Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 3
Articles in this issue
- The Boston Bicycle Club's forty-first annual dinner at the Boston Athletic Association clubhouse on Feb. 8, where 56 old-timers gathered under toastmaster Andrew O. McGarrett, with versifier Quincy Kilby's menu, club artist C. W. Reed's decorations, and re-elected president George B. Woodward, who first led the club forty-one years earlier.
- The New Haven Bicycle Club Veteran Association's annual meeting and dinner on Jan. 24 at Cafe Mellone marking the 39th anniversary of the club, where Fred Atwater's appeal led 14 wheelmen to join the L. A. W. and the members voted to make Abbot Bassett an associate member.
- Praise for Frank P. Sibley of the Boston Bicycle Club, war correspondent of the Boston Globe with the 26th Division in France, as relayed by John E. Coolidge who met him at the Christmas dinner at Chaumont attended by President Wilson and Gen. Pershing.
- Officers elected by the Century Road Club Association at its January meeting, including Centurion John J. Marquard, secretary Bert C. Marquard, and treasurer A. R. Jacobson, with Vito Cestone noted as winner of the 1918 weekly point races.
- Chairman A. R. Jacobson's annual report of the Century Road Club's 1918 century and mileage competition, led by James Paul of Jersey City (6,288 miles), and noting new records by James Paul and Vito Cestone (New York to Atlantic City) and F. M. Sanborn (Hagerstown to Baltimore).
- Shipment statistics showing 24,875 military bicycles sent overseas to France, of which 23,625 bore the Columbia nameplate from the Westfield factory, with returning soldiers reporting the wheels stood the war's rough treatment well.
- Ex-president Fred Atwater of Bridgeport, Conn. enrolled his three-month-old grandson Joel Cabot Goldthwait as an L. A. W. member, prompting talk of a possible future "Baby Division."
- Obituary of Willis Farrington, an early rider and founder of the Boston Bicycle Club and the L. A. W. at Newport who died Oct. 10, followed by obituaries of Dr. Clarence J. Blake (life member No. 355) and Henry Lowell Hiscock (member No. 130), and a note on veteran velocipedist Charles G. Allen of Providence at 70.
- President Elmer G. Whitney's letter to members welcoming the membership increase, crediting past president Atwater for fourteen new New Haven members, and reminding members that the National Assembly will be held in Boston in September 1919 followed by the W.A.T.H.
- President Elmer G. Whitney declares the singly-nominated representatives duly elected without a mail election and invites every delegate to the next National Assembly in Boston, Mass., on Sept. 11, 1919.
- A Manchester Guardian correspondent's description of a captured German wartime bicycle near the front, built with no rubber or leather: metal spring tires, a paper seat, a thin-metal tool-bag painted like leather, and wooden pedal grips.
- A humorous item reprinting a New York paper's joke about a Bostonian's elaborate diction warning a motorist that his lamp was out, ending with a newsboy's plain "Say, mister, yer lamp's out!"