Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 16, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Abbot Bassett's lead editorial closing the 16th volume of the Official Bulletin amid the Great War, running on into the continuous scrap-book column of squibs and member notes—including Fred I. Perrault of Malden winning the old-timers' sprint and being struck by a motorcycle side-car on the C.R.C.A. Long Island Fall Century Run, a history of the first bicycles in America (Thomas Martin of Rockland, Thomas B. Jeffery, and Wm. M. Wright's imported Meyer wheel), and items on women riders and good roads.
- President Elmer G. Whitney's Thanksgiving message to L.A.W. members welcoming the end of the war and thanking them for the generous response to the appeal funding the Official Bulletin's continued publication.
- Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett sets out the 1918 state-by-state apportionment of the 44 National Assembly representatives (New York 9, Mass. 7, Penn. 6, N.J. 3, etc.) and the constitutional nomination and election timetable, with the Assembly to meet Sept. 11th.