Vol 12, No 4

Articles in this issue

• Birthdays at the Venice. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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? (opens in a new tab)

  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. (opens in a new tab)

  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.