The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 15
Articles in this issue
- Hotel Islesworth on Virginia avenue, Atlantic City, will be official hostelry for the Cycle Manufacturers' Association and Cycle Parts and Accessory Association meetings of July 25 and 26; room rates are listed and the Trunk Lines, Central and Western Passenger Associations have granted the 1 1/3 fare.
- The Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co. quotes an agent who has reordered Racycles eight times this season, and adds that the small dealer who sells junk is cutting his own throat and helping kill the trade.
- Seymour H. Brown, bicycle dealer and good roads advocate of Hornell, N. Y., died of a fractured skull after his motorcycle struck the curb turning from Maple street back into Seneca street.
- J. Fred Probst, the Terre Haute, Ind., dealer, marked his sixtieth birthday with a long ride of 7 hours 45 minutes' riding time to disprove friends who said he was too old to ride a bicycle.
- Manager W. F. McGuire's June 29 statement for the receiver of the Consolidated Mfg. Co., Toledo, puts plant assets near $300,000 and reports June bicycle, motorcycle and forging sales up nearly $15,000 on the previous year.
- The Badger Brass Mfg. Co., makers of Solar lamps, is now operating its new Eastern factory on Eleventh avenue near Thirty-sixth street, New York, and has closed the depot and salesroom at 11 Warren street.
- Charles F. Beltz and Frank J. Delavie dissolved their jobbing partnership at 524 Penn avenue, Pittsburg, on June 30; Beltz continues at the same address as Charles F. Beltz & Co.
- A shop article on bending cycle tubing without kinking it, comparing sand, lead, fine shot, resin and the spiral mandrel as fillers and describing forge and gasolene-torch heating with the tube clamped in the vise.
- Dirt or maladjustment in the contact maker, rather than the carburetter, is named the most prolific cause of misfiring, and explains why a motor that sparks perfectly standing still fails once running at speed.
- Acetylene lamp generator tanks should be filled no more than half to two-thirds full to stop swelling carbide bursting the receptacle, and no carbide should be trapped in the joint when the parts are reassembled.
- George B. Pieper, the veteran Brooklyn dealer, blames most G & J clincher blow-outs on pinched inner tubes and prescribes inflating lightly and kneading the shoe around by hand until the bead engages the flange.
- Two foreign 'inventions' are shown to be old ideas revived: the English 'Hunnable Accelerator', a crank with a hinged outer arm, and a French captain's elliptical sprocket.
- A leader arguing that mud, not machine or rider, defeated the Federation of American Motorcyclists' New York to Rochester endurance contest, and that no two-wheeled vehicle can withstand it.
- Judge Ghent of the Dewsbury County Court charged a cyclist one shilling damages for running over a hen on the ground that ringing his bell was negligent because it might frighten the bird.
- On the perennial inventors of compound cranks, levers and other contraptions promising more power out of a bicycle than is put into it, whose schemes filled the cycling papers of a decade and a half ago.
- A Newark Saengerfest and the professional riders' strike left Vailsburg's crowd in the hundreds; promoter Bloemecke threatens to run amateurs only, and a spill in the ninth lap of the ten-mile open put twenty-seven of forty-six riders down, George C. Cameron winning.
- Victor J. Lind and J. H. Bennett of Brooklyn came away nearly empty-handed from the outlawed Union Lake Park track at Millville, N. J., on July 4th, Ranagan of Vineland taking the mile novice and Mori the mile open and five-mile handicap.
- Floyd McFarland trounced W. E. Samuelson in a five-mile tandem-paced match at the Salt Palace saucer in 9:53, and Iver Lawson set a world's record of 1:21 1/5 from scratch in the three-quarter mile handicap, won by Norman C. Hopper.
- Ben Munroe finally captured the ten-mile motorpaced race at Salt Lake after Turville's motor forks collapsed under Hardy Downing; Iver Lawson took the two-mile lap handicap in a world's record 3:47 3/4 and Jack Hume the three-quarter mile in 1:25 3/5.
- Rain on the Fourth forced postponement of the Vailsburg and New Brunswick cards and the Century Road Club's 25-mile road race, and delayed the six-times-postponed Revere Beach meet again.
- Gabriel Poulain beat Frank L. Kramer and Emil Friol in a three-heat match before 8,000 at Neuilly on June 21, and Friol beat Kramer at Limoges on June 24; Kramer refused President Batchelder's plea to stay for the Geneva championships and says he will quit after this year's American championship.
- Robert J. Walthour beat James F. Moran, the Chelsea milkman, in both five-mile heats of their motorpaced match at Atlanta, declining to profit by Moran's puncture in the second; Milton Elliott won the one-mile open in 2:21.
- James Dick of Buffalo took first place and second time in the Dunkirk Cycle Club's twenty-mile road race on July 4th and won the Y. M. C. A. mile and two-mile races; Hollinden took first time and fifth place from scratch in 49:50.
- The F. A. M.'s fifth national endurance contest, 390 miles from New York to Rochester on July 2nd and 3rd, reduced 34 starters to 11 finishers, with Kellogg, Hedstrom, Chubbuck, De Rosier, Holden and Barrows earning gold medals for perfect scores after cloudbursts turned the roads beyond Lyons into seas of mud.
- Jacob B. De Rosier of Springfield refused a two-minute handicap and won the 24-mile Henrietta road race at the F. A. M. Rochester meet in 26:31 1/2, taking both time and place prizes; G. H. Curtiss was put out when the ball valve of his lubricator stuck.
- One-armed Michael E. Toepel rode 16.6 miles on a measured pint in the New York Motorcycle Club's economy test on the Boston Post road, equal to 132.8 miles per gallon, on a 2 1/4 horsepower Indian.
- Stanley T. Kellogg covered 42 1-16 miles in the first hour championship on the Crittenden Park half-mile dirt track after De Rosier's chain broke at 22 miles; Oscar Hedstrom's outburst over the three-mile handicap starts led to a riders' strike that marred the meet.
- J. Nash McCrea won the mile open and the best-time medal in the five-mile handicap at the State Fair grounds, Springfield, Ill., on July 4 under the Illinois Bicycle Association, riding a Racycle before about 2,500 spectators.
- The Federation of American Motorcyclists cut annual dues from $2 to $1, voted $100 to make good the Waltham Autocycle Club's undelivered 1905 championship medals, and re-elected R. G. Betts president, Henry J. Wehman secretary and G. B. Gibson treasurer.
- The Richmond (Ind.) Bicycle Dealers' Association's July 4th meet at Reid Field, Earlham, offered $98.50 in prizes for six events; Charles Draper won the mile open and unlimited pursuit and William Waking took the five-mile motorcycle race in 11:16.
- William 'Farmer' Blum of Chicago won the mile open and the three-mile open at the Scotch Societies' athletic meet at Elliott Park, Chicago, on the Fourth of July, with Edwin Siegel second in both.
- Forty-nine riders turned out for the newly organized Crescent Wheelmen's first half-century from Broadway and North avenue, Baltimore, to Reisterstown and back, taken as evidence of a cycling revival in Maryland.
- J. Nash McCrea of Springfield, Ill., was thrown under a street-car trailer when a man running for the car collided with his bicycle, and may be out for the rest of the racing season.
- J. F. Cox, Peter Cox, Walter Studwell and George Brooks, all on Indians, beat every car in the Rock Top Hill climb at Mt. Carmel, Conn., on June 28, Cox taking the 700-foot grade in 2:06 1/4 against 3:50 1/4 for a 16 horsepower car.
- Recent grants include Vosburgh's tire repair device, Bonfils's aerial bicycle with air planes, De Rome's bicycle attachment, Beauford's motor roller-skates, a Steinbrenner and Mayer carburetter and Uhlmann's adjustable pedal-crank.