Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 15, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead column for July 1917 mixing Fourth-of-July reflections with League notes: two claimants for oldest member (Jarvis C. Howard of New Rochelle and Chas. W. Reed of Boston), the coming Wheel About the Hub and League banquet/election on Sept. 13-14, President Belding's million-dollar Liberty Bond subscription, and the new war tax's five per cent factory tax on bicycle tires.
- Esstee's (Bassett's) humorous narrative of the New York Division's annual three-day auto tour, June 8-10, 1917, with John Kelley, Chas. J. Obermayer, Walter M. Meserole, Wm. M. Frisbie, Jarvis C. Howard and A. J. Peters, running from New York City through Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford and Springfield to Albany and back down the Hudson, recalling the 1881 Central Park arrest case won for wheelmen by Col. Albert A. Pope and I. B. Potter.
- Obituary of Milo M. Belding, Sr., who died May 23, 1917, aged 84, founder and longtime president of the silk firm Belding Bros. & Co. and father of L. A. W. President Milo M. Belding, Jr.