Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 14, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The lead editorial announces the League's alliance with the weekly Motor Cycle Illustrated and Bicycling World, offering members a year's subscription for an extra dollar, then runs on through scrap-book notes on the Sept. 7 banquet, the Belding-Merseles-Whitney-Nickerson nominating ticket, and the history of the mile bicycle record from Ralph Ahl (1882) to the paced professional mark of 1.09 1-5.
- Reports that the offices of The Irish Cyclist at 34 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin, were destroyed during the Sinn Fein insurrection, along with the death of staff writer Miss Mabel Richards ("Peter Wanderwide"), while noting editor J. C. Percy and contributor E. J. O'Reilley ("Scorcher") survived.
- A humorous Irish Cyclist item recalling the "No. 34" fine-box at the Irish Cyclist office, which fined visitors for bad language and "funny" stories to fund Christmas dinners for Dublin's poor children, lost in the revolutionary flames of 1916.
- Looks back to July 1901 when James R. Dunn was L. A. W. President with 20,242 members, recounting the amateur dispute with the A. A. U. and Racing Board chairman Chas. E. Randall, and the Detroit Meet where Zimmerman, W. F. Murphy, B. J. Graham and N. H. Van Sicklen raced and Sterling Elliott promoted the Hickory bicycle.
- Describes a two-day automobile outing of the Nylaw Association of New York on June 10-11, arranged by William M. Frisbie and C. J. Obermayer, running along Long Island's south shore to Huntington and back via Roslyn and Mineola, with all participants also members of the L. A. W. and the Boston Bicycle Club.
- The Nominating Committee (Fred D. Irish, Wm. M. Thomas, Marriott C. Morris) presents its ticket for the September Annual Meeting: Milo M. Belding, Jr. for President, Theodore F. Merseles for First Vice-President, Elmer G. Whitney for Second Vice-President, and Augustus Nickerson for Auditor, after George D. Gideon declined the presidency.