The Bicycling World, Vol 52, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The G. H. Curtiss Mfg. Co. of Hammondsport, N. Y., incorporates at $40,000 with Curtiss, A. G. Pratt and R. G. Hall as directors, after Rochester merchants tried to lure the motorcycle plant away and Hammondsport townsmen outbid them; a new 3 horsepower single and a two-cylinder machine are in hand.
- A British consular report finds American bicycles gaining in Belgium chiefly because they are fitted with single tube tires, while British machines lose favour on price despite better quality; imports pay a 12 per cent ad valorem duty.
- W. J. Surre, assistant secretary of the Corbin Screw Corporation, returns from his annual Pacific Coast trip reporting the best western season the Corbin coaster brake has ever had, with a better one expected next year.
- The hearing in F. A. Baker's suit against the Manhattan Storage Co., over a motor bicycle the company bought from a defaulting instalment purchaser, was postponed again when called on Tuesday.
- E. H. Corson, otherwise the Indian Motorcycle Co. of Boston, Mass., adds a nickelplated muffler cut-out for Indian type motor bicycles, selling at $2 and operable with either hand.
- Trade changes: William St. Pierre, a dealer at Quincy, Mass., fails with $1,651 of liabilities against $236, and C. C. Hall buys C. V. Hicks's business at Alpena, Mich., moving it to the McLearn block.
- New motorcycle ignition goods at a London electrical exhibition: the "Reeplen" and "Latent" cells shipped bone dry and wetted only when wanted, the pivoted counterbalanced Marconi trembler, and the Walker dynamometer for small motors of 1/4 to 26 brake horsepower.
- Neisheisel Brothers and B. Charles Garbarino dissolve their partnership in the Neisheisel Bros. Auto & Cycle Co. at Boulder, Col.; the brothers will continue the business.
- R. U. Conger of the Sheldon School, New York City, tells the Carriage Builders' National Association convention that selling at a profit rests on tact, personality, confidence, knowledge, logic and a five-link "chain of faith," and that "a pound of logic is worth a ton of talk."
- The Cyclists' Touring Club's anti-sideslip competition awards $500 to a moulded rubber tread of semi-serpentine ridges, $250 to a studded chrome leather band, $125 to a screwed-stud cover, and $100 to a wheel shod with bed-spring spirals; the preliminary trials on soap-and-Thames-mud concrete gave the London dailies comic copy.
- Julius Mattison of Anaconda, Mont., is granted a patent on a unicycle and has left the mountains for Chicago to arrange its manufacture and sale.
- Editorial arguing that the new coaster brake model built for the jobbing trade will masquerade under many names and take business from name plate makers, who should answer with a well heralded coaster brake model of their own.
- Editorial quoting Ernest G. Grupe, new secretary of the New York State division of the Century Road Club, urging every cycling club to appoint a press agent, and arguing that cycle manufacturers need publicity even more than the clubs do.
- W. C. Chadeayne wires from Rawlings, Wyo., at 2,489 miles that snow has ruined any chance of beating George A. Wyman's 48 1/2-day transcontinental motorcycle record; his letter recounts sand, mud, a near collision with a team near Grinnell, oil failures and pushing through snow into Cheyenne.
- A. Lewin of the Century Road Club Association wins the Long Island division's 100-mile individual handicap from Bedford Rest, Brooklyn, in 5:48:30 off a 2h30m mark, sixteen minutes clear of J. F. Paulson; Frank W. Eiffler takes time prize in 5:06:52, beating brother Joe by half a wheel.
- Two hundred and seventy-one cyclists ride from City Hall, Jersey City, to Tuxedo Park and back for the New Jersey division of the Century Road Club of America; Chester Graham wins the five-mile handicap from scratch in 14:18 3-5 from Benjamin Evesson.
- Wilkes-Barre, Pa., revives a long forgotten lamp law and fines twenty-odd cyclists for riding without lamps, to the profit of dealers in the mining town.
- Arthur Neve, writing in the Cyclists' Touring Gazette, describes India's trunk roads and staging bungalows: the 1,200-mile Calcutta to Peshawar route, the Maharajah's highways in Travancore, and the Kashmir road from Rawal Pindi through Murree and Kohala to Baramulla.
- Frank Flash, a thirty-year-old German, is taken at Warsaw, N. Y., on October 18 after stealing a motorcycle in Rochester, selling it in Buffalo, then lifting the same machine again to resell it.
- Hugh MacLean of Chelsea, Mass., beats Denver's Erne W. Smith and Hardy K. Downing of San Jose in a ten-mile motor paced affair in three heats at the Colorado saucer, finishing five laps up in 13:50 2-5; Walter Bardgett of Buffalo lost the first heat to Smith.
- About twenty Brooklyn Motorcycle Club men under president E. W. Carritt serve as patrols and turn judges at the Vanderbilt Cup race on Long Island; Carritt, C. S. Tate and G. W. Sherman work the telephone block system guarding the railroad crossings for five hours.
- A clergyman's story, reaching the paper by way of an Irish journal, about two inebriates who stopped a cyclist at night to ask whether he had seen a steam roller anywhere.
- Ferdinand Meyer of North Plainsfield, N. J., is arrested on a series of bicycle robberies spanning a year; police believe he took and disposed of at least a hundred machines, though none of the twenty men on the force ever saw him riding one.
- Oscar Schwab of Newark, N. J., beats the veteran six-day rider Jean Gougoltz for third place in the 2,000-metre event at Paris, apparently his first placing; Rettich won from Doerttinger.
- Robert Walthour wins the classic Marseilles "Golden Wheel" after a hard fight with fellow American Nat Butler, ahead of Miquel and Colin.
- A schoolroom joke: asked what "nothing" is, the new pupil answers that it is what you get when you watch a man's bicycle for him and he says "Thank you."
- The New York State division of the Century Road Club of America revives the Coney Island path race for Thanksgiving Day, November 30 — a twenty-five-mile handicap starting at Johnson Place near Prospect Park Circle, with fifty prizes headed by Pierce and Reading Standard wheels and a turkey for the winner.
- Arthur Vanderstuyft, the Belgian winner of the recent Bol d'Or, is beaten by Marcel Cadolle and René Pottier in the fifty kilometre event at Paris.
- Over fifty thousand people attend the funeral of Willy Schmitter, the young German pace follower killed at the Lindenau track, Leipsic.
- The Automotor Journal describes the Carpentier-Hospitalier Manograph, which replaces the indicator's pencil and paper with a half-inch convex mirror throwing a beam of light onto a ground glass screen or photographic plate to draw a motor's cylinder diagram at 1,200 revolutions a minute.
- A tailor tells a customer his chest has grown two inches in a year and traces it to motor bicycling — the effort of breathing rapidly moving air — an argument no press agent had yet thought worth using.
- London's bicycle policemen are being trained as chauffeurs and examined on handling an automobile in crowded traffic before judges, so they can enforce the motor rules; some two to three hundred will sit the examination.
- Germany is trying a two-man motor tricycle, steered by the front man while the other tends the engine, as a chemical engine for the Munich fire department, able to reach a blaze before the big apparatus.
- An essay on the perennial one-wheel inventor, tracing the idea from the Chinese coolie's wheelbarrow and the Corean royal equipage to the modern bucket-seat unicycle hung inside a giant wheel, which goes well enough until someone asks whether it will stop.
- Huret, the old French rider whose career ended three years ago with a broken ankle at the Parc des Princes, announces a motor paced attempt on the twenty-four hours' record, aiming at 1,200 kilometres against Walters's 634 miles.
- Eugene Bodens, Elmer Sharpe and August Craemer are arrested at Buffalo, N. Y., by Detectives Zimmerman and Shook, having confessed to stealing twenty-six wheels and throwing twenty of them into the canal after stripping pedals, wheels and handle bars.
- The Penn Wheelmen of Reading, Pa., nominate Bolke Luerssen and Oliver M. Wolff for president, Miller Deem and Walter Greth for vice-president, and John J. Strickland and R. C. Potteiger for captain, among a full slate.
- At Wicklow a man is charged with being drunk in charge of a bicycle; the prosecutor argues a bicycle is legally a carriage, the magistrate agrees, and the cyclist pays "one pun" for his "jag."
- Vice-President Carritt of the Federation of American Motorcyclists' Eastern District appoints E. W. Goodwin of Brooklyn as district secretary, and the two are selecting State representatives; the district's cash balance is to go on answering the what-do-I-get-for-my-money question.
- Michael Greely of Danbury, Conn., wins a $3,750 verdict against Ira P. Hallock of Philadelphia in the United States District Court, after Hallock's motor bicycle frightened Greely's horse on a country road in August 1904.
- The California Cycling Club of San Francisco elects M. J. Madsen president, Robert J. Wahl secretary, L. Hobbs auditor and William Mills captain for the coming club year.
- National officials of the Federation of American Motorcyclists make their first move toward having the railroads carry motor bicycles as baggage, and report good prospects of an entering wedge.
- The Capitol Bicycle Club of Washington, D. C., a famous organization of the old days and now largely a social club, records a certificate making its existence perpetual.
- The Waltham (Mass.) Autocycle Club changes its name and is now the Waltham Motorcycle Club.
- Patent 801,580 to Jules C. N. Fouilloy of Paris for an attaching collar holding non-slipping devices to uncemented pneumatic tires, and 801,741 to Miles McIntyre of Canyonville, Ore., for a sprung pivoted bicycle fork.