Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 12, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Abbot Bassett's leading editorial scrap-book column for June 1914, mixing seasonal notes, jokes and short cycling items including the Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia high jinks, the Milwaukee old-timers' reunion at the Calumet Club, and bicycle figures from France.
- Reports President Quincy Kilby's May 12 lecture at the Evans Memorial, Boston on "Moral Contagion from Books and Plays," defending actors and criticising Harvard's playwriting course and the play "Salvation Nell."
- Death notice for League member No. 1220 Lewis P. Cowell of New York City, who died of pneumonia on March 10; an enthusiastic cycler and former Secretary-Treasurer of the New York Nylaw, he leaves a widow.
- Announces the L.A.W. annual banquet and election meeting of Sept. 10 in Boston, followed by the Boston Bicycle Club's three-day "Wheel About the Hub" run via Cobbs', the Tavern at Mansfield, Ponkapog and Pemberton Inn, Nantasket, with attendance instructions.
- Reports officers elected at the N.C.A. annual meeting in New York: president D. M. Adee, vice-presidents Frank Mihlon and Inglis M. Uppercu, secretary R. A. Van Dyke, and racing-board chairman Richard F. Kelsey.
- The Nominating Committee's letter to Abbot Bassett proposing William H. Hale for president, George D. Gideon and Theodore Merseles as vice-presidents, Bassett as Secretary-Treasurer-Editor and George W. Nash as Auditor, with the constitutional election procedure (Article IV).