The Bicycling World, Vol 64, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The Harley-Davidson Motor Co. of Milwaukee buys the Buchman Mfg. Co. properties between 37th and 39th streets and the adjoining Erdman Bros. factory, tripling its acreage and gaining sidetrack facilities, and raises its capital stock from $100,000 to $500,000; about $80,000 of new buildings are planned.
- The annual Denver Automobile Show will occupy the Denver Auditorium the week of March 4th, with space set aside for a comprehensive motorcycle display.
- At the Hendee Mfg. Co.'s annual meeting in Springfield, Mass., on October 25th, Hendee, Hedstrom, Gilbert, Carter and Thompson are re-elected directors and Frank J. Weschler clerk and treasurer; gross sales of $2,284,340.16 are up 55 per cent, 9,567 Indians were sold and net profits reached $406,000.
- Hans Renold, Ltd., of Manchester takes two Grand Prix for its Cycle and Motor Section display at the Turin International Exhibition and two more in the Engineering Section for power-transmission apparatus.
- After some 20 years in the courts the bottom bracket patent No. 392,937 issued to William E. Smith in November 1888 and owned by the Pope Mfg. Co. is declared invalid by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at Chicago, affirming a decree in favour of Arnold, Schwinn & Co.
- C. A. Lang, Harley-Davidson's Chicago dealer, contracts for 1,000 1912 models after visiting the factory; his sales have risen from three machines in 1905 to 693 in the 1911 season.
- Fred I. Willis resigns as secretary and treasurer of the National Association of Cycle Jobbers, citing his new interest in the Kokomo Rubber Co. and the Hersey-Willis Co. of Indianapolis; president P. R. Robinson asks him to hold off until the annual meeting on about January 11th.
- Business men of Bay City, Mich., offer the Breed Mfg. Co. of Detroit a free site through the Bay City Improvement Association if it will move its factory there.
- The Hendee company's 1912 Indian line cuts back to two motor sizes -- a four-horsepower single and seven-horsepower twin -- in seven models carrying some 30 new features, chief among them a foot starter, new Tourist Trophy models, Bosch magneto ignition as standard with the battery system abandoned, and prices from $200 to $325.
- Leader replying to a contemporary that called the open-muffler rider a "boob"; it cites 19 of 24 motorcycles passing a point on a Brooklyn residential street with cut-outs wide open one Sunday and repeats the paper's cry to cut out the cut-out.
- Leader urging every rider, dealer and manufacturer to subscribe toward the roughly $4,000 needed to send a United Cyclists bicycle team to the Stockholm Olympic games of July 1912, with R. F. Kelsey of the N. C. A. Board of Control likely to chair the committee.
- The Eclipse Machine Co. of Elmira, N. Y., reduces its 1912 free engine clutch pulley to three main parts, adds a chain-drive model, and fits larger disks with twice the friction surface and an oil reservoir good for at least 1,000 miles.
- F. J. Weschler, show committee chairman of the Motorcycle Manufacturers' Association, reports that balcony space for motorcycle makers in the Chicago Coliseum Annex has been increased to about 3,500 square feet for the show week of February 5th to 10th.
- R. A. Peavey resigns from the United States Tire Co. at St. Louis after 12 years with the Morgan & Wright branch, where he managed sales in southern Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.
- The Emblem Mfg. Co. of Angola, N. Y., lowers the head cluster an inch and the top bar 2 1/2 inches for 1912, holds the handlebars with three stems, lengthens the front forks, adds a spring-loaded integral tandem yoke, and cuts prices to $200, $215 and $250.
- The Consolidated Mfg. Co. of Toledo, O., adds Model 25, a five-horsepower twin of 2 3/4-inch bore by 3 43/64-inch stroke, to a four-model 1912 Yale line all fitted with free engine clutches, priced from $210 for the battery single to $285 for the seven-horsepower twin.
- C. L. Waters, manager of the Marvel Motorcycle Co., states that consolidation of the Marvel and Curtiss interests will not be completed for two or three weeks and that Marvel machines will be turned out as usual meanwhile.
- At the Guttenberg, N. J., meet on Sunday, October 29th, Jake DeRosier comes off the lower turn and strikes amateur champion Frank Hart, breaking Hart's leg near the ankle while DeRosier escapes with a sprained ankle; J. U. Constant takes two firsts and J. J. Cox the 10-mile handicap before over 4,000 spectators.
- From November 1st the Bosch Magneto Co.'s advertising and publicity department moves to the main office at 223-225 West 46th street, the 54th street office being discontinued, with A. H. Bartsch remaining in charge.
- At its meeting of November 1st the United Cyclists of New York appoint an Olympic Bicycle Race Committee of Kelsey, Dibblee, Stroud, Van Den Dries, Fisher and Gliesman and open a subscription list headed by B. A. Swenson of Providence with $10, toward a team for the 200-mile road race round Lake Malar at Stockholm.
- Fixture calendar from November 5th to March, taking in the San Antonio and Gulfport race meets, the Great Neck bicycle carnival, the C. R. C. A. handicap at Floral Park, the Olympia show in London on November 20-25, the Madison Square Garden six days on December 11-16 and the Denver show.
- Atwood B. Keyes, inventor of the K. & C. lock joint rim and for 13 years superintendent of the K. & C. Mfg. Co. of Henniker, N. H., dies at his home on October 14th after a long illness; born at Princeton, Mass., in 1850, he had also worked at the New Haven Wheel Works.
- Almost 40 riders start the Toronto Cycle Club's first endurance run on October 28th, a three-day 263-mile tour through Hamilton, Brantford, Woodstock, London and Stratford for a $350 Dunlop trophy, with a homing pigeon from Fred Hambly's club released to carry the news back to Toronto.
- The Toronto Motorcycle Club votes to apply to the Federation of American Motorcyclists for affiliation and to run its events under F. A. M. auspices until a Canadian governing body can be formed; membership now approaches 150.
- Nelson J. Hodgin of Indianapolis returns from a 1,200-mile trip through Indiana and Wisconsin with William Grepp and Fill Brown, visiting the Hendee, Excelsior and Harley-Davidson works and buying the first two-speed seven-horsepower Indian in Indianapolis.
- Motorcyclists of Waterloo, Ia., are raising a fund to finish the half-mile track the park commission laid out at Cedar River Park so that races can be held there.
- Miss Dolly Adelman on an Indian wins the 10-mile ladies' track championship at the Columbus (O.) Driving Park on October 29th, lapping in 1:01 and 1:02, with Leda Leslie her closest rival; the meet was not sanctioned by the F. A. M.
- Erwin G. Baker's trials on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: a non-stop attempt on a stock seven-horsepower Indian ended by a nail in the 75th mile at 60 miles an hour, then 10 miles in 9:03 and a mile in a fraction over 47 seconds on a ported seven.
- Clarence Turner takes four firsts and a second in six races at South Park, Cal., on the 15th, beating Eyke in the five-mile free-for-all and the three-mile professional and Lundbard in the five-mile match.
- On the Providence riders' annual run to Tarbot the Dahlia King at West Greenwich, B. A. Swenson on a two-speed four-horsepower Indian is the only man who does not have to walk the sandy, rock-strewn four miles from Crompton.
- Eight members of the Crescent B. C. of Baltimore -- Alfred J. Baker, Charles H. Thoms, the Sanborns, the Leimbachs, Edward Berigtold and Capt. J. F. Huber -- ride the club's second fall century to Fort Myer, Va., and back.
- At the Rochester Motorcycle Club's events for the Charles E. Frisbie benefit meet in Crittenden Park, Lincoln Beachey's aeroplane beats Edward Stauder's motorcycle over 2 1/2 miles in 2:40 1/2 before 4,000 people.
- C. Tye, P. Williams, D. F. Forbes, D. Thompson and W. Gladish of the Canadian Signal Corps and Toronto M. C. carry despatches in the Toronto garrison's Thanksgiving Day maneuvers, the first time motorcyclists have taken part, and finish with a 50-mile dash home.
- Toronto's City Solicitor tells the Board of Control it is questionable whether any speed limit should be placed on motorcycles, leaving riders -- and the fines already exacted under the 10-mile limit -- in doubt; the Toronto club may seek a ruling.
- London Motor Cycling reports that English dealers have balloted in favour of discontinuing the Tourist Trophy Race after the Indian took first, second and third this year, though amateurs, who supplied 25 of the 68 Senior entries, may yet save the event.
- The Pharmaceutical Journal's suggestions for reviving perished rubber -- half an hour in a bath of one part ammonia to two parts water -- and for storing spare tubes with alkaline washes, quicklime or ammonium carbonate.
- Ontario's Provincial Engineer of Highways reports $19,000,000 in cash and 22,000,000 days of statute labour spent on township roads in 20 years, and urges taxing motors and motorcycles for road upkeep rather than imposing speed restrictions.
- Robert Shattock of the West Side Motorcycle Exchange, Detroit, returns from visiting the Haverford Cycle Co. and the Emblem Mfg. Co. and takes the Detroit agency for the Flanders "4"; Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Miller, on a ten-thousand-mile bicycle trip, will leave Detroit riding Haverford motorcycles.
- The Brooklands Automobile Racing Club will admit no motorcycle without an efficient silencer and no cut-out; clerk of the course Major Lindsay Lloyd explains that residents within a wide radius complained of the machines' sharp crack, which he found carried farther than a big car's.
- Henry Ragsdale of Ragsdale & Smith, San Angelo, Tex., passes through Indianapolis on a Reading-Standard bound for New York, some 1,700 miles covered with nothing worse than a few punctures and minor adjustments.
- Kirk, Clark and Whitman, all Detroit Indian riders, finish one-two-three in a five-mile race at Sarnia, Ontario, on Thanksgiving Day; the Toronto club may ask for an investigation since the event was held on its territory.
- Members of the Maryland M. C. of Baltimore, idle for several weeks, tune up and ride to Ridgeville for dinner, returning late in the afternoon.
- John Sink of Indianapolis wins the 100-mile race at the Shelbyville fair grounds on October 29th in 2:16:30 on a Thor, with Ray Hoffstatter (Merkel) 2:22:45 and Erwin Baker (Indian) 2:23:10, Baker having fallen and then had his machine catch fire, the blaze smothered with handfuls of dust.
- A novelty handicap at the Maryland State Fair at Laurel, Md., on October 26th pits a foot runner, two horses, an automobile and three motorcycles; ball player and manager R. Kennedy wins narrowly over his 520 yards.
- Secretary-Treasurer G. B. Gibson circulates a "heart-to-heart" letter asking every F. A. M. member to bring in one application toward a membership of 25,000 by the 1912 convention, offering gold-and-enamel emblem novelties for five; October brought 332 new members, the Lake District leading.
- A Hartford Courant editorial retold: two boys race a country trolley car, and the lighter lad who husbands his strength and banks on the car's wait at the siding beats the sturdier boy who sprints himself to exhaustion.
- Ben Meriwether and Henry Hart continue their Columbia tour, arguing 72 francs of deposit out of the Spanish customs at St. Jean-Pied-de-Port and riding on through Pau, Toulouse, Alby, Geneva, the Col-de-Pillon, Interlaken and the Rhine to complete 2,569 miles at Rotterdam.
- Only seven of 26 starters finish the Chicago Motorcycle Club's semi-annual run to Milwaukee and back on the 22d in cold rain; C. A. Leander on a four-horsepower Indian scores 956 to A. H. Crocker's 955 on a two-speed seven.
- The Oshkosh (Wis.) Motorcycle Club's meet at the Driving Park track on October 22d, where Elmer Scammon's front tire blows out and throws him, Karl and Clyde Oaks dead-heat a three-mile match, Guy Brundage wins the four-mile novice and William Koeck the five-mile.
- At the Newark, O., meet on October 29th Kussmaul somersaults after running over a stick in the 10-mile event, is patched up by his mechanic R. E. Redman and wins the next race with Keeley second, to a great ovation.
- Frank L. Kramer wins every event he enters at the last Newark Velodrome meet of the season on October 29th, twice beating A. J. Clark; Donald MacDougall takes the one-third mile amateur sprint and John Bedell the mile invitation from Floyd Krebs.
- After the Verband Deutscher Radrennbahnen barred foreign members of the Union Cycliste Internationale from German tracks and the six-day promoters cancelled their races, the Deutscher Rennfahrer Verband under Walter Rutt resolves on October 23 to race foreigners at home and abroad regardless.
- The seventeenth Madison Square Garden six-day race is fixed for December 11th to 16th after P. T. Powers, through Floyd Macfarland, and the riders' "Silent Committee" settle on 30 per cent of gross receipts to $60,000 and 35 above; Kramer will start, teamed against Clark and Fogler and others.
- The Century Road Club Association's annual field day and bicycle carnival on the Guttenberg mile track on the 30th sees Gus Wohlrab win the mile open and Franklin Fisher the 10-mile miss-and-out, three events being dropped for lack of time.
- Gord. McMillan and Scotty Wilson of the Tecumsehs take the 15-mile Dunlop trophy team race at the Toronto exhibition track on October 30th, Walter Andrews beats McMillan by half a length in the 10-mile repechage, and Harry Borsch's Warren racer turns turtle through the fence while racing Charlie Orr's Excelsior.
- Frank Cavanaugh of the Cavanaugh-Heidrick "Newark team" wins the closing mile sprint of the 10-hour amateur team race at the 74th Regiment armory, Buffalo, on the 31st before 4,000, seven teams finishing on 203.4 miles.