The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Creditors of William Wooster, whose Barclay street, New York, cellar business failed for $18,000, met before Commissioner Alexander but the bankrupt never appeared; counsel Samuel Kahan and brother Ernest Wooster gave evasive testimony about a bill of sale of the 519 Sixth avenue branch to their father John Wooster within 48 hours of the bankruptcy petition.
- Receiver Robinson has fixed Monday the 13th at the Boody House, Toledo, for creditors of the Consolidated Mfg. Co. to vote on reorganization or continuance; the plant has been operated at a profit since he took charge on May 2nd.
- Herbert H. Smith, the Melbourne importer, writes that he does about $3,000 a month in American fittings alone and has moved into larger quarters at 290-294 Lonsdale street, and is open to sole representation offers.
- Trade transfers: E. S. Babcock & Son of Milton, Wis., sold its bicycle department to Carl Gray, and the H. E. Sidles Cycles Co. of Lincoln, Neb., sold its bicycle department to J. A. Anderson & Co.
- Argues that a man needs enough pride in his work to want an occasional swelled head, and that egotism, like measles, is best caught early and violently so the victim recovers.
- Illustrated road repair for a stripped rear axle nut: chuck the fork end opening with a piece of metal or hardwood, bind it firmly with wire wrapped about the axle, and set the nut up with care.
- John Garibaldi, a bicycle dealer in Florence, Ala., circulates figures showing Gruman & Swager's meat market spends $492 a year running three delivery bicycles against $1,528 for horses and wagons; police chief John Anderson adds that his $45 wheel has cost $5 in repairs in two years.
- Professor Charles E. Lucke of Columbia College, appointed by the Government to study alcohol as a fuel, warns motorcyclists against high hopes ahead of the January 1, 1907, denatured alcohol law: gasolene yields far more heat units and alcohol must sell at half its price to compete.
- Contends that steel made twenty-five years ago withstood climate better than modern steel, and notes that the steel boiler, once dreaded for corrosion, is now universally employed.
- An Englishman has built a cumbersome three-cylinder motor bicycle that abandons the diamond frame for a backbone standing 27 inches from the ground, fore-and-aft vertical cylinders slung beneath horizontal tubes, and an eight-inch leather-faced clutch driving through skew gears.
- Editorial protesting the revival of Sterling, Victor and Wolff-American names on $14.98 and $19.23 department-store bicycles; notes A. H. Overman has threatened action and calls on the Cycle Manufacturers' Association to abate the deception.
- Editorial backing G. W. Sherman's proposal that makers eliminate the muffler cut-out, while doubting it will be adopted; notes New York City's Council has a muffler ordinance pending and that the Federation of American Motorcyclists drew some of its sting.
- Letter from E. J. Bowers of Toronto recommending parties of two to four, the Berkshires, Catskills, Adirondacks and White Mountains, gears no higher than 75, resilient single tube tires, a coaster brake, and shipping the grip ahead by express.
- Letter from G. W. Sherman of Reading, Pa., urging the F.A.M. to circulate a pledge against the muffler cut-out before the noise brings damage suits and hostile laws; he promises the R-S motor bicycle will be among the first makes to drop it.
- Calendar of coming events from August 12 to November 29, including the Veterans' eighth annual century run from New York to Sag Harbor, Roy Wheelmen and Century Road Club handicap road races at Valley Stream, and the Muskegon Motorcycle Club's meet on September 3.
- Advises motorcyclists to thumb the ignition connections before every ride, since the single loose or broken wire found on the tenth inspection saves more time than the nine fruitless ones consume.
- René Pottier won the thirteen-stage Tour de France, run from Paris on July 5 to July 29 over about 2,900 miles in 169 hours 17 minutes, with only 14 of 75 starters finishing; he took $1,610 in prizes ahead of Passerieu, Trousselier and Petit-Breton.
- John Bedell of Newark and his pacemaker Chas. Turville of Boston were badly cut and bruised when motor and bicycle tangled on the wet Revere Beach saucer on the evening of the 8th, in a heat of the inter-city motorpaced match that James F. Moran had already quit as too dangerous.
- Louis J. Mueller of Cleveland left San Francisco at 6 a.m. on the 10th on an Indian to attack the transcontinental record, accompanied by George N. Holden of Springfield, Mass.; he hopes to better 200 miles a day east of Chicago and beat L. L. Whitman's 48 days 11½ hours.
- Paul Guignard, a French rider over 40, covered 59 miles 30½ yards behind pace on the new cement oval at Munich on July 30, erasing Thaddeus Robl's 57 miles 117 yards, and set fresh marks for 10, 20 and 30 kilometres.
- Louis Darragon of France beat the veteran American pace-follower in two heats of a three-heat match at the Velodrome Buffalo, Paris, on July 22, taking the $1,000 purse after Butler fell in the third heat.
- Rain-delayed Salt Lake City racing saw Hardy Downing and Floyd McFarland split the heats of their match, Iver Lawson beat Clarke and Fogler, Cyrus L. Hollister take the $100 Lemp handicap, and Jack Hume break Marcus Hurley's five-mile handicap record with 10:36.
- Otto C. Brandes won the Edgecombe Wheelmen's twenty-five mile handicap road race at Valley Stream, L. I., on the 5th from scratch in 1 hour 4 minutes 20⅗ seconds, beating Samuel Morrison by a fifth of a second with Chris. Kind third.
- H. B. Ruggles of Brooklyn has abandoned tubing and the diamond frame for a hot-riveted channel steel loop frame with running boards instead of pedals, a friction clutch and chain drive, a vertical 5 horsepower motor and a 3-gallon tank; his newest model carries two on a triangular dropped frame.
- W. Browning of Grand Junction won the annual Glenwood Springs handicap road race in Colorado on the 5th off 11 minutes over a course shortened to 19 miles by mud; Fred Bueffher of Leadville took first time prize from scratch in 52:22 while spectators watched from a Colorado Midland train.
- Races at the outlawed Union Lake Park track at Millville, N. J., on the night of the 4th went to Wince of Philadelphia in the two-mile handicap and the miss-and-out, with Dan Trotter second and J. H. Bennett third, and Fauber first in the unlimited pursuit.
- The Hendee Mfg. Co. of Springfield, Mass., is distributing collapsible waterproof-paper funnels that fold flat for a pocket or tool bag, for riders who find only immense automobile funnels at garages.
- The Experienced Motorcyclist recounts his first night ride as a novice, when he twice shut off and jammed on the brakes for a red lamp staring at him in the road that proved to be the tail light of a touring car.
- Warns riders to keep their fingers off spark plugs and high tension terminals with the engine running; the induction coil shock is harmless but its suddenness can unnerve some people for several minutes.
- Squib from the Irish Cyclist: a motorcyclist asked how he liked the country of a man laboriously pushing an underpowered machine up a steep rise, and got "I'm afraid the 'climb-it' wouldn't suit me" in low compression gasps.
- Charles Schlee of Newark overhauled Edward Rupprecht to win the eight-man unlimited professional pursuit at the postponed Vailsburg meet on the 5th in 10:48⅗; Floyd Krebs took the quarter-mile open in 0:28⅕, and Kluczek and Halligan were badly hurt in a fall in the five-mile handicap.
- Stanley T. Kellogg of Springfield, Mass., on an Indian, won the one-mile single cylinder motorcycle race opening Newport's Sachuset Beach carnival in 1:15⅗ before 3,000 spectators, after D. W. Riley of Providence was thrown attempting a flying mount.
- James Mangold won the three-mile motorcycle race at the Bennings track, Washington, D. C., on the 4th in runaway fashion on a 2¼ horsepower Indian in 5 minutes, with Cleve Campbell second of six starters.
- Harold Freeman, an English cyclist, has averaged better than 10,000 miles a year for eleven years, totalling 142,352 miles — his lowest year 10,107 in 1896 and his highest 15,229 in 1904.
- A girl cyclist tells how, on a Sunday run to the beach, her Harry poked a sleeping tom cat with his front wheel outside an ice cream saloon and the animal drove its claws clean through his thin Palmer racing tire, to the delight of a crowd and the fury of the German proprietor.
- Wordplay squib on a former cyclist's account of a Spanish tour: "Between Serravalle and Pistoja, we halted beside a stream and made tea, and rode into the latter at sunset."
- Dr. E. B. Turner, the British cycling physician, holds that seven is the earliest sensible age to learn, that the machine must be fitted to the child's leg length with a low gear and raised bars, and that excess of hill climbing is worse for a child than excess of speed or distance.
- Condemns speeding a motor bicycle engine on the stand until it "almost runs its head off", comparing it to a steamer's engines racing when the propeller lifts, and urges the shortest possible test.
- Judge John W. Berry of the Lynn Police Court filed the overspeeding case against Arthur M. Stanley after counsel Henry R. Mayo cited section 7 of the Massachusetts automobile law of 1906, under which information a driver gives to identify himself cannot be used against him in a criminal proceeding.
- Dr. H. L. Tevis of Alma, Cal., ordered an Indian tricar for the run from Los Gatos to his model ranch, then won a $10-to-50-cents wager from a doubting horse owner by carrying a passenger up the rough mile of hill from the county road in 3¾ minutes.
- From the Scottish Cyclist, via a Yorkshire daily: a cyclist and his wife riding from Leeds to York were separated by a sudden downpour a hundred yards apart, he sheltering in a shed while she rode on, and they did not meet again until York.