Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 4
Articles in this issue
- The Old Timers held their second yearly dinner at the Hotel Martinique, New York, on Feb. 21, with twelve present including Chairman George R. Bidwell, Wm. M. Frisbie, racing star Arthur A. Zimmerman and trainer Joe McDermott; they resolved to hold future dinners at the September L. A. W. meeting in Boston.
- Members of the Boston Bi Club, Newton Bi Club and Monday Club gathered at Marliave's on March 10th to mark editor Abbot Bassett's ("Esstee's") 74th birthday, where 78-year-old Charlie Reed was the oldest man present.
- Recalls League affairs of April 1894, when headquarters were in Boston but the Official Bulletin was published in Chicago, the Louisville Assembly excluded all but white people, membership totalled 36,979, and the Secretary recounts his short speech accepting 200 bottles of Kentucky whiskey for the visiting wheelmen.
- Obituary of financier and yachtsman Frederick Gilbert Bourne, who died March 9th at Oakdale, Long Island; commodore of the New York Yacht Club and president of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, he joined the L. A. W. on Oct. 16, 1880 and latterly held membership number 15.
- Cycling records compiled by Richard F. Kelsey of the National Cycling Association, including R. A. Walthour's fastest competition mile of 1:06 1-5 at Charles River Park (May 31, 1904) and H. Caldwell's 100 miles in 2h 48m, plus amateur championships by Gus Lang and Joseph Palmier.
- The North Side Cycling Club of Milwaukee elected officers for the year—President Louis Pierron, Vice President J. W. Warnken, Secretary Emil A. Schueppert and Treasurer Otto J. Tank—and will hold its annual road race on June 1; Pierron is profiled as the Grand Old Man of Western cycling.
- The annual reunion of the Rhode Island Wheelmen drew 135 former members to the Narragansett Hotel in Providence on March 8th, the evening's feature being chorus singing led by John B. Archer.
- Recounts the century-riding feats of former Century Wheelmen member Jack George, who toured Europe on a 19-pound Sterling in 1895 and in 1896 rode 70 centuries in 60 days, logging over 21,000 miles, then 32,479 miles the following year on a Wolfe-American wheel.
- An open letter from First Vice-President W. M. Frisbie urging old members to recruit new ones for the sake of Abbot Bassett and the League, citing the New Haven meeting where Ex-President Atwater's appeal won 14 renewed memberships.
- President E. G. Whitney announces the Nominating Committee for the 1919 League elections—Robert T. Kingsbury (Keene, N. H., chairman), Fred Atwater (Bridgeport, Conn.) and W. L. Lockhart (Philadelphia)—ahead of the mail vote in August and the National Assembly on September 11 in Boston.
- Lists new L. A. W. members enrolled since the last issue: Thomas F. Sheridan of Chicago (1073) and W. T. Farwell, Jr. of New York City (1074).
- Citing census figures of 2,900,000 bicycles in use in the United States, with 86 per cent ridden to and from work, the item estimates American workingmen save some $77,712,800 a year in street-car fares by cycling.