Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 18, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead scrap-book column jokes about June's bleak weather, notes the L. A. W. will celebrate its 40th anniversary at the September annual meeting, and recalls the founders at Newport, R. I.
- Report of the 34th annual dinner of the Rovers' Cycle Club of Charlestown, Mass., held at the Boston City Club on May 15, electing Edward H. Norris president, Robert C. Loring secretary-treasurer and E. G. Wiswell captain, with guests Charles C. Ryder, Walter G. Kendall and Abbot Bassett.
- Account of the Hartford Wheel Club's annual reunion dinner at the Elm Tree Inn, Farmington, with toastmaster A. H. Schumacher, songs led by Charlie Sponsel, and speakers including George M. Hendee, ex-Senator Samuel S. Chamberlain and A. Kennedy Child; H. K. Lee was elected president.
- Germantown, Pa. boys held decorated-bicycle runs under John M. Rose and the new Quaker City Cycling Association (President Walter Harley), featuring an American Star and a triplet machine; also notes England's C. T. C. doubled its dues and grew to 10,047 members.
- The V. W. A. of Philadelphia held its annual dinner at the Musical Arts Club on May 7, presided over by President W. L. Lockhart, with speeches by Alex Johnson (aged 72, rode 2500 miles) and Marriott C. Morris; L. Bediehimer was elected president.
- Louis Pierron, president of the rejuvenated North Side Cycling Club of Milwaukee, names a new control committee under William A. Zealley; the club, founded by Pierron in 1892, hosted the July 1900 L. A. W. Meet.
- The C. R. C. held its 13-mile handicap on May 16, won by Tom Volpe; E. C. Bendi of the Unione Sportiva Italiana set a road record of 33.25 and took the time prize.
- A Massachusetts right-of-way law, granting priority to vehicles approaching from the driver's right at intersections, becomes operative June 29, modeled on similar Connecticut and New Jersey laws.
- Cincinnati's new Queen City Girls' Bicycle Club, with president Miss Zetta Segmeyer and 28 charter members chaperoned by Mrs. Mary Gilfoyle, plans Saturday rides to nearby towns for open-air exercise.
- A chronology of cycling events from autumn 1883, including the grand three-day Springfield, Mass. tournament under Henry E. Ducker, the formation of the Indiana Division, A. H. Robinson's records, and Abbot Bassett's first U. S. tricycle century from Chelsea.
- President Elmer G. Whitney addresses L. A. W. members on the organization's 40 years since its Newport founding, its 1898 peak of 103,293 members, its good-roads legacy, and urges attendance at the September Assembly Meeting and the 'Wheel about the Hub.'