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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?
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and collecting. Material sent
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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.
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THE DALLAS POST, AUGUST 20, 1970
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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.
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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.
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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.
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