Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead editorial announces that high paper, labour and postage costs force the Official Bulletin to cut from 16 to 12 pages and adopt smaller type, alongside scrap-book notes on the 1920 Chicago Cycle Show where Westfield Mfg. Co. and the Hendee Mfg. Co. (Indian) exhibited, the St. Louis Cycling Club's Dog Roast, and the Cycle Trades of America annual meeting.
- A reflective year's-end poem, followed by the obituary of George Sullivan Sweet, an old-time L. A. W. member and noted church and grand-opera singer who died Dec. 5 in New York.
- R. C. Geist reports the C. R. C. A. tour in which Centurion Joseph Caldwell, Walter Caldwell, Alex Whytock, Al Kiefer and Geist travelled from New York to Washington on Nov. 20-21, sightseeing the Washington Monument, Smithsonian and Arlington and glimpsing President Wilson in the park.
- A chronicle of cycling events from 1884, including Thomas Stevens reaching Boston on his round-the-world tour, Mark Twain's struggle with a bicycle, and races at the Hartford and Springfield tournaments featuring English riders Sanders Sellers, Dick Howell and Reuben Chambers against George M. Hendee and E. P. Burnham.