The Bicycling World, Vol 54, No 21
Articles in this issue
- Harry Walburg, formerly treasurer of the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co. and long identified with the Racycle, has become sales manager of the Reading Standard Cycle Mfg. Co., moving from Ohio to Pennsylvania and subscribing for a block of stock in the Reading Standard corporation now being formed.
- The United States Treasury Department rules that the New Departure Manufacturing Company, of Bristol, Conn., may claim a drawback of duty on imported Lucas lubricators fitted to exported coaster brakes, and sets out the marks, numbers and sworn statements the drawback entry must show.
- What was left of the Liberty Bell Co., Bristol, Conn., after the New Departure Mfg. Co. acquired its business has passed to a trustee, debts of $40,000 overshadowing $36,000 of assets; an offer of 80 per cent is expected to be made to creditors.
- The Dean-Rullman Co., of Towson, Md., is incorporated with $1,000 capital by George R. Dean, Elmer E. Rullman, William J. Newman, August H. Rullman and Stanley Rullman to handle bicycles, graphophones and general merchandise.
- The Thomas Auto-Bi Co., of Buffalo, took out its papers this week as a New York corporation with $30,000 authorized capital, C. E. Becker, W. C. Chadeayne and J. W. Van Allen being named as corporators.
- P. R. Robinson of the New York Sporting Goods Co. reports bicycle department sales some $30,000 ahead of the previous year and a big January gain, while Andrew Wilson of the Wilson Trading Co. wants dealers helped to organize noisy bicycle parades with horns and banners to rouse public interest.
- T. C. Bradford, of Wilmington, Del., markets a convertible Child and Luggage Carrier: a light framework mounted on the head of the machine and stayed from the front axle and fork crown, adjustable for 26- or 28-inch wheels and fitted with a pair of foot rests when carrying a child.
- Warns that attempts to fix cyclometers with ordinary repair shop or jeweler's tools generally ruin the instruments, and urges returning them to the manufacturer instead.
- Stephen R. Kale, of Dunkirk, N. Y., has filed a petition in bankruptcy with liabilities of $3,081.02 against assets of $1,707.37; Harry Mintz, of 154 Passaic street, Passaic, N. J., suffers a fire loss of $300.
- The Splitdorf Laboratory, New York, places two motorcycle coils on the market: a 9 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch five-terminal coil for twin cylinders worked by a single contact spring and two-nose cam, and a 5 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch four-terminal coil for high-compression single-cylinder motors.
- Argues that the motorcycle tool bag is long overdue a lock and key, since such receptacles frequently hold many dollars' worth of tools that men will “borrow” without permission.
- G. W. Sherman contrasts dealers' old scepticism with their eagerness at the Chicago Automobile Show, citing John Hurck of St. Louis — who once said the “boats” would never run and now wants 50 machines at once — along with Louis Flescher of Omaha, Fred Williams of Denver, Ira Whipple and Fred Probst of Terre Haute.
- A rider explains how to salvage a worn built-up leather belt by cutting away the rivets, separating the good strips from the badly worn under section, cleaning them in gasolene, dressing them with colon oil and riveting in a new straight-grained chrome tanned strip, working from the middle outward.
- Argues that slack trade is the richest time in a dealer's year for installing new systems, replacing cumbersome shelving, overhauling accounts and preparing advertising and stationery, since the idle press turns out work at less cost and an even year-round workload lowers running expenses.
- Editorial likening the bicycle dealer's and repairman's annual overhaul of shop and store to household spring cleaning, and urging it be done now — while trade is dull and six weeks before the overhauling rush leaves no time for special attention to any job.
- Describes Gottlieb Daimler's machine of about 1886 — a vertical motor between two 28-inch wooden wheels on a 40-inch base, tiller steered, belt driven with an idler pulley “J” that also worked a rear brake, a surface “bubbler” carburetter and hot tube ignition — and how much of its layout survives in 1907 types.
- Urges motorcyclists to carry a pocket ammeter rather than borrow one, noting that a battery falling below 4 or 5 amperes produces erratic sparking that mimics other faults, and that instruments such as the Eldredge cost as little as $3.50.
- Chairman Kelsey of the Board of Control circulates the clubs asking whether the National Cycling Association should assume control of road racing, to be settled at the annual meeting postponed to February 28th; the same meeting is expected to turn a batch of so-called “simon pure” amateurs professional.
- Century Road Club of America election results: A. G. Armstrong president, F. H. Watrous first vice-president, Wm. J. Hampshire of San Jose second vice-president, Fred E. Mommer secretary and Harry Early treasurer, with Harold E. Grupe centurion for New York.
- Robert J. Walthour, of Atlanta, Ga., has sailed for Europe without a contract, relying on continental track managers for match races; he goes to Paris first and then to Dresden if he can get a race for March 31st.
- After a Philadelphia conference between F. A. M. president R. G. Betts, State Representative Dr. S. D. Bashore and George H. Lokes, former L. A. W. chief consul Attorney Samuel A. Boyle is engaged to fight the onerous automobile bill now before the Committee on Municipal Corporations.
- At the 74th Regiment Armory, Buffalo, on the 9th inst., W. W. Whitelock took the one mile open in 2:18 from Fred Schudt and J. N. Tanner, and Ed Delling won the two mile handicap from scratch in 4:41.
- A Massachusetts bill requiring bicycles, carriages and all other vehicles, in common with motorcycles and motor cars, to carry lamps and display lights after nightfall drew no opposition at its public hearing this week.
- Floyd McFarland beat Vanoni and Cornet over 30 kilometres behind human tandem pace at the Velodrome D'Hiver, Paris, in 36:26 4-5 — his first win since going abroad; John Bedell was shut out by Deschamps in his heat of the “Prix E. Bald,” and Poulain beat the retiring Jacquelin in two straight heats.
- Lists by state the nominations made for the L. A. W. National Assembly, from Rhode Island's John H. Barrett, Fred. A. Bliss, Robert A. Kendall and Brooks Sanderson through to Foreign, A. T. Lane, of Montreal.
- Boston's six-day race is put back a week to February 25th–March 2nd and enlarged to ten hours' riding a day on a new five-lap track in the Park Square skating rink; Hugh MacLean has signed Joe Fogler, E. F. Root, Walter Bardgett, Floyd Krebs and Charles Schlee.
- George E. Holt reaches Tangiers to find bicycles almost unknown there, itemises the roughly $10 of steamer, crating, drayage and rail charges needed to get a wheel from London by way of Gibraltar, and reports the bandit Raisuli's followers in the hills have closed the city to travel.
- G. W. Patterson motorcycles from San Juan to Ponce by way of Arecibo, Utuado and Adjuntas — 84 kilometres by rail and road instead of 130 over the old military road — crossing the Rio Grande de Arecibo by boat, log and wading, and climbing 12 per cent grades to a 3,000-foot summit.
- The Federation of American Motorcyclists' 1906 gold touring medal goes to F. W. Horenburger, of New York, who rode in 23 counties in six states, and the mileage medal to M. E. Toepel, also of New York, with 3,069 1/2 miles.
- B. A. Chambeau advises changing the window weekly, keeping a date book and rotating displays, and gives recipes for a chalk, white bole and jeweler's rouge polishing paste, a slacked lime and skimmed milk waterproofing for card board signs, shellac and borax waterproof ink, and a mastic and litharge cement for refixing metal letters.
- Recommends cementing a strip of heavy felt, wide enough to project beyond the tread, in the centre between the outer case and the inner tube.
- H. J. Wehman, secretary of the Federation of American Motorcyclists, marks the fourth anniversary of an appendicitis operation so desperate he was put under ether twenty-two times, and credits bicycle riding with giving him the heart and lungs that pulled him through.
- A New Jersey rider who passed a runabout doing perhaps 15 miles an hour was thrown when his wheel side-slipped in a mudhole the car had hidden from him, landing almost in front of the automobile; the driver stopped so sharply that he went over the dash.
- Thorwald Ellegaard, four times world sprint champion and the present title holder, winters at his villa in a village near Copenhagen on a routine of walks, massage and gymnasium work, and begins training next month for the championship at the Parc des Princes.