Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 14, No 1

Articles in this issue

• A NEW LEAP YEAR.

  Bassett's lead editorial opens the new year and 14th volume with New Year musings and the leap-year marriage law of the old Scottish Parliament, noting in passing that A. Zimmerman finished 39th of 42 in Chicago's annual road race.
• THE LITTLE OLD BICYCLE.

  A poem by Quincy Kilby praising the bicycle as forerunner of the automobile and motorcycle, followed by scrap-book notes on the Pickwick Bicycle Club of London's 46th dinner and the upcoming Boston and Newton Bicycle Club dinners.
• [A Paris member's letter on wartime currency troubles]

  L.A.W. member No. 303 James Milton Erwin writes from Paris of the trouble and inflated bank rates he faced obtaining a dollar bill to pay his 1915 dues amid the war, promising another for 1916 "unless the market price here runs up too high."
• [Scorcher witnesses a Zeppelin raid]

  The Irish Cyclist's "Scorcher" columnist, sick in bed, describes watching a German Zeppelin caught in searchlights and shelled over London before it withdrew, while his friend A. J. Wilson ("Fred") filled in his regular column as "The Cooler."