Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Report of the 39th annual meeting at Marliave's Hotel, Boston, Sept. 11, 1919, with Abbot Bassett's Secretary-Treasurer's report noting 83 new and 519 renewed members (the first membership gain since 1898), the financial statement, and the re-election of President Elmer G. Whitney, V.P. Wm. M. Frisbie, and Sec.-Treas. Bassett.
- Account of the 28th annual Wheel About the Hub run promoted by the Boston Bicycle Club, starting Sept. 12 from Leland Square, Roxbury, with stops at the 1636 Fairbanks House (where the club dedicated an elm tree to the family and a Mary Miles Minter "Anne of Green Gables" film scene was rehearsed), Massapoag Lake, and the Mansfield Tavern, where velocipede-maker Wm. Hanlon of the Hanlon Bros. was made an honorary member.
- The directors of the Cycle Trades of America met at the Hotel Belmont Aug. 20 and re-elected DeWitt Page of the Departure Manufacturing Company president, with Keyser Fry, W. G. Schack and F. J. Weschler as officers and Walter Rinck named executive secretary.
- H. G. Wolzendorf, Harry Lang, Walter Lang and Waldon Martin of the St. Louis Cycling Club completed a 250-mile bicycle tour of Yellowstone Park beginning Aug. 17, exiting via the Cody Canyon Road to Cody, Wyo.; it was veteran Wolzendorf's fifth such trip.
- Old-time racing man E. P. Burnham writes to the Los Angeles Examiner that he still rides the ordinary high wheel, recalls attending the L. A. W. annual meeting in Boston the previous fall, and hopes to return Sept. 19, 1920.
- Milo Belding writes from West Palm Beach, Florida, that the town has 4,000 bicycles and fourteen bicycle shops, more than two wheels per white family, which spares it street-car strikes and fare disputes.
- A chronology of 1879 cycling events, including the English Queen's Bench ruling that a bicycle is a carriage, early Boston and Providence races, the first long U.S. bicycle tour (Boston to the White Mountains), L. H. Johnson becoming the first American champion at Mott Haven, the Scribner's "Wheel Around the Hub" runs, and the founding of the Bicycling World.