The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The Cycle Parts and Accessories Association, the National Association of Cycle Jobbers and the Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association will all meet at the Hotel Astor, New York, on January 11, 1912, during automobile-show week, with committee meetings and a luncheon the day before.
- C. J. Butler, vice-president of the United States Tire Company, back from two months in England, Scotland, France and Germany, says European rubber makers have nothing on American factories but that their 1,800 miles of highway were a revelation and good roads are what America lacks.
- M. F. Jurick of Reading, Pa., with Paul K. Leinbach and Lewis Beon, is courting the Waynesboro (Pa.) board of trade to finance a motorcycle with an open frame suited to men or women, a free-engine device, two-speed gear and hand and foot starting.
- J. Ford Tichenor leaves C. B. Vaughan's Paterson, N. J., sporting goods and cycle business to take like charge at Iver Johnson's Arms and Cycle Works' New York headquarters, succeeding C. G. Moore.
- Backers believed to be connected with the Siro Carbureter Co. of Springfield, Mass., are negotiating with Adams, Mass., for a factory to build a $175 motorcycle using a Siro carbureter.
- F. J. Weschler, chairman of the Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association show committee, publishes the exhibitor space numbers and a floor diagram for the motorcycle section of the Chicago automobile show at the Coliseum and First Regiment Armory, February 3-10, 1912.
- The Hendee Mfg. Co. of Springfield, Mass., opens its third American branch at 138 Sixteenth Street, Denver, under W. E. Johnson, serving Colorado, western Kansas, southern Wyoming, New Mexico, Nebraska and Arizona.
- Robert Brazenor, formerly of Brazenor & Rudeman, takes the Harley-Davidson agency for Brooklyn, N. Y., and opens a large store at 1507 Bushwick Avenue carrying parts and accessories.
- The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. of Milwaukee establishes a distributing station at Danvers, Mass., under W. J. Walker, formerly of the Crouch Motor Co., taking New England out of the factory sales organization entirely.
- The Federal Rubber Mfg. Co. takes possession of the remodelled Cudahy, Wis., plant, claimed capacity 1,000,000 tires a year; officers are Byron C. Dowse, Herbert A. Githens and Richard Ward, mostly ex-G. & J. Tire Co. men.
- A long list of recent additions to the Harley-Davidson dealer roll, from the Arcade Cycle Exchange of Minneapolis and the Elmira Arms Co. to A. S. Hitchcock of Toledo.
- T. W. Henderson resigns from the Winton Car Company's Detroit branch on January 1 to become sales manager of the Henderson Motorcycle Company, Detroit.
- Alex. McClean of Toronto, local agent for Marvel motorcycles, adds the Haverford and will push both lines.
- New York City's Corporation Counsel is canvassing motorcycle dealers over an ordinance requiring second-hand dealers to post a $100 bond; Mark Eisner argues it applies only to regular traders, and H. A. Gliesman's summons on December 12 will be the test case.
- Leader urging the 100,000 expected spectators at the Madison Square Garden six-day race to send contributions to R. F. Kelsey for the $4,500 American Olympic Bicycle Race Fund, which must be raised by January to send twelve riders to the 200-mile Stockholm road race.
- Leader noting that only 19 of 342 machines counted at a recent meet carried speedometers, and arguing the instrument is a maintenance tool that tracks gasoline, oil, chain, belt and tire mileage and supports tire adjustment claims.
- Fixture calendar for December 1911 and January 1912, from the nineteenth annual six days' race at Madison Square Garden (December 11-16) and the Atlas Bicycle Club smoker through the New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Denver shows to March 4-11.
- Maine adopts the F. A. M. colors for its 1912 motorcycle plates, raised blue enamel on a yellow field, with 999 ordered; private owners' numbers start at A1 and dealers' at B1.
- Connecticut's new motor vehicle law raises motorcycle registration from $1 to $2 for 1912 and requires two state-supplied markers front and rear, prompting the paper to ask what the F. A. M. commissioners and local dealers were doing when it passed.
- Motorcycle clubs in Erie, Pa., Salina, Kan., and Louisville, Ky., unanimously adopt the Bicycling World and Motorcycle Review's anti-cut-out resolutions; Erie will fine a member $10 for a first offense and expel for a repetition.
- This head and the next are transposed in print: the note beneath reports Minnesota abolishing annual motorcycle registration from January 1 and extending the registration period to three years.
- Under this transposed head, the fourteen men of the Dayton (O.) motorcycle police squad discuss forming a benevolent society to aid any of their number disabled on duty.
- London letter on the second annual Olympia show: 3 1/2 horsepower singles and V-twins predominate, the chain drive and two-speed gear gain on the strength of the American Indian, the Bosch magneto is near universal, and the Wooler, Scott, Levis, Dallison and F. N. draw notice.
- History of six-day racing ahead of the nineteenth Madison Square Garden grind, from Waller's eighteen-hour ride at the London Aquarium and the first continuous race at Minneapolis won by Albert Shock, to Tom Eck's banked track and a table of Garden winners from "Plugger Bill" Martin in 1891 to Root and Moran in 1910.
- Biographical sketches of the teams entered for the 142-hour Madison Square Garden race, including Kramer and Moran, Clark and Fogler, Root and Hill, Georget and Brocco, Lorenz and Saldow, the Bedell brothers, and the late substitution of Ryan with Cavanagh after Jokus injured his foot.
- Tables compiled by the N. C. A. Board of Control of American professional and amateur records - motor-paced, unpaced, handicap and tandem - plus road records and lists of national and world sprint and paced champions.
- Eddie Goodwin of the Irish-American A. C. wins the three-mile bicycle final in 2:50 at the New York Evening Journal Christmas Fund meet in Madison Square Garden on December 5, lapping the field after William VanDen Dries took the first heat.
- Sol Lazarus of New York offers a gold medal for the best time before January 1 over the 22-mile run from the Courier Cycle Club, 1058 First Avenue, to the Hillside Avenue monument at Jamaica and back; the record is 1 hour 17 minutes by Vincent Falnotico.
- Word from Dresden that the American pace-follower Bobby Walthour, just back from a successful European season, has lost his second eldest daughter Nona, with his wife and youngest child Blanche in hospital.
- The Thanksgiving Day motorcycle races at Electric Park, Baltimore, were put off to the Saturday for rain and then called off indefinitely because the track was unfit.
- United States bicycle exports for September 1911 were valued at $90,620 against $58,098 for the same month of 1910.
- Appeal for the American Olympic Bicycle Race Fund, listing pledges from the New England Wheelmen, the Century Road Club divisions and others, the United Cyclists' January 10 dinner at the Hotel Earlington, and acceptances to the honorary committee from George M. Hendee, J. Lovell Johnson, Ludwig Nissen, A. G. Batchelder, John C. Wetmore and Governor Dix's office.
- The Pierce Cycle Company of Buffalo has contracted to ship 1,000 bicycles to Manishi Shokai of Yokohama within three months, with a like shipment expected to follow; the agent also sells Pierce motorcycles in Japan.
- The Tiger Cycles and Aeroplane Company store at 782 Eighth Avenue, New York, was broken into on December 3 and a new $50 Pierce bicycle taken by a boy of about twelve, who dropped it in the street; Gliesman recovered it at the police station next day.
- The newly organized Atlas Bicycle Club holds its first annual smoker at Stoetzer's Hotel, 1213 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, on December 16, with the baritone Thomas Gougle, the magician H. Newton and the club quartette.
- Correction to the United Cyclists' Thanksgiving Day race summary on Pelham Parkway: A. Morgan, unattached, off 1 minute 45 seconds, finished second rather than J. Townsend, his time for the 15 miles being 39:41 4/5.
- E. M. Estabrook's F. A. M. membership bulletin reports 235 new members in November led by California with 57, a stream of newly registered repair shops, twenty manufacturers packing F. A. M. literature in tool boxes and 27 bicycle jobbers giving half a page of their 1912 catalogs to the Federation.
- Toronto letter reporting Canadian motorcyclists' pleasure at F. A. M. concessions letting them run their own meets and endurance runs without paying for sanctions; J. Leo Sauer of the Legal Action Committee is to visit to settle records, districts and officers.
- The North Shore Motorcycling Club of Chicago plans a banquet smoker for 1,000 guests on February 10, the closing night of the Chicago motorcycle show, with 7,500 free tickets and seven vaudeville acts.
- Fifteen riders found the Visalia (Cal.) Motorcycle Club, electing E. H. Dorsey president, Albert Kitto vice-president, Victor Sharp secretary and A. B. Shippy treasurer.
- "Joe" Wolters on an Excelsior wins every professional event at the Elmhurst motordrome, Oakland, on November 26, clocking 3:25 2/5 for five miles and 6:54 for ten, both inside the recognized American records but not official.
- The San Antonio (Texas) Motorcycle Club's November 30 meet: O. Leoloff on a Thor takes first in every event he entered except the nine-mile free-for-all for the Hendee cup, won by H. B. Wickwire on a 7 Indian after a neck-and-neck ride.
- Chicago's Association of Commerce plans a $2,500,000 White Sox Exposition Building seating 35,000, to hold the largest indoor motorcycle track in the United States, opposite the White Sox ball park.
- At the Elmhurst Motordrome on December 3 the Excelsior riders sweep the professional events, Wolters taking the six-mile final in 4:09 2/5 and the ten-mile free-for-all after Armstrong threw a tire; F. A. M. president G. H. Hamilton watched and called the saucer one of the fastest in the country.
- Cold winds thinned the field at the Jacksonville (Fla.) Motorcycle Club's meet at Moncrief Park, where "Pinkie" Edgar won the ten-mile city championship in 12:40 plus two other firsts and Felton Rawlings so outclassed the professionals that the officials did not time him.
- Jake DeRosier, back in Los Angeles from England and the East, tells reporters that British business and professional men ride their motorcycles as well as their limousines; his leg, hurt in a spill at Guttenberg, N. J., keeps him off the track.
- Prompted by E. G. Baker, who lapped the brick Speedway at a mile in 40 seconds, the Indiana Motorcycle Club will put an international motorcycle race for July 4 to Carl G. Fisher of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Association.
- Louisville letter: the Louisville Motorcycle Club retakes and redecorates its old quarters at 444 Fourth Street; the Diamond Rubber branch, the Louisville Lighting Company and Armour & Co. put machines into delivery service; and fifteen riders are fined $9.01 each over a summer swimming party.
- The Metropolitan Motor Racing Association, newspaper men who ran meets at Guttenberg, N. J., joins the several promoters seeking backing and sites for a board motorcycle motordrome in New York City.
- Trade notes: the Fisk Rubber Co. is enlarging its Chicopee Falls plant, C. H. Lang of Chicago has contracted with Harley-Davidson for 1,000 machines for 1912, Austin W. Burges of Houston takes the South Texas Excelsior distributorship, and Percy Drummond joins Walter Goerke's new Newark Indian agency.
- The United States Tire Company markets a double tube clincher bicycle tire, shown in cross-section, that grips like a double clinch yet fits either single or double clinch rims.