The Bicycling World, Vol 43, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Dunlop tire manufacture and sales move to the Hartford Rubber Works Co., Conn., under the Rubber Goods Mfg. Co.'s centralization policy; the Belleville plant is to be closed and dismantled and President Kirk Brown will not go to Hartford.
- Mocks an English cycle paper's claim that white enamel is "almost out of the question," noting whites and reds have been used in America for nearly ten years.
- Charles S. Dikeman, secretary of the Eagle Bicycle Mfg. Co. of Torrington, Conn., is appointed trustee of the Miller Manufacturing Co., makers of arc bicycle lamps.
- The Portland, Ore., jobbing firm of Honeyman, De Hart & Co. is succeeded by the Honeyman Hardware Co., a joint stock company incorporated by Mrs. T. D. Honeyman and her sons.
- E. J. Willis and J. C. Hollingsworth of the Willis Park Row Bicycle Co. incorporate the Willis Commission Co. at Albany with $30,000 capital, chiefly to sell the "Hydra" electric battery.
- William H. Burroughs of the Burroughs Cycle Co., 7 Barclay street, New York, petitions in bankruptcy with liabilities of $8,397 against assets of $2,798; Judge Thomas appoints George H. Gilman receiver.
- The reorganized Shapleigh Hardware Co. of St. Louis files articles as the Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co. with $1,500,000 capital; stockholders include Saunders Norvell, A. F. Shapleigh and August Shapleigh Boyd.
- Davis, Hunt & Collister of Cleveland, O., becomes an Ohio corporation with $65,000 capital stock on the application of E. P. Hunt, E. L. Davis, J. H. Collister, William P. Fisher and Richard Collister.
- Creditors of the Patee Bicycle Co., Indianapolis, apply for a receiver after a July 27 statement found the concern cannot pay in full; Patee, who had cut his motor bicycle price to $150, still hopes to enlist outside capital.
- The Waltham Mfg. Co. cuts its Orient motor bicycle with Aster or De Dion motor from $300 to $250 and its convertible motor quadricycle from $600 to $375 for the year to August 1902.
- Charles R. Flint quits the treasurership of the United States Rubber Co. to concentrate on the Rubber Goods Mfg. Co., whose half-year earnings were $1,209,563.99, and hints that a consolidation of the crude rubber and rubber manufacturing trades will follow.
- Orin E. Laraway of Laraway & Wells, Sandy Hill, N. Y., is charged with absconding with another man's wife and a $1,000 shortage; partner Junie Wells files a bankruptcy petition through attorney H. W. Williams of Glens Falls.
- The Mead Cycle Co. advertises for "rider agents" in the British daily press at £2 5s. to £4 10s.; Cycling of London ridicules the offer, and the Bicycling World notes Mead has never manufactured a bicycle.
- The Connecticut Fibre Company, maker of a punctureless bicycle and carriage tire at Chicopee Falls, Mass., elects E. N. Sipperley president and may build a new plant at Bridgeport, Conn.
- At Middletown, Conn., the Keating Wheel & Automobile Company receivership is continued pending sale to the Eisenhuth Horseless Vehicle Company; $88,000 of first mortgage bondholders may demand face value rather than the 80 per cent offered.
- American Bicycle Co. preferred slumped five points to 20 on an apparent sale of 100 shares, while the common is held at 5.
- Thomas C. Rutland of Lowell, Mass., files a bankruptcy petition showing $4,829.47 of liabilities against $1,500 of assets.
- Colonel James Edgar of Brockton, Mass., buys a half interest in the Hilton Valve Company of Middleboro and will handle the financial end of the business.
- Germany's draft tariff would impose 150 marks (about $36) on a complete bicycle and on finished parts, aiming to shut American machines out altogether; imports into Germany have already fallen from 161 to 104 tons in four months.
- An English court rules against the Dunlop Tire Co. in its breach-of-contract suit against Manchester fabric makers Moseley & Sons over a "colorable imitation" of Flexifort, with costs assessed on Dunlop.
- George M. Hendee of the Hendee Mfg. Co. shows his motor bicycle in a Springfield retail store and will not offer it for sale until he can make deliveries; Massachusetts dealers and repairmen are calling to inspect it.
- Westboro, Mass., quits the business of bidding for industry as its factory stands empty again after the Locomobile Co.'s move to Bridgeport; it had already swallowed the White Flyer, Broncho, Densmore-Yost and Humber ventures.
- Editorial arguing the proposed German duty of 150 marks per bicycle will be badly mauled before enactment, and that tariffs cannot keep out a meritorious article.
- Editorial on the motocycle as the legitimate successor to the bicycle, warning that no bicycle-like boom is imminent while so many different patterns remain possible.
- Editorial contesting the trade's gloom about second-hand machines, citing a Chambers street window offering overhauled wheels of well-known makes from $7.50 to $50, most at $10 to $30.
- Editorial attacking the National Cycling Association for fining George H. Collett only $75 for the foul riding that crippled two men at New Haven, while "Major" Taylor paid $100 per non-appearance; urges the severity of the National Trotting Association.
- A cut-price New York salesman complains that buyers now demand this year's or last year's models, that old stock cannot be found or sold, and that his house is bidding for a lot of 4,000 obsolete machines.
- An A. D. T. messenger boy haggles over a $10 second-hand Wolff-American in a downtown store, doubting whether its one-eighth-inch chain will stand hard work.
- A correspondent at a Chinese treaty port reports that black enamel is repulsive and blue nearly as unlucky to Chinese buyers, while red and white are the favorite colors.
- The Osaka exposition of March 1 to July 31, 1903, is flagged to American makers now that Japan is one of the best markets for American bicycles.
- King Edward, having given a bicycle to the heir presumptive, buys a Humber free-wheel tricycle delivered to Marlborough House within forty-eight hours and has his 1890 machine converted to a free wheel.
- An English writer contrasts complaining cycle agents with a prosperous provincial dealer who built machines, held agencies, hired out, repaired, advertised widely and even stamped his name on the trouser clips he sold.
- J. K. Boehm and C. R. Waldron of Ceylon, Ohio, patent a yielding handlebar whose pivoted ends drive segmental gears against a spring-tensioned rack bar, absorbing vibration without affecting steering.
- The Krupp Co. obtains control of a German invention that removes oxygen from molten steel by adding an alloy of aluminum or manganese with silicon, producing sound castings free of blow-holes.
- The one English concern still pushing long cranks and high gears reports that only one machine out of 8,000 sold has been returned under its month's trial offer, despite hostile press criticism.
- English insurers cover a $75 machine for $3.12 a year, with $2.50 extra buying $500 payable on death within three months of an accident, or $5 or $2.50 a week for ten weeks' disability.
- The Mont de Piete is troubled by the thousands of second-hand bicycles in pawn; excellent machines offered at 25 to 50 francs ($5 to $10) found no purchasers.
- A young girl disputes a dealer's $30 trade-in difference on a $40 wheel, decides it is not worth the money, and is then offered a $100 motor attachment for her old bicycle instead.
- At Paris, Ill., the proprietor of a bicycle store swapped it for a 130-acre farm and changed places with the farmer, who now has the local paper's good wishes as an "affable young man."
- London letter of July 17: a friend's nearly new motor tricycle destroyed $50 of tires in under 1,000 miles on the South Coast, and a flood of spurious De Dion parts — ignition cams at 15 cents that wear out at once — is being palmed off on the replacement trade.
- Describes tempering and coloring chain link blocks and small steel parts in a gas furnace, using heated sand or ground flint to obtain a uniform temper color.
- Weekly trade register of new stores from Alvin, Tex., to Shakopee, Minn., changes of ownership including Walter I. Smith's purchase of the Norton Company's business at Fair Haven, Vt., and fires at Watervliet, New Britain and Meriden.
- A motor tandem examined by the Bicycling World uses a flanged sprocket wheel, two steel rims inclosing the engaged chain so it cannot jump the teeth or be caught by the crank.
- The Hart Cycle & Automobile Co. of Philadelphia ($50,000), the Aerio Cycle Co. of Buffalo ($7,000) and the Elder Patent Tire Co. of Springfield, Ill. ($5,000) file papers.
- The Toledo Metal Wheel Co.'s child's automobile is pedal-driven with a rear-wheel steering lever, 20 and 16 inch rubber-tired ball-bearing wheels, and heads a line that also includes a locomotive, tandem buckboard and velocipede horse.
- Newark dealer Charles F. Simpson accused rival Louis Wurth of taking six bicycle bells from his Halsey street shop; Judge Lambert told Wurth to return them and dismissed the case.
- Contrasts ordinary machinery bevel gears with those made for bicycles, especially gears cut after hardening — turned, bored, milled, carbonized, hardened and then generated to the correct theoretical contour.
- The Scottish Cyclist prints a Singapore employe's complaint that American makers keep their agents posted on the latest goods while English firms send news perhaps once a year.
- A German invention presses a very thin aluminum foil onto copper before heating, forming an alloy to which thicker aluminum will adhere, and so allowing iron, steel or zinc to be aluminum-plated.
- W. H. Maher, in the Saturday Evening Post, argues that the clerk or travelling salesman rises or falls on tact and the ability to make friends, illustrated by a job-seeker who interrupts and by a youth hired on the strength of a single conversation.
- The president of the London Chamber of Commerce lists the twelve rules that guided his business career, from "Have a definite aim" to "a sound mind in a sound body."
- The Syracuse, N. Y., postoffice tried a Stearns motor tricycle and cleared fifty-four letter boxes in an hour and ten minutes, against three hours by wagon.
- Race reports from Manhattan Beach (Walthour beats Elkes over 50 miles in 1.22.29 3-5, "Major" Taylor takes the half-mile championship), Madison Square Garden's disputed Cooper heat, Ben Munroe's world's records at Vailsburg, and Elkes, Michael, Stinson and Nat Butler elsewhere.
- Chainless bicycles have fared worse in Great Britain than in America; with the Acatene Company collapsed, the Quadrant fights on alone and its sales are steadily increasing.
- Grants include George W. Manson's motocycle frame, Thomas L. Barlow's tire and rim cleaning machine, Ransom E. Olds's gas engine mixing device and Emmit G. Latta's velocipede frame, plus a design patent and the "Motobile" trademark.
- Bicycle and material shipments for the week, led by London with 265 cases of bicycles ($3,746) and Havre with 73 cases ($1,658), and reaching the Dutch East Indies, Brazil, Athens and Gamla Carleby.