The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-27
WILL SPALDING ACCEPT?
HE CAN BE PRESIDENT OF THE CYCLE
TRUST If HE WANTS TO BE.


TRUST If HE WANTS TO BE.
Tho Tire business viii Doubtless He Trans
acted Through the Rubber Goods Manu-
featuring Company, which Is About to
Absorb Two weil-Kuown Tire Factories.
The circumstance OF the bankers and the
cycle makers having separated and gone to
their homes or to seaside resorts does not
mean that recess Is being taken In the work
OF perfectlng cycle trust details. As 10 all
other affair, Of equal magnitude. politics was
bound to enter. and IL was essential that there
should be pause long enough to permit OF q
canvass. A President and other officers are to
be elected next week. Since the general as
sembly OF makers adjourned at the Waldorf
Astoria week ago this election Of officers has
been the uppermost theme In the trade. The
stock holders In the newly organized trust
went away to think the matter over
While it would be natural for all the makers
to agree upon A. @. SpaldnR. who originally
undertook to launch cycle trust. as the fitting
man for President. It 10 not certain that he
would accept the honor and the obligation be-
cause Of the exactions OF his other atfairs. A
man identified with one Of the bigges. makers
said yesterday:
Il think that Spalding will not accept the
Presidency II offered to him. The tip in THE
from his official connection with the Pope
Company. may be the man. was good one. l
cannot think Of any more likely man. At tho
same time the Day idea must not be counted
upon as II sure thing. The honors belong to
spalding, and II he should conclude to accept
are several Of the big Western makers who are
itching 70. the position and some OF theuieX-
I .S ss nj Of ha s fns TGsps
Is too much opposition TO them. In the trust 1t
is the old story of the East against the West;
officers there will not be "a great deal of ssntl-
ment in it. although there will be an exhibit
will talk, however. and the clique that holds
and controls the most stock will determine the
officers. az in other corporations, The trick Is
seems to have thought Of this yet. By the bye.
are not taking their 80 per cent. in cash. but
are tski 5 It eli the Thpie ih9 Per cent il
bicycle ddes Ue
Seeking through various sources OF informa.
tion In, the trade THE SuN reporter learned
and all who give 8 thought to this new $40:
OUU.OO0 com bination. There will be several
anS r.. ss Of sgd s:
I 9s the taS v
daily publications and away from the periodi-
Gals. The makers in the trust will not com.
will make sharp com petition in prices in ad-
vertising and in variety OF production with
those who have NAMED outside. so that there
are apt 10 DO some lively passages for year or
SO In the trade.
As foreshadowed in THE Bun some time ago
the trust will present u boon TO riders through
causing a STANDARDIZATION OF parts. One OF
tho first results will be the Standardization OF
m Sna a e. bs. 81 XVII vii
not be dardized and this Is good news, be-
;ause OF the field for Improvement open in this
established in the big cities any grand central
stores " handle every make Of wheel. as It has
Neither viii this be done in tho towns IL.
reasons are obvious. No manager OF a retail
store could do justice to forty different wheels;
end in this way they would themselves DO the
chief sufferers, In the towns the mon who
to handle. them next year. The residents OF
towns and villages very often have prejudlces
and it would be a mistake 70 try to eompel
resented by the trust. This would offer tho
rival makers and their representatives too
vanced by men close enough to the trust mag
mates to be credit worthy.
rnt viii Cause VIII be 5hs
combination will be those Improving the prod
sec seer Of the factories viii be exchanged t%Y
Processes hitherto known only to one maker
will hereafter be common property. For in
stance il is well known In the trade that Ger.
tain maker In Connecticut turns out better
enanellinR on his wheels and does 1t more
future be used by all Another man. a Chi.
cage naker, has a trick by which no file Is
touched to the frames after the hrazing prog
ess. 1t is wonderfully simnle and wonderfully
cheap the way he does IT,. Hereafter all the
wheels made by the firms IN the trust will be
handled the same way, One Of the results OF
cash in forming the trust will be that the sena.
rate plants win remain practically under the
same control az that now over them.
The tire bushes. OF the trust wiz undoubt-
Manufacturing Company. Of which Charles r.
Flint is the Chairman of.the, Executive Com
mittee. The suggestion made BY one of the
ford Rubber Works and the Indiana Rubber
Company were likely to be absorbed ny Fllnt's
Rubber Trust seems about. verified. Wall
Goods, Manufacturing Cemrany is about to
take n several bicycle tire concerns and
thereafter cooperate with the Cycle Trust. As
ing the formation OF the trust. It was only
through some such arrangement that tho re-
lease OF the financial screws by Flint was
brought about and the trust allowed 10 pro-
coed.
Ths forward. march" plan OF the Rubber
Trust was made plain yesterday, when a deal
American Dunlop Tire Com pany came into the
possession Of the Rubber Goods Manufacture
ing Company, The concern taken In has a
Dunlop Company In England It has been w. $50 30
rushed with orders q late that the Mechanical
Fabric Com pany Of New Jersey has been max
rompan1 Witch the Now Hru nsSGsE
mohy Win ths Huber TTuss, T The e Hn har
states Rubber Qomnany !. Is said, represents
turing Interest In the country.
NEWS OF THE WHEELHEX