Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 19, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editor Abbot Bassett's lead column opens with a humorous verse on the dubious laziness of a camping vacation—rowing, fishing, mending tires and fighting mosquitoes.
- Obituary for Amos Grant Batchelder, longtime L. A. W. member and executive chairman of the American Automobile Association and good-roads champion, killed in an ambulance-airplane wreck near Indian Head, Maryland, on May 28.
- Death notice for Charles M. Fairchild of Chicago and Evanston, Ill., a longtime L. A. W. member and National Assembly delegate who once rode from New Orleans to Boston for the League's annual Meet.
- The 25th consecutive annual run of Philadelphia's "Hardly Abies" went to Mt. Holly, N. J. on May 15 with fifteen riders; Wm. L. Lockhart has ridden in every run since 1896.
- Joseph Tilgner of the Long Island Division won the C. R. C. A.'s annual ten-mile handicap road race on Pelham Parkway May 15 in 26:52, beating James Chiafulio of the Acme Wheelmen by inches; scratch time was 27:09 2-5.
- Geo. C. Dresser's account of a three-day, roughly 250-mile Century Road Club Association bicycle tour through the Catskills from Brooklyn to Port Jervis and back, beset by rain, bad roads and overheating coaster brakes.
- The former bicycle men of the Nylaw, now automobilists, took a steamer up the Hudson and motored through Vermont and New Hampshire—Manchester, Woodstock, Franconia Notch, Crawford Notch and the Mohawk Trail.
- The club planned a three-day automobile trip around Cape Cod for members and friends, leaving Boston June 17 and returning Sunday afternoon.
- The new racing organization is growing rapidly, with over 500 registered riders and 25-plus clubs from New York, Hartford, Philadelphia, Newark, Baltimore, Washington and Chicago, expecting 5,000 members by year's end.
- A reprinted N. Y. Sun item recalling the bicycle's 1890s heyday and the bloomer furor, crediting cycling with advancing women's fight for practical outdoor dress.