Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Nearly seventy veterans of the Hartford Wheel Club's "Old Guard" held their annual reunion at the Nathan Hale Inn, East Haddam, on Sept. 17 amid a thunderstorm that knocked out the lights; Lucius H. Elmer gave the speech of the evening and Everett C. Willson was elected president.
- A new 5.134-mile concrete State highway extending the Mohawk Trail from Shelburne into Greenfield, Mass., opened Oct. 12 at a cost near $315,000, replacing the old 12-per-cent grade with a 6-per-cent route; speakers included former Governor Samuel W. McCall and Congressman Allen Treadway.
- Ten members of the C. R. C. A., led by George C. Dresser, rode an informal century from Brooklyn to East Islip and back on Oct. 9, completing it in 8 hrs. 48 min. elapsed time, with riders such as Norbert Apat, Frank Bloedel and Willard Knecht on varied gears.
- A sentimental poem in praise of a young woman gliding along the street on her bicycle.
- Robert Bruce of Clinton, N. Y., winner of a $15 prize, reflects on more than thirty years' use of the bicycle as a versatile everyday reliance for mail, errands and recreation in his central New York village, defending it as "the sensible man's" mount rather than a poor man's one.
- Amos G. Batchelder, former executive chairman of the American Automobile Association, killed in an aeroplane accident on May 28 near Washington, was buried Sept. 30 at Attica, New York, carried over the new Batchelder Highway with services in the Masonic Temple.
- A chronicle of L. A. W. events in early 1887, including Eugene M. Aaron's resignation and Abbot Bassett's election as Secretary-Treasurer over John A. Wells, Thomas Stevens's arrival in San Francisco on his round-the-world trip, John S. Prince's 767-mile indoor ride at Omaha, and the organizing of the Wheel Board of Trade in Boston.
- Illinois became the first state to fully pave its portion of the Dixie Highway, the Chicago-to-Danville stretch, marked by a "good road" demonstration at the Chicago "pageant of progress" celebration featuring a 1000-automobile parade led by "Miss Dixie."
- A note that bicycling has grown more popular among English women since the war, with more than a thousand women on wheels appearing in a recent London parade.