The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 16
Articles in this issue
- The Central Passenger Association grants a fare-and-a-third rate to the Cycle Parts & Accessories Association convention at Atlantic City on July 25-26; Harry Walburg of the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co. will read "If I Were a Bicycle Dealer" and R. G. Betts "Publicity Without Price."
- Judge Hough of the United States District Court discharges Fred A. Ives of 130 East Thirteenth street, New York, from $1,833 of liabilities contracted in the bicycle business at New Haven, Connecticut.
- Baltimore dealer Howard A. French shifts temporarily to 306 West Fayette street while 304 West Fayette street is torn down and rebuilt for autumn occupancy.
- Superintendent Beck confirms that the Pope Mfg. Co. has a new motor bicycle after two years of neglect, while Sales Manager Cox reports orders of 1,200 bicycles in a single mid-July week.
- The Buffalo Specialty Co. sues the Alling Rubber Co. of Hartford, Connecticut for alleged infringement of its Neverleak tire fluid patents and prays for an injunction.
- Barometric pressure falling roughly an inch per 1,000 feet cuts the weight of air drawn per stroke to 59 per cent at the height of Pike's Peak, so a carburetter needs a wide range of adjustment for Mount Washington, Leadville and the western States.
- Remove the chain, spin the cranks to spot the teeth out of line, and tap them back with light hammer blows without straining the parts or throwing the pitch line out on the other side.
- A home-made cement of equal parts pure yellow wax, resin and Venetian red, melted together, applied hot and clamped until set.
- The F. P. Keenan Company, bicycle and sporting goods dealers of Portland, Oregon, incorporates with $10,000 capital, naming F. P. Keenan, T. H. Gardner and A. T. Lewis as incorporators.
- A contributor to the Business Men's Magazine warns inventors against unmarketable devices, unscrupulous model makers and patent mongers, and prices a complete application at a $4 attorney's fee plus government fees of $15 and $20.
- The leader ridicules the clamp-on motor outfit advertised as applicable "to any bicycle by anyone in ten minutes," likening it to the combination pocket tool that serves none of its half-dozen purposes well.
- Two recent crashes in which wheel nuts backed off slotted forks, one rider losing his front wheel entirely, argue for fitting cheap lock nuts as accident insurance.
- A correspondent signing "Longmarker" proposes a national road racing body of club-elected governors, district representatives and paid handicappers with rider registration at fifty cents a year, rather than waiting for the Century Road Club Association and the Century Road Club of America to consolidate.
- The paper's calendar of coming events, from the Century Road Club of America's 50-mile handicap at Valley Stream on July 22 and the Worcester dealers' 25-mile race to the world's championships at Geneva and the Muskegon Motorcycle Club's meet.
- Thaddeus Robl covers 57 miles 117 yards paced in the hour on Munich's new 666-metre track on June 20, beating Guignard's 55 miles 1,515 yards, though the timekeeper was not an official of the German union.
- Louis Darragon takes France's motor-pace championship at the Velodrome Parc des Princes, Paris, riding 100 kilometres in 1:14:57 ahead of Dussot, Bouhours, Parent and Rugere.
- Manager Charles B. Bloemecke abandons cycle racing at the Vailsburg board track after losing over $1,500, following a Sunday meet that drew fewer than 100 spectators and about twenty riders.
- Lippincott's revives the decade-old chestnut of the salesman who arranged to be wired "Man's safety arrived" or "Lady's safety arrived" and received the single word "Tandem."
- W. W. Haller of Farley, Dubuque county, Iowa, born in 1826, took up the bicycle at seventy-three despite a broken rib and now rides the local hills with his son-in-law and daughter.
- Iver Lawson wins the unlimited pursuit over Fogler, Samuelson and Downing, then breaks the quarter-mile and five-mile world's records at 0:23⅘ and 9:56 at the Salt Lake saucer, with Hardy Downing taking the five-mile motorpaced event in 7:08.
- Illustrated report of the Federation of American Motorcyclists hill climb at Rochester, decided on Callender's formula of piston displacement, time and weight, in which G. N. Holden's single-cylinder Indian beat the faster "doubles" of De Rosier, Kellogg and Cook.
- Los Angeles becomes the first city to act against open mufflers, its council passing an ordinance requiring all motorcycles to be fitted with mufflers and to keep them closed within the city limits.
- Stanley T. Kellogg wins the one-mile and five-mile national championships on the Crittenden Park half-mile track while Walter Goerke of Brooklyn takes the ten-mile flying start on a 2½ horsepower R-S; Curtiss and Cook are disqualified for overweight machines.
- The revised Bay State automobile law approved on May 24 specifically includes motorcycles, obliges the Highway Commission to suspend offending makers' and dealers' licenses for 30 to 60 days, and cuts non-residents' grace period from fifteen days to seven.
- The German Museum at Munich is assembling a thirteen-type bicycle collection running from the Celerifere and the 1817 Draisine to Fischer of Schweinfurt's 1840 crank machine and the early adjustable-spoke Stanley high machines.
- A fifty-cent gate fee insisted on by track manager L. R. Hope empties the Highland Park meet at New Brunswick, leaving the Bicycling World man to act as referee, judge, starter, timer and handicapper; Anthony Charles of the Roy Wheelmen took the State half-mile championship.
- Poulain beats Frank Kramer by three lengths in the final of the Grand Prix de L'U. V. F. at 1,000 metres at the Velodrome Buffalo, Paris, on June 28, with Mayer third.
- George Glunz of the Century Road Club Association wins the 25-mile Long Island Cycle Derby off twelve minutes in 1:13:29 over the Merrick road, while Frank W. Eifler leads the scratch bunch home in 1:03:07.
- John Roth takes the Roy Wheelmen's ten-mile handicap at Valley Stream off three minutes in 31 minutes 55 seconds, with club champion Watson J. Kluczek fastest from scratch in 31:50.
- The side path commissioners award a contract to put the paths around Westhampton Beach, Long Island, in order after riders undertook to buy tags if they were made ridable.
- Ellegaard the Dane wins the 1,000-metre Grand Prix of Steglitz on July 1 by a tire's width from Friol, with Frank Kramer a wheel behind and a local rider named Peter last.
- James Moran beats Hugh MacLean by three miles in a 25-mile motorpaced race at the Revere Beach saucer in 38:08 before 3,000 people, and the two exchange blows afterwards before being separated.
- Harry Early of Bayonne, New Jersey leads both the century and the mileage lists of the Century Road Club of America for the half-year, ahead of Alfred H. Seeley and H. H. Hintze; 253 centuries and 26,645 miles have been recorded to July 1.
- A week-by-week diary of a new owner's enthusiasm decaying from daily chamois rub-downs to the twelfth week, when the rusted machine is banished from the hallway to the cellar.
- J. B. Hawkins wins the thirty-yard sprint, the one-mile handicap and the four-and-a-half-mile handicap at the Century Road Club Association's consolation meet on Long Island, with J. M. Eifler taking the half-mile slow race.
- George E. Holt and Lester R. Creutz of Moline, Illinois leave New York on the steamer Celtic for a three-year ride round the world on Reading Standard bicycles with G & J tires, wearing Roy Wheelmen sweaters and carrying letters from Senator S. M. Cullom.
- G. J. Algier left Philadelphia unannounced on June 11 for a leisurely transcontinental tour and was discovered by St. Louis Cycling Club members leaning against the Federal building, having ridden the old National pike through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
- William Knaak stole and resold thirty bicycles between Hartford and Springfield in the fortnight after leaving jail on June 22, working through Thompsonville, Chicopee Falls and Indian Orchard; twenty-four have been recovered.
- Bicycling News describes a Birmingham rider's spiral platform built over his back wheel to carry his fox terrier, prompting a suggestion that the wheel be built as a revolving squirrel cage to serve as an auxiliary motor.
- An English glass-insulated plug offers a window on the ignition flame and better insulation than porcelain, but glass expands more than twice as fast under heat and its brittleness makes mechanical allowance compulsory.
- A column of aphorisms reprinted from Cycling, including "Beauty is often enamel deep" and "Mending a puncture is like a game of whist, everything depends on the rubber."
- The Standard Oil Company announces it will no longer supply 74 to 76 degree test gasolene, but garagemen are unmoved because by far the larger portion of the fuel already sold tests only 66 to 68 degrees.
- Cyclists and motorists at Michigan City, Indiana move to form a mutual protective league seeking an ordinance against street refuse, after one rider's tire bills averaged $5 a month for three months.
- Iver Lawson wins the two-mile lap open in 3:54 before about 1,500 people at the Glenwood saucer at Ogden, Utah, Saxon Williams takes the mile handicap, and T. M. Samuelson's 5:52 five miles sets a State record.
- The chief of police at Compeigne threatened to fine John D. Rockefeller 15 francs each time he rode out, his machine carrying no name and number, until the mayor secured a delay and warned him to comply.
- "Emulsifix," an English emulsion of two to five parts oil to 95-98 parts water mixed by a paddle wheel in the watering cart, is said to cut road treatment from $250 to $50 per mile per season and to bind the macadam surface.
- A shabbily dressed labourer near Birmingham was arrested riding his newly bought bicycle with only twopence in his pockets, and released only after the maker was interviewed as to its ownership.
- The Frankfurter Neueste Nachrichter credits Bourrillon, Morin, Walters and Chase with owing much of their track success to knock-knees, and claims that even straight-legged Robl turns his knees in once astride the saddle.
- Worcester, Massachusetts bicycle dealers hang up $600 in prizes for a 25-mile handicap on July 28, headed by two fifty-dollar Hudson bicycles, with J. W. Grady giving a Blauvelt racing sweater to the first finisher from each State.