Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 14, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Abbot Bassett's lead editorial scrap-book column for May 1916, noting Hendee as the new "Col. Pope of wheeldom," Louis Enricht of Farmingdale's cheap water-based auto fuel, the Boston Bicycle Club's 467th run hosted by Wm. H. Edmands, Leon Didier's racing at Revere Beach under Nat Butler, and the new bicycle manufacturers' association headed by Harry S. Wise.
- Obituary of Charles W. Fourdrinier, who died March 29 at Dansville, N. Y. aged 70; an English-born descendant of the Fourdrinier paper-machine family, he succeeded Bassett as editor of the Bicycling World in 1886 and was a wheelman from the earliest days of the Boston Bi Club.
- Obituary of Wm. Lord of New York City (aged 74, L. A. W. member since 1891), who built a boneshaker at Webster, Mass. in 1868 and, as a New York cotton-mill superintendent in 1892, proved Sea Island cotton fabric superior to linen for pneumatic tires, leading the Dunlop Tire Company to adopt cotton.
- Advertorial praising the new Indian bicycle made by the Hendee Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Mass., detailing Models 10, 11 and 12 ($30-$40) and juvenile models ($25-$30), all carrying a one-year guarantee and sold in Boston at 188 Mass. Ave.
- Reproduces President W. H. Hale's letter of March 25, 1916 appointing Fred D. Irish (Boston), Wm. M. Thomas (Albany) and Marriott C. Morris (Philadelphia) as the committee to nominate national L. A. W. officers for the next annual election, with Irish as chairman.