Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 12, No 5

Articles in this issue

  • Abbot Bassett's leading editorial scrap-book column for May 1914, opening with weather sayings and gathering short items on the rising cycle car, the Boston Venetians' birthday celebrations, Samuel A. Miles's European automobile tour, and notice of the L.A.W. annual banquet and National Assembly on Sept. 10.
  • Will R. Pitman's reminiscence of the first bicycle club run of March 9, 1878, riding a Premier tricycle imported by Cunningham, Heath & Co. and following Papa Weston and other early Boston wheelmen until he fell out near Woodward's house.
  • A reprinted Washington Star verse in which a contented countryman is talked into discontent and a yearning for hothouse roses and a motor car by his neighbor Zeb Spicer.