The Bicycling World, Vol 52, No 12
Articles in this issue
- William H. Crosby of the Crosby Co., Buffalo, was elected first president of the Cycle Manufacturers' Association at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, with George N. Pierce vice-president, D. W. Gould of Pope Mfg. Co. secretary and Harry Walburg of the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co. treasurer. Making parts makers eligible for membership was the chief departure from the original plan.
- Trade changes: the City Cycle & Auto Co. of Elmira, N. Y., sold out to the Elmira Arms Company, and the Santa Rosa Cyclery moved from Mendocino Street to Fifth Street in Santa Rosa, Cal.
- The Cleveland Cycle & Auto Co. has been incorporated at Buffalo, N. Y., by James MacNaughton, F. Louis DuBroy and M. D. Ashford.
- The National Cycle Trade Association's jobbers will print a "Ride a Bicycle Campaign" letterhead and 1,000 four-page leaflets, offering twenty-five dollars in three bags of coin for the best reasons why bicycles should be ridden.
- The Pope Mfg. Co.'s annual report for the year ending July shows gross receipts of $7,801,145, a gain of $574,556, and net receipts of $1,304,750, up $73,954 on the previous year.
- The 1906 Reading Standard Thoroughbred motor bicycle moves its combined gasolene and oil tank inside the diamond frame with a push-knob oiler, adds a patented duplex cushion fork, a semi-circular battery box on the rear forks, a 2¼-inch rear tire and a golden brown finish with milari green head and fork sides.
- Bicycling News argues the human palm, wetted and charged with powdered rotten stone or olive oil, is the finest polisher known — the Lick telescope's great condensing lens was finished by schoolchildren's hands.
- A small horseshoe magnet, or a screwdriver magnetized on a dynamo frame, is the quickest way to retrieve small metal fragments from the interior of a motor cylinder.
- Congressman Morrell of Pennsylvania has introduced a bill requiring every interstate motor vehicle owner to pass an Interstate Commerce Commission examination and pay a $50 licence fee, with fines of $500 to $1,000 and licence revocation after three convictions.
- E. Corson of the Indian Motorcycle Co., Boston, has produced a 3x3x8-inch heavy leather tool bag on a nickelplated brass holder, shown with his motorcycle luggage carrier and muffler cut-out.
- The novelist "Ouida", writing after a Paris Vélodrome meet, denounces the racing cyclist as "the cad of this breaking dawn of the twentieth century", lower than the helot of Greece or the gladiator of Rome.
- An English lamp-oil maker has divided England into sixteen numbered sections and prints the corresponding road map on his oil tins, though the rider usually fills the lamp and leaves the tin at home.
- Leader deploring the dearth of pictorial cycling advertising and commending a British maker's prize photographic contest, which yielded amateur photographs of gentlemen and lady riders, boys, girls, tandem pairs and whole clubs awheel.
- Leader warning motorcyclists not to assume every road user is sound of sight and hearing, citing the rider who collided with a buggy while looking back to enjoy the fright he had given a woman on a wood road.
- Edward F. Root and Joseph Fogler win the thirteenth annual Madison Square Garden six-day race, Root beating John Bedell by four lengths in the mile tie-off before 16,000 people; Moran defeats Stol for third and Hollister beats Downing for fifth, all eight teams finishing on 2,260 miles.
- A page of R. Edgren's N. Y. World cartoons on the six-day grind — the rubbernecks hunting the press agent's $100 bills, the crowd trying to see the race from the enclosure, and the result of six days' rubbering from the gallery.
- Charges of "deals" and "double crosses" over the division of the six-day prize money: James F. Moran claims Root is really Eddie Lennie, Mrs. Root threatens to shoot anyone who lays hold of her husband, and the Bedells issue a signed denial of any pooling agreement.
- Trousselier and Gougoltz with broken ribs and "Tommy" Hall with a fractured collar bone sail on La Savoie with Stol, Decaup, Vanoni, Doerflinger and Dussot; manager Robert Coquelle signed Frank Kramer to revisit Paris in April.
- Cycle racing was again the feature of the Sixty-fifth Regiment Armory games at Buffalo, J. J. Steglemeier taking the two-mile handicap final in 5:15 1-5 and Fred Schudt the five-mile open in 14:03 4-5 from J. M. Tanner and Al. Mercer.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs' eighteenth New Year's eve run leaves Central Park Circle at midnight for Yonkers and Tarrytown, with the Simms and Oatman cups, the Gerbereaux and Owen trophies and a bottle of White Seal champagne for each division winner.
- Henri Contenet bettered Walthour's twenty-five kilometre motor-paced figures at the Paris winter track, covering the distance in 17 minutes 30 3-5 seconds behind a wind-shielded pacing motor.
- The French Cyclists' Union will compel every first-category rider, amateur or professional, to compete in the circuit championships or risk suspension, as is already the case in America.
- A warning signpost on a steep hill near Sheffield, England, tells cyclists the hill is dangerous and that a stretcher may be obtained at Hurst Cottage below when required.
- A. G. L. Fritz won the one-mile bicycle race at the forty-eighth Seventh Regiment Armory games in New York in 3:03 2-5, from J. P. Leo and F. F. Stainsy.
- Stevens Institute is considering a quarter or third of a mile bicycle track for its new athletic grounds at Castle Point, Hoboken, N. J., where Professor Pryor has forty men grading a 600 by 400 foot plot for a baseball diamond, cinder path and tennis and lacrosse courts.
- German track-racing circles are moving to abolish the wind shield and make a 26-inch front wheel compulsory in motor-paced events, with Denike, Huber and Dickentmann among the advocates.
- Dr. S. D. Bashore of Palmyra, Pa., tells the Medical World that he rode 8,868 miles in 1904 for $53.34 in total upkeep, put his big horse out to pasture within two weeks of buying a motor bicycle, and warns country doctors against cheaply built machines.
- Slipping a short length of rubber hose over the spark plug and capping it with a perforated rubber disc shields the plug and its high-tension terminal from mud, water and shocks.
- Brass or copper tubing should be packed tight with dry sand and plugged at both ends before bending, then annealed by heating to redness and plunging into water, since brass hardens where steel would soften.
- A filler arguing that the known ability and manufacturing facilities of a maker should weigh in any purchase, holding up American wire rope as the height of attainment in integrity and skill.
- Edwin Gould, the railway magnate, sent his secretary for Federation of American Motorcyclists application blanks and joined along with his brother-in-law H. J. Shrady, while John Jacob Astor keeps a two-wheeler beside his twelve automobiles.
- An English paper has "lifted" a faked American newspaper photograph of Wyman's transcontinental motorcycle tour — posed within ten miles of New York City Hall — and captioned it "An American Motorcyclist Descending Mount Washington, Strewn with Bowlders."
- A rider who thought he had cleared a broken exhaust valve from his cylinder left the slotted top behind; it knocked between piston and head, jammed the valves and cost him a new cylinder head.
- English cyclists have collected $25 for running into an unlighted cart, $25 and $35 for being ditched by a passing motor car, and $175 to a London wheelwoman thrown by a brick left in the road by a van driver.
- A motorist who accelerated on an inviting stretch of road found he had pulled clean off his machine a cyclist who had been holding the back of the car for support and power.