The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 5
Articles in this issue
- A. P. Morrow has resigned as superintendent of the Eclipse Machine Co. of Elmira, N. Y., makers of the coaster brake bearing his name, and has invested in the Reliance Motorcycle Company, which moves from Addison to a larger Elmira factory; his son J. E. Morrow becomes acting superintendent at Eclipse.
- The Cycle Manufacturers Association meets at Buffalo on Tuesday, May 2d, when the joint committee of the C. M. A. and the Cycle Parts and Accessories Association will report on its publicity fund and on the equipment of agency versus jobbing models.
- R. H. Welles, treasurer of the Badger Brass Mfg. Co. of Kenosha, Wis., has leased large quarters in the David Williams building on Eleventh avenue near Thirty-seventh street, New York, for the eastern Solar lamp plant.
- Neff H. Rode, fourteen years in the retail cycle business at Reading, Pa., calls this his best spring in years, having sold 14 bicycles on one Saturday and more women's machines than in all of last season.
- The Foyer Mfg. Co. of Sturgis, Mich., has been incorporated with $150,000 authorized capital, of which $100,000 is subscribed, to manufacture bicycles and go-carts.
- Ten days after the earthquake and fire, J. W. Leavitt & Co. wire that they are "completely destroyed" but want a carload of bicycles consigned, while the Persons Mfg. Co.'s coast agents Bryte, Coates & Campbell have reopened in Oakland and ordered fresh saddles and catalogues by express.
- Following its Cincinnati Cleaning Department bid, the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co., through its Castle Bicycle Company representative, has taken the contract to equip the Atlanta (Ga.) police squad with forty-five $50 Racycles, with a prospective order for six more.
- Frank B. Widmayer is canvassing Greater New York retailers for a dealers' association covering a uniform repair schedule, uniform closing hours and mutual protection.
- Trade changes at Reading, Pa. (Robert DeHart to 941 Penn street), Duluth, Minn. (F. M. Smith succeeded by Smith & Campbell), Waterville, Me. (J. M. Blanchard at 151 Main street) and Dexter, Me. (Warren & Haseltine).
- Describes a home-made hardwood testing rack — a 29-inch bar carrying sheet-iron plates and a sliding scale made from an old ruler — with which a rider can check his front forks for truth and spring them back into line without a repair shop.
- The British Palmer Tire Co.'s "air tube protector" applies the old tire-bandage idea to the inner tube instead of the shoe, covering about 12 inches and letting a cut casing be ridden 200 to 300 miles before permanent repair.
- Dealer Weber of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, builds trade with circulars headed "A few reasons why you should ride a bicycle" and "The Outside and Inside," plus a poster on quality and cost closing with his maxim never to misrepresent goods.
- Weighs how the disaster will strike the cycle trade: bicycles may be cut as a luxury while the city rebuilds, or become a necessity if the crippled street car lines stay down and artisans of moderate income pour in.
- Warns that the jobbing crocks and mail-order houses are eyeing motorcycles for nameplate trade, and urges the Cycle Manufacturers' Association to head off jobbing motorcycles before they appear.
- Backs a New York retailer's call for a dealers' association to settle repair schedules and store hours, and suggests dealers combine to placard dead walls and suburban fences with the stencilled "Bicycles" signs that arrive on every crate.
- Dr. Kenneth C. Park's recovery of his stolen wheel from business-college student J. Goldwin Richards exposed two San Jose, Cal., dealers who bought machines from street urchins at 50 cents to $2 on bills of sale signed with fictitious names.
- With no American entries in the cycle races at Athens, W. J. Pitt of the Putney C. C. won the 20-kilometer race in 29 minutes and Verri of Italy took the five-kilometer, H. Crowther of England second.
- The dilapidated Vailsburg board track opens Sunday, April 28th, under Charles B. Bliemecke with sanctions issued in the name of the Bay View Wheelmen of Newark; the card is a quarter-mile novice, one mile open and five mile handicap for amateurs plus two professional events.
- Calendar of coming meets from the Vailsburg opening on April 29 through Decoration Day races at Detroit, Chicago, Spokane, Salt Lake City and Atlantic City to the Century Road Club and Roy Wheelmen fixtures at Valley Stream, L. I., in July.
- Sixty entrants — about double last year's — started the New York Motorcycle Club's century run on Sunday, 22nd inst., and 38 completed the 116 miles from Bedford Rest, Brooklyn, to Patchogue and return within the six-to-eight-hour limits.
- Thin entries collapsed the Atlantic-Pablo, Fla., beach carnival: J. D. Hannon rode a Racycle alone in the one mile "State championship," J. P. Covert beat Barber and Altjen on an Indian tricar, and C. T. Anderson of Jacksonville won both heats on a home-built 3 horsepower machine.
- Second Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Adee sailed from New York with his favorite steed and, landing at Cherbourg, will tour about 2,400 miles in France and Germany, part of the way with Consul and Mrs. Trackera of Berlin.
- The local manager of the Postal Telegraph Company reports engaging several motor bicyclists to deliver messages in San Francisco while all car lines were at a standstill and every goods vehicle was pressed into service.
- Motorcyclist C. C. de Finney proposes to cover 100 miles a day for 365 days — 36,500 miles — to beat the longest road record accomplished on any vehicle.
- Aubrey Goodrich, off six minutes, won the 15-mile handicap road race at Brockton, Mass., in 42:43, one second ahead of Merton Sawtell with Leslie Lewis of Worcester third; Bussey took the time prize from scratch in 41:14.
- The Stroud, Century and Atlantic Wheelmen have set the revived 60-mile Camden-Atlantic City run for Sunday, May 6, starting from City Hall, Haddon avenue, over the White Horse pike and Absecon-Pleasantville boulevard; entries close with W. R. Stroud on May 3.
- Buffalo's armory season closed at the 74th Regiment games, Fred Schudt beating Edward Delling by half a wheel in the two mile lap final, J. B. Devine taking the one mile handicap from 70 yards and James Dick the half mile consolation.
- Watson J. Kluczek of East Orange, N. J., took the Roy Wheelmen's 1906 championship over five miles at Valley Stream, L. I., beating George Gunzer by three inches in 15:48 2/5 after five heats, with Charles Nerent third.
- The newly formed Northeast Wheelmen's Racing Association held its first meet at Kensington Driving Park, Frankford, Philadelphia, J. Farber winning the one mile handicap and Michael Logue the five mile; the Stroud Wheelmen took the inter-club pursuit in 26:13.
- An old motorist argues that fully 90 per cent of his troubles traced to ignition rather than the carburetter — a persistent miss he blamed on the carburetter proved to be oil splashing onto a plug seated in a pocket of the cylinder.
- The New York Motorcycle Club's May 30th contest on Fort George Hill sets a 135-pound rider-or-ballast limit, two classes (catalogued touring machines with mufflers up to three horsepower, and a five horsepower free-for-all) and a members' slow climb; A. J. Bendix handles entries.
- Shellac dries almost instantly and is water-proof, oil-proof and a non-conductor, so it will seal a leaky gasolene connection run over adhesive tape, protect the ignition system, or close a leak in a carburetter float once dried.
- Municipalities along the course have sanctioned the Decoration Day road race on condition that the Bay Wheelmen police it; the start is from the Hilton woods at 10:30 a. m., with a motorcycle heading the prize list and an upright piano for fastest time.
- Argues that catalogues and circulars pay even though most end in the waste basket, since the merest glance stamps the idea on the reader; the harder task is preparing print whose argument is followed almost unwittingly to the desired end.
- Winnipeg's municipal cycle-path commission will this year locate missing machines only for owners who have already bought a licence tag, and reports tag money running much greater than ever before.
- Superintendent Israel Denio reports Rome, N. Y., paths in poor condition from frost and from drivers preferring them to the highways; about $700 of last year's funds plus new tag receipts should cover repairs.
- Louis J. Weintz of the New York A. C. took the Military Athletic League's one and two mile championships at Madison Square Garden, beating Charles Nerent of the 71st Regiment in 3:04 4/5 and Adams of the Twenty-second in 6:51 4/5.
- J. T. Halligan of the Century Road Club of America's New Jersey division won the 22-mile race home from Hicksville to Valley Stream, L. I., in 1 hour 5 minutes; B. Hill finished second but was protested for taking pace from a motorcycle.
- Joseph M. Eifler of the Century Road Club Association won the seven mile handicap from Freeport to Valley Stream from scratch in 19 minutes, his brother F. W. Eifler also from scratch second by two-fifths of a second.
- France's sixteenth annual Bordeaux-Paris road race will be run on the 12th and 13th of next month, with a $500 first prize and ten cash prizes ranging down to $20.
- Quotes the League of Victoria Wheelmen's Official Gazette on the decline of Antipodean racing after promoters cut meet purses and appearance money, and its argument that the rich handicap prize has outlived its usefulness and money should be more equitably distributed.
- A Jacksonville, Florida, resident writes to his home paper complaining that neighbours clean and test their motorcycles in their back yards on Sunday afternoons, and asks that they take them out to the woods near Panama or Phoenix Park.
- E. Moody Boynton, of Long Island bicycle-railway fiasco fame, was again defeated before the Massachusetts legislature's committee on railroads and street railways, this time seeking a charter for a monorail road from Boston to Fall River.
- Fresno, Cal., highway authorities have declared crude oil a partial failure and a Chamber of Commerce committee is investigating macadam as a substitute, with a $300,000 bond issue proposed to cover the change.
- A Nashville city council ordinance would cut the limit to ten miles an hour and require every motor vehicle and bicycle to carry a cyclometer or device showing speed for a police officer to examine, with fines of $5 to $50.
- H. M. Dayton and Charles Flemming, both of Colo, Iowa, are among the rural delivery carriers now covering their routes on power-driven bicycles.
- Workmen are already banking the track at Washington Park, N. J., for what is said will be the largest set of bicycle races and athletic games yet held there, on Decoration Day.
- The Long Island Vanderbilt cup circuit is entirely innocent of oil seven months after two crude-oil applications; an English county surveyor's report puts tar macadam at $600 for 800 square yards against $510 for 12,200 yards of tar-and-oil composition.
- Signed "O. P. O.", a discussion of clamping the motor into the existing pedal-bicycle frame versus building it in as a frame member, weighing rigidity, centre of gravity, cooling, lubrication, accessibility and vibration for horizontal, inclined and vertical types.
- Pittsburg's Superintendent of Police, Thomas McQuaide, is the latest to announce that he will introduce motorcycles in the department for catching violators of the automobile speed laws.
- Weekly patent list covering Louis Combet's power-transmitting mechanism for bicycles, carburetters by Coleman B. Harris, Alphonso S. Comstock, Charles Stute and Gustav Tresenreuter of Berlin, and Bert W. Hallsted's spark plug.