Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 12, No 4

Articles in this issue

• Birthdays at the Venice.

  Reports the large turnout of wheelmen at the Monday Club's meeting at Hotel Venice on March 9, held to mark the sixty-ninth birthday of editor Abbot Bassett ("Esstee").
• Reuben S. Swan of Brookline, Mass.

  Obituary of Reuben S. Swan, longtime L.A.W. member and founder of the Brookline National Bank, who died at his Brookline home on February 20 in his sixty-fifth year.
• The First Bicycle Club Run.

  Recounts the first bicycle club run in the United States, held by the Boston Bicycle Club on March 9, 1878, with eyewitness accounts from the American Bicycling Journal and Acting-Captain Frank W. Weston leading the riders to Longwood.
• The Literature of Cycling.

  Editorial lamenting that no great novelist has made the bicycle the theme of a masterpiece, contrasting it with the road treatments of Dickens, Blackmore, and Harrison Ainsworth.
• Shall the Federal Government aid the States to build Good Roads.

  Discusses the Shackleford-Hoke Smith Bill allowing the Federal Government to spend up to twenty-five million dollars annually aiding the States with road building, weighing the objection that richer states bear the cost.
• Will It Come Back?—In Our Day?

  Reprints a Philadelphia Press piece on the passing of the six-hundred-member Century Wheelmen of Philadelphia, predicting a revival of bicycling spurred by improved roads.
• Nominating Committee.

  Official notice from President Quincy Kilby appointing Fred Atwater of Bridgeport, W. L. Lockhart of Philadelphia, and Walter M. Meserole of Brooklyn to nominate national officers for the next annual election.