Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 12
Articles in this issue
- L. A. W. member No. 129 Charles Fuller Gates recounts riding historic machines from Col. Albert A. Pope's collection in the Pomona, California, Historic Bicycle Parade of Oct. 31, 1919, tracing the velocipede, Columbia high wheel, Sterling Elliott's Hickory and the early Safety, and reports arranging 140 races across 22 states.
- The St. Louis Cycling Club dedicated a Montello red granite marker at Frisco Hill (Seckman Hill) near Antonio, Jefferson County, commemorating the Frisco Cycling Club's hard 1883 high-wheel run from St. Louis, with 38 riders attending the midnight ceremony and bonfire.
- An obituary tribute (signed "Andy") for Fairbanks, longtime President of the Waterproof Paint Co. of Watertown and a member of the Boston Bicycle Club, who died after an operation for cancer of the stomach, leaving two sons and two daughters.
- A dated chronicle of cycling events from 1880-1881, including the christening of Charles E. Pratt as "Father of the League," the Pope Mfg. Co.'s moves, Cunningham & Co.'s "Yale" and "Harvard" machines, the 1881 League Meet in Boston, and the New York Central Park test-case arrests.
- Reports that the long-dreamed-of $12,000,000 vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York is advancing, with test-boring contracts let and Chief Engineer Clifford M. Holland to report progress, authorized by the New York Legislature and signed by Governor Smith.
- A promotion for the L. A. W. Periodical Department, offering members lowest-rate magazine subscriptions and noting the New York printers' strike delayed the catalogue, now printed in another city.
- The Department of Agriculture announces more than $600,000,000 is available in the United States for hard-surface road construction in 1920, over four times the 1919 figure, with spending dependent on railroad cars to transport material.
- Reprinted from the Irish Cyclist, an account of how Dublin resident M. Foy Riviere, after seeing a two-wheeler near the Arc de Triomphe in 1868, bought a velocipede from maker Michaux and registered the first British bicycle patent.
- An Irish Cyclist item likening racing cyclists' drafting to the way wild ducks, geese and cranes fly in triangles or wedges, taking turns at the hard forward pacing position.
- Quoting the English Medical Press, explains that a cyclist expends less energy than a walker because nearly all effort goes to progression rather than to lifting the body to clear the swinging foot.