The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21

ana Garneld are being planned, ana a
each of these it is proposed TO have spe
cial cars for the use of the member!
and guests.
The membership of the Opal club i!
limited to sixty, and the limit has beer
reached. A number of applicants arr
on the list, and as fast as any vacan.
cieS occur the waiting candidates will
! be balloted upon. There are no ladie:
admitted to membership, but the cluf
usually provides entertainment for the
members of the. fair sex at all of it:
functions except the occasional stag
runs and entertainments.
Tomorrow a final hearing will be held
In a very important case at New
Haven, Conn. 1t is the last legal ster
in the suit of Owen VS.. Pope. The
question involved is the validity OF
the Smith-Owen bottom bracket patent
This patent covers the right TO make
bicycles with the tubes of the frame
entering a common lower bottom
bracket, and every safety bicycle made
at the present time is an infringement
on this patent; in fact, it is next to
impossible to make a safety bicycle in
any other way. 1t is claimed that Owen
Will win, and many makers admit the
validity of the patent. The case was
brought against Pope as a test case
and if the suit is decided in favor of
the patentees, the result will be far
reaching.
The greatest Importance attached to
the suit lies in the fact that the Spald-
ing syndicate controls the patent, and
if ii is sustained in the hearing, the
new bicycle trust will enable them to
control the entire bicycle trade-unless.
of course, some firms outside the trust
again dispute the patent.
The following prizes have been put
up for the road race May 80, and are
now on exhibition in the window of j.
P. Gardner's store:
First prize-Barnes bicycle; J. P
Gunn
First time prize-Orient racer; Game
& Wilkes.
Second time prize-Kodak; Browning
Bros. Co
Third time prize-Bicycle suit;
Walker Bros. Co.
mug and brush; w. NJ. McConahay.
Second prize-Violin; Young Bros
Co
Third prize-Bicycle suit; George
Mullet.
Fourth prize-Mantel clock; ]. S. Jen-
sen.
Fifth prize-Trainer's satchel; Hull
Durt Bros.
Sixth prize-Pair of NJ. & w. tires:
Groeschner & Cartner
Seventh prize-Trainers bag; o. r.
Meredith.
Eighth prize-M. & w. tires; F. ].
Garter
Ninth price. A. C. C. bicycle shoes:
Davis Shoe Company.
Tenth prize-Bicycle lamp; A H.
Godbe.
Eleventh prize-Sweater; Siegel
Clothing company
Twelfth prize-Box candy; Kolitz
Handy Kitchen
Thirteenth prize-SaddIe: Carter
Fourteenth prize-Whistle
The value of the prizes is S275.
The developments of the past week in
the proposed gigantic bicycle trust
have been most interesting and the re-
fractory manufacturers have apparent
ly been swung into line If no further
bitches occur it is likely that by the
first of July the trust will be in full
swing.
r. L. Coleman. who several weeks
ago announced that he would not renew
his option given to the big
Spalding trust, shortly afterwards
that he, with several
other of the largest manufacturers.
would form trust or syndicate in op-
position to the Spalding combine. The
combine which Mr.. Coleman proposed
to launch comprised the Cleveland.
Crescent, Rambler and Waverly plants
and would have made most formid-
able opponent for the Spalding trust.
The reason for Coleman's opposition to
the Spalding syndicate was brought
to the surface last week. 1t appears
that when the Spalding syndicate be-
gan to secure options on all the lar
5est and most important bicycle fac
tories that the Pope Tube mills were
included in the options. As the Cleve
and, Crescent, Rambler and Waverly
companies were all interested in
ube mills of their own they saw that
n case the Pope Tube works were
made a part of the Spalding syndicate
hat there was possibility of this
ube mill cornering the tube business
If the trust
As soon as Mr.. Spalding learned of
he cause of the objection of Mr. Cole
nan and his associates to his syndi-
ate, he promptly dropped the option
m the Pope Tube works. Within a day
II two afterwards, the Shelby Tube |
ompany. which controls the OUTPUT of |
! dozen of the largest tube mills in the !
secured an option on the Pope !
tube mill and also on the Elwood Tube |
Mills, which are owned by the CIeve- |
and people. This removed the objec- |
ions of the Cleveland concern and fol-
owing close upon this move it was
eported that the Albany Tube works.
Which are controlled by the Crescent
nd Rambler companies, had CONSOLE
ated with the Shelby Tube company.
These moves practically took all the
ube business out of the hands of the
and the bicycle trust.
nd placed all the tube mills in a big
ombine of their own and the prospects
the big Spalding syndicate again re-
umed roseate hue. 1t is now under
TODD that there is now no further OBJ
ections on the part of the manufac-
Irers to the plan proposed by Mr.
paulding and ii is understood that ali
ne principal parties interested in the
cal Will meet in New York this week
, formally transfer their holdings to
he trust.
The unprecedented demand for bicv-
es this spring mas resulted in a sur
rising rise in the price of material.
eel especially having gone up greatly
| price. Last year at this time cold
)lled- bar stock was selling for $3.50
er hundred pounds. Today it is SELL
g for $3.50 in carload lots Sheet
eel has risen % per cent 1t is the
Dinion of those who are close to the
arket that steel will go up at least
% per cent before it reaches a per-
anent figure.
The present price of metal means
lat the steel in pair of hubs will cost
per cent more this year than last
ear. The cost of steel in pedals will