ee with Antiquing : Joel Sater “Motorcycle Craze Started In 1903” In 1913 Sears-Roebuck put out a small catalog entitled “Sears ~ Auto Cycles.” This is what they had to say about motorcycles: ~ “Ten years ago (1903) practic- ~ ally everybody owned or wanted a bicycle; today the call is strong for motorcycles. Only a short time ago a motorcycle . was considered more or less of a toy and recreation for racers, but. . .today (it) is recognized as a praciggel and superior means of transgportation.” Most of us know that the auto- mobile industry swept like a fierce wind out of nowhere at the turn of the century and re- volutionized our entire nation in less than fifteen years. But few know that motorcycles for a few of these early years almost paralleled the automobile in popularity. “Now motorcycles are suc- cessfully used in a hundred dif- ferent lines of work and the sport feature is only one phase of its many uses,’’ the pamphlet continues. Thousands of Uncle Sam’s rycal route mail carriers were us a: cycles to replace the horse and buggy mail delivery system. Special delivery and messenggpr services also were using. them. The linemen of the large telephone and telegraph companies were using thou- sands of them, especially in thinly settled parts of the country. : “In the cities the agent, solic- itor and doctor” were finding them great for rapid and inex- pensive transportation. Acces- sories for motorcycles had already become big business by 1913. Sears offered two side- cars, one for only $66.50, the other $74.50. A luggage carrier rack could be had with or with- out a cushion for an extra rider. A special set of saddle bags were designed for messenger and postal service. The cycles came without lights, but they were available as ‘‘extras’ in either carbide or gas types. A speedometer could be had which worked by friction off of a roller against the tire. Goggles, tool kits, locking chains, mud guards and fancy motorcycle suits made of Olive Brown Whipcord were offered with or without leather puttees and guantlet gloves. At this period, 1913, motor- cyles, belt or chain driven, were actually just heavy bicycles motorized. They even had standard bicycle pedal and chain drive to help the motor when needed, or to move you along on wheels if the motor conked out. According to the pamphlet at this time Sears made four basic models. One called the “Leader,” a single cylinder job which sold for only $150.00, two in-between models and a “Dreadnaught Nine’ twin-cy- linder with armored magneto, eclipse clutch and a spring seat post. Nine horsepower. The price for all this $237.50. The motorcycle today is primarily a sport for recreation vehicle. Why did such a facile means of transportation lose out over the years to the more bulky and costly auto? Anyone know the answer? (Always happy to receive reader’s stories about antiquing and collecting. Material sent becomes the property of this column and cannot be returned. For free list of hundreds of books on antiques send 9x12 self-addressed envelope with 12° cent stamp. Write Joel Sater c-o this newspaper.) The Dreadnaught Nine, Sears Roebuck’s “Big Gun’’ motorcycle of 1913. The price than $237.50. With Side Car attached, add $66.50. lawn social set Aug. 29 and 30 The annual “Lawn Social” of St. Mary’s Greek Rite Catholic Church, Chestnut Avenue, Kingston will be held Aug. 20 and 30. gu The two-day affair will | feature numerous stands of en- tertaining, with special areas for the youngsters. A wide variety of foods will be pre-. served by the Rosary pared af Society including holupki, kel- basi, pirohi, pagach, goulash, and potato pancakes. A special feature Aug. 30 will be the serving of dinners im- mediately following the second Mass at St. Mary’s. Advance re- servations are being accepted by Rosary members, Mrs. Joseph Evans, Swoyersville; Mrs. Emil Coach, Edwards- ville; and Mrs. Andrew Walli- son, Kingston. General chairman for the “Lawn won is William A. AdanceW®cz, Edwardsville, and assisting as co-chairmen are John Evans, Chestnut Avenue, Kingston, and John Petro, Trucksville. Honorary chair- man is the pastor of St. Mary's, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Nicholas J. Bonetzky. Clubs and organizations of St. Mary’s are aiding with the plans. These include the Amer- ican Rusin Club, Catholic War Veterans Post, choir, altar boys, trustees, Rosary, Sodal- ity, Holy Name and interested parishioners. The public is invited to attend the two-day ‘Lawn Social.” Thirty-five countries adopted nickel and various nickel alloys for 70 new coins in 1969. i Te ge a 7 RE io Ty THE DALLAS POST, AUGUST 20, 1970 2% 37 Mrs. Frank E. Wojcik Jr. Fiesta revisited on Channel 44 The Misericordia College Folk Singers and the Wilkes- Barre Ballet Theatre’ Company ~will appear on, Wilkes-Barre: Fiesta Revisited,” a. special three and one-half hour program to be presented on Channel 44, Aug. 29, at 7:30 p.m. Many other area groups will be included in the program. observes birthday Jean Maledar and Minnie Wesley, Loyalville, spent the day recently helping Walter Wesley Jr. celebrate his birth- day. He is a multiple sclerosis patient at the Schultz Building in Danville. WVIA-TV, the area’s public television station, taped - the special; 210. minute show, at, the 1970 Wilkes-Barre Fine, Arts: Fiesta earlier this summer at Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. The Fiesta, the oldest of its kind in Pennsylvania, was staged this year by the Wilkes-Barre Fine Arts Council as part of a statewide ‘‘Pennsylvania Festival 1970’’ program. WVIA-TV also taped two pro- grams for the state network’s “Festivals of Pennsylvania” series, while at the Fiesta. However, the entertainment from those two programs is not to be included in the special broadcast Aug. 29. go PAGE NINE | Deborah Kleiner, bride In double ring ceremony Deborah Lee Kleiner, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Kleiner, Trucksville, became the bride of Frank E. Wojcik Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Wojcik, 19 Nicholson St., Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 15 at 11 a.m. in the Trucksville United Meth- odist Church, Trucksville. The double ring ceremony was performed by Dr. Laurence Beers. Nancy Hoida was the organist and Virginia Jenkins was the soloist. The bride, given in marriage by her father, wore an exclusive gown in white silk organza over Peau taffeta. Complementing her gown, she wore a bouffant veil of finest illusion ar- ranged to an Alencon lace Camelot embellished in pearls and crystals. She carried a nosegay of white cymbidium orchids and stephanotis. Wendy Neilson was maid of honor. She wore a maize chiffon gown over silk taffeta and a annual Haymarket scheduled Sept. 5 More than 35 antique dealers from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey will participate in the 11th ann Haymarket Out- fair features baby contest The annual Dallas Fall Fair baby parade will be held Aug. 29 at 12:30 p.m. at the Lehman Horse Show Grounds. Con- testants will be ages six years and under. There will be prizes awarded to all entrants and special awards for prettiest, funniest, most original, youngest, cutest’ couple and largest group. Chairman of the baby contest is Jackie Sheehan who is assisted by Jane Thomas, Martha Reese, and Ruth Am- brose. door Antiques and Art Show and Sale which will be held Sept. 5 in a large field on Rt. 309 midway between Dallas and Tunkhan- nock from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The affair is being sponsored by the Harmony Chapter, No. 58, Order of the Eastern Star ‘and will be held in a large, cleared field in the village of Evans Falls on Rt. 309. Antique furniture, glassware, china, copper, brass and mis- cellaneous items of interest to collectors and fanciers will be found at The Haymarket. Robert Heffelfinger of Scran- ton will have paintings display- ed on the outside wall of a rustic, weathered barn adjacent to the antiques area. A snack bar will be set up on the premises and there is ample space for easy, level parking. In case of rain, the show will be held the following day, Sept. 6. ‘bridal attendants; white nylon picture hat with maize satin streamers. She carried a fireside basket of yellow and white daisy mums. Bonnie Long and Sally Harter were bridesmaids. Joanne Suda and Justine Sherman were junior bridesmaids. Jill Cromp- ton was flower girl. All the at- tendants were attired identical- ly to the maid of honor. Thomas Zawilski was best man. Ushers were Robert W. Kleiner II, brother of the bride and Dennis Boyle. Junior ushers were William C. Kleiner, brother of the bride, and George Suda. Following the ceremony a re- ception was held at the Irem Temple Country Club, Dallas, after which the couple left on a wedding trip to Wildwood Crest, N.J. The bride graduated from Dallas Senior High School. The bridegroom is a graduate of GAR High School and Wilkes College, where he received a B.A. degree in English. He is a member of the faculty at Coughlin High School. The bride was entertained at a kitchen shower given by her a linen shower given by Mrs. Andrew Christy and Mrs. Raymond Price, aunts of the bride; a variety shower given by Mrs. Robert Scott, Mrs. Preston Sturdevant and Mrs. Josiah Jenkins, aunts of the bride, and a variety shower given by Mrs. Robert Weale, sister of the bridegroom. The bride’s parents entertain- ed the bridal party at a rehear- sal dinner at the Irem Temple Country Club, Dallas. executive mansions display American inspiration by William Pahlmant The executive mansions of our 50 states are all uniquely in- ‘teresting rand display various “ facetseof Arrlerican inspiration: "One of ‘the’ most historic is“the ‘executive mansion of the state of Virginia. Four future presi-- dents of the United States—Vir- ginia Governors Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler and William Henry Harrison, whose father was a Virginia governor,—have lived on this site. Patrick Henry also lived here, as well as Henry Lee, father of Robert E. Lee. Since 1881, 63 countries have used pure nickel for 159 denomi- nations of coins in 237 types. The double ballroom of Virginia’s executive mansion has been restored to its gracious Colonial charm and serves as the center of activities in the house. ; ¥ \ The house, which is situated in the heart of downtown Rich- mond, hard by the State House, was commissioned in 1810 and designed by Alexander Parris, ~aBoston: architect, whose plans were considerably embellished by the Commissioners of Public Buildings. It was completed in 1813, at a cost of approximately $19,000. Numerous changes and additions have been made since that time. The house was saved from destruction by fire during the Civil War, when a volunteer bucket brigade mounted the roof. The body of Stonewall Jackson is reputed to have in state in what is now the double ballroom. It is a house which has known all the joys and vicis- situdes of living. I was fortunate enough to be invited to visit the Virginia executive mansion during the administration of Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr. When I lectured at the Tuckahoe Women’s Club, my luncheon companion was Mrs. Godwin, who graciously suggested a tour. We were met at the house by Allen Denny Ivie, the Rich- mond interior designer who carried out a partial restoration program for Mrs. Godwin. All areas of the house received some attention during the Godwin administration, but Mr. Ivie noted that the most exten- sive work was done in the beau- tiful double ballroom on the first floor. The mansion is in the Geor- gian style, with square, vertical lines and columned porch, sof- tened by fine old trees and a cir- cular drivé in front. The en- trance hall has two fine Chip- pendale chests, circa 1775, made of mahogany with serpen- tine fronts and bracket feet, with the original brass hard- ware. They are surmounted by a pair of antique mirrors of Federal design, with gold leaf reeded frames and white and gold panels at the top. There are two Queen Anne wing chairs up- holstered in capucine silk and cotton damask and a big old Feraghan rug in dark red, dark blue and rust tones. The color scheme of the Drawing Room derives from the pastel blue-and-rose Ker- man rug with a champagne background. The walls are robin’s egg blue with a dado and wood trim in antique white. Curtains with shirred valances are antique white-silk damask with blue-and-white silk fringe. The Hepplewhite sofa is mahog- any upholstered in a damask of green-and-rose silk and cotton. There is a beautiful oval Adam mirror and a fine portrait in this room. The dining room is oval in shape and the antique three- pedestal table by Duncan Phyfe and custom rug repeats this shape. Host chairs are Queen Anne, with high backs: ‘and ca-- briole legs, upholstered in gold worsted satin with the seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia hand-embriodered on the inside backs. Over the Hepplewhite sideboard hangs a portrait of Col. William Byrd II, by George Vaughan Curtis. The Washing- ton Room, so called from the steel engravings in antique ma- hogany frames, depicting Gen. Washington and his family, which hang there, is distin- guished by an unusually fine Hepplewhite breakfront, circa 1790, mahogany with inlay. On the second floor, the front hall has been treated as a sitting room where personal friends of the governor’s family are re- ceived. The antique white from the first floor has been used as a background. Curtains and pouf valances are hand-woven silk lamps of French rose and cream on gold, and the Chip- pendale sofa is upholstered in the same fabric. The governor’s chamber on this floor has a color scheme of beige, coral and blue derived from the hand- blocked chintz used for curtain, bed hangings and a wing chair. An antique Hepplewhite chest of drawers, swell-bow front, made of mahogany with inlay, is of unusual interest. It retains its original brass hardware in the eagle-and-snake motif. Of special interest is the La- fayette room, where Gen. La- fayette is rumored to have slept when he visited Richmond in 1824. The color scheme in this room derives from the Kashmir rug in tones of blue, rose and cream. The bedspread is a cream cotton-and-wool damask quilt with white, twisted-rope fringe, and the hanging and skirt of the bed are cream-em- broidered cotton-and-linen lace stripe, with a canopy of dacron and linen casement. There is a Chippendale chest of drawers, serpentine with chamfered corners, of mahogany with inlay, and a fine portrait of “Mrs. Sinclair,” by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Whether Lafayette actually slepf here or not is in the realm of legend, but it is well known that the room was occupied by Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales, by President and Mrs. Howard Taft, Charles Lindbergh, Richard E. Byrd, Queen Mother Elizabeth of England and Wins- ton Churchill. The double ballroom on the first floor of the mansion, which (along with the drawing room, the dining room and the Wash- ington room) is used for state functions, is now treated as twin drawing rooms, separated by an open colonade connecting the entrance hall and the dining room. These rooms are the focal point of the first floor and the center of entertaining activit- ies. The excellent architectural mouldings, columns, door pedi- ~~ ments and the twin fireplaces are enhanced by the use of an antique white background. Rugs are gold cut pile, custom- made for the rooms. Curtains and valances are white, ivory- and-gold, silk-and-linen broca- tele, trimmed with gold silk, hand-tied fringe. The same fabric is used to upholster two Chippendale sofas and a wing chair. Overmante! mirrors in three sections, with elaborate gilt carvings, are used in both rooms. In the south ballroom, the fireplace is flanked by half- circle satinwood console tables, of Adam design, and 18th century mahogany chairs with carved fretwood legs and high curved backs, upholstered in red-and-green-on-white floral silk lampas. In the north ballroom, the seating pieces include a two- back Chippendale settee in ma- hogany, copied from the chairs in the State dining room of the White House, and a Hepple- white wheel-back chair, both upholstered in gold silk-and- cotton satin. Coffee tables in both rooms are mahogany with rosewood banding and boxwood inlay, Sheraton ovals with pe- destals. They are flanked by Sheraton open-arm chairs of mahogany inlaid with satin wood sunbursts and upholstered in blue, white and gold silk-and- cotton striped fabric. Throughout the first floor por- traits of Virginia governors and distinguished Virginians are used. Many of these paintings are on loan from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The guest cottage in the garden has an entrance hall, living room and kitchen on the ground floor and two bedrooms and bathrooms on the second floor. The color schemes in all these rooms are based on docu- mentary prints and wallpapers. There are numerous old prints of historical interest. A collec- tion of Colonial cooking equip- ment distinguishes the old kitchen, which retains its orig- inal brick floor. The elegance and distinction of the interiors of this executive mansion attest to the care, de- votion to detail and affection which have animated those who have worked on it. -- a * o_o ¢ bw. FASEDSRER IRR RREE tei ptr
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