The Bicycling World, Vol 52, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Don E. Campbell, of Bryte, Coates & Campbell, San Francisco, could not fill a Japanese order for 200 bicycles anywhere in Buffalo—John R. Keim, the George N. Pierce Co. and the Kelsey jobbing house were all cleaned out—while his partner Coates prepares to move to Japan for a year or two to court the trade expected after the war.
- F. A. Baker's suit against the Manhattan Storage Co., over an Indian motor bicycle sold on instalments and resold by a defaulting purchaser, was postponed to October 17 in the Brooklyn Municipal Court; the machine turned up in Long Branch, N. J.
- R. D. Webster, secretary of the Eclipse Machine Co., returns to Elmira from two months on the Pacific Coast predicting the West's best year in some time and, particularly, a coaster brake year.
- The Badger Brass Mfg. Co.'s New York branch handled 7,000 Solar bicycle lamps in its first half year, 10,000 the next year and 29,000 this season—a jolt to the notion that the lamp trade has shrunk to insignificance.
- W. M. DeLoatch, burned out at Scotland Neck, N. C., has opened in Columbia, S. C.; the Rome Cycle Co. of Rome, Ga., is now the Moore Cycle Co.
- The Imperial Court of Germany upheld the Hamburg customs seizure of American goods bearing a trademark a German firm had registered locally, relying on section 17 of the German trade-marks act of May 12, 1894—leaving American bicycle and accessory exporters exposed to trademark "pirates."
- E. E. Peterson, formerly of the Kimball Gun Store, has gone into partnership with G. A. Bunting at Tacoma, Wash., buying out F. B. Shank's stock and adding sporting goods and bicycles.
- A Paris correspondent of an English contemporary finds the Avenue de la Grande Armee given over entirely to automobile garages, M. Petit in the Champs Elysees the one flourishing dealer, and French riders on cheap $25 drop-frame machines using Japanese paper lanterns instead of lamps.
- Warns agents that tires and tubes left in show windows, under skylights, above 60 degrees Fahrenheit, or in contact with oil and gasolene perish rapidly, producing the surface cracks and "rotten" stock behind most claims made on tire makers.
- A Berlin firm's double-silk insulated wire, one millimetre thick and consisting mainly of cellulose-tetra acetate, resists temperatures to 150 degrees centigrade and avoids the moisture absorbed by silk and cotton windings.
- A Thor motor owner discovers that the slot in the hollow handle of the Billings & Spencer pocket wrench exactly fits the nuts inside the Thor carburetter.
- Chief of Police Anderson of Springfield, Ill., arrested four cyclists in one evening for riding unlighted after nightfall and promises to enforce the lamp law vigorously from now on.
- August bicycle exports continued to fall, but the eight-month totals slipped only from $1,563,344 in 1903 to $1,296,701 in 1904 and $1,005,371 in 1905; France more than doubled to $6,724 and Mexico and Argentina rose sharply. Includes the full month-by-country table.
- The perennial tall tale—a ball dropped from a cycle bearing embedded half way in a railway rail, jolting passengers until it had to be chiselled flat—resurfaces in the London dailies.
- Jed Scarboro's advertising maxims: bunch your efforts and strike the same spot, because "sheet lightning is showy, but it never sets barns on fire," and strong talk without fact behind it has "a flat 'plunk' to it like a plugged watermelon."
- Edward E. Hinsman of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s Westfield factory is credited with saying about 30,000 bicycles will ship from Westfield next year under Hartford's annual allotment; motorcycle engines will still be made at Hartford, and two ponderous coaster brake machines are among the new plant.
- A British holiday maker coupled an ancient tandem and tricycle into a canvas-covered "quinticycle" for three, sleeping aboard in a hammock slung between the wheels and on beds of boards laid on wooden struts.
- Creditors of Henry Rush, a Los Angeles bicycle dealer who shot himself, are suing on the list of debts from 15 cents to $175 he wrote on his cuff, which the estate's attorney has refused to accept as an acknowledgment.
- Frederick Zoll buys a half interest in Homer Kelly's business at Findlay, Ohio; Miles H. Dunham of Sheffield, Mass., sells out to move to Racine, Wis.; W. D. Carmichael of Marion, S. C., also keeps the leading hotel.
- Editorial taking up a Canadian correspondent's question why American makers still list the coaster brake only as an "option" or "extra," noting that the one concern really building a coaster brake model is a despised mail order house that merely poses as a manufacturer.
- Editorial reading the Buffalo jobber's failure to buy 200 bicycles as proof the trade is finally clear of job lots and old stock—a happy augury for 1906, when factories will be freer to produce fresh goods.
- Editorial contrasting public awe at 60-mile-an-hour motor cars of 100 horse power with Guignard's 55 miles 1,515 yards in the hour and Contenet's 99.36 miles in two hours, both achieved by one-man power behind pace.
- "A Colonial Cyclist" compares his antiquated first mount and an 1896 Columbia with English machines, urging Rudge-Whitworth threaded crank fastening instead of cotter pins, felt washers and eccentric rear adjustment; he praises the 1905 Morrow coaster brake and a Diamond block chain that has run 4,000 miles.
- W. Brown, with two good legs, beat the one-legged D. Cohen 24 miles 1 lap to 23 miles 11 laps in the six-day home trainer race at the Navarre Wheelmen's rooms, 325 West Thirty-ninth street, New York; Henry Van den Dries took the actual-distance prize with 23 miles 10 laps.
- The California Cycling Club of San Francisco elects directors including M. J. Madson, E. A. Mitchell and R. G. Wahl, while the Garden City Wheelmen of San Jose choose W. A. Hope, C. D. Cavallaro, L. Normandin and George Lucier.
- F. A. M. competition chairman Douglass permanently suspends C. A. Libbey of Lynn, Ralph Wyatt of Whitman, and Robert Schultz and J. Gagnon of Brockton for riding the "outlaw" Cambridge, Mass., meet, and suspends David Marsh, E. G. Dow and W. S. Sargent indefinitely; he promises no unsanctioned events after this season and complains of tradesmen "butting into" disputes inside the official inclosures.
- George Froebig, off three minutes, won the Century Road Club Association Long Island division ten-mile club race from West's Hotel, Valley Stream, in 29:20 1-5, with scratch man Frank W. Eiffler fastest at 27:07 1-5.
- At Leipsic, Contenet rode 160 kilometres (99.36 miles) behind pace in two hours, clipping Thaddeus Robl's 1903 Friedenau record of 86.07 miles; Dickentmann, Schmitter and Guignard finished well back.
- W. C. Chadeayne's transcontinental motorcycle ride reached Omaha 23 days out from New York with 1,731 miles run; his best days included 133 miles to Princeton, Ill., and he now faces the mountains, deserts, washed-out roads and snow.
- Carpenters Martin O. Nelson and S. M. Mills have left San Francisco on Yale-California motor bicycles for a transcontinental tour by Sacramento, Reno, Ogden, Salt Lake, Denver and St. Louis to Mobile, Ala., neither having ridden a motorcycle before.
- Walter Bardgett of Buffalo, known as "Bridget," took the one-mile professional point race from James F. Moran with 13 points at the reopened Denver saucer under Alec MacLean, while Hugh MacLean beat Hardy K. Downing in two straight ten-mile motorpaced heats; Raymond Stites broke his collarbone in a fall.
- At the new Stieglitz track, Berlin, world champion Poulain beat Ellegaard and Arent over 1,000 metres and also took the championship of France from Dupre and Emil Friol; Bruno Demke won the hour motor paced race with 81.29 kilometres from Gunther and Robl.
- Fred E. Mommer of No. 54 East Ninety-first street, New York, is appointed national secretary of the Century Road Club of America, with Ernest G. Grupe of Brooklyn succeeding him as New York State division secretary-treasurer.
- A Paris daily raced seven means of communication from its Rue Richelieu offices to a cafe by the Porte Maillot: the cyclist arrived first in 11 minutes 15 seconds despite being stopped three times, ahead of cab (23 minutes), Metropolitan (31), omnibus (34), telegram (35) and a pneumatic that took 3 hours 3 minutes.
- A Brockton, Mass., paper credits W. T. Marsh with a 40-second straightaway mile on the downgrade Arlington-Brockton road on his own two-cylinder motor bicycle, timed by his new partner C. H. Metz; two days later Robert Schultz could do no better than 1:01 1-5 on the same machine.
- At the "national motorcycle asociation's" farewell meet at Charles River Park, Cambridge, the promoter timed the races himself, one of his factory employes refereed, a reporter was pressed in as starter, and E. G. Dow was acclaimed victor of a five-mile handicap that was five miles only for scratch man Libbey.
- Willy Schmitter, twenty-one, died at Leipsic on September 17 after puncturing in a 100-kilometre championship of Europe race: Huettenrauch's pacing motor bicycle could not avoid him and crushed in his pelvis, as happened to Harry Elkes in Boston.
- The Autocycle Club of Great Britain's 68-mile "penalty run" fined competitors 6d. per stop up to 2s. 6d.; Essex won with 12 non-stop runs from 18 starters, ahead of Woolwich, Ilford and Coventry.
- Anzani covered 58 miles 489 yards in the hour at the Parc des Princes, Paris, on a 110-pound single-cylinder Alcyon fitted with a 90x99 mm Buchet motor.
- Rain drove the "Bol d'Or" from the Buffalo Velodrome to the covered Parc des Princes at the fifth hour; Vanderstuyft of Belgium won with 587 miles 730 yards from Dortignacq's 582 miles 880 yards, the veteran American Nat Butler third with 532 miles 30 yards.
- A rear tire puncture in the ninety-eighth lap cost Robert Walthour the "grand prize of Zehlendorf"; he took a header into the sand pit while remounting and could not regain his laps on Anton Huber, who did the 100 kilometres in 1:28:49.
- Full-width photograph of three F. A. M. officers on a porch, captioned R. G. Betts, president; E. W. Carritt, vice-president for the Eastern District; and H. J. Wehman, secretary.
- Peter Wollenschlager, off 5 minutes 30 seconds, won the Century Road Club Association Eastern Division ten-mile road race on the Merrick road at Valley Stream, though scratch man Charles Nerent made best time at 28 minutes 27 seconds; the Eifler brothers, Graf and Duester filled the two-mile handicap.
- In the 100-kilometre third-of-a-litre trial at the Parc des Princes, Paris, September 19-21, Thomas and Anzani took first and second on Alcyon machines in 1:10:34 and 1:11:40, with Naso third on a Magali in 1:16; Alcyon also took the cup for regularity of running.
- Henry Frizer, colored, became the first negro to capture the Hawkeye medal cycling event at Burlington, Iowa, taking the seven-mile race in 26:35 from Joe Tell after scratch man Fred Sanders refused to start; a final scratch race is set for spring 1906.
- Over 1,000 spectators saw the New Jersey division of the Century Road Club of America revive racing at the Old Guttenberg dirt oval, where Frederick Peterson of Newark took the five-mile open in 14:18 and H. L. Lind of Brooklyn was the only rider to win two firsts.
- J. P. Baumgarten won the five-mile motorcycle race at San Jose and James Tormey of San Francisco the three-mile in 4:01, while the Garden City Wheelmen retained the Cordes trophy and took the decision in the twenty-five-mile relay.
- The Tiger Wheelmen replace their three road runs with a seven-race points series for the silver loving cup given by president Harry A. Gliesman; Urbain McDonald won the opening five-mile handicap at Old Guttenberg from scratch in 14:17 2-5, a fifth of a second ahead of Peter J. Baum.
- An Irish Cyclist plebiscite puts Arthur A. Zimmerman first with 65 per cent, ahead of Paul Albert, Percy Furnival, H. L. Cortis and Leon Meredith; Cycling, of London, objects editorially that Frank Kramer, the greatest racing cyclist of to-day, was overlooked.
- S. Findlater, a raw novice on a 1 3/4 horsepower Indian, won the Motorcycle Union's hill climbing contest near Dublin on September 23 with 528 points by Calender's formula, beating C. B. Franklin's F. N. and W. H. Meredith's Triumph.
- Bruno Demke's new two-cylinder Laurin-Clement pacing machine develops 28 horsepower, weighs 450 pounds and roars like a train of cars round the track; he has named it Laura.
- A reprinted joke in which Captain Barnacles refuses to ride a bicycle, roaring that he would not be found aboard "a craft that had its rudder in front."
- Abstracts with leading claims of patent 800,497, Stanley W. Shaw's fly wheel and crank shaft structure (Galesburg, Kan.), and 800,186, George W. Vaughan's ice bicycle (Lenoir, N. C.).
- Horatio Phibberly's tall tale of a snapped chain on a brakeless bicycle, a plank laid against a thatched cottage's eaves, and a landing in the carpet the cottager's wife and daughters were shaking.
- Harry Dubusky of Buffalo borrowed another wheel to chase fifteen-year-old Michael Radas to No. 91 Seventh street, then fetched the police and recovered his machine.
- Birmingham, England, boys who offered to push cyclists' machines up a hill found that nobody walks up hills in variable gear days, and took to obstructing and pelting riders who refused them until they were arrested.