The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 23
Articles in this issue
- A. D. Meiselbach, who once built 1,000 bicycles a day, is again making bicycles on a four-acre tract at North Milwaukee, Wis., turning out 75 to 100 a day toward an estimated season's production of 15,000, with the White Flyer, Wisconsin Regular and Wisconsin Roadster as his leaders.
- The Broad Motorcycle Company will install machinery at the old Episcopal mission on Taylor street, Bay City, Mich., assembling parts already built at its old Detroit factory and employing about 25 men under George Breed.
- Chicago motorcycle racer Joseph DeSalvo has secured the agencies for Excelsior motorcycles and Excelsior bicycles and will open a store with a service department on West Jackson Boulevard while continuing to pilot an Excelsior in racing.
- John H. Kinney, formerly buyer for the Hearsey-Willis Company, will open a new jobbing house in Indianapolis in the near future.
- Arthur Davidson of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company predicts that 1912 motorcycle sales in the Middle West will equal all previous years combined, crediting the spring seat, commercial buyers such as telephone companies and R. F. D. carriers, and early dealer ordering at the Chicago show.
- Jenkins & Co., Indian and Excelsior agents at Des Moines, Ia., have begun a two-story brick combined showroom and garage of 8,500 square feet at Twelfth and Locust street, and are preparing to sell 500 motorcycles this year.
- The United States Tire Company has given formal notice that it will no longer sell tires at retail, posting signs in all 26 of its branches from New York to San Francisco, the new order effective immediately.
- E. O. Putzman has sold his Alameda, Cal., business to the Pacific Cycle & Arms Co., managed by I. J. Durand, and will open a motorcycle repair and supply depot at 1623 Market street, San Francisco, with A. W. Castner.
- Illustrated description of the Militaire Auto Company's $300 Cleveland-built two-wheeler, with underslung frame, artillery wood wheels, automobile-type steering wheel, bucket seat, multi-variable friction drive with reverse, and raisable idler wheels to prevent side-slip.
- G. H. Meiser has become general manager and a financially interested partner in the Black Hawk Motorcycle Company of Rock Island, Ill., supervising design and manufacture under president R. W. Gould.
- C. A. Price of Gainesville, Fla., has bought the University Cycle Company from C. W. Chesser and will consolidate both stocks at the East Main street store.
- Two 200,000-pound presses at the Harley-Davidson plant in Milwaukee, kept running day and night six nights a week, stamp the free wheel clutch parts the company says could not otherwise be made cheaply enough for the average buyer.
- E. M. Jackson leaves the Miami Cycle and Mfg. Co. to become sales manager for the Elyea-Austell Company of Atlanta, southern distributor for the Merkel, while Edward Buffum takes over Merkel distribution in an eastern center.
- The Motor Car Equipment Company of 55 Warren street, New York, has opened a 10,000-square-foot uptown branch at 238-240 West Fifty-sixth street near Broadway, with H. H. Seabrook as branch manager.
- Local F. A. M. commissioner L. J. Spingler has partnered with Sylvester A. Gosnay to open a store at 2003 Market street, Philadelphia, holding the exclusive Thor and Excelsior agency for southern and western Philadelphia.
- C. H. Lang expects to open a new Chicago store at 1704 Michigan avenue on March 1 and has raised his 1912 Harley-Davidson order from 1,000 to 1,200 machines after selling nearly 300 already.
- A daybreak fire gutted the main building of the Transue-Williams Company of Alliance, O., makers of bicycle and automobile forgings, causing $50,000 loss and throwing 350 men out of work; treasurer F. E. Russell says it will be rebuilt at once.
- Joseph Peterik of Manitowoc, county agent for the Harley-Davidson, has opened a branch at Two Rivers, Wis., under the name of the Western Supply Company with Walter Watzl in charge.
- U. S. Consul Jose de Olivares reports from Madras that 161 motorcycles worth $27,688 were imported in 1910-11, chiefly British makes such as Triumph, Rover and Humber, and that the city's 300 miles of macadam leave room for a cheaper American machine to compete at about $145.
- Ford Sanford of the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co., Middletown, O., replaced his Merkel's front wheel with a sleigh runner mounted on a regulation ball bearing hub, using a chain on the rear tire for traction.
- A. J. Musselman of Chicago has licensed the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira, N. Y., to produce knockout front hubs under Blodgett patent No. 710,241, and will proceed against all unauthorized users of the type.
- Editorial arguing that the proposed 2,000-mile motorcycle tour ending at the F. A. M. National Assembly is now practicable thanks to automobile route mapping and mechanical refinement, with a Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association committee weighing trade support.
- Editorial on the Buffalo case, where the Amateur Athletic Union barred its athletes from games entered by 31 suspended riders and the court refused an injunction, holding that a rider who registers under a governing body's rules is voluntarily bound by them.
- Editorial urging bicycle and motorcycle makers and dealers to create desire in the unconverted reader — an understanding of the uses and pleasures of the machine — before talking quality or price.
- Fixture calendar from February to September 1912, listing the Brooklyn, Quincy and Denver shows, armory flat-floor races at Buffalo and New York, Century Road Club and Atlas Bicycle Club runs, the Newark world's championships and the Stockholm Olympic 200-mile road race round Lake Malar.
- Toronto sidecar owners are riding all winter on packed snow; Bert Webb covered 56 miles on a 7-horsepower Indian, while Percy Barnes (Triumph), W. H. Dunn (Thor) and W. E. Amoss (Flanders) have also been out.
- The Sacramento Motorcycle Club's masked ball drew almost 100 couples, members dressed in "Yama Yama" suits of tan and green; W. F. Barber's stolen motorcycle led to the thief's arrest within 20 minutes and a three-year sentence.
- Former Capt. H. Matthew Gault of the Maryland Motorcycle Club, who designs monuments when not riding, won the contract to erect a Baltimore memorial to John E. Burbage, founder of the Knights of the Golden Eagle.
- Eight teams of the Traymore Motorcycle Club of Philadelphia are contesting a dart tournament, with Stohner and Hill unbeaten at 6-0 and Warker and Weidinger 10-2.
- Robert Bruce, manager of the A. A. A. Touring Bureau, traces the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails from the ox-team era into the modern motor routes and describes the four developing transcontinental routes — the "Trail to Sunset," the Central, the northern and the Southern.
- The new A. A. A. route map printed on the following pages will guide the committee routing the F. A. M.'s 2,000-mile tour; a larger edition will be sold at 25 cents from the Touring Bureau, 437 Fifth avenue, about April 1.
- A. L. Borgers of Madison, Wis., has bought the veteran Small & Stevens Company at 113 State street, adding it to the repair shop he has run at 1320 West Johnson street.
- Two-page A. A. A. Route & Map Service plate showing the rideable transcontinental routes, from Vancouver, Seattle and San Francisco east to Quebec, Montreal, Jacksonville and Laredo, with principal connecting roads.
- Toronto's annual motorcycle exposition opened February 21 at the Armory with a dozen makes — seven American, three British and two Canadian — shown by the Kipp brothers (Indian), Percy A. McBride (Excelsior), Walter Andrews (Pierce and Indian), Steve License (Harley-Davidson) and the T. Eaton Company.
- The Minneapolis automobile and motorcycle show opened in the auditorium after six weeks of decorating, with home products from the Minneapolis Motorcycle Company and St. Paul's Wagner Motorcycle Company drawing the crowd's attention.
- Mayor Baker opened Cleveland's tenth annual show in Central Armory before 10,000 spectators, with exhibits by L. J. Mueller (Indian), Casino Cycle & Supply (Thor, Excelsior, New Era), Lister Motorcycle Co. (Harley-Davidson, Merkel), Kumler Brothers (Reading Standard, Flanders) and Yale Cycle & Supply.
- Howard A. French & Co. (Indian), Randall Manufacturing (Reading-Standard and Pope), Chase Motor (Harley-Davidson), F. W. Sandruck and Little Joe Wiesenfeld took liberal space at the Fifth Regiment Armory show.
- W. H. Wolfe of Turner's Bicycle Store exhibited Harley-Davidson, Pierce and Emblem motorcycles at the State Armory, Binghamton, with B. E. Jewell showing an Excelsior and E. C. Campbell three Flanders machines.
- An English correspondent notes separate British records for 275, 350, 500 and 750 c.c. machines, says 70 per cent. of machines on the road are 500 c.c. or under, and urges the F. A. M. to institute similar classes.
- Two clubs — the Hercules Motorcycle Club of Chicago and the Newark Motorcycle Club — were added to the F. A. M. list in the week closing February 17, and 16 more repair shops brought the official total to 552.
- Southwestern District vice-president A. W. Green appointed G. Eugene Lain State commissioner for New Mexico and George P. Bartlett for Colorado, succeeding G. H. Toncray, whose Denver Motorcycle Club disbanded over local trade jealousies.
- F. A. M. competition committee chairman Dr. J. P. Thornley left New York on February 21 for two or three weeks' rest, delegating the office to cycling veteran Will R. ("Happy Days") Pitman.
- Provincial Secretary Hon. W. J. Hanna has introduced an Ontario bill forbidding motor vehicles to pass a stationary street car, which Toronto riders say would make riding within the city practically impossible.
- The Rockford Motorcycle Club was revived at an enthusiastic February 3 meeting with 20 charter signers, voted to affiliate with the F. A. M., and has a good half-mile dirt track available; Clarence Carrett and A. L. Johnson led the movement.
- Over 150 attended the San Francisco Motorcycle Club's February 7 social gathering, and members joined the Oakland Motorcycle Club's gathering ahead of its first annual banquet at the Key Route Inn on March 2.
- The Toronto Motorcycle Club, 190 strong but still meeting in lodge rooms, appointed a committee to find and furnish permanent quarters, and considered a resolution creating a life membership class.
- Before 7,500 fans at the new Los Angeles Stadium, Eddie Hasha cut 5 3/5 seconds off the five-mile record at 3:23 2/5 on his Indian, Joe Wolters rode three miles in 2:00 2/5 on an Excelsior and Al Ward took the ten-mile free-for-all in 6:53; Hasha blew a tire at 88 miles an hour and kept control.
- Referee Charles Fuller Gates overruled the Excelsior protest after F. S. Sibley of the White garage measured Hasha's eight-valve Indian at 60.16 cubic inches, within the 61-inch limit; timers' affidavits go to Dr. Thornley for official confirmation.
- London letter reporting that C. R. Collier will not visit the States before the June 28 and July 1 Tourist Trophy races, the A. C. U.'s One-Day Trial and its Six-Days Trial from Taunton, the Brooklands opening on March 23, revived Continental competition, and a move to reform the Federation Internationale des Clubs Motorcyclists.
- Powhatan B. Robinson, president of the New York Sporting Goods Company, has written every jobber in the country urging support for an American Olympic bicycle team and pledged $20; the Irish American Athletic Club has applied to run the elimination race and a volunteer fund committee was named.
- Running list of pledges headed by Frank B. Mihlon of the Newark Velodrome at $100 and the St. Louis Cycling Club at $60, with $25 each from The Standard Co. of Torrington, Pope travelling salesmen and J. W. Grady & Co. of Worcester.
- The Century Road Club of America's annual re-union dinner is set for March 23, and its season runs from an informal century on April 7 through a 50-mile handicap race, moonlight and double century runs and a hill climb to a hare and hounds chase on November 17.
- Chairman Victor Lind reports a bicycle and several other prizes received for the Atlas Bicycle Club's 15-mile handicap road race on May 5; entries go to race committee chairman Charles Hausenbauer, 162 Jefferson avenue, Brooklyn.
- Justice Marcus at Buffalo denied the 31 suspended amateurs an injunction against the National Cycling Association, and the 74th Infantry A. A. cancelled its cycling program after A. A. U. commissioner Edward Reinecke warned athletes off; the riders will appeal to the N. C. A. board.
- Twenty-one subscribers contributed $62 toward the Little Rhody Cycle Club's $80 set of roller trainers at Providence, first used for a one-mile match between Olympic aspirants Alvin Loftes and Henry E. Johnson that ended in a tie at 1:23.
- Australian mail describes the first Antipodean six-day race at the Sydney Cricket Grounds, won by Alfred Goullet and Paddy O'Sullivan Hehir at 2,086 miles 1,680 yards before 55,000 spectators, with Worth L. Mitten's letter on rain storms, heat and ice-cold cabbage leaves.
- Goullet and Hehir will start the journey home immediately after the Melbourne six-day race in order to reach the Newark Velodrome opening on April 7, possibly bringing Australian champion Grenda with them.
- The Iver Johnson Wheelmen of New York rode to Pelham Parkway on February 18 for the season's first club run, joined by visiting Acme Wheelmen for some impromptu brushes.
- Eddie Goodwin, I. A. A. C., beat J. Townsend of the Dominican Lyceum by ten yards in the final of the four-man invitation mile pursuit at the Pastime Athletic Club games in the 68th Regiment Armory on February 21.
- Jos. Scheider won the five-mile "derby" at the 74th Infantry Athletic Association games in Buffalo in 12:31, a flat-floor record, from Tony Burke, E. Arenz and Al Krushel.
- The Atlas Bicycle Club of Brooklyn will hold its first annual theater party on March 1 at the Orpheum Theater, with supper afterward at the Brooklyn Hof-Brau.
- The Crescent B. C. plans a 12-mile handicap road race over the Shell road loop on May 5, a half-century run on June 2 and a series of ten closed "cork" races from a quarter-mile to 100 miles; the club opened its season with three races on the Park Heights avenue course.
- Eddie Goodwin won the five-mile open under Knights of St. Anthony auspices in the 47th Regiment Armory, Brooklyn, by more than a third of a lap after spills on the glassy floor cut the field of nine to four; H. J. Murphy was second and Nat Gutoff third.