The Bicycle - 25-mile state championship - 29 Nov 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner

The Bicycle 29 Nov 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

The Bicycle. 

The road race [25-mile State Championship - MF] was won as expected by F. D. Elwell in 1:37 2-5 with L. R. Larzalere second in 1:37 4-5, and C. E. Adcock third. The first two laps were mostly ridden at an easy pace, but the pace improved at the beginning of the third lap and the last mile must have been ridden very near the three-minute mark; it was certainly the fastest mile ever ridden on the road in this state.

Since the race a number of people have been heard to ask, “Who is Adcock?" C. E. Adcock is a modest unassuming young man who has been known as a good road rider by his fellow club members for some time, but he proved much better than was expected, finishing 22 seconds behind two of the best riders in the State. He was the freshest man in.

A. S. Ireland of the Oakland team, who finished fourth in the road race, deserves credit for his plucky riding, he was the smallest rider in the race, his wheel being a 51-inch.

The Bay City Wheelmen will probably have a clubhouse in the early part of next year, as the members are working hard toward that end.

About 108 riders passed a point on the road leading to San Leandro, on the day of the race. but as all the racing men took the train that number does not represent all the wheelmen who were in San Leandro on that day.

F. D. Elwell is particularly proud of the basket of flowers he received marked "From the ladies to the lucky young man."

WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE PARK. - The San Francisco Examiner, 11 Sep 1894, Tue, Page 8

See the preceding day's article, RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. - 10 Sep 1894, which this article references. Right now there is an attempt to restore cars to the sections of Golden Gate Park that are currently car-free, due to the pandemic. Some of the same agitations between classes and castes, between four wheels and two are evident in these two 1894 articles as are evident now, in 2021. - MF

WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE PARK. 11 Sep 1894, Tue The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE PARK.

They Want to Hear the Music Play and a Good Road to the Beach. 

But Above All They Demand the privilege of Wheeling Around Stow Lake.

WHAT MAY BE GIVEN THEM.

An Exclusive Bicycle Road From the East End of the Speed Track to the Beach - No Hope of Avoiding the Hilly Road Behind the Conservatory - The Main Drive Leading to the Music Concourse Sacred to the uses of Horsemen - Bicycle Versus Carriage.

PARK BOULEVARD SERVES JOAQUIN MILLER ACRES - 19 Apr 1925, Sun Oakland Tribune

Joaquin Miller Acres Map 19 Apr 1925, Sun Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Newspapers.com

Here is the hand-drawn map from the 1925 article georeferenced on a modern map:

Blogger resamples the image when I upload it. Here it is, in 300dpi: Park Boulevard Serves Joaquin Miller Acres.jpg. Click that link to zoom in, and look around. Note, this is long before highway 13 existed. Peralta Ave is now Coolidge Ave. (sad) "PROJECTED NEW TUNNEL ROAD THROUGH SHEPHERD'S CANYON" never got built, thankfully. Hopkins Street was twenty years from becoming MacArthur Boulevard, and there was no 580. The drawing of Skyline becomes pretty imaginative as it gets further north, so I didn't try to georeference it. Joaquin Miller Park was created in 1919, Sequoia Mountain Park (now the eastern and northern extent of JMP) was created in 1924, bought by the city from the Havens Estate. Once that was done, Havens / Realty Syndicate developed Joaquin Miller Acres in 1925, where I live, across the road from "The Hights," Joaquin Miller's old property.

WEAPONS AGAINST INFLUENZA. (1918). American journal of public health (New York, N.Y. : 1912), 8(10), 787–788. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.8.10.787

WEAPONS AGAINST INFLUENZA. Am J Public Health (N Y). 1918;8(10):787-788. doi:10.2105/ajph.8.10.787

"When you get back home, hunt up your wood-workers and cabinet-makers and set them to making coffins. Then take your street laborers and set them to digging graves. If you do this you will not have your dead accumulating faster than you can dispose of them."

ALL HAVE TO WEAR BLOOMERS. - A Woman Cycling Club Formed in This City Which Has Adopted the Garment - EVERY MEMBER MUST WEAR 'EM - Sun, Jul 21, 1895 – 18 · The San Francisco Examiner

Here is San Francisco's Alpha Club, a cycling club for women, who all wore bloomers; basically cycling pants. This was a big deal, read why.

ALL HAVE TO WEAR BLOOMERS. Sun, Jul 21, 1895 – 18 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com

ALL HAVE TO WEAR BLOOMERS.

A Woman Cycling Club Formed in This City Which Has Adopted the Garment

EVERY MEMBER MUST WEAR 'EM

The Pioneer Bloomer Club on the Pacific Coast - So They Call Themselves the Alphas

One bright moonlight night in May the California Cyclers were out for a spin on the Folsom boulevard, when they encountered the most miserable, dejected lot of women imaginable.

They were chiefly the wives and sisters of the Californias, who, after repeated attempts to ride against the wind in their heavy, cumbersome shirts, had dismounted, weary and worn, and were pushing their wheels homeward.

When the men learned the cause of their discomfort, they chaffed them about sacrificing comfort and being a slave to fashion, and laughed at what they called "a woman's false modesty."

"Why don't you wear bloomers?" they said. "You can't ever expect to go on runs with us if you wear skirts and get all tired out and want to walk your wheels."

This was followed by an animated discussion as to the advantages and disadvantages, the modesty and immodesty of bifurcated garments, and ended by the California Cyclers offering the use of their luxurious clubrooms at the corner of Twenty-second and Folsom streets as a permanent meeting-place if the women would form a "bloomer" club.

There was but one proviso. They were to admit no one to membership who would not discard skirts, which are a great impediment to free locomotion, and don bloomers, the only sensible costume for the cycling woman.

So generous was this offer that after a hasty consultation the wheel women at once accompanied the men to their clubrooms, and the Alpha, the only bloomer club in San Francisco, was organized with ten charter members.

LADY BICYCLISTS. - A Fascinating Sport for Women. - Costumes Worn Across the Bay. - Gossip About the Most Prominent Riders of the Silent Steed. - Sat, Aug 19, 1893 – Page 10 · San Francisco Chronicle

LADY BICYCLISTS. Sat, Aug 19, 1893 – Page 10 · San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com

LADY BICYCLISTS.

A Fascinating Sport for Women.

Costumes Worn Across the Bay.

Gossip About the Most Prominent Riders of the Silent Steed.

Over the bay cycling is all the fad among the feminine portion of the community, and the fashionable girl who does not cycle is not in it at all. It is the proper exercise and has superseded almost every other, even tennis. In Oakland and Alameda probably 200 women own wheels of the finest sort, and every evening between 5 and 8 o'clock bright metal wheels flash along the pavements and over the smooth macadam.

BICYCLING. - Run of the Bay City Wheelmen and Other Speedy Clubs. - 22 Feb 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner

Alex J. Rosborough remembered this ride to Redwood City, and the subsequent race sixty-seven years after the fact in an edition of the Knave. That race would be won by a then unknown young rider, Frank D. Elwell. What's really significant about this article is the formation of the California Division, League of American Wheelmen. I've just started creating pages on this blog for recurring people, and organizations. I apologize if the information is sparse. I'll add to them over time. - MF

BICYCLING. Run of the Bay City Wheelmen and Other Speedy Clubs. Oakland Bicycle Club 22 Feb 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

BICYCLING. 

Run of the Bay City Wheelmen and Other Speedy Clubs. 

Shortly after 7 o'clock yesterday morning thirty members of the Bay City Wheelmen assembled at the corner of Mission and Twenty-first streets, and, under the leadership of Captain Fred R. Cook, started on the run to San Jose. The day was beautiful and the roads in excellent condition. No fast time was attempted, in order to allow even the slowest of the members to keep up. After a pleasant run Redwood City was reached about twelve o clock. Here an elegant repast was spread, to which everybody did full justice. After a short rest the wheels were again mounted and the journey to San Jose resumed. At the Garden City the dusty but hilarious wheelmen were met by the Oakland Bicycle Club and the Highland Park Club, which had made the run down on the other side of the bay. The night was passed at San Jose.

READY FOR THE BIG CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES - It Will Take Over Twenty Races Among the Crackajacks to Decide the Bicycle Events. - Thu, Apr 30, 1896 – 7 · The San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco has had multiple bicycle racing tracks, or velodromes. Here was one, designed by noted San Francisco bicycle racer of early days, and later velodrome, bridge and railroad builder, Frank D. Elwell. - MF

READY FOR THE BIG CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES Frank D. Elwell bicycle track construction Thu, Apr 30, 1896 – 7 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com

READY FOR THE BIG CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES

Athletic Clubs Getting Their Best Men in Trim for Next Saturday's Contests.

It Will Take Over Twenty Races Among the Crackajacks to Decide the Bicycle Events.

HILL-CLIMBING CYCLERS. - The Olympic Club Wheeling Annex in Tamalpais Redwoods. - The San Francisco Examiner - 15 May 1893, Mon - Page 9

HILL-CLIMBING CYCLERS. The Olympic Club Wheeling Annex in Tamalpais Redwoods. 15 May 1893, Mon The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

HILL-CLIMBING CYCLERS.

The Olympic Club Wheeling Annex in Tamalpais Redwoods. 

The Olympic Cycling Annex wheeled from San Anselmo to Lagunitas and back to the Sausalito ferry yesterday.

Those in the party were H. A. Westphal, Frank Hunter, G. L. Blackwell, T. Kennedy, J. A. Johnson, W. H. Haley, A. Moulder, W. J. Roderick, J. Morris and Henry Clay, all of the Olympic Club; Albert Brown of Seattle, and G. B. Haywards, G. J. Strong, Charles Euler, C. A. Moller, and F. M. Giannini, unattached. Lieutenant Robert R. Russ was in command, and carried the party by easy stages up White's hill and over the slopes of Tamalpais ridge into the redwoods at Lagunitas, where a plunge into the creek and luncheon were enjoyed. Brown, from Seattle, was a novice at hill work and was with difficulty kept from going up all manner of paths, so much did his safety zigzag. The next run of the Annex will be to Lake Pilarcitos on May 28th. A meeting of the Annex will be held tonight at the Olympic Club.

A TRIP AWHEEL. - The Olympic Club Annex Rides to Fairfax. - 27 Feb 1893, Mon The San Francisco Call

A TRIP AWHEEL. The Olympic Club Annex Rides to Fairfax 27 Feb 1893, Mon The San Francisco Call (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

A TRIP AWHEEL. 

The Olympic Club Annex Rides to Fairfax. 

"Good roads and fine coasting guaranteed” is what it said on the invitations issued by the Olympic Cycling Annex to their first run of the season, from this city to Fairfax, Marin County, and return. At the close of the invitation to the members there was another addressed to any person who was interested in cycling to swell the ranks, and in response to this manifestation of good will a number of outsiders and unattached wheelmen were present at the 8 o'clock Sausalito boat yesterday morning.

In the absence of Captain N. A. Robinson the command was assumed by Lieutenant R. R. Russ, and in his position he started the club off in first-class style from Sausalito, and they held about the same order and pace until they arrived at the foot of Corte Madera, the worst hill on the run. Here half of the riders started on ahead walking and the rest attempted to ride the hill, but before they had climbed half way all were walking and sweating at the rate of forty miles an hour. Without accident or incident all hands at last arrived at the top of the hill, and congratulating themselves on having a fine coast upon the downgrade they started to descend, but had only gone around the first turn at a reasonable rate of speed when the man in front struck a place in the road which was undergoing alterations. He got off with more speed than grace, and the others, who came before he could warn them, also struck the bad place and mixed themselves up in a tangle of wheels and men which was hard to straighten.

It was done soon, however, and by partially walking and partially riding they arrived at the bottom of Corte Madera, which was then and there named "Corduroy" Madera, on account of the road being as rough in comparison to a decent road as corduroy cloth is rough when compared to velvet. The rest of the run was made without accident.