Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Joe Lincoln's comic sonnet on a flooded back yard and a marooned cat opens the editorial scrap-book column, which then runs notes on the Veteran Wheelmen's Association of Philadelphia banquet, Lockhart's 678 miles, and the Milwaukee Wheelmen's 37th reunion at Hotel Pfister.
- Abbot Bassett recalls the L. A. W.'s organizing meet at Newport, R.I. on May 31, 1880, with 128 wheelmen attending and Massachusetts sending 49 delegates, of whom few survive.
- The National Bicycle Show at Chicago will run November 7–12, featuring a home-trainer race among international racing stars, a style show, nightly giveaways of a bicycle and a motorcycle, and a dance.
- Obituary of George W. Crampton of Newton Centre, Mass., an original member of the Rovers Cycle Club of Charlestown and a leading hay-and-grain figure in the Chamber of Commerce, who died aged fifty-four leaving his wife and three children.
- The Long Island Division of the C. R. C. A. concluded a five-race roller series (quarter-mile to five miles) won by Joe Tilgner with 19 points ahead of Walter F. Caldwell, with best times listed for each distance.
- The C. W. A. held its 41st annual meeting at Queen's Hotel, Toronto, on March 26, re-electing Louis Rubenstein of Montreal president, admitting four life members, and announcing a new C. W. A. Cup for a ten-mile championship.
- The C. R. C. A. held its annual banquet on March 8 at the Juliette, New York City, with President A. R. Jacobson and toastmaster Paul Thomas distributing the cups and prizes won by members through 1920.
- Statistics on the 9,211,000 automobiles now registered in the United States and over $102,000,000 raised yearly in registration and license fees, 96 percent of which now goes to road and bridge building.
- A chronology of 1885 cycling events: Thomas Stevens sailing from New York on his round-the-world tour, the Buffalo L. A. W. Meet where the Bulletin debuted under Eugene M. Aaron, the Hartford and Springfield races with English riders, and the first ladies' tricycle trip around Cape Ann.
- President Wm. M. Frisbie appoints William H. Hale, Charles C. Ryder and William L. Lockhart as the Nominating Committee to present candidates for the L. A. W. officer elections by mail vote in August and at the National Assembly.
- President Frisbie declares the singly-nominated National Assembly representatives duly elected to avoid a mail vote, and urges full attendance at the next National Assembly in New York on Sept. 2, 1921.