10 STORY OF THE REMARKABLE BUSINESS GROWTHJ)FHEAGY From "Two-Man-Business" to Twelve Employes Is the Record of Harley-Davidson Distributors Just ahout six years ago—April 15. j 1911, to be exact, a very quiet, unas-| suming little business poked its nose j into the light of day and two very young but enthusiastic and energetic \ young chaps stood sponsor for what they proudly called "our business." The store room at 120t North ThirJ street was the home of this embr/-! onic business house and two brothers, 1 Roy W. and Harvey C. Heagy, were the two young fellows at the helm, i To-day. this sturdy young business is one of the largest distributors of mo- I torcycles and bicycles in all of Central | Pennsylvania. When business was first begun, the l motorcycle was still pretty much of an experiment and the Heagy broth- j ers were satisfied to carry a small line of bicycles, bicycle sundries und supplies. The big end of the business, ! at the outset, however, was in bicycle repairs. In the summer of the first year the Harrisburg agency for Har- F-N | Still in the Lead After taking the market by storm five years ago, more F-N tandems were built each successive year, and 1917 is already the biggest year we have had. See It at the Cycle Show Heagy Bros. 1200 N. THIRD ST. BRANCH, CARLISLE, PA. - rm i • 7 1 Ipi Leggings I I we have <em Leather and Canvas They're the wopld-wide and most fllilß popular known leggings on the "HALCO BRAND" j . ••• V. ■.•>< s See Them at the Cycle Show r ' Can lie furnished in quick detachable, double i ' j . .*j wrap strap, single wrap style, studloop, button r£ ; j 'fc; or spring style. • COLORS—TAX, BLACK. OXBLOOD, Etc. FT Also canvas leggings, in any style, size or See us l>efore you buy—if we don't have just lfe'V I what you want we'll get it. I •: I Heajjy Brothers Pj 1200 N. 3d St. (Cor. Cumberland) | I nranch, Carlisle. Pa. Harrisburg, Pa. mmmmm —■! *=— —— , //J — with a ™ /Iff Corbin Bicycle Brake ' I V ' SEE IT AT THE CYCLE SHOW The one really Non-Failing Bicycle Brake; a "positive" driver- the clutch simply can't slip. Freedom from brake ills—the knowledge that your brake won't fail you on the steepest hill. And when you coast it's next door to flying—if you're using a Corbin. 1917 Corbin-Brown Motorcycle Speedometer, £ 1 O /\/*k Now, SIZ.UU We have just received a Urge shipment of 1917 Corbin-Brown Motor ; cycle Speedometers (80-mile dial). All of the new features are built into the new 1917 models—giving you a far better speedometer for less money I than you've ever paid before. The new price is $1- oo HEAGY BROS. 1200 NORTH THIRD STREET HRA\tll—Carlisle, Pm. THURSDAY EVENING, HXRRISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 8, 1917. , ley-Davidson motorcycles was placed 1 , with Heagy Bros., and with much' j plugging and steady application, three ; ! Harleys were sold. In the fall of their | j initial year in business a small line of j ! sporting goods was put in stock, i ; Things moved slowly but surely ahead) ! and about two years later additional | floor space was made necessary and; 1 a back room was added to the store which was used as a repair shop and; two mechanics were added to the pay ; 1011. ' Soon, even the added spaee proved j inadequate to take care of the ever i.i --i creasing business, and in October 1910 i the corner store room at North .Third ;*nd Cumberland streets was leased. I Now it looked as though the had all the room necessary for ex pansion for years to come. But bust-1 : ness continued to roll their way; no, j that s wrong—they went out and made ; business roll their way by sticking I everlastingly at it. In a very short! time the basement and a rear room j were also leased. That to-day is the | ! condition of the business begun only I six short years ago. And from the apparently crowded condition of busi ness around this very corner, it looivs I quite likely that Heagy Bros, will soon be contracting for even large space for the end has not yet been reached. In the second year of their exist ence the local distribution of Harley- Davidsons increased—little more than doubled; the next year it quadrupled. To-day Heagy Bros, sell more Harleys j I than any distributor in this section | of the State-—and the average is still j t increasing. The bicycle and motor- j ! cycle repair department is the largest t I in Harrisburg and quite likely in Cen- j ! tral Pennsylvania, as well. 1 Recently, Heagy Bros, were ap-' pointed as "Special Service Center" j for Harley-Davidson motorcycles, an' honor bestowed on them for the ex- j ! cellent service they were able to ren- ! Uer Harley-Davidson riders. Belore | receiving this appointment, however, |it was necessary for both of the brothers to make a trip to the Harley- Davidson factory at Milwaukee. Wis. jl'pon their return from the factory their head mechanic was called in : also, and underwent a course of in structions in the repair and mainten- I r.uce of Harleys—a course prepared : by the originators of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and one of the most coin ■ plex courses one can imagine. In March of 1916 these energetic brothers looked for new fields to con quer and turned to Carlisle, Pa. There they opened a branch store which was placed in the charge of W. J. Leffler, one of their first employes. The ' growth of the Carlisle business has been almost as remarkable as that o* Harrisburg's and big things are ex pected tronj the branch in the course of very few years. At the present time, until Saturday night, there is in progress Harris burg's Biggest and Best Motorcycle j and Bicycle Show.Mn the store rooms I of Heagy Brothers. Harley-Davidsons I are exhibited with every conceivable! s-ort of dress and equipment from j light delivery vans to tire fighting ap- j paratus. Bicycles, too, are very much , in the limelight. Twenty-five models j are on exhibit and these include the various styles of the Reading-Stand ; ard. Elvria, America and the New 1917 Harley-Davidson. Great ijrowds have been in attendance ever since the | opening of the show last Saturday ! night and record crowds have turned out every night during the present j week. Music for the occasion is fur | nished by the Lyric Orchestra and | special programs have been arranged for every night during the b '.lance of ■ the week. Money Lost and the Price of Gasoline The price of gasoline is coming down! It ought to have come down long ago. Indeed, there never were really sound reasons why it should have mounted so high, nor why it should remain at its present level. A cloud of words and masses of figures were employed to dis guise the truth, but the real reason for the advance from 10 to 27 cents was that the Standard Oil Interest wanted more money—and they got It. The same wiseacres who, though un able to count or guess the number of gallons in the ocean, or the number grains of sand beneath the salt water, indicated their ability to estimate the number of pints or quarts or barrels of oil under the earth, are singing small. For one of the reasons why the price of gasoline is coming down is now said to be the discovery of new fields and new gushers, the How of which is so great as to wipe out the great arrays of figures with which the public had been entertained. It proves anew that there are lies, damned lies and sta tistics. The "'alarming shortage" never existed and the earth never was in danger of drying up. Were the advance in price more than manipulation or inflation. Stand ard Oil never would have suddenly in augurated an advertising campaign in volving an expenditure of hundreds of thousnnds of dollars in the daily pa pers at a time 'when shortage of sup ply was being painted in acute colors: .t never would have been possible for any of its units to declare 100 per cent, dividends on their huge capitalizations: it never would have been possible for John D. Rockefeller's wealth to pass the billion mark: it never would have been possible for a Standard Oil stock holder to die and-leave behind him per sonal wealth amounting to more than $200,000,000, nor for any living stock holders to amass bloated fortunes ap proximating that sum. Facts of that sort give the lie to and outweigh any statistics that may be brought to bear or any technical or confused data which Federal or private investigation may bring to light. They indicate that Standard Oil is not play ing fair with the public, if indeed It ever played fair. Dominated or directed by men in whom the money-lust seems to be ab normal. Standard Oil long has viewed the public as a bird fit only for pluck ing. It has plucked it before and it will pluck it again and again, and whenever Standard Oil finds excuse for doing so. It has learned when it is well to ad vance and when it is wise to retreat, and the most useful of its recent les sons is in learning how well huge ex penditures for advertising soften the rush upward and deaden the slip down ward. The Standard Oil crowd is a clever bunch of money-grabbers! To Widen Foreign Openings For Sporting Goods When he was in this country sev eral weeks ago. Dr. Paul Miller, Min ister of Foreign Affairs for Brazil, gave voice to the far-reaching thought that sports should be includ ed with banking and commerce in the present campaign to increase the friendly relationship between the South American countries and the United States. He stated his belief that interna tional competition in the various branches of athletics will result in better and more cordial acquaint anceship and, particularly, he sug gested the introduction of baseball in I the Latin countries. The idea is worth noting; for pres ent and for future use. It is full of meaning which can be turned to ad vantage by American manufacturers of sporting goods: for, regrettable to remark, the volume of our exports of sporting goods indicate that the sur face, not only '•f South America, but the rest of the world, has been little more than scratched. As los'e of sport springs inherent in the human breast wherever located, manufacturers of sporting goods have a ready-made advantage, which is shared by few producers of other goods. Uncle Sam Orders Branding of Japanese Baseballs ! Japanese baseballs or baseballs made in any other country no longer will be able to masquerade in America as American productions. The Secretary of the Treasury, who has ample power in the matter, has | issued an order requiring that hetc after all imported baseballs be indeli bly stamped with the name of the country of their origin, such identifi cation marks when placed on cartons being considered insufficient. While this ruling will not prevent them from being marked with fanci ful American names, it will serve to prevent the cheap baseballs made in Japan at starvation wages and of doubtful materials from being passed over the counter or otherwise con fused with American productions. The "Made in Japan" brand which the Treasury ruling requires will serve to draw a line of distinction and ! quality between the baseballs made in the home of baseball and those ! made elsewhere. i The tariff law of 1913 under which (the Secretary of Treasury took action prohibits the delivery of such un marked goods to the importer; ar.d for the benefit of American jobbers or : dealers who may incline to market the cheap imported goods, it may be j pointed out that the same law im- I poses a fine not exceeding $5,000 or 1 imprisonment for not more than one ; year, or both, for the obliteration, al j teration, or defacement of such for i eign markings. FINE BOSS" ! First Stenographer—"How do you like your new boss?" Second Stenographer—"Fine. He doesn't know any more about spelling ! than I do." —Puck. How the Parcel Post Met an Unusual Emergency "J never fully appreciated the ben i efit of the parcel post service until last j year when we encountered not only a railroad freight embargo but a teamsters' strike in Chicago," recent jly remarked a well-known sporting [ goods manufacturer. "We had booked a large order from | a big house and deliveries were all- I important. The embargo crimped us considerably, but by using the ex i press service we practically overcame that difficulty: but when the team sters' strike occurred, and carried with it Chicago's express wagon driv ers, both ourselves and our customers were 'up against it' until the full sig nificance of the parcel post service dawned upon us. "When we realized that neither rail way embargoes nor teamsters' strikes could interfere with the United Sttaes mail, we began shipping daily by par cel post as many of our goods as the law allowed, and though the quanti ty was not nuflletent to meet all de sires, it wa scnough to relieve embar rassment. "Yes, sir," added the manufacturer, "the parcel post Is a great Institu tion." lotoreyclists Are Mobilizing Should Crisis Become Acut ■ s • . ' ■■ - . " • The motorcycle riders of the United States do not intend to be left behind in nny preparedness campaign that may result front the present international crisis. Already theer Is a well-organised movement on foot to start a company of motorcycle volunteers in every com munity in which 23 or more riders can be gathered into a company. The promoters of the plan have received an unqualified endorsement of the value of the motorcycle in military organization from the war department. Ralph A. Hayes, private secretary to Secretary of War Baker, in an answer to a letter written Secretary Baker, outlining the plan for the organization of motorcycle volunteer, says: "Doubtless in case the present crisis should unhappily become more acute, the services of motorcyclists would be The Unreasonable Customer and the 20-Year-Old Gun "Perhaps tlie customer is always j right, but, as the Sporting Goods ! Sales Journal recently remarked,; some of them must stretch their oon- i sciences out of shape in the effort to make themselves appear in the* right," observed a department head! in a well-known gun factory. "There's a good instance of it," lie said, as he pointed to several letters reposing on his desk. "That man j complained that his double gun liad bulged in both barrels and wanted to | know what we purposed doing about i it. We had him send the gun to us 1 and our experts, after careful exam- j. ination, found that one barrel showed ' unmistakably- that it bulged through excessive pressure developed by some shotgun shells which had been used in it. The other one bore i every indication of having been tired ; with an obstruction in it. "It was plain to anyone that we | were not in fault, but in the effort to j satisfy the owner of the gun. and; after explaining the result of our ex- ) animation, we offered to supply n! pair of new barrels at very much less: than the wholesale price. "We supposed we were acting very j generously and that almost any cus- j tomer would appreciate such treat- 1 ment. But this chap evidently was not built that way, for he wrote us a, scorching letter in which he ques-1 tioned our truthfulness, and ordered! the gun returned to him in its original j condition, which, of course, was done, i "The laughable and unreasonable 1 part of the matter is that our factory stopped making that particular model t about ten years ago and that the se rial number on this particular gun' showed it had been shipped out of the factory more than twenty years ago. 1 "Such unreasonableness as this; makes me wonder what sort of a re ply would be made to a customer who smashed a pair of cylinders on a twenty-year-old automobile and then i expected the manufacturer to replace! them absolutely free of charge." rHEAGY BROTHERS JSPX ATHLETIC wl|p> ANNOUNCEMENT The new season is at hand the crack of bat and /W ball is already heard in the land Golfers are begin- nine to be active, and Tennis players are looking for- serving this year ~ I J O the men and women Boys! How about Ward tO OlltdoOl* COlirt plaV. . players better than Spalding Uniforms? r J ever. Autograph and _ ' Gold Medal rackets, \IT Tea^ue 3 team! ARE READY with a full line of the I and cheaper but ex- I big league teams cellent rackets to fit wear them. Let us World's Standard I every pocket No. I measure up your OOH Hard court team for an outfit ' , balls are the favor , . . „ , „ _ _ _ on all courts. —bats, balls, gloves, 11* m masks, shoes, etc. CB I ffl "■ CB Athletic Goods r Base Ball; Golf, Lawn Tennis and the implements / I? I and needful things for other Spring and Summer \\SJ\/ i u j : games and sports. ' Jj Whatever article you need for your favorite diversion, || Hf Play Ball U "?„°V? 17 goK J TT 9 Tk a 1 balls will help your [Arffissfffirss: Headv Brothers The 'jt? ply or basr iaii goods, " +7 M. U Red Honor and Bul includinff uniforms, etc., | et Honor for the lion is to be found here 1200 NORTH THIRD STREET I long " players; also I in great varieties that balls and clubs for " HARRISBURG, K*. I every kind of player, j very necessary and valuable. The ex perience of the contending forces on the other side of the ocean demon strates that motorcycle forces can and must be used for service which would be less satisfactorily performed by any other brancn of the service." Captain Davis, assistant quartermas ter In charge of the entire southern dis trict, in a recent interview, said of the motorcycle forces on the Mexican bor der: "Motorcycles have proved very sat isfactory in service on the border. All of the officers want them and If war should come we will have to have very many more of them." With these endorsements it is be lieved that it will not be difficult t6 interest the riders to form local organi zations so that they will at least be partially prepared should their coun try need them. OBOBOOOOOCaOCaOEaOBOOOOOBO S CYCLING— [ g The "Health Habit" [ E Do you get too little exercise? That's bad. You need to take up the "health habit." Get on a wheel jMfal \ C for half an hour every bright morning this Spring i and see what a difference it makes. No more stiff V joints, flabby muscles, dull brain cells. You'll I I J breathe deep, sleep sound, hit hard—and what an ' C J appetite you'll have! I 0 At the Cycle Show you'll find the following { J well-known makes of bicycles: JT' j f 1 Racycle Reading Standard * 1[I!'-L \ America Elyria j Ip?* £ | The New 1917 Harley-Davidson [ These makes are shown in men's, 1 S I . women's, boys' and girls' models; priced from $25 up to SSO. af i I | SEE THEM AT THE CYCLE SHOW j J Heagy Bros. f U 1200 N. Third St. .ri MPHWUX > - (Corner Cumberland) [J > C ' ! M Branch, Carlisle, Pa. Si II I OBOBOBOBOBOCaOBOBOBOBOBO Spain's Ammunition Trade Is Real Monopoly The manufacture and sale of explo sives in Spain is a monopoly owned by the Government, which rented it for twenty years beginning in 1898 <o the Union Espanola de Explosives, with headquarters at Madrid) Apar tado No. 66, says the American consul a' Barcelona in reporting the unusual] situation prevailing in Spain. By the terms of the agreement, tho Union enjoys the exclusive right of sale and manufacture of all kinds of explosives in Spain, with the provis ion that the Government itself for thy use of the army and navy may be ex cepted from annually. The prices for certain commodities are stipulated by the Government;! those of other articles are fixed by the monopoly, but controlled by the Gov ernment. Previous to the grant of the monopoly, the Union was obliged to purchase the munition factories al ready established in Spain. Of the seven factories now belong ing to the monopoly only three are in operation. These execute orders es pecially for the tilling of hunting cartridges. The monopoly purchases most of its supplies from England and the United States. WHY SOME SALESMEN'S SAItAKIES NEVER INCREASE "Bicycle trousers? No, we don't carry them. Nobody rides a bicycle nowadays; they went out of style years ago," was the witless response ; made to a prospective customer by a 1 near-salesman in a big sporting goods | store which maintains a clothing do ! partinent. And curious to relate, bi- I cycles are sold In another part of tho same house. FIRST-because they -LAST, rbldsrnith SPOKM VJEuaranteed GOODS JL Uniform*, Glor®, \ Mitt*, Ball*, Etc. JA. Ua*d whvw^Baaeb*]i [ Th, "PEER" of all— \ | Goldsmith \ JfflM Official League Ball I Gw*tl 1< ln*i*i : enpp DIAMOND/ IKLL DOPE/ Ru*itM* < HswtPitch"; Picture* / Official Playing Rulw. / JJH j P. GOLDSMITH'S SONS. / lanufacturart Cincinnati, 0. HEAGY BROS. 1200 N. Third Street (Corner ("umberlnnd Branch; Carlisle, Pa.
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