in the state which want the state bership, as there would then be a more visible object for meet for ' 96. The selection of a place for holding the meet outsiders to join our ranks." will be the principal business of the meeting. The latest candidate for the meet is Milwaukee. While it has not fully Wheelmen Have Rights. decided to make application for the meet, yet it is At Wausau recently a case of interest to bicycle riders very probable that at the next meeting of the proposed and horsemen was decided in the Municipal court. Suit Associated Cycling Clubs, the delegates will agree to ask was brought by R. E. Powers to recover damages from for it. It will be argued that the meet has not been held Toseph Edee, a liveryman, for crowding him into tlie curb in this city for a number of years and that local wheelmen and thereby breaking his wheel. Judge Milbe decided the will provide an elaborate program for the visitors. Apple- bicycle had the same right as a horse and Edee was negli ton also wants the meet. At a recent meeting of the wheel gent in not giving Powers room topassasthelawprovides. men in that city, a League club was organized and a number Powers was given a verdict for damages of $29.50 and of business men have promised their support if the meet is costs. secured. On the other hand Neenah, with a League club of some thirty members, would like to have it, while the riders Good Road Charts. in the northwestern part of the state are urging the claim Secretary Otto Dorner, of the Wisconsin League for of La Crosse for the meet. Kenosha riders assert that if GoodRoads, andSuperintendentMcKerrow, of theFarmers' the meet is given them they will arrange a good program Institute, are preparing a number of charts which will be of races. Ex-Chairman Raymond of the racing board is a shown to the farmers who attend the various institutes in resident of Kenosha and could lend valuable assistance to the state during the coming winter. The charts are in the the meet if it is held in that city. interest of good roads, giving object lessons in their con Besides deciding the place for holding the next meet, struction, and itis thought will be of great value to farmers delegates to the National Assembly will be selected. The who are interested in the great work of improving the delegates will be instructed to vote for the adoption of public highways, An effort will be made during the farmers' three classes by the League. They will also be instructed institutes, to interest those in attendance in the good roads as to other questions that maycome up before the National question. Assembly. The officers which have just been elected by the division members will be formerly installed at this meeting. Bicycle Track On a Roof. Canary and Lederer are considering a proposal to Bicycles Hurt Saloons. convert the roof garden of the New York Casino into a A newspaper dispatch from Neenah says: "Saloon bicycle track. Instead of.the audience promenading the keepers here report unusually dull business during the past down stairs lobbies between acts they will be at liberty to six months. They attribute this to the fact that a large take the elevators to the roof and mount bicycles and thus number of the young men have bought bicycles on the in enjoy the intermissions more. When the weather becomes stallment plan during the past season and have had to save too cold for bicycling, the roof, it is said, will be transformed to meet the monthly payments." into a skating field and the audience fitted with club skates. THE PNEUMATIC. :C4^_^ of sand may make trouble for the mighty. I'm glad the Plights and Plighted Awheel. situation inspires poetic sentiments." BY KATHRYN HON0VAN DOYLE. "Do you know, Mac, I think that poem is a satire, not a poem of passion as people have been wont to think:. 1» your foot should slip, I don't think it would be a ' pleasant It was only four o'clock in the morning when Keith and land.' It would be a mixture of land and water, wouldn't myself stood on the steps of the little country hotel, our it? My one regret is that I haven't a Kodack along; I breakfast eaten, our lunch put up, and all things in readi would like to show to the world your 'feet of daring.' ' ness for the day's journey. The gray dawn still over Keith bore it all in silence, and I went on, " There is one shadowed everything, a few birds twittered sleepily in the contingency that mayarise, Mac. It is a question with mc, trees, a single cow bell clanged in the distance, and the June whether, when you reach the surface of the limpid water, air was moist and fragrant, but heavy. Keith looked at you can swallow up. You may have to fill your mouth and his watch and said between yawns, "Only twenty-two then raise your head like little birdies. miles and we have an early start. If there are any kind of "' Tis a sweet thought, isn't it ? " roads we ought to be there long before dinner." We Keith had been reaching out and pulling himself along mounted and rode off leisurely. Neither of us were suffi until his face was about an inch from the longed for water, ciently awake to be very energetic and there was plenty of when an exclamation from me brought his head up. time. "Ye gods! What's acoming! We haven't traveled all Seven hours later—a relentless sun, a moderately strong, these weary hours in vain." dry wind, and the road so deep with sand that it was quite "For Heaven's sake, Casady, what is it? those con impassable with a wheel. We had ridden along to one side founded bushes on the other side shut everything off" from of the road (whichKeith referred to as the 'trackless deep') my view." where we could, avoiding the stumps, the low bushes and "It is a carriage with two young ladies in it. Poor the ant mounds with great skill, and occasionally failing to Mac, how I feel for you! " avoid them with greater suddenness. We had walked long Keith did not deign to move,—he thought I was fooling distances, and, as our feet sank deep into the sand, I was him, and he couldn't have moved very conveniently any repeatedly called upon to notice, ''What a magnificent way; but from beyond the bushes came the sound of a region for raising watermelons! " And now when wefound carriage creaking through the sand, and immediately the ourselves beside a cool little brook with high, steep banks, horse came in sight and walked out upon the bridge. On we discovered that we had lost our drinking cup; probably top of the creature's head was a wide brimmed sun hat, we had left it back about a mile where we had eaten our pinned through the bridle; one side of the hat was caught early lunch. We were intensely thirsty, and there was not up coquettishly with a huge bunch of flowers. A wide silk a house in sight. There was a small flat piece of ground by scarf was wound around her neck and tied in a monstrous the brook, it was sufficiently soft but rather too moist to bow on one side. When she stopped, threw up her head recline upon, and the only way was to catch your toes spiritedly and turned it sideways, the effect was extremely around the bushes at the top of the bank,hang head down ludicrous. But this was not all. A large blue apron ward, and keep from drowning if you could, Keith fluttered, outspread, over the horse's back, and various promptly proceeded to do this. He hooked one foot firmly small articles were attached to the harness, here and there, into a projecting root at the top of the bank, and let him —toothbrushes, etc. Two young ladies were leaning- back self down cautiously, with many a grunt; I sat on the comfortably in the . buggy. One of them held the lines opposite bank encouraging his downward career. loosely in her lap and calmly munched a sandwich. The "Mac," said I, "you would consider yourself well re other was not so dainty in the matter of eating. While one paid for all your inconvenience if you could only see how hand supported a parasol, the other held nearly a whole interesting you look at present." loaf of fruitcake, from one end of which my Lady of the His only answer was a grunt. Appetite was eating with apparent relish. Occasionally a "I hope your foot won't slip. You would roil the large piece would break off and then she was compelled to water so." lay down the original chunk while she made away with the I tossed a few grains of sand down on the back of smaller piece. Somewhat screened from their view I was his neck. . observing them. " Little drops of water, My Lady of the Appetite observed to Miss Sandwich Little grains of sand Make the mighty trouble, "Retain your hold upon the ribbons, my dear, and let Bess And the pleasant land." stand until I have surrounded this cake, and then I will get Mac's utterance was a little choked but he answered out and water her. If she is restless, just repeat .some" of with a good deal of emphasis, nevertheless, "Do yott realize Harvey Graham's poetry to her. That will make her so that I am coming backup there after awhile ? Little grains tired that she will stand still. But don't repeat more than THE PNEUMATIC. one or two lines; I should hate to have her lie down right raised our caps and stood silent until the carriage disap herein the road." peared in a cloud of dust over the little hill beyond. Then She raised the cake, opened her mouth and at that we turned to each other. second she first saw poor Keith, dangling by one foot on "Casady, why are you looking so solemn?" the opposite bank; he, supporting himself somewhat by his "I was so occupied with watering the horse that I arms, had raised up sufficiently to get a square view of her, forgot to water myself, and now the cup is gone and I am mouth opened, eyes wide, and cake suspended, and a broad so thirsty." smile overspread both faces. Inwardly convulsed, I thought "You found it so refreshing to watch my struggles on it time to come to Keith's rescue, and I stepped out toward that confounded bank, that I think you can do without the buggy and with a gravely respectful manner, asked if I further refreshment until we reach the town ; it is only might not relieve them of the trouble of watering their seven miles." horse. Both pairs of eyes surveyed me, "No, Mac, I must have some water." " You are kind. We shall be very glad," and they began " Well go over the bridge on the other bank and follow to look among the miscellaneous articles in the bottom of my example. I will sit here and regale you with bits of the buggy. A pail was fished up and a pair of canvas shoes pleasantry. And I won't throw sand down on you," he and a bottle of liniment taken out of it, and I went to dip added, as I crossed the bridge. "Such small tricks are the water. In the meantime Mac had escaped from his beneath me." awkward position and was approaching. As I returned "They were above you at the time, weren't they, with the pail filled, I saw a mischievous face turned toward Kieth?" I answered weakly. him and a silver cup extended with the remark, "I think I felt very subdued as I pushed my foot through the root you were about to drink. Will you not use this?" at the top of the bank. I thought I couldn't blame Keith Keith raised his cap deferentially, took the cup in one for anything he might say. hand while he slipped the other quickly in and out of his "Aug poems on hand to suit the occasion, Mac?" pocket, snapped open one blade of his pearl handled knife, " Oh, yes, " he assured me cheerfully. " How's this ? and extended it with a brilliant smile. ' Oh, little foot, that seemingly years ' Must hang to that root, through groans and fears, "I think you, also, were experiencing some difficulty—in 1 Must ache and hleed beneath,its load ; eating. Allow me to return the favor." ' I, sitting on this grassy place. ' My thirst all quenched, my struggles past, The girl looked at him with new interest, evidently ' Am weary, thinking on thy road I" appreciating the quickness of his reply, glanced consciously I was toiling steadily downward, but I rested long- at the loaf of cake, and then flashed back at him, " Is your enough to say, "You are .mutilating that poem frightfully, offer a purely disinterested one —or did you intend me to but go on." cut a slice from it for—somebody else ? " " ' Oh, little hands, that weak or strong, ' Must paw the sand and work so long, Keith watched her slip the knife through the loaf, saying, ' Must toil so long yet at their task—'" "I shouldn't like to stand in the way of anything you Evidently Keith's wit was failing him. I brightened up might wish to do." a little. I was on my way down the bank and did not see Mac " Why don't you go on, Mac ? Cheer me a little longer, take the cake, but I haven't a particle of doubt that —I'm nearly down now." he took it. " The awful thought struck me that there is one contin The pail was small, the horse had an enormous capacity gency, that may arise. It was all I could do to reach the for water, and Keith had time to find out about the roads water, and you are three inches shorter than I am. In case and fill the cup two or three times for himself and the young you can't reach it, I was about to make a suggestion. I ladieswhile I was endeavoringto quench the animal's thirst. was going to suggest that you—ahem—a—" Finally she tossed her head from the pail, and moved I thrust my hands into the sand, stiffened my elbows, impatiently. and looked up inquiringly. The girl's face suddenly became grave. I think she must "Well?" have concluded that the conversation had been too pro " — that-—you —a—use this" and that brute andfriend longed, we being strangers. She turned quickly toward us dangled the cup above me. and said, "We thank you very much." Then her glance fell "Mac Donald Keith!". on the extraordinary additions to the horse's harness and As I suddenly began to back up and double my joints she added apologetically, "We have been camping and we again, he-executed a war dance on the opposite bank. were the last to leave; so.we had to bring some things that The Fates saved me from complete humiliation. The were forgotten. We thought we would overtake the others overhanging bank suddenly caved under his weight and he on the way and let them take their respective belongings." came sprawling down and was precipitated into the soft Her; face flushed slightly, she and her companion bowed mud at the bottom, one outstretched arm going into the gravely, and with a word to the horse they were off. We water. THE PNEUMATIC. "Why, Mac," I cried, helpless with laughter, "you nearer in tune, she would tantalizingly go higher, until needn't have come clear down just to dip that water for me. finally I began singing triumphantly in a falsetto voice. I might just as well have done that, myself." ' "Don't, Casady, you're not used to being up so high. » * * It will make you dizzy. You certainly have a voice like a There was a silence about a mile and a half long when martingale. I wish you would siug on the stage—as there we remounted'our wheels. Beyond that there was a stretch is none around here." of deep sand and as we waded patiently through it, an un Miss Gordon came to my rescue; she pointed her revol mistakable laugh broke through the melancholy that had ver playfully at Keith, crying, "Throw up your feet! " Her possessed my friend, and he answered my unasked question, front wheel struck a little stone and swerved, she grasped "I understand now what she meant when she said there at the handle bars to keep her balance, the trigger caught was nothing frivolous about the road for two miles." on the bar and—the old story—the revolver discharged, the Indeed there was not, but beyond that the riding was ex shot entering Keith's leg. ceptionally good. We reached the town early, and had I'll not enter into all the details of how we gothimbaek time to get our baggage drayed over from the baggage home, etc. The wound was not serious but'it laid him up room to the Halett House (where we had already secured for days. Poor Allie Gordon! She was stricken with re rooms by telegraph), to bathe and dress before dinner. In morse, and she and her family could not do enough for the evening we strolled out among the crowd of pleasure Keith. I think he wotild be willing to be shot over again seekers who frequented the resort, and renewed acquaint for the sake of receiving such royal treatment. Of course anceship with some fellows who belonged to our associa he was disabled for the races but he didn't complain. Ten tion, and whom we had met at the last state meet. One of days later when he was able to walk with crutches and ride them, Gordon, invited us to call on his family, who were a little, pedalling with one foot, I found him smoking on summering at the resort, and living in the same hotel with the piaza. us. We called the following day and were astonished when " Congratulations, Tom ? " my Lady of the Appetite entered tlie parlor and was intro " Yes, and I have to laugh every time I think of it. Last duced as Gordon's sister. After that, it is needless to say, I night I tried to talk to her but she turned aside every effort. saw little of Keith, as he spent most of his time with Miss This morning I followed her down the river. I found her Gordon, riding, boating, walking, etc. wheel lying ou the grass, and she was not far away crying. Miss Gordon was too loyal, however, to entirely desert "I said, "Miss Gordon, is anything the matter? You her friend whom we had first seen with her, and so I was are crying." occasionally included in the select party as Miss Long's '"I'm not crying," she said and looked at me angrilly. cavalier; but we were very considerate and left them much Possibly she was not just at that second, but there were to themselves, for which sacrifice I trust they are duly ' tears streaming down her face from the second before. grateful. The happy, care-free days went very quickly. " ' I beg your pardon. I thought—I really thought you The third week of our stay there was a temporary exodus were.' from the hotel, many going to Silver Springs, four miles "'Ive hurt myself', she sobbed. away, for a picnic. Most of the people drove, but Keith "'Hurt yourself! where?' and Miss Gordon were to ride as usual, and they kindly in "She put out her arm, drew back her sleeve, and there vited Miss Long and me to join them. The day was beau was a long red mark. tiful, the road pei-fect. Little puffs of sweet, fresh air " ' Why Miss Gordon, how did you do it ?' touched us from river and wood. We were all in good " ' She did not answer for a long time and then she said, spirits. Even Miss Long was hilarious. 'I burned it.' "Miss Gordon," I said, "may I ask what is protruding "' When you were making tea?' from your pocket? It lookssuspiciouslylikeabrandyflask." "'No.' She drew a little silver handled revolver from her pocket, "' All this time I was tying my handkerchief around it saying, "Would you like to shoot with me when we get and I went on,' How then, did you burn it?' there? I'm a dead shot." "'With a curling iron.' " I—I—think Keith would like to. They may want me " ' With a curling iron 1 Why, when did it happen ?' to chase away a mad bull or something." She frowned •'' She sobbed without speaking for some time and then severely, while Ruth sang lightly, wailed out, 'A week ago last Wednesday.' " She aimed at the sky,—that's ail- " 'I roared, and finally she looked up and began to smile But he hoard the angels call, And the funeral's tomorrow." through, her tears, and I picked her upoffthe ground, and—- " Poor Mr. Keith! His soul will be in the vast eternity by Jingo,—well, we're engaged. That's all." and he walked and his lungs scattered over some farmer's wheat field." away. She sang on, clear and high, a gay melody, and I was mak He came back soon and ventured, "Say, old boy, how- ing a vain effort to accompany her, but as gradually I got are you and Miss Long.making lit? I had hoped—" THE PNEUMATIC. "Then set your mind at rest,Mac. I shall never ask her tained and refreshed. When the guests had departed, the to marry me." entertainment committee of the Madison Cycling Club was "But,—don't you admire her?" permitted to call and see what a real nice reception was "More than any one I ever knew, but I shall never ask like. TheTaychoperah club boasts of the following efficient her to marry me." list of officers: Mrs. B. W. Park, president; Miss Elizabeth He looked at megravely and went away, and I—I went, Henwood, vice-president; Miss Henrietta D. Billings, secre too. I was going boating with Miss Long." tary-treasurer; Miss Lillian Conover, captain; Miss Addie May Wootton, lieutenant. A week later we were back at N— I met Keith on the Another club run was held by the Madison Cycling Club street. the early part of the month. The run was made after "Come down to the jeweler's with me, won't you? ' he 6 p. M. and the destination was Sun Prairie, where supper said, was served. This trip will long be remembered by those " Yes, I am going that way myself." who took part, as they encountered an unusually good "I want you to help me select a stone." specimen of "road hog." He attempted to keep the wheel Mac looked a long time without finding anything that men back by driving from one side of the road to the other exactlysuited him. "Showhim that diamond you justset," and then tried to run them down after they got by. And I remarked to the salesman. He brought out the ring. when two pair of strong hands brought his half starved " Cscsar, that is a beauty! I'll take that." animals to a halt, he began to dispute the rights of the '• But this is already sold. Mr. Casady ordered it." wheelmen on the public highway. But the howl of half a Keith turned to me in amazement. dozen angry voices and the appearance of a dozen clinched "What are you going to do with it ? " fists in close proximity of his physiog "Can you duplicate it?" I asked the nomy proved a strong and convincing salesman. argument and put a quietus to his loud "Very nearly, but it will take a demonstrations, after which he was week to order." left alone in his glory. Another pleas "Very well, order and be sure you See ant recollection is the fact that one of the members lost his lantern. get as good a stone," and Keith hurried that me out of the store. " Say, what do YOU want with that nail ? A New Cycle Academy. rmg Remove the nail and inject our Messrs. Terhorst and Donnelly, have "It is for Ruth." special rubber solution, which, opened a bicycle academy at 451 Broad pressed down, picks up the patch "But—I thought—you said—" ing ply in the inner tube, closing way and they are meeting with great "That I never would ask her to the puncture. That's all- The quickest, least expensive and success in their new enterprise. Any marry me,—yes. You see I had asked ONLY" PERMANENT quick-repair device. Send for our "quick-repair" day, at most any hour, a number of her." pamphlet. ladies can be seen taking their first les Keith preserved an aggrieved silence. More Morgan _ Wright tires aro used than all others combined^ sons at the academy. A special hall " Mac, didn't I vow vengeance when Nearly all road riders preler them. has been provided for those who desire So do most racing men. They you made me descend that famous bank hold nearly one hundred world's to practice in bloomers. for a drink of water ? " records. "0—oh!" MORGAN & WRIOHT, He smiled once more. CHICAGO. The Milwaukee Printing Pressmen's "Then you will go with us on a Union No. 7 will give its second annual wheeling tour through Yellowstone ball at the Liedertafel hall, Deeember Park, next year?" 14. "Yes—if your gentle wife doesn't shoot you before The Huennekens Cycle Co. then." Are importers of and dealers in bicycles, bicycle parts and Hadison Cycling Notes. sundries, at wholesale, to cycle agents and dealers. Special prices and discounts given on application. Address 124 George Loher, who recently passed through Madison Ferry street, Milwaukee, and get catalogue. on his way to New York from Portland, Oregon, has written Mc C. E. Tyner, of this city, a description of his Name of-Wheel Changed. trip. Mr. Tyner accompanied him part of the way. Julius Andrae & Sons Company have made the follow A Chicago wheelman punctured his tire when about ing announcenent: "For some time past we have been twelve miles from Madison. It was late in the afternoon using the name "Sunbeam" on a portion of our bicycles. and too dark to make repairs so he went to the neai-est All bicycles that we have marked as "Sunbeams" hereto farm house and secured a quantity of bran. Removing the fore, will hereafter be known as "Calumets." inner tube he filled the outer tube with bran and rode Deafness Cannot Be Cured triumphantly into Madison. (Manufacturers will please hy local application, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of tho ear. make a note of this bran new thing in tires.) There is only one way to cure "Deafness, ana that Is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an. Inflamed, condition of the mucous lin ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a The members of the Taychoperah Cycling Club gave rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deaf their "unattached" sisters a delightful reception in the ness is the result, and unleBS the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; Madison Cycling Club rooms last month. About fifty of nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an In flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. the leading lady cyclists attended and many of them made We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused hy application for membership. The rooms were handsomely Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. - . J. CHENISY „ CO,, Toledo, O, decorated and illuminated and the visitors were well enter- j_sF~Sold by Druggists, 75c. :/• THE PNEUMATIC. 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Famous old Corey Hill, of Boston, has been resurrected The good roads question is occupying the attention of from cycling oblivion and placed very much in evidence as a the farmers of Dodge county at present. A. P. Noyes, a record-producing locality. There was a time when this practical farmer, has purchased a rock crusher at his own hill was considered insurmountable by cyclists, but with expense and is teaching farmers how to make good maca the evolution of the bicycle it became less difficult, although dam roads. at the present day it is con sidered a hard climb. There were numerous well- known men on hand on October 26, to try their nerve and strength on the hill, which is nearly half a mile in length and very steep. The riders showed great courage and perseverance Put it in in the attempts, and the fastest amateur time was made by J. W. Manning, who did it in 2:05 2-5. Mr. Manning not Your Pocket only demonstrated the fact that he is a man of great speed and endurance, but also gave very plain evidence of the fact that "Columbias climb hills like the wind," for it was on one of these famous machines that his remarkable record was made. Champion Bald. This is E. Columbia Bald's This convenient, serviceable Repair Kit is the result record up to November 1: of years of costly experiment. It contains every Won 58 prizes. thing needed for quickly and permanently repairing Won 48 first prizes on the Single-Tube Tires and should be in the pocket or National Circuit. tool-bag of every rider. Ask your dealer for the Won 15 second prizes on the National Circuit. Won 8 third prizes on the Hartford National Circuit. , Won 10 first prizes off the National Circuit. Single^Tube Tire Won 2 third prizes, off the National Circuit. 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Look for a Model of Beauty in our Ladies'Machine TELEGRAM CYCLE MANUFACTURINO COMPANY ERIE AND EAST WATER STREETS MILWAUKEE, WIS. A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., DECEMBER, 189?. No. 9. On... m% ^% Cannibal Island RAMBLER FIRST.1 A RAMBLER AGENT WRITES: "Tellme,please, WHERE DON'T RAMBLER BICYCLES WIN RACES, and is there any place on earth where there are no Ramblers ? • .. ' I have just received a letter dated Papeete, August 14,1895, from the South Sea Islands, at Tahita, 3000miles from San Francisco. It has taken over a mouth For the letter to reach me, and three months are required for a letter to reach that place and the return of a reply here. The letter reads as follows: "Just a few lines to •inform you that my bicycle, a RAMBLER No. 12, won » tho race, during the 14th of July fetes. Two were in the race, but were no where. As soon as I can place five more Kamblers iu this place,.I. will send you an order." I did not think, these people ever heard of such a thing as a race,.and the letter rather amused me. The speed of Ramblers seems to be known even 3000 miles out at sea, in the Cannibal Islands. The natives were originally cannibals, but must have now reached the highest civilization, seeing that they ride Ramblers." OPEN REPLY TO RAMBLER AGENT: '' We arc pleased to inform you that from all reports Ramblers are very well known throughout the civilized world. We have received a fine photograph of the "Hawaii Rambler Racing Team," which has been very suc cessful on the track. , , From India we have received a photo of an Indian prince, mounted upon his Rambler, together with news paper clippings telling of Rambler victories upon the path. Portraits,reports and orders from our Japanese agents indicate the popularity of Ramblers in that country. An English Rambler rider writes that he had loaned GORMULLY & JEPFEfiT 1F&, CO. 85 MADISON ST-CHICAGO his road wheel to a prominent English rider,.who intends I74COLUM BUS AVE. BOSTON. to ride it in a long distance track race, considering the RIDIN6 1325 14-- ST. N.WWASHINGrON.D.C. COR S7»ST. & BROADWAY NEW YORK. chances better on that wheel than on an English racing ACADEMIES 4I5AND +21 FLATBUSH AVE.BROOHLYN: 201 WOODWARD AVE.DETBOIT.MICH. machine. And so on—Africa, China, Soutlr America, 'FOREIGN BRANCH —• COVENTRY EN6I.AND, KM05OKE KAHBUR CffiUjOOUr fflEE ON ABPUCHKM j^A l Mexico. * Wc give it up—we do not know where Ramblers are unknown." MENTION THE "|>MEUS.J THE PNEUMATIC. The Milwaukee DOLLITT 6Y6LE WORKS.... .MAKERS OF- Japan=Enameling Co. Headquarters for "U. n Sharpening and Is the only Company in the BICYCLES... 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THE PNEUMATIC. $&» «$-» *§g» Men of Large Experience Who have given the construction of bicycles a care ful study, agree that in no other make-up of bicycles can be found such good material, such careful work manship and such smooth running qualities as in Warner Specials ..... We are placing Agencies in every town in the state and invite your correspondence...... See us at the Chicago Cycle Show at Stand No. 66. ^__^___m_i D. D. WARNER COMPANY MADISON, WISCONSIN MENTION THE " PNEUS." THE PNEUMATIC. .i~l £ NEVER DISAPPOINTS The'~quality of a bicycle finds expres sion in number less things other than QUALITY the color of the enamel or the style of its name-'plate. _* -* Show us the dealer who is careless as to the machine he buys, who thinks only of the "size of the discount/' * who cares naught for the stability of the future, and we will ' t l show you a man who doesn't sell j*e_*_*^ ^*- _*_*-* Andrae Bicycles S> These machines are not in that class. J* Andrae Clycles bear evidence of the high mechanical ingenuity, «st painstaking care, _< and thought that is liberally spent upon them. 1_st*St_*,_*,_*i_*<_*«£*_'_t_'-'*J*-' JULIUS ANDRAE * SONS CO. MANUFACTURERS «_* MILWAUKEE ' 96 Advance Sheet Ready Stands 250-25J Chicago Show. S S S S> S S> S S S> •"•'«# S • '<__&' S S S S S THE PNEUMATIC. from 13 to 36; South Dakota 22 to 16; Iowa 576 to 733 ; while the increase in other western states is but small. The progress made by the Wisconsin Division is due to the enthusiasm displayed by the division officers, and shows that League work can be carried on successfully if under taken by men with progressive ideas. The prospects for _v ivrO-NtTi-i __,-_- even a better showing in this state next year are very bright. JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. THE CYCLE SHOWS. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Milwaukee is'to have two cycle shows. The first will All copy lor advertisements, changes for same, news and correspondence be that of the North Side Cycling Club, which will be a for publication must be sent in before the 7th, to insure Insertion the same month. Contributions returned If not published. purely local affair, and the other will be one arranged by ENTERED IN THE P.O. AT MILWAUKEE A3 SECOND _A„ MATTEfl. the Milwaukee Ethical Society which is to be open to all •A.13 "V _C ___?! _5I3S[ G-. manufacturers of the country. The benefits of the shows THE PNEUMATIC! Is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes are many and the undertakings will undoubtedly be success of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper which concisely covers all the doings in cycleflom. Advertising rates on ful. Outside manufacturers have neverhad an opportunity application. to exhibit their wheels in Wisconsin and the trade of the PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, city and state, as well as the riders, will be able to gain 505 East Water Street, ... Milwaukee, Wis. much knowledge from such an exhibit. The various local J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. clubs ought to co-operate with the ethical society to make CON. KNUDSON, M. C ROTIER, Associate Editors. the shows an interesting one. M. C ROTIER, Business Manager. Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. THAT NEW PROFESSIONAL LEAGUE. At Minneapolis and St. Paul a few dissatisfied riders LEADING THE WORLD. have started a movement to organize a professional league Old England, for centuries gone by, has been known as of the North western states, to include Minnesota, Wisconsin, the "Workshop of the World." In ages past it has been South and North Dakota and Iowa. It is asserted by those recognized as the center of manufacturing industries and who are at the head of the project that all the Class B men for many years foreign bicycles were considered superior to in these states are ready to become professional riders and American makes. But things have changed. Today, that nearly all of that class feel that the L-. A. W, has been England marvels at the fine mechanism and light weights partial in someof its rulings. It is reported that the riders, of our machines, and American cycles have found their way who during the past season have been declared Class B on the other side of the herring pond in a considerable men, are of the opinion that the board has singled them out . number the past few years because they are recognized as and that if the investigation was extended that there are wheels of unequaled perfection. many other riders in Class A who are Class B men and many in Class B who are professionals. In other words, THE WHEEL TRANSPORTATION SITUATION. the projectors of the proposed league, which is to be entirely The action of the New York Central and Hudson River independent of the L. A. W., charge that the Racing Board' Railroad, in charging for the transportation of wheels when has been incompetant to judge the riders of the-Northwest. accompanied by the owners and compelling them on top of Whether or not this opinion is shared generally _mong it alltosign a release which relieves them of allresponsibility, riders in Minnesota and someof the other states mentioned, is being severely and justly criticized by the press. The.fee is not known in Wisconsin, but that such a spirit does not charged is reasonable enough if the company would not prevail in this state is well known everywhere. Some of place the wheels at the mercy of the baggagemen who are the Class B men of Wisconsin are perhaps readyto become now treating the situation as though they know that the professionals if they can convince themselves that they will company is not liable for any damage they may do to wheels. better their condition. But there are few in that class in WISCONSIN DIVISION'S GROWTH. Wisconsin who have satisfied themselves that it would be a The membership of the Wisconsin Division nownumbers wise move to affiliate themselves with a class in which they about 1,100, against about 400 a year ago. This repre would have to meet men like Johnson, Sanger, Tyler and sents an, increase of 275 per cent, which is the second best others. Professional racing has not arrived at that stage showing of any division in the country, New York being the where so many class prizes are offered to enable the slower ones to make it a success. Many understand this and best, it having gained a membership of 9,522 against 3,149 therefore few Class B men will probably turn professionals last year. In the West, Wisconsin now ranks first in the during the next season. line of progress. Illinois last year had 1,666 members and now only 1,561, Minnesota had 214 against 249 at As to the statement that is made at Minneapolis that present; Michigan has risen from 590 to 692; North Dakota the L. A. W. has been partial in its rulings against riders THE PNEUMATIC. who have been transferred, little credance will be placed in agreeing to build a one-third mile track at the base ball it in Wisconsin. In this division the western representative park on condition that 600 wheelmen in the city each buy of the Racing Board has been actively at work all season. a $5 season ticket which will permit tbem to rise the track Many of the fastest men in the state have been investigated. at any time. The Associated Cycling Club is unable to In cases where the charges were sustained, action has been consider such a proposition and Mr. Killilea's offer therefore taken by the board and the riders have been placed in the has been rejected. Mr. Quin has offered to rebuild the class in which they belonged. The board has never been quarter mile track at the old base ball park if the wheelmen accused of partiality in this division. There is not a rider can guarantee him that it will be a paying investment. in Wisconsin who has come in contact with the board and The track was built several years ago during the Cash who has been punished for violation of the rules, who will Prize League's tournament here at a cost of $250, and it charge partiality. If any of the riders in this state are of will take fully $1,000 to put it in good shape. The wheel the opinion that they have been unfairly treated, they have men would greatly prefer a larger track but unless some yet to be heard from. The Class A men who were declared other track can be secured, it is probable that the Quin in Class B during the season, all admit the justice of such track will be used during the summer. ruling. Those who were temporarily suspended from the League also see their wrong and are not complaining. Will Not Buy Toll Roads. The spirit in Wisconsin seems to be the very reverse Toll roads in Milwaukee county will not be abolished from what is reported to exist in Minnesota. Instead of for the present at least. Some time ago an agitation was dissension bredding, harmony and strength is on the started among the members of the Board of Supervisors to increase in this division. The records of the L. A. W. show purchase the roads and abolish the toll system. Options that Wisconsin is one of the most progressive states in the were received from all the companies owning the roads, and Union. Comparing the number of riders in this division it was found that the total cost would be $106,000. The with those of the eastern divisions, and Wisconsin will make question of purchasing the roads was referred to the com a better showing than most of her sister divisions. While mittee on Highways and Bridges, and the members of that interest in many other divisions at present is waning, committee have decided that the county at present is not because of the winter season, in this state it is still warm. in a financial condition to do so. This practically settles Members are constantly joining and the division shows a the matter for the time being. remarkable increase. The organization of a league which is to be independent of the L. A. W. will not receive any To Secede from the L. A. W. support in this state. There are no disgrunted members During the past few weeks lengthy dispatches have been in Wisconsin. sent out from. Minneapolis that a professional league of Be the feeling what it may in the other states thatare Northwestern states is to be formed. It is reported that reported to be interested, it is doubtful if anything will ever the states which are to be included in the league are Minne come from the new movement. Even if an attempt is made sota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North and South Dakota. It is said to perfect an organization it can never amount to anything. that a convention of the leading cyclists of the states men There are not enough riders in the Northwest who will ride tioned will be held some time in February when the organ 'under professional colors to give the new league any ization is to be perfected, and that agents are now visiting strength. Even were most of the Class B and most of the the cycling centers of the Northwest and are receiving the professional riders in the Northwest to join, the new organi assurance of support. According to the newspaper dis zation, what would it amount to as compared with the patches the league is to control only professional racing but L. A. W.? The latter now controls both of the classes and it is determined to be divorced from the L. A. W. The there will be few who will want to desert it for something cause of the proposed secession from the League as stated they know nothing about. Most of the wise riders will in the reports from Minneapolis, which seems to be the say: "Let good enough alone," headquarters of the new movement, is as follows: This state of affairs has been brought about as a result The Track Problem. of the apparent partiality or lack of judgement exhibited by The Associated Cycling Club is wrestling with a propo the racing board in placing northwestern amateurs in Class sition to secure a new track here next year, but so far has B. Several cases can be cited in which men have been named made little headway. President Cambier and Secretary for Class B who did not merit the distinction, while other Ludwig, who have been appointed a committee to negotiate riders, who have ridden straight out, are still posing as for a track, have conferred with the directors of the Sinion Pure amateurs. The men now in Class B are ready Milwaukee Baseball ClubandHarry Quin, proprietor of the to turn professional any minute, if it can be done with any old base ball park, but no satisfactory arrangements have prospect of profit to the sport and themselves. It is gener been perfected. After meeting President Killilea of the base ally recognized that nine out of ten men riding in Class B ball club several times he finally submitted a proposition in Minneapolis and St. Paul are out and out professionals. THE PNEUMATIC. APPLETON QETS THE flEET. congratulated most heartily upon the success" of the move ment made possible by them. Milwaukee Was Not In the Race—Fred J. Schroeder, Former Chairman ol the "The immense publicity and the broad policy followed flilwaukee Wheelmen's Racing Board, will Handle the State Rac ing Affairs Next Year—A. Martin Patitz will again be by the League in this matter redounded to its advantage, Official Handicapper—A Good Roads flap to drawing to it the very best class of our citizens and building be Issued—Other News of the up the membership from 426 to nearly 1,100, an advance Annual fleeting of Div unparalleled in its history, and of such a substantial char ision Officers, acter that it should be a matter of great satisfaction to all. At the annual meeting of the officers of the Wisconsin The advance in membership gave to the division a success Division at Marinette on December 20, Appleton was chosen ful influence with other wheelmen, and through them a power in legislation before unknown. For a year an effort as the place for holding the' 96 state meet, Fred J. Schroeder was made by the Milwaukee board of aldermen to pass an was appointed chairman of the Racing Board, A. Martin ordinance against wheelmen, and never was a bill more Patitz was recommended as official handicapper and the energetically pushed by its originators. In spite of this, by-laws of the division were revised. however, the League of American Wheelmen succeeded in The meeting was called to order by Chief Consul W. A. holding it in check for a time, and finally wholly preventing its passage; a triumph which establishes the prestige Brown at 3 o'clock in the parlors of the K. of P. hall. of wheelmen, not only in Milwaukee, but gives us much There were present W. A. Brown, Marinette; Ben W. Park, power throughout the state. Madison; M. C. Rotier, Milwaukee; H. P. Andrae, Mil- "Two movements have been made which will redound wauke; S. J. Ryan, Appleton ; G. K. Mead, Sheboygan; N. to the advantage of the League hereafter, one being of the E., Lindquist, Marinette; C. M. Fairchild, Marinette; J.. census, which indicates a wheeling population in the state McGillan, Marinette; C. H. Ellsworth, Ripon; Rev. John of upwards 26,000 andwhieh gives us a means of communi cation at all times with wheelmen in all sections; and the Faville, Appleton; J. W. McGiveran, Appleton ; S. D. Baird,. preliminary work on the road map, which will probably Neenah. Mr. Rotier acted as proxy for F, E. Spring, West appear during 1896, a task in a state of the magnitude of Superioiyand S. J. Ryan for J. W. Walker and Willibald Wisconsin which is little appreciated by those unfamiliar Ott, La Crosse. In his opening address, Chief Consul with its immensity. Thousands of miles of roads have been Brown referred to the creditable manner in which A. Cressy ridden and recorded and the data now in the possession of the League, lays the solid foundation from which the whole Morrison and his staff of officers had conducted the affairs map can be completed. of the division in the past, of the efficient work done by the " The racing circuits in the state have been so creditably Good Roads department and of the sound basis on which conducted that much enthusiasm exists for this side of the the division entered thenew year. He recommended that a League's work, and gives promise, owing to the increasing liberal appropriation be made for the issuance of a state interest of the general public, of being even more effective the coming year. road map. A report by the retiring chief consul, A Cressy "A debt of gratitude is due from the chief consul to the Morrison followed, in which lie reviewed the work of the secretary-treasurer, Martin Rotier, to whose tireless, per past two years. He said: sistent and energetic efforts, to whose hearty co-operation "Itis fitting that the chief consul of the Wisconsin and to whose good advice much of the phenomenal success Division should, at the close of his administration, render of the League during these two years must be attributed. an account of his stewardship and express his indebtedness "The Wisconsin Division was most ably represented at to his brother officers for their earnest and effective co-oper the National Assembly in New York, and the state was ation daring his administration. honored by the selection of your chief consul for the second "When in the year 1893, the division did me the honor vice-presidency of the League, which gives you representation to intrust the conduct of its affairs to my hands, it was at on the executive committee of three, in whom centers the the close of the most successful year in the League's history. control of the League of American Wheelmen throughout My predecessors had raised the membership to 504, the the nation. highest point then attained, and behind them was a recoi'd "To the board of officers and chairmen of the various of success which left further advancement scarcely to be conimittees the appreciative acknowledgements of the chief anticipated. At the close of the first year in spite of every consul is not only due, but most gratefully extended. endeavor, but owing partially to the financial condition of "To the new chief consul, Mr. Brown, to the secretary- the country, the membership in Wisconsin declined to 426, tcasurer, Mr. Rotier, to their efficient assistants, the board and when the division, in the face of this decline, stood of officers, and to the committees, permit me now to in unanimously for the re-election of the then board of officers, trust the affairs of the Wisconsin Division, League of Ameri it was an expression of confidence which was too compli can Wheelmen, and to congratulate the organization upon mentary and generous to ever be forgotten. the unquestioned qualifications of these gentlemen for the "Efforts were renewed, and at the 1894 meeting of the responsibility. They have my implicit confidence, and I board of officers a resolution was passed permitting the share with the organization the pleasure of anticipating chief consul to organize a good roads league for the state, their able administration." under the auspices of the Wisconsin Division, League of Secretary-Treasurer Rotier's report shows the remark American Wheelmen. " On January 22 a banquet was held at the Hotel able progress in the division during the past year. It is as Pfister which was an unqualified success, and the League follows: found the good roads organization so active and so "The report which I had the pleasure of submitting at thoroughly alive to its duties that the League is to be the annual meeting of members last August so fully covered THE PNEUMATIC. the doings of the Wisconsin Division during the past year Chief Consul Brown then announced the appointment that I feel it scarcely necessary to render another so exten of his standing committees with the exception of the sive, as it would he but a repetition of the other. transportation committee, which he now has under con "The great increase in membership need scarcely be sideration. It is thought that this committee will have commented upon. It is an evidence of the lively interest wheel riders take in the organization and the good work plenty of work to do during the next year in the way of a which has been done by the officers, committees and local fight on the railroads which will charge a baggage rate for consuls. the transportation of wheels, and on this account Mr. "President Willison set the total membership mark at Brown is anxious that the best men in the state be secured 40,000 when the season opened up last spring, and we now for the committee. The committees appointed are as have less than 2,000 to get to reach it. Your secretary, in the official columns of the first Bulletin published last spring, follows: said: ' The Wisconsin Division enters the new League year Racing Board—F. J. Schroeder, chairman, Milwaukee; with a resolute determination to reach the 1,000 markin its L. A. Hodges, Monroe; Hugh Pomeroy, Appleton; J. R. membership this season.' This resolution immediately he- Jones, Racine; Louis Pierron, Milwaukee. came contagious and local consuls everywhere helped to Rights and Privileges — Frank Wootton, chairman, bring to a realization even a higher mark in membership Madison; Wilbert Irwin, La Crosse; Fred Huennekens, than we dared look to. A year ago this month we had 424 Milwaukee; Will Foster, Port Washington; James H. members, while today we have 1095. Our total member McGillan, Marinette. ship this year is made up as follows: 356 renewals of old Highway Improvement —A. C. Runkel, chairman, Otto members, two renewals of lapsed memberships, six transfers Dorner, Milwaukee; C. A. Alderman, Eau Claire; Dr. D. S.- from other divisions and 732 new members, from which one McArthur, La Crosse; S. C. Newman, Kenosha. is deducted for a transfer to another division. The New N. E. Lindquist, of Marinette, and S. J. Ryan, of York division is the only one that passed our mark of 275 Appleton, were elected representatives to the National per cent increase over last year's membership. The fact Assembly at Baltimore. An appropriation of $100 was that at the last National Assembly a ruling was made that made for the expense of the Executive Committee to the a membership in the League should run for a year from the Assembly. The committee comprises Chief Consul Brown, date of his renewal or application for membership, has Vice-Consul Park and Secretary-Treasurer Rotier. shown a large comparative increase in new members during The meeting voted to leave the matter of issuing a this fall and we can look forward to a time when our mem bership will never show a marked decrease at any period of state road map entirely in the hands of the executive com the year because expirations will become uniformly dis mittee of the division which is empowered to appropriate tributed, instead of at one period of the year as heretofore. the necessary funds. It is thought that the map will be " I should like to have the board discuss and decide to ready for publication by April 1. day the advisability of renewing our offer when the renew The offer made to League members last spring, whereby ing season opens up next April, of paying out of the divis each is given a year's renewal in the League free upon fur ion funds a renewal fee to every member who brings in two new applicants for membership with his own renewal nishing two new applicants for League membership, will blank. This offer cost our division last spring $61 and again be offered this year and will go into effect when the brought in 133 new members, bringing back to our treasury renewal season opens up next April. $200.90. On the face of it this certainly looks like a good Henry P. Andrae, on behalf of the Associated Cycling investment and a profitable offer and I will favor its adop Clubs of Milwaukee, proposed the name of Gerhard Aussem, tion again unless a discussion on this subject may prove it to be unwise for other reasons. of Milwaukee, for state handicapper, while A. Martin "Our list of lady members was considerably increased Patitz' name was placed in nomination by F. J. Schroeder. when Appleton came in last month with eighty-two new A petition, signed by about twenty Appleton members, and members. Among them were seven ladies, which now endorsing William Bremer, of Milwaukee, for the position gives us a total of sixteen. was presented by the Appleton delegation. When a vote "Your secretary has been preparing a revised list of was taken Mr. Patitz, of Milwaukee, won and his name League hotels in the state, and only those who fill out and will be recommended to the National Racing Board as offi return a special form of a blank which is sent them will be listed, with the rates to wheelmen. cial state handicapper. "By the aid of local consuls your secretary is also com The following resolution was introduced by J. McGillan piling a list of desirable touring routes which will be and was unanimously adopted: published if this board will appropriate money for it or RESOLVED, That it is the sentiment of the Board of Offi appoint a committee to solicit advertisements to pay for cers of the Wisconsin Division, L. A. W., that the League the expense of issuing." should continue its control of bicycle racing as heretofore, Otto Dorner, a member of the highway improvement and that it would be a mistake and to the detriment of its committee, spoke on the progress of the good roads move interests for the League to abandon the same. ment in. the state and urged that $150 be appropriated to RESOLVED, That the delegates of the Division to the Na tional Assembly be instructed to use every honorable means carry on the work during the ensuing year. Later the to prevent such abandonment. officers allowed the committee $100. S. D. Baird, of Neenah, introduced the following reso Secretary-Treasurer Rotier introduced a number of lution which was adopted: amendments to the by-laws which were adopted. RESOLVED, That the board of officers of the Wisconsin THE PNEUMATIC. Division, L. A. W.,, assembled at Marinette this twentieth A Speedy La Crosse Rider. day of December, 1895, recognizing the faithful and efficient Otto Gudenschwager, of La Crosse, during the past service of its late chief consul, Mr. A. Cressy Morrison, and its present secretary-treasurer, Mi G. Rotier, express their season established a record that is perhaps not equaled by appreciation of the efforts of these gentlemen, in bringing any other rider in the state. Of sixteen races in which he the division to its present membership, high standing and entered he won ten, and secured second place in four others prestige and their gratefulness for the, unselfish services and third place in the rendered. other two. Guden A resolution, introduced by S. J. Ryan, of Appleton, schwager is twenty was passed, recommending to the National Racing Board, years of age and a that the handicapping fees be reduced from 25 to 15 cents native of Germany. He each, and for class races, from 10 to 5 cents each. came to this country The fight for the state meet was one-sided, Appleton eight years ago and having the best of it from the start. S. J. Ryan proposed during the past five Appleton, while Henry P. Andrae and Otto Dorner spoke years has made his for the Associated Cycling Clubs of Milwaukee, which home in La Crosse. He wanted the meet. The Rev. John Faville, of Appleton, said learned to ride a wheel that the latter city had for a year been at work to arrange last year and soon for the meet, and was now ripe for the same. On the other after he entered the hand, he said, Milwaukee had been asleep for a long time races which were held and was now like a big unripe pumpkin. He thought that ' at La Crosse on the about a year hence "the pumpkin" might have ripened Fourth of July and sufficiently to be ready for the '97 meet. S. J. Ryan showed won one of the events. a subscription list, on which $2,160 had been guaranteed With the opening of by Appleton business men, if the meet was secured. An the '95 season Guden informal ballot resulted as follows: Appleton, 8; Milwau schwager developed re kee, 4; Madison, 1. On motion of H. P. Andrae, the in markable speed. On the last Fourth of July he entered the formal ballot was made formal and the officers made the ten mile road race at La Crosse and from the one minute choice of Appleton unanimous. After passing a resolution mark won first time and first place in 31:14, The same day of thanks for the use of the K. of P. hall, the meeting was hewon all the races he entered in the afternoon. He carried adjourned. off the one mile La Crosse County Wheelmen championship, Wisconsin Is Eighth. the half mile open and the three mile handicap, in which he The year now rapidly closing is a record breaker for the was given twenty-five yards and which he rode in 7:54. L. A. W. The best previous record was in 1893, when On September 2 he again won the La Crosse County Wheel 36,979 members were enrolled. Today it is 38,095, an men's championship race, he riding the mile under favorable increase of 1,090. Secretary Bassett's figures show that conditions in 2:26. On September 28 the club arranged thirty-one divisions show gains over last year, while another championship event which Gudenschwager again eighteen are at their highest notch. It will be noted that won though his tire gave out after the first quarter. the popularity of the L. A. W. is not generally growing so fast as in Wisconsin, where a remarkable gain has been Gudenschwager is a member of the La Crosse County made, Wisconsin standing eighth in the list. The standing Wheelmen and is considered one of the speediest men in the and comparison with other years, follow: western part of the state. Next year he will follow the 189.1. 1RM. 1805. I«II:I. 1HM. lufln. state circuit and it is probable that lie will give some Class Alabama you .'18 4» Nevada HI 5 a Arizona...... 1H :w 114 Now Hampshire 3711 MB 551 A men a lively time on the track. Arkansas m (IB 838 NewJormiy 9,011) 1,433 8.4 IH Colorado ; »n IMS BSD NowMoxlco. !)7 ai i_ Oonnecticut a,_)7 l.ltH) 1MB Now York •1,53a 3, Ml) 0,51_ Delaware,. •17 i;i 3!) North Carolina (IU IIS a» A Good Roads Law. District of Columbia. ana 03 18 North California..., W 473 8(15 Florida •1!) la 13 North Dakota '.. 71 13 HO No. 88,767, of the L. A. W. recently sent to the L. A. W. Georgia 152 MI 12 Ohio a,2iu 1,644 1,080 Idaho 8 5 S Oklahoma „.. 15 4 1)5 Bulletin, under a Madison date, the following: The Wis Illinois 2,511 1,6-ft 1,501 Oregon 43 Ml » Indiana hSI W49 1)38 Pennsylvania •i,r>f>7 3,353 4,418 consin legislature has shown some interest in the cry for Iowa II!) 1 57(1 733 Rliodo Inland (135 •UNI 5011 Kansas 3311 an 415 South California.... 307 IDA m good roads, At its session in 1893, the following law was Kentucky dill '157 •170 South Dakota 101 _) in Louisiana W (1 11 South Carolina 41) 1(1 _w passed. Maine •m 377 4(1!) Tennessee „. 111) 145 IW Maryland OIH 5H7 088 Texan..... , «)'! •Mi JUT "Any wagon with tires three inches wide and upwards, Massachusetts 11,2(17 5,337 5,383 Utah 7(1 m 157 Mtchigarr \,w filK) UU_ Vermont , Hi! Oil 511 owned and used by a farmer in his vocation as such, shall Minnesota « Ii 14 y ID Virginia 171. 131 IIW Mississippi c r_ 78 Washington.... 11- iu- 53 be exempt from taxation from and after the first day of Missouri Hflfi (SIKI 1,478 West Virginia 1!» 151 35 Montana m 47 13 WlBconslu 'IIW 4B8 1.095 January, 1894." • Nebraska at HI m a-iii Wyoming _w 40 1 37 This list was compiled December 1,1895, This is a law which is nearly two years old but to some Wisconsin's total is to date. may be new. THE PNEUMATIC. Appleton's League Club. More Riders Suspended. Appleton has organized a League club and there are Though the racing season is over, the western repre feW organizations in the state which are as actively at work sentative of the Racing Board, Fred Gerlach, of Chicago, is at this time of the year. The club is known as the Appleton not allowing the violators of the racing rules to go unpun Cycling Club and the following officers have been elected: ished. He still continues to suspend riders who have been President, C. L. Marston; vice-president, Harvey G. found guilty of competing in unsanctioned meets in this Pearson; secretary, H. E. Pomeroy; treasurer, Alfred state during the past season. Not long ago Charles Galpin. When the club was organized the members informed Stangle, of La Crosse, was suspended for sixty days for the division officers that theyintended to furnish about 150 competing in an unsanctioned event. Riders in this state Leaguemembersbeforethenewyearsets in. Ofthis number thought it was a joke to be suspended during the winter nearly 100 members have been sent in and more when their suspension would not effect them in the least. are looked for. There seems to be little doubt that before The racing board now has adopted new tactics. William the spring opens it will be the largest League club in the G. Baxter, of Montfort, F. Krell, of Dry Bone, R. C. state. Appleton next year will be one of the most impor Smelker, of Madison, and Arthur Shay, of Highland, have tant cycling cities in Wisconsin. It already boasts of having been suspended until July 1 for competing in unsanctioned the only cycling path in Wisconsin and as soon as the meets. This suspension will deprive them of taking part in weather will permit there is some talk of extending the a number of races next summer. path, and also of improving the track atthe place. Business A Challenge From Waukesha. men there have taken an active interest, in the sport and The Waukesha Wheelmen are making extensive prepara will do all they can to promote the same. Several large tions for a pool tournament to be given in the near future. meets will probably be arranged for during the summer. The management of the affair will be in the hands of the An Insane Man's Ride. amusement committee. An entrance fee will be charged and Recently, at Oshkosh, Isaac Spencer, a middle aged, prizes offered. In case the entries are so as to make it well-to-do and respected resident left home on his bicycle, advisable, they will be divided into two classes, the winners with the intention of returning in a few minutes. He did not of each class to play off for final honors. An official come back, and for three weeks the only word received was handicapper and referee will be appointed, and a very contained in two or three letters sent from townsin Indiana, interesting tourney is looked for. Will Agnew, who filled Kentucky and Tennessee, in which he gave an incoherent the position of referee so satisfactorily at the last tourna account of himself. In one, dated Thornton, Indiana, Mr. ment, is again spoken of for the place and would give Spencer wrote that he was riding 100. miles a day on his general satisfaction. Beside the local tournament, the boys bicycle, and he seemed to be impressed with the belief that have challenged the Milwaukee Wheelmen for a series of the officers of the law were pursuing him for some reason. games at continuous pool and have received word from the The next information received was contained in a .letter Milwaukee club that they are ready to play the local boys mailed at Louisville, Ky. In this missive Mr. Spencer gave three games at their rooms in Milwaukee, at any time after continued evidence that he was flighty. All this time his December 20, and will play three return games here any wife was unable to locate him, on account of his leaving time after January 3. As there are a number of very strong the cities directly after he had written his letters. Then a players in the local club the match will be a very interesting letter was received from him while he was at Nashville. It one from the start to the finish. was written by a physician in charge of a hospital and Henry Kanaska Returns. Stated that Spencer, on whose person were discovered Henry Kanaska, the young professional, has returned letters giving his residence, had been found out in the from France where he has spent the past season. He says country, a short distance from Nashville, and that he was he is well satisfied with his trip and made as much money atthe time the letter was written, in a hospital suffering as he expected. He has no desire, however, to go to Europe from an attack of brain fever. On recovery Spencer was again next year, and will remain in America and go against brought home and with him his much dilapidated wheel, he professionals in this country. "I have improved consider evidently having ridden the whole distance. able since I was last in Milwaukee," said Kanaska the Road Map of the State. other day, "and I think I can make it interesting for some The road map of Wisconsin which the officers of the of the American professionals. I left New York on May 29 division have been working on for some time will shortly be and secured employment with a Birmingham cycle com completed. Arrangements for the printing-of the same are pany/which later sent me to Paris, where I also made a now being made and as soon as the work of compiling the contract with a tife company. I went into training and map is completed, it will be turned over to a publisher. It was taken sick, and remained in that condition until the is expected that by next spring the map will have been pub latter part of July. I had scarcely recovered when I met lished. A tour book is now also being compiled. with an accident on a German track which again disabled THE PNEUMATIC. me. In this way I had trouble right along, and was only under consideration for some time and members of it have able to ride in nine races of which I won four. I did not visited nearly all of the local dealers with the view of succeed in getting any records but came within very close getting their opinions of the undertaking. Everywhere the time of them. . promoters of the project have met with encouragement and " Banker and Wheeler were also there but they did little there seems to be no question about the success of the in France. There are good riders over there and it's no snap undertaking. The Ethical building is a fine place for an tobeatthem. No, there is no organization like the L. A. W. exhibition. It is located on one of the wheelmen's favorite there. Everybody rides as he pleases, and all prizes are for thoroughfares, and is central to all parts of the city. The cash. The races are well attended and at some of those at auditorium, stage and lobby, where the main exhibition which I rode, as many as 15,000 people were there. I do will be held comprise a space 100 by 45 feet, and there not like the country because I cannot talk French. It was are a dozen large rooms besides that can be utilized to rather lonesome for me and I'm glad to get back." advantage. The charges for space to exhibitors will be moderate, and the admission fee will be placed at a low Election of New Officers. figure. The South Side Cycling Club has elected the following If possible, a stage performance will be made a feature new officers: President, G. Simmerling; vice-president, of the show. Good music will be a certainty. A committee Jason Church; corresponding secretary, William E. Mil will be appointed without delay to take charge of all brath; financial secretary, I. D. Lundy; treasurer, H. G. details, and a committee room in the building will be placed Winther; board of directors, John R. Connell, Joseph Cordes, at its disposal. Bicycle shows in other cities are popular Henry Stoltz and William E. Acker; captain, E. A. Clifford;: attractions, and it is believed that an exhibition here will first lieutenant, R. Steinkopf; second lieutenant, B. Save- prove equally entertaining. land. North Side Cycle Show. v North Side Club's Election. The North Side club is making great preparations for The annual election of the North Side club will be very its cycle show which will be held at the club room On Reser spirited. There are two or more candidates for each posi voir avenue from January 18 to 26. Nearly all the space in tion with the exception of president, and a lively campaign the building has been contracted for. The show will be is being conducted by all who have been placed in nomina held on both floors of the building. It has not been fully tion. The following tickets are in the field : decided just when the exhibits will be open, but it is very President, A. C. Runkel, renominated with no opposi probable that the committee in charge of the arrangements tion ; first vice-president, Louis Pierron; A. Bunke, Emil will decide to open the show nightly from 7 to 12 o'clock'. Koehn; second vice-president, (a new office) Gerhard During the day time no visitors are to be admitted. Aussem, H. Otto ; corresponding secretary, Theodore Gau- Arrangements have been made with the Edison Illuminating ger, Ed. G. Rothweiler, W. Barrelman; financial secretary, Company to light the club house with electricity. Among Theodore Gauger, Fred Bakelmaim, W. Barrelman; treas those who have already secured space are the Julius Andrae urer, H. Otto, A. Kohr, Ed. Harnish; captain, Ed. & Sons Company, the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Com Harnish, Emil Koehn; first lieutenant, Henry Guterson, pany, the Bolte Manufacturing Company, the Union Com H. Pierron, JuliusSchok, F. Thompson; board of directors, pany, Cribb & Company, the Chief Cycle Works and several (nine to be elected) A. C. Runkel, Alex Bunke, Louis others. The show will no doubt attract considerable atten Pierron, Emil Koehn, Ed. Harnish, William Pierron, A. tion among the members of the various local clubs, all of Kohr,Theodore Gauger, Chas, Dehn, B. G. Rothweiler, which will be invited to participate. Charles Schutz, H. Guterson; delegates to Associated Cycling Club, Alex Bunke, Gerhard Aussem, Louis Pierron. Two Members Were Ready. On the day before Thanksgiving, the North Side club Ethical Society's Cycle Show. made its annual announcement that its usual Thanksgiving The Milwaukee Ethical Society has decided to hold a race would be run, rain or shine. The turkeys and ham, cycle show in its building at 558 Jefferson street some time which were to constitute the prizes, were purchased, but sifter the holidays. The details of the arrangements have when the time for starting came around, the club members not been completed but it has been decided to make the found a foot of snow on the ground and the weather near show one of the largest that has ever been held in the zero. Second Lieutenant Otto Tank was on hand at the West. All the leading manufacturers of the country are appointed hour with his wheel. R. C. Lemke, whose home to be invited, and as this is the first opportunity that has is in Menominee Falls, came to the city and was also ready ever been offered ,to exhibit wheels in Wisconsin, it is very to start. But none of the other members of the club would probable that nearly all .the invitations will be accepted. enter the race and it was then declared off. The arrangements and the date for holding it will be fixed according to the views of the local dealers. The show will Bicycles are becoming a mark for the tax gatherers in probably last a week. The society has had the matter Canada as well as in the United States. THE PNEUMATIC. Sanger Still Undecided. PART ONE, Introduction or the Minstrels Lu' CYL in Batonical Evolutions "Climbln' on Me Golden Wheel," O. L. MEISTBH William Sanger is still undecided as to whether or not "Daisies Wont Tell," DANIEL HUNTER "Streets of Cairo," SAM DOCTBR to turn professional next year. He would like to followthe "The Song that Beached My Heart," HENRY SULLIVAN "TimToolan," JACK FOLEY races and ride for cash but before deserting the L. A. W. he "I Want Yer, Ma Honey," FRED CAI. HOTJN "Snow Flakes," .'.'. : CHARLES S. DATIES wants to assure himself as to the prospects of professional FINALE—Lucy Daly ana her Pickaninnies impersonated by Jack Foley ana Company' i n ''De Leader of de Co. B," M. Witmark & Sons, Publishers, riders. New York. PART TWO. Associated Cycle Club Organized. BENNIE LTJ' GYL Premier Juggler and Indian Club Expert CAL HOTJN and HURLEY In their Own Inimitable Specialties The Association of Cycling Clubs has now been accom MANHATTAN MANDOLIN QUINTETTE— A. C. Mueller, J. B. Freuler, George Becker, H. Mueller, Chas. Zetteler plished and in the future all important cycling events will SAK DOOTEK '.'. ' The Sunny Son of Italy (by request) a R U a be considered by it. At a recent meeting of the delegates of MASTER and SURGES ; |£?eni_c ^ m a nXmedianS * r _, -,n nni. 1 The Eival of the Mocking 'Bird the various local clubs at-the South Side club's rooms on m ALFRBDO -tioi/r ...... -( In ms sUperD and Captivating Solos Extraordinary Reed street and National avenue a constitution was HERB GROEMANN . ...J The Modern Mephisto adopted and officers were elected. The North Side club, the 1 In His.Wonderful Feats of Magic Milwaukee Wheelmen, the Badger Wheelmen, the South Walter Sanger Home Again. Side club, the Cream City Wheelmen and the Niagara Walter C. Sanger has returned home and will remain in Wheelmen were represented, and the delegates reported that the city until the racing season opens next spring. His last the constitution for ride was at Denver merly agreed upon where he tried to was satisfactory to lower the world's the clubs and was unpaced mile record thereupon adopted. which Hamilton Theelection of officers, recently captured in who will serve until 2 : 00 % . Sanger some time in January before leaving the city when the annual had closed a contract meeting will be held, with the Waltham resulted as follows: Manufacturing Com President, P. H.Cam-. pany which built him bier, Badger Wheel a special Orient wheel men ; first, vice-presi fitted vvith Yim tires dent, H. P. Andrae, for the race. His Mil waukeeWheelmen; wheel was geared to second vice-president, ninety-two but the A. Bunke, North Side, best he did was to tie club; third vice-presi the record made by dent, J. W. Warnken, Hamilton. It was his Niagara Wheelmen;, secretary, Emil Ludwig, Cream City intention to remain in Denver for several weeks and get Wheelmen; treasurer, Gerhard Aussem, North Side club. accustomed to the climate, but before he could get into proper condition the weather became so cold that it was Milwaukee Wheelmen Minstrels. impossible to ride. It was nearly zero when he left Denver The annual minstrel show of the Milwaukee Wheelmen and returned home. at the Pabst theater on December 19, was a grand success. Sanger looks, well and says that he has entirely Though the weather was unfavorable for the occasion, the recovered from his illness of last spring. He will not do theater was well filled with an appreciative audience. Every any racing during the winter but will spend all his time in cycling club in the city was represented. The jokes were all' the city. His local friends are already after him with of a local character and were greeted with hearty applause. skating matches and several informal races will probably H. P. Andrae and R. P. Wheeler were the interlocutors, E. be held on the river during the winter. He expects to do D. Haven, F. Cal Houn, Jack Hurley, Joseph Landauer, great work next season. bones; Sam Docter, O. L. Meister, G. C. Bartels and Bill}' Simpson, tambos, and Henry Sullivan, Daniel Hunter, E. E. The Roth and Crocker investigation, about which so Wood, Charles S. Davis, David Cole. A. C. Mueller, J. R. much has been said in the press, amounts to nothing. Freuler, G. Becker, R. Mueller and Charles Zetteler, vocal Ernest Fails, the trainer, filed charges against the two ists. The programme was as follows: ! B men with Gerlach but nothing has been verified. THE PNEUMATIC. Trouble About Prizes. Appleton Man's New Bicycle. The distribution of the prizes that were offered in the ErnestWallgren, an Appleton draughtsman, has invented Semi-Centennial parade is causing considerable trouble. a new bicycle. It is essentially a racing wheel, the design After the parade the decision of the judges was protested by being to gain lightness and speed without extra exertion. some of the clubs and the executive committee having The frame instead of being diamond shaped is triangular, charge of the wheelmen finally straightened out the matter. the portion at the crown head being about the same as on It decided that the award of the prize of $25 to the South the present wheel, while the small angle is attached to the Side club for the largest representation could not be made, hub of the rear wheel. The pedals are attached to this hub, and accordingly the committee awarded the North Side club with the gearing apparatus in the same place. The wheel the prize. That club was also given the prize of $50 will have no seat, but to replace it, above the head will be for having the largest representation of ladies in line. placed supports for the shoulders, so that a rider will liter Recently the officers of the club called on H. B. Wilkins, ally stand upon the pedals and gain more power both from chairman of the finance committee, with the orders for the this fact and from an almost backward kick. There will of two prizes. The chairman refused to pay the orders because course be no chain or sprocket wheel. Mr. Wallgren has their was no report from the judges on the matter. Now made drawings of the proposed machine and sent them to a the North Side club is trying to ascertain how it can firm of bicycle manufacturers, with the intention of having secure the $75.. The Ladies' auxiliary of the club is especially one made. He will have this first wheel geared to 125.— incensed and the ladies threaten to call on Mr. Wilkins in a The Milwaukee Journal. body. EdTlRoth Wastes His Wind, The club threatens to engage counsel and begin suit for The only specimen on earth who can handicap a life the recovery of the prizes if the money is not forthcoming insurance • agent and finish first in a talking match is a at an early date. bicycle salesman. Ed. Roth, who is selling the Telegram Wont Accept the Offer. wheel this year, was in the city today and exhibiting two The South Side club has decided not to accept the pro sample machines at McCulloch's store. They were much position of the Nonpareil Boat Club to join its club in a admired and the worthy bicycle pusher never tired of body providing that the South Side club would engage an explaining the strong points of his wheel. One tall stranger instructor for its gymnasium. entered and catching sight of the nobby looking machines bent over to examine them. It was the agent's opportunity Johnson flay Skate Here. and he proceeded to get in his work. He started in with a An effort is being made to have John S. Johnson, the spurt and increased his speed steadily. Tubing, bearings, Minneapolis cyclist and skater, come to Milwaukee during frame arid pedals were passed before he reached the half mile thewinterto skate against 01ufRudd,the Monroebrothers, post. The stranger looked interested and Roth gathered of West Superior, and other fast men. himself together for one of his famous finishes. A peculiar Brief Local Notes. light spread over the stranger's face and with a guileless The South Side club recently gave a "hard-times" smile, he drew forth a card and wrote in plain letters, "I am smoker. deaf and dumb." The wheelman's spirit is broken and he never smiles.—Stevens Point Journal. A "hard-times " smoker was held recently by the North Side club. Several Agencies Placed. A series of match pool games is now on between the The J. S. Medary Saddlery Company, of La Crosse, Milwaukee Wheelmen and the Waukesha Cycling Club. Wis,, will handle the National, Monarch, Cleveland and a The annual election of the Milwaukee Wheelmen will be line of cheaper wheels. W. B. Medary will manage the held on the second Monday in January. No formal nomina bicycle department. tion of officers has been made. To Build a Motocycle Plant. The annual election of officers of the Badger Wheelmen A Racine dispatch says: — It was learned here today will be held on the second Thursday in January. The club that Clinton, Iowa, is to have a plant known as the Clinton will give a ball at the West Side Turner Hall on Saturday. motocycle and power company. The company has pur Parker H. Sercombe is now managing editor of the chased the patents of the Kane-Pennington engine from Laredo Daily News, published at Laredo, Texas. The news Thomas Kane & Company, manufacturing its vehicles in has come out in improved form, as a morning paper, and this city. The Kane-Pennington horseless vehicles and the has the Associated press service. Kane-Pennington engines are to be made. Today Mr. Bicycling World of Boston,has opened permanent West Pennington and J. B. Carse departed for England where it ern headquarters in Chicago, with Fenton S. Fox as man is understood that persons there have purchased the right ager. ' to manufacture the horseless vehicles and engines. THE PNEUMATIC. A Modern Lochinvar. this apartment. Henry Helling, who has done the enamel Oh, young Lochinvar has come out of the West, ing on the Telegram machines beginning with the very first Through all the wide border his wheel was the hest, number, is a member of this firm and has the plant under And save his good "Ki-yi" the weapons had none, He rode without a lantern, he rode all alone, his personal supervision. So faithful in love and too speedy by far, There never was cyclist like the young Lochinvar. A Novel Handlebar. He staid not for brake, and he stopped not for stone, The D.D.Warner Company, of Madison, has adopted a He coasted down Cemetery Hill without being thrown. novel adjustable handlebar for its '96 models. It can he But ere he alighted at Handlebar gate, The bride had consented, the cyclist came late, adjusted for any position the rider may wish to assume and For a weak little dude, who could not ride far, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the Handlebar hall, 'Mong bridesmen and Mlnsmen and wheelmen and all. Then spoke the bride's father, his foot In his boot, For the poor weakly bridegroom stood perfectly mute, "Oh, come ye In peace here, or come ye from afar To cause trouble at our wedding, you young Lochinvar?" "I long wooed your daughter, my suit you did fire, My love then escaped, it was like puncturing a tire, And now I have come, with this former love of mine To set the pace for one race, to drink one cup of wine, There are maidens in Stoughtou more lovely by far, That would gladly bo the bride of young Lochinvar." is always rigid in adjustment and light and strong. The The bride filled the goblet, the cyclist took it up, mechanism cannot be seen and the handle cannot be told He drank all the wine then set down the cup. She looked upon him proudly, all could readily see, from a regular bar. The new mechanism is easy to manipu She smiled at him willingly, because he was Class B, late and once in position it cannot work loose. He took her soft hand ere her mother could bar, "Now set the pace," said young Lochinvar. New Wood Rim Factory. One touch to her hand, one word In her ear, The 'Vineyard Wood Rim Company, of Chicago, is When they reached the hall door the tandem stood near. So lightly on the wheel the fair lady he swung, preparing to establish a factory at New London.' It is one So lightly to the saddle behind her he sprung, of the largest concerns of its kind in the West. " She Is won I we are going over path, street, and road afar, They'll have swift bikes that follow," quoth young Loohlnvar. New Firm at Neenah. There was mounting 'mong sprockets of the Handlebar clan, R. J. Lass and S.E.Burnham have formed a partnership Wheelers, riders and scorchers, they rode and they ran. There was racing,and chasing on road and on track, at Neenah and will manufacture bicycles ttnder the name of 'But the cycling fugitives ne'er were brought back. Lass & Burnham. The members of the firm are well So daring in love and too speedy by far, Have you e'er heard o£ a rider like young Lochinvar? known among cyclists of Neenah and Menasha. — Con. Knudson, Madison, Wis. Richard S. Baird, a popular wheelman for many years Andrae Drummers' Territory. in this city has quit the printing business and assumed the Territory has been assigned the traveling men of the management of the cycle department of the Brown Carriage Julius Andrae & Sons Company as follows: J. C. Sehmidt Company. He has secured the agency for the Stearns and bauer, the East; H. J. Warner, the far West; C. F. Riehl, Fowler machines. Ohio and Pennsylvania; Everett Beckwith, Illinois and Larson and Edwards have entered the wheel business in Michigan; S. H. Rowland, Iowa; James Kelly, Iowa and Macfarland, Wisconsin, and will handle Warner Specials and part of Michigan ; A. B. Anderson, Wisconsin. Madisons. Mr. Larson is a well-known and enthusiastic Enameling an Art. wheelman. A walk through the establishment of the Milwaukee At Racine, the Racine Bicycle Company has been incor Japan-Enameling Company proved interesting to one of porated by S. Field, J. F. Johnson and T. M. Kearney, with our representatives. In the laboratory and enameling a capital of $5,000. The firm will at once begin the manu room the men were engaged in applying the enamel to the facture of wheels. frame and preparing them for the ovens, of which there Puncture Proof Tire. are three. The first oven which was built last February Stahl's puncture proof tire is becoming very popular when the company began business, holds sixty-four frames among wheelmen in this state. It is a single tube tire, and forks, the second one holding fifty-eight' was built two looking very much like any other single tube. It weighs a months later expressly for colored enameling which requires trifle under four pounds per pair. It is slightly heavier ou a different temperature. The third oven, recently built, the tread than elsewhere. Here is where the greatest holds 160 frames and forks and is one of the largest in the protection is needed. By a patent chemical process a tread country. All the ovens are heated by gas. The greatest section is obtained which is lively, resilient and speedy, enemy that the enameler has to contend with is dust and yet will be found to offer very great resistance to the utmost precautions are taken to avoid it from entering puncture. The rider mounting a wheel using these tires THE PNEUMATIC. would never know by external appearance or ease of riding any difference'from the other high grade tires lacking the quality of "puncture proof"-ness. Come and See An Important Tire Deal. The The Canadian Rubber Co,, of Montreal, the largest rub Great ber manufacturing concern in the Dominion of Canada, Milwaukee incorporated for $2,000,000., doing an enormous business, has been licensed by the Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Co., to manufacture "G & J." tires for the Dominion of CYCLE SHOW Canada exclusively, and from and after this date that con cern controls the manufacture and sale of the G. & J. tires at the throughout the Dominion of Canada. CLUB HOUSE of the Cyclometer Firm Incorporated. The United States Manufacturing Company has been NORTH SIDE CYCLING CLUB incorporated at Fond du Lac by J. E. Bean, F. J. Lang and F. J.Rueping for the purpose of manufacturing cyclometers. under whose auspices The company has a capital it will be given stock of $21,000. It holds valuable patents on its cyclo meter which has become well- JANUARY known throughout the North west. 18 to 26 The Cyclometer is one inch long weighs one and one-quar Open Every Evening till 12. Free Admission. ter ounce, and attaches on right, allowing the lamp to be carried on left side. It has an entirely new register action, a train of positive gears tak ing place of the pawl system r used in'95. All parts are sim Puncture ple, small, positive in action and dust and water-proof. The clamp is curved, throw ing the meter up and close to fork, out of the way, Proof and safe from accident. The meter is adjustable on the clamp for proper distance from the spokes. It registers Bicycle 10,000 miles by tenths and reads plainly from the saddle in a straight line. It can be run backward or forward and repeats or may easily be set at any time. It is made for Tire ' |f#fe 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, %, 28 and 30-inch wheels. It is inter changeable to any size, and will be changed free of charge. Our tire prevents punctures. A wrench accompanies each meter, the ends fitting the V No repair outfits clamp nut and spoke stud. Every meter is tested at a high necessary. speed, and guaranteed accurate. It is guaranteed fully, and should it get out of order, accidently or otherwise, it Oatiloguo ml Sitnplo . , will be repaired or replaced free of charge. Besides cyclo meters, this firm will also market U.S. odometers, and U. S. detachable lamp brackets. NO PUNCTURES TO REPAIR The Huennekens Cycle Co. „ ADDRESS! Are importers of and dealers in bicycles, bicycle parts and 8 sundries, at wholesale, to cycle agents and dealers. Special The Puncture Proof Tire 60. QUINCY, ILLINOIS. « prices and discounts given on application. Address 124 Ferry street, Milwakee, and get catalogue. , MENTION THE "PNEUS.'' THE PNEUMATIC. Names of Wisconsin Wheels. A Poem. The Referee for some time past has been compiling a I ask not wealth or other weal, list of all the names of bicycles manufactured in this Care not if fortune smile or frown country. Milwaukee is well represented in the list. The While I've my good wheel names marked with an asterisk denotes that two or more And little cot, just out of town. firms use the same name on wheels. The following is the For when the dew is on the grass, list of Wisconsin wheels and their makers: Where sun and shade alternate play, Julius Andrae & Sons Company, Milwaukee —Andrae, And breezes loiter as we pass Calumet. Down the long and level well-kept way — Badger Cycle Company, Madison—Badger. Though near the top of life's long hill Bolte Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee — Bolte, And ready for its slow decline — *Defender, Herold. I feel again my pulses thrill Buezemaker Bros., Milwaukee—Milwaukee. And drink anew youth's nerving wine. I see a green and pleasant slope Chief Cycle Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee — That satisfies my utmost need, Chief. And capture health, and joy, and hope, Clement, Williams & Company, Milwaukee — *Zenith. When aided by my silent steed. Lindsay Bros., Milwaukee— Americus, Athletic, Alva —"Beth Day." South Kaukauna, Wis. Special, Albert Lea Special, Ann Arbor, The '96 Andrae Catalogue. American Star, Broadway, Berwick, The '96 catalogue of the Julius An Brilliant, Bruice, Bowlley Special, Bluff drae & Sons Company is now in the City, Central City, Circle, Cornell, MORGAN XWRIGHTTIRES hands of the printer and will be ready *Cyclone, Coppin Special, Dixie, Detroit for distribution among the trade in Special, Duchess Richmond, Dictator ARE GOOD TIRES about a month. The catalogue gives a No. 1, *Elk, Eckstein, *Electric, Escort, full description of the firm's line for next Forward, Field Racer, *Fast Mail, season, and promises to eclipse their Favorite, Famous, Goshem Special,Gem, last year's specimen in beautiful typo Hawkeye, Hare, Hub Model, Hawley EASY TO DISTINGUISH King Roadster, Hennecke Special, Iro OUR QUICK-REPAIR TIRE graphy and color printing. ITS STEM IS RED quois, Indiana, Ingalls Special, Jzzer, SEND FOR QUICK-REPAIR PAMPHLET Manufacturers Have a Big Field. ILLUSTRATED FROM LIFE *James, Keystone, Kennedy Special, Bicycle manufacturers are cheered Limited, La Crosse, Lindsay, Monitor, by the thought that even if there are Minerva, * Manhattan, *Mohawk, 2,000,000 people in the United States Madelia, Model, Midland, Northland, now riding bicycles, there are at least *New York, Oak Harbor Special, Ohio MORGAN & WRIGHT 50,000,000 yet to besupplied. The Model, Oriola, Orion, Oriole Flyer, prospect is almost as brilliant as that Osgood Special, Onward, Ottumwa, which unfolds itself before the man Plymouth, Priscilla, Pinney Harr who thinks of the number of possible Special, Pontiac, Planet Jr., Pet, Queen Belle, Redbird, subscribers for a new juvenile magazine. Reiter Special, Racine, Reeves, Ranged, *Reliable, *Rapid Q. & J. Liberality. Transit, Red Star, Sandberg, Syndicate, Saginaw, *Star, Much favorable, comment has been passed upon the Sweepstakes, Stevens Special, Shane Flyer, Special, Trojan, generous way in which the Gormully & Jeffery Manufactur Trusty, Timekeeper, Toledo,*Vassar, Walsh Special, Welles- ing Company have dealt with those of their customers who ley, Wonder, Yale, Yale Model No. 40, "Zephyr. were unfortunate enough to have lost wheels and clothing Moore Manufacturing and Foundry Company, Mil in the fire which destroyed their Brooklyn branch. While waukee—Moore, Magic, Matchless. there was no local responsibility In the matter, the G. & J. Mystic Cycle Works, Mukwonago — Mystic. company promptly replaced all destroyed wheels and cloth Pollitt Cycle Works, Milwaukee—The "Only," ing belonging to their patrons. Those who have been thus Sieg.&'Walpole Manufacturing Company, Kenosha — treated are naturally very much pleased with the generous Argyle, Bellevue, Concord,Desting, Hampden,Kennelworth, spirit displayed. Langly, Lenox, Lexington, Metropole, Minneola, *Rialto, . STAra o- OHIO, OITY O_ TOLEDO, (, „_ LUCAS COUN__ . 1"' Revere, Sherwood, Sampson, Seridan, Fremont, Windsor. PBANK J. (JHENEr makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of F.J. CHEHBY _CO,, doing business In the oity of Toledo, County and Soper Furniture Company, Oshkosh—Oshkosh Chief, State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED Sunlight Ladies. DOLLARS for each and every case of Oatarrh that cannot be cured by the use of HALL'S CATABBH OTOE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Company, Milwaukee — Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this 6th day of Sanger Racer, Telegram, * Winner. December, A. D. 1886. ( __— A. W. GLEASON, D. D. Warner Company, Madison—Madison, Warner •j SEAL j- Notary Public. Special. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Wicks Cycle Company, Milwaukee —Mercury Flier. _#"Sold by Drup3ists, 75o. - . J. CHENEY „ CO., Toledo. O. THE PNEUMATIC. Advertising Axioms. Why Pauline Hall's Cheeks Are Red. By J. WALTER THOMPSON-, of New York. Pauline Hall never uses cosmetics. " Even in my stage The reward of the faithful advertiser is certain. make-up," she says, "I use as little as possible of any Man advertises and the people make purchases. preparation of any kind. Beyond the shading of the eyes, "Many men, many minds." Many ads. in many publi which is necessary for any actor or actress, I do not make up at all. A fivemil e bicycle ride daily instead of a five cations, many buyers. hour champagne supper will give actresses all the color they The name and quality of good goods can be advertised could want in their cheeks." so as to be "more lasting than brass." f^t^t^^^^^^&^^^^^J* Make your ads. speak the truth boldly, and the people will appreciate your frankness and respond. "From nothing (in-the lead ¥ * ing publications) nothing comes." From something, however, results tk $925 are sure to come. ¥ w " May his fame endure forever" —the advertiser who advertises with sensible copy that appeals i to the sense of the people. $. mason $ tiamlin < By vote of the racing board. L. D. Cabanne, St. Louis; C. M. Murphy, Brooklyn; and F. J. Piano Titus, New York City; have been offered by us' in the Spring: to the club whose placed upon the list of racing men member, mounted on a Columbia Bicycle equipped who are permanently barred from with Hartford Single-Tube Tires, should between further participation in League May I and October I make the best time in a races. This suspension dates from 25-mile road race, has been won for the Parfcside Wheeling'Club of Buffalo, N. Y., by Mr. Cal September 2, 1895, the men hav Paxson,who on September 30, at Buffalo, over ing been permitted, to ride under ¥ the Corfu course, secured the protest, pending settlement of their case. World's 25-mik Road Record Frank Putman, once city ¥ editor of the Daily News, and cyclist enthusiast before he frac- I:02?20 'tured his leg in an accident several ¥ under the terms of our offer. The Century Road years ago, is in Chicago and a Club has just awarded the record to Mr, Paxson regular contribu tor of short stories and the piano to his club. We shall have the piano shipped to the Parfcside Club at once, and to the Bi. World. beg- to congratulate its members and Mr. Paxson ¥ on his success. The many clubs who competed When Sterling Elliott came out with the suggestion that, in trans for this prize have reason to be proud of the men porting wheels in baggage cars, who rode for them, for the 25-mile road record rubber coated hooks be placed in was broken several times in the struggle for the ¥ piano, the ceilings of them to suspend the wheels on upside down, everyone credited him with the original idea and a capital one at that. It has WON ON A Pope mrg. €o. just recently developed, however, ¥ that the French railways have COLUMBIA Bartford, conn. had this plan in effect for more WITH than a year and it would not be getting away from the mark very ¥ HARTFORD far in saying that Elliott is not TIRES responsible for this good thing. *m» 4^4^4g&4gJS*4%g* THE PNEUMATIC. OUR NEW RIM Perfect lock. By placing spoke through lip on joint it 'will hold "without glue. We have thoroughly tested it and can safely Some guarantee it. This is absolutely the best New Parts Worth seeing or reading about J^vXT SEE THAT JOINT single piece rim ever placed on the market; Cnicago Cycle Show made from Wisconsin Rock elm, of select Space, Second Floor, Annex, stock and straight grain, and has the best Tattersall Auditorium possible finish. We are prepared to furnish any quantity of rims desired Our Quantity Price is 55 Cents per Pair, in Lots of 100 Drilled, 60 Cents per Pair, in Lots of 100 . . . . . On large amounts we can shade this price a little. Kensington Pedals We carry a large line of bicycle Place orders now, as they parts and sundries, catalogue of are going fast. These pedals which will be sent on application. are accurately made, highly Your early correspondence is finished, smooth running, solicited . handsome design and very ** ri- light. Rock bottom prices See Us at the Show, Chicago on application January 4 to 11 Our "Special" Barrel Hub ... This cut represents absolutely the easiest running, highly finished, perfect designed hub ever placed on the market. The bear Huennekens ings in these hubs are guaranteed to be Cycle..... Company I 124 FERRY STREET 1 made of the best Sanderson's tool Steel, and are supplied with Excelsior steel balls. I ; - MILWAUKEE. jj Every pair guaranteed. Orders must be placed early to insure delivery. Write im- •'• mediately for prices'...... • . . THE PNEUMATIC. LIST OF We PhotoQrapH., RELIABLE REPAIR MEN * IN THE STATE. Everything Under the S1111. Bicycle riders when iu need of repairs or cycle sundries, while touring, will find the Arms listed below worthy of patronage. APPLETON Ci4NA_RY WM. GROTH, CTC1E AGEKC- AND REPAIB SHOP,—Ji SUPERBLY EQUIPPED **i ALL KINDS OF OYOLH BUNDRHB. 7 FAST TRAINS f COLUMBUS BETWEEN u. M. B. NUTE, HANDHNO ASDKAE ASD SDIfBEAM CYCLES, 'KIILWAU.KEE>CHiCAGO ______BICYCLE RBPAIBIN_ Q A BPBOtALTY. __ EQUIPPED WITH LUXURIOUS PARLOR CARS - PALATIAL DINING CARS. CHAS. YERS, Palace Sleeping Cars Between PRACTICAL CYCLE REPAIRER, MILWAUKEE AND-ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND DULUTH ______QOOO WORK. _REASONABL B PRIOSQ. __ Oity Ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St. . Passenger Station, CHAS. S. KERR, Lake Front, Foot of Wisconsin Street. ]E_C~_iC-^- C3rX-_lC_l *Si _____!• ^3^ _-«-_' —. H. NEWMAN, J. H. WEITMAH, Corner Milwaukee and Mason Streets, IVlicols to Hunt. Wheels Kcpairoil. Third Vice-Pros. General Manager. MILWAUKEE. ______, ~. A." THRALL, Gen'lPassenger ana Ticket Agfc. C. A. KREBAUM, IndispensaMe to Cyclists mid Tourists, • 3IOY0LES and SUNDRIES PBKMAMEOT REPAIRS L. A. W, No. 65286. 227 X. 8(1 St.. FOND DU LAC THIS IS THE ORIGINAL — r /WISCONSIN MADTSON ~ OSHKOSH Peppermint D. D. WARNER CO., CENTRAL NEENAH Flavored Cycle Agency and Repair Shop. MENASHA mmNm Fully Equipped to give Satisfaction. ; WH-l'XE'Sr. ,/^hewing CHIPPEWA FAILS ^ GUM..... MILWAUKEE EAU CLAIKE WM. POLLITT, fro Relieve the Dis- PTOLMAX SLEEPERS TO ' fcressing Pains ol Experienced Cycls Eepalret. 704-705 Cieutaut Street. MAKER OP "THE ONLY'J BIOYOLK. ST-PAUL - "MINNEAPOLIS Dyspepsia MILWAUKEE ASHLAND SUPERIOR *ND Heart DULUTH Julius Andrae & Sons Go's Repair Dept. Cliew for Twenty Miniitos After Elicit Men]. Bqaippod In the meat complete manner. 225 W.Water St. Tlie only Chewing Gum fiictoiy open to visitors at ______all times.' IV, J. lVHITE, Sol* Mniinl'iicturCr,- ..--OITY -....-• ClUTOlaml, 0., V. S. A. -IOKBT Ov;_ . 100 Wisconsin Street E.-S. POTTER & CO. Bicycles Built to Order and Repaired • •'. ' WHEELS FOR RENT 179 Twflftli St., Oor. Cherry. NEW RICHMOND J. W. RIDINGER. GUN ASD CYCLE SHOP... The only reliable repaln'r In tlio city. We carry a lino of Uicycle Suiidi'les and Sporting Goods. ...JUin Slreol. OSHKOSH J. W. WAGNER Eiclusivs Cycle Kepair Shop. Main Street. SUPERIOR DODGE & PEARSON. Bicycles and Sporting Goods 11 _;-l Tower Avenue WATERLOO BICYCLE CLUB JANISCH BROS. BICYCLES AND HARDWARE, BflDGES,JUTTQNS, PINS. ^Bicycles -IOYOL- RHPA.RINQ A »PBOIALTV. Shipped anywhere Sec Our Novelty Lapel Button iO.O.U. Saving you ildouicrs profit, E. A. WILLIAMS. Send Ten Costs for Gamplo. fJ^l(M>'0»kM'«n_Jfor$a_.EO •\Vo can lurnish special Club Badge at very /»S.'i 4_Hin t Telegram Telegram Features...... Features have won have won ovef all over all others...... others We are We are closing- closing agencies fast agencies fast all over the all over the state .. If state .. If your your «_ territory is territory is not covered not covered write us write us <#_. ^fe M TELEGRAM CYCLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY ERIE AND EAST WATER STREETS MILWAUKEE MENTION THE PNEUS.- ,, A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., JANUARY, 1896. No. 10. .THE- CORRUGATED TREAD OF THE QREAT Q. &J. TIRE <& <& S> SOME PEOPLE THINK that the only object in moulding the corrugations on G. & J. Tires is to guarantee a sure grip upon the pavement prroad, thus preventing dangerous side, slipping, and also to give the Tire its attractive and distinctive appearance—the mark of good judgment. BUT THERE ARE OTHERS. A corrugated Tire is more resilient than a smooth one of equal thickness of tread. Why? Because more easily "indented," or compressed. When you wish to ''curve" a board or timber, what do you do with it? Why, just cut parallel slits or grooves at intervals on one surface of the board—"corrugate" it. Then it will bend easily. Simple, isn't it? That's why G. & J. Tires are corrugated—to make them more resilient—livlicr— to thicken the wearing surface, without stiffening (deadening) it. "Any Tire is Good Until Something Happens to it—then you wish you had a O. & J." GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. CO. CHICAGO BOSTON WASHINGTON NEW YORK BROOKLYN DETROIT COVENTRY, ENGLAND MENTION THE "pNEUS.' THE PNEUMATIC. The Milwaukee DOLLITT GY6LE WORKS .MAKERS Of- Japan=Ename_ing Co. Headquarters for 'Cr '/ Sharpening and Is the only Company iu the BICYCLES... State making a specialty of Repairing of REPAIRED ...SKATES ENAMELING BICYCLES 703-705 Winnebago Street 704-706 Chestnut Street In any color desired MILWAUKEE *** Plain and Ornamental Enameling and Japanning I Want Your..,. • •• MANUFACTURERS NAME- and DEALERS.... WRITE US FOR PRICES for publication in the U. S. BICYCLE •:•• TRADE DIRECTORY. It will cost 396-408 ©irxzirK _A_V:_£_NI:I_T__} you but one cent and may bring you MILWAUKEE dollars worth of business. _• * * * PLIIBI MINTION THB PNKUNATIO £&!: Aedals . .. . Send Postal to Society U. S. BICYCLE TRADE DIRECTORY Badges 27 WASHINGTON STREET SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Hanufactured By . . . BUM _ UPMEYER 121-123 WISCONSIN STREET-MILWAUKEE First-Class Work at R-1 PANS Very Low Prices Send for Illustrated Price List ONE GIVES RELIEF. Correspondence SPECIAL DESIGNS Solicited Sent on Application MENTION THE PNEUS." &J THE PNEUMATIC. V u> :.J MENTION THE PNEUS.1 THE PNEUMATIC. ANDRAE CYCLES All in a... Cigar Box. Office of J. C. Joslyn Cycle Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. 6, 1895• Julius Andrae & Sons Co», Milwaukee, Wis. Gentlemen:- We return you by Express today a box of broken parts of Andrae Cycles which you have replaced during the season. With over seventy (70) wheels in use, we are returning the defective parts for the season in a cigar box. We think this a pretty good showing, as there are many makes of wheels that we know of, that would require a barrel to hold the defective parts of a like number of wheels for a season. (Signed), J. C. Joslyn Cycle Co. ANDRAE CYCLES BETTER THAN EVER FOR '96 THE PNEUMATIC. men, that the officers of the celebration lend their assistance in securing the national meet here during the celebration. The plan is to hold about three days of racing and allow the men following the circuit to remain in the city the rest of the week to see the exposition and also the city. Later on another week is to be devoted in this way for _V JVlOrsiTKI-Y the state meet. JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. The undertaking will necessitate the outlay of consider able money but it will greatly add to the attraction of the FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. celebration. With the inducements that the city can offer All copy for advertisements, changes for same, news ana correspondence for publication must be sent in before tlie 7tli, to insure insertion the same for the meet that year, there ought to be little trouble in month. Contributions returned if not published. getting it. Several of the officers in charge of the celebra ENTERED IN THE P. O. AT MILWAUKEE A8 HEOOMD CLASfl MATTER. tion are in favor of securing the national and state meets, __!_> "VI- __TT I _5I_SEO. and if wheelmen in Wisconsin will get to work there are THIS PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes good prospects for success. of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper which concisely covers all the doings in cycledom. Advertising rates on application. Wheelmen In Politics. PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, There promises to be a new element in the spring elec 505 East Water Street, - Milwaukee, Wis. tions, one heretofore unknown to the vote-seekers. The J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. CON. KNUDSON, M. C. ROTIER, Associate Editors. wheelmen propose to take a hand at the ballot box. M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. The movement will thoroughly cover the entire state from Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, Si Times Building, New York. the smallest town which boasts of a cycling club to the metropolis. Party lines will be totally abolished, it is WHEELMEN IN POLITICS. promised. The project is fathered by the Wisconsin Divis- ; In a recent issue, a local paper made the somewhat pre ion of the League of American Wheelmen and an industrial mature statement, that all the wheelmen of the state were campaign will be carried on. "Good Roads " will be on the going to take an active part in the spring political cam banner under which the cyclist will march to the polls and paign. It is reported by the paper that each candidate is the candidate who is not pledged to do all in his power to to be considered, and that those who are not in sympathy ward the improvement of the public highways will find that with cycling, and refuse to pledge themselves to assist in his fences have been blown down* The Good roads league promoting it, are to be opposed at the polls. While the will enter into the work with a will, it is said, and will dis division officers are in sympathy with such a step, no official seminate literature on the subject. The candidates for action has been taken. Consequently, it is not probable officesat the spring election in every city and county will be that any concerted action in politics will be taken in the personally approached and their constituents will be ap spring election. However, all action in this respect, which prised of his position toward the wheel. The wheelmen are J clubs may undertake, will be endorsed. The decision of the backed by an enormous vote in the state. A prominent Badger Wheelmen, a few nights ago, in voting to work for cyclist said yesterday: i the defeat of Alderman W. H, Starkweather, framer of the "We do not propose to be unreasonablein our demands, obnoxious bicycle ordinance, is believed by the officers of but we are satisfied that we shall receive no recognition the Wisconsin Division, to be a step in the right direction, from the politicians until we take a hand in elections on our It might be well for the members of other clubs to canvass own account. This we propose to do duringthe approach- the aldermen in their vicinity and take similar action, if ingspringcampaignand I think we shall make our strength they find any who are known to be enemies of cycling. felt. In this matter party affiliations will have no place with us. We will vote, solidly for the man who is in sympathy NATIONAL MEET IN 1898. with our cause. We are not seeking office for men in our A movement has been started in Milwaukee by a num ranks. That is not the object. All we want is men in law ber of cyclists to secure the national and the state meets making and responsible positions who will give us a just re here in 1898. In the summer of that year the Semi-Centen cognition. Good roads will be the issue and our campaign nial celebration of the state is to be held. The details of will be conducted principally along that line. Our organi the celebration are yet incomplete but it has been decided to zation is perfect, much more so than any of the old parties arrange a demonstration of some kind that will widely ad can expect to be. We do not propose to abuse our power. vertise Wisconsin and bring many people here from all.parts All we want is justice and that we are bound to have. The of the country. To do this it has been suggested to hold a movement has been discussed quietly for some time and we large exposition for about three months and this plan expect to have everything in shape when the time comes for seems to be the most feasible, It is now proposed by wheel action."—Milwaukee Journal. THE PNEUMATIC. AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. officers know that ifis not the best issue on which to ob tain new members or even retain those now affiliated with Wisconsin's Representation will be strong—The West's Possibilities against the East in the Election of Officers—Other the League. Questions of Importance. A number of small changes are to be made in the con The meeting of the representative men from every state stitution and by-laws. Chairman Gideon of the racing L. A. W. division in the Union, which will be held in Balti board will also ask the Assembly to reduce the value of more, on February 10, 11 and 12, gives promise of being prizes in the amateur class and to restrict this class to race one of the greatest ever held. Questions of the most vital outside of a point over 100 miles from their Homes, instead importance to the successful woi-kings of this great organi of 200 miles which is now the present rule. zation will come up, but perhaps there is nothing which is occupying the attention of the principal ''mach'ers" of the Waiting for The Assembly. L. A. W. at present so much as the political situation in the Chairman Fred J. Schroeder of the racing board has League. All the old League wire-pullers and slate makers decided not to agree on any definite plans for the coming have interested themselves, and the election of the three summer until he sees what the National Assembly does highest officers will be one of the shrewdest managed affairs about racing and racing rules. He has been considering' the in the League's history. question of arranging a spring and fall state circuit next A. C. Willison, thepresent incumbent of the presidential season but this is also in abeyance until the outcome of the office, is tip for re-election with a strong following; so is G. racing question has been determined by the Assembly. A. Perkins, of Massachusetts, the first vice president, -while Some riders favortwo circuits instead of one but no definite the same state endorses its Chief Consul Sterling Elliott, action will be taken by the board for the present at least. for the presidency, and he slates with himself a western As soon as the Assembly has met, the chairman will candidate for first vice. From this it is evident that either probably call a meeting of the board to take some action. Elliott or Perkins will be knocked out so to speak, as it is The coming season will be most important in the history of not probable that the two highest offices will be allowed to the division. Race meets are to be held in every city and go to one state. A. C. Morrison's chances for the second town. Every club in the state is planning road races. vice presidency seem to be on both tickets. , The two con Besides these events several dates on the national circuit testing parties seem to appreciate the strength of Morri will probably be allotted to Wisconsin. An effort will be son's name on their respective slates, and it will be interest made to strictly enforce racing rules and this will keep every ing to watch the developments. member of the board busy from the time the racing season The Good Road's Day to be held during the assembly opens until the last race is held. will be attended by General Roy Stone, of the Department Four Cities Want Circuit Dates. of Road Inquiry at Washington, the Governors of many If all the cities which are arranging for meets are given states and other high dignitaries interested in this great dates on the national circuit the riders who foliowthe races national crusade. Plans will be outlined at the great meet will have a good chance to see the state. Appleton has ing for future work, and the results will certainly be an im decided to hold the state meet in connection with the circuit portant, factor in increasing the League's prestige. races, just as Marinette did last summer. Of all the cities The Wisconsin Division will be represented at the na in the state it has the best chance of securing a date and tional assembly by Chief Consul W. A. Brown, Yice Consul there is no doubt about her being able to get at least one B. W. Park, Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier, Representa day and possibly two. In this city, the Association of tives N.E. Lindquist, ofMarinette, and S. J. Ryan, of Apple- Cycling Clubs has decided to ask for a date. The races here ton. Besides these A. Cressy Morrison, who is the second will pay if they are conducted properly. Enthused with the vice president of the League, will attend. It is not probable success of the three daj_' meet last summer, Superior is that the Wisconsin Division will propose any important determined to have 'another big meet this year. It lias questions, but it will champion the cause of racing. At the therefore decided to apply for a date on the national circuit recent division election several months ago, the members and it is' reported that the wheelmen are quietly at work voted in favor of the League controlling three classes, viz: raising funds for the occasion. Marinette also wants a Class A, Class B and professionals. The delegates have date and that she can satisfactorily handle a big meet was been instructed to vote in favor of these classes, and there shown last summer when the joint meets were held there. fore will probably vote against the abolition of Class B. With these four cities in the field for national circuit events If the question of the League's dropping the entire control of racing comes up for consideration—and there seems to be and the large list of state circuit races, there is no danger little doubt that it will—Wisconsin delegates will make a of interest declining during the summer. vigorous fight against it. In Wisconsin the progress in the If you have something that people need, advertise League lias been largely due to racing, and while a great "with courage and faith," and the people at home and interest has been taken in the good roads question, division abroad will respond to your profit. • - THE PNEUMATIC. Failed to Make His Report, Fine roads can be constructed all the way from $400 to Owing to the failure of ex-Chairman Irvin F. Strauss, $500 per mile, according to the nature of the country of Ripon, to make a report to the division officers for last through which they pass,, the cost of crushed stone and season's racing, Fred J. Schroeder, the newly elected chair other engineering problems. The cost of keeping these man of the racing board, finds himself without statistics to roads in repair is indefinitely smaller than that required to assist him in his work. One of the duties of the chairman repair the ordinary dirt roads each winter and spring, when of the board is to furnish a complete report of racing great gullies and ruts are washed into them by the rains during the .year at the annual meeting of the officers of the and floods. The secret of the success of the fine roads in division. For some reason, which Mr. strauss has not France is attributed to the prompt and systematic repairs explained, this was not done. Without it, the division made at all seasons of the year. officers have no official records of races held during the year America's Cycle Industry. y in the state. At previous meetings Mr. Strauss never failed Speaking of the magnitude of the cycle industry, the to render his report and the omission of one, upon his retire Referee in a recent issite says: It has long been conceded ment from office is reflexive upon his loyalty to the League. that two-thirds of the country's output of bicycles comes Capital in Good Roads. from the territory within a radius of 160 miles from Chi It is reasonable to predict that road improvement is cago. This can easily be believed when it is known that destined to spread with great rapidity in the next ten years, Chicago alone has more factories than any single state in and the capital which heretofore built railroads will now the union, outside of Illinois, of course, which heads, the seek investment in fine macadamized roads. The first list. Chicago alone has eighty-eight bicycle factories, while necessity for developing a country of the size of the United 110 represents the number in Illinois, New York being next, States was a system of railroads that would bind together with eighty. Figures speak for themselves: Alabama, 3; the widely separated points of industry and population, California, 5; Connecticut, 11; Colorado, 3; Delaware, 1; and the construction of such a stupendous system absorbed District of Columbia, 3; Illinois, 110 (Chicago, 88); In most of the energy and capital of our financiers. But the diana, 30; Iowa, 2; Kentucky, 4; Kansas, 2; Michigan, country now is better supplied with railroads than any 19; Minnesota, 2; Maine, 1; Maryland, 7; Missouri, 8; other on the face of the globe, and the limit to the extension New York, 80; New Hampshire, 1; New Jersey, 9; Neb of long railroad lines is practically reached in many parts raska, 3; Ohio, 36; Pennsylvania, 21; Rhode' Island, 2; of the country. It is impossible to have every small hamlet South Dakota, 1; Texas, 2; Tennessee, 3; Utah, 1; Vir and village connected with the main railroad lines by short ginia, 1; Wyoming, 1; Wisconsin, 14, In addition Canada branches, but the transportation problem cannot be solved has four factories. There are in this country 106 makers of until every small place and farm of any size is connected parts and forty-three saddle manufacturers. with the great arteries of commerce by means of fine Canadian Custom Duties. macadamized roads. It is this necessity for building more and better common roads that makes the question such a The action of the custom authorities in regard to the burning one today. The next generation must devote itself rate of duty on foreign-made wheels is not unlikely to cause to the construction and improvement of common roads, quite a difference in the importing business. Firms who feeding the railroads with the products of the agricultural have been receiving a special discount from foreign manu regions. facturers, which enabled them to buy at the factories for The total length of the common roads in this country, less than the agents in those countries, were in the habit of good, bad and indifferent, is estimated by General Stone, of paying duty on the net price paid. That, however, was the Road Bureau of the Department of Agriculture, at suddenly done away with and they were compelled to pay something over 1,300,000 miles, says the Bicycling World. duty on the price at which the same wheels were usually The majority of these roads have been opened by common sold to the agents in the country wheremanufactured. The laborers, hired by local supervisors, and no engineering result will be a material diminution in the import business, principles have been observed in their construction. As a though it may increase the number of Canadian manufac result it costs more to keep them in repair than if they were turers and result in the establishing of branch factories as many finely macadamized roads. here.—Canada Cyclist. Keeping these poor roads in repair and opening new He Made a Bad Mistake. thoroughfares is costing New York, Massachusetts and New Jersey something like $20,000,000 per year. As a A Liverpool (Eng.) paper says that a young man was greater part of the enormous sum is spent in repairing arrested in that city charged with kissing a young lady poorly-constructed roads that would need exactly the same against her will on the public highway. The prisoner attention next year, it is not an exaggeration to say that pleaded that she was in bloomers and he mistook her for a most of the money is wasted. long-lost brother. THE PNEUMATIC, Fred. J. Schroeder. amateur class sooner. Since leaving Class B, I have made The appointment by the chief consul of the Wisconsin more money in one year than in the three previous ones. I Division of Fred. J. Schroeder, of Milwaukee, as chairman had a lot of diamonds that I won. According to the value of the state facing board, has been endorsed by every rac placed upon them as prizes by race meet projectors, they ing man in the state. Mr. Schroeder has a good record as were worth $8,370. I sold them some time ago and realized a wheelman. He be only $2,939-a little over 35 per cent of their alleged cost. gan riding an "ordi This year I won $4,129 in cash. I paid all of my own nary" back in 1884 expenses, including a trainer, and cleared upwards of and thefollowingyear $2,000. For my first year as a professional, I think I have was oneof the charter done pretty well. Next year I expect to do better still." members when the Alderman Starkweather Condemned. Milwaukee Wheelmen were organized, at the At the annual meeting of the Badger Wheelmen, on same time being elect January 17, the club members adopted the following reso ed its treasurer. In lution, condemning Alderman Starkweather for his zealous-, 1886 he was made ness in trying to pass his obnoxious bicycle ordinance, captain of the club which is still pending: and held the office for " Whereas, Alderman Starkweather has on many occa three years, only to sions, while a public servant, displayed opposition and dis retire from the posi regard to the rights of a large body of citizens, and has tion toaccepttbepres- treated in a discourteous manner a representative body of idency in 1889 and wheelmen, when presenting their views and position, and^ 1890. In 1891, 1892 and 1893 he acted as chairman "Whereas, By his undue and uncalled for activity in of the club's racing board and in that capacity did much to espousing and advocating needless ordinances, which are promote cycle racing in this city. While he was chairman opposed to the rise, spread and extension of the most he handled three Waukesha road races given by the club, healthful and necessary recreation; and and on September 17,1892 arranged the first regular track " Whereas, His re-election as a common councilman will race that was ever held in this state. It was during the be inimical and opposed to the welfare of bicycling and the road races managed by Mr. Schroeder for his club that health and welfare of a large number of the community; Walter C. Sanger first demonstrated that he possessed re therefore, be it . markable speed. "RESOLVED, That we, the Badger Wheelmen, of Mil The meets promoted and conducted under Mr. Schroe- waukee, pledge ourselves to do our utmost, by persuasion der's management as chairman of the racing board areas and action to prevent his re-election." follows: September 17,1892,National park; November 24, The club elected officers for the ensuing year. Although 25 and 26, indoor races at Exposition building; December 26 the contests were lively, the result was eminently satisfac to January 1, 1893, indoor races at Exposition building; tory. The new officers are as follows : July 17, 1893, National park; August 24 and 25, 1893, in President, W. A. Krasselt; vice-president, E. S. Hoelz; ternational meet at National park, which is a total of four corresponding secretary, R. J. Parks; financial secretary, teen track races and three large road races. During that H. 0. Blecher; treasurer, W.C. Schrader, Sr.; captain, Con. time Mr. Schroeder induced the most prominent racing men G.Reinke; first lieutenant, W. A. Bremer; second lieu tenant, hi the country to appear before the Milwaukee public, in E. R. Reinke; board of directors, W. D. Harper, F. G. cluding Sanger, 2immerman and Johnson. Cramer, C. G. Reinke and P. H. Cambier. Walter C. Sanger's Diamonds Sold. The club has decided to put two racing teams in the Walter C. Sanger, who is spending his winter in the field next season. No. 1 will consist of W. C. Schrader, H. city, has sold all the diamonds that he won while he rode Zerbel, C. G. Reinke, A. F. Bingenheimer and Morgan as a Class B man. Sanger has not made his plans for the O'Brien. No. 2 will be composed of W. A. Baker, W. A. coming summer but he has re-engaged his trainer, Dumble- Bremer, E. R. Reinke and Morris Hastings, ton, and- expects to do even better than he did last season. miwaukeeans to Tour Europe. In a recent interview he said: Several members of the North Side Cycling Club are "If Class B is abolished, and there is now every indica- : tion that it will go, the professional rider will be benefited. planning' a tour in Europe during the coming summer.. Many of the intermediate class will be set back as amateurs, Alexander Bunke and Emil Koehn have partially agreed to while a number of the men who are professionals to all in go. Their plans are to leave about July 4 and tour in tents and purposes, except in name, will declare themselves Europe' on their wheels for about two months. Several and come over. My only i-egret is that I-did not quit the other members of the club may join them. THE PNEUMATIC. Arranging for Milwaukee's Show. The bridal party then slipped into the priest's residence and The Milwaukee Ethical Society's cycle exhibition, to be Walter and Miss Catherine Kotzenberg were made happy; held in its large auditorium, in the early part of March, William Sanger and Miss Marie Kotzenberg acting as gives promise of being conducted on a large scale and with witnesses. After the ceremony they proceeded to the river the same success which has characterized the society in all where they joined Romadka and Sanger's sisters in a good its undertakings. Mr. C. M. Paine, the president of the skate. When Mr. and Mrs. Sanger returned to Walter's society who is an indefatigable worker in its behalf, will give home that night they told the champion's mother of the a great deal of time and attention to the success of the exhi marriage and at the same time telegraphed the news to bition, but the management generally has been placed in Mrs. Kotzenberg. On the following Sunday it leaked out the hands of M. C. Rotier, who is a member of the organiza among Sanger's friends and he has since been receiving tion. Mr. Rotier believes that such a show as the society congratulations. Sanger says that the reason he was proposes to give, with Clauder's full orchestra in attendance quietly married was to avoid any demonstration from the each day, and the other privileges which the large club "cycling push." Mr. and Mrs. Sanger will reside with the building affords, the patronage of the best citizens of Mil groom's parents until he decides on his future plans. waukee and the state is assured. It is estimated that there Walter first met his wife at a wedding of one of his will be room for at least forty or fifty good sized spaces, brothers fouryears ago. Her home is on Garfield boulevard many of which have already been secured. The accom in Chicago. She is the daughter of a former wholesale modations in the building are excellent. There is an excel druggist who died several years ago. lent diningroom on the ground floor, in charge of competent people, and the culinary department is in charge of one of A New Year's Club Run. the best cooks in the city. The charges for the excellent One of the first club runs of the season was made on service will be very nominal. The gallery will afford a New Year's Day by a number of members of the North Side good place for those wishing to view the show in a Cycling Club. Several days before Captain Koehn issued a general way. The spaces are being sold on a basis of 25 call to which twenty-five members responded at 2 o'clock in cents per square foot, except for preferred spaces. An ad the afternoon. The party rode from the club house on mission fee of 25 cents will be charged. Reservoir avenue to Silver Springs where a lunch was served by Postmaster Hammer. So as to commemorate Walter C. Sanger Is Married. the club run, the "Soak club" was organized. The officers Walter C. Sanger, the well-known professional rider, ori are rated according to their capacity of enriching the December 27, was quietly married to Miss Katherine coffers of local brewers. It was voted that Gerhard Aussem Kotzenberg, of Chicago. The news of the marriage caused was the most proficient in this line and he was forthwith considerable surprise because it was quite romantic. Miss elected to the office of "chief soak." Alexander Bunke will Kotzenberg and her sister, Marie, came to the city on be his assistant, while Henry Helling and Louis Pierron are Christmas to spend the holidays with the Sanger family. to be on hand in the absence of Aussem and Bunke. Some It had been known for some time that Walter and Miss body introduced a resolution to make Grover Cleveland an Kotzenberg were to be married before the racing season honorary member, but the proposal for membership was opened, but everybody supposed that the marriage would laid over for one year. After several speeches the party not take place before February. On the Friday following returned to the club house. The roads were in good Christmas the young people came to an understanding, condition and the weather was so mild that few realized it however, and they decided to get married quietly and was New Year's day. unknown to their parents and friends. William F.Sanger and Miss Marie Kotzenberg were taken into the secret and South Side Club May Move. it was decided to have the ceremony performed that night. There is some talk among the members of the South Late in the afternoon Joseph Romadka came to the Side Cycling Club of changing its quarters next spring. residence of Sanger's parents and arranged with the The present home is said to be entirely too small to accom Sangers, their sisters and the Misses Kotzenbergs to go modate all the members. No definite action has been taken, skating on the river that evening. The invitation could however. Recently the club purchased a pool table which not be refused though it might interfere with Walter's plans. is affording considerable amusement for the club members. At about 8 o'clock the skaters left the Sanger residence at 410 Irving place. Romadka and Walter's sisters walked Cyclists as Skaters. ahead of the party. Walter and William Sanger and the Three skating races will be given at Schlitz park, Misses Kotzenbergs seemed to be in no great hurry to reach January 30, under the auspices of the North Side Cycling the l'iver and by the time they approached the residence of Club. There will be a five mile race and a one mile race, Father McGill, of Holy Rosary church, which is on the open to all, two medals to be offered for each event, and a way to the river, the others of the party were far ahead. three mile race, open for the members of the club only. THE PNEUMATIC. Club Association's Annual Meeting. First Lieutenant—Henry Gtiderson. Second Lieutenant—Henry Pierron. At the annual meeting of the Association of Cycling Delegates to the Association of Cycling Clubs—Louis Clubs, recently held, the following officers were elected: Pierron, A. Bunke, Gerhard Aussem. President—P. H. Cambier. The annual report of Secretary Rothweiler shows that First Vice-President—Henry P. Andrae. there are 178 members in the club, which is an increase of Second Vice-President-Alexander Bunke. fifteen as compared with last year. The club will give a Third Vice-President—J. W. Warnken. masquerade ball on February 8. Secretary — E.J. Ludvvig. Treasurer—Gerhard Aussem. Niagara Wheelmen Officers. Acting on the suggestion of the South Side club it was decided to place the treasurer under $1,000 bonds. Mr. Officers of the Niagara Wheelmen for the ensuing year Aussem promptly furnished the amount. It was decided were recently elected as follows: that all delegates hereafter must be elected by the club President—F. C. Leimbach. instead of being nppoiuted by the president of the club. Vice-President—Otto Borth. This brought out some discussion for the time being. Secretary—Oscar Klug. President Cambier reported that H. D. Quin had promised Financial Secretary—Nic. Noll. to put the old track at Athletic Park in good repairs if the Treasurer—Ed. F. Kroening. wheelmen would promise him their patrouage. He Captain—William Raasch. proposes to build the track of clay and cement and will also First Lieutenant—Fred Marquard t. erect dressing rooms where riders, who are training, can be Second Lieutenant—H. A. Riebau. rubbed down after hard riding. It is estimated that the Sergeant-at-Arms — Fred Bittmann. cost of putting the track in first class shape and other Board of Directors —A. Klug, Louis Kakatch, Otto expenses will amount to nearly $2,500. From present Schultz and Fred Bittmann. appearances it looks as if most of the racing during the The club members held a Sylvester ball on New Year's coining season will be done at Athletic Park. eve which was attended by about fifty couples and which The Association of Cycling Clubs is already making proved a most enjoyable affair. On New Year's day a its plans for the coming season. At the meeting it was number of club members participated in a club run to decided to apply for dates on the national circuit and plans Cedarburg and return. are now being made to conduct a meet here before the state meet is held at Appleton. It is also probable that a local Milwaukee Wheelmen Prosper. meet will be conducted by the association during the On January 13 the Milwaukee Wheelmen held their summer. At the meeting, the North Side club reported that annual election which resulted as follows: it had been unable to collect $75 in prizes won by the club President—W. C. Neilson. during the Semi-Centennial parade. The prizes represent First Vice-President—S. S. Cramer. $50 for the ladies' representation and $25 for the largest Second Vice-President—E. D. Haven. club turnout. The association decided to take up the matter Secretary—E. L. Fielding. and appointed Frank J. Morawetz, Henry P. Andrae and Treasurer—W. B. Masecar. Alexander Bunke a committee to confer with the proper Directors— F. J. Morawetz, F. T. Andrae, F. J. Schroeder authorities with the view of having the prizes paid over to and 0. H. Linke. the club. Captain—George F. Carroll. The meeting was held at the club rooms of the Milwau First Lieutenant—W. L. White. kee Wheelmen. Second Lieutenant—A. B. Anderson. Delegates to the Association of Cycling Clubs — F. J. North Side Club Officers. Morawetz, H. P. Andrae and W. N. Durbin. . Officers for the ensuing year have been elected by the Secretary E. H. Neustadtl reported an increase in mem North Side Cycling Club as follows: bership during the past year and Treasurer And. Steel President—A. C. Runkel. made the gratifying report that the club was free from debt. First Vice-President —Louis Pierron. The $500 in obligations that existed at the beginning of Second Vice-President—William Pierron. last year had been paid off and there was a balance in the Corresponding Secretary—G. Edward Rothweiler, treasury of nearly $300. The minstrel performance at the .' Financial Secretary—Wm. Barrelmann. ' Pabst theater had contributed largely to this state of Treasurer—H.J. Otto, affairs and a vote of thanks was tendered those who Directors-A. G. Kohr, A. Bunke, G. Aussem and participated in the performance and all who had aided in E. Koehn. its consummation. After adjournment, the new officers Captain—B. E. Harnish. entertained the club. • THE PNEUMATIC. riusical Club Organized. contributor of cycling literature. The fact that Erwin is Members of the North Side Cycling Club have organized editor is a guarantee that the paper will be bright and a.musical club under the name of the N. S. C. C. M. C. At newsy. present the following members belong to the organization: The Universal is the name of another journal devoted W. Barrelmann, pianist and director; C. Koester, flute; to cycling. Typographically it is handsome and editorially Emil Koehn and C. Schmitz, violin; C. F. Dehn, W. Killer- it is terse and complete. mami and W. Pierron, mandolin; A. Kohr and F. Heinl, Advertising Axioms. guitars. Other club members will join. Rehearsals are held every Tuesday night at the club rooms. (BY J. •WALTER THOMPSON, OIT HEW YOUK.) Sanger's Record Accepted. "The better the day, the better the deed." The better the "ad" and the better the mediums used, the better the The L. A. W. racing board, has accepted W. C. Sanger's results. unpaced, flying start mile, which he rode against time at Do not forget an advertisement in "perpetual motion," Denver on November 26 in 2:00 2-5, as the one mile profes if it is good, will wear its way into the people's memory, sional record. Hamilton, of Denver, rode a mile in the with consequent results to you. same time and holds the Class B record. Sanger is elated over the acceptance of the record which it is understood Here is a suggestion—"Make your advertisement an means considerable money to him. It is reported that argument deriving its force from the situation, and present before he made the record he closed a contract with the Yim it clearly to all to whom it is addressed." Tire Company, whose tires he used in the race, that if he By advertisers I mean those who know that advertising established a record he was to receive $700. well done is bound to bring results; by business men I mean a very large class of manufacturers who are " poor in the W. A. Bremer's Friends Protest. midst of great wealth," i. e., of possibilities of development. At the last meeting of the division officers, it was decided to recommend to the national racing board for official state Alex. Spies' Tour in Europe. handicapper the name of A. Martin Patitz, of Milwaukee. Alex. Spies, a druggist of Washburn, Wis., will undertake The other candidates for the position were Gerhard Aussem a trip during the present year. Starting on June 1, he will and W.. A. Bremer, of this city. It isreportedthatBremer's do a great portion of Europe on a wheel. He proposes to friends are not satisfied with the choice of the division wheel through portions of France, Germany, Norway, officers and several weeks ago a petition was placed in Sweden and Switzerland, traveling in all about 3,000 circulation in the state requesting the chairman of the miles. He will also make it a point to let all who see him racing board to appoint Mr. Bremer handicapper over the know that he belongs in far-off America. His wheel will be division officers' recommendation. There is little chance for decorated with the colors of the United States, and on the Mr. Bremer receiving the appointment, however, as he has breast of his uniform he will wear a miniature U. S. flag. no very strong support in the division. He has a mother in Christiania, and a brother in Berlin, Cycle Show Notes. and he will visit both during his trip abroad. Statistics compiled by The Referee, show that at the Lindquist=Steinhauser Engagement. recent Chicago cycle show 1040 wheels, eighty tandems, The engagement of N. E. Lindquist, the well-known twenty-three juveniles and nine quads, triplets, carriers, Marinette wheelman, to Miss Marie Steinhauser, of Jersey etc., were exhibited. The 385 stands employed 627 men City, is announced. Miss Steinhauser has many acquaint and 301 women. ances in Marinette. Modest "Nabe" denies the truth of It has been rumored that the management, besides this announcement but his friends claim they know better. turning over to the cycle board of trade, 50 per cent of the profits, have a balance on hand, after paying all bills, of Canadians Smuggling Bicycles. $75,000. The custom authorities at Toronto, have lately had a The patronage during the evenings was so great that good deal of trouble with people smuggling bicycles into the hall could scarcely hold any more. One man said that Canada from the states, and are determined to put an end it took him a whole evening to get from one end of the aisle to the practice, The usual practice has been to bring the to the other. bicycles in as settlers' effects, or under the rule relating to New Bicycle Papers. tourists, but hereafter bicyclists who bring wheels across Bicycle News is the name of a weekly publication which the line will be required to sign a declaration that they are made its appearance on January 1. The paper is published for their own personal use. During the past few days by the W. D. Boyce Company, of Chicago, and is edited by several wheels have been siezed, in one instance the seizure J. M, Erwin, who is well-known as a cyclist as well as a costing the owner $87, THE PNEUMATIC. THE CHICAGO SHOW. The Chief company, in charge of E. W. Williams, had a stand in the annex and seemed to interest a good many who strayed that way in their '96 patterns. The Success of It Surpassing the Most Sanguine Anticipations of the man agement—A Demonstration of the Wonderfully Growing Clifford & Lundy had a simple device in a nipple grip Bicycle Industry. which proved beyond question the best thing of its kind exhibited there. They closed a good many deals. The great Chicago cycle show which closed its doors D. D. Warner Company, of Madison, had a prominent January 11, has clearly demonstrated the magnitude to stand near the entrance which was made conspicuous by a which the bicycle industry has grown in the West. For a hugh celluloid name plate overhead, a facsimile of their whole week from the hour that the show opened in the capacious auditorium of Tattersall's, on the morning of regular plate. D. D. was present together with B. W. Park, January 4, until the closing evening at 11 o'clock, a steady the vice-president of the company, Joe Dolister, of Burling stream of humanity has been winding its way in and about ton, and E. P. Grindell, of Platteville. Both of the latter the 365 exhibition stands. The decorations of some of the young men have but lately gone into the company's employ. stands were elaborate and profuse and illuminations of Aside from the handsome models which they exhibited for every sort seemed to be a popular thing. Each afternoon '96 they had an attractive feature in a crude wooden safety, and evening the band, one of the best in Chicago, made made by a farmer boy, a description of which can be found things interesting by varied selections. The mornings of on another page. each clay were principally given to the cycle dealers and Mr. Palmer represented the Mystic company, of Muk- those interested in the trade. Numerous large deals were wonago, and he succeeded in interesting a great many in transacted between maker and dealer and from a business the merits of their Mystic wheels. point of view for the manufacturer, the show must have The U. S. Manufacturing Company, of Fond du Lac, been profitable direct, without considering the immense makers of the U. S. cyclometer and other bicycle specialties, amount of excellent advertising which they were securing was represented by Messrs. Bean and Lang. Their improved by the dissemination of printed matter. cyclometer is really a wonderful piece of mechanism in that it works so absolutely perfect in the smallest possible case. Among those of the state who were represented at Their detachable lamp bracket was a novelty which was the show were: Julius Andrae & Sons Company, Telegram received with enthusiasm by those who saw it. Cycle Manufacturing Company, Bolte Cycle Manufacturing Gormully & Jeffery Manufacturing Company had an Company, Huennekens Cycle Company, Chief C3'cle Manu endless throng of people at its capacious stand, which was facturing Company, Clifford & Lundy, Milwaukee; D. D. themostluxuriouslyfurnishedof anyintheshow. The beau Warner Company, Madison; Mystic Cycle Company, Muk wonago ; U. S. Manufacturing Company, Fond du Lac, tiful models which they exhibited enameled in delicate tints Andrae's stand held Andrae and Crawford cycles. The lines were effective in interesting everyone who passed the stand. of the Andrae for '96 elicited an unusual amount of favor- Their detachable G. & J. tires were very much in evidence. ablecommentsand the tandem especially was an attraction Pope Manufacturing, Company occupied perhaps the of importance. The men in charge were Col. H. P. Andrae, largest floor space of any exhibitor. It measured ten by H. J. Warner, J. C. Sehmidtbauer, Charles Riehl, E. Beck- forty-two feet in which were shown models 40, 41, 42, 43 with, Joseph Kelly and S. II. Rowland. For a souvenir and 44 Columbia bicycles, and patterns 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 they gave away a card on one side of which was printed Hartford bicycles. The special feature of their display was "The latest thing in safeties" and their card, while on the an electric sign "Columbia Bicycles, Standard of the World" other side was attached a safety pin. which was the most artistic and elaborate ever produced by the Edison company, and in addition thereto, there The Telegram's stand was in charge of genial Frank were two large representation of the nowfamotis Columbia Pingree who was continually putting Telegram buttons in name plate. There were also a model exhibition of parts the holes of coats of numerous young men who thronged and features of Columbia construction. The company was around his stand. Jos. C, Cordes and W. J. Potter were represented by Col. A. A. Pope, Mr. Geo. H. Day, Mr. J. C. also thereto help make things interesting, Pattison, Mr. H. S. Dow, Mr. Wm. Bancroft and nearly all TheBolte company was represented byMr.Fichtenberg, the traveling representatives. the president, Messrs, Donlevy and Connell, the two prac Morgan & Wright's space was modest in the extreme. tical men of the company, and William Heintzen. TheBolte The only sign which ornamented their stand was a small patent crank hanger, hub and other novel features proved sign with the words "Morgan & Wright Tires Are Good interesting to the sightseers. Tires." But their effective advertising was noticeable in a F. W. .Huennekens, of the Huennekens company, was more conspicuous and effective way, as nearly every wheel there with his sons, exhibiting new things in hubs, rims and which was exhibited at the show bore a neat little celluloid pedals. This company does a large jobbing business in card with the inscription "Fitted with Morgan & Wright parts and was successful in closing many profitable deals. tires." THE PNEUMATIC. The "Crab Tree Special." gentleman leaning on their wheels in the fore-ground. It is The D. D. Warner Company, of Madison, has in its surrounded by a border of a fanciful design. The frontis possession a wooden safety which it has named the " Crab piece is a Swiss scene. Tree Special" and which attracted considerable attention Bald's Record in 1895. at the Chicago cycle show where it was on exhibition. The During the season of 1895 Bald won thirty-six of fifty- machine was built three years ago by a farmer boy named five mile races and averaged 2:10T/2 for time. His fastest Atkinson, of about twenty years of age, whose home was mile was 1:55 ys , made in competition at Denver, October then at Ellenboro, near Platteville. Being too poor to buy 18, and his slowest 2:32 yi , at Waltham, September 14. a machine he constructed one according to his own ideas, In half-mile races Bald won twelve out of twenty-one. His A jack knife, an old rusty saw and a hammer were the only championship winnings were the quarter and half miles at tools he used but he turned out a creditable piece of work. Asbury Park and the one mile at Denver. During the year He rode the machine for about six months when he began he held the world's competition mile record successively at to store it as a curio. Since then it has fallen into the 2:04,1:58 ]/£ and 1:55^. possession of the D. D. Warner Company, in whose factory Atkinson is now employed. In a circular issued by the firm Scheme for Changeable Gear. the wheel is described as follows : James E. Lowe, of Norfolk, Va., has invented an im Frame—Finest second-growth wood,built on the latest provement in bicycles, the object of which is to make a improved lines of bicycle easily inter speed. changeable, from a Connections- roadster to a racing Wrought iron bolts H machine,by means of and nuts, securely ____-*'' . * two small sprocket clamping frame to wheels attached to gether. the rear hub, and a Wheels— 34-inch movable crank shaft, front and 24-inch to which is attached rear, with 18 hickory the large sprocket, as spokes, and fitted usual. The change is with non-puncturable accomplished by loos tires. ening the locking de Bearings —T h e vice on the crank best parallel, unneces hanger and moving sary to oil them. the cranks, crank axle Gear, 42. Cranks, and large sprocket 8-in.2x2 wood. Hubs, rearwardly, until the Barrel. Weight, 56 driving chain is loose pounds, all on. A enough to be changed special and peculiarly constructed spring saddle lends ease from one of the rear sprocket wheels to the other, of greater and comfort to the rider. or smaller diameter, as desired, then moving the crank The machine is constructed entirely of wood, except the shaft forward again until the chain is drawn tight, and re sprocket, chain, tires and axles, which are of iron and leasing the thumb piece, when the locking shafts are forced formerly served as parts of an old reaper. It took the boy automatically into racks, by means of a spring. about six months to make the wheel. About the same time he built a large wooden cyclometer, which registers llorgan & Wright's Car Was Here. 100 miles and rings a bell at every mile. It is truly one of Morgan & Wright's private advertising car, "Wan the most interesting and wonderful pieces of work ever derer," which left Chicago for a 6,000 mile tour to advertise attained out of wood with a jack-knife. the firms quick repair tire, recently passed through the city. The car carried a piano and receptions were given in a Pope rianufacturing Company Catalogue. number of cities to wheelmen and wheelwomen, It would be hard to imagine a more attractive cata logue than the nineteenth edition of the Pope Manufactur ing Company, of Hartford, Conn., manufacturers of the Columbia and Hartford bicycles. It is typographically a work of art. The cover is decorated in black and white with a center picture of a woodland scene and a lady and THE PNEUMATIC. At the North Side Cycle Show. here displayed. This is a sample, arid the first one for I895 turned out by this young firm. A handsome booklet gi _ The sua-ci-s of the North Side Club's cycle show is Yet in commemoration of the show, illustrates and describes assured. It opened tip on the evening of Saturday, January the wheel's merits. E. S. Potter and Emil Koepke are 1s, with all the spaces taken hy local manufacturers and a alternately in charge. good attendance, and there is even-indication that the club W. L. Candee, personally, looks after, the interests of is going to make some money on the venture. The follow the Ariels, which are shown at Exhibit IT. Two very fi ing are the exhibits: ne EXHIBITORS. models of road and track wheels, and a ladies' is also ex Exhibit A, the Telegram Cycle Manufacturing Com hibited. Ariels are all high grade and command one price. pany's stand, in charge of Jason R. Church and Morgan S. Mr. Candee also shows parts of the Ariel. The Gazelle line O'Brein make it neat display. The large sign so conspicuous of wheels will this year be turned out by him at 146 Mason at the Chicago show attracts the eye toward this stand. street. Telegram track and road wheels and a tandem built on the C. Niss & Son have on exhibition the Racycle at Exhibit lines of the Sanger Racer constitute the exhibit. A hand I. Five models of this handsome wheel are shown, and at some souvenir in the shape of a memorandum book is given tract unusual attention. F. A. Wood, the traveling repre to visitors. sentative of the Miami Manufacturing Company, was in The Chief Cycle Manufacturing Company occupy Space charge for several days, explaining the new crank pin adjust B, which is rendered attractive by their full line displayed. ment, which is a decided improvement. Emil A. Krattse is The Chief Scorcher and road and track machines comprise in charge throughout the week. the gentlemen's line. The ladies will find three wheels to T. J. Donnelly, at Exhibit J, shows saddles and baby please their eyes and make a comparison. The exhibit is carriers, together with a prospectus of Cyclarena bicycle in charge of W. C. Williams and Jos. P. Miller. Bunde & school, conducted on Broadway. Upmeyer the large jewelry firm on Wisconsin street will An ice bicycle, the invention of Peter Weber is exhibited henceforth be the Chief company's retail agents in this city. on this floor, by Henry Weber. It is a very simple contriv The Julius Andrae & Sons Company in Space C, show ance, and a set can be attached to any wheel. The patent a very handsome tandem along with the Andrae track and was issued on July 17, '94. road wheels. Their Chicago exhibit was sold on the spot ami the factory is at present so rushed with work that they An L. A. W. Headquarters in JTilwaukee. have found it impossible to display their exhibit to the M. C. Rotier, the secretary of the Wisconsin Division, greatest advantage. Wm. Schacht is in charge. L. A. W., is arranging with the Milwaukee Ethical Society The John Meunier Gun Company has quite an extensive for the establishment of a permanent L. A. W. headquarters and a varied display of wheels at Stand D. The different for visiting members from everywhere and for members of wheels displayed comprise the Rambler road and tandem this state especially. The society's building is large and wheels, ladies and gentlemen's Phoenix. The J. M. Special has every accommodation that a cyclist could wish for and which is their own product is also shown in ladies' and gentle a special room will be furnished for visiting members, where men's frames. The Crescent line of high and medium grade cycling publications will be kept on file and where every and juvenile wheels are also on exhibition. John Traudt, member may be free to take advantage of the other Jr., in charge, is the inventor of a very handy wheel accesso privileges. Local members are requested to join thesociety, ry, a wrench which is also a spoke grip and screw driver. but the free use of the large auditorium is extended to them John McDonald, Jr., exploits the merits of the Union at at any time they may desire to use it for gatherings. Exhibit E. The Union Cycle Manufacturing Company is way back with its orders and have failed so far to supply .0 its patrons. Only road wheels are exhibited, but neverthe f" less the stand attracts its share of visitors. Large framed pictures of W. C. Sanger and H. C. Tyler the Union team of 1894 adorn the corners of this stand. The Bolte Cycle Manufacturing Company, Exhibit F, finishes up the show ou this floor. The League combination and diamond frame tandems are shown, also the high and medium grade League gentlemen's wheel. Wm. Heinzen wi**s-~-^?_S__:- and John R. Brown have charge of this stand, distributing handsome gold plated souvenirs, which are sought for by .•-_$ all tlie visitors. _ ^ Thefirst stand on the second floor is that ofE. S. Potter & Co., Exhibit G. The Anchor road and track machine is THE PNEUMATIC. New Kind of Tires. On Class B. In England, a tire made of skin is the invention of After all, it appears there is no certainty of the abolition A. Maltby and has some features claimed to be a great of Class B. Just why in common sense, Class B should improvement in the material and construction of pneumatic have been created, does not appear. Surely it deceives no tires. It consists, first, of an air-tube of the ordinary form one—this pretence of amateurism, this spotted cloak of made of skin, kid or rubber, or rubber and silk combined, or sham. other textile fabric combined with rubber. Then comes an The whole world knows the B man is a professional in outer wrapper or jacket made of horse hair and cotton fact; that he selects his mount not for belief in its superi fabric, material which is elastic in the direction of its length, ority over all others, but for hire. Nothing discreditable in but not, when inflated, elastic in the cross direction. This that. The discredit attaches to the pretence, the effort to outer jacket may have one or more additional thicknesses gull the public. of the same material, concentric with the tread, to prevent Better be honest about it. Let's have pures and pros punctures, thus forming a band. Over this again comes a only. As Dr. Dana would say, "No half breeds! " cover of specially prepared kid or other thin skin, stretched Then divide the amateurs into classes according to their and rendered water proof, For rough roads there is still speed. The time has come when it is possible at nearly any another cover or tread made of rubber or similar materials. race meet in this country to fill 2.40, 2.30, 2.20 and in some In order to permit removal of the air-tube, openings are left cases even 2.10 class races. Closer contests would result. in the pocket or wrapper on the side, which are strengthened There would be a fairer distribution of honors and trophies. by means of a stocking around it and somewhat larger We would be spared the now too-common spectacle of Mr. than the opening. The tire is detachable but is secured by A. A. Crackajack winning firsts in three, four, or even all of attaching the kid or skin cover to the rim by means of one, the five events on the programme of the country race meet. two or three convolutions of catgut specially prepared by It would be a measure of protection for local riders against the incursions of city pot-hunters, as most of these latter being stretched until it is non-elastic and either endless or would be disqualified for the slower class races. with the ends hooked together to a cord fastener, which enables it to be tightened and adjusted as to length. Still —Frank Putnam in Bi- World. other forms of detachable fastenings may be used. In a Over=Athleticism. single tube tire the horse hair and cotton fabric may be The body can be killed through one organ, and in youth imbedded in the rubber. This style of tire is said to have and middle age mortal injury of body and mind comes been a success in England, where it has been tested by the usually through one organ as the primary seat of evil; it inventor. is an evil of frequent occurrence, and greatly on the increase. The State Semi-Centennial. A man is said to "throw himself, heart and soul, into his At the conference of Wisconsin's representative men work." Such a man isin danger. He has four great parts of held in the council chamber of the new City Hall, for the his body to consider—his heart'and blood system; his lungs purpose of planning a grand celebration in 1898 in com and other organs associated with breathing; his muscles; his memoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of brain and nervous system but he does not heed them. He Wisconsin as a state into the Union, a compliment was paid runs or cycles excessively, and in a much shorter time than he the wheelmen of the state and the Wisconsin Division, L. A. has the least idea of he makes his heart too strong for the W. in particular by the selection from its members of Walter rest of his organism, and endangers the finer ramifications W. Pollock to the office of permanent secretary of the gen of the vessels which are under the domination of the heart. eral working committee. It was no less gratifying to Mr. He rows without studying consequences, and long before Pollock than it was to the division officers who where dele he is convinced of injury he has produced an injury of the gates to the meeting, to see the hearty endorsement he chest mechanism, which may soon be permanently estab received from nearly every county represented. Mr. Pollock lished. is an old wheelman and an old L. A. W. member and the He takes to some muscular training, which puts the muscular organs to an extreme tension; large and small mus wheelmen of this state may feel assured that in the celebra cles alike are exposed to strain, both the strong muscles that tion of this half-century occasion, their interests will not be give propulsion and the delicate muscles that guide, and be neglected. fore he has become conscious of the error he has committed, Cycle Business Prospects. he is a strained man, from which predicament he is fortune- The calamity howlers who are predicting an over pro ate if he make anything like a complete recovery. Another duction of wheels in '96 and a general going to the dogs of man enters into competitions in which his mental organs the bicycle business, might take a grain of comfort in the are kept awake for long intervals, charged with expect reflection that even if 1,000,000 wheels are manufactured ations, anxieties, fears, nay, excess of satisfactions, and in 1896 there will still be about 64,000,000 people in this while he is not yet young he grows old —Sir B. W. Richard country who will have to go without them. son, M. D. THE PNEUMATIC. Water Cycle Company Incorporated. secretary, Hugo H. Casper; treasurer, Joseph P. g- ., Articles of incorporation have been filed with the secre and superintendent and general manager, Geo. G. Hits K ' tary of thestatc by the International Water Cycle Company, The new company will begin at an early date at "t of this city. The capital is $10,000 and P. J. Safentine, plant on the south side, to manufacture the new style wo d Geo. F. Cremer and J. M. Salentine are the incorporators. and aluminum wheels, which are guaranteed to weigh b Tlie company which has an office ou National avenue, will fifteen pounds each. The capital stock of the companv ' manufacture a water bicycle which Mr. Cremer exhibited on $20,000. J1S the river above the dam during the past season. Brief State Trade News. Six Telegram Models. Six models of Telegram wheels are described in the The Sneller Supply Company, at Fond du Lac, which catalogue of the Telegram Cycle Company. Three of them has been a bicycle repair shop, has been succeeded by the are gentlemen's wheels, one ladies' and two tandems. The Fond du Lac Cycle and Electric Company. men's wheels range in weight from eighteen to twenty-two G. A. Albrecht will open a hardware store at Florence and one-half pounds, while the ladies' wheel weighs twenty- and handle bicycles. three pounds. These wheels list at $100. The tandem weighs from thirty-four to thirty-six pounds, and is con Albert Dudley, of Menominee, will soon enlarge his shop. structed on the Sanger Racer patented frame principle. It lists at $150. The The Sheboygan is the name of a crank set is a new device. The ends of wheel now being manufactured by the the axle are shaped to correspond close Jenkins Machine Company, of Sheboy ly with the openings in the cranks. The MORGAN XWRIGHTHRES gan. ends are split, and a taperinghole drilled Joseph Dolister, the speedy Burling into the center and threaded. By the ARE GOOD TIRES ton rider, has entered the employ of the aid of a tapering screw the axle end is D. D. Warner Company, of Madison, spread to occupy, under a strong pres and will ride a Warner Special hereafter. sure, the aperture in the crank. The EASY TO DISTINGUISH Ira D. Lundy has withdrawn from cccentriechaiii adjustment has two pins oun Quio.-n._m TIRE the well-known south side firm, Clifford set accurately opposite each other in the ITS STEM IS RED & Lundy. SEND FOR QUICK- REPAIR PAMPHLET axle slide, and the eccentric adjustment ILLUSTRATED FROM LIFE plate, with holes engaging the pins by Bicycle Factory for Neenah. the same numbered hole, is held there by the axle nut. The slack in the chain A dispatch from Neenah says: A movement is on foot looking toward is taken up by setting the plate to the MORGAN _ WRIGHT next higher number. the manufacture of bicycles in this city. E. W. Thurston will be the manager of A La Crosse Firm's Line. the enterprise, and but a limited num The J. S. Medary Saddlery Com- ber of wheels will be put upon the mar -..,_v.._j _UUI- pany, of La Crosse, will handle Badger Standards, Queens, ket the first season. If it proves suc Badger Scorchers, La Crosse Flyers, Hiawathas, the Fault cessful, however, capital will not be wanting to enlarge the less, Champions, Elfs, Sprites and the Success wheels during output another year. the coming season. The Huennekens Cycle Co. Refused to Work on New Year's Day. Are importers of and dealers in bicycles, bicycle parts Twenty men were recently discharged by the Sterling and sundries at wholesale to cycle agents and dealers. Cycle Company, at Kenosha, because they refused to work Special prices and discounts given on application. Address, on New Year's day. The other employes of theworkshelda 124 Ferry street, Milwaukee, and get catalogue. meeting and decided to go out on a strike but the matter was patched up by the men being reinstated. How's This! Wood and Aluminum Wheels. ^^P^SSfi^i^s^r^ior any °ase °f catarri1 that caa* "^B-^C^to-^^^^P--^. *« undersigned, hare The board of directors of the recently incorporated able in all business^transactions ™fl fi^,anf ^e b6lieve ulm Perfectly honor- Hon made by their ff wwln*-^arLolally able to carry out any obllga- Huseby Cycle Company, elected officers as follows: Presi WALDING, SIKNIN&M__RV_? Wh^_?tx' Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. HallVoatarrhdure is"ffin^tprn^f DruSgists, Toledo? O. dent, William Casper; vice-president, Hugh J, Horrigan; and mucous surfaces of the system^SP^01'1^ directly upon the Wood Slsts, Testimonials free w™m. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Drug- traws «-__&S_p_*_%-^j__?V..> *!,&__ ;p;|^#^ Is it not singular that whenever the Pope Man 891 ufacturing Co, devote any attention to racing mat COOPER' ters the Columbia repre sentative immediately se- 11 cures such tremendous lead over all competitors ? Witness Cabanne 8M0RP«t= Rowe (1885=7) Murphy 712 Windle Cooper 70+ (1891-2) Bald .672 (1894-5) Gardlner ,662 Maybe it is Columbia luck. Most people* though, will consider it additional evi dence that 561 Columbias StandardfortheWorld The models for 1896 are nearer perfection than ever. POPE MANUFACTURING CO. THERMOMETER USED BY LADDER USED BY BEARINGS, Chicago THE WHEEL., New York Hartford, Conn. TO INDICATE POSITION OF RIDERS OH TO INDICATE POSITION OP RIDERS NATIONAL CIRCUIT. ON NATIONAL CIRCUIT. THE PNEUMATIC. ^—OUR '96 WHEELS Union Cycles,.. $100.00 * Reiter Special... $75,00 * Western Flyers... $60.00 LADIES' Sundries AND GENT'S Repairs TANDEMS. Enameling Nickeling Riding Suits Racing Suits Knicker= bockers We have and Second . .. Bloomers. Hand Wheels from $5.00 The only exclu Up. sive Retail Cycle Store in tliecity. J96 MODEL. UNION 6YGLB MANUFACTURING 60, Salesroom and Repair Shop, 273 Third Street, ^m»>- fllLWAUKEE. Puncture 95 WISCONSIN ST. Proof DR. W. 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Hand Wheels from $5,00 The only exclu sive Retail Cycle Up. Store inthecity. '96 MODEL. UNION 6Y6LB MANUFACTURING 60., Salesroom and Repair Shop, 273 Third Street, T1ILWAUKEE. THE PNEUMATIC. Warner Specials.,. _3* «_S* _^8 ««* have a symmetry in their make-up, and a harmony in design, that causes those who know, to pronounce them superior...... Milwaukeeans and visitors •will have an opportunity to inspect our beautiful line at the Milwaukee Ethical Society's Cycle Exhibition, to be held March 3 to 7 ...... 'W_>5. State racing; men seem to appreciate the high qualities of the Warner Special Racer, as we have booked many orders for them by well-known riders...,..,,'...••..•••, 1 poison.*. (^* 5^* i^PS c£rt Q£P* a^T- D. D. WARNER COMPANY MADISON, WISCONSIN MENTION THE "PNEOS. THE PNEUMATIC. WILL FIGHT WITH THE BALLOT. Wheelmen In Milwaukee Are Agitating a Movement to Become Active In Politics —Investigating the Records of Candidates for Office. There seems to be little doubt that the wheelmen of this city will take au active part in the coming municipal campaign. Sincethe Badger Wheelmen adopted a resolution __ MONTHLY pledging themselves to work for the defeat of Alderman JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. William H. Starkweather, of the Sixteenth ward, because of the hostility he has shown in the common council FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. against the cyclists of the city, other clubs have taken up All copy lor advertisements, changes lor same, news and correspondence for publication must be sent in before the 7th, to insure insertion the same the agitation and are now at work investigating the stand month. Contributions returned 11 not p iibllshea. ing of the candidates in the various wards in which the club ENTERED IN THE P. 0 AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. members reside.. In the council Alderman Starkweather ADVBRTISINO. THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri has bad a number of strong supporters for his bicycle ordi tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes of individual riders as well as the dealers, and is recognized as a paper nance and the wheelmen are now after all of these. Several which concisely covers all the doings in eycledom. Advertising rates on application. clubs have already adopted stringent resolutions, and there seems to be an understanding among all the wheelmen PNEUHATIC PUBLISHING COHPANY, in the city that before they vote for candidates in the coming ast Water Street, Milwaukee, Wis. election they want to know how the candidates feel toward J. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. CON. KNUDSON, M. C. ROTIER, Associate Editors. the wheelmen of this city. At a recent meeting of the North M. C. ROTIER, Business Manager. Side club the following resolution was unanimously adopted: "WHEREAS, The action of a number of the present Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. board of aldermen has been such as to clearly indicate their pronounced opposition to the interests of wheelmen by the WISCONSIN'S GROWTH. passage to third reading of anotoriously unjust and entirely Wisconsin's progress during the past year was warmly uncalled-for ' bicycle ordinance,' and by repeated affronts to commented upon at the National Assembly. The report of reputable wheelmen who sought the privilege of explaining Secretary Abbot Bassett shows that this division now is the true position of cyclists, and Y"eighth in size of membership. The ten largest divisions and WHEREAS, It is feared that the aldermen will call up their membership for 1895 and 1896 are as follows: this onerous and undesirable ordinance for passage as soon STATE, 1895. 1806. as their seats are secured for two years more at the spring New .-oris 8,149 10,414 Massachusetts..., 5,337 6,024 election. Pennsylvania • • 3,353 4,544 "Resolved, By the members of the North Side Cycling New Jersey 1,433 2,501 Ohio 1,044 1,948 Club that it is their intention to assist to elect such Missouri 600 1,011 candidates as indicate their friendliness to the interests of Illinois - ..1,000 1,005 Wisconsin 438 1,123 V wheelmen and to oppose such candidates as display a Connecticut 1,100 • 907 feeling of opposition." ' . No. California '. 476 UH8 The South Side club has ad op ted the folio wing resolution: . Statistics show that Wisconsin's rate of gain over 1895 "WHEKEAS, The municipal election at which will be is the second largest in the country, New York- of course, chosen the officials who shall have charge of the adminis being in the lead. Following table shows the rate gained tration of public affairs in the city of Milwaukee, and who by the largest divisions: shall control all matters of a legislative character,including PER such measures as have peculiar interest to wheelmen, and STATE. 1895. 1896. GAIN. Loss, O-NT. New York 3,149 10,414 7,205 230 "WHEREAS, Certain members of the present common Wisconsin 426 1,122 690 163 council have displayed a pernicious activity in opposing the Missouri 690 1,011 021 133 No. California 473 908 595 ISO interests of cyclists by favoring the passage of an onerous New Jersey 1,433 2,501 1,068 74 and manifestly unjust and inequitable measure known as Pennsylvania 3,353 4,544 1,101 37 Ohio 1,644 1,948 304 18 'Alderman Starkweather's bicycle ordinance,' and Massachusetts 5,337 8,024 . 687 12 "WHEREAS, We, as fair-minded and law abiding citizens Connecticut 1,160 907 193 *17 Illinois 1,060 1,605 61 *4 of the city of Milwaukee and riders of bicycles, are desirous * Decrease. of the preservations of those rights due all classes of citizens, The result is very gratifying and the officers of the div and are opposed to any distinction as was contemplated in ision deserve credit for the good showing that this division the measure indicated; therefore, be it has made. There is little doubt that a year hence Wiscon "Resolved, By the members of the South Side Cycling sin will have a membership of 2,000. Club, that we do condemn the attempt to discriminate THE PNEUMATIC. against us made By members of the present council, and that Western member of the League's executive committee, A. we do pledge ourselves to use all honorable means to bring Cressy Morrison, of Milwaukee. about the defeat of such candidates in the coming election To Mr. Morrison the League is indebted forthe fact that as display unfair hostility toward wheelmen, and that we it is today on a fairly good financial basis, in spile of the will give our support to such candidates as indicate their fact that the drain on the treasury for the publication of willingness to further the interests of cyclists." Good Roads has reduced the revenue much below what it The Cream City Wheelmen have also decided to adopt was for the year 1894. On the plea of good, honest work campaign resolutions at their next meeting. President done, recognition for the West, which has not within the Cambier, of the Association of Cycling Clubs may call a memory of man furnished a president for the L. A. W., and meeting of all wheelmen in the city in the near future to business policy, and on the plea of divorcing League affairs take action. The Citizens' League has already held a joint from politics, A. Cressy Morrison is the logical and best meeting with delegates to the Association of Cycling Clubs, candidate. It is not probable that he can influence as and it is probably that the league will also come to the many votes as the other candidates, and we have little hope support of the wheelmen. The cyclists of' this city do not that he will be elected, but we ask the delegates to the ask any favors of the aldermen that other people are not National Assembly to give the matter fair consideration, entitled to. They want what they believe they are entitled and vote according to their best judgment for the best can to and above all they propose to protect themselves in the didate. If they do this, then Mr. Morrison will be the future against any discrimination such as they would have league's next president." suffered if Alderman Starkweather had been successful in forcing his ordinance through the council. The wheelmen, An Interesting Decision for Dealers. however, were alert and there is now little probability of A suit of considerable interest to dealers was decided by the unfair measure becoming a law. Judge Austin's court several days ago. From the evidence it appears that Paul Adrian, a minor, bought a wheel from Sanger's Record Official. William Momsen for $75 and agreed to pay for it on in While in the East, in attendance at the National stallments. After Adrian had made the first payment he Assembly, A. Cressy Morrison confirmed the report that the refused to settle the balance due Momsen on the ground racing board had allowed the record which Walter C. that he was a minor and could not be held to the contract, Sanger recently made at Denver when he rode an unpaced The court ruled that as a minor he could not avoid the con mile in 2:00/% . The time was the same as that which tract, unless he returned the bicycle to Momsen. The case Hamilton claimed to have made in atrial against the record went to the jury and a verdict was returned in favor of the two months before. Sanger, however, learned that the race plaintiff. Adrian is seventeen years of age. had been made with a flying start and protested Hamilton's record. In speaking of the record Sanger says: "I protested Hamilton's claim because I believed that I Preparing for the Season. was entitled to the record, having started without a pace Preparations for the coming season are already being maker. I have not heard directly from the racing board, made by the members of the North Side Cycling Club, The but I presume it has upheld the protest. Two watches members have decided on the appointment of a club cen made my time faster than Hamilton's, and a third made it turion whose duty it shall be to keep a record of the number slightly slower, so the referee decided to make it the same of miles that are ridden during the season by the club mem as his in-order to avoid any complication. I made inquiries bers. It is proposed to award several medals at the end of and found that the day on which Hamilton made his record the year to those who make the best showing. The wasperfect, there being not a breath.of wind, so I figure out plan is to have all the members of the club equip their wheels that altogether hehad an advantage of about eight seconds with cyclometers and at the end of each month every mem over me. It is possible to make faster time in Denver than ber will hand to the centurion a record of the number of on any other place in the country, on account of the lack of miles traveled during the month. Of course, the centurion resistance in the air." will have to rely entirely on the honesty of the rider. Still another matter is now under consideration. Last Praised A. Cressy Morrison. season club runs were held every Sunday. Many members The Bearings recently in an editorial, states that Ster are of the opinion that this is too often. Itisnow.proposed ling Elliott and A. C. Willison both were objectionable as to hold club runs only once a month during the coming candidates for president, and proposed the name of A. summer and to have each lieutenant select a team. While Cressy Morrison for the head of the L. A. W. After "roast both teams will ride together, the object of having two par ing" Elliott and Willison, The Bearings says: "All the re ties is to see which will make the best showing at the club forms that have been inaugurated and carried to a success runs. Final action on these propositions will be taken ful issue have been originated and pushed to an issue by the shortly. THE PNEUMATIC. GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. generally known that the constitution -of Wisconsin, pro- ' First Annual Report of Secretary Otto Dorner Shows That the Agitation vides in article VIIT, section 10, that 'the state shall never is Growing and That Farmers Are Becoming Interested. contract any debt for works of internal improvement, or be Secretary Otto Dorner, of the Wisconsin League for a party in carrying on such works.' Though the provision ; Good Roads, has completed his first annual report which he was evidently incorporated iu the constitution to prevent \ has made public. The report gives a complete history of the the making of excessive appropriation for railway purposes,! work of the league during the first year of its existence and it is clearly a bar to the introduction of any state system : shows that the good roads movement has progressed. A of road building, or of any state aid system. It looks as j marked improvement in the condition of country roads has though an amendment to the constitution to prevent the become noticeable, which is proof that the farmer is begin making of excessive highway construction might well be ning to realize the importance of the movement. Mr. one of the first objects which the friends of good roads in Dorner says that when the league began its work its mem Wisconsin should strive to bring about." The league then bers did not hope to accomplish during the first year the urged the passage of a good roads bill introduced by building of miles of beautiful macadamized roads. What Assemblyman E. D. Hoyt which provides for road building has been accomplished is the creating and development of in Milwaukee county which was later passed. This is the popular sentiment throughout the state, which is sure to first legislation that the league has secured. manifest itself in the course of a year or two in the shape of Mr. Dorner also refers to the result of the official radical reforms, for which the league may justly congratu investigation, which was made by the Milwaukee County late itself. clerk, showing the $275,113.30 had been levied in taxes in Mr. Dorner gives a complete review of the year's work. this county for road improvement between 1890 and 1894 The reports of the meeting on January 22, 1895, when the and that the improvements had been comparatively small. league was organized, -were published and commented on The publication of a special good roads edition of The Wis by nearly all the state papers. Shortly after, the secretary consin Agriculturist, which was gotten-out by the league, published a map of the state showing the old government proved a success. About 35,000 copies of the edition were post roads, connecting the principal cities in Wisconsin. distributed among the farmers of the state. Speaking of The newspapers copied the map.freely and all urged the the press, Mr. Dorner says that it has given the league its immediate improvement of these roads. During the year a generous support and has unanimously endorsed the move pamphlet was published and distributed throughout the ment. The secretary says that evidence to show that the state in which the opinions of 167 representative men in work of the league has borne fruit is the fact that road relation to the league and its work were quoted. These machinery is being more generally used. Of Marinette pamphlets can still be had on application to Secretary county, he says: "A great stride in the direction of good Dorner. On February 27, Judge Winsor, of the Superior roads building has been made this fall in Marinette county. Chamber of Commerce, arranged a large good roads meet The county board lias decided upon a general system of ing at Superior, which was well attended by business men. county road construction, and the beginning is to be made Stirring addresses were delivered and resolutions were passed in the early spring. An appropriation of $8,000 for this favoring the passage of legislation looking to a state aid purpose was made on Nov. 13, and the money is to be de system and to the extensive construction of country roads voted to the construction of macadamized highways. Sim and endorsing the purposes and objects of the organization. ilar or larger appropriations for this purpose are to be made A second meeting was arranged by the Business Men's annually hereafter until a complete system of county roads Association, of Racine, shortly after, on March 5. Resolu has been built. This action on the part of the Marinette tions were adopted deploring the poor condition of country county board has been largely theresultof ourleague work. highways and urging their improvement in the interest of There has been a considerable and growing interest in good farmers, who are required to „se them for the transporta roads in Marinette county from the start, and the League tion of farm products, and favoring the construction of for Good Roads may be congratulated upon the fact that state and county roads, and the division of their cost this interest has so soon resulted in definite measures for the between the state, the cities and towns. practical improvement of country highways, Similar ac tion may certainly be expected from the supervisors of other • In reviewing the work of the league's committee on counties during the coming year. legislation in the interest of legislation for better highways, Mr. Dorner says that Senator McGillivray's good roads bill "Much valuable assistance is also being rendered our '• was not supported because it provided for a division of the work by the Wisconsin Farmers' institutes, in charge of cost between the county and state and abutting property Supt. George McKerrow. Mr. McKerrow has made good owners. Mr. Dorner continues: "After considering the roads a leading subject at each of the 120 Farmers' insti matter, the committee on legislation came to the conclusion tutes conducted this winter, and as the average attendance that it was unwise to support the bill, because if passed it at these institutes is 500 people, the subject is thus intelli would be unconstitutional. It is a fact perhaps not gently discussed before 60,000 of the most intelligent THE PNEUMATIC. Wisconsin farmers. We understand that the lectures at Appointed State Centurion. these institutes advocate the payment of road taxes in cash, Secretary C. M. Fairchild, of the Century Road Club of and the purchase of road machinery with the money thus America, has notified H. L. Marshall, of this city, of his raised. If this change of method could be brought about, appointment as state centurion of the club in Wisconsin, it would result in an immeasurable improvement in the Mr. Marshall is an enthusiastic wheelman and century general character of the common county highways." rider and his appointment will result in a large increase in In relation to the extension of the Sheridan drive, Mr. the membership in this state. At present there are very Dorner says a great deal of interest has been created along few members in Wisconsin, but as soon as the riding season the proposed route about its construction. Newspapers opens Mr. Marshall proposes to make a canvass among have devoted much space to the project and meetings have wheelmen. There are many century riders in Wisconsin, been held at Racine and Kenosha, and he thinks definite ac and those who desire to join the club or want any informa tion will be taken on the subject during the coming spring. tion about the organization, can address Mr. Marshall at Mr. Dorner concludes the report with the statement that 214 West Water street. the membership of the league has experienced, a steady- growth. Leased a New Home. Wants the '98 National fleet. The Cream City Wheelmen have leased a club house at Secretary W. W. Pollock, of the semi-centennial com No, 9 Racine street, and will shortly take possession of it, mittee, has addressed a letter to Secretary-Treasurer M. C. The club has been quartered at 25 Juneau avenue, but since Rotier requesting him to use his influence in securing the its reorganization, last September, it has increased in meui- National Meet of 1898 for Milwaukee, during which year bershipto such an extent that its present home istoo small, the State Semi-Centennial will be held here. No definite The new club house contains eight rooms and will make a arrangements for the celebration have been made but at a comfortable home. meeting to be held next month a permanent organization will be perfected, and the details of the celebration will then Looking for a New Home. be drafted. There is no doubt that the, committees in charge The South Side club is looking for new club quarters. of the celebration will see that the interests of cyclists are The club has conferred with the lessee of the Standard not forgotten during the demonstration. Theater and he has agreed to make the necessary altera Improvements Being Planned. tions, if the club will lease the property for $1,200 a year for a term of two years. There is also some talk of leasing During the next few months, extensive improvements the quarters formerly occupied by the south side Y. M. C. A. will probably be made at the club house of the North Side Definite action will shortly be taken. club. Contractors have been asked to submit bid's for the construction of an addition seventy by forty feet, and to Mercury Club Officers. cost between $3,000 and $5,000. The addition will be built at the rear of the present club house, and it will be At the annual meeting of the Mercury club recently the three stories high, the height of the present club house. following officers were elected for the ensuing year: One of the features of the addition will be three bowling President —Alexander Emery. alleys made of cement. There .will also be a gymnasium on Vice-President — Fred. Huennekens. a big scale, and the club's hall will also be very materially Secretary—Fred. Mielen. enlarged. Arrangements for the building of the addition Treasurer—Oscar Gerber. seem to have been very quietly conducted, and it is not Financial Secretary—John Weilep. known outside of the club circles that an addition to the Captain Pro Tern—Arthur Weilep. club house has been planned. The reports of the officers showed that the club is in a prosperous condition. The quarters of the club are now at Road Race Sanctions. 365 Grove street. At the last meeting of the Association of Cycling Clubs several sanctions were granted for the road races which will Y. M. C. A. May Organize a Club. be held in this city during the coming summer. The North The matter of organizing a club is now being considered Side club will conduct its annual race on Decoration Day, by members of the Y. M. C. A. While there are quite a while a sanction has.been granted the Badger Wheelmen for number of members in the association who ride wheels, yet a race on Labor Day. The South Side club has planned a few of them belong to any of the cycling clubs in the city. road race for July 18, and has secured a sanction for the If a club is organized, its members will have excellent same. Other clubs which will conduct road races will be the training facilities, because they will have the use of a large Milwaukee Wheelmen, the Cream City Wheelmen, but these and complete gymnasium in which they can keep themselves organizations have not agreed on any date. in shapie all year. THE PNEUMATIC. Brief Milwaukee Notes. Ethical Society's Show. The South SideCycling Club,.atarecentmeeting,decided Arrangements for the cycle show which the Milwaukee to join the Association of Cycling Clubs. Joseph Cordes, Ethical Society willhold duringthe week,commencingMarch G. Simmerling and J. C. Connell have been elected delegates 3, have nearly been completed. Theshow will be the largest to represent the club. that has been held here this year. From the number of The annual ball recently given by the Cream City Wheel spaces that have already been sold, there is promise to be men was well attended. about twenty-five exhibits when the doors are thrown The Badger Wheelmen will shortly hold a "paper chase" open. Good music will be in attendance. Among the ex race. hibitors who have already taken space are the Julius Andrae Most of thelocalclubshavearrangedcinchtournaments. & Sons' Company, the Mystic Cycle Company, Clement & Williams, D.D.Warner Company of Madison, Huseby Cycle The recent ball of the North Side club was a success. Company, Moore Manufacturing Company, Munn & Com The South Side club will shortly decide on a date for hold pany, C. Niss & Sons, Bunde & Upmeyer, John Meunier ing its first annual road race. Gun Company, Wm. Frankfurth Hardware Company, Result of Skating Races. Plans of Racing flen. The skating races which were held at Schlitz Park under Racing teams are now being formed by manufacturers, the auspices of the North Side Cycling Club on January 30, and while the make-up of only few teams has been resulted as follows: announced, it has almost definitely been settled who the FIRST EVENT —One mile — Edward -auhenheimer, first; Edward leading racing men will sign with. Cooper and Bliss will Schmidt, second; H. Schorse, third; Gustave Kellner, fourth. Time 3:33. SECOND EVENT—One inile exhibition — Three Davidson Sisters. again be on the Monarch team. E. C. and L. C. Johnson THIRD EVENT —Three mile eluh championship — Gustave Kellner, will probably again ride forthe Stearns company, which has first; Victor Guterson, second; Frank Bahnlk, third; William Pierron, also signed Weise Hammer, a well-known Class A rider, of fourth; F. W. Kellermann, fifth. Time 18:15. FOURTH EVENT—Five mile open —Edward Schmidt, first; Edward Philadelphia, and Louis Callahan, of Buffalo. The Syracuse _auhenhem_er, second. Time 17:83. company has secured Ziegler, Hamilton and Wells, of San Francisco. Justwho Bald will ride foris not certain, but it Wheelwomen to Race. is reported that he will remain with the Pope Manufactur Milwaukee is to have a women's six-day bicycle race, ing Company. Ray MacDonald has not signed. He may such as recently created so much enthusiasm in New York go across the ocean with Eck and his party of Johnson, and Chicago. W. A. Harrold and J. Robertson Smiley, two O'Connor and Weinig. Charles Murphy is unsigned. Cab- theatrical managers, have secured the Exposition Building annewillnot be able to get a position, owing to the L. A. W.. for that purpose the week commencing February 24. A ruling. Titus is in the same position and has opened number of crackajacks have already been secured and a ten- a store in New York. Sanger has not signed but has lap track is now being built. Helen Baldwin, of California; plenty of good offers, and will have no trouble in getting a May Allen, of Liverpool, England; Mate Christopher, good position. Gardener will continue to ride a Thistle of Minneapolis; Lizzie Glaw, of Chicago; Lillie Williams, and De Cardy, Barnett and others will probably remain on the " Omaha Cyclone," and others equally well known have the M. & W. team. Con.Bakerwill remain with the Orient signed to enter. It is quite likely that Frankie Nelson, the company, while the Humber team will very probably be winner of the big New York race, and who goes to Paris as Starbuck, Cutter, Berlo and Wheeler. Kennedy will repre America's representative in the great international race to sent the World people in Class B, and Johnson, O'Connor be held there, will also be a contestant. Eight hundred and Weinig in the professional ranks. Harry Maddox will dollars are to be offered as prizes, of which $300 goes to the probably remain with the Sterling team. Sims has not winner. The race is open to all and the management hopes signed and Edward Leonard will be on the Globe team. to secure one or two entries from this city. Banker may ride for the Fowler people. In the state great activity is noticable. With Milwau Fought It Out in Newspapers. kee, Marinette, Superior and Appleton as candidates for During the early part of the month members of the national circuit dates and the holding of a long state circuit Badger Wheelmen and Morgan S. O'Brien and his friends which will cover nearly every city in Wisconsin, plenty of were engaged in airing their opinions of each other in the races will be provided for riders. In Milwaukee interest is local newspapers. The trouble arose because of alleged un already at its height and clubs are beginning to figure on fair treatment, which O'Brien claims he suffered at the dates for holding their events. Besides the many road hands of the club. To this the club members replied with races, it is quite certain that several track events will beheld. counter charges against O'Brien. While a great many un kind words were used, all came out of the affair unharmed, E. Muldane, of Hubbleton, is enlarging his stove and and no one has been benefited by the dispute. hardware store and will deal in bicycles hereafter, THE PNEUMATIC. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. ing the year were $61,580.99, of which a balance of $1,375,- 48 remained after paying all expenses. Chairman Gideon's The Session Lasted Four Days —Willison is Defeated for President, and report for the racing board was, interesting. During the riorrlson Is Retained as Second Vice-President—Class B is Repudi ated—Murphy Reinstated and Titus' and Cabonne's Suspen year, 1956 sanctions were granted, yielding an income of sions are Reduced —Louisville Gets the Meet. $4,000. Over 900 suspensions were made. Over 300 riders The National Assembly, which was, held at Baltimore, were transferred from Class A to Class B, and 600 from from February 10 to 13, is over, and wheelmen can now Classes A and B to the professional ranks, in which there arrange their plans for the summer. During the next year are now 703. Class B has 573 riders. He recommended the affairs of the League will be in the hands of Sterling that the system of records be changed so that less records Elliott, of Massachusetts, who was elected president, would have to be allowed. Louisville was chosen for the place of holding the National In the afternoon the election of officers came up. Mr. Meet. It was decided to control only amateur and pro Willison made an effort to have the election postponed, and fessional racing, and to abolish Class B. A number of deferred business taken up, but on a rising vote the conven important amendments were also adopted. tion, by forty-nine to forty-eight, refused to agree. Mr. In accordance with a resolution adopted a year ago, Willison then stated that he had a report to make which the first day was devoted for the consideration of good roads had an important bearing upon the election of officers. topics. The meeting was in charge of the highway im Upon motion of Mr. Sterling, the vote to proceed to election provement committee, and after it had been called to order of officers was reconsidered and Mr. Willison made a long by President A. C. Willison, Chief Consul I. B, Potter, of report of the conference between members of the executive New York, who is chairman of the committee, was called to committee of the L. A. W. and the board of trade of bicycle preside. Addresses were then made by Mayor Kennedy, of manufacturers on the question of catalogue advertising and Allegheny, H.W. Williams, chairman of the Legislative com other matters. He asserted that a bill of $1,232.28 had mittee of the Maryland League for Good Roads, President been contracted in this connection by Consul Potter, which A. C, Willison and Sterling Elliott. In the afternoon he thoughtthe convention should pass upon before proceed General Roy Stone, chief of the Road Inquiry Bureau of ing with the election. He asserted that the charges made the United States Agricultural department, delivered an in this connection that he had neglected his duties as interesting address. Other addresses were made by Secre president were false. Delegate Richardson, of Maine, inter tary E.G. Harrison, of the New Jersey State Road Improve rupted.the speaker to ask questions about Consul Potter's ment Association, Isaac B. Potter, G. A. Perkins and A. law suit against the League, which led to a protracted Cressy Morrison, of Milwaukee, who reviewed the work discussion of this subject, in which the president and Mr. accomplished in Wisconsin during the past year. In the Potter, together with several other delegates, took part. evening a banquet was given in the handsome club house of A motion was carried to receive the report and postpone the Maryland Bicycle Club, at which many prominent men its consideration. The convention then proceeded to ballot responded to toasts. Among them were General S. A. Miles, for officers. The result was as follows : of the United States Army, Hon. J. Southwell, M. C, and President, Sterling Elliott, of Massachusetts; first vice- Hon. John K. Cowen, M. C. With these speakers the affair president, Charles F. Cossum, of New York; second vice- was an intellectual feast as well. president, A. C. Morrison, of Wisconsin; treasurer, E. S. The attendance on Monday was small because many Hartwell, of Colorado; auditing committee, J. F. Adams, delegates were interested in politics, and were working for of Massachusetts, chairman, J. J. Van Nort, of Pennsyl their friends. Therefore when the session opened on Tues vania, and G. A. McCarthy, of Colorado. day morning all were there ready for business. Of 180 dele Mr. Morrison was proposed for first vice-president, gates 110 were present, and sixty-seven were represented by but he withdrew in favor of Mr. Cossum, and was proxy. The morning session was devoted to receiving later re-elected to the office of second vice-president without reports. President Willison said that the League had .pro opposition. gressed. It had more members, and was clear of debt. The fight for the National Meet was between Toledo Encouraging results werenoticeableinthegood roads work. and Louisville, both citieshavinglarge delegations on hand. Treasurer Merganthaler reported that he had received $8,- Louisville was chosen by a vote of ninety-seven to eighty- 231.27 and had paid out $4,609.19, leaving on hand one. Wisconsin voted solid for Louisville. $3,622.08. Secretary Abbot Bassett's.report showed a On Wednesday morning the assembly took up the Potter membership of 40,402, against 26,140 last year. The case, It was finally decided to arbitrate the matter; and report shows that Wisconsin now has 1122 members the case will now be settled and his suit withdrawn. Mr. against 426 last year, and Mr. Bassett commented that Potter's amendment to divorce the League from the control this division deserves great credit for the work that has of racing was taken up. Mr. Potter championed his own been accomplished. Wisconsin is now the eighth largest scheme while Sterling Elliott led the opposition. The vote division in the country. The receipts of the secretary-dur resulted 135 to 40 against the amendment. Wisconsin THE PNEUMATIC, helped to increase the majority. In the afternoon Consul requiring that members belonging to more than one club Jacquish's amendment to admit to League membership'all shall designate which club they will vote with; allowing classes of riders except colored men, brought out a lively the president to appoint a clerk at a salary of not over fight. The motion, however, was voted down by ninety- $1,000 per annum ; makingthebondof the treasurer $5,000 two to seventy-five. The proposition to drop Class B was instead of $2,000; to increase the fees to $25 for national then brought up by Mr. Potter. After lengthy discussions circuit meets, $10 for open race meets, and $5 for each it was decided that Class B must go, and now the League additional day, and $2 each for athletic meets, scheduling will only admit amateur men. All men who are not ama two events. All League clubs to have sanctions without teurs will hereafter be professionals. Class B riders will be cost. Messrs. Sams, Cossum and Potter were appointed a reinstated as amateurs if they so desire. special committee to arrange for the incorporation of the Amendments were adopted as follows: Providing that League. an amateur shall not compete in any race outside his own One of the last acts of the meeting was the passage of state, at a greater distance than 100 miles by the usual line a resolution requesting the racing board to reduce the life or route from his legal residence, except at national or suspension which has been placed on Fred. J. Titus and closed college championship meetings, or except by special L. D. Cabanne for "fake" racing, to a one year suspension. permission from the member of the racing board in charge The proposition was made by Mr. Potter, of New York. of his district; making the chairman of the auditing com The racing board no doubt will comply with the request. mittee a member of the National Assembly; fixing the date ACTION OF THE RACING BOARD. for the annual meetings of the League the second Wednes On the clay previous to the opening of the Assembly, day in February, instead of the second Monday, providing the racing board met behind closed doors. Charles M. that the place of annual meeting shall be, determined by the Murphy, who with Titus and Cabanne, had been suspended National Assembly, unless delegated to the executive com for life for "throwing" a race in St. Louis, asked for a mittee; providing that division secretary-treasurers may rehearing of his case, but his request was refused. Titus hold office until removed by the board of officers, adding to and Cabanne made no effort to have further action taken. the list of national committees that of local organization. On Mondaynight the board met again. Titus appeared An amendment providing that divisions, sub-divisions before the board and made a statement about the Murphy- and consulates shall be discontinued whenever the member Titus-Cabanne case. He admitted that he had approached ship falls below twenty-five and all moneys belonging to Young and Gratiot Cabanne in St. Louis with a proposition them pass to the League was adopted, as was also another, to let L. D. Cabanne win the mile open race,but that Young providing that all memberships' shall expire one year from and Murphy had refused to enter into the agreement. The the publication of the application in the official organ. board thereupon exonerated Murphy and immediately Amendments providing that memberships may be renewed reported his reinstatement. and that the penalties for lapses in dues shall in no case exceed $1 for a full year, were adopted. Local Consul Appointments. A resolution was adopted authorizing the president to Chief Consul W. A. Brown, will shortly announce his appoint a committee to draft 1 .solutions to be presented to list of appointments of local consuls. Mr. Brown and Secre the various legislatures declaring bicycles to be personal tary-Treasurer Rotier have held several conferences re baggage. cently and have practically decided on all the appointments. It is understood that a number of changes will be made in On Thursday the following amendments were adopted: cities where League work has not progressed during the To define the duties of the new local organization com past year, but what the changes will be will not be known mittee; permitting the racing board to grant sanctions for until the appointments are made public. Consul A. H. Sunday racing in divisions which have voted to permit such Kelley, of Marshfield, and Consul G. K. Mead, of Sheboygan, racing; pronouncing as unfair and ungentletnanly any act have declined to serve again, and successors for them are which tends to disturb a race meeting, or failing to pay now under consideration. entry fees; providing that members removing from one division to another shall pay a fee of 25 cents for new mem A Track for Pond du Lac. bership; providing that the chief consuls shall report the Fond du Lac business men have decided upon building financial condition of their divisions at the end of every six a cinder bicycle track in the grounds of the Kite Park months; to provide for the organization of division clubs, Association. The track will be built with all modern composed of "unattached" members; provided that all improvements and is expected to prove a record maker. national committees, except those on auditing and local organization, shall be appointed by the president; making To Become a League Club. thefee that must accompany applications of clubs for League The Pastime Cycle Club, of Green Bay, will shortly be membership $2 ; requiring such club to forward a list of all come a League club, Fourteen members recently joined the members, designating those who are members of the League; L. A. W. and more applications will be filed in a few days. THE PNEUMATIC. riadison News Notes. the circumstance of a man being born to the physicial attri At the annual meeting and banquet the Madison Cyc butes of a champion, a monument of will power, shrewd ling Club elected the following officers: President, Ben. W. ness, tact, courage that recognizes no such thing as danger Park; vice-president, D. D. Warner; secretary, B. F. Oakey; or failure, and never-failing devotion to a purpose.—Bicycle treasurer, A. E. Small; captain, Angus Udell; lieutenant, News. E. C. Schneider; director-at-large, F. M. Wootton. Cycling In Greece. Mr. L. P. Holmes and Miss Henrietta Billings, both of Madison, were married at the home of the bride's parents George Horton, United States Consul at Athens, Greece, February 6. Mr. Holmes is a well-known wheelman and is has written the state department at Washington, in rela secretary of the D. D. Warner Co. The bride is also popu tion to the history of cycling in Greece. He says: lar in cycling circles, being the secretary of the Taychoperal " The history of bicycling in Greece is interesting. The Cycling Club. Their many friends wish them much happi first machine was brought here many years ago by the ness. King. It is an all-wood affair, of the variety known as 'bone-shaker.' Naturally His Majesty did not appear in fTonroe Wheelmen Organize. public on this machine, as bicycles were regarded by the A number of wheelmen of Monroe have organized a natives as supernatural and uncanny for many years. The club to be known as the Monroe Wheelmen. The following pioneer cyclists of Greece were subjected to many inconven officers have been elected: iences and even dangers. They were hooted andlaughedat President —L. A. Hodges. even in the streets of Athens, and were sometimes stoned Vice-President —Fred. J. Blumer. and tumbled from their machines. At the present day the Secretary—Erve McCaffrey. rustic generally crosses himself and utters a prayer when a Treasurer—Joe R. Byers. bicyclist passes him. Captain—Louis Hirsig. Bicycling may be said to have begun here in earnest First Lieutenant—• E.J. Manning. about eight years ago, with the founding of several clubs, Second Lieutenant —Chas. Butterfield. and its adoption as an amusement by leading Greeks. It is A committee consisting of C. S. Young, Louis Hirsig safe to predict a craze in the near future, as the royal family and Sam Lytle, to be assisted by the president, has been and many of the leading diplomats are now enthusiastic. selected to draft a constitution and by-laws. The Crown Prince and the English, American and German Chas. Butterfield, Ed. Eley and Allie Ziltner have been Ministers among others, may be seen on the streets every selected as a committee to look up a permanent home. day mounted upon wheels. Such leadership has more weight in Greece than it would have in America. The Zim We Shall Know No More. "Last year one of the dealers here brought over five If reports are accurate after havingbeenforwarded from wheels from the United States. He had no difficulty in sell far-away Australia they mark the decline of Arthur A. Zim ing them immediately at 1,000 drachmas apiece. They merman _s a racing man. When first the word came that were lighter than the English machine ordinarily used here " Zim " was being beaten in his first contests with the Aus and were very much admired. tralians, the same old explanation was given—that it was The greater portion of Greece is passable for bicycles, only a repetition of his proverbial slowness in becoming ac and the climate is especially favorable. There being a wet climated. Gradually the time-worn explanation became and a dry season, one knows before starting what weather more and more unsatisfactory, because Zim was being to expect. In summer, excursions are possible if one avoids beaten repeatedly, and not by the great riders but by the the heat of the day, and in winter the heavy rainstorms are lesser lights of cycling in the antipodes. sure to be followed by pleasant days. In spring theclimate If Zim has seen his supremacy for the last time, if he is is charming. Bicycling will be an important feature of the no longer the Zim that could beat all America and all Eur Olympian games, to be held in April, 1896. These games ope in the same race, if the born champion cyclist mustnow will in themselves give a great impetus to bicycling here, retire to the contemplation of what he was—no longer great and their influence is already being felt. Great activity is for what he is, but for whathe was—if that incomparable noticeable among the various clubs in view of the coming power has slipped away from him, never to return, the event. American wheels should be represented at the world of cycling will reluctantly close the book and ask, Olympian games. Any of our manufacturers who will send " When shall we see another Zimmerman ? " a competent representative over to the games, or before His place will not soon be filled. There may arise cyc they take place, will no doubt be able to make profitable ling wonders to duplicate his greatest performances, but no arrangements. The firm that has sold the most wheels personality can, in all stretch of probability, come in to fill here is known as M. T. Sourmely & Philon, Athens. They the place left vacant by the "Grinder." To duplicate the express themselves to me as willing to handle a good Ameri character of Arthur A. Zimmerman would require, beyond can wheel." THE PNEUMATIC. A Bicycle Valise. Growth of the Industry. Frank Mueller, of Reedsburg, Wis., has taken out a Very few people give a thought to the wonderful ad patent for a valise to be carried upon bicycles. This inven vance made in the bicycle building industry in this country tion comprises a box, bag or case which is provided with during the last twenty years, for it is within that period of metalic frames or bows hinged together, and intended to time that the development of the business has taken place receive parts of the frame of the bicycle, and being provided in this country. In the year 1878 the total number of bicy with means for locking the bows together. A flap or apron- cles built in this country was less than one hundred, and, secured beneath the hinges is adapted to wrap around the the prospect is that during this year between eight hundred frame. thousand and a million bicycles of all kinds will be built in Favor High Qears. the United States. One of the cycle fashions of the fast approaching season Mayor Favors Wheelmen. of 1896 will undoubtedly be machines geared higher than In his inaugural address recently the mayor of Toronto any ever ridden by the ordinary cyclist before. Every indi said: "In the construction of streets hereafter, the council cation points to the use of uncommonly high gears. Riders should pay special attention to the needs of those who ride who have been content to push a 64 or 68-inch gear have bicycles. A part of each street should, be paved with the determined to raise the figures to about 72 and in many in most suitable material for them. In addition to this, stances to 80. This is due in a great measure to the ease of strips on a large uumber of the streets, in different parts of running of the present day high-grade machine and partly the city, where asphalt or brick does now exist, should be in imitation of our racing men. The racing men of France put in first-class shape for bicycle riders. We must remem were the first to adopt high gears. ber the fact that traffic upon the streets is changing rapid When George Banker first went over to France he was ly, both because of the electric service, and because of the surprised to see the riders there going around on machines introduction of bicycles, and parts of the streets hereafter geared as high as 80 and 90, but this last season he encoun should be graded and paved with special reference to the tered some that rode gears high enough to take one's breath comfort of those using wheels." away. Two of the fast riders that boast of France as their Why We Go "Stale." home and the land in which they have the partially insane idea that they can vanquish any rider that hails from an Doctor Parkes, an eminent English physician, states other heath ride around the tracks on wheels geared above that when a muscle, or group of muscles, is exercised to too 110. Vasseur, one of the foremost riders-of the French great an extent, it will, after growing to a great size, com class, rides a wheel that is geared to 120, and his sid'e mence to waste. This deterioration does not ensue when partner, Foussier, makes things hum on one geared to 112. all, or most of the muscles, are employed, as in cycling or —Chicago Times-Herald. boxing, probably because with so many in use no one mus cle is overworked. This is an illustration of the important Cycling In Vienna. law that monotonous repetition of the same act is directly In Vienna, Austria, all bicycle riders before obtaining per conductive to fatigue, either muscle or mental. mission to ride on the public streets are required to pass an An Important Problem. examination. They are required to ride between boards Speaker Reed was asked the other day what he consid laid on the floor without touching the sides or edges of ered the most important problem now before the public. them. At the word of command they must be able to dis "How to dodge a bicycle," was the quick retort. "At least mount either right, left or backward. Until thericlerpasses I judge so from my own experience since I came to Wash this examination satisfactorily, a license to ride on the ington." public highways is refused him. Varney's Rambler Biclorama. Honeymooning Awheel. One of the most complete bicycle stores in the country Bicycle weddings are becoming quite a monotonous in has just been opened at Market, Tenth and Stevenson stitution on the Continent. We hear of a couple who have streets, San Francisco, and is known as Thomas H. B. just returned from a tour during that blissful period, when Varney's "Rambler Biclorama." The salesrooms are on life seems mirrored in golden sunlight, an d the place of abode the first floor and are eighty'by forty feet in dimensions. a grotto of roses, having covered 1,100 miles in seven weeks, The renting department occupies 6,000 square feet of space, and visited 314 towns and villages.—English Cycling. and the repair shop is the most complete in San Francisco. On the second floor of the building Mr. Varney has fitted Now A Prison Product. out two riding academies, one for ladies and the other for Bicycles are now being made in the Indiana State prison men. A storage room where wheels can be placed in lockers at Warsaw, Ind. Experts from a prominent bicycle manu also has been provided in the biclorama. The gentlemen's factory have been engaged as instructors to the convicts. dressing rooms include lockers and baths. THE PNEUMATIC. THE WOOD-ALUniNUn WHEEL. The inventor of the bicycle is George G. Huseby, a pat tern maker, who says that all points of the machine have Itis Attracting Considerable Attention Among the Trade in the Northwest, been carefully studied and that its success is assured. A and Its Future is Being Watched With riucli Interest. company with a capital stock of $200,00 has been organ The wood-aluminum wheel, which is being manufact ized with the following officers: President, William Cas ured in this city by the Huseby Cycle Company, is attract per; vice-president, H.J. Horrigan; secretary, Hugo Casper; ing the attention of the trade in the northwest, and wheel 'treasurer, Joseph P. Kalt; manager and superintendent, men and dealers are speculating on the future success of the George G. Huseby. Temporary quarters have been secured new machine. Its manufacturers claim that the wheel will at 133-135 Ferry street, where the first lot of fifty machines endure more rough usage than the steel bicycle, that it will has been finished. A larger factory is being negotiated for, be cheaper and much lighter in weight. If these qualities when the capacity of the company is to be increased to fifty are possessed by the new machine, it will, no doubt, prove machines a day. Three styles of machines are being made, to be a ready seller, but other makers are not so sanguine a racer, a roadster and a lady's pattern. It is claimed that about the success of the machine. Itis held by them that a 15-pound wheel will resist harder usage than any 25- the wooden parts of the wheel will not prove durable and pound steel wheel on the market, because jars will be less will not withstand damp weather as well as a steel ma effective on the wooden parts of the wheel than on the steel chine, and that with parts of other bicycles. each change of atmos- rjhere a change in the Y. IT. C. A. Show. wheel will be notic- The cycle show which able. Whether this was held at the Y. M. will be the case, re- C. A. hall under the remains to be seen auspices of the Young when the wheel has Men's Christian Asso been given a trial. ciation on February The prices of the 13, 14 and 15,proved Huseby, as the ma asuccess. No attempt chine is known, are was made by the man $75, $60 and $45, ac agement to secure out cording to the three side dealers or manu grades, which are be facturers but nearly ing made. Should the everylocal dealer was new machine prove a represented. success, these prices The show was in will probably have charge of Physical In some effect onthemai - structor T. P. Bond, ket. The general lines who deserves great of the machine are the VARNEY'S RAMBLER BICLORAMA. credit for the perfect same as all other '96 arrangement of the models. The frame is diamond shaped, but instead of steel exhibit. The hall was appropriately decorated and looked tubing being used, the finest quality rock-elm wood is sub very attractive. Among the exhibitors were: Julius Andrae stituted. The joints of the frame are com pressed into alumi & Sons Company, E. S. Potter & Company, Cream City num .casings, without the use of screws or bolts. This Cycle Works, Bunde & Upmeyer, William Frankfurth Com style of jointing is said to be durable and strong. The pany, C. .Niss & Sons, Cribb Carriage Company, John wood is not painted, and remains in its natural color, but Meunier Gun Company, W. L. Candee, Cogan Cycle Com it has been thoroughly oiled to resist all moisture. The pany, Phillip Gross, John Pritzlaff Hardware Company hubs are of rock-elm wood and contain steel casings and and Clement Williams & Company, During the days that ball bearings. The spokes are of the ordinary wire, but the show was open several thousand people visited the serve to strengthen the hub at the same time. Each piece hall. About 100 wheels were displayed. of wire serves as two spokes. It commences at the rim, is fastened at the hub, then is wound around the wood of the An Andrae Club Organized. hub and is'led hack to the rim in the form of a second spoke. Twenty-five Minneapolis wheelmen and wheelwomen The handlebar also is of wood. The sprockets, chain, etc., have organized a club and named it the Andrae Club, in are of steel. Ball-bearings are used in all parts with which honor of the Julius Andrae & Sons Company, of this city. other machines are supplied. The members all ride Andrae wheels. THE PNEUMATIC. _!» «_S» _£ _£ ...A PILE DRIVER is not needed to force a favorable impression of the "MYSTIC" CYCLE upon the mind of any person. The general public has now become so well "wheel educated" that they easily discern the difference between the." built to sell" kind and those that are built to wear and give satis faction. Such a wheel as the latter is the "MYSTIC," presenting so prominently as it does, its inherent quality of excellence, that "those who run" may read and make no mistake in pronouncing it a peer among cycles. Its of the hundred dollar quality and finish. Such a wheel as you want and such as we make (_3- See us at Ethical Society Cycle Show Spaces 3 and 4 . March 3 to 7.... — MILWAUKEE RETAIL BRANCH MAKERS: MYSTIC CYCLE COMPANY MYST16 6Y6LE WORKS 452 EAST WATER STREET ST- OHARLES HOTEL BLOOK MUKWONAGO, WIS. fm^i^^^^^^^^^^^^iWiW^^^^iW^^ism Milwaukee (__iycle Exhibition^•••• Ethical Society Building 558 Jefferson Street and £STEvenings March 3 to 7 Clauder's Orchestfa._• • • And other special attractions daily All the principal makes of wheels sold in the city will be on exhibition. _S* _5* *_?* t^*" Novelties in cyclingf equipments. General Admission 25 Cents Latest styles in suits and cycling Season Tickets 75 Cents.,,. apparel. _*_*6?t_t^*«j*^'^t_jtt5t m@mmmm&m&Emmm@m&om THE PNEUMATIC. Mystic Cycle Company's Store. line of other high grade wheels. A large crowd was present Another large and complete bicycle storehas been opened at the opening. inthecity It is that of the Mystic Cycle Company, of Muk- The Badger Cycle Company have had no special open wonago, which has leased large and spacious quarters at ing, but their salesrooms will be found open 'at any time 44-2 East Water street, near the St. Charles Hotel. The anyone wishes to inspect the Badger line of wheels. place has been thoroughly overhauled and is no w one of the finest cycle departments in the city. Besides handling a full line of Mystic wheels for the retail trade, the company will Local and State News. carry a complete line of bicycle sundries. The firm will have a large display at the Milwaukee Ethical Society's cycle W. L. Miller and G. L. Crook, of Madison, who have show, which will begin on March 3. had the agency for several wheels, are about to put a machine of their own on the market. The wheel will be Fire Threatens Bicycle Factories. known as. the Forward. For a second time within a year the Telegram Cycle H. L. Dodson, of Chicago, owner of a patent for the Manufacturing Company and the Bolte Cycle Manufactur Dodson bicycle, is negotiating at Racine Junction for the ing Company have been threatened with destruction by fire. purpose of establishing a factory for the manufacture of On January 29 a fire broke out on the top floor of the Norris wheels. J. Seager is also interested in the deal. Block on East "Water street, and before J. H. Hamlin, of Wausau, is raising it was extinguished the entire top floor capital for the manufacture of a horse of the building was gutted. The Bolte less carriage, A model has been com company occupies the third floor of the MORGAN *WRIGHTHRES pleted and patents have been applied block and suffered considerable damage for. by water. The fire caused a slight delay ARE GOOD TIRES in the work of the firm, but by running The Jenkins Manufacturing Com day and night shifts all lost time has pany, of Sheboygan, is busy getting out "been made up. The Telegram company its line of bicycles which will be placed lost about $1,000 by its stock being EASY TO DISTINGUISH on the '96 market. damaged. Last February a fire raged OUR QUICK-REPAIR TIRE ITS STEM IS RED C. Dreher, W. R. Roberts, A. S. Wil •in the Norris Block and both bicycle SEND FOR QUICK-REPAIR PAMPHLET son and A. Hall, of Hartford, are mak firms suffered loss by it. ILLUSTRATED FROM LIFE ing preparations to enlarge their build ing and put in the necessary machinery Bicycle Factory for Superior. for the manufacture of bicycles. West Superior will soon have a bicycle MORGAN & WRIGHT factory. Itis reported that M. R. Mar At Sheboygan M. A. Randall, hard tin has purchased the large building ware, has opened a new store and will formerly owned by the Malleable Iron add bicycles. He was formerly in the Works Company at South Superior, hardware business at West Branch. and is now preparing to place a high grade wheel on the At Fond du Lac, Martin Halfpenny & Company are market. Mr. Martin has secured a number of patents for making preparations to commence the manufacture of bi his wheel which he thinks will greatly add to the popularity cycles. ; of the machine. He will have his bicycle on the market in a few weeks. The machinery for the same has already been Henry Helling, a well-known South Side wheelman,has secured. opened an enameling plant at 245 Lake street, where he has built several new enameling ovens. Hadison Trade Notes. The Moore Cycle company, of Milwaukee, has been in The D. D. Warner Company gave a cycle show at their corporated with a capital of $15,000, with S. H. Moore, U. salesrooms February 7, 8 and 10. ' The " Warner Special" T. Moore and V. M. Moore, as incorporators. and "Lady Warner" were shown in all styles, and also the *' Madison" and the " Warner Special "tandems. No pains $100 Reward, $ioo. were spared to make this the best bicycle display ever shown The readers of this paper-will ba pleased to leaa^ that there iaaUeiwt one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its stayo». » <"« in the city. The rooms were beautifully decorated and a that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure ^own ui i »; medical fraternity. . Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requue»£-< musical program was also rendered each day and evening. stltutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, »°™"}> "' rectly upon the Wood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereoy ""> .* . Miller & Crook opened up their new bicycle store on tag the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient sw^fe" „;* niSlding up the constitution and assisting nature In doing; its f°l£;r()11H King street, February 6, with an elegant line of wheels, proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they ""Vt,,s,,_ Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list "l "•» consisting of the "Forward," their own make, and also a jnonials. Address __ _,„._.,.., o Sold by Druggists, 75c. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, u. THE PNEUMATIC. Columbia Army Bicycles. The cartridge boxes contain 250 or 500 cartridges each. At the New York show, recently, the Pope Manufac In a recent test for accuracy, at 200 yards, 100 consecutive turing Company displayed the bicycle as adapted to prac hits were made in sixteen seconds, demonstrating the rapid action of the gun. The additional weight of forty pounds tical army use. An ordinary Columbia tandem, model 43, does not cause the bicycle to steer hard, nor does it interfere and a single model 40, have been equipped in a complete with the balance or comfort of the rider. and convenient manner. The tandem was not built specially for the purpose. On either side of the steering head are attached steel enameled gun rests, lined with leather, into which the barrel of the gun snugly fits, while similar rests are attached to the main up right, to hold the gun stocks. The two guns are Colt's twelve-shot repeating maga zine carbines. On the right side of either seat-post are strapped two of Colt's regu The New York Journal re lation six-shooters. Also on cently offered ten bicycles to the • the right side, attached to the steering head in front, and ten winners in a guessing con to the lower center tube in the rear, is a jointed flag staff. test, leaving the choice of To the front handle bar are machine to each._*-*-*-»_*_*-*-M securely strapped two tightly rolled army overcoats, while ALL OF THEM CHOSE on the rear bars is a pair of army blankets. The other wheel, a single model 40, presents a more Columbia formidable appearance than the tandem, on account of its having attached, and ready Bicycles for action, a vicious looking forty-pound gun. This is sup STANDARD OF THE WORLD. ported by an extra piece of steel tubing running perpen Nine immediately, and one after dicularly from the fork-crown to the height of the handle-' he had looked at others. And the bar, and secured to the steer Journal bought Ten Columbias. ing-head by two semi-circular Paid $t00 each for them, too. pieces of steel. Upon the V shape frame thus formed is a On even terms a Columbia will be chosen turn-table and bracket, upon which the gun rests securely fastened. It is always ready TEN times out of TEN. for use, whether the rider is going fast or slow, over bad roads or good. The gun itself POPE MANUFACTURING CO. is known as the Colt auto 1896 Art Catalogue free from the Columbia HARTFORD. CONN. matic gun, which has recently agent; by mail for two 2-cent stamps. been adopted by the navy. THE PNEUMATIC. Additional Local and State News. when the wheelmen have their tires punctured or their At Eau Claire, the Miner Spring Saddle Company has wheels otherwise damaged so that they would be obliged been incorporated to manufacture a patent spring bic3-cle to walk. saddle, which was recently patented by Leroy Miner. The Huennekens Cycle Co. Twenty polishers employed by the Sieg& Walpole Manu Are importers of and dealers in bicycles, bicycle parts and facturing Company at Kenosha are on a strike on account sundries at wholesale to cycle agents and dealers. Special of a reduction in wages. prices and discounts given on application. Address, 124 Joseph T. Kelly, during the past year one of the leading Ferry street, Milwaukee, and get catalogue. cycle dealers at Dubuque, la., will travel this year through Excelsior. Northern Iowa and Southern Minnesota, selling Andraes What school boy but what remembers the story of the and Crawfords. lad who climbed on, on to the upward zenith of fame. So it is with that famous little article, White's Yucatan Gum. Important Legislation Wanted. Excelsior in doing good to thousands as a remedyfor heart Two bills of considerable moment in cycling circles were burn and indigestion, it surely has no equal. Buy none recently introduced in the New York legislature, nowin ses but that called Yucatan and sealed with a yellow band, sion at Albany. The one, fathered by Assemblyman Rob- bins, of Allegheny County, classes bicycles as baggage, and compels every general transportation company to check OLLITT CYCLE WORKS.... wheels and assume full responsibility for them as for other .MAKERS OF- Da a e g_ _ - The. other bill, of a similar character, has also Headquarters for F "U- II been introduced, but it will not carry with it the endorse Sharpening and BICYCLES... ment of the New York State Division. It gives to wheel Repairing of REPAIRED men the option of having their wheels carried free or of ... SKATES paying a nominal charge to secure the railroad's responsi 703 = 705 Winnebago Street bility. It is not improbable that both these measures will 704 = 706 Chestnut Street be lost in the room of the railroad committee, but there will MILWAUKEE be some music over the matter if such turns out to be the case. Chief Consul Potter intends to keep an eye on the Robbins bill. Similar legislation would be desirable in Wis consin. Miscellaneous News. A race was recently run in France, in which no machine RIPAN-5 was entered which was not twenty years of age or more. ONE GIVES RELIEF. Toronto has a Chinaman who rides a bicycle of the latest model. : ' Amateur racing in Canada- is not thriving and clubs hesitate toholdmeets unless large guarantees can be secured from merchants^ It is thought that cash prize professional raciug will soon result- An English firm is executing an order for 150 bicycles to be used by a company of Salvation Army soldiers in prosecuting their religious work. .. A western paper is authority for the statement that a blind man re cently rode a bic3'cle from San Jose, Cal. to Berkeley, Cal. and return, without any accidents. The street railroad companies of Kansas City have decided to allow the bicycles to be carried on their cars POPE'S ARMY TANDEM. THE PNEUMATIC. LIST OF We PHotOQrapti. . ttf RELIABLE REPAIR MEN Everything Under the Sun. IN THE STATE. Bicycle riders when in need of repairs or cycle sundries, while touring, will find 'the firms listed below worthy of patronage. T\ APPLETON C._tNiW_RY WIVI. GROTH, CYCLE AGENCY AND REPAIR SHOP, SUPERBLY EQUIPPED *V l C. HAEFER'S ALL KINDS OP OYCLE SUNDRIES. 7 FAST TRAINS / BETWEEN COLUMBUS M. B. NUTE, HANDLING ANDHAE AND CALUMET CYCLES, IMWAUKEE^CHICAGO BIOY.LB REPAIRING * SI-OIAI-TV. EQUIPPED WITH FONDDU LAC ' -LUXURIOUS PARLOR CARS - PALATIAL DINING CARS. Palace Sleeping Cars Between CHAS. YERS. •fr it -k PRACTICAL CYCLE REPAIRER, MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS AND DULUTH QOOO WORK. RBABONABLE PRIOE6. City Ticket Office, 102 Wisconsin St. Corner Milwaukee and Mason Streets, FORT HOWARD Passenger Station, Lake Front, Foot of Wisconsin Street. CHAS. S. KERR, MILWAUKEE. IHTiS?;!- C__rx-_icl_- _____ric-_y-Gl_-es :'W. H. NEWMAH, I. _, WUHAN. Wheels to Bent. Wheels Itepairod. Third Vice-Pres. General Manager. W. A, THRALL, Gen'l Passenger ana Ticket Agt. LACROSSE C. A. KREBAUWI, BICYCLES and SUNDRIES PESMAHEMT EEPAIHS L. A. W. No. 0538(5. 827'K. 3d St. WISCONSIN FOND PH. LAC MADISON OSHKOSH D. D.WARNER CO., CENTRAL NEENAH. Cycle Agency and Repair Shop. MENASHA. CAVEATS, Fully Equipped to give Satisfaction. TRADE MARKS, CHIPPEWA FALLS DESIGN PATENTS, MILWAUKEE COPYRIGHTS, etc. EAU CLAIRE For information ana free Handbook write to WM. POLLITT, MTJNN _ CO., 861 BROADWAY, NEW YOHK. PULLMAN SLEItrilllS TO Oldest bureau tor securing patents In America, •_tperionoe_0yol_ Kepiim. 701-70B Chestnut Street.' Every mtent talren out by uaia Drought Ijctoro MAKER OF "TMK ONLY1* BIOVCLB. ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS . the pufilio by a notice given free o£ charge toth o MILWAUKEE ASHLAND SUPERIOR DULUTH Julius Andrae & Sons Co.'s Repair Dept. Largest circulation of any scientific paper In tlio Equipped in the most complete manner. 225 W.Water St world. Splendidly Illustrated. No Intelligent man should be -without it. Weekly, $3,00 a • '••CITY. - -. yearj $1.50 Blx months. Address, M0NN & CO,, MILWAUKEE 'IOKBT OPFIOB 100 Wisconsin Street PUBLISHERS, 861 Broadway, Now York City, E. S. POTTER & CO. Bicycles Built to Order and Repaired COL.O M6UAIC. AND DIPLOMA WHEELS FOR RENT WU MICH I NTS ON AT 16 N A L ~l 179. Tw_f»i.,St., Cor. Cherry. AN UN0ARAUL. L6D VICTORY IN J NEW RICHMOND J. W. RIDINGER, GUN AND CYCLE SHOP... Tlie only reliable repairer lu the city. We carry a line of Bicycle Sundries anfl Sporting Goods ...Main Street. OSHKOSH J. W. WAGNER Esolusive Cycle Sepait Shop. Mais Street. SUPERIOR DODGE & PEARSON, Bicycles and Sporting Coods 1133 Tower Avenue WATERLOO BICYCLE CLUB JAN1SCH BROS. BICYCLES AND HARDWARE.- BADGES, BUTTONS, PINS. BIOVOLI! REPAIRING, A SPBQIALTV. See Our Novelty Lapel Button E. A. WILLIAMS, Send Ten Seats for Sample. Pneumatic... "We can iurnish special Club, Badge at very DfiALBH IN low price. Also Campaign Buttons, "Free BICYCLES and CYCLE SUNDRIES Silver," Sound Money, Etc. AGENTS WANTED 50 Cents a Year Eine Repair Work u Specialty. THOMAS M. GOODWIN, LAKE MILLS. WIS. MANUFAOTUBSB HOVELTIES, 17S PLUM STREET, - CINCINNATI, O. _5& e&^t&^cfi^* ; >+-*"M-+-H»« H-H1imM* »< H I >«••»*•*••»* > »»»«•-» «-«44<-»+4-»4»t H-M fHt<«»»».^|.< • t , m* • «+« »-+4 4 »4»1 I .4 I» 44-»* •••*•• 11 4 > t »+•»•••»++*»• 4 * « >** »»-4 »+-«•• -f4-*++> •+-*-»•• Do You Propose •••••• "What wheel are you riding? Do you like it? No? Have you ever carefully inspected a Telegram—a '96 Telegram wheel we mean ? We are ready to show you our full line any time you may choose to call. When will it be? . . . a.?* e_S* t£* _5* s_5* ei_* TELEGRAHS have an enviable reputation, which only years of experience has made possible. Our '96 Catalogue is out. Get one TELEGRAM CYCLE MANUFACTURING COMPANY ERIE AND EAST WATER STREETS MILWAUKEE *•*-»«••»«-» ++-*••»•» • »»•• •»-»-»+-»•••.• • 4* . »»*» + 4++ + 4-»+-n > . »• . | + >, + ,+ :<••'..'•'• i'V_~5Ki /.../»" «_i_ _w •^ _L _o J_L SS& ^i.^^S'l;.-'^ ••••- .- A JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE ?^V.f.K!S;^^Ai^l ,.. . AND TRADE NEWS. VOL. VI. MILWAUKEE, WIS., MARCH, 1896. No. 12. > S_ (j-r !•_.* _* tjr'' SIOO.OO SEVENTEEN YEARS EXPERIENCE Like Throwing a Lasso...... around intelligent, well-posted people who are going to buy bicycles, is to display an agency for ...... <%ass_N_Ve» * sign in front of any bicycle agency. Even if the well merited leading reputation of (Jl _. v\ _^ was not so widely known, people would still *NS^vc__S»''' feel that the seventeen years experi ence in bicycle btiilding, which their makers have had, has brought Ramblers beyond the "period of experiments and mistakes," through which allbicycle.makers must pass AH Ramblers are Fitted with the Great "Q. & J." Tires Our beautiful Illustrated Rambler book of de tails will prove interesting and instructive. Ask any Rambler agent for one .' GORMULLY & JEFFERY MFG. COMPANY CHICAGO BOSTON WASHINGTON NEW YORK BROOKLYN DETROIT COVENTRY. ENGLAND THE PNEUMATIC. 44 A SPECIAL MA The Milwaukee C H1 PP " DE WI 11 JCr JH B1CVCLB Japan=Enameling Co. Is the only Company in the State making a specialty of ENAMELING BICYCLES In any color desired . *** . Plain and Ornamental Enameling and Japanning H1GHEST POSSIBLE GRADE ••• MOST ELEGANT FINISH SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP MANUFACTURERS MECHANICALLY PERFECT MOST STYLISH MAO' and DEALERS.... Two Klrds- 'Cllief" Extra High Grade WRITE US FOB PRICES 1 Optate" High Grade • •• BUNDE & UPM_Y_R___WELERS 396-40S ©i^^ri-i _3_v__>isi:T_jrE- M1LWAUKEE 121-123 Wisconsin St. .. fllLWAUKEE Visit our Cycle Department PLRASQ MMNTION TH_ F>NBUM»TIO Everybody Knows D0LL1TT 6Y6LE WORKS... . .MAKERS OF- .Tlie- Stekrns Fowler Thistle and Sterling To be ioo Points High Grade Price, $ioo 703-705 Winnebago Street BICYCLES... 704 - 706 Chestnut Street REPAIRED MILWAUKEE Wheels, $35 to $100 Fully Guaranteed "•%*•"_* 95 WISCONSIN S" DR.W.SJMEGBR, MILWAUKEE, High Class Repairing and Sundries a Specialty.... ^DDEDNTTIST^ CHOWS and BRIDGE WORK a Specialty. Vitalized Ait-, T. H. Brown Company TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN. Teeth Filled Without Pustt* R. S. BAIRD, Manager 133 to 135 Michigan St. Cycle Department MILWAUKEE, WIS by a New Method. All Work Guaranteed. THE PNEUMATIC. VXVI V> &<3W \*«S^ \**S}»7 Is Impossible To Make a Better Wheel 3^ NEW FEATURES Built on the proper lines for speed and comfort. Has an adjustable handlebar which cannot be told from a regular bar, the mechanism being entirely out of sight. .. Chain adjustment has no bolts or nuts, the simplest made, and cannot be seen WARNER SPECIAL ROADSTER . 22 POUNDS . $100 SEND FOR CATALOGUE, OUT SOON ^Q5 D. D. WARNER COMPANY M^^^ || MADISON, WISCONSIN ^ Milwaukee Branch, 390 East Water Street .. George Soule Spencer, Hgr. MENTION THE ".PNEUS." THE PNEUMATIC. &BMfa$fc$fc$t^^ W lb, The 1896 Catalogue•••••• ** SSSS J-Jrjrj* DESCRIBING CYCLES is ready for distribution _» You can get one free, for the asking, at any of our agencies _t^*a*-t-*-*^_'_t_* JULIUS ANDRAE & SONS GO. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. _* J> J- J> _* _* _* <_£«_£«_£ Every Dealer****** ought to know the value of an ex clusive agency—we are now talking; about medium grades _* There is but one line of this kind on which you can have exclusive sale <£> & _* J> j> jt __ P THE f_ •••+•*•• CRAWFORD $40,00 _* $50.00 J» $60.00 J* $75.00 |__ _!-__• 6_» J.^jfiJ' WRITE TO _i P $~* JULIUS ANDRAE & SONS COMPANY »_! _P =?_ i& Western Distributors _* Milwaukee, Wis. _* .is? + + + **•» fUMHIMI »».*.» »*.»4.*f*..*f ••»*•*-* »-»»».»-* »-M H CLASS B MEN BECOHE PROFESSIONALS. The decision of riders who last year belonged to Class B to become professionals is the best thing that could have • happened to the state division. It will place racing in this state on a fair basis. Had the riders gone back to the amateur ranks, it would have been an injustice to all riders __ _V_O_,T:__I-Y who last year belonged to Class A. As it is, the riders of JOURNAL OF CYCLING LITERATURE AND TRADE NEWS. this state are now classed as they should be. FIFTY CENTS A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Appointment of Local Consuls. All copy for advertisements, changes lor same, news and correspondence for publication must be sent in before tlie 7th, to Insure insertion tlie same The following re-appointments to the office of local month. Contributions returned 11 not published. consul have been settled on by the division officers: ENTERED IN THE P. O. AT MILWAUKEE AS SECOHO CLA8B MATTER. Appleton „..S. J. Ryan La Crosse J. W. Thompson __!_> V_H> __T_S3I_, O. vice, P. M, Conkey, resigned Lake Beulah 0. H. Stevens THE PNEUMATIC is the only cycling paper thoroughly covering the terri Ashland .-.Morton H. Potter tory in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Northern Michigan. It reaches the homes Antigo Roy Dorr Lake Geneva H. A. Burdick of individual riders as well as the dealers, and Is recognized as a paper Bayfield A, Lester Hellwig Lake Mills F. M, Seaver which concisely covers all the doings in cycleclom. Advertising rates on Little Suamico J. J. WMtcomb application. Belmont.... W. E. Minor Berlin L. E. Davis Madison L. P. Holmes PNEUTIATIC PUBLISHING COnPANY, Black River Falls..Sydney H. Castle Marshfleia Wm, H. Beach Bloomingdale Gus. Morterud vice, A. H. Kelley, resigned 505 East Water Street, - - - Milwaukee, Wis. Medford Arthur Elvis Brandon G. B. Weinstock vice, Louis A. Maier, resigned Browntown., Harry Lathrop 1. POPPENDIECK, JR., Editor. Merrill E. P. Heilman Burlington J. M. Schroeder Milwaukee Louis Pierron Caldwell R. R. Clark CON. KNUDSON, M. C. ROTIER, Associate Editors. Monroe L. A. Hodges Cedar Grove L. C. Smith Neenah A, W. Anderson M. C ROTIER, Business Manager. Chetek ...B. P. Budworth Neillsville ...Geo. A. Huntaicker vice, Miss Edna E, Moore, resigned New London M. T. Patehin Eastern Representative: S. Koppel, 81 Times Building, New York. Clintonville L. E. Schroeder Oconomowoc Ohas. Osen Colby A. W. Moerke OTTO DORNER'S APPOINTMENT. Onalaska ..Prof. J. F. Sims Columbus Geo. C. Stevens Otsego John A. Johnson The appointment by President Sterling Elliott of Otto Commonwealth E. W. Hopkins Platteville E. P. Grindell Cuba City Lewis A. Wilson Plymouth W. D. Porter Dorner, of tliis city, as a member of the highway improve Deerneld H. Helgison Port Washington H. L. Coe ment committee of the L. A. W. again, is gratifying. There Delafleld R. Loweree Princeton Fred. E. Yahr Delavan H. G. Hambrlght Racine W. J. Hopkins are few men in the country who during the past two years Depere ; R. J. Strauss Resdsburg.. E. G. Stolte have worked harder for good roads than Mr. Dorner. He Eau Claire W. W. Jackson Rhinelancter H. M. Woodard Elkhorn Will B. Lyon Rice Lake J. W. Munnell has devoted every moment of his spare time to the work vice, W. H. Allen, resigned Richland Centre B. D. Black and has done more to arotise interest in Wisconsin than any Fall River Chas. E. Tasker Ripon Frank W. Lylo Florence E. E. Wilcox vice, J. Stors Hall, resigned other member of the League. As secretary of the Wiscon Grafton Wm. L. Kind Shawano T. S. MoNichol sin League for Good Roads he has worked conscientiously vice, J. F Ohesebro, resigned Sheboygan S. J. Fairweather Grand Rapids Geo, N. Wood vice, Geo. K, Mead, resigned and that his services will be valuable on the national com Green Bay W. H. Meld Shell Lake W. W. Watkins mittee there is not the slightest doubt. Hika Henry Knoll Shullsburg H. B. Chamberlin Hillsboro R. F. Myers Stevens Point W. F. Dewey Horicon Dr. F. Forbes Tomah L. W. Earle Hortonville O. J'. W. Spengler ORGANIZE THE TRADE. Towne C. H. Smith Hurley S. J. Power, M. D. TJtley C. W. Birum There is some talk among local dealers and manu Iola E. W Smith Waterford O. Grundseth Janesville Dr. 0. T. Peirce Waterloo .....Max Janiach facturers of organizing a local Board of Trade. It is to be Jefferson F. 0. Ray Waupaca , F. W. Spencer hoped that there will be no delay in the matter. An associ Kenosha R. H. Welles Waupun.. .Sol. A. Davison Kewaunee ....H. R. Erickson Wausau W. W. Wilson, M. D. ation of the trade has long been needed. The bicycle Kiel P. O. Schubert Whitewater Chas. S. Weeks business in this city has grown to such proportions that Lancaster Chas. W. Burr Winneconno W. A. Molcher vice, Edw. Mc Dermott, resigned the various men engaged in it should be on harmonious The following isalist of new consuls recently appointed: terms and work on the same basis. By having an organ Kimberly Ohas. E. Escott Ellsworth A. Swalm Wrightstown C. J. Pope Ranney •. Arthur V. Hill ization they could work to each other's interest and in Sparta lfred. L. Sehaller Washburne H. C. Prudhomme many instances protect each other against frauds and Maple Valley James Eleasen Greenwood P. E. Peterson Necedah C. H. Maxson Rosendale ; J. F. Duley "dead-beats." The past also has shown that some con Milton Jet Irving P. Hinckley Castle Rock Herbert J. Johnson certed action is necessary next year for the holding of a McFai'land M. D. Larson MoMello ....Max Staehle cycle show. No good can be derived by holding several Waunakee Henry Hart Mukwonago 0, D. Palmer Johnson's Creek W. A. Christians Mellen Louis A, Maier shows on a small scale. If the dealers and manufacturers Combined Locks Aug. Helck would be benefited, they ought to have one large show which should be under their management. This also could An effort is being m ade by the Federated Trades Council be undertaken by the association. The trade should be to organize the employes of local bicycle factories into a thoroughly organized. THE PNEUMATIC. DOES NOT FAVOR POLITICS. unanimously decided not to take part in politics, and not to call a mass meeting for that purpose. The Milwaukee The Associated Cycling Clubs Decides not to nix In Political Affairs.—A ' New Bicycle Ordinance to be Drafted. Wheelmen were granted a sanction for the Waukesha- An important meeting of the Associated Cycling Clubs Milwaukee road race on June 20, and the Cream City was held on March 12, at the rooms of the Cream City Wheelmen one for a road race on July 4. Wheelmen, at which it was decided not to hold a mass The matter of railroads charging for the transportation meeting of local wheelmen to decide on political action, and of wheels came up for brief discussion, and it was voted to to refrain from passing resolutions referring to political instruct the railroads that the Association of Cycling Clubs affairs. The question of politics was brought about by a objected to the charge being made for the transportation of suggestion from President P. H. Cambier, who thought it bicycles. An application for membership was received from might be wise to call a meeting of wheelmen to discuss the the Mercury Cycling Club, and it was voted to grant the matter. Henry P. Andrae did not agree with the president. application as soon as the Mercury club qualified. An He thought that the passage of resolutions and holding of amendment to the by-laws was also introduced, instructing mass meetings would be detrimental to the interests of each club to furnish the secretary with a list of members wheelmen. He thought that the wheelmen ought to draft expelled for non-payment of dues, and these lists will be sent an ordinance to suit themselves and present it as a by the secretary to each of the clubs belonging to the substitute measure to the common council, which, he Associated Cycling Clubs. All members so expelled will be thought, would give any reasonable measure dueconsidera- black-listed among the clubs belonging to the association. tion. "A majority of the aldermen," he said, "do not know exactly what the wheelmen desire. We have said that we Will Begin a Boom lor the '98 fleet. did not want certain things, but we have yet to say just Local wheelmen and especially the officers of the Wis what we want, so, if we draw up a measure showing just consin Division, L. A. W., are enthusiastic overthe plan of what we want, I am sure that we shall profit by it. There securing the great National L. A. W. Meet in Milwaukee for is no use in securing pledges from candidates to do certain 1898, during the celebration of the State Semi-Centennial, things; everybody knows the value of a pledge made before which will be held in this city. election. What we want is legislation that shall meet with The following letter from Mr. Pollock, who is at present our approval, and I don't see how resolutions that will secretary of the state committee of one hundred which has make enemies for us will accomplish anything, especially the entire project in charge, recently addressed the folio wing when we have not yet made known to the council exactly letter to Secretary M. C. Rotier, of the State L. A. W.: what we want in the line of legislation. As I have stated, the resolutions which have been passed by the clubs belong M. C. ROTIER, Sec'y-Treas. Wisconsin Division, L. A. W. ing to this body, and the publicity which has been given to Dear Sir: I would like to call your attention to the them, have injured us more than they have benefited us." contemplated holding of a mammoth Industrial Exposition in the City of Milwaukee during the summer and fall of the Frank J. Morawetz spoke in a similar tone, and thought year 1898, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the ad that the mingling of wheelmen in politics was out of place. mission of the State of Wisconsin into the Union, and to He believed that in view of the fact that cycling was suggest that the League of American Wheelmen be solicited increasing to so large a proportion, that something ought to hold their National Meet in this city that year. If an to be done to regulate it by an ordinance, and he felt opportunity arises to put in some missionary work in this positive that the aldermen would be pleased to receive any direction at any time I trust that you will make the most of it. Of course, as you undoubtedly know, the Semi-Cen suggestions, "lam sure," he continued, "that it has not tennial project is not yet in such shape that its promoters been properly explained just what sort of an ordinance the can make a definite offer to the League. But one of the first wheelmen desire, and this plan will serve to set everything bureaus to be organized will be one which will have iu its right. It is not our place to mix in politics. We have no charge the promotion of national gatherings to be held in interests which we can benefit by political action, and we Milwaukee and other points in Wisconsin during the pro will accomplish much more if we go about the matter of an gress of the exposition, and I can assure you that the L. A, W. meet will receive prompt attention as soon as that ordinance as I have suggested, because we will then show bureau is in shape to talk business. just what we want, and the aldermen will see when our Yours very truly, suggestion is presented that we are not asking something WALTER W. POLLOCK, Sec'y. which is not to the interest of every citizen, be he a wheel man or not." Wheelmen's Racing Board. A committee of Louis Pierron, of the North Side club, The racing board of the Milwaukee Wheelmen this year H. P, Andrae, of the Milwaukee Wheelmen, and Joseph is as follows: Henry P. Andrae, chairman; E.H.Neustadtl, Cordes, of the South Side crab, was appointed to draft an H. Crocker, F.J. Morawetz and G. Rutz. It is likely that ordinance regulating bicycling on streets in the city as the the club will hold a track meet during the summer but no wheelmen believe it ought to be controlled. It was definite action has been taken. THfi PNEUMATIC. Riders Become Professionals. were induced to accept the positions as track managers of All local wheelmen who last year rode in Class B, and the "races" had to attach the track to secure salaries for some who rode in Class A, have decided to turn profession their services. The riders who were entered labored under als. The list includes Walter C. Schrader, William F. Sanger, difficulties. Helen Baldwin fell twice and was badly in Harry Crocker, Edward Roth, A. F. Bingenheimer, Henry jured, May Allen had to drop out on account of a fall Zerbel, John F. Reitzner, John C. Sehmidtbauer and Morgan sustained. Lillie Williams was "fouled," and Lizzie Glaw, S. O'Brien. The riders say that under the rules of the L. A. though she covered the largest number of miles, was not W. it would be folly for them to turn to pure amateurism awarded the race, because of unfair riding. because they would be unable to compete at any of the large races in the state if they had to pay their own expen Sanger's Future Is Bright. ses. The riders have not all determined what wheels they Walter C. Sanger's plans for the summer have not been will ride during the summer, but William F. Sanger has fully decided upon, but it is very probable that he will leave chosen the Telegram for his mount. the city in a few weeks and go to Louisville to train for the With the decision of the riders to join the professional coming season. Dumbleton will again have charge of him. class, several,other questions arise, which will have to be He has not closed a contract for his next season's mount considered during the summer, both by race promoters and but it is quite certain that he will ride the Orient fitted with division officers. The riders are the fastest in the state, Vim tires. He expects to do good work during thesummer. and in them the most interest has always centered in race Sanger is well pleased with the prospects of professional meets in Wisconsin. Race promoters in the future will have riders, and is of the opinion that the action of the assembly to offer cash prizes in events in which they will consent to in dropping Class B, is a move in the right direction. He compete, and this, no doubt, will add considerable expense thinks that both the amateur and professional classes will in conducting meets during the coming season, as compared with last summer, when prizes of little value could be be greatly benefited. "It just suits the professionals," he offered as an inducement for Class B men to race. Provis said recently, when talking about the assembly. " All the ions for allowing these men to ride in meets arranged fast men will now be with us, and we will have to be for amateurs will also have to be made, and special sanc recognized by the makers as well as the public which wants tions will have to be secured, because none of the .riders will to see good racing. The trouble with us last year was that enter unsanctioned races, for fear of being barred from there were only a few riders among the professional class, tracks controlled by the L. A. W, As an effort is to be who were considered speedy, The larger percentage were made by the division officers and members of the racing poor riders. Now it is quite different. With men like board to strictly enforce the L. A. W. racing rules during Cooper, Bald and others, who led the Class B crowd last the coming season, it is safe to predict that few unsanc year over on our side, we are all right. The professional tioned races will be conducted in this state, because riders class will now be able to put up the races in which all learned last year that it is not profitable to take part in the stars are entered, and under those conditions we are such races,each offensebeingfollowedbypromptsuspension. well taken care of." Pure amateurs will no doubt rejoice that the Class B Sanger's prospects are exceedingly bright this year, and riders have decided to become professionals. The riders he will, no doubt, be the leading rider on the circuit. mentioned have been the fear of nearly all other riders in Zimmerman has retired and Johnson is in Europe. His the state, and had they gone back to amateurism, the out chief opponents now will be Bald and Cooper, and justhow look of pure amateurs, who are not riding as a business, he will compare with them will be watched with local but as a sport, would have been anything but pleasant. interest. He is now in perfect health and unless he meets With men like Schrader, Sanger, Bingenheimer and others with accidents ought to be able to ride better this year to race against, they would have had little or no show, and than ever before. There is little doubt that the coming it is safe to say that the Milwaukee, string would have year will be the most profitable he has had. captured almost every large amateur race in the state. As it is, the pure amateur will be in a class where he will not No Indoor Race Meet. meet riders who devote their entire time to racing, and The indoor meet, which was spoken of several weeks live on the sport. ago, will not beheld at the Exposition Building. Fred, J, Schroeder, who was at the head of the scheme, on figuring Exposition Races.' the cost of such an undertaking, found that it would en The indoor ladies' race at the Exposition Building tail an outlay of about $600 a night, if the promoters proved a fizzle, as all events of its kind deserve to. The would have men like Sanger and other professionals com Milwaukee public failed to patronize the "races" sufficiently pete. This was more than the admission to the races to pay for the expenses, and when the affair finally came to would average in Milwaukee, and consequently the project a close, William F. Sanger and "Scorcher" Murphy, who has been abandoned. THE PNEUMATIC. Arranging Road Races. sideration. Ladies' races are never sanctioned by the Preparations for a number of road races to be held L. A. W., and by riding on the track the three racers made during the summer are already under way. The first race themselves liable to suspension. It is not probable, how will probably be that of the North Side club, which has ever, that any stringent punishment will follow. In a secured a sanction from the Association of Cycling Clubs recent letter Mr. Gerlach said that in view of the fact that for holding the event on Decoration Day. Though the the riders had no intention of violating the rules, a lenient Chicago road race is held on that day, it is not thought punishment will be adequate. What that will be is that it will have any effect on the success of the local race. not known. It is very probable that the Silver Springs triangular course Sanger and Hamilton May Race. will be chosen. Following the North Side club's event will There is talk of a match race for a $5000 purse between be the Milwaukee Wheelmen's big Waukesha road race. It Walter C. Sanger and W. W. Hamilton at the opening on has been decided to hold this on June 20 this year, instead Memorial day of the new track at Cambridge, Mass. of July 4, as has been done in former years. Recent races These two men have the best unpaced records to their credit. have proven that there are too many other attractions on Wallie says he is willing. He wants to see the money in July 4 to insure a thorough success of the i-oad race on that sight, however, before going into the deal. day. It is expected that this year there will be a larger number of outside competitors than ever before. The date The Waukesha On June 20. falls on Saturday. The South Side club already has its The racing board of the Milwaukee Wheelmen has sanction for its first avenue race to be held on July 18. The decided to hold the Waukesha-Milwaukee road race on June course will be from Hales Corners to the city and it is now 20 this year, instead of on the Fourth of July, as has been proposed to have the finish at National Park. Joseph done in former years. It is thought by so doing the race Cordes is chairman of the committee which is arranging will be more successful than ever before, because there will the details of the race. The Badger Wheelmen will hold be no other events in the state to detract the attention o their race on Labor Day, September 7, but just what course wheelmen from the race. will be chosen has not been fully determined upon. All Gideon Lays Down the Law. these races have been sanctioned by the Association of The following is part of Chairman Gideon's bulletin Cycling Clubs. Other races will probably be conducted by just issued, and is of interest to the racing men: the Niagara Wheelmen, the Mercury club, the Cream City The greatest abuses of the League's rules and the racing Wheelmen and other local clubs. board's confidence are committed by those men who obtain South Side Racing Team. their expenses and otherconcessions, and yet seek to remain amateurs. When men travel far from their homes to race, The South Side club's racing team this year will.be under the care and direction of representatives of the trade, E. A. Clifford, Morgan S. O'Brien, Anton Stoltz, John Cruce, there can be but one inference. Men in the employ of the John Reitzner and Edward Roth. trade who are allowed time for training, and travel from meet to meet, enjoy advantages which it was never contem Violated the Racing Rules. plated the amateur would have. Such men do a great Walter C. Sanger, Henry Kanaska and JosephBezenek, injustice to those who are yet amateurs perforce, and who of Chicago, recently violated the L- A. W. racing rules by are struggling to develop themselves with their own riding at an unsanctioned meet at the Exposition Building, resources. Amateurism is the nursery of racing, and when during the ladies' indoor races, and the wheelmen are now one so develops as to command the assistance of the trade awaiting with interest what action the racing board will he belongs in professionalism, and there he will be trans take in the matter. Sanger, Kanaska and Bezenek, it is ferred by the board under the general provisions which reported, agreed to go against the half mile, the mile, authorize it to act. and the two mile indoor records, respectively, in considera This warning is issued now, that racing men may at tion of a portion of the gate receipts. On the following once select their proper class. The board will not be satis night a number of local wheelmen were to compete and fied to simply transfer to the professional class riders found Fred. Gerlach, western representative of the racing board of guilty of violating the amateur rales, but will also suspend the L. A. W., was asked for a sanction. He refused to issue from all track racing riders who enter races under such false one, and notified the riders that whoever competed would pretenses and are detected. be subject to suspension. Not wishing to take any chances the riders did not enter the races. At the time Mr. Gerlach Applicants for sanctions on national holidays should warned the riders, he did not know that Sanger, Kanaska bear in mind the fact that the rules regarding confliction of and Bezenek had ridden against time, which, on an un interests are wanted on such days. sanctioned track is a violation of the rules. He has since S. D. Baird, better known as "Dennie," the well-known learned of it, and the board how has their case under con- Neenah rider, will make a tour of Europe duringthe summer. THE PNEUMATIC. Gideon Reappointed. the races either at Milwaukee or Chicago, and theplan is to President Sterling Elliott has announced his appoint have all the fast riders of the two states enter and ments of standing committees as follows: compete for superiority. The inter-state meet would serve Racing Board —George D. Gideon, Philadelphia; H. W. to bring the riders of the two states on closer acquaintance Robinson, Boston ; A. G. Batchelder, New York City; E. H. ship, and would, no doubt, prove a great success. The Croninger, Cincinnati; Fred. Gerlach, Chicago; D. W. division officers of both states are understood to be in Robert, St. Louis; R. M. Welch, San Francisco. hearty sympathy with the plan. Membership Committee — Parker E. Reed, Chillicothe, Building Cycle Paths. Ohio; W. A. Howell, Rockville, Conn.; Charles Culmore, Houston, Tex. The building of cycle paths is now occupying the Rights and Privileges Committee—George L. Cooke, attention of wheelmen in this state. In La Crosse the Providence. R. I.; Herbert W. Knight, Newark, N. J.; Con cyclists are considering the building of a path to Winona, way W. Sams, Baltimore, Md. Minn., a distance of twenty-eight miles. Directly opposite Rules and Regulations Committee—W. C. Reichenbach, La Crosse ou the Mississippi river is La Crescent, a small Topeka, Kan.; E. Kostomlatsky, Oskaloosa, Iowa; C. C. country town. The path proper is to run from this Monaghan, Santa Ana, Cal. place along to Winona. La Crosse and La Crescent will Highway Improvement Committee —Isaac B. Potter, be connected by a path across the bridge. The river T scenery along the proposed route is among the finest in the New York City; Otto Dorner, Milwaukee, W is; A. B. country, and if the path is constructed it will be a treat for Choate, Minneapolis, Minn.; W. A, Connelly, Danville, 111.; the cyclists. At Black River Falls and Sparta a plan is Percy H. Richardson, Portland, Me.; T.Wallace Sherwood, under consideration to join the two cities with a path. It Indianapolis, Ind.; G. Richmond Parsons, Providence, R. I, is thought that such a path could be built at a moderate Transportation Committee—Geo. R.Bidwell, New York, cost and that interest in cycling will be greatly in creased by City; H. C. Nickerson, Boston; Burley B. Ayers, Chicago; it. Nearly three-fourths of the distance between the two A. R. Edmiston, Lincoln, Neb. cities is nowimpassable on bicycles, but with some improve The League and Road Racing. ments a good road could be made. There is also some talk of building a track from Black River Falls to Merrillan or The .little lambs who ride for glory will have an easy Hixton. time of it on the road this year, thanks to the assembly being in such a hurry to adjourn. When Class B was A Series of Circuits. abolished and the official League stamp put on profession Chairman Gideon, of the L. A. W. racing board, favors alism, the delegates forgotto make provision for themeeting having a series of national circuits, starting in the East, of the two classes on the road, and now the bad men who South and West and converging to a central point which ride for cash will be debarred from all road races. The should be the National Meet of the League, and then con League has always announced that it did not seek to tinue as a combined circuit to about October 1. The control road racing, but just the same the chairman of the circuits, if decided on, will open about May 1. racing board has kept his eagle eye upon his charges when they were racing on the road, and if by chance one of them Kenosha's Cycle Track. raced with a professional he was promptly cast out of the League fold, Fred. Gerlach, Chicago member of the racing It is rumored that the Sieg & Walpole Company will board, says that the racing board has made no provision purchase a tract of land west of the City of Kenosha, and for the meeting of two classes, and that the League's old build a bicycle track, to be ready during the coming summer. policy of prohibiting such meeting will be strictly adhered to. This will be a severe blow to good racing, for it will flay Hold a Cycle Show. bar the cracks, unless races are gotten up for their especial At Fond du Lac cycle dealers are planning to give a benefit.—The Bearings. cycle show at Armory E the latter part of April. They are very enthusiastic jn regard to the matter and nearly all of That Inter-State Meet. them have signified their willingness to take part in the show. Several of them are already making plans for a One of the important events which the state racing novel display. The proceeds of the show will go toward board will shortly be asked to take hold of, is the matter of making a bicycle track, probably to be situated inside the holding an Illinois-Wisconsin Inter-state meet during the kite track. coming summer. The plans have been informally discussed by Secretary-Treasurer M. C. Rotier of this division, and Willis B. Troy, who formerly handled Zimmerman, Fred, Gerlach,'of Chicago, who is the western representative when the latter was in his prime, is of the opinion that the of the National Racing Board. Both officials are highly in Jerseyman can put up as good a race yet, if properly favor of arranging such an event. It is proposed to hold handled, as ever. THE PNEUMATIC. THE SEARCH FOR FRANK LENZ. bits of metal. His wife told me she had some pieces, which Story ol an Armenian Detective Who Found Traces of the Murdered Ameri she described as parts of the wheel. She was willing to sell can—Where the Murder Occurred. them, but being busy that day, she promised to give them Under a St. Louis date, The Bearings publishes the later. When I returned she refused, saying, ' My husband is following: not here.' H. A. Canfield.thc business partner of W. L. Sachtleben, " From there I went to Tchuronkh, where I purchased a the searcher for Frank Lenz,* is in receipt of a long com piece of the bicycle bell in the house of Hassoe Hesso (Has munication from Sachtleben. Inclosed in the letter were san Hesso Oghloo). several documents bearing on the case, the most interesting "From Hashian I went to Toprakaleh, and thence to of which is a statement by Khazar Semonian, an Armenian Mollah Soleiman, where I met Channes Baghdasarian, of detective, who was employed to investigate the murder. whom I made inquiries. He declared that no such man had Khazar disguised himself as a buyer of old iron and went passed that way. Had he done so he should have seen him. into the houses of the Kurds. His statement is as follows: He added: 'In June, 1891, two men riding wheels (Messrs. Allen and Sachtleben), passed through their village, after "I, Khazar Semonian, of Armenian nationality, and a which no one had passed.' citizen of Bitlis, left Erzertun on May 21, 1895, to make in vestigation and search for Frank G. Lenz, the missing "But in May, 1894, three days after the report of the American. On May 27 I reached Tchelkani,inthe Alshguerd murder of a man riding a wheel, the river Sherian cast up a district, where Eenz was last seen. On the.first opportunity dead body in the neighborhood of Tchelkani. The govern I went to the house of Moostooe Niseh, a resident of the ment medjelis of Troprakaleh proceeded to Tchelkani and village, who is a member of the Haraidieh Cavalry, and examined the body, which was naked, and of a man, fat, of with whom I am personally acquainted, and whom I know heavy build, of medium height and sandy complexion. He to be a notorious robber chief and murderer. could not be identified. He did not know whether there were marks of violence on the body or not. The medjelis "I spent the night in this village. Questioning the ordered the body to be buried near Kolan, a Koordish villagers, I obtained the following information: ' In May, village on the south bank of the Sherian. 1894, a foreigner, riding a wheel, came to the village in the evening and became the guest in the house of Avak Parsegh. " I then Went to Zediken village, at the mouth of the He appeared ill. A number of people came to see him and pass. The people declared that was the onlyroad, and they his wheel, but not feeling well, he retired to bed early. The saw no man pass through riding a wheel. next morning, about daybreak, he continued his journey. " I, Khazar Semonian, declare that from information A few days latter we heard that this man had been mur collected on the spot, and from various investigations made dered, and about that time our boys, taking the animals to by myself in the district, I am perfectly convinced and be water at the stream Hopuz, found in the stream a small lieve that a foreigner riding a wheel was seized and mur hand mirror and a small box broken in pieces, and a lot of dered by Kurds in May, 1894, at the ford of the stream Hop shiny paper which went to pieces as it dried in the sun. Hupuz, about twohours (sixmiles) distantfrom Tchelkani." Later, we understood that pieces of the bicycle were in the The Railroads Are Receding. possession of the Ktrrds.' There is a noticeable tendency among many of the more "The next morning I went through the village to sell important railroads of the country to recede from the my goods, at the same time offering to buy old iron, yellow agreement made to charge for carrying bicycles as baggage and white metal, etc. In continuing this, I found myself at and which for a time was so generally observed. One or the above mentioned Moostooe Niseh's house, where I two roads, which refused absolutely to enter into the found a saddle, on the two girths of which were pasted two agreement, are responsible for this pleasing state of affairs, pieces of rubber tubing, each piece being about two feet in inasmuch as they have received the support of the wheelmen length,;with a diameter of two inches, and about three-six and of which they were deserving. teenths of an inch in thickness. Though I tried to buy this The Pennsylvania line found its receipts falling away to saddle, I could not succeed. Maggerditph, of the same an alarming extent in the East, while its competitors hi village, showed trie the hand-mirror that he had found in sections were receiving liberal patronage as a result of the stream Hopuz. generosity toward the cyclist; again, it discovered that its "On May 29, I went to Bovanon village, where it was share of business from those following the national circuit reported that parts of the riding wheel were to be found in was materially lessened through its adhesion to the trunk the house of Seelowe Shatanal, a companion of Moostooe line agreement; and further the officials of this corporation Niseh. I went to this house to sell my goods and to buy found that their action in signing the compact was such as * Frank Lenz, a native ol Pittsburg, left New York in May, 1892, to ride around the world on a bicyclo. He started on the trip in the interest of Out ing, in which magazine his own accounts of his journey hare been appearing. His route carried him across the United States and thence across Asia. He had covered the greater part ot the dangerous territory included in his route and had been on his journey about two years, when, in May, 1884, he was, it is supposed, murdered near Erzerum in Asiatic Turkey. For a long time it was vraknown what had become of him. Alter nearly a year's delay the Outing company sent VV. _.. Saohtleben, who with Thomas G. Allen, Jr., had made a trip around the world, in search ol the unfortunate tourist, THE PNEUMATIC. to cause a leak in the treasury. Asa i-esult an official says Her skirt is novel. A system of cords worked through the road will break away and hereafter be on a par with near the waist line operates it. It is a trim, circular walk the Baltimore & Ohio in friendliness toward the cycling ing skirt, close fitting at the hips and measuring about fraternity. Several of the roads running into Chicago, three yards at the hem. To adapt it for a drop frame including the suburban departments, have found that it bicycle, a shirring string runs down the front seam between will be profitable to carry bicycles free even at'the expense the lining and a narrow casing, drawn through an opening of a little inconvenience, and two at least, the Chicago & at the waist where it is fastened under a neat pocket flap Eastern Illinois and the Chicago & Northern Pacific, which, by means of a clasp. The shirring reaches a short distance by the way, are competitors of several other important above the knees, leaving the skirt smooth-fitting about the lines, have made announcements to this effect. hips and forming two loose bags in which the knees work There is too much to gain and too little to lose on the up and down without any pulling or dragging about the part of the railroads to stick to an agreement to which one waist line. By pulling two side cords that run up the back or two other lines are not parties. The roads have dis seams and find an outlet under a flap just above the hip, the covered', or will soon discover, that the cost of carrying a skirt is converted into a pair of graceful bloomers, permit wheel is so trifling as compared with what the owner ting the rider to mount a diamond frame. thereof pays for a ticket, and that the amount received in a month for charges on carrying bicycles as baggage will not Bicycle Thief Sentenced. equal the amount lost on or two first-class tickets when the Chas. D. Edeler has been sentenced to one year and six prospective passengers take another route, that it is a months in the house of correction on the charge of larceny. losing gameto abide by the agreement heretofore mentioned. He was convicted of having appropriated bicycle sundries Not a single road in this country is doing a business from the Telegram Cycle Company, by which he was em beyond its capacity; on the other hand, many are losing ployed, to the value of about $500.' money daily. Like business houses, the roads are seeking trade and must secure it, even if they have to do a little Y. M. C. A. Club to be Formed. bowing and scraping to get it: Gradually, therefore, these At a recent meeting of members of the Y. M. C. A. pre corporations will find it to their respective interests to cater liminary steps for the organization of a cycling chtb were to the wheelmen and will withdraw from any such deal as taken. A meeting was held and a committee was appointed that made regarding the charges for carrying bicycles. to draw up a constitution and by-laws. Twenty signed as There are too many wheelmen nowadays who wish to take charter members, and it was voted to keep the list of char their bicycles with them on short or long trips to be over ter members open until March 23, when the election of looked. Their money is too valuable to the outcome of a officers will take place. There are many bicycle riders successful year's business and the railroads want it. among the members of the Y. M. C. A. and it is thought Whether the Armstrong bill shall or shall not pass the that a large club can be organized. New York assembly, the time is not far distant when all Forming a Stock Company. railroads will be only to glad to carry bicycles free.—The If the movement which is now tinder way among the Referee. members of the North Side club is brought to a successful New Cycle Skirt. issue, it will have one of the finest club houses in the state Mrs. Bygrave, a pretty and attractive woman, arrived in avery short time. An organization of a stock company, from England recently with a bicycleskirt she had invented. for the purchase of the club house is now tinder way. The Within ten hours after landing she had donned her new cre plan is to form a company having 250 shares of $100 each, ation and was showing its merits to one of the largest and thus to raise a fund of $25,000. Of this amount sporting goods houses in New York. The proprietor made $20,000 will be used to buy the property, which includes the an offer for it, but Mrs. Bygrave thought she could get a club house and several fine residences on the grounds. The higher price and went to a firmo n Twenty-third street where other $5,000 is to be expended for building an addition to she closed with an offer of $5,000, the purchasers stipula the club's home. It is proposed to increase the membership ting they should receive full assurance of a patent issued at of the club to 250. Ten members have already agreed to Washington. She went to Washington on Monday, spent two hours in the patent office, and saw all clear for launch take stock in the new company, and while it will be impos ing her patent. She returned to New York on the afternoon sible to place all the stock among club members itis thought train. Tuesday she visited a New York patent lawyer to that there will be little trouble in interesting people in the make sure of no delay in granting the patent; visited the new company, The undertaking has been carefully con firm with which she had been negotiating, received a check sidered and the promoters find that the company will be for $500 with a note for $4,500 as soon as the patent able to pay good dividends. Nearly $200 rent will be should be received, and Wednesday sailed on the Majestic derived monthly from the property and the expenses will for home, the $5,000 deal having been accomplished in less be comparatively small. The new addition is to include a than four days. cement laid bowling alley. THE PNEUMATIC. New South Side Club. Ethical Society Cycle Show. A number of wheelmen on the south side have organized The Milwaukee Ethical Society's cycle show from the Sterling Cycling Club and elected the following officers: March 3 to 7, was successfully conducted. The exhibits President—Theodore Eggers. were all interesting and occupied every spare inch of floor Vice-President —L. C. Wachtsheim. space in the large hall. The show was open nightly from Secretary and Treasurer—Charles F. Stamm. 6 :30 to 11, o'clock during which time large crowds viewed The club has rented rooms at 610 Clinton street. the many displays. The hall was gayly decorated and presented an attractive appearance. On the stage large Will Have a Banquet. palms and ferns were banked, behind which Clauder's The eleventh anniversary on April 28 of the organiza orchestra was hidden and furnished music. Alfredo Holt, tion of the Milwaukee Wheelmen, the oldest cycling club in the whistler, nightly assisted in entertaining the visitors the state, will be celebrated with a banquet. with imitations, and Mrs. John Paine rendered several solos. The exhibits were as follows: Took Advantage of J. E. Reiter. The D. D. Warner Company's stand was in charge of J. E. Reiter, of the Union Cycle Company, is the first Ben W. Park and H. J. Niedermann, who had a good line of victim this season of a bicycle thief. The other day a young wheels to show. They had probably the most attractive fellow strolled into his store and asked to be shown awheel. stand in the show. They occupied a double space on the Reiter accommodated him by displaying a Union Cracka south side of the hall, near the entrance. The floor was jack, and the visitor left saying hewould call again. On the covered with rugs and the wall was completely hidden with following day the would-be purchaser came back. He told southern smilax decorations. A neat banner hung over the Reiter that his father was going to buy the wheel for him display. One of the features of the show was the "Crab and said that he expected him along at almost anymoment. Tree Special," the wooden wheel built by a poor farmer boy While the boy was waiting for his father an idea seemed to near Fort Atkinson some time ago, and which has since seize him. He said he guessed he would ride around the fallen into the possession of the Warner Company. The line block on one of Reiter's old machines. The agent did not of wheels on exhibition included the double diamond and object to this and his mistake was made. The rider did not combination tandems, a roadster, a lady's and a racer. come back and the next time Reiter saw the wheel was One of the features of the firm's wheel this yearis the adjust when a detective showed it to him. The thief had sold it able handle bar. It also has a very attractive name-plate. for $5. His .name is Tony Sandner and he is no w serving a nine month's term in the House of Correction. The Julius Andrae & Sous Company had a stand on the south side of the hall where the merits of the Andrae wheels could be shown to the visitors. William M. Raasch, who Won't Carry Bicycles Free. was in charge of the exhibit had a double diamond tandem, Local l-ailroad officials have announced that the charge a racer, a roadster and a lady's wheel as samples. Every of a baggage fee for carrying bicycles on trains will again body who inspected the wheels conceded that the con be made this summer. While wheelmen are'opposed to this struction was modern and possessive of features that place ruling, they will be powerless to do anything to have the the machine on a level with any make in the country. The roads carry wheels free of charge like ordinary baggage. extra large tubing of the tandem attracted considerable Chief Consul Brown will shortly appoint his standing com attention. On the wall the word "Andrae" was displayed mittee on transportation, which will probably take up the in electric light globes. question at once. It is very probable that as soon as the next legislature convenes, bills similar to those pending in A full line of wheels was displayed by the Mystic Cycle New York, which provide that railroads must carry bicycles Company, of Mukwonago, which has recently opened a as ordinary baggage, will be introduced, store on East Water street. The exhibit included a lady's drop frame wheel, No. 17; a lady's diamond wheel, No. 15 ; a roadster, No. 14; a lady's drop frame wheel, No, 16, and Local Notes. several other styles. The wheels ai-e very neat in construc Fenton S. Fox, western representative of Bicycling tion and are durable and modern. Their design is the latest World, was in the city several days ago. and it possesses among its features the Morse roller joint James White, with his special Ide machine, has left for 'chain and the cycloidal sprocket, which is frictionless. New Orleans, where he will tour the country surrounding, The Chief bicycle, which was exhibited by Bunde & and ride on the shell beach for several months. Upmeyer, who have lately become interested in the trade, Two of the finest collections/^ sketches and camera snap was shown to advantage. The exhibit was in charge of shots of choice bits of English, French and Italian scenes Mack Olsen who had a partly finished wheel on hand to are possessed by Peter Brust and Elmer Grey, who toured explain to the visitors the process of construction. The Europe last year for several months. wheel possesses the latest improved diamond frame with THE PNEUMATIC. 1%-inch Mannesmann tubing, detachable sprocket and The 80-light Gladiator sign which was such a big Janney dust-proof pedals. Their other wheels were finished attraction at the Chicago show was illuminated each in dark blue and maroon enamel. evening. J. E. Griffin had charge of the Griffin-Bloomer Company's The John Pritzlaff Hardware Company had a full line stand on the stage, and showed a full line of Orient and of the wheels it handles in its stand, including the Road King, Bellis wheels, for which the company has the local agency. the Peerless, the Pritzlaff Special Roadster. The construc The Bellis adjustable handle bar which can be changed to tion and design of the wheels ai-e modern. any position by the rider without dismounting, attracted a E. D. Rigby, a pepair man, had what he termed a bicycle good deal of attention. hospital rigged up. Among the novelties of his display was The wood-aluminum wheel manufactured by the Huseby the first Morgan & Wright vulcanizer that has ever been Cycle Company attracted a good deal of attention, and the used in this state. managers of the exhibit were kept busy explaining the Col. Andrae's Novel Scheme. merits of their wheel. A roadster weighing fourteen pounds and a lady's wheel were shown and closely inspected by the Henry P. Andrae, of the Julius Andrae & Sons Company, visitors. H. H. Casper and George Huseby were in charge has a novel scheme at work at present. For some time he of the exhibit., has realized that people living in the interior of the state, especially ladies, have no facilities for learning to ride, as T. H. Brown Company, local agents for the Stearns, there are no riding academies outside of Milwaukee. Mr. Fowler, Thistle, Sterling and Niagara wheels, had a choice Andrae has now started a traveling instructor through the display of these lines. R. S. Baird, manager of the cycle state. The company rents a large hall in each of the department of the company, was in charge, and besides various cities to be visited, and gives free instructions to explaining the merits of the various wheels gave out several those who wish to learn. It is said this undertaking is styles of souvenir buttons. proving a big advertising card for the company. The Moore Cycle Company also had a creditable display of its wheels of which three roadsters and a racer were Local Trade Notes. shown. The exhibit was in charge of George Carroll and John C. Sehmidtbauer will have charge of the retail W. A. Bremer. The Humber pattern chain, with hardened department of Julius Andrae & Sons Company's store in centers and rivets, is used in the construction of the wheel. the future. The Barnes Cycle Company's stand was in charge of The Bolte Cycle Manufacturing Company, of this city, P. H. Cambier, who represented D. W. Howie, the local has placed on the market for the trade a patent revolting agent. The firm distributed a neat souvenir button and vise which saves a great deal of time, labor and inconven gave to the ladies white carnations each evening. Several ience by not having frames crushed or dented in the process styles of the company's wheels were exhibited. of filing. Clement, Williams & Company had an exhibit in charge J. C. Sehmidtbauer, W. C. Nielson, W. C. Schrader, A. of F. Holmes. The Napoleon and Josephine wheels of the Weilep and Ole Virum, of Stevens Point, will comprise the Jenkins Cycle Company, of Chicago, were shown to advan Andrae racing team for '96. tage, while the Imperial also was displayed. A line of W. & E. Schmidt, Third street jewelers, will handle the Clevelands and several juvenile wheels were among the Howard wheel this year. Herman Janssen will have charge bicycles displayed. of the cycle department. •Munn & Company had a full line of Remington and The Cream City Cycle Company, composed of Lundy, Majestic wheels on exhibition. A medium line of wheels Acker & Lundy, have opened up a handsome cycle store on known as the Munn were also shown by the firm. D. E. Grand avenue, with a line of Wa verly and Aluminum wheels. Maxsen was in charge of the exhibit. E. A. Krause and W. C. Niss were in charge of the stand E. A.Clifford, formerly of Clifford & Lundy, has opened of C. Niss & Sons, who exhibited a line of Racycle wheels. up a store near the corner of National avenue and Grove A double diamond tandem, a roadster and racer, and a line street. He expects to sell his own make of wheel exclusively. of Golden Rod wheels were viewed by the visitors, who George Sotile Spencer has been engaged by the D. D. especially inspected the two-speed changeable gear of the Warner Company, of Madison, to be the manager of their Racycle. Milwaukee branch which will be opened at 390 East Water The John Muenier Gun Company, whose stand was in street, April 1. ' charge of J. Traudt and C. Bodenbach, displayed a line of Riding Instructor Engaged. Rambler, Phoenix, Crescent and J. M. Special wheels. A Mr. M. B. Nute, a popular wheelman of Columbus,Wis., combination Crescent tandem was also among the lot. has been engaged by the Julius Andrae & Sons Company to The A.K.Camp Company had a neat display of Gladia look after the circuit of riding schools which that enter tor wheels, forwhich it has recently secured the local agency. prising firm is conducting in all the principal towns in the The list included a racer, roadster and a ladies' wheel. state. THE PNEUMATIC. Springtime and the Poets. "dressed in haste and went out to meet the spring. He wandered into the heart of the wood. The sunshine shone Today there was a whisper of spring in the air. I heard like a sunset upon the red trunks and boughs of the old fir- it in the birds' notes, and felt it in the shimmering sunshine; trees, but like the first sunrise of the world upon the new decidedly the winter is over and gone, and we are entering green fringes that edged the young shoots of the larches. "that new world that is the old." High up hung the memorials of past summers, in the rich How gladsome is this season of spring! The first faint brown tassels of the clustering cones; while the ground underfoot was dappled with sunshine on the fallen fir indications of its arrival are eagerly watched for, and as needles, and the great fallen cones/which had opened to eagerly heralded. For more than all the other seasons, seatter their autumnal seed, and now lay waitingfor decay. spring "brings hope with it and forward-looking thoughts." Overhead the tops, where they had fallen, waved in the And in the springtime a young man's fancy — aye, and a wind, as in welcome of the spring, with that peculiar swinging motion which made the poets of the sixteenth young maid's too—lightly turns to the joys of the wheel. century call them "sailing pines." The wind blew cool but When the hedgerows begin to bud, when in limpid pool and not cold, and was filled with a delicious odour from the pellucid stream the light shadows from drifting clouds earth, which Sunderland took as a sign that she was coming chase each other; when the swallow comes back, and the . alive at last. And the spring, he went out to meet, met cuckoo's call is heard in the land, then, there is jubilation in him. For first, at the foot of a tree, he spied a tiny primrose, peeping out of its rough, careful leaves, and he the pages of the cycling press, and exultation in the hearts wondered how by any metamorphosis such leaves could of all their readers that "spring has come," and that nature pass into such a flower. And, next, as he passed on, with with a thousand voices is calling in irresistable tones to the pi-imrose in his hand, thinking it was almost cruel to come out and participate in her gladness. pluck it, the spring met him, as if in her own shape, in the person of Margaret, whom he spied a little way off, leaning 0, happy, happy cyclist! It is yours to respond with against the stem of a Scotch fir, and looking up to its top alacrity to that call. Mount your steel steed, and swaying overhead in the first billows of the outburst ocean AWAY INTO QUIET COUNTRY PLACES, of life." and see where spring is writing her rjoem upon meadow, LONGFELLOW SINGS OF SPRING hill and tree, in letters of living green. Away with sordid "the jocund spring." " It was the season when through all the land care and depressing thoughts! It is yours to drink as few The merle and mavis build and building sing Those lovely lyrics, written by his hand, others can a soothing draught from nature's Lethe; to feel Whom Saxon Cindmon calls the blithe-heart king, When on the boughs the purple buds expand, the subtle influence in lengthening days and clearer atmos The banners of the vangard ol the spring, And rivulets, rejoicing, rush and leap phere; in budding leaf and springing grass, to rejoice. And wave .their fluttering signals from the steep." "That the old spring sweeps over the world again And see what an exquisite bouquet of spring Shakes Shedding soft ews from her ethereal wings, Flowers on the mountains, fruits on the plain, peare has culled for all ages, a delicate fragrance clings to And music on the wares and woods she flings, And love on all that liyes, and calm on lifeless things." the lines, like the sweetness of early flowers: Daiiodiis Springtime is a subject time-honoured with the poets That come betore the swallow dares, and take The winds ol March, with beatity violets dim (nor, if we accept wastepaper-basket records, is it- old- • But sweeter than the lids ol Juno's eyes Or Gythera's breath, pale primroses fashioned yet with poetical aspirants) ! Its radiancy and That die unmarried .... bold oxlips And the crown imperial, lilies of all kinds, freshness, its changing moods, its altering passions—now The flower-de-luce being one. its flashes of merriment, when every hill and valley seems If we accept Mr. Richard le Gallimue's theory, a love of to laugh aloud in the fullness of rejoicing, and again, its fits poetry in art or nature is a gift only to the favoured few. of gusty, tear-stained, melancholy appeal with an iridescent The beauty of the vernal season, the poetry that lies in meadow, wood and stream, as well as that that lies charm to the poetic sensibility. between the covers of a book, are "caviare to the general." Shelley feels the magic of— Doubtless our age is a very prosaic, matter-of-fact one, yet .... " The April prime. it would be surely regrettable were a sense and perception When all the forest tips begin to burn With kindling green, touched by tho azure of the beautiful limited to poets and critics and poetasters! 01 the young year's dawn." The bicycle may be Tennyson again and again paints in words of beauty A FRIEND TO THIS GENERATION, the beauty of spring. not only because of its hygienic effects, but as a means of " Then rode we ... . bringing us into closer union with the manifold wonders, Beneath huge trees, a thousand rings of spring In every vale, a song on every spray and yet the wondrous simplicity, of our earth and its 01 birds that piped their valentines." varying moods and seasons—teaching us to see, and seeing And in the "Idylls of the King" we have, to appreciate— II "The birds made "— Above and all around Melody on the branch, and melody in mid air; The damp hill slopes were quickened into green, Nature's unchanging harmony." And the live green was quickened into flowers. The average cyclist, I fear me, "who bends his back and For it was past the time of Easter day." bows his head," in order to pass the milestones with a The cyclist who has wandered far and often to catch the rapidity which would have astonished' our easy-going FIRST GLIMPSES OF SPRING ancestors of last centm-y,-could scarcely be persuaded how cannot read without a rush of pleasant reminiscences that much he is losing. Sweet are the uses of the bicycle, but passage where one of our prose-poets describes how his hero not always, nor in the highest degree, to the speed rider. L. A. M. PRIESTLEY in English Cycling. THE PNEUMATIC. State Trade Notes. General Trade Notes. Sutherland & Sons, of Janesville, will handle "bicycles in Tom Cooper will ride a Monarch during the coming the future. season. Eugene Giller, of Racine, has opened a bicycle store and James Field, an employe of Morgan & Wright, of Chi repair shop. cago was recently arrested at Oconomowoc for embezzling Ramsey & Lerdall, hardware dealers of Madison, have $4,000. decided to sell bicycles. A bicycle factory is to be started at Escanaba shortly by Johnson & Field, who are manufacturing "wheels at Harry Morris, until recently an employe of the Monarch Racine, have opened salesrooms. Cycle works, of Chicago. Stoves & Holte, of La Crosse, have opened a new D. 0. Rohne will have the Chicago agency of the Julius bicycle shop at 1033 Caledonia street. Andrae & Sons Company this year. M. Rohne has a large carriage repository at 361 Wabash ave. The bicycle craze has struck Sturgeon Bay and many agencies of wheels have There were sixty-one wheels exhibited been placed there. in the cycle show, held by the Lake View Haney Brothers, of Ahnapee, have MORGAN KWRIGHTTIRES Cycling Club, of Chicago, March 12, 13 gone into the bicycle business and will and 14. Of the sixty-one wheels, thirty- handle the Domestic wheel. ARE GOOD TIRES nine were fitted with Morgan & Wright tires. F. Randall, of Janesville, has fitted up a shop at 293 Glen street and has com The surface of aproperly shaped road menced the manufacture of wheels. $50 IN GOLD will act as a roof to keep the rain away from its foundation. Adam Kroner, of La Crosse, who has SUPPOSE WE MAKE 1.000.000 PAIRS OF TIRES IN 1896. heretofore dealt in hardware and stoves, HOW QUICKLY C0UID THEY BE INFLATED Boys often leave the farm, but if the will also handle bicycles in the future. BY HAND. AT THIS RATE: THREE MINUTES PER TIRE road is good enough they may return to At Plymouth,H.E. Genske and W. E. EIGHT HOURS PER DAY it again. Wolf have gone into the bicycle business. 365 DAYS PER YEAR. AHSWERS WILL BE OPENED HAY I" It's a long lane that has no bottom. They will make a salesroom of the base FIRST COUBECT AHSWEt) OPENED WINS THE PRIZE. ment of the Radloff & Runge block. MARK ENVELOPE PLAINLY flGUBING CONTEST." PIN THIS AD. TO YOUR ANSWER. The Cream City Wheelmen have rent James Wheeler, of Marinette, has ed new quarters and are now installed leased a large new store in the Cook at 68 Biddle street. block, for his bicycle business, and will have a large repair shop in connection MORGAN & WRIGHT T. H. Brown Company's Show. with the salesrooms. On March 26 the grand opening of At Appleton A. E. Wambold, pro the cycle department of the T. H. Brown prietor of the Appleton Screen Plate Com Company will be held. It has been de pany, is finishing his preparations for the cided to take out all the carriages on the equipment of one of the most complete repair shops in first floor so as to make plenty of room for a large display Northern Wisconsin. of wheels and for the entertainment of the guests. The At Waupun, Harry Ferguson has started an enameling company has secured the agency of five good makes, viz. and finishing plant for bicycles. He has erected several ovens and is operating a machine for fitting wood rims and adjusting spokes. The Fidelity Cycle Company, of Fond du Lac, has been incorporated by Verner and Thomas Weeks, of Fond du Lac, and Garrett W.Madison, of Chicago. The firm has a capital of $7,000 and will buy and sell bicycles. F. C. Brown and J. H. Saris have dissolved partnership in the Brown-Saris Cycle Company at Litch the Fowler, the Steams, the Sterling, the Niagara and the field, 111. Mr. Brown has bought Mr. Saris' interests and Thistle. One of the features of the display will be the will retain the plant, while Mr. Saris will establish himself Fowler sex-tuplet and the Sterling "giraffe." A general in business at Beloit. invitation to the public has been extended, THE PNEUMATIC. It Has Taken YEARS To Attain the Results you see in the MYSTIC We are placing before the cycling public what we honestly consider to be one of the most handsomely designed and artistically finished wheels possible to produce. .... t5* _5* _5* (_?*' Send for our Catalogue Telling about our Line Milwaukee Retail Skidmore Shoe & Clothing Co. 0 MYSTIC CYCLE WORKS _ to 10 Grand Avenue .... W. A. Leonard, Mgr. Cycle Dept. MUKWONAGO, WISCONSIN Andrae's Catalogue. An Ad. The first installment of Andrae's art catalogues has It's my business to write for the journals, just been issued. The work is, beyond question, the hand I have written in poem and prose, And I have studied to garnish with splendor somest of all the handsome cycle catalogues issued this The subject I've sought to expose. year by cycle concerns. It is printed in three delicate And hundreds of ads I have furnished colors, and each page is embellished by a beautiful half Composed in a versatile way, tone, representing scenes in Milwaukee, the home of the To tickle the taste of the public factory. The illustrating was done by the Binner Engrav And give an exchange for my pay. ing Company, of Chicago, and the printing by the Meyer- And though it may seem quite perplexing Rotier Printing Company, of Milwaukee. And to write on one subject hum-drum, Yet I always can find it refreshing Monroe Wheelmen. To puff up old Yucatan Gum. If a Member's Bicycle Is Stolen There seems to be great enthusiasm in Monroe wheel ing circles. A strong club has been organized,, with the The American Wheelmen's Protective Association, of Chicago, will replace an exact duplicate of it free of charge. following officers: Annual dues $2. Write for further particulars to Geo. Y. President, L. A. Hodges; vice-president, Fred. Blttmer; Wilkinson, general agent, 371 Broadway, Milwaukee, Wis. secretary, M. E. McCaffrey; treasurer, Joe Byers; first lieutenant, E. J. Manning; second lieutenant,- Chas. Butter The Huennekens Cycle Co. field ; directors, Rice Gorham, Chas. Young, Fred. Buehler. Are importers of and dealers in bicycles, bicycle parts and sundries at wholesale to cycle agents and dealers. Special The president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, prices and discounts given on application. Address, 124 with the three directors constitute the board of directors. Ferry street, Milwaukee, and get catalogue. They shall control the practical and internal affairs of the club, and are the only committee authorized to contract'a* THE EBICYCL E .. ITS money liability in the name of the club. 25 GENTS S_E AND REPAIR Itis more than likely that they will make their club an 80 Illustrations ., 180 Subjects Money back if you wish E. A. W. organization ami apply for the '97 state meet. They feel the need of a state meet in this section of the C. VON CULIN country to boom cycling. BOX 50—-^ Delaware City, Del. THE PNEUMATIC. One of Whys. something that already is to your liking, and in doing The good road movement moves slowly in some locali which there is danger of dispossessing yourself of a great boon. All things possible to others we should ourselves ties. Men who should be progressive and up to date, cling have and enjoy. If we mistake not, Superintendent Carter to old habits and conditions as mud clings to the wheel. has been caught snoozing on the progressive highway of The roads were good enough for their fathers and their thought and action." grandfathers, and so they in sist that nothing better is re quired now. While the aver age opponent to better high ways is generally supposed to be a resident of Way back county, Danville, 111., is afflic ted with a school superintend "In the multitude ent who is fond of mud, and ought to be peddling clams. But as a happy and efficient antidotefor hisinfluence, Dan ville possesses a live, progres of counsellors there sive newspaper, The Press, which gave the slow-going superintendent the following lesson on brains, and how to is safety*" «£<£«** use them: "Superintendent Carter, A board of 21 expert engineers and mechanics, who has always been consid every one wise in bicycle building, passes upon ered an advanced thinker, and each detail of Columbia construction. These men for whom The Press has al- ways entertained the highest are all workers in bicycle improvement. Little of esteem, stood before the Farm value can escape their watchful search. Few mis ers' institute and declared the takes of construction can pass the scrutiny of farmers did not want better roads as much as some people their combined wisdom. supposed. The roads were good enough for them, and if You are buying the safest bicycle in the world when you buy a they were attimes muddy and wet, the farmer could always provide himself with rubber •boots and gum coat. That sentiment fostered and encour aged and applied to education would send Superintendent Carter back to the farm, and put a $700 or $900 man in his place. Some people might think the $900 man was good Bicycle enough for them, and those who did not, could send their TO ALL children to other towns and $ Standard of the World schools to acquire an edtica- ALIKE. tion, just as well as the farmer 100 who did not like mud and The handsomest catalogue ever issued tells fully of Columbias, and of Hartford bicycles, water could provide himself —$80, $60, $50—next best to Columbias. The book is free if you call upon the Columbia with gum coat and rubber agent; by mail from us for two 2-cent stamps. boots. If the roads are good enough now for the farmer, we can make them more to their Pope Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn. liking by ceasing to spend Branch Stores and Agencies in almost every city and town. If Columbias are not properly annually thousands of dollars represented in your vicinity let us know, for their improvement. It is folly to spend money, upon THE PNEUMATIC. Will Enlarge Its Plant. W. R. Walpole Resigns. C. S. Smith, & Sons, manufacturers of bicycle supplies, W. R. Walpole has resigned the position which he has are to build a large addition to theirfactoryat the cornerof held as secretary and treasurer of the Sieg & Walpole Manu Park and Clinton streets. June 11, 1895, this firm took facturing Company, Kenosha, Wis., and will take a well- out a permit to build a factory which was to cost $24,000 earned vacation. Mr. Walpole states that his plan for the and the plans now submitted to the building inspector are future are as yet uncertain, but it is possible that he will for an addition quite as large as the building put up last remain in the cycle business. The interest which was held summer. It is estimated that it will cost between $20,000 in the Sieg & Walpole Manufacturing Company by W. R. and $25,000. It is fifty by 200 feet in general dimensions, Walpole has been bought by Rudolph Grossenbach, of Mil five stories high and will be built of brick with steel "I" waukee. It comprises about one-fourth share in theconcern, beams and a concrete foundation. and the transfer will in no way change the policy or man agement of the company, but it places it in a position to To Manufacture Bamboo Wheels. make extensive preparations for the future. Mr. Grossen The newest thing in bicycles, a machine with bamboo bach is a gentleman of high standing and of wealth, and hubs and frame, is being manufactured in Milwaukee, and will take an active interest in the affairs of the company. the manufacturers have already received orders enough to keep them busy for a long time. The manufacturers are May Move to Muskegon, Mich. Messrs. W. N. Durant and W. H. Prichard, and their head quarters at present are at 234 Twenty-second street. Mr. H. H. Casper, of the Huseby Cycle Company, says that Durant is the widely known manufacturer of the counting the company is considering an offer from the Chamber of machine for printing presses and for that business he has Commerce of Muskegon, Michigan, to move its plant to agencies in England, Australia, Mexico, France and Brazil. that city. At present the firm has a factory on Lake street, The frame of the new bicycle is made of rock elm or but it has also leased several floors in trie Larkin block, at bamboo, as desired, and the hubs are of bamboo also. The Reed and Lake streets, for a finishing- department and riding frames and the hubs have been given every test and the school, which is sixty-five by seventy-five feet in dimensions. machine has successfully held a dead weight of 1,500 If the company goes to Mttskegon, it will purchase a large pounds. In addition to the wooden frame and hubs, the four story brick factory, 150x200 feet in dimensions. Mr. bicycle made by Messrs. Durant & Prichard have all the Casper says that it maybe decided to only manufacture latest improvements used on the highest grades of wheels. supplies for the trade in thefuture. A large lot of orders are The business wheel which these gentlemen are making now being filled. weighs only seventeen or eighteen pounds and they make a light wheel that has the wonderful weight of fourteen or Dealers May Organize. fifteen pounds. Mr. Prichard is a practical bicycle builder There is some talk among local dealers of organizing an and a well-known south side wheelman. association for their mutual protection. If this is done, it is proposed to hold a large cycle show next year, under the Another Large Factory. new association's auspices, and every local dealer will, no Contracts have been closed at North Milwaukee for the doubt, be represented. establishment there of a mammoth bicycle factory. A. D. Agnew. representing the owner of a large factory which Kanaska May Ride a Union. was formerly occupied by the North Milwaukee Furniture Henry Kanaska, the young local professional, of whom Company, has closed a. deal with the Milwaukee Manufac little was heard last year because he -was in France, is turing Company, which has just been organized, whereby negotiating with a local firm to ride its wheel during the the company agrees to lease the plant and operate it as a coming summer. Kanaska has developed considerable cycle factory. The site covers an area of over an acre and a speed since he last rode in this city. quarter and is between Adam and Court streets and the St. Paul tracks and Thirty-second street. The building will be The Mercu-y Cycling Club has become a member of the enlarged at once so as to cover the entire site. When com pleted the plant will be one of the largest in the northwest. Association of Cycling Clubs. The officers of the new company are: A. D. Meiselbaeh, STATE OJT OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, _ _ president; E. W. Schreiber, vice-president; J. H. Hoyt, sec sg FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that He Is tue senior partner;of the Arm retary and treasurer. Mr, Meiselbaeh is president of the A. of P. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in the city of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNm-t^u D. Meiselbaeh Manufacturing Company, of this city, but DOLLAKS for each and every case of Catarrh that camiot he cured By the USB Of HALL'S CATARRH CURE. FBANK J. OHBNJi, X. the new company, which has a, capital of $50,000 and will Sworn to before me and subscribed iu my presence, this «t_ _ay or December, A. D. 1880. employ about 175 men, is entirely independent of the local , —>—., A. TV. G__ASON, concern. The plant at North Milwaukee is now being \ SEAL t , Notary Public. HairsCatarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and placed in shape. mucous surfaoes of the system. 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