Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 13, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's leading editorial musing that April has been the great news month of the year, listing events from the American Revolution and Lee's surrender to the San Francisco earthquake and Titanic disaster, and recounting Esstee's seventieth-birthday gathering.
- A contributed piece of verse by Quincy Kilby honoring Abbot Bassett's reaching threescore years and ten, weaving quotations from Goldsmith, Homer, Shakespeare and Carlyle into a tribute.
- An editorial claiming the first bicycle in the U.S. was a Meyer machine that Wm. M. Wright of New York brought from France in October 1873, ridden over New York roads and around North Quincy, Mass., predating Prof. Brown's 1874 stage wheel.
- A reprinted column from the Irish Cyclist in which 'Scorcher' recounts his youth as a keen walker on the Dublin and Wicklow mountains before deciding cycling was the better game of the two.