The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 23
Articles in this issue
- The Eclipse Machine Co. of Elmira, N. Y., filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York against the Buffalo Metal Goods Co., charging that its Atherton coaster brake infringes the Morrow coaster brake patents, and asking an accounting and damages.
- Motorcycle makers will get no space at the Madison Square Garden automobile show in January, but the December 1-8 show at the Grand Central Palace and the Chicago Automobile Show of February, 1907, will both be open to them.
- The Wilmot Motor & Cycle Mfg. Co. was incorporated at Camden, N. J., with $125,000 capital to make motorcycles, bicycles and automobiles; the corporators are C. M. Cushman, W. Davis, A. S. Flowers, M. M. Garrison and R. K. Dix.
- The Badger Brass Mfg. Co. of Kenosha, Wis., makers of the Solar lamps, incorporated its eastern factory in New York City at $1,000 capital, with G. A. Yule, R. H. Welles and L. J. Keck as first-year directors.
- G. W. Schulte of Scranton, Pa., bought the Kingston Garage and Motor Car Co. of Wilkesbarre from S. R. Snyder and J. H. Brandt, keeping on the bicycle department and installing S. D. Bishop as resident manager.
- The creditors' committee of the Consolidated Mfg. Co., Toledo - W. H. Crosby, H. S. White, E. J. Lobdell and Tracey Carr - endorsed manager W. F. McGuire's plan to dismiss the bankruptcy proceedings and run the plant another twelve months on about $115,000 of new receiver's certificates.
- British cycle imports for July fell to 215 complete machines worth $7,125 plus $59,990 of parts, while exports set a record at 7,520 machines against 3,317 in July, 1905, lifting the seven-month total to $3,372,495.
- The Pope plants at Hartford shut down on the 17th and the whole force, from officers to apprentice boys, went by automobile to Savin Rock, just east of New Haven, for the company's customary day's outing.
- Creditors of John W. Maltby, the Little Falls, N. Y., bicycle and sporting goods dealer who failed some time ago, will receive a dividend of 24 per cent, declared at a final meeting before Referee Comstock.
- Argues that a motorcycle muffler does far more than silence the exhaust: by cooling and expanding the gases it sets up a suction behind them that scavenges the cylinder, and names ample expansion room, few sharp bends and cooling surface as the conditions of efficiency.
- Joseph Fogler of Brooklyn, part winner of last year's six day race, returned from a season at Salt Lake City and talked of the typhoid risk, of Walter Bardget's form, and of the chance that P. T. Powers, C. B. Bloemke and Floyd McFarland will come to terms over New York racing.
- The Edgecombe Wheelmen of New York City hold the first of their championship races at Valley Stream, L. I., on September 2, with Otto C. Brandes the lone rider on scratch; the Roy Wheelmen's 15-mile handicap has been moved forward a week to the same day.
- Warns that a man calling himself Kennett is working the New England States posing as the Bicycling World's authorized representative, offering renewals dated to January 1, 1907, and taking payment in his own name; he was last heard of at Westboro, Mass.
- Takes the story that the first two articles ever made of aluminum were a medal for a king and a rattle for his son as a text for bicycle club officials: novelty is what pleases members and keeps a club together.
- Contends that cycle racing still draws if promoted on P. T. Barnum's principles - Vailsburg's coloured circus bill-posters produced its largest crowd of the season, and Salt Lake City has averaged thousand-dollar gates twice a week by advertising stars rather than races.
- Practical remedies for motorcycle troubles: capping a short exhaust valve tappet with sheet steel to close up excess clearance, freeing a corroded accumulator terminal by holding hot iron against it, avoiding "twiddling" the contact blade, and grinding a flooding carburetter's float needle valve with crocus powder.
- A quoted sketch of a leather-suited, leather-veiled motorcyclist who streaked past the writer on a free-wheel jaunt between Newbridge and Kildare, his motor setting forth fumes "such as Dante must have sampled."
- Calendar of meets from September 3 to 30, 1906, including the Muskegon and Denver Motorcycle Clubs' races, the Century Road Club Association's 100-mile road race at Chicago, the Chicago Motorcycle Club's 292-mile endurance contest, and the Roy Wheelmen's Inter-State Derby at Valley Stream.
- Coloured posters featuring a single race brought about 4,000 people to the Vailsburg board track on the 25th; the intended King-Nelson 15-mile motorpaced match was abandoned on a wet track, Frank Lane of the Edgecombe Wheelmen took the half-mile novice, and John Bedell beat Rupprecht and Schlee in the two-mile lap race.
- The Prospect Park Cork Pullers rode their weekly 11-mile "cork puling" race on the 26th from the Fort Hamilton road to Bath Beach, the Coney Island cycle path and the creek bridge; Fisher won by a foot from Weintz and Lind, leaving Franklyn Fisher leading the standings on seven weeks.
- The Ohio Valley Trades & Labor Assembly will run several bicycle and motorcycle events, including a one-mile open, at the State fair grounds at Wheeling, W. Va., in connection with its Labor Day outing.
- Paced by Gus Lawson at the Parc des Princes in Paris on the 19th, Robert J. Walthour set new world's records for 60, 70 and 80 kilometres, covering 80 kilometres in 57:51 1/5 and beating Bruni, Dussot and Tommy Hall in the hour event.
- About thirty-five Los Angeles Motorcycle Club members raced on the tide-washed strand at Long Beach, Cal., on August 20; Kettle, Risden and Phillips took the honours, and Fred Bruner and Dick Galloway were hurled into the air in a head-on collision while practising.
- The Navarre Team, of 325 West Thirty-ninth street, New York City, reorganized and elected George Henn president, Fred Smith secretary, Ed. Meyer treasurer, John Ferari captain, Dan Simmons chairman and Wallie Baird pacemaker.
- The western division of the Century Road Association will hold its annual 100-mile handicap road race over the Chicago-Libertyville-Waukegan course on Labor Day, with out-of-town riders coming to take the measure of "Farmer" Blum.
- At Salt Lake City on August 28 National champion Frank L. Kramer beat Iver Lawson by a clean length over two miles before 4,000 spectators, W. E. Samuelson cutting out the pace; it was the first of a three-race series arranged after Lawson's reinstatement.
- Elmer J. Collins of Lynn, Mass., won the three-cornered hour paced race at the Revere Beach saucer on August 25 with 39 miles 6 laps, beating Hugh MacLean of Chelsea (38 miles 7 laps) and John Bedell of Newark (33 miles 3 laps); Tom Connolly of Everett took the ten-mile open curtain raiser.
- Five European meets drew over 100,000 people on Sunday, August 19: 25,000 at the Velodrome Parc des Princes for Walthour, 10,000 at Cologne where Gunther beat Darragon, more than 40,000 at Copenhagen for Ellegaard's win over Poulain and Rutt, and 25,000 for the Grand Prix de Berlin at Stehlitz.
- M. Berard, French Under-Secretary of State for Posts and Telegraphs, allotted $4,375 to mount and fit out thirty postmen with bicycles for rapid delivery of "pneumatic dispatched" letters in the Paris district, with a further $1,800 for ordinary postal work.
- L. J. Mueller and George N. Holden, riding from San Francisco to New York, reached Ogden, Utah, 845 miles out, on August 18, three days eight hours ahead of George A. Wyman's 1903 motorcycle record; cloudbursts and foot-deep mud held Mueller to 20 miles at Peterson and 26 to Echo.
- Offers a non-smelling washable varnish to replace aluminum paint - gum arabic dissolved in hot water with borax at about an ounce to the pound of gum, thinned to working consistency, with a few drops of oil of verbena for scent.
- A joke told at a New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club séance: since Passaic River water smells stronger than gasolene, a quart of it would drive a motorcycle further than all the gasolene the Standard Oil Company can make in a year.
- A young Briton riding with his father took a spill, landed on soft ground, and found his outstretched hand closed on a lady's diamond ring buried in the dust by the roadside.
- The Technical Committee of the Automobile Club of Great Britain defines an efficient silencer as one that renders the exhaust inaudible at 10 yards from the side of a car on an open road under ordinary running conditions and is practically gas-tight except at the proper outlets.
- Warns riders against testing cylinder head temperature with the bare hand: the average motor runs uncomfortably hot and will burn even after a short run, whatever cool-running stories other motorcyclists tell.
- A collodion substitute for use where fluid plaster cannot be had: equal parts of camphor and absolute alcohol by weight with gun-cotton at one part in forty, which dries over a cut or bruise as a tough artificial skin.
- Recalls that not many years ago the balls used in cycle bearings were each turned from solid bar stock on an ordinary lathe, 250 balls being reckoned a good average week's work for a man.
- Signed "The Missouri Kicker," an account of how a club organized on April 14 by E. N. Sanders of Jordan & Sanders and five wheelmen flooded the St. Louis dailies with items until the papers ran half-page touring stories, reviving a sport dormant for five years on dues of only $1.50 a year.
- A rider who mistook moonlight for the sidepath and landed in a three-foot ditch snapped off his bent handle bar, then hammered the kinked tube round and drove in a whittled fence-rail plug swelled with water to make a serviceable grip home.
- Drawing on the G & J Tire Co.'s monograph "Proper Tire Coistruction," traces the tire section from the "U" shape through the round tread to the 1906 oval raised tread, arguing the casing must be built in the shape it will assume under load so all fabric plies carry equal tension.
- Explains that safety gearing is rated by comparison with the ordinary's driving wheel, derives Gear = dT/t from the circumference relations, and works the example of a 28-inch wheel with 25 teeth on the front sprocket and 8 on the rear, giving 87.5, commonly called 88.
- Argues that America has neglected cycle camping while English camping clubs thrive on week-end runs and annual encampments; the Association of Cycle Campers recommends a 30 to 35 pound double kit, and a single outfit has been got down to 19 pounds 12 ounces.
- Attacks the "annual meet" Mr. Marsh will hold at Woonsocket, R. I., on September 2 under his "National Association of Motorcyclists," noting that Marsh was himself expelled from the F. A. M. and that his association has had four presidents, three secretaries and two treasurers in under a year.