Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 17, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett marks the League of American Wheelmen passing its 39th birthday on May 31st, recalling past celebrations and looking ahead to the 40th, amid the editorial scrap-book of jokes and notes.
- The Boston Bicycle Club gave a dinner for war correspondent Frank P. Sibley of the Boston Globe at the Boston Art Club House on April 21st, where Sibley spoke for two hours on the front lines and was presented a gold fountain pen; attendees included Capt. W. G. Kendall, Quin Kilby and Abbot Bassett.
- Some 50-60 old wheelmen gathered at the Calumet Club on April 12 for the annual Milwaukee Wheelmen dinner, with songs, lantern-slide photographs of old-timers, and talks by former champions Walter 'Wallie' Sanger and 'Terry' Andrae.
- The Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia held a Victory Dinner at Kugler's restaurant on May 7, serving Philadelphia chicken in the Gold Room with serious speeches but no vaudeville or cabaret.
- A serial chronology of cycling's prehistory and early machines, from a 1642 hobby-horse window at Stoke Poges through Drais's Draisene, Macmillan, Dalzell, Karl Kech and Pierre Lallement's 1865 arrival in America; marked 'to be continued.'
- Bassett revisits his old dispute with H. H. Griffin of England over whether the velocipede counts as a bicycle, and notes a transatlantic argument over the first bicycle club, the Pickwick (1870) versus the Edinburgh Amateur clubs.
- Robert Bruce, former editor of the Bicycling World (1893-97), has prepared a 32-page illustrated brochure on touring the Gettysburg battlefield, with maps and an account of the three days' fighting and Lincoln's address, sold for 50 cents from Clinton, N.Y.
- Rhode Island has adopted a rule-of-the-road law requiring drivers to keep right when meeting, pass left when overtaking, and yield at intersections to vehicles approaching from the right.
- The L.A.W. Nominating Committee renominates the 1918-1919 officers for 1919-20: Elmer G. Whitney (president), Wm. M. Frisbie, Josiah S. Dean, Abbot Bassett and Augustus Nickerson, with ballots to be mailed to the National Assembly on Aug. 1.