Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 18, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Abbot Bassett opens the February 1920 number with a verse on spring riding and short scrap-book squibs, and notes the League office's new address under Boston's renumbered postal stations (Newtonville 60, Mass.).
- Reports the forty-second annual meeting of the Boston Bicycle Club at the Boston Art Club on January 14th, electing Charles C. Ryder president, Augustus Nickerson secretary-treasurer and Walter G. Kendall captain.
- Notes that 3,256 St. Louis wheelmen paid the dollar bicycle license fee in 1919 versus 1,071 motorcyclists, and that newspaper features on "The Return of the Wheel" point to a big 1920 revival.
- A seasonal essay on St. Valentine, the bishop and martyr put to death at Rome in 270, and the antiquity of the custom of drawing valentines.
- Recalls the L. A. W. office's 1894-95 move to Chicago and back to Boston, the League's peak membership of 105,000, and members nearing 40 years of service since the 1880 Newport founding.
- Obituary of light-opera singer Pauline Hall, who died of pneumonia at Yonkers, N. Y. on Dec. 29; a keen cyclist, she rode with the Rover Cycle Club of Charlestown and was feted by the Chicago and Lincoln clubs.
- Contrasts a Southern Californian's praise of year-round riding weather with the winter sports a New England wheelman can still enjoy.
- Signed "W. G. T.," a reminiscence of being caught in a speed trap at Patchogue, Long Island in the early '90s and the justice remitting the fine after riding the writer's bicycle himself.
- Reprints a C. T. C. Gazette tale of a young rider near Berkhampstead who could not shake a white-haired elderly cyclist, covering the last 10 miles to Watford in half an hour.
- A dated chronicle of cycling events from spring 1882, including the McKee & Harrington reversed-crank bicycle, the Pope Mfg. Co.'s advertising war and patent suit over the Bicycling World, the L. A. W. Chicago meet electing Wm. H. Miller president, and early record rides by H. L. Cortis and George M. Hendee's first race win at Springfield.
- Argues that rising street-car and railroad fares are reviving bicycle demand among workers commuting several miles, while women have largely abandoned the wheel for tight skirts and automobiles.
- Lists the delegates and ex-officio members nominated to the L. A. W. National Assembly by state, from New York and Massachusetts through California, Michigan and Wisconsin, signed by Abbot Bassett, Sec-Treas.