Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 18, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett (Esstee) opens 1920 noting May 31 will mark the L. A. W.'s fortieth anniversary, the fresh member renumbering, and Chas. Fuller Gates's report of 58-year-old Lincoln Holland riding a 100-mile century at Los Angeles; threaded with the recurring misfortunes of the Boston Bi Club's Wheel About the Hub tour, whose host hotels (Kimball's, Massapoag House, Tudor Farm, the Mansfield Tavern) kept burning down.
- The Peoria Star recalls Peoria, Ill. as a cycling centre after the Peoria Bicycle Club's 1881 founding, naming Fred Patee, dealer Harry G. Rouse and racer S. H. Tripp, and lists the renumbered 1920 League members enrolled there.
- Louis Pierron surveys Milwaukee's cycling clubs, including the Milwaukee Wheelmen, North Side Cycling Club, Star Pointer, Wauwatosa, South Side and North Star Sportsmens clubs, noting Capt. Zealley's New Year's Run to Thiensville for the annual dinner.
- Discharged sailors Tony Pizzo and John Devine, betting against a remark by 'Fatty' Arbuckle, set out from Venice Beach handcuffed to their wheels to cross the American desert; Devine broke his collar bone at Hutchinson, Kan., but Pizzo pressed on to reach New York City on Nov. 1.
- The Boston branch of the Weather Bureau issues a new weekly New England weather and highway-condition road map, forecasting road states from Maine to Rhode Island and marking winter snow depths.
- A chronicle of cycling events of 1881-1882, including L. A. W. board meetings and races, Elsa Von Blumen's 1000-mile six-day ride at Pittsburgh, Louise Armaindo's rides, the Pope Mfg. Co. patent royalties, and the Central Park case decided against the wheelmen by Judge Lawrence.
- Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett sets the National Assembly representation from the Dec. 1, 1919 membership at 45 delegates (New York and Mass. seven each, Penn. six, N. J. three, etc.), with nominations filed in January, election in March, and the Assembly meeting Sept. 9.