The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-28
Late in March the Season VIII
Be Launched.
START CREDIT RATING SYSTEM
Local Dealers Have Decided to
Protect Their Interests.
POp-POp Men Are Enraged at
Vigilance of Police.

Motorcycle exhibition week" will
be held in Topeka in the early spring
probably from March 80 to April 4.
This is a pop-pop innovation. The To-
cal dealers will open the season with
special displays at their respective
places of business. and because the
idea is said to be original. 1t Is hoped
to interest the manufacturers of the
machines handled at Topeka shops in
getting behind the plan to the extent
of sending special machines for the
displays.
The fact that the automobile men
have given up the idea Of a motor
show for Topeka this season was the
cause OF the decision of the local mo-
torcycle men to hold the display week
in question. The plan is original
with the Topeka dealers, according to
one OF them. and to his knowledge
has not been tried elsewhere.
M. e. Harding Is working out tho
details for the exhibition week. It is
the plan OF the dealers to advertise
heavily in the newspapers and to
place posters or cards in nearby towns
- 70 attract outsiders interested in the
purchase OF motorcycles. Another
meeting of the dealers will be held
soon to talk about the details.
To Establish Credit Rating Plan.
The motorcycle dealers have decid-
ed to establish a credit rating system
OF their own in order that they may
know what individuals among their
customers are not good pay" A
large percentage OF the pop-pop riders
are boys. and 1t IL considered that the
credit bureau that the Commercial
club Is establishing will not answer
the purpose in this case.
A list of creditors will be turned in
(t NIT I<~rn =
er. Mrs. Brummitt will arrange a
card system for each dealer, SO that in
an instant the standing Of a customer
may be aScertained. If it is found that
one person has run up heavy bills with
several dealers he will undoubtedly
be refused credit until he pays his
debts. or makes q strenuous effort in
that direction.
Pop-POp Men Are Angry.
The motorcycle men of Topeka are
in anything but an amiable frame of
mind just now. They look upon it as
In Topeka should be stopped by the
police-and sometimes several times
over in the same day-in order that
the men in the uniforms may ascer-
tain whether or not they possess a
drivers license. It is claimed that
they are discriminated against; that
the motor, cars are not held up in a
similar manner.
M. E. Harding. a local dealer, said
today: They are stopping every mo-
torcyclist that gets on the streets to
make sure that he has a license. and
at the same time they are not stopping
the autoists. I could pick out q dozen
auto drivers any time who have no
license. One man was stopped three
times within four blocks on Kansas
avenue.
'If this same diligence were exer-
cised In stopping autos in Topeka the
ordinance would not last long. When
a man has a license 1t Is annoying to
be held up. to say the least"
Revival OF Motorcycle Club.
The Topeka Motorcycle club. which
has been more or less dormant for sew
eral months will be revived and an ef-
fort made to increase the member.
ship. Many runs will be planned in
the spring and summer months. The
membership was approximately one
hundred last year.
Motor Car Notes.
A. e. Vincent, an automobile mar
Of Garden City, has come to Topeka
and Is now associated with the Wes
Motor Car company.
]. F. Billings, Stafford manager fol
this part of the state, has just CLOSED
several agency contracts. HI. L
Tripp Of Meriden has just taken owe
the agency of the car at that city.
F. l. Strever of the Santa Fe shops
Tuesday purchased a twin, 1914 mode
Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Four Bucks were received by tn
Capital Auto & Supply company Tues
day. They were a B-37 and three b
27 models. The B-37 has been pur
chased by William Macferran Of tn
Farmers National bank.
Mrs. George Crane Of 919 Harrison
street. has just purchased a Detroi
electric coupe.