Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Report of the 41st annual L.A.W. National Assembly held Sept. 2 at the Long Island Automobile Club, Brooklyn, with Secretary-Treasurer Abbot Bassett's report on membership (902, including 284 life members), finances, and a necrology noting deaths of A. G. Batchelder, Chas. F. Vail and others; Wm. M. Frisbie was re-elected President and Thomas H. Hall Vice President.
- An automobile tour of Long Island to and from Sag Harbor following the annual meeting, with Frisbie, Bassett, Hale, Fisher, the Whitneys, Green, Stark and Obermayer, stopping at the Belle Terre Inn and Theodore Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay.
- The thirty-second Wheel About the Hub (the thirtieth run by the Boston Bicycle Club), Sept. 9-10, starting from Leland Square, Roxbury, with wheelmen led by Capt. Walter G. Kendall, a visit to the Pine Ridge pet cemetery in Dedham, and a clam bake at Sibley's near Lake Massapoag.
- A humorous poem by G. H. W. on plants whose names mislead, from milkweed and buttercup to foxglove, pussy willows and snakeroot.
- A chronicle of 1886 cycling events including the L.A.W. Buffalo fall meeting (9,676 members), Hartford and Springfield races with Hendee, W. A. Rowe, Fred Wood and Willie Windle, Rowe's hour record, and the forming of the Sterling Cycle Co.; closes with an obituary of Chandler Motor Car vice-president and former Lozier bicyclist Charles A. Emise.