Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 14, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Prints a letter from C. F. Olin, secretary of the "Million Bicycles" Committee of Bristol, Conn., asking the Official Bulletin to herald a revival of bicycle riding, introducing the editor's reply.
- Abbot Bassett's reply declines to aid the trade's campaign, noting only the Hendee and Veeder companies advertise while Pope's successors at Westfield refused, and recalling the L. A. W.'s long fight for cyclists' road rights and the Good Roads movement.
- Colonel Francis S. Hesseltine, a retired Boston lawyer, Civil War Medal of Honor recipient and America's representative of the Touring Club of France, died Feb. 17 at his Newtonville home after making several bicycle tours through England, France, Belgium, Norway and Italy.
- W. D. Sohier's report to an Atlanta good-roads meeting describes how England, France and Massachusetts have flattened the crown of macadam roads from three-quarters of an inch to a quarter-inch per foot to stop traffic from shearing down the edges.