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A FTER six years' study of the light delivery problem and more than
two years' rigid testing of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle truck, as
it now stands, we are offering a proposition that has actually demonstrated
its worth. In the hands of retailers and wholesalers all over the United
States, as well as in the Government service and general parcel delivery.
Gasoline consumption, 30 to 40 miles per gallon with full load. Speed,
2 to 35 miles per hour.
I®T SEE US AT AUTO SHOW Igljf
HEAGY BROS.
OPEN EVENINGS 1204 N. THIRD ST.
HARLEY-DA VIDSON WITH HEAGY BROTHERS
The Harley-Davidson side-car and motorcycle truck will be the leading
features of the Heagy Brothers' exhibit, besides the regular models. H. C.
*.nd It. W. Heagy have had remarkable success since opening a store at
1204 North Third street several years ago. Beginning with a bicycle re
pair shop, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle agency was assumed later and
gradually a line of sporting goods and to-day it is one of the'leading stores
n North Third street.
THE
Mot JXycle
A powerful and efficient motor with ALL, BEARINGS ROLLER
BEARING. ALT. STEEL CLUTCH RUNNING IN OIL, nan be oiled from
Beat while riding; an UNDERGEARED TRANSMISSION with ONLY
ONE CHAIN, no SHORT CHAIN to GIVE TROUBLE. ALL STEEL
BRAKE, no LININGS to BURN OUT. BALL AND SOCKET JOINT
inlet. A TWO-SPEED PLANETARY TYPE, GEARS ALWAYS IN
MESH, two speed and clutch controlled by ONLY ONE LEVER, the
onlv correct practice. A MECHANICAL OILER TO MOTOR that Is the
HIGHEST DEGREE OF PERFECTION, a THOH rider never need turn
on his oil, for the moment the motor starts the oil is fed to crank
case and gears.
Compare the THOR FEATURES with all other makes. You can
not find any make with such real improvements. When you buy a
THOR you buy 100 per cent, efficiency.
4-5 H. P. S2OO 7-9 H. P. $250
5-7 H. P. $225 9-14 H. P. $275
Two Nprcd MO «tr* on all model*.
YALE TWO-SPEED
The man who wants this sort of machine will And every require
ment more than fulfilled in the new Two-Speed Yale.
Model 47-7-8 H. P. 2 Cyl. $285
Model 45-5-6 H. P. S CyL $235
See These Models at the Auto Show
Chas. H. Uhler
1317 Derry Street
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SATURDAY EVENING, HARRJSBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 14,1914.
Excelsior Motorcycle
Shown at Local Store
The new storeroom of the Excelsior
Cycle Company at 1007-1009 North
Third street, has just completed the
uncrating of their stock and are show
ing a complete line of Excelsior motor
cycles. This store is under the man
agement of Harry and Nat Feldstern.
In the equipping of the 1914 models
such accessories as magnetos, carbur
etors, brakes, chains, saddles, etc.,
have been selected after rigid tests in
the Excelsior company's experimental
department. The standard of excel
lence in material, design and work
manship, is the highest attainable.
Model 7-S is a powerful two-speed
twin which is particularly applicable
to side car and commercial service.
; Regardless of the road conditions, it
affords an easy start with extreme
loads. What may be termed as a stand
ard heavy service machine is offered
in model 7-C, which has a roller chain
drive. Model 7-B is identical except
that it is provided with belt instead
of chain transmission.
A twin this especially designed for
speeding purposes is offered in model
7-SC. This machine is equipped with
racing handle bars, rigid front and
only a short mud guard over the rear
wheel. It can also be had with full
road equipment, says Mr. Adams.
Models 4-TS, 4-C and 4-B, are prac
ticmally Identical in construction and
designation, except that they are pro
vided with a single instead of twin
motor.
Every feature of practical service
to the rider for safety, comfort and
convenience is offered in the 1914
model and realizing that the heart of
a power-driven vehicle is the motor,
the company has devoted the highest
engineering skill and mechanical abil
ity to the development and perfection
of the Excelsior motors.
Twombly Light Roadsters
Will Be Here Shortly
Among the new cars to be intro
duced in Harrisburg shortly is the
Twombly a light roadster of the tan
dem type, seating two passengers.
This car was amon gthe interesting
exhibits of the New York show and
will be represented here by Trostle &
INDIAN 1914 M
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The red Indian 1 sold In Harrisburg by the West End Electric & Cycle
Company at Green and Maclay streets. This motorcycle Is one of the first
to be manufactured, and a famous phrase of the Hendel Manufacturing
Company Is "Count the Indians on the road." In the above picture are J.
DeWltt Grove, expert mechanic at the Indian service station, and Henry
Lotz,, a member of the Harrisburg Motorcycle Club.
-MAXWELL-
Model 25 Touring 5750.00 Model 35 Touring $1225 00
Model 25 Roadster $725.00 Model 35 Roadster $1200.00
Model 50, 6 Cylinder, $1975.0)
AT THE SHOW
MILLER & ALTER
HOTEL DAUPHIIN
COMFORT RULES IN
1914 MOTORCYCLES
Rider's Ease and Pleasure Mainly
Considered in This Year's
Indian Models
The one best bet for pleasure in the
line of motoring, unless you feel as
though you must spend a good deal
of money and take somebody with you
all the time, is the motorcycle—and at
that you don't get the real good out of
a motorcycle unless you have some
one with you. You can't take the
whole family, of course, but most
young fellows would be satisfied with
one of the family at a time. And for
economy the motorcycle makes any
other sport of the day appear ridicu
lous.
Motorcycling in this year 1914 has
gone about as far as human ingenuity
could devise or human imagination
conceive. Bouncing, bumping, exces
sive speeding, fiendish noises, slathers
of grease and oil, experimental and
inadequate equipment of all sorts have
all gone by the board. Comfort, solid
comfort, is the keynote of this year's
motorcycling. The machines will go
fast enough to take the conceit out
i of the any automobile that uses the
highways, but no one who knows his
business as a motorcyclist out for solid
comfort is going to burn the roads up
with the power that is built into his
machine for the purpose of taking him
up any old hill. That sort of thing is
passing out of fashion. This year's
motorcyclists will have more real en
joyment, more of the best there is in
life, than ever before. And the side
car, now perfected, enables you to take
the girl along.
Take the electric lighting. That
gives you a steady, deal - stream of
brilliant illumination that makes the
bumps far more clear than they are in
daylight. Take the two-speed gear.
That cuts your gear ratio 70 per cent,
with a trivial motion of your hand,
and sends you up the steepest hill on
earth as smoothly as a bicycle coasts
down grade. Take the spring frame.
It rides you over car tracks, ruts and
thank-you-marms so cleverly you
would not know they were there.
These are some of the cardinal fea
tures of the new machines. There are
thirty or so improvements, refinements
and betterments that have taken the
worry and the take-a-chance out of
the sport.
But get back to the economy for a
minute. Do you know that you can
run a motorcycle for next to nothing?
That is no press agent statement. Ask
any motorcyclist. When you can go
sixty or seventy or eighty miles, ac
cording to the condition of the air and
your skill as a motorist, on a gallon
of gasoline, and a hundred miles on
20 cents' worth of oil, how much is it
going to cost you to take a little run
of twenty miles? About the price of
a cigar. Will it be worth it? Per
haps not, if your board bill is regu
lated by the size of your appetite. Ano
the joy of coasting smoothly up hill
and down, around corners into beauti
ful valleys, far and away as far at
you feel like going, without fatigue
and without a worry in the world —
millions couldn't buy the exultation
I of it.
The world has never seen a finer
motorcycle than this year's Indian.
One careful examination of it will
niuke that clear to any man, whether
he thinks he would like to own a
motorcycle or not. But there is n
good deal more than the machine that
have to do with real pleasure in the
■port. The chief thing to look out for,
next to getting a good machine, of
which there are half a dozen built
as well as the makers know how to
make them, is to find a dealer who
watches for the comfort and pleasure
of his patrons. The West End Elec
, trie and Cycle Company, George F.
Hewitt and A. E. Gettys, heads of the
I concern, have been identified with
I llarrisburg motorcycling affairs for
years. As agents for the Indian they
have done a great deal to put Harris
| burg on the motorcycling map.
Mourer at 933-939 Hose avenue, the
Melirlng garage. The demonstrator is
expected within a week or two. D. B.
Trostle and Alexandra Mourer are the
men back of the car which is made by
the Twombly Car Corporation, Avon
dall, N. J.
SEE THE 1914
HH INDIAN IH
AT THE AUTO SHOW
38 Refinements in 1914 INDIAN MOTOCYCLE
The successful application of Electricity to the motocycle has
been accomplished in the Indian for the coming year and plays a
most important part in the 36 betterments.
The Electric Starter Is a powerful motor generator, Other important features of the new Models are:
small, neat and compact. It Is mounted on the Reinforced frames and forks with drop forged fit
left side of the engine and always is connected .. .. . . , - lr , „ , , .
>.i_ x 11 , , tings throughout; longer Wheclbase; new device for
with it, therefore should the rider stall the engine
in traffic, or on a crossing, it can be restarted with- securing motor to frame, new cam design, giving
out dismounting the machine simply by throwing increased power and speed; larger Motor Shafts
a switch, which brings the starter into action and and Intake Valve, Rocker Arms (the latter fitted
almost instantaneously starts the engine. with ol , ers) . new trussed handlebal . s with pate nted
Electric Headlight with 9 and 12 C. P. bulbs.
Electric Tail-liglit with 2C. P. bulb, throws a white lockinß binder poSt t0 P revent turning, yet they are
light downward on the license plate and a red full >' adjustable as heretofore; larger tires; padded
beam to the rear. saddles of new design; stronger stand and large
Electric Signal is small and very economical in cur- metal tool box with spring lock.
rent consumption, yet it is the highest powered The INDIAN Cradle Spring Frame was a revolution
warning device of its kind ever fitted to a Motor- in Motorcycle construction in 1913. The Cradle
cycle. Spring Frame of 1914, with a wheelbase of 58
JSlectric Storage Batteries —There are two sets, each Inches, is easer riding and stronger than ever be
wlth 15 hours' lighting capacity. fore.
Han/I a Venn Cylinder, BH. P., $325. Two Speed Model,
nenaerson $365. Tandem Complete, S2O.
West End Electric & Cycle Co.
GENERAL AGENTS
Green and Maclay Sts. Harrisburg, Pa.
NEW SUPPLY HOUSE
WILL OPEN SOI
Front-Market Motor Supply Will
Be Managed by Two
Well-known Men
The store room at Front and Mar
ket streets will shortly be vsed for a
mpply house for the sale of automo
.ile, motorcycle and motor supplies
md accessories. T. y. Wlldemuth and
toss C. Barrett have arranged to open
his store April lirst. Both young men
ire well known in automobile circles.
,Ir. Wlldemuth haa been the local
nanager for the City Auto Supply
louse and Ross C. Barrett has been
in the eales force of the Crlspen Mo
or Car Company for two years. Mr.
larrett will continue his association
vlth the Crlspen company until the
tore is opened and will assist at the
.'adillac exhibit during show week.
Twenty-five Thousand
Members in the F. A. M.
One of the factors in the growth of
the Federation of American Motor
cyclists is the Touring Bureau, which
was established a little more than a
year ago.
At present there are 25.6G8 mem
bers in the F. A. M., and many of
those who liave come into the fold in
the past year have done so because
of the advantages ottered through the
Touring Bureau. Every motorcyclist
wants to take a long tour. Maybe he
can't do It this year, but he wants to
make his plans, tlnd out the best
routes between given cities, and the
time of year when certain roads are
in best condition. And the Touring
Bureau offers him this opportunity.
With the aid of the bureau, he can
have the exact route of his tour all
aid out before he starts on the trip.
Many of the routes mapped out by
'he Touring Bureau have been pre
pared directly from Information gath
ered by pathfinders who have cov
ered the territory.
CHARLES H. UHLER ON A THOR
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Manager of Thor and Yale Motorcycle Agency at 1317 Derry Street.
The Only JMotOTCljcllStS The Only
i xclusive am j Machine
Motorcycle That Has
and Bicyclists k Ever ,
Bicycle " Attained
Store in The world's leading Motor a Speed of
Central cycle is here, having 100 Mi es
Pa. opened an agency an How
s in Harr sburg L______^
The Excelsior leads in all the cities of the United States and
is bound to be the favorite here. We offer inducements
never before heard of in this locality. Don't hesitate about
coming around to investigate, you will always be welcome.
Don't feel compelled to buy—just investigate and hear why
the Excelsior holds all the world's records.
The Winning of the Savannah Road Race
is convincing proof of Excelsior supremacy in speed, power,
endurance and efficiency.
We have on hand Motorcycles from $125.00 up.
Motorcycles and Bicycles sold on small weekly pay
ments.
We are also displaying a full line of Bicycles, Tires and
Supplies, being agents for the Hudson, Eclipse, Excelsior,
Hampden and the only commercial bicycle in this section
for butchers, bakers, grocers, newspaper carriers, milkmen
and others.
We do all kinds of repairing at reasonable rates.
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EXCELSIOR CYCLE CO.
1007-9 N. Third St, Harrisburg, Pa.